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Mario Balotelli has signed for Genoa as a free agent, the Serie A club said on Monday, marking a return to the Italian top-tier for the striker after more than four years.
Genoa, third from bottom in the standings, have scored just seven goals in nine league games. The club’s manager, Alberto Gilardino, will hope that the 34-year-old can add to the 52 goals he has netted in 141 Serie A games.
Continue reading...An all-time classic clash between Inter and Juventus was rounded off by the Turkish teenager’s two-goal cameo
It had been a bonkers, record-setting, night – one of the highest-scoring matches ever in a rivalry that goes back 115 years – but not all the protagonists were enjoying themselves. “Thanks for the show!” said Zvonimir Boban in the Sky Sport studio to Simone Inzaghi at full-time. The Inter manager winced and forced a laugh. “The neutrals like you enjoyed yourselves. Me, a little bit less.”
Inzaghi had seen his team fritter away a two-goal lead in the final 20 minutes against Juventus, letting 4-2 become 4-4. To write it that way does a disservice to Kenan Yildiz, the teenager who came off the bench to score twice and turn the game on its head – writing his name into Derby d’Italia lore. Yet to tell it any other way would ignore the truth that Inter could have been out of sight before he did.
Continue reading...West Ham’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka shines against former club, Alex Iwobi has gone up a level and Brentford find new hero
Aaron Wan-Bissaka looked as if he had a point to prove against Manchester United. The right-back has had an intriguing role for West Ham this season. Julen Lopetegui has spotted hidden creative tendencies in the defender and given him freedom to attack. Wan-Bissaka has inverted and he was irrepressible against United. Noussair Mazraoui, his replacement at United, could not contain the former Crystal Palace player. Wan-Bissaka kept running clear and delivering crosses, and he should have had an assist when his ball reached Emerson Palmieri, who scuffed wide. If there is a concern, though, it is that Wan-Bissaka’s positioning does make West Ham open. Alejandro Garnacho had a lot of space and did not make enough of it. United were ridiculously frustrating in front of goal. A better team would have punished West Ham during the first half. They got the win, though, and at the end Wan-Bissaka was making a vital lunging tackle to deny Garnacho. Jacob Steinberg
Match report: West Ham 2-1 Manchester United
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Continue reading...LAFC defeats Vancouver 2-1 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series as coach Steve Cherundolo tries to guide the team to another MLS Cup title.
Piotr Zielinski converted two penalties for Inter as they played out a thrilling 4-4 draw with Juventus, for whom Kenan Yildiz scored a late brace, in Serie A on Sunday.
The five-goal opening half began with Marcus Thuram earning a penalty, which Zielinski converted to give Inter the lead after 15 minutes. Juve equalised five minutes later through Dusan Vlahovic and then took the lead with a strike from Timothy Weah, all within a six-minute span. After Henrikh Mkhitaryan equalised for Inter in the 35th minute, Zielinski scored his second from the penalty spot two minutes later, handing Inter a 3-2 lead going into the break.
Continue reading...Erik ten Hag said 'football is not always the best team winning' after Manchester United's 2-1 defeat by West Ham. The home side were awarded a controversial late penalty that was awarded after a VAR intervention. Ten Hag criticised the process after the game, complaining that it was 'a wrong decision' which 'had a big impact on the score'.
Continue reading...Norwich launched a storming comeback to secure a 3-3 draw with Middlesbrough in a thrilling Championship clash at Carrow Road.
The Canaries looked down and out when the visitors took a two-goal lead into the interval after going behind early on. But after seeing Tommy Conway being denied what would have been a hat-trick from the penalty spot midway through the second period, the hosts found another lease of life, with Borja Sainz scoring his second to pull one back almost immediately.
Continue reading...Mo Salah’s late goal earned Liverpool a point in a tense match with injury-hit Arsenal
1 min Peep peep! After a performance of the Last Post, Curtis Jones gets the match underway. Liverpool, in their black change strip, are kicking from right to left as we watch.
A reminder of the teams
Continue reading...Cole Palmer stars once again as Chelsea hold off late Newcastle fightback at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea fans, what do you make of Nicolas Jackson?
A goal or two today could bring a few more doubters on his side. But another tough day in what has been described as a ‘faltering start’ to the season could heap more pressure on the lad and force his manager to make a tough decision moving forward.
Good morning from Pittsburgh! Slogging through the most annoying weekend of my Premier League season: when the UK departs daylight savings time and the USA has yet to do so. This totally upsets my established Sunday rhythm of the Premier League dovetailing with the NFL. Annoying. With this comes the inevitable anxious lap around this website’s sports links wondering why I can’t find the doggone link to the early MBM - because it won’t be put online for another hour, Eric. Sigh. Year after year. I never learn. The highest-quality pranks, Halloween or otherwise, self-inflicted or not, are the inadvertent ones.
Continue reading...Dejan Joveljic and Riqui Puig each score twice as the Galaxy cruise to a lopsided 5-0 victory over Colorado to open the MLS Cup playoffs.
The Union selected Trent with the 28th overall pick in the 2023 MLS SuperDraft.
Marco Silva had shown respect but no mercy to the club that sacked him in 2019 when returning to Goodison Park with Fulham, beating Everton every time. Victory number four was in hand, and deservedly so, when the head of Beto left the Fulham manager cursing the fickle fates of football.
The Everton substitute’s 94th-minute header salvaged a point for Sean Dyche’s team and extended their unbeaten run to five matches. It was larceny. Fulham were superior until stoppage time, controlling the play and their opponent throughout. Like his manager, Alex Iwobi looked set to haunt his former club having scored an excellent goal engineered by Emile Smith Rowe. The visitors’ only concern was not adding to it.
Continue reading...The points were shared as a late, late headed equaliser from Everton substitute Beto cancelled out Alex Iwobi’s opener against his former club
The Premier League table: Today’s results, not least Brentford’s whiteknuckle win against Ipswich Town, means that Fulham go into this match in 12th place, while Everton remain in 16th.
Continue reading...Bayer Leverkusen’s sloppy performance in their 2-2 draw at Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday that included conceding a 90th-minute equaliser was down to the German champions’ weak defending, coach Xabi Alonso said.
Werder twice came from a goal down to snatch a point and leave Leverkusen with a third draw in their last four league games. “The fact that Werder could come back was down to both sides,” Alonso, who led his team to an unbeaten domestic league and cup double last season, said. “We were too soft in defending and they used their chances.
Continue reading...Sunderland cemented their position at the top of the Championship with a dominant 2-0 win over Oxford. After back-to-back away victories over Hull and Luton, they made it three wins in six days thanks to Jobe Bellingham’s 16th-minute header and Wilson Isidor’s first-time volley.
Burnley in second and Leeds in third dropped points, allowing Sheffield United to gain ground as they moved on from back-to-back defeats with a 2-0 victory over Stoke. Goals either side of the break from Kieffer Moore and Tyrese Campbell ended Stoke’s four-match unbeaten run. A minute’s silence was observed before kick-off in memory of the former Sheffield United player George Baldock, who died this month at the age of 31.
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