Dominating against catchy Valencians, Real Madrid battled to reach the Spanish Super Cup final on Wednesday night (1-1, 4-3 loss). The Spanish and European champions, held in check after 120 minutes of play, had to wait for the penalty shootout to qualify. To get there, Real Madrid could naturally count on Karim Benzema. The Ballon … Read more
Victorious in the boiling Athenian halls of Panathinaikos and Olympiakos earlier in the season, AS Monaco will not achieve a passing of three in the Partizan Belgrade cauldron. The Roca team lost heavily on Thursday night (80-100), weighed down by a nightmarish fourth quarter. Kept alive for 30 minutes by the aggressiveness of Elie Okobo … Read more
It also looks like the weather is bleak for the World Cup finalists. The winners we don’t know, we haven’t seen them much yet, but some losers, recovery seems difficult, as if defeat remained their burden, as if the fog had not yet disappeared. After Hugo Llori’s error, the day before, during Tottenham-Aston Villa (0-2), … Read more
“How do you explain such a gap in the result (TFC lost 6-1 at the Vélodrome, Thursday night at the end of the 16th day in Ligue 1)?If you look at the stats, we conceded 7 shots on goal and conceded 6 goals. We had 6 shots on goal, we only got one. There were … Read more
Are you still surprised by Kylian Mbappé (after the success against Strasbourg thanks to a penalty scored and converted by the Bondy native)?It is a continuation of what he did in the WC. He had very few rest days, but the fact of being last in the competition, despite the sadness, allowed him to keep … Read more