Former England goalkeeper Joe Hart shares his perspective on the approaches a keeper can take to save a stuttering penalty run-up, following Marcus Rashford’s composed finish for Aston Villa in the FA Cup against Preston North End. WATCH MORE: Rashford scores double as Villa reach semis Available to UK users only. Read full article at...
Pep Guardiola’s frantic body language released every frustration suffered in a season of mediocrity as the clouds lifted and the sun finally shone on Manchester City at Bournemouth. Guardiola has cut a tortured, agonised figure for most of a campaign in which the form of his Manchester City side fell off a cliff after claiming...
Mark Chapman, Micah Richards, Joe Hart and Dion Dublin analyse Marcus Rashford’s man of the match performance against Preston North End as the England forward picked up his first two goals in an Aston Villa shirt. WATCH MORE: I’ve been playing ‘better football’ since joining Villa – Rashford Available to UK users only. Read article...
Pep Guardiola praises his “legendary” players after Manchester City make the FA Cup semi-finals for a seventh consecutive season after a win over Bournemouth. Read article in full at source...
Manchester City keep their trophy hopes for this season alive by coming from behind at Bournemouth to set up an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. MATCH REPORT: Man City come from behind to beat Bournemouth and reach FA Cup semi-final Available to UK users only. Read full article at source...
Nottingham Forest will take on either Bournemouth or Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley Stadium. Aston Villa, who dispatched the only remaining Championship side Preston 3-0, have been drawn against Crystal Palace – who beat Fulham convincingly in the quarter-finals. Forest reached their first FA Cup semi-final since 1991 by beating Brighton...
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says that winning the FA Cup and qualifying for Champions League season will be a “huge success” but not change the reality that his side have had a “poor” season. READ MORE: Man City’s poor season down to me – Guardiola Read article in full at source...
RB Leipzig have sacked head coach Marco Rose following their 1-0 Bundesliga defeat to Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday. Rose, 48, departs after two and a half years with Leipzig and with the side sixth in the Bundesliga table. They have won three of their last 11 Bundesliga games and have seven matches remaining following the...
This was the first game back for both sides after an international break and it looked like the extra miles travelled by players recently took their toll. Brighton’s players travelled a total of 86,208 miles during the break, while Forest’s players combined for a total of 83,054 miles. In a cagey encounter, players appeared fatigued...
Of course, there could well be a familiar winner of the FA Cup this season, with seven-time champions Manchester City still very much in contention – three of those coming since 2011. But should they be upset by Bournemouth on Sunday then the final four would be absent of City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester...
Watch highlights as Nottingham Forest win a third straight FA Cup penalty shootout to beat Brighton and reach the semi-finals of the competition for the first time in 34 years. MATCH REPORT: Nottingham Forest win 4-3 on pens Available to UK users only. Read article in full at source...
As a player, Iraola spent over a decade at Athletic Bilbao and came up against Guardiola’s Barcelona side on several occasions, saying he “lost many times” against them. Having been so dominant in recent years, City have had a more difficult season comparatively, having not been in the title race for the majority of it....
Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria Reuters Haymarket was at a standstill as fans cheered the buses through the streets of Newcastle Hundreds of thousands of supporters flooded into Newcastle to celebrate the football club’s historic cup win. Newcastle United won the Carabao Cup earlier this month, ending their 70-year wait for domestic...
Ryan Yates scores the winning penalty in a shootout against Brighton before running the length of the pitch as Nottingham Forest reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1991. MATCH REPORT: Forest beat Brighton on penalties to reach FA Cup semi-final Available to UK users only. Read article in full at source...
Now Crystal Palace have secured their place in the last four of the FA Cup, it’s hard to believe that they did not win their first game of the Premier League season until late October. The Eagles had won two games in the Carabao Cup against Championship opposition, but tension was starting to build around...