Alaba failed Haaland with a fine block early in the second half as Madrid kept the Norwegian goal machine under lock and key in his first appearance against them. Madrid did not allow him a clear sight of the target, ensuring he could not add to his tally of 51 goals in 46 appearances this […]
Castellanos now has 11 goals in 29 appearances in La Liga this season. Ancelotti had said his team needed to stay on positive winning momentum in the league to remain at the top of their game in Europe, but was miserably off the ball at Girona. “A tough night, yes, when you lose a game […]
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti hopes the trio of Karim Benzema, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos will extend their stay at the LaLiga club with new deals after their current contracts expire at the end of this season. Ballon d’Or winner Benzema, 35, and Croatia midfielder Modric, 37, have helped Real win five Champions League […]
Sergi Roberto told Movistar, “We came from a Marco Asensio goal that we didn’t know was offside and losing, we scored Frank’s goal, and the truth is that it’s a little better, the last minute I win.” “There are a lot of games left and you can never leave Madrid for dead. 12 points is […]
Stoichkov, who played only two matches, was the last superstar to pull on the shirt of Al Nasr, which was formed as an amateur team in 1955 and went on to win nine Saudi league titles. Ronaldo, 37, is on a different level again, having won five Ballons d’Or, five European Champions League titles and […]
With the Croatian defense withdrawing, Álvarez fended off weak challenges from Josip Juranović and Borna Sosa and then slotted the ball past Livacović, sending the huge Argentina crowd into delirium. Alexis McAllister then went in with an angled header from a corner, forcing a fine save from Livakovic to avoid the third. Before the break, […]
From the day the Qatar World Cup was announced, football fans around the world fixed the date “December 13, 2022”. The reason behind this was quite simple. If all goes accordingly, this was the date when two Latin American giants of football Brazil and Argentina would clash for a blockbuster semi-final of the FIFA World […]
Argentina, Croatia fans prepare for semi-final clash
Lionel Messi and Luka Modric will go head-to-head on Tuesday in a mouth-watering World Cup semi-final between Argentina and Croatia, desperate to seize their last chance to win football’s ultimate prize. In the other semi-final on Wednesday, defending champions France face Morocco, the first African team to reach the last four of the World Cup. […]
With Messi in a deeper role, Argentina find themselves in the unusual position of not having an established world-class forward, and the same is true for Croatia. Delic started the semi-final against Brazil alongside Andrej Kramaric at centre-forward, before Bruno Petkovic replaced him and scored the crucial equaliser. Against the Dutch, the Argentine started Manchester […]
Substitute Romelu Lukaku missed four golden chances to break the deadlock as Belgium broke the shackles in the second half, although Croatia had opportunities of their own to find a winner. Croatia, who now play the winners of Group E, finished with five points, two behind Morocco, who beat already eliminated Canada 2–1 to top […]
Croatia: Dominik Livkovic, Ivan Perisic, Dejan Lovren, Mateo Kovacic, Andrej Kramaric, Luka Modric, Marcelo Brozovic, Marko Livaja, Borna Sosa, Josco Guardiol, Josip Juranovic. Belgium: Thibaut Courtois, Timothée Castagne, Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld, Thomas Meunier, Axel Witsel, Yannick Carrasco, Dries Mertens, Kevin De Bruyne, Leandro Trossard, Leander Dendonker
