Barcelona ripped apart Spanish title rivals Real Madrid to take top spot in La Liga with an emphatic 5-0 home victory in the first “Clasico” of the season on Monday night. Real coach Jose Mourinho suffered an embarrassing first defeat since taking over in May as defending champions Barca moved two points clear after 13 [...]
Stankovic hat-trick provides ‘penicillin’ for Benitez’s ailing Inter Inter Milan manager Rafael Benitez was delighted after the Italian champions ended a morale-boosting week with a 5-2 victory at home to Parma on Sunday which halted a run of four Serie A games without a win. Fifth-placed Inter still trail leaders and arch-rivals AC Milan by [...]
Chelsea fail to regain top spot in England after draw at Newcastle Chelsea’s poor Premier League run continued on Sunday as the English champions dropped points for the third match in a row and failed to return to the top of the table. The Londoners were deposed at the summit after Manchester United’s 7-1 thrashing [...]
Leaders Berekum Chelsea rallied from two goals down to post a 3-2 win over Kotoko in Kumasi to open a six point lead at the top of the Ghana Premier League in Sunday’s late kick off Kotoko took a 2-0 lead before the half hour mark with goals from defenders Prince Boateng on 18 minutes [...]
Bottom-club Real Tamale United shocked Kessben FC with a 1-0 win at the Tamale Sports Stadium on Sunday. Benjamin Boateng unleashed a powerful shot on 70 minutes after rounding up two defenders. The win marked RTU’s second of the campaign in a post-Telat Uzum era. Hearts of Oak dropped points at Heart of Lions in [...]
Ghana international Opoku Agyeman scored his second goal in a week for Al Sadd in a 2-2 draw with Al-Arbi in the Qatar Stars Cup but was red-carded at the death of the match. Agyeman, recovering for a knee injury, gave Al Sadd a 2-1 lead on the 75th minute but Cabore gave Al Arbi [...]
Ghana goalkeeper Richard Kingson intends to utilise Matt Gilks’ absence to stake his claim as the first choice at Blackpool. After joining the club in September, Kingson’s chance arose after Gilks broke his kneecap on 13 November. “Firstly, I wish Matthew a speedy recovery as we are all a family here,” Kingson, 32, told BBC [...]
Ghana striker Mathew Amoah scored two goals for NAC Breda in their shock 4-2 win over leaders PSV Eindhoven at home on Friday in the Dutch Eredivisie. PSV took the lead through Jonathan Reis after 15 minutes before Amoah set up Leonardo to equalise on the half-hour but Balazs Dzsudzsak put the visitors in front [...]
Titleholders Inter Milan relieved the pressure on under-fire manager Rafael Benitez by qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League along with Group A rivals Tottenham on Wednesday night. The Italian champions scraped a 1-0 win at home to Dutch league winners Twente to go through to the last 16 ahead of the final [...]
Uruguay’s controversial World Cup star Luis Suarez has been given a seven-match suspension after being found guilty of biting an opposition player in a Dutch league match. The striker will miss six Eredivisie games as well as a Dutch Cup tie, ruling him out until his club Ajax’s next league match at home to De [...]
Arsenal’s passage through to the knockout stages of the Champions League took a severe knock on Tuesday night as they went down to a shock 0-2 defeat at Braga in Group H. Two late goals from Brazilian striker Matheus mean Arsenal relinquish their place at the top of the table and means Arsene Wenger’s team [...]
AC Milan booked their place in the last 16 of the Champions League after posting a scrappy 2-0 victory over Auxerre in Burgundy. Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s wonderful 64th-minute opener came out of the blue and he was later replaced by Ronaldinho, who netted the second late on. That left Milan on eight points in Group G, [...]
Chad head coach Sherif Al-Khashab has revealed he voted for Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan as his pick for the 2010 Caf Player of the Year award. The Egyptian was explaining why he did not vote for compatriots Ahmed Hassan and Mohammed Geddo for the continental gong. Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and Inter Milan and [...]
Agyemang was making his first start in nine months after recovering from a knee injury which ruled him out of the 2010 World Cup finals. The 20-year-old opened the scoring for Al Sadd on three minutes but Adel Ramzey equalized for Alwakhra on 67 minutes. The speedster believes the goal will psychologically help him win [...]
