75’: Substitution. Josip Stanišić replaces Konrad Laimer. Laimer gets booed ferociously by the Stuttgart crowd. 70’: Substitutions. Ramon Hendrisks and Enzo Millot replace Julian Chabot and Jamie Leweling. 66’: Yellow card. Leon Goretzka is too late for a challenge on Angelo Stiller. 64’: GOOOAAALLL! Leon Goretzka single-handedly breaks the game wide open with a quick…
Barcelona will finish the weekend at the top of the La Liga table thanks to a hard-fought 2-0 win away to Las Palmas at the Gran Canaria Stadium on Saturday night. Barça were not at their best in the final third and struggled to create chances against a hard-working and well-organized Las Palmas side, but…
Hansi Flick was a happy man after seeing his Barcelona team beat Rayo Vallecano 1-0 to move top of the table in Spain. A tough game was won by a single goal from the penalty spot by Robert Lewandowski after Inigo Martinez had been hauled to the ground. Flick admitted it wasn’t his team’s best…
Bayern Munich’s 0-0 draw against Bayer Leverkusen was anything but classy, and all of Bayern’s squad had to agree. Manuel Neuer, however, saw the silver lining: “We’re happy with the result. Of course, it was tough, we didn’t create many chances, Leverkusen pressed hard. It was difficult to build up our play and combine. In…
Neymar is once again in the headlines after returning to Santos following a dismal spell in Saudi Arabia where he was paid an absolute fortune and played only a handful of times. The Brazilian has now headed home but is already dreaming of playing for Barcelona again and having a ‘last dance’ with the Catalans,…
Real Madrid have published their starting lineup for the upcoming match against Leganes in the Copa del Rey Quarterfinals. Real Madrid starting XI: Lunin, Valverde, Asencio, Ramon, Mendy, Tchouameni, Modric, Brahim, Guler, Endrick, Rodrygo. Leganes starting XI (TBC): Soriano, Altimira, Rosier, Nastasic, Sergio, Cruz, Neyou, Darko, Tapia, Miguel, Raba. As expected, Ancelotti has been forced…
Espanyol 1-0 Real Madrid. Points lost in La Liga. Here is a quick reaction to the loss. More for you: Player ratings, interviews and a podcast. With Real Madrid managing to find some form in recent times, Espanyol away would surely be a case of take the three points and go – right? Well, fans…
Bayern Munich manage to snatch a marginal 4-3 victory against Holstein Kiel after being four goals up. An unnecessarily stressful ending to a game that should have been plain sailing. Here are the biggest takeaways. Devoid of defensive cohesion Let’s start with the bad, and boy was Bayern Munich’s sketchy defence bad. Now, I don’t…
Uninspiring is the first word that comes to mind when looking at Bayern Munich the last couple weeks. Bayern Munich looked like they were heating up heading into the winter break but have stumbled hard in January. Bayern Munich look deflated Bayern Munich were heading into this match up against probably the weakest team in…
For the third time this season, Bayern Munich conceded three goals in a match. This also marked the second three-goal loss on the road during this Champions League campaign. In today’s loss, all of Feyenoord’s goals occurred on well-timed counterattacks that caught Bayern’s high line on their heels. In the 21st minute, Kim Min-jae misjudged…
