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Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Manchester City
The Community Shield isn’t much more than an upgraded preseason friendly, but it certainly tastes like the beginning of the season, which should be very encouraging for Arsenal, picking up a trophy through an impressive 3-0 win over Manchester City. Santi Cazorla, the fantastic Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud scored the goals.
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Match Highlights – Liverpool vs Dortmund
A fantastic performance is worth mentioning, even if it’s only the preseason, as Liverpool beat a lacking Dortmund side 4-0 in Anfield. Philippe Coutinho was close to perfection with a goal and assist, helped out by Dejan Lovren scoring his first goal for the club, Daniel Sturridge with the opener and another from Jordan Henderson.
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Match Highlights: MLS All-Stars vs Bayern Munich
It was far from the strongest lineup Bayern Munich could have used, so it wasn’t that surprising to see the German champions lose to the MLS All-Stars after taking an early lead through Robert Lewandowski, only to see it waste away as Bradley Wright-Phillips and Landon Donovan took advantage of the weak defending.
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Match Highlights – Napoli vs Barcelona
One moment of concentration loss from Claudio Bravo allowed Blerim Dzemaili to score a late goal from far away to give Napoli a 1-0 win over Barcelona in their preseason friendly clash, although Barca, still playing without some of their best players, were the better side throughout most of the match.
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Match Highlights – Manchester United vs Liverpool
Always a lot more than just a friendly, Manchester United and Liverpool played for the title in the preseason International Champions Cup tournament with the Red Devils getting another confidence booster after a 3-1 win, including coming back from an early Steven Gerrard goal through Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard.
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Match Highlights – Germany vs Argentina
For a fourth time and first in 24 years, Germany are the World Champions after beating Argentina 1-0 in the final, thanks to a Mario Gotze goal in the 113rd minute, deep into extra time, capping off the 2014 World Cup by beating the two football giants of South American football.
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Match Highlights – Netherlands vs Argentina
A terrible 0-0 draw without any real chances, but Argentina go through to the World Cup final, beating the Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty shootout, with Lionel Messi scoring his kick, while Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder were denied by a fantastic Sergio Romero.
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Match Highlights – Brazil vs Germany
History was made on the pitch at Belo Horizonte. Not just Miroslav Klose becoming the all-time leading scorer of the World Cup, but Germany beating Brazil 7-1 in the semifinal, with more goals from Andre Schurrle (double), Toni Kroos (double), Thomas Muller and Sami Khedira, while Oscar scoring late couldn’t hide the humiliation of the […]
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Match Highlights – Brazil vs Colombia
A fantastic match, the best of the day, as Brazil beat Colombia with their two centre backs, David Luiz and Thiago Silva, scoring their goals in the 2-1 victory, while James Rodriguez scored to make things very interesting in the final minutes. It took Brazil only seven minutes to take the lead, as a Neymar […]
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Match Highlights – France vs Germany
One more European team going home, another one advances to the semifinals. Not a great match, but one early goal from Mats Hummels was enough to give Germany a 1-0 win over France, becoming the first team to make it out of the quarterfinals.