AS Roma defeat Palermo in a match counting for the 20th Serie A match-day and close the gap towards leaders Inter Milan to 4 points. Mancini scored the only goal of the game in the 59th minute after rising high, even higher as Palermo’s goalkeeper, for a corner kick cross. Two minutes prior to the goal Rinaudo was sent off and let the visitors with a man less on the pitch. [click to continue…]
Egypt play against Sudan in their second match-day of the African Cup of Nations 2008. Hassan Shehata’s team needs a win against Sudan tonight in order to qualify after two matches to the quarter-finals. Sudan lost without any appeal against Zambia 4 days ago. [click to continue…]
Cameroon need a win tonight in order to have real chances left for reaching the quarter-finals stage. Zambia are their opponents. Zambia are in fact, the Group C, leaders after defeating Sudan with 3 - 0 in their first match of the group. The other match scheduled in this group today is Egypt vs Sudan and it’s expected that Egypt will be the 3rd team that joins Ghana and the Ivory Coast into the quarter-finals. [click to continue…]
Arsenal and Newcastle clash again in this 2007-2008 season, this time in a match counting for the 4th round of the FA Cup. Besides the regular 2 matches in during a Premier League season the Gunners and the Magpies played also in September for the Carling Cup. Arsene Wenger’s side won that meeting with 2 - 0. Later on, in December both teams played to a draw their Premier League match at the Sant James’s Park. After this meeting today, the both clubs will play again next week in the EPL and later the second leg of this FA Cup battle. [click to continue…]
Watch Nigeria’s match against Mali tonight live on your PC using the following live streams. The game will kick-off at 20:30 CET and you just need to play the next channels into your peer-to-peer players. If you won’t manage to get the live coverage I invite you on this same page after the match. I will update this post with the highlights and the most important events that unfolded at the Sekondi Stadium. [click to continue…]
Ivory Coast will look to secure their quarter-finals spot tonight against Benin. A win would sum 6 points for “The Elephants” and will be enough for a spot into the next round. After the win in the derby of the Group B against Nigeria, things look a lot simplified for Gerard Gili’s side. The only concern of the coach should be in managing to send the players motivated on the pitch tonight. [click to continue…]
Villarreal 0 - 0 Barcelona - Highlights First Half
Villarreal and Barcelona played to a goalless draw the first leg of their Copa del Rey confrontation. The Catalans played without Samuel Eto’o and Ronaldinho. Lionel Messi rejoined the squad after an injury and Thierry Henry failed to provide something special. This means that Barcelona haven’t scored tonight at the El Madrigual. [click to continue…]
Ghana plays against Namibia tonight their 2nd game of the competition. Get the live streams and watch the event live online. Also watch the highlights after the game here at the FC Football Blog. The match starts at 20:30 CET. Ghana, the host nation of the competition, have the chance to be the first team that qualifies for the quarter-finals. [click to continue…]
With all games from the first match-day completed, the African Cup of Nations schedules today the encounters of the second day of the group stage. Keeping the already known order, Group A will play today. First match at 18:00 CET will bring Guinea and Morocco face to face. The two sides will approach the match today from different positions. Morocco come after a superb 5 - 1 win over Namibia and are almost sure to qualify for the quarter-finals. [click to continue…]
Joe Cole spared Chelsea of emotions in the 69th minute of their encounter with Everton tonight. The Blues won with 1 - 0 after a great football match with good scoring opportunities for both sides. Chelsea was the pragmatic team and managed to score while Everton had some big misses. [click to continue…]