Results
Villa Cruise. City Slump.
A night of contrasting fortunes in the UEFA Cup qualifiers as O’Neill sees his side canter to victory in Iceland, while Hughes watches on as his new side stumble at Eastlands.
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ContinuedNotes From Europe
Liverpool put up a miserable performance in Liege, while the Gunners smuggle a 2-0 lead back to the Emirates after a stern test from McClaren’s FC Twente.
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ContinuedUnited Take Home The Shield
A tepid, goalless, rain-soaked Community Shield clash saw a United side seem rather embarrassed to parade the trophy after a 3-1 win on penalties over Harry’s Portsmouth.
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ContinuedSunday’s Friendly Round Up
Bent, Bentley and De Ridder raise their fantasy profiles that little bit more as Spurs and Wigan ease to wins in their last friendly fixtures of the pre-season.
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ContinuedSaturday’s Friendly Round Up
It was a day littered with draws as Premiership sides ended their pre-season programmes with their final friendly matches. Highlights included a triumphant return to Eastlands for Bojinov and a last minute victory for Keegan’s men, while Hull struggled once again. God help ‘em.
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ContinuedFriday’s Friendly Round Up
A busy Friday programme as Adebayor inspires an Arsenal comeback, Voronin fires a last minute winner for Liverpool, Cahill sees red for Bolton and Alves hits a brace as Boro fire six against Sparta.
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ContinuedBlack Cats Hit Six
Sunderland played out their penultimate pre-season game last night, running out 6-0 winners over Irish League side Athlone.
A brace from Chopra and further goals from Richardson, Leadbitter, Murphy and a first goal in Sunderland colours for Diouf, were enough to see Keane’s men to a comfortable win.
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ContinuedWednesday’s Friendly Round-Up
United draw a blank against Juventus. Petrov scores and sparkles against Celtic and there are some goals at last for Newcastle as they let a 2-0 lead slip against PSV.
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ContinuedTuesday’s Friendly Round-Up
Liverpool march on with goals coming from all over the pitch as they fire another four goals to see off Valerenga. Zaki “the pie-eating Egyptian” as Wigan’s official site are cruelly labelling him, hits his second winning goal in two games, while Stoke get three (count ‘em) goals to nick a win against Championship Southampton.
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ContinuedMonday’s Friendly Round-Up
Dean Ashton was the latest striker to promote himself up the fantasy manager’s shortlist with a timely hat-trick at Ipswich. Elsewhere Bolton concede late in Greece, Alex gets one over on his son and Defoe keeps things ticking over for Pompey.
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ContinuedSunday’s Friendly Round-Up
Adebayor indulges in some badge-kissing celebrations. Bent goes into double figures for pre-season. Sunderland, Newcastle and Hull all slip to defeats, while Osman earns Everton a win in the US.
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ContinuedAnelka Fires Four Past Milan
Nicolas Anelka continued his superb pre-season form by putting four goals past an AC Milan side this morning. The Frenchman took his tally to seven goals this summer, adding to Lampard’s opener as Chelsea humbled a weakened Milan lineup.
It begs the question - is Le Sulk le striking solution for our fantasy teams?
ContinuedSaturday’s Friendly Round-Up
Saturday saw the usual avalanche of friendly matches including a testimonial for Solskjaer, the first matches in the Emirates Cup at er…the Emirates and Liverpool’s encounter with Rangers at Ibrox.
Here’s all the teams and notes from yesterday’s clashes…
ContinuedFriday Night’s Friendlies
There’s some food for thought to be found amongst Friday’s friendlies as Elamander fires a brace on his Bolton debut and Bentley taps home for a goal on his first appearance in Spurs colours. Meanwhile, over in Moscow, Essien’s goal earns a draw for Chelsea as he’s employed out on the right wing by Scolari. Interesting stuff.
Here’s the notes on another six games…
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