Kolade Daniel
Football Lover. All-round junkie of the beautiful game. Could be found watching football most of the time, if not he's writing about them. A certain bias for Arsenal and Santos FC.
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This fixture was the postponed one from the first round of the Brazilian Championship. The goals for Bahia came from Gilberto who has not been on the score sheet in 13 games and another from Élber. In the first half, the match was well balanced at the Nilton Santos. Botafogo tried with the attacking and […]
Julian Álvarez and Diego Costa were both on the score sheet. Julian scored both River’s goals while Diego scored Tricolors. This was the first victory for the Argentine club over the Brazilian team after six attempts in the Libertadores. The victory came at the most critical moment for Fernando Diniz since this is his first […]
After a great performance Rubro-Negro opened up the scoring in the 25th minute with the goal scored by Lincoln. Five minutes later, Pedro got on the score sheet extending the lead after a great pass from Gabigol. In the second half, Bruno Henrique scored two goals making it a ravaging victory. With the victory, Flamengo […]
The Brazilian has expressed his delight after guiding Los Blancos to their second successive victory of the new La Liga season. It was not the most convincing of results for Real Madrid as they barely scraped past Real Valladolid on Wednesday with a 1-0 score-line. Zinedine Zidane’s men had many ideas going forward, but remained […]
Inter started as the livelier side and looked intent to get a goal for themselves early on. On the other hand, América stopped the game so many because the game was flowing with fouls – some soft, some harder. They tried pressing through aerial ball, crosses coming in from left and right without much effect […]
Tricolor improved after the half time instructions in the locker room, took advantage of the situation and the chances created to put themselves in a good position after suffering initially in the first half. The result led to the Gremista qualification in Group E of the Libertadores. In the first half, Universidad Católica didn’t waste […]
With the result in Baixada, the Hurricane guaranteed a place in the round of 16. The first half was dominated solely by Athletico, who had 80% possession of the ball, while Jorge Wilstermann did little in the game but had a compact defence. However, with all Athletico’s dominance, the goal failed to come, the hurricane […]
The Brazilian manager had only been in charge of the club for 38 days after taking over from Ney Franco. In that time, Larghi’s record at Goiás reads three initial defeats followed by two draws (against Coritiba and Ceará) and one victory (against the then leader of Serie A Internacional). Goiás released a statement on […]
Liverpool came from a goal down to beat Arsenal 3-1 at Anfield on Monday night to maintain their perfect start to the season. Premier League champions Liverpool made it three wins from three so far with a convincing 3-1 victory over Arsenal on Monday. The Gunners had defeated Liverpool twice over the past two months […]
The tricolor team took the lead at the beginning of the game, with Michel Araújo. Coxa tried to react, but the team from Rio killed the match in the second stage, with goals from Felippe Cardoso, Nino and Ganso. The first half started in brilliant fashion for Flu. It was a good day for Araújo. […]
The world’s most expensive player was handed a two-match suspension after his involvement in an unseemly brawl at the end of PSG’s 1-0 home defeat by Marseille recently. Without him, his teammates bounced back from losing their opening two games of the season and recorded successive victories against Metz (1-0) and Nice (3-0). With him back in the lineup, PSG have now taken […]
Palmeiras and Flamengo settled for a 1-1 draw on Sunday afternoon at Allianz Parque. The result saw Atlético-MG remain leaders in the Brazilian Championship. With a lot of absentees, mostly due to the Covid 19 outbreak, 20 players were not available including coach Domènec Torrent, Flamengo used the youngsters and trusted Arrascaeta and Pedro to produce good result away from home. Patrick de Paula broke the deadlock for Verdão, and Pedro equalized taking the […]
Madson broke the deadlock for Peixe in the first half but Gabriel Dias brought the game to a stalemate at the start of the second half for Leão. Rogério Ceni’s team held on well and also gave their rival work on the attack field. Fortaleza tried to pressurize Santos from the onset but the home team stepped up the game and brought the game […]
Ansu Fati made the headlines his own with an inspiring performance against Villarreal on Sunday night. The Ronald Koeman era is off to a good start. The Catalan giants have been faced with all sorts of problems off the pitch involving the management of players. Lionel Messi falls into that category but did not let his recent saga affect his performance. Fati is already […]
Thiago Silva is a proven winner and leader after coming from PSG with his experience at the highest level. Despite the fact that he doesn’t speak English, it seemed right for Frank Lampard to hand him the captain armband. “He’s not speaking the language enough to do it in that sense, but it doesn’t matter with someone like him,” Lampard explained pre-match. “He delivers it […]
Colorado took the lead with Galhardo’s goal in the 20th minute but the lead barely lasted at all. Tricolor leveled the scoring just five minutes after with Luciano. The goals both came in the first half. In the second half, with the expulsion of Zé Gabriel, the game became São Paulo’s attack against Inter’s defense. But the hosts managed to hold on, while the visiting team lacked the […]
Now, the Miners have a three-point advantage over Inter, who are in second place after drawing against São Paulo. Atlético-MG dominated the game early on in the first half. As leaders of the Brasileirão, they showed the quality and created a lot and applied pressure with great intensity against their opponent Grêmio, who couldn’t get out of Sampaoli’s team. Keno opened the scoring after he dribbled pass the defence […]
Everybody thought Sevilla would get massacred by Bayern Munich in the UEFA Supercup on Thursday. We believed the goal-scoring machine was virtually unbeatable but they found a worthy opponent in Sevilla FC. Julen Lopetegui’s squad decided they would come out and fight against one of the most powerful clubs in recent history. The Europa League champions started the match with a brave approach that got them […]
Marinho opened up the scoring in the first half of the game, Rojas leveled the score line in the second half before Jean Mota rounded it off to give his side the victory in the final minutes of the game with his first touch of the ball. The victory was needed for Cuca’s team, who came from the heart of two goalless draws between the Brasileirão and Libertadores. Santos started […]
Vagner Mancini’s team, even without a great performance, dominated the game in the 90 minutes against a slow and lost Fluminense on the field. With goals from Chico, ex-tricolor Marlon Freitas and Matheus Vargas in the 47th minute, Dragão won 3-1 and avoided the drama of penalties. Luccas Claro grabbed for Flu, but it was not enough after the 1-0 victory in […]
Frank Lampard had every reason to be happy with his team’s performance on Wednesday night, as Chelsea progressed into the next round of the Carabao Cup thanks to the 6-0 win over Barnsley. But one of the players that impressed him the most was Brazilian central defender Thiago Silva who made his debut, since moving to Stamford Bridge on a one-year deal last month. […]
Verdão drew 0-0 with Guaraní this Wednesday in Asunción and only needs one point in the next two games to advance in the competition. The duel played at Defensores Del Chaco was of little chance, very physical and with less technique than Vanderlei Luxemburgo’s team could offer. However, it was just enough to maintain their unbeaten record in Libertadores and take another step […]
Timão, who recorded their fifth defeat in 11 league matches, fought hard but did not play well and created little chance of danger. The alvinegros players complained a lot to referee Wilton Pereira Sampaio for an unmarked penalty at the beginning of the final stage. The hosts had more of the ball and created more chances in the first half. […]
Grêmio not only won, but have won Inter classic after classic. On Wednesday, Tricolor beat Colorado 1-0 at Beira-Rio, for the 4th round of Group E of the continental competition and reached the 10th unbeaten clash over their biggest rivals. Pepê scored the winning goal, the first ever in a Libertadores Gre-Nal. Despite Gremio being superior in the first […]
