Defender Onome Ebi, midfielder Ngozi Okobi and forward Desire Oparanozie top the list of 27 players Super Falcons’ Head Coach Thomas Dennerby has listed for the team’s final camping programme. Ademola Olajire, the Director of Communications, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), in a statement on Monday said the final list of 23 players would emerge from […]
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Liverpool duo of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane and Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all finished the 2018/2019 Premier League season as joint top scorers with 22 goals. The three players had the chance to finish as top scorer on the final day of the season but ended tying on the same number of goals scored. Aubameyang […]
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Eden Hazard on Friday night won three awards at Chelsea’s awards end of season ceremony, claiming the prize for Chelsea Player of the Year, Players’ Player of the Year and Goal of the Season. He has also won the main prize – Chelsea Player of the Year – for the fourth year running, breaking another […]
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Chelsea FC have qualified for the final of this year’s Europa Cup after defeating German clubside Eintracht Frankfurt 4-3 on penalties. Eden Hazard stepped up to smash home the winning penalty to book final spot after the match ended 1-1 after full time. Chelsea opened the scoring through the in-form Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who rattled the […]
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Lucas Moura scored a stoppage time winner to complete a hat-trick and seal a sensational 3-2 comeback win for Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday in Amsterdam. The away win which gave them a 3-3 aggregate scoreline took them past Ajax Amsterdam on the away goals rule into the 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League final match of June […]
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Liverpool produced one of the most stunning comebacks in Champions League history as Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum scored twice to beat Barcelona 4-0 and progress to the final for the second consecutive year 4-3 on aggregate on Tuesday. The Reds not only had a mountain to climb on the scoreboard, but were deprived of […]
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, arraigned the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, and four others for alleged mismanagement of $8,400 belonging to FIFA. According to a report by The Nation, the five officials were charged on a 17-count charge, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/93/2019, for misappropriation of funds remitted by the […]
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Vincent Kompany’s superb strike secured a hard-fought 1-0 win for Manchester City against a resolute Leicester City side in Monday night’s Premier League game at the Etihad. City needed to respond to Liverpool’s 3-2 win against Newcastle United and had to wait until the 70th minute thanks to Kompany’s long range strike from 30 yards. […]
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Manchester United’s hopes of Champions League football next season were ended after a 1-1 draw at already-relegated Huddersfield on Sunday. United got off to a good start as they went 1-0 up on eight minutes after Scott McTominay collected the ball just inside the box and hammered it through Jonas Lossl in goal for Huddersfield. Huddersfield equalised […]
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Liverpool forward, Mohammed Salah, is a major doubt for his side’s Champions League semi-final second leg clash with Barcelona at Anfield on Tuesday. Salah was stretchered off with a head injury in their narrow 3-2 win at Newcastle on Saturday, after a challenge with goalkeeper, Martin Dubravka. The 26-year-old Egyptian laid motionless on the ground […]
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