Western United dampened the Sydney FC celebrations as they snatched a 2-1 win over the A-League Premiers on Saturday.
A 90th-minute strike from Steven Lustica secured a sixth win in seven games for United and made their place in the Finals safe.
Besart Berisha put the visitors ahead at Leichhardt Oval, reacting quickest to prod home after Alessandro Diamanti s effort had been parried upwards by Andrew Redmayne.
Diamanti rattled the crossbar with a magnificent effort from near the halfway line but Sydney were level 52 minutes in when Adam Le Fondre headed in his 20th goal of the season.
However, Lustica swept home from Dylan Pieras cross to claim victory, as Sydney s trophy celebrations were somewhat soured after a fifth game in a row withou…
(GSM) Mexican side Morelia have won the 2010 Super Liga, beating MLS team New England Revolution 1-2 to lift the trophy.
The match at Foxborough s Gilette Stadium had been under way for an hour and five minutes when Miguel Sabah opened the scoring from the penalty spot.
Another ten minutes later, the Mexican added another to hand Morelia a more comfortable advantage.
Home fans were given new hope in the 79th minute as Kevin Alston pulled one back but the Revolution failed to get another in the remaining minutes. Match-winner Sabah had to watch the final seconds from the side-line after conceding a second yellow card in added time.
The Super Liga is an international tournament involving four MLS sides and four teams from the Mexican Primera Division. Both…
Toronto FC forward Sebastian Giovinco has scooped the Major League Soccer MVP award for the 2015 season.
Italy international Giovinco enjoyed a debut campaign to remember with Toronto, scoring 22 goals, including two hat-tricks, and providing 16 assists in 33 games.
The diminutive 28-year-old s combined goals and assists total of 38 broke the previous record set by San Jose Earthquakes 2012 MVP winner Chris Wondolowski.
It proved to be a landslide win in the final vote for ex-Juventus man Giovinco, who garnered 87.27 per cent of club votes, 94.37 per cent of media votes and won the approval of 77.33 per cent of his fellow professionals.
Kei Kamara of Columbus Crew and Sporting Kansas City midfielder Benny Feilhaber were second and third respectively.
RB Leipzig have completed the signing of promising youngster Ibrahima Konate from Sochaux.
The 18-year-old has signed a contract with the Bundesliga runners-up until June 2022.
We have been keeping tabs on Ibrahima for quite some time, commented sporting director Ralf Rangnick.
He is a young and talented player who will strengthen our defence. We are very happy that such a big talent has joined us. We hope he can take the next step in his career here.
He has a lot of quality for someone of his age and we are convinced he will bring us a lot of joy in the future.
Konate came through the ranks at Sochaux after joining from Paris FC and made his official first-team debut in the Coupe de la Ligue defeat at the hands of Monaco back in January.
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Kevin De Bruyne believes Erling Haaland made a very good decision when he opted to join Manchester City, saying he does not understand anyone who doubted the Norwegian.
Although Haaland endured a quiet outing as City fell to a 1-0 loss at Liverpool on Sunday – their first defeat of the Premier League season – he has made a brilliant start to life in England.
Haaland has scored 15 goals in 10 Premier League games since joining City, and became the first player in the competition s history to hit hat-tricks in three successive home games earlier this month.
De Bruyne has already struck up a strong understanding with Haaland, and believes City s depth of attacking quality has made the striker s adaptation easier.
I don t understand why people would sa…
Barcelona booked their spot in the last four of the Champions League with a 1-0 quarter-final second-leg win over Shakhtar Donetsk.
A goal from Argentine superstar Lionel Messi two minutes from half-time was enough to hand Barca a win at Donbass Arena on Tuesday, lifting them to a 6-1 aggregate triumph over the Ukrainian champions after their 5-1 destruction at the Nou Camp last Wednesday.
The hosts started brightly and dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Barcelona missed the influence of the suspended Andres Iniesta in the middle of the park.
Dominance of possession should have led to the opener for the Ukrainian outfit in the eighth minute when Brazilian attacker Douglas Costa was played in behind the defence forcing Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes …
Chelsea forward Lucas Piazon has admitted he could complete a permanent move to Eintracht Frankfurt at the end of the season.
The former Brazil Under-17 international, now 20, joined Chelsea from Sao Paulo for a fee believed to be in the region of €7.5 million in 2011, but has made just one English Premier League appearance over the past three seasons.
Piazon, having previously spent time on loan at Malaga and Vitesse Arnhem, is hoping a season-long loan at Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt will allow him to play regularly.
I wish to play at Chelsea, Piazon told BILD. But football is a surprise and everything can change quickly.
I m only 20 and anything can happen. If everything fits, I could stay in Frankfurt.
Chelsea h…
German Football Association (DFB) president Reinhard Grindel has called for WADA to take independent control of football drug testing after the latest twist in the Russian doping allegations
A report in British newspaper the Mail on Sunday alleged that Russia s 23-man World Cup squad for the 2014 tournament in Brazil, along with 11 other footballers, are people of interest to officials probing state-sponsored doping in Russia.
Football s governing body FIFA is still investigating allegations relating to players mentioned in the McLaren report, which last year claimed more than 1,000 Russian sportspeople were the beneficiaries of a highly organised state-doping scheme.
The Mail s allegations were described as bizarre and made-up by Russia 2018 chief executive Alex…
Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick has sympathy for Philippe Coutinho amid a difficult spell of form and insists it is down to the team to help him.
Coutinho, 27, joined Bayern on loan at the start of the season after struggling to make an impact at Barcelona, but the Brazilian has fared little better in the Bundesliga.
He has made only 12 starts in the league this term and recent speculation suggested Bayern have no plans to trigger their reported €120million purchase option.
Barcelona apparently paid Liverpool €160m (£142m) for Coutinho in January 2018, but it is said they are now willing to take a loss of approximately €70m to get him off their books.
Coutinho was left out of the starting XI for recent Bundesliga matches against Mainz and Schalke, …
Eder Militao could return for the first time in seven months as Real Madrid look to tighten their grip on the LaLiga title race against Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
The Brazilian picked up a cruciate ligament injury on the opening day of the season against the same club, but has been named in the matchday squad by head coach Carlo Ancelotti.
However Ancelotti warned not to expect too much of the centre-back, saying: “He’s available, he’s trained well, but obviously he’s not 100 per cent fit because he hasn’t played football.
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“Militao is a very important player who helps us in many areas of the game. I wouldn’t rule him out completely. If we don’t go with Militao, either Nacho or (Aurelien) Tc…