Switzerland hold Brazil to a 1-1 draw

Brazil 1                           Switzerland 1 Coutinho (20’)               Zuber (50’) Brazil, the five time champions, failed to win their opening game of a World Cup for the first time since 1978 as Switzerland earner a draw in Rostov-on-Don. Brazil’s side with Gabriel Jesus and Willian Alongside Neymar failed to concentrate after Philip Coutinho’s superbly curled opener on…

Mexico stuns Germans 1-0

World Cup Football Germany 0   Mexico 1                          Lozano (35’) World Cup holders Germany suffered a defeat as they were humbled 1-0 in Moscow by Mexico in their opening World Cup Football match. Lozano’s first-half goal was the difference between the two sides as Javier Hernandez punished them with the pass that set up Lozano…

Ronaldo’s hat-trick earns Portugal a draw against Spain

Fri 15 Jun 2018 World Cup Foot ball- Group B Portugal 3                                                       3 Spain Cristiano Ronaldo ( 4’ pen, 44’, 88’)       Diego Costa 24’, 55’), Nacho 58’ 33- year –old Cristiano Ronaldo scores a hat-trick as Portugal settle got a dramatic late 3-3 draw against Spain in an opening World Cup thriller and denied Fernando…

Real Madrid win Champions League 3-1

Saturday 26 May 2018, Champions League final Real Madrid 3       1 Liverpool Benzema 51’           Mane 55’ Bale 64’, 83’   Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale’s bicycle kick highlighted and underpinned Spanish teams’s superiority and triumph over English teams in European finals winning the last seven   2006: Sevilla 4-0 Middlesbrough, 2006: Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal, 2009: Barcelona 2-0…

Chelsea win FA Cup final

Chelsea 1                    Manchester United 0 E Hazard (22’ pen)   FT                              HT 1-0 Sat 19 May 2018 FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium Eden Hazard’s penalty secured Chelsea the FA Cup after they beat Manchester United and a bitter defeat for Jose Mourinho and Manchester United go empty-handed this season. Hazard tore past Phil Jones…

Manchester City wins the Premier League

Manchester City have won the Premier League title with five games remaining – their victory over Tottenham on Saturday coupled with Manchester United’s defeat to West Bromwich on Sunday after West Brom striker Jay Rodriguez’s header confirms  that Pep Guardiola’ side have clinched it, by 18 times consecutive winning streak of premier games, and beating…

Jamie Vardie’s strike equalised by Lorenzo’s late penalty

International Friendlies Tue 27, Mar 2018, Wembley Stadium England 1       1 Italy Vardy 26’ FT Insigne (87’pen)                      HT 1-0   England were in lead given to them by Jamie Vardy’s powerful 26th-minute goal fired past goal keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma after Jesse Lingard’s hurridly taken free-kick shocked the visitors out early. England were denied a…

Cristiano Ronaldo wins the Ballon d’Or 2017 award

Cristiano Ronaldo (32) beats Lionel Messi to win fifth Ballon d’Or 2107 award Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi to win the Ballon d’Or award for the fifth time – and the second year in a row. Last season, Ronaldo helped Real Madrid t win the Champions League and their first La…

England U-17 wins World Cup football

England U-17 came from behind from 2-0 down to thrash Spain and claim a famous 5-2 victory in the Fifa World Cup completion in Kalkota, India. The young Three Lions had never gone beyond the quarter-finals in the tournament before, and emulated the England U20 who won their World Cup in June 2017. Spain took…

Cristiano Ronaldo wins Fifa Best Player award

The Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo(32) beat Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Neymar world’s most expensive player to win for the second successive year, the Best FIFA Men’s player, after receiving 43.16 per cent of the total votes and was presented with the 2017 award by Diego Maradona and former Brazil star striker  and Paris St-Germain’s…