Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Liverpool are 7/5 at online soccer sportsbook Sports Interaction to beat Chelsea in 90 minutes in Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League semifinal second leg.
Chelsea are a best 11/5 to repeat the win they scored at Stamford Bridge while the draw is a general 2/1 shot although most bookies go 9/4.
Chelsea are 4/11 to qualify for the [...]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Sir Alex Ferguson on Friday launched a stinging attack on Jose Mourinho in the wake of the Chelsea manager’s claims that Manchester United are being favoured by referees during the Premiership title run-in.
United manager Ferguson has accused Mourinho of pursuing a calculated strategy to increase pressure on match officials and believes the Portuguese has been [...]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Wayne Rooney scored a dramatic stoppage time winner for Manchester United in this Champions League semi-final match at Old Trafford.
He turned the game on its head after two goals from Kaka had given the Italians the advantage.
Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring for United and Rooney pulled them level before scoring a vital late goal.
United were [...]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho piled the pressure on title rivals Manchester United despite seeing his side pass up the opportunity to cut the gap to a single point.
The reigning Barclays Premiership champions trail United by three points heading into the last four games after being held to a goalless draw by Newcastle United at St [...]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Real Madrid players had been saying all week that they had to beat Valencia to stay in the Spanish title race and they did just that with a 2-1 victory over the 2002 and 2004 champions on Saturday.
Goals from Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Sergio Ramos means that Real move up to second place, at least [...]
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Arsene Wenger knows better than most the importance of Champions League football to Arsenal and the prospect of missing out next season must send shivers down the spine of the French coach.
In the wake of an uninspiring draw at mid-table Newcastle it was only natural that the Gunners’ manager was already focusing on a potentially [...]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Wayne Rooney finally broke his 18-game Champions League drought but there was very little else for 10-man Manchester United to cheer as their Treble hopes suffered a setback in a 2-1 defeat to Roma.
Paul Scholes’ dismissal for two yellow cards after just 33 minutes had left the Red Devils in trouble against the [...]
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