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Archive for February, 2006

Racist incidents continue to plagued Spanish football

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

ZARAGOZA, Spain (Ticker) - Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o stayed on the field long enough to help Barcelona post a 2-0 victory thanks to Ronaldinho’s penalty and Henrik Larsson’s second goal, set up by Eto’o.
The win moved Barca nine points clear at the top of the Primera Liga but the match was overshadowed [...]

Chelsea’s back on track; Arsenal’s could not maneuver

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

LONDON (Ticker) - Chelsea rebounded from its recent struggles to maintain its huge lead in the English Premier League, while Arsenal could not parlay its Champions League success into the weekend.
Frank Lampard scored his 17th goal of the season to edge Chelsea closer to their second successive Premiership title and push his [...]

Kewell Goal Wash 10-Man Manchester City

Monday, February 27th, 2006

LONDON (AP) — Harry Kewell scored for Liverpool in a 1-0 win over 10-man Manchester City in the English Premier League on Sunday, while Wayne Rooney scored twice to help Manchester United win the League Cup.
Liverpool’s win pulled it even on points with second-place United, which won its first trophy in two years [...]

Manchester United Lift the Carling Cup Over Wigan Athletic

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Manchester United crushed Wigan 4-0 in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Sunday to lift the Carling Cup.
Wayne Rooney netted twice with Louis Saha and Cristiano Ronaldo also finding the net in a romp for the Old Trafford side, who could even afford to leave Ruud van Nistelrooy on the bench.
Rooney broke the deadlock after an entertaining [...]

GERMANY BundesLiga Football Roundup

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Bayern Munich crushed Eintracht Frankfurt 5-2 and top the table with 58 points from 23 matches.
Werder Bremen moved ahead of Hamburg SV into second on 49 points with a 2-0 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Hamburg suffered a 2-0 home defeat by VfB Stuttgart. Stuttgart’s victory, their first in Hamburg [...]

FRANCE French Football Roundup

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Stade Rennes striker John Utaka scored a hat-trick to hand Olympique Lyon a shock 4-1 home defeat on Saturday.
It was Ligue 1 leaders Lyon’s first defeat since they were beaten by Lille at home in their last game before the winter break in December and only their second of the [...]

England Football Leagues Roundup

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Frank Lampard steered Chelsea to a 2-0 win over Portsmouth while Arsenal’s Champions League hopes for next season suffered a body blow with a 1-0 defeat at Blackburn Rovers.
England midfielder Lampard slotted home the breakthrough goal for the champions at Stamford Bridge after 65 minutes and Dutch winger Arjen Robben [...]

Italy Italia Serie A Roundup

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Serie A leaders Juventus led a clean sweep of victories for Italy’s top three when they came from behind to beat relegation-threatened Lecce 3-1.
Goals by Emerson, Robert Kovac and a late Alessandro Del Piero penalty cancelled out Gennaro Delvecchio’s goal for the visitors to give Juve 70 points from 27 [...]

Spanish La Liga Roundup

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Late goals from Ronaldinho and Henrik Larsson gave Barcelona a 2-0 win over Zaragoza, with Larsson’s goal coming after a great cross by Eto’o.
The Cameroon striker had tried to leave the pitch a few minutes earlier after being subjected to racist abuse from the home fans, but was persuaded to [...]

Al Ahli win Super Cup - Egypt’s Al Hadari the hero

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

CAIRO, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Egypt’s Essam Al Hadari again saved two penalties in a shootout just a fortnight after his heroics in the African Nations Cup final as Al Ahli beat Royal Armed Forces to win the African Super Cup on Friday.
The Egyptian side beat their Moroccan opponents 4-2 [...]