Jonas Hector scored the deciding goal in Cologne’s 3-2 win against Hoffenheim on Sunday, weaving through and jumping over a total of five defenders before beating the keeper with a deflected shot.
If that was the best individual goal of the weekend, then Atalanta had the best team goal when German Denis’ overhead shot was set up by a backheel and a header.
For the first time in five Premier League meetings, increasingly noisy neighbors Manchester United beat their reigning champion rivals Man City. They did it in emphatic fashion, too — winning 4-2 to go four points clear of fourth-place City. It was the type of result that could mark a definitive shift in the two clubs’ fortunes for years come, but what if it continued?
Dordrecht ’90 scored twice in a span of two minutes to negate NAC Breda’s lead in the second half of their Eredivisie match on Saturday, prompting NAC manager Robert Maaskant to put his fist through his team’s dugout in a fit of rage.
Maaskant has always been a hot head, but he’s got nothing on the Italian amateur who celebrated a goal by putting his head through the side of the dugout…
Earlier this season, Willian told the press that he and Jose Mourinho agreed that he needs to score more goals. Though he’s only been able to match his total of four from last season thus far, he has now surpassed his previous career high for Audi sideview mirrors broken during promotional shoots. So that’s something.
Several Chelsea players were attempting to kick balls into strategically placed Audi TT roadsters and in a tremendous display of his pinpoint accuracy (or lack thereof), Willian busted the driver’s side mirror of one car. His teammates laughed and Loic Remy tried to fix it, but the damage was done.
Though he did get the ball into the car, something tells me that the next time Audi have Chelsea players do something for them, they’ll ask Willian to stay home.
West Ham held a 1-0 lead against Stoke from the seventh minute all the way until the fifth minute of added time, when Marko Arnautovic equalized to salvage a point at Upton Park. For one West Ham supporter, there was only one possible response to this type of frustration: throwing an ear of sweet corn, that may or may not have been partially eaten, onto the pitch.
Liverpool have unveiled their new home kit for the 2015/16 season. Though this one carries the badge of Warrior parent company New Balance for the first time, it’s still red. Some people might say that the shirt is indistinguishable from every other Liverpool home shirt ever made and isn’t worth paying £50 for, but those people aren’t real fans.
Just in case you weren’t convinced that Luis Suarez is completely devoid of the ability to take responsibility for his own actions, his latest comments on his bite victims should clear that up. According to Suarez, Branislav Ivanovic and Giorgio Chiellini deserve blame for being bitten by him since they were annoying. Victim blaming ahoy!
Amidst rumors of Theo Walcott and Jack Wilshere leaving the Emirates, Arsene Wenger has declared that Arsenal no longer have to sell their best players.
Ball boys are the worst. Jose Mourinho knows it, Cristiano Ronaldo knows it, and now QPR goalkeeper Rob Green does too.
During QPR’s 3-3 draw at Aston Villa, Green relied on a ball boy behind his goal to do his job and retrieve a ball. But on, his way to it, the ball boy slipped and fell on his backside, but tried to recover by kicking the ball to Green instead of tossing it. Unsurprisingly, Green couldn’t handle it and the ball rolled back towards the advertising hoardings again. This time, the ball boy tried to big-time Green by faking the handoff and then rolling it between the goalkeeper’s legs from handshake distance.
Granted, putting the ball past Rob Green is something many people have done over the years, but this proves yet again that ball boys are a cruel breed.
Previously — Conspiracy Theory: Ball boy cabal determined to sabotage Chelsea
Four days after missing Liverpool’s disastrous trip to London (where they lost 4-1 to Arsenal) with minor training ground injury, Mario Balotelli also skipped their trip to Blackburn for the FA Cup quarterfinal replay. Though a Philippe Coutinho goal was enough to send Liverpool to Wembley and a semifinal date with Aston Villa, Balo’s absence was enough for yet another pundit to criticize him.
