Toni Kroos – Eye of the Needle
Kroos threads the ball through the narrowest of gaps to score a superb goal against Rayo Vallecano Real Madrid...
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Donovan Hat Trick
He’s not intending to go quietly into the night anyway. Impending retirement notwithstanding Landon Donovan thumped in 3 goals...
Juventus thrash Parma 7 – 0
Tevez scored a super solo goal and then another.Fernando Llorente and Alvaro Morata also scored two goals each. Tevez...
Cristoph Kramer lobs goalie to score beautiful goal.
Unfortunately it was his own goalkeeper he lobbed.It must be the after effects of concussion. Borussia Dortmund won the...
Swansea mount victorious comeback as Arsenal shamefully crumble yet again
Head up the Arsenal. Where the defense disappears. Before the match, NBCSN commentators especially Graeme La Saux were agog...
Aguero brace gives City a draw..
City’s title defence is beginning to look like a mirage.Sergio Aguero single handedly got them the one point against...
Real Madrid and Barcelona post contrasting wins..
Bale,Ramos,Kroos,Benzema and Ronaldo got together to hammer Rayo Vallecano 5 -1. It was Ronaldo’s 10th successive goal in a...
Hazard misses penalty
Ibraimi stunned Chelsea with a superb opening goal Maribor and Chelsea could not repeat their 6 – 0 home...
Man City reduced to nine lose to CSKA Moscow
Seydou Doumbia with a brace sends City into a world of pain. Man City were losing to CSKA Moscow...
City’s fortunes fail to improve
City lost 2 -1 to CSKA Moscow.Fernandinho and Yaya Touré both got sent off.The chances of going through to...
Messi beats Ronaldo to Raul’s record
Messi scored both goals in Barcelona’s 2 – 0 win over Ajax – taking his goal tally to 71...
Pirlo celebrates 100th CL appearance with a free kick.
Pirlo celebrated his 100th Champion’s League game with a brilliant swerving free kick against Olympiacos. Juventus almost went and...
Ludogorets may create more history
When Ludogorets beat Basel 1 – 0 the last time they created history by becoming the first Bulgarian Team...
Anderlecht sneak draw as Arsenal decompose spectacularly
Arsenal now resemble CatDog. The attack skillful and menacing, the defense clumsy, inept, and a complete mess. Arsenal were...
Arsenal throw away a 3 goal lead….
Alexis Sánchez spearheaded the team into a three-goal lead and after the dust had settled from the rejoicing the...
Real Madrid gets ready for Liverpool
Point to Ponder : Cristiano Ronaldo has 22 goals for Real this season; Liverpool as a team have scored...
Seagulls enjoy football in Australia
In Australia the seagulls don’t bother with the sardines.They come instead to see Melbourne Victory play against Wellington Phoenix...
James Rodriguez does it again..
Remember the best goal of the World Cup ? Well this goal he scored against Granada the other day...
The Torres goal drought continues…
Torres still hasn’t got anything much to smile about.He has scored only one goal so far and that was...
Bayern struggle to beat Dortmund
Arjen Robben, Robert Lewandowski and Muller missed a million chances in the first half. Borussia Dortmund were not exactly...
Barcelona slump continues…
Luis Suarez is still waiting for his first win in a Barcelona shirt. Barca were beaten at home by...
Moussa Sissoko slices City defence
Moussa Sissoko scoring the second goal in the Newcastle’s 2- 0 win over Manchester City
Newcastle dump City out of Capital One Cup..
City’s game sequence has been draw-loss-loss in their past three matches. So they head into the el clasico against...
Anelka makes dreadful debut
Nicolas Anelka returned to football only to see his team Mumbai FC getting beat 5-1 by Chennaiyin in the...
Finally…!
Balotelli finally did some long awaited Super Mario stuff for Liverpool. They were looking to be on the brink...
Chelsea struggle against Shrewsbury
Chelsea had to work very hard to eke out a victory against Shrewsbury to get to the the quarter-finals...
Ballon D’or 2014 – 23 man shortlist
Bale,Benzema,Di Maria,Iniesta,Diego Costa,Gotze,Hazard,Manuel and Lahm.. Ibra,Messi,Pogba,Mascherano,Muller,Neymar,Manuel,Ramos and Robben….. James,schweinsteiger,Toure,Ronaldo and thibaut courtois… The Front Runner… Conspicuous by absence…...
Arsenal legend Roberto Pires banned for two matches in the ISL
The All India Football Federation came down hard on FC Goa and Atletico De Kolkata as their ill tempered...
Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa shot dead
Senzo Meyiwa, the captain and goalkeeper of the South African team was shot dead by while trying to stop...
Higuain hat trick
Inter Milan struggling at 9th place in the Serie A table got something to cheer about when Gonzalo Higuain...
Alexis Sanchez’s success lies in not sublimating to Arsenal’s collective
One can only hope Alexis Sanchez’s individualistic and opportunistic streak is not swallowed whole by the Soviet style collectivism...
El Clasico turns out to be a bit of a damp squib
The much anticipated return of Luis Suarez El Classico ended up a pretty one sided affair.Barcelona got an early...
League of the Unbeatables
For the first time in history Bayern Munich,1899...
Who’s the funniest of them all ?- in the Chelsea dressing room
Well Lampard going off to play for Manchester City is definitely not funny. But Cesc Fabregas votes Diego Costa...
Eric Lamela wonder goal – better than Marc Janko’s ?
And as Marc Janko was scoring his wonder goal down in Australia Eric Lamela pulled off a brilliantly executed...
Marc Janko wonder goal- better than Ronaldo’s ?
Shortly after Cristiano Ronaldo scored his wonder goal against Liverpool Marc Janko opened his...
Real Madrid outclass Liverpool
Real Madrid were a class apart.Ronaldo scored an Anfield wonder goal. Benzema got the other two. Balotelli remains a...
Soccerblog wishes everyone a Happy Diwali
May the festival of light bring light where there is darkness..
Why would Mario Balotelli swap jerseys with alleged racist Pepe?
This writer remembers Andre Santos sidling up to Robin Van Persie just before the half time to exchange jerseys....
A rabbit pulls Arsenal out against Anderlecht
The Arsenal conundrum Laurent Koscielny can’t come back soon enough. Nacho Monreal without any of Koscielny’s physicality and speed...
Bayern Munich destroy Roma
Bayern Munich scored five goals in the first 36 minutes and went on to beat Roma 7-1. Bayern Munich...
Neymar and Messi are getting to be a lethal combination…
Ajax were at the receiving end of the Neymar- Messi combination which is getting better all the time. They...
Chelsea celebrate Diwali with a huge win over NK Maribor
Chelsea recorded their biggest CL win with a 6 – 0 win over NK Maribor during the course of...
Atletico Madrid close the gap
Defending Champions Atletico Madrid moved back to within five points of La Liga leaders Barcelona with a 2-0 win...
Swansea done in by dodgy penalty decision
The Swansea manager, Garry Monk was livid with referee Michael Oliver for giving a penalty when Stoke City’s Victor...
Indian Footballer dies as goal celebration goes wrong…
23 year old Peter Biaksangzuala played for a club called Bethlehem Vengthlang FC in the Mizoram Premier League up...
Arsenal salvage a draw against Hull amidst a familiar litany of errors
There is a certain grimness swallowing Arsenal’s fixtures. The inevitability of a letdown despite all the craft and industry...
3,4 ,5 ,6,….goals to zero
The teams which have beaten their opponents 3- 0, 4 -0, 5 – 0 and 6 – 0 are...
Barca legend’s scribbled contract makes it the famous serviette in history
“In Barcelona, on the 14th of December of 2000 and in the presence of Josep Minguella and Horacio ,...
Germany falter again as last gasp Ireland hold them
These Euro qualifiers are turning out to be a minefield for the big boys. John O’ Shea does not...
Serbia Albania match called off after drone invasion leads to havoc
This was probably bound to happen as Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo’s independence and a match between these two...
Argentina beat Hong Kong 7 – 0
Not the best of times to have a football game. Hundreds of Hong Kong police used sledgehammers and chainsaws...
Neymar scores all four
Neymar scored all four goals as Brazil beat Japan 4-0 in a friendly in Singapore on Tuesday. Dunga should...
Indian Super League: NorthEast United beat Kerala Blasters
David James, the former Portsmouth and England goalie, now plying his trade at ISL’s Kerala Blasters was unable to...