Category: Soccer

  • Manchester United vs Manchester City – Derby Numbers You Need to Know About

    Manchester United vs Manchester City – Derby Numbers You Need to Know About

    It’s interesting to see Manchester City entering the Manchester derby with the team that has more at stake, meaning the Premier League title, than Manchester United, who find themselves in a weird position of fighting to even play in Europe next season. The numbers suggest this has been a United fixture for many years, but times are changing.

  • Anthony Modeste with the “Phantom Goal” celebration

    Anthony Modeste with the “Phantom Goal” celebration

    Scoring an 89th minute winner is enough to cause some wild celebrations. But Anthony Modeste of Hoffenheim was also out for revenge for the famous “phantom goal” by Stefan Kiessling and Leverkusen from earlier this season, so provided his own take on the incident with his celebration.

  • Ranking the Favorites to Win the Champions League

    Ranking the Favorites to Win the Champions League

    The Champions League quarterfinals have some pretty intriguing matches lined up for us: Bayern Munich & Manchester United, Real Madrid & Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid and Chelsea facing PSG. Great games, but none of them a potential final with two favorites going head to head.

  • 10 Memes About Barcelona Beating Real Madrid in El Clasico

    As expected, the day after the Clasico in which Barcelona beat Real Madrid 4-3 people were focusing on two things: The performance of referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco, creating the appropriate memes and jokes for it, while also praising Lionel Messi for his performance, which cast a pretty heavy shadow on a disappointing and complaining Cristiano Ronaldo.

  • El Clasico Afermath – A Lionel Messi Masterpiece, a Cristiano Ronaldo Flop

    El Clasico Afermath – A Lionel Messi Masterpiece, a Cristiano Ronaldo Flop

    This wasn’t the kind of night that helps you come to a conclusion about who is better. Lionel Messi outplayed and outscored Cristiano Ronaldo, but it’s just one match. Barcelona beat Real Madrid and were the better side, but the final answer will be given when this season is over. But Clasico matches create legends and myths that last for years; the Argentine star played his part. The Portuguese one? Not so much.

  • Match Highlights – Real Madrid vs Barcelona

    Match Highlights – Real Madrid vs Barcelona

    One of the Biggest Clasico matches in recent history Barcelona came out as the winners with a 4-3 win, including a Lionel Messi hat trick, three penalty kicks, a Sergio Ramos red card but most importantly Real Madrid not being able to open an unbridgeable gap at the top of the La Liga.

  • Real Madrid vs Barcelona – Clasico Numbers You Need to Know About

    Real Madrid vs Barcelona – Clasico Numbers You Need to Know About

    History, tradition, hatred. El Clasico in Spain between Real Madrid and Barcelona is bigger than life, and bigger than even the two greatest football stars in the world: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but using numbers and statistics can help understand a little bit more about the biggest club match in the world, not just the Spanish La Liga.

  • 10 Memes About Arsene Wenger & Arsenal Being Humiliated

    It was a rough day for anyone who is an Arsenal fan, but also for the manager Arsene Wenger and the players themselves. It’s bad enough to lose 6-0 to Chelsea while having the wrong player sent off. All the jokes and memes around the internet about it seem to be making it much worse.

  • On the Real Madrid – Barcelona Clasico Not Being Super Anymore

    On the Real Madrid – Barcelona Clasico Not Being Super Anymore

    Here we go again: Messi vs Ronaldo, Neymar vs Bale, and the whole approach about who is the deserving La Liga champion in the never ending battle between good and evil, which all depends on a point of view, as Barcelona and Real Madrid get ready to play each other for the 226th in official competition.

  • On Arsene Wenger, Loser-ism and the Andre Marriner Mistake

    On Arsene Wenger, Loser-ism and the Andre Marriner Mistake

    We’ve seen it so many times for a number of years: Arsenal lose a big match, Arsene Wenger offers (or doesn’t) a weak explanation and excuse after the match and doubts about his future at the club are raised. Losers or not, it was one humiliating afternoon for the gunners, although they didn’t get much help from a terrible decision by Andre Marriner, putting another nail in any kind of respect or hope someone still has in referees and their decision making.