United States goalkeeper Matt Turner has urged fans of the Copa America hosts not to forget the value of results ahead of Thursday s clash with Panama at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The USA got their Group C campaign up and running with a 2-0 win over Bolivia, with Christian Pulisic and Folarin Balogun on target.
Some believed Gregg Berhalter s side should have recorded a more comprehensive victory as they racked up 20 shots on goal to Bolivia s six.
Nottingham Forest shot-stopper Turner, though, says tournament wins should not be taken for granted.
We ll never have that luxury. I think you take wins when you can get wins, no matter the context, Turner said.
You take the result, especially in tournament play, it s the end all be all. I implore people…
France got their Euro 2024 campaign up and running with a 1-0 victory over Austria on Monday.
That came after Slovakia had stunned Belgium by the same scoreline.
Elsewhere, Romania were big winners against Ukraine.
With the use of Opta data, we take a look at the standout statistics from day four at Euro 2024.
Austria 0-1 France: More Euros frustration for Mbappe
Kylian Mbappe s quick feet did for Austria s defence in Dusseldorf, as the soon-to-be Real Madrid forward beat his man and whipped in a ball that was inadvertently turned home by Maximilian Wober.
That proved to be the decisive moment for Les Bleus, though Mbappe could have put an entertaining contest to bed midway through the second half, only to miss when one-on-one with the Au…
Petar Musa scored a hat-trick in FC Dallas’ thrilling win over Minnesota United in midweek, and he is thrilled with the attacking set-up under interim coach Peter Luccin.
Dallas beat Minnesota 5-3 at home on Wednesday, making it three games unbeaten.
The club dismissed Nico Estevez on June 9, and Musa suggested Luccin has let the team off the leash from an attacking standpoint.
“I think we play more vertically towards the goal,” said Musa.
“We are more offensive now, we have a lot of players who run behind and we started playing more attacking football.
We scored five goals at home so you can see from the build-up that we play attacking soccer. I am very happy about the new style we are implementing.”
Luccin added: “I’m than…
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With all eyes falling on the Etihad this weekend, Manchester City will welcome Arsenal to town for what promises to be a heavyweight showdown on Sunday afternoon.
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Starting with the hosts, although Manchester City might have been left frustrated earlier in the week as they opened their Champions League account with a 0-0 stalemate at home against Italian giants Inter Milan, Pep Guardiola’s squad have only continued on a sensational domestic romp since opening up the new campaign. Marking their return from September’s international break with a comeback at the Etihad as they secured a 2-1 win against Brentford, the Sky Blues have won all of their first four Premier League appearances. Getting proceedings underway on…
Emma Raducanu used England s comeback win over Slovakia at Euro 2024 as motivation ahead of her Wimbledon opener.
Raducanu was handed a boost on Monday when her planned first-round opponent world number 22 Ekaterina Alexandrova withdrew due to illness.
But the 2021 US Open champion did not put in the most convincing display as she beat lucky loser Renata Zarazua 7-6 (7-0) 6-3 on Centre Court.
Nevertheless, Raducanu got the job done, much like Gareth Southgate s side as Jude Bellingham s stunner and Harry Kane s header secured an extra-time win over Slovakia in Germany, despite another poor display.
Raducanu, however, believes England s progress to the quarter-finals at Euro 2024 shows that winning ugly is sometimes the way forward.
I was nervous,…
Eder is a little bit sorry that he scored Portugal s winner in the Euro 2016 final against France after receiving a negative reaction from supporters in Ligue 1.
The forward s extra-time goal was enough for Portugal to claim a first major honour and deny the hosts on their own soil at the Stade de France in July.
Eder plies his domestic trade in Ligue 1 for Lille and has received a backlash from the terraces in the early stages of the season.
The 28-year-old hopes that in time the situation will settle down.
I m a little bit sorry to have scored against France. I have many friends here. I play in Ligue 1, he told L Equipe.
But I ve done the best I could for my country. I didn t know it would cause such an outcry. I m trying to play the best I ca…
Day ten of Euro 2008 saw Germany take on Austria needing a point to qualify and Croatia, already group winners and through to face Turkey in the quarter-finals, take on Poland.
The group was delicately balanced with any of the three other teams able to join Croatia, but with Germany being hot favourites as they needed only a point.
Before the games, German captain Michael Ballack spoke of the tension in the German camp. Everybody is a tense after this loss. If it were different, there would be no reaction. But we go into the game with the pressure to win, which brings more percentage points out of you. We have this pressure but we have shown in the past that we can deal with it. Football is not always harmonious. I hope that we show a reaction and win the game.
For all the talk of an England victory being written in the stars at Euro 2024, the Three Lions oldest failing returned to haunt them in Sunday s final.
If you cannot control matches at the elite level, you lose control of your destiny.
That was exactly what happened at the Olympiastadion as Spain – the tournament s outstanding side – won a record-breaking fourth European crown, and deservedly so.
It briefly looked like England might cap the most remarkable of knockout runs with another rescue act when Cole Palmer came off the bench to cancel out Nico Williams opener.
But at 1-1, England ceded control and territory, and as was the case against Croatia at the 2018 World Cup and Italy in the Euro 2020 final, it cost them.
Mikel Oyarzabal matched…
Marcus Rashford says the misery of England s early exit from Euro 2016 is serving as motivation to avoid a similar fate at the World Cup.
Roy Hodgson s England were surprisingly bundled out by an unfancied Iceland in the first knockout stage of their last major tournament.
Rashford came off the bench in that match as he did in the 2-1 friendly win over Nigeria on Saturday that extended the Three Lions unbeaten run to nine matches.
The 20-year-old Manchester United forward is hopeful of maintaining that form to steer clear of another deflating defeat on the big stage.
The feeling of losing is a nasty feeling. When you speak about [it], people don t understand, Rashford told reporters.
So definitely we ll take all the things that happened at th…
Fulham were beaten 2-1 by Atletico Madrid in the Europa League final on this day in 2010.
Diego Forlan’s winner late in extra-time brought the London club’s Europa League adventure to a heartbreaking end.
Roy Hodgson’s side provided shocks in the competition to reach the final – beating Juventus and Shakhtar Donetsk along the way – but were denied a first European trophy by an Atletico side which contained the likes of Sergio Aguero, Jose Antonio Reyes and David De Gea.
Atletico hit the front in the 32nd minute when Forlan pounced on a mishit shot from Aguero to beat Mark Schwarzer from close range but Fulham were quick to level as Simon Davies smashed home Zoltan Gera’s cross five minutes later.
Both sides failed to make an impression or crea…