2013.05.26 - The Results

PORTUGAL: Taca de Portugal (Final)

18:15 -- Benfica - Guimaraes 1-2     highlights
[1-0]  30' Nicolas Gaitan
[1-1]  79' El-Arbi Soudani
[1-2]  81' Ricardo Pereira



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Final)

18:00 -- Roma - Lazio 0-1     highlights
71' Senad Lulic

2013.04.17 - The Results

ITALY: Coppa Italia (Semifinal, leg 2)

20:45 -- Inter - Roma 2-3, 3-5 on aggregate     highlights
[1-0]  21' Jonathan
[1-1]  55' Mattia Destro
[1-2]  69' Mattia Destro
[1-3]  74' Vassilis Torosidis
[2-3]  81' Ricardo Alvarez



FRANCE: Coupe de France (Quarter-Finals)

19:00 -- Lens - Bordeaux 2-3
[1-0]  11' Cedric Carrasso (o.-g.)
[1-1]  59' Gregory Sertic
[1-2]  81' Cheick Diabate
[1-3]  85' Cheick Diabate
[2-3]  90' + 2' Zakarya Bergdich
20:55 -- Evian - PSG 1-1, 1-1 after extra time, 4-1 on penalties, 5-2 total score (including penalties scored)     highlights
[0-1]  8' Javier Pastore
[1-1]  43' Saber Khelifa



BULGARIA: Cup (Semifinal, leg 1)

16:45 -- Levski Sofia - Lokomotiv Sofia 3-1 (0-0)



TURKEY: Cup (Semifinals, leg 1)

18:00 -- Sivasspor - Trabzonspor 2-1
[1-0]  44' Aatif Chahechouhe
[2-0]  75' Erman Kilic
[2-1]  90' Marek Sapara
20:15 -- Eskisehirspor - Fenerbahce 1-1     highlights
[1-0]  13' Erkan Zengin
[1-1]  20' Mehmet Topal



PORTUGAL: Taca de Portugal (Semifinal, leg 2)

21:00 -- Guimaraes - Belenenses 1-0, 3-0 on aggregate
14' Marcio Matias

2013.01.29 - The Results

ITALY: Coppa Italia (Semifinal, leg 2)

20:45 -- Lazio - Juventus 2-1, 3-2 on aggregate     highlights
[1-0]  53' Alvaro Gonzalez
[1-1]  90' + 1' Arturo Vidal
[2-1]  90' + 3' Sergio Floccari



AFRICA NATIONS CUP: Group C, Matchday 3

18:00 -- Burkina Faso - Zambia 0-0
18:00 -- Ethiopia - Nigeria 0-2     highlights
80' Viktor Moses (pen.)
90' Viktor Moses (pen.)

Final standings:
1 Burkina Faso  3 1 2 0 5-1 +4  5p
2 Nigeria  3 1 2 0 4-2 +2  5p
3 Zambia  3 0 3 0 2-2 0  3p
4 Ethiopia  3 0 1 2 1-7 -6  1p



NETHERLANDS: KNVB Beker (Quarter-Finals)

20:00 -- Den Bosch - AZ Alkmaar 0-5
5' Viktor Elm
23' Johann Gudmundsson
35' Adam Maher
39' Jozy Altidore (pen.)
60' Adam Maher

2013.01.23 - The Results

PORTUGAL: Primeira Liga

21:15 -- Setubal - Porto 0-3     highlights
9' Jackson Martinez (pen.)
86' Jackson Martinez
90' + 1' Luis Gonzalez

Current standings:
1 Benfica  15 12 3 0 39-11 +28  39p
2 Porto  15 12 3 0 35-8 +27  39p
3 Braga  15 9 2 4 34-19 +15  29p
4 Pacos de Ferreira  15 6 7 2 17-12 +5  25p
5 Rio Ave  15 6 3 6 18-20 -2  21p



AFRICA NATIONS CUP: Group A, Matchday 2

16:00 -- South Africa - Angola 2-0     highlights
30' Siyabonga Sangweni
62' Lehlohonolo Majoro
19:00 -- Morocco - Cape Verde Islands 1-1     highlights
[0-1]  36' Platini
[1-1]  79' Youssef El-Arabi

Current standings:
1 South Africa  2 1 1 0 2-0 +2  4p
2-3 Cape Verde Islands  2 0 2 0 1-1 0  2p   {1-1 against Morocco}
2-3 Morocco  2 0 2 0 1-1 0  2p   {1-1 against Cape Verde Islands}
4 Angola  2 0 1 1 0-2 -2  1p



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Semifinal, leg 1)

20:45 -- Roma - Inter 2-1     highlights
[1-0]  13' Alessandro Florenzi
[2-0]  33' Mattia Destro
[2-1]  44' Rodrigo Palacio



SPAIN: Copa del Rey (Quarter-Finals, leg 2)

19:30 -- Sevilla - Real Zaragoza 4-0, 4-0 on aggregate
36' Alvaro Negredo
45' + 3' Ivan Rakitic
67' Alvaro Negredo (pen.)
90' + 2' Manu
21:30 -- Valencia - Real Madrid 1-1, 1-3 on aggregate     highlights
[0-1]  44' Karim Benzema
[1-1]  52' Alberto Costa

2013.01.22 - The Results

AFRICA NATIONS CUP: Group D, Matchday 1

16:00 -- Ivory Coast - Togo 2-1     highlights
[1-0]  8' Yaya Toure
[1-1]  45' + 2' Jonathan Ayite
[2-1]  88' Gervinho
19:00 -- Tunisia - Algeria 1-0     highlights
90' + 1' Youssef Msakni

Current standings:
1 Ivory Coast  1 1 0 0 2-1 +1  3p
2 Tunisia  1 1 0 0 1-0 +1  3p
3 Togo  1 0 0 1 1-2 -1  0p
4 Algeria  1 0 0 1 0-1 -1  0p



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Semifinal, leg 1)

20:45 -- Juventus - Lazio 1-1     highlights
[1-0]  63' Federico Peluso
[1-1]  86' Stefano Mauri

2013.01.16 - The Results

SPAIN: Copa del Rey (Quarter-Finals, leg 1)

19:30 -- Real Zaragoza - Sevilla 0-0
21:30 -- Barcelona - Malaga 2-2     highlights
[0-1]  26' Manuel Iturra
[1-1]  29' Lionel Andres Messi
[2-1]  30' Carlos Puyol
[2-2]  90' Ignacio Camacho



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Quarter-Final)

21:00 -- Fiorentina - Roma 0-0, 0-1 after extra time
97' Mattia Destro



PORTUGAL: Taca de Portugal (Quarter-Finals)

19:45 -- Pacos de Ferreira - Gil Vicente 2-1
[1-0]  17' Khalidou Yero (o.-g.)
[1-1]  72' Joao Vilela
[2-1]  90' + 1' Rui Caetano
21:45 -- Guimaraes - Braga 1-1, 2-1 after extra time
[1-0]  1' Jean Pierre Barrientos
[1-1]  85' Eder
[2-1]  93' Jean Pierre Barrientos

2013.01.15 - The Results

SPAIN: Copa del Rey (Quarter-Finals, leg 1)

21:00 -- Real Madrid - Valencia 2-0     highlights
37' Karim Benzema
73' Andres Guardado (o.-g.)



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Quarter-Final)

21:00 -- Inter - Bologna 2-2, 3-2 after extra time
[1-0]  34' Fredy Guarin
[2-0]  77' Rodrigo Palacio
[2-1]  81' Alessandro Diamanti
[2-2]  84' Manolo Gabbiadini
[3-2]  120' Andrea Ranocchia

2013.01.09 - The Results

ITALY: Coppa Italia (Quarter-Final)

20:45 -- Juventus - Milan 1-1, 2-1 after extra time     highlights
[0-1]  6' Stephan El Shaarawy
[1-1]  12' Sebastian Giovinco
[2-1]  96' Mirko Vucinic



TURKEY: Super Lig

18:00 -- Belediyespor - Antalyaspor 1-0     highlights
90' Ugur Demirok

Current standings:
1 Galatasaray  17 9 6 2 34-20 +14  33p
2 Besiktas  17 8 6 3 38-25 +13  30p
3 Antalyaspor  17 9 3 5 28-22 +6  30p

2013.01.08 - The Result

ITALY: Coppa Italia (Quarter-Final)

21:00 -- Lazio - Catania 3-0
30' Stefan Radu
61' Hernanes
90' + 1' Hernanes

2012.05.20 - The Results

FRANCE: Ligue 1

21:00 -- Auxerre - Montpellier 1-2 (match delayed twice in the second half, ended 30 minutes later)     highlights
[1-0]  20' Narcisse Oliver Kapo Obou
[1-1]  32' John Utaka
[1-2]  76' John Utaka
21:00 -- Evian - Brest 0-1 (0-0)
21:00 -- Lille - Nancy 4-1 (4-1)
21:00 -- Lorient - Paris Saint Germain 1-2     highlights
[1-0]  28' Kevin Monnet-Paquet
[1-1]  61' Javier Pastore
[1-2]  75' Thiago Motta
21:00 -- Lyon - Nice 3-4 (2-2)
21:00 -- Rennes - Dijon 5-0 (1-0)
21:00 -- Saint-Etienne - Bordeaux 2-3 (1-2)     highlights
21:00 -- Sochaux - Marseille 1-0 (0-0)
21:00 -- Toulouse - Ajaccio 0-2 (0-2)
21:00 -- Valenciennes - Caen 3-1 (1-0)

Final standings:
1 Montpellier  38 25 7 6 68-34 +34  82p
2 PSG  38 23 10 5 75-41 +34  79p
3 Lille  38 21 11 6 72-39 +33  74p
4 Lyon  38 19 7 12 64-51 +13  64p
5 Bordeaux  38 16 13 9 53-41 +12  61p



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Final)

21:00 -- Juventus - Napoli 0-2     highlights
63' Edinson Cavani (pen.)
83' Marek Hamsik



USA: Major League Soccer

01:00 -- Portland Timbers - Chicago Fire 2-1 (1-1)

Current standings:
Eastern Conference:
1 New York  12 8 1 3 25-17 +8  25p
2 D.C United  14 7 3 4 25-17 +8  24p
3 Sporting KC  11 7 1 3 15-9 +6  22p
4 Chicago Fire  10 4 3 3 12-12 0  15p
5 New England  11 4 1 6 14-15 -1  13p
6 Houston  10 3 4 3 10-11 -1  13p
Western Conference:
1 Real Salt Lake  13 8 2 3 19-12 +7  26p
2 San Jose  12 7 3 2 23-13 +10  24p
3 Seattle  11 7 2 2 15-6 +9  23p
4 Vancouver  11 5 3 3 12-13 -1  18p
5 Colorado  12 5 1 6 17-16 +1  16p
6 Chivas USA  11 4 1 6 7-12 -5  13p

No Double for Juve

All that talk about the third star must have affected the concentration of the Juventus players.

For one hour of gameplay it seemed that Juventus was the usual unbeaten team that Antonio Conte guided to the first title since... 2003?

But, actually, Napoli was more Juve-like than Juve, in this Coppa Italia final, and they got a penalty in the 63rd minute, after a mistake by Juventus' back-up keeper, Storari. Cavani converted coolly, and Juventus' cup challenge was not looking pretty.

Juventus was pressing more, but Napoli's counters were getting more dangerous, too. From one of this counters, Hamsik found himself relatively free in Juventus' penalty area, and he executed Storari with a well-placed shot (83).
2-0 for Napoli, and that was the final.

I guess after the impressive performance in the Champions League, where they eliminated Manchester City, and almost ousted Chelsea, too, Napoli deserved a trophy this season.

Highlights:

Juventus vs Napoli 0-2 Finale Coppa Italia 2012 by Roma-eterna

Juve Finishes Unbeaten

Their last game, at home against Atalanta, meant another victory for Conte's team.

Juventus - Atalanta 3-1
[1-0]  10' Luca Marrone
[2-0]  28' Alessandro Del Piero
[2-1]  83' Stephan Lichtsteiner (o.-g.)
[3-1]  90' Andrea Barzagli (pen.)

Final standings:
1 Juventus  38 23 15 0 68-20 +48  84p
2 Milan  38 24 8 6 74-33 +41  80p
3 Udinese  38 18 10 10 52-35 +17  64p
4 Lazio  38 18 8 12 56-47 +9  62p
5 Napoli  38 16 13 9 66-46 +20  61p

Juventus finishes the league with 0 losses!
Amazing.
How many people would have bet on them to achieve this, before the season started?

After this title win, Juventus now has 28 official titles. (2 were stripped away from them after Calciopoli.)

And I have to talk about that bad aspect of Juventus' title celebration, even though the positives of this season are perhaps more deserving of being analyzed.
I understand the Juventus officials want to put three stars on their equipment for next year. That symbolizes 3 x 10 titles won, and would mean that Juventus still does not want to accept the 2006 Calciopoli penalty as legitimate.

That is the wrong way to go, seriously.

The offense has been proven, it probably goes even deeper than what the evidence showed, and the new, hard-working Juventus people might be better off not peeling off old scars that took so long to heal.

Focus on the present, and on the good side of winning this title, I would dare to say, instead of trying to bring up an argument that you can't win!

Anyway, though, leaving that aside, Juve could win the Italian Cup, too. They're playing Napoli, in the final, next Sunday.

2012.03.21 - The Results

SPAIN: Primera Division

20:00 -- Atletico Madrid - Athletic 2-1 (0-0)     highlights
20:00 -- Real Sociedad - Levante 1-3 (1-2)     highlights
20:00 -- Sporting Gijon - Mallorca 2-3 (1-1)
20:00 -- Valencia - Zaragoza 1-2 (1-1)     highlights
22:00 -- Villarreal - Real Madrid 1-1     highlights
[0-1]  62' Cristiano Ronaldo
[1-1]  83' Marcos Antonio Senna

Current standings:
1 Real Madrid  28 23 3 2 90-25 +65  72p
2 Barcelona  28 20 6 2 82-22 +60  66p
3 Valencia  28 13 8 7 44-33 +11  47p
4 Levante  28 13 5 10 41-38 +3  44p
5 Malaga  27 12 5 10 38-38 0  41p



ENGLAND: Barclays Premiership

20:45 -- Manchester City - Chelsea 2-1     highlights
[0-1]  60' Gary Cahill
[1-1]  78' Sergio Aguero (pen.)
[2-1]  86' Samir Nasri
20:45 -- Tottenham - Stoke City 1-1 (0-0)
21:00 -- Everton - Arsenal 0-1 (0-1)     highlights
21:00 -- QPR - Liverpool 3-2 (0-0)

Current standings:
1 Manchester united  29 22 4 3 73-27 +46  70p
2 Manchester City  29 22 3 4 71-21 +50  69p
3 Arsenal  29 17 4 8 58-39 +19  55p
4 Tottenham Hotspur  29 16 6 7 53-35 +18  54p
5 Chelsea  29 14 7 8 49-34 +15  49p



NETHERLANDS: Eredivisie

18:30 -- De Graafschap - Twente 1-2     highlights
[1-0]  2' Soufian El Hassnaoui
[1-1]  19' Roberto Rosales
[1-2]  52' Leroy Fer

Current standings:
1 AZ Alkmaar  26 16 5 5 53-25 +28  53p
2 Ajax Amsterdam  26 15 7 4 68-33 +35  52p
3 Twente Enschede  26 15 6 5 68-31 +37  51p



GERMANY: DFB Pokal (Semifinals)

20:30 -- Borussia M. - Bayern 0-0, 0-0 after extra time, 2-4 on penalties



ITALY: Coppa Italia (Semifinals, leg 2)

20:45 -- Napoli - Siena 2-0, 3-2 on aggregate     highlights
10' Simone Vergassola (o.-g.)
31' Edinson Cavani

2012.03.20 - The Results

ITALY: Coppa Italia (Semifinals, leg 2)

20:45 -- Juventus - Milan 1-2 (3-3 on aggregate), 2-2 after extra time, 4-3 final aggregate score     highlights
[1-0]  28' Alessandro Del Piero
[1-1]  51' Djamel Mesbah
[1-2]  81' Maxi Lopez
[2-2]  96' Mirko Vucinic



SPAIN: Primera Division

20:00 -- Osasuna - Getafe 0-0
21:00 -- Barcelona - Granada 5-3     highlights
[1-0]  4' Xavi Hernandez
[2-0]  17' Lionel Andres Messi
[2-1]  55' Diego Mainz
[2-2]  62' Guilherme Siqueira (pen.)
[3-2]  67' Lionel Andres Messi
[4-2]  82' Cristian Tello
[5-2]  86' Lionel Andres Messi
[5-3]  89' Guilherme Siqueira (pen.)

Current standings:
1 Real Madrid  27 23 2 2 89-24 +65  71p
2 Barcelona  28 20 6 2 82-22 +60  66p
3 Valencia  27 13 8 6 43-31 +12  47p
4 Levante  27 12 5 10 38-37 +1  41p
5 Malaga  27 12 5 10 38-38 0  41p



GERMANY: DFB Pokal (Semifinals)

20:30 -- Greuther Furth - Borussia D. 0-0, 0-1 after extra time     highlights
120' Ilkay Gundogan



ENGLAND: Barclays Premiership

21:00 -- Blackburn - Sunderland 2-0 (0-0)

Current standings:
1 Manchester united  29 22 4 3 73-27 +46  70p
2 Manchester City  28 21 3 4 69-20 +49  66p
3 Tottenham Hotspur  28 16 5 7 52-34 +18  53p
4 Arsenal  28 16 4 8 57-39 +18  52p
5 Chelsea  28 14 7 7 48-32 +16  49p

CL yes, Coppa Italia no

AC Milan is out of the Coppa Italia.
And they were ousted by their bitter rivals, Juventus Turin.

(Hmm, out of the Coppa Italia, but still in the Champions League...)

Although Juventus opened the scoring, through Del Piero (in minute 28), Milan came back in the second half, with two excellent goals, courtesy of Djamel Mesbah (50) and Maxi Lopez (81).
Because Juventus had won in Milan, 2-1, at the beginning of February, the game went to extra time.

But the game was in Turin, and probably that counted for something because Juve scored the decisive goal, that was enough to take them through, in the first half of extra time.
Vucinic was its author, with a spectacularly powerful shot, from way out, in the 96th minute.

Juventus then hung on, for the next 24 minutes, to eliminate Milan out of the Coppa Italia.
They will face the winner of Napoli - Siena, in the CI final. (Siena leads, 2-1 on aggregate, after the first leg.)

Highlights:

[www.online-soccer.ru] Juventus 2-2 AC Milan ALL... by all-goals

2012.02.09 - The Results

ITALY: Serie A

20:45 -- Lazio - Cesena 3-2
[0-1]  14' Adrian Mutu
[0-2]  35' Vincenzo Iaquinta (pen.)
[1-2]  53' Hernanes
[2-2]  61' Senad Lulic
[3-2]  63' Libor Kozak

Current standings:
1 Juventus  21 12 9 0 33-13 +20  45p
2 Milan  22 13 5 4 43-19 +24  44p
3 Lazio  23 12 6 5 37-24 +13  42p
4 Udinese  22 12 5 5 33-20 +13  41p
5 internazionale  22 11 3 8 34-29 +5  36p



ITALY: Coppa Italia - Semifinals (leg 1)

20:45 -- Siena - Napoli 2-1 (1-0)



TURKEY: Super Lig

15:00 -- Buyuksehir - Karabukspor 2-2 (1-1)
17:00 -- Sivasspor - Besiktas 1-1 (0-1)

Current standings:
1 Galatasaray  25 16 6 3 47-18 +29  54p
2 Fenerbahçe  25 15 6 4 41-24 +17  51p
3 Beşiktaş  26 13 7 6 36-26 +10  46p

2012.02.08 - The Results

ITALY: Serie A

20:00 -- Catania - AS Roma 1-1 (1-1)

Current standings:
1 Juventus  21 12 9 0 33-13 +20  45p
2 Milan  22 13 5 4 43-19 +24  44p
3 Udinese  22 12 5 5 33-20 +13  41p
4 Lazio  22 11 6 5 34-22 +12  39p
5 internazionale  22 11 3 8 34-29 +5  36p



ITALY: Coppa Italia - Semifinals (leg 1)

20:45 -- Milan - Juventus 1-2
[0-1]  53' Martin Caceres
[1-1]  62' Stephan El Shaarawy
[1-2]  83' Martin Caceres



SPAIN: Copa Del Rey - Semifinals (leg 2)

21:00 -- Barcelona - Valencia 2-0, 3-1 on aggregate
16' Cesc Fabregas
81' Xavi Hernandez



NETHERLANDS: Eredivisie

19:00 -- ADO Den Haag - AZ Alkmaar 0-6
33' Charlison Benschop
47' Charlison Benschop
69' Charlison Benschop
73' Maarten Martens
85' Jozy Altidore
88' Jozy Altidore

Current standings:
1 PSV Eindhoven  20 12 6 2 53-22 +31  42p
2 AZ Alkmaar  20 13 3 4 43-18 +25  42p
3 Twente Enschede  19 11 6 2 52-19 +33  39p



AFRICA NATIONS CUP: Semifinals

17:00 -- Zambia - Ghana 1-0
x - 7' Asamoah Gyan (m. pen.) - x
78' Emmanuel Mayuka
20:00 -- Mali - Ivory Coast 0-1
45' Gervinho



GREECE: Super League

16:15 -- Asteras Tripolis - Levadiakos 0-1 (0-1)
18:30 -- Panaitolikos - Doxa Dramas 0-2 (0-1)

Current standings:
1 Panathinaikos Athens  20 15 3 2 38-16 +22  48p
2 Olympiakos Piraeus  20 14 4 2 44-14 +30  46p
3 AEK Athens  20 11 4 5 27-20 +7  37p

Milan Practically Out of the Coppa Italia

How embarrassing for Milan fans!

Surely, they believed theirs was the best team in Italy.

But now everybody else can make fun of them if they say that, because there's no way they can be the best when they lose (at home) to both Juventus and inter. (And they lost to Juve away, too.)

I guess Allegri knows enough to pick on Juventus staff, and their criticism of referees, but he does not know enough to win big, important derbys.

He sure was not aware of the danger posed by Martin Caceres. Speaking of whom, that was a great second goal scored by the Uruguayan. Not that Caceres was too tightly watched for any of his two goals. Clearly, Allegri messed up on his defensive indications.

But he still has one small chance to alter the aggregate score in his favour when Milan will travel to Turin, for the second leg, in six weeks. (Yeah, right! Maybe if Juventus suddenly starts losing left and right...)

Highlights can be seen here.

Well Done, Napoli!

After crushing inter 3-0 in Milan on October 1st, Napoli did it again, this time eliminating the high-flying inter team from the Coppa Italia.

I can't say I'm not happy.

How inter managed to get eight wins in a row prior to this, including against rivals Milan and Lazio (although, as previously stated, I'm not so sure Lazio is a rival for them), I don't really know. I think there's something fishy going on with that.
Because they managed to just go past Napoli in the standings, but look at this performance in a fair fight: inter is nowhere near being able to claim superiority over Napoli.

Claudio Ranieri says a penalty given to Napoli, in tandem with a penalty not given to his side, decided the match. What's the matter, Claudio? Perhaps you're disappointed that there was no greasing the referee? I don't hear Mazzarri saying anything about the Chivu intervention in the first half.

The goals:
1-0

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2-0

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