Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer apparently believes his team have been getting less penalty decisions since Liverpool s Jurgen Klopp pointed out that they d been getting a lot of them.
Since Klopp made his comment last season, United have had five penalties in the Premier League, while Liverpool have had two. The two teams have had 32 each with these two managers in charge, even though Klopp has been in the Liverpool dugout since October 2015, and Solskjaer in charge at United since March 2019.
A certain manager last year was starting to worry about us getting penalties and after that it seems like the decisions are more difficult to give.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Manchester United should have had three penalties in the last two games
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Atletico Madrid star Antoine Greizmann is hopeful his goal against Milan will kick-start his second coming in the Spanish capital after making Champions League history on Tuesday.
Griezmann scored his first goal for Atletico since returning from Barcelona on deadline day as the LaLiga champions claimed a last-gasp 2-1 win over 10-man Milan.
Atletico trailed 1-0 at half-time following Rafael Leao s opener but the visitors eventually capitalised on their numerical advantage after Milan s Franck Kessie received a second yellow card on the half-hour mark at San Siro.
Griezmann fuelled Atletico s comeback on matchday two, coming off the bench and equalising in the 84th minute before Luis Suarez converted a penalty in the seventh minute of stoppage time.
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Robert Lewandowski outscored Erling Haaland with a Klassiker hat-trick as Bayern Munich recovered from two goals down to again beat Borussia Dortmund in a 4-2 victory.
Bayern reclaimed top spot in the Bundesliga hours after being knocked off the summit by RB Leipzig, despite an awful start to another epic encounter on Saturday.
The champions were two behind inside nine minutes following Haaland s brace, but Lewandowski had them level by half-time and Dortmund, already missing Jadon Sancho, saw their two-goal talisman hobble off with half an hour to play.
BVB still looked set to hold on and end a run of four league defeats to Bayern, only for Leon Goretzka to break their resolve before Lewandowski s treble-clincher capped another outstanding outing.
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Barcelona could sell Pedri in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that the defending La Liga champions are open to selling the midfielder due to financial issues, and that Bayern Munich are among the clubs who are keen on signing the 21-year-old Spain international midfielder.
Pedri has been on the books of Barcelona since 2020 when he joined from Las Palmas. He is injured at the moment and is unlikely to play again for Barcelona for the rest of the season. The Spain international midfielder has made 13 starts and three substitute appearances in La Liga this season. He has scored two goals and given two assists in those games.
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In what looks like it could be an enjoyable affair from the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium on Saturday evening, Real Madrid will make the trip to Sevilla.
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Starting with the hosts, while Sevilla might have been disappointed after settling for a 1-1 draw away at Elche earlier in the week, Los Nervionenses should find the mood in their camp at a red-hot high. Punching their Europa League final ticket on May 18th as they claimed a famous 3-2 aggregate victory against Italian heavyweights Juventus, Jose Luis Mendilibar’s men have only continued to shine since returning from the World Cup’s winter break. In fact, along with opening May with an action-packed 3-2 victory against Espanyol, the former Athletic Bilbao boss has seen his…
Aston Villa have announced that Christian Purslow is to step down from his role as chief executive after five years at the club.
Purslow joined Villa in September 2018, shortly after owners Wes Edens and Nassef Sawiris took over at Villa Park with the club in the Championship.
Villa are now established back in the Premier League and qualified for the Europa Conference League next season.
In a statement on the club’s website, Purslow said: “It has been a total privilege to lead Villa for the last five years.
“I am proud that I leave the club in a much better position on and off the pitch than when I arrived.
“We are re-established in the Premier League, we now have a very competitive professional women’s team, we have outstanding academie…
Lionel Messi surpassed Pele s one-club goals record as he helped Barcelona end their winless streak on the road in LaLiga with a convincing 3-0 victory over struggling Real Valladolid.
After drawing level with Pele s haul of 643 goals for Santos with a header in a 2-2 draw with Valencia on Saturday, Messi made it 644 in Barca colours across all competitions on Tuesday.
Having created Clement Lenglet s opener before playing a key part in Martin Braithwaite making it 2-0 before the interval, Messi swept home from Pedri s clever flick in the 65th minute.
It rounded off a fine performance from Ronald Koeman s side, who ended their winless run in LaLiga away games at the fifth time of asking.
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The British overseas territory of St Helena will look to step out of the shadow of the Premier League that hangs over its football culture when they begin their Island Games campaign in Guernsey on Sunday.
The 4,300 inhabitants of the remote South Atlantic island, which lies 1,200 miles from its nearest mainland neighbour South Africa, are more likely to be interested in the results of Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool than those of their nascent ‘national team’.
But for the 17 players that have travelled just under 10,000 miles – via Johannesburg, Heathrow and Reading – across three days to fly their flag in the Channel Islands, it will be a chance to remind that there is more to football on the island than broadcasts of matches in England’s top flight.
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Nice must build on their 4-0 thrashing of Ligue 1 champions Lille, Christophe Galtier demanded after triumphing over his former club.
Galtier led Lille to the title last season, as Les Dogues edged out Paris Saint-Germain.
While PSG have added more remarkable talent to their already world class squad, with the arrivals of Sergio Ramos, Georginio Wijnaldum, Achraf Hakimi and Gianluigi Donnarumma topped off by the signing of Lionel Messi, Lille have had to contend with the loss of their coach, who left the club to join Nice in the off-season.
Galtier and Lille hardly parted on good terms internally, despite the 54-year-old delivering the club s first title in a decade.
There have also been rumblings of discontent at Nice, with tensions reportedly appeari…
Knowing that they were just 90 minutes away from booking their spot in a first European final, Leicester eventually fell to a heartbreaking 1-0 defeat away at the Stadio Olimpico on Thursday night.
Watching former Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham bag the crucial second-leg winner after just 11 minutes, Roma and Head Coach Jose Mourinho have the chance to write their own piece of European history later in the month.
With Dutch outfit Feyenoord claiming a nervy 3-2 aggregate victory against Marseille, the Giallorossi will be smelling a real chance to lift the inaugural Europa Conference League title out in Tirana on May 25th.
Only piling more pressure onto Brendan Rodgers shoulders, we have taken a look at the main talking points as Leicester saw their European adven…