It was the first home defeat of Toronto FC this season. They lost against New York Red Bulls by 4-1.
Rafael Marquez, former Barcelona defender, scored his first goal at the 35th minutes. Four minutes after the second half started, Dwayne De Rosario, made a goal, but it was a bad luck for the Reds to be reduced soon to 10-men after Nana Attakora-Gyan kept out Thierry Henry’s goal-bound shot with his hand.
Though actions of Attakora-Gyan’s denied Henry his first goal, but the game was safe for Reds as Juan Pablo Angel stroked a penalty goal before Carl Robinson added a fourth.
Leicester City and Cardiff played well in the England Championship, May 12. Leicester City won 3-2 the match over Cardiff. At the 22 minute Chopra kicked one goal for Cardiff City in the first half. Leicester got two goals as Fryatt score at 25 minute and at the 37 minute Hudson also hit for Leicester. The Leicester hit a goal by the King at the second half of 22. And at the 68 minute Whittingham got a penalty goal for Cardiff.
Benefica won the match over Rio Ave on 2-1 goal level in the Portugal Liga competition which held on May 9.
The Benefica player Cardozo got the very first goal of the match at the 3 minute. It was Chaves who scored for Rio Ave at the 73 minute in the last half of the game. But lucky fellows of Benifica won as Cardozo hit his second goal at the 78 minute and at the 90 minute of the game they were declared as the winner of this game on 2-1 over Rio Ave.
The match between Hertha BSC and Bayern Munchen at Olympiastadion, Berlin in the Germany Bundesliga competition won by Bayern on 1-3. Ivica Olic of Bayern took the first chance of winning a goal on the match here. He kicked it at 20th minute.
At the 59 minute of second half, Gustavo Ramos of Hertha Berlin hit a goal for his team but anyone at this game. Arjen Robben was there to save his team by hitting a goal for Bayern at the 74 minute and 87 minute of the last section of the game.
Barcelona, the Spanish Primera Division best team hosted Tenerife in the Spain La Liga match at Estadio Camp Nou, Spain. Barcelona is now trying hard for the La Liga title as they are no longer in the Champions League.
Certainly, the match was just like we predicted, the match with bottom side Tenerife is not a danger zone for Barcelona. The well played team is having a good home record by winning 16 games in La Liga. This match again highlighted Lionel Messi’s control on the game. Kicking the first goal by Messi at the 17th minute for Barcelona was a good start to go ahead. Just giving a chance to Tenerife at the 39th minute by Romance’s goal, Barcelona got hold of the game.
The second half of the game was for Barcelona. At the 63rd minute Bojan Krkic and at the 77th minute Pedro hit each goal. And Messi wind up the match with his second goal at the last minute of the game.
Last game: Arsenal 3 - 0 Tottenham, 31 Oct
Next game: vs. Wolverhampton, 7 Nov 11:00pm
Abou Diaby, the midfielder of Arsenal, is looking for some solidity in the club’s defensive ranks when they welcome AZ Alkmaar in the Champions League at the Emirates on Wednesday night.
Team Arsenal looked forward of cruising to a straightforward victory against the AZ Alkmaar in Holland, but conceded a late equaliser. Abou Diaby, however, does not want any repeats of that lapse.
Diaby said to the media, “We have to be well organised and have a good position on the pitch.”
He added further saying, “The thing is we have to show it every time we play, that we are a great team and can achieve something at the end of the season… We learned a lot from the old experiences. Now we try to practice what we learned before and be better this season.”
About Diaby even believes that the Gunners have enough potential to go far in the Champions League this season.
To the Sky Sports Diaby said, “It is always good to win every game and stay in first place.”
The boys of Simon Grayson, manager of Leeds United, enjoyed a fortuitous victory at Ellan Road over the Norwich City on Monday.
Leeds is the only team this season in the country that have not been beaten and have also not lost at home since January this year.
Well, it was not easy to win against the Norwich City. Grayson said, “They are the best team that has come here this season and this was definitely the most difficult we’ve had.”
Grayson also added that the Norwich are a good footballing team and they had caused his team more problems than what was faced against the Liverpool recently. According to him Liverpool did not give the Leeds anything like the problems Norwich City did.
This generates a signal that the Norwich City may certainly be among the promotion contenders at the end of this season.
Lambert, the boss of Norwich City said, “I thought we were brilliant - absolutely terrific - and this was a game we deserved to win, no question… It was tough on young Fraser for the winner - but he will be all the better for this experience.”
Dwight Yorke, the former Manchester United Treble-winner, made announcement of his retirement. He is now 37 years old.
Last season at the end Dwight Yorke was released by Sunderland and now he is opting to hang up his boots, drawing very near to an eventful career at the zenith level where he is the captain of Trinidad and Tobago, his own country.
The finest achievement of Yorke was when he participated in the Manchester United’s Treble season of 1998-99. There with Andy Cole he had forged a prolific partnership and made the club win the FA Cup, Premier League and also the Champions League.
Let me quote Dwight Yorke what he said in the media recently: “It’s time to hang up my boots… While I’m still in great shape, I’m not getting any younger. I’ve had the time of my life. I hope people will say that I played the game in the right way with a smile on my face.”
He also added that he has been blessed really and he had played alongside with some of the popula players Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Peter Schmeichel, and he had also played for the greatest manager in Sir Alex Ferguson.
Yorke also counted himself lucky because he was a boy on a Caribbean beach who got a chance make his dreams come true by winning highest level trophies and also captaining his country in their first ever World Cup finals.
Rafael Benitez is still keeping the hope that Daniel Agger, the defender of Liverpool, will be ready for selection in a few weeks, although he missed much of pre-season due to back injury that may require surgery.
Benitez said on the official website of Liverpool, “Yes, he saw a specialist and maybe he will need an operation.”
He also added further that he don’t think that it will be long. He said that If everything goes well then it won’t take much time, maybe only few weeks.
Well, meanwhile, Martin Skrtel, Slovakian, is also facing a late fitness test to determine whether he will be playing in the Monday’s game against Aston Villa. He had injured his jaw in a clash with team-mate Jamie Carragher while playing against Tottenham Hotspur last week.
For him Benitez said, “He’s training. We had to decide the other day but it was too soon to take any risks. Okay, we’ll see on Monday.”
There is one more injury concern and he is star striker Fernando Torres. El Nino had a collision in the midweek game against Stoke City and he required stitches in his eyebrow after that. Benitez said that he is hopeful the Spaniard would play.
Benitez said, “He has some stitches but he’s okay.” He also added, “He’s training with his teammates and I think he’ll be okay for Monday.”
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