Football News
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Football: Barca are losing patience with de Jong
Barca are running out of patience Barcelona have had enough. Frenkie de Jong has been nursing knee pain for several months now. The Dutch midfielder still has not recovered as hoped. And for the moment, he remains against having an operation. According to Sport, the Catalan club believes conservative treatment has already had plenty of…
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Football: Højbjerg floated as Real Madrid midfield option
Real Madrid reopen the midfield search In Madrid, the Rodri miss still stings. The Spanish midfielder has ended up with the enemy, Barcelona, while the middle of the park remains the one area Real have been unable to fix. Plenty thought the summer business was done after that setback. It isn’t anymore. Jose Mourinho has…
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Football: Høgh hat-trick powers Celtic to a five-goal rout at Kilmarnock
Høgh gets the rout rolling Sixty-four seconds. That is all Kasper Høgh needed to open his account in a Celtic shirt. The 11 million pound record signing turned in Engels’ cross at the back post before Kilmarnock had even settled. Rugby Park, freshly swapped from artificial turf to natural grass, had been hoping for a…
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Football: Campbell penalty sinks Rangers as Hibernian silence Ibrox
A penalty, and silence at Ibrox Ibrox was expecting a party. It got a body blow instead. Josh Campbell stepped up, placed the ball, and waited. Penalty. The Hibernian midfielder kept his nerve and put the visitors ahead in the first half. 0-1. The noise drained out of the stands. Rangers pressed after that. They…
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Football: Vukojevic stuns Malmo from his own half as Degerfors end long wait
Vukojevic rocks the Eleda Stadium From his own half. That is where it started. Dijan Vukojevic looked up, saw the Malmo keeper off his line, and let fly. The ball dropped under the bar and the Eleda Stadium fell silent. Sweden’s most decorated club had just been caught cold by a team that had not…
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Football: Farrington sinks Chivas in Leagues Cup
Logan Farrington came off the bench to beat Chivas 1-0 and hand FC Dallas a third straight shutout in the Leagues Cup, with Jonathan Sirois again immense in goal.
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Football: Real Salt Lake crush Atlante 4-0 to stay alive
Four scorers, one statement. Real Salt Lake thrashed Atlante 4-0 to revive their Leagues Cup hopes in front of a packed America First Field.
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Football: Segura’s late strike sinks Toluca for LAFC
Eddie Segura curled home in stoppage time to give LAFC a 1-0 win over Toluca and four points from their opening two Leagues Cup matches.
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Football: Diomande set for €40m Nottingham Forest move
A 40 million deal is taking shape Forty million euros. That is the fee for an Ivorian defender who barely registered on the radar in France two years ago. Ousmane Diomande is set to join Nottingham Forest. Sporting CP are prepared to let him go. The news comes from The Athletic. The move is moving…