It looked like the writing was on the wall for Ole Gunnar Solskjær on Tuesday in Bergamo. As we entered second half stoppage time, Atalanta held a 2-1 lead. Manchester United’s attack had been disjointed, so much so that Paul Pogba was hooked in the 69th minute and Donny van de Beek was allowed to escape from his cave.
Last week, Arsène Wenger — now FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development — told a refereeing convention in France that refs should give post-match press conferences.
“It would be a good way to avoid controversy and shut them down before they became a public debate,” Wenger said. “We would have to get the support of referees, and I don’t know what kind of state of mind they’re in after games to be able to give an opinion.”
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer sobrevive un día más como entrenador del Manchester United, luego de la espectacular remontada del equipo inglés sobre Atalanta en la Champions League. Los Diablos Rojos se quedaron con el triunfo luego de ir cayendo 0-2, con un gol salvador de no otro que Cristiano Ronaldo y en un partido cuya previa estuvo marcada por el ambiente hostil que vivió el equipo italiano en su hotel de concentración.
It was always going to be Cristiano Ronaldo. With Atalanta’s depleted squad running on fumes at Old Trafford, Harry Maguire’s 75th-minute equalizer set the stage for the inevitable: Cristiano Ronaldo hanging in the air, posterizing José Luis Palomino and directing a downward header inside the post for the win.
It was Ronaldo’s 300th appearance across all competitions for Manchester United, and he’ll remember it fondly after completing the Red Devils’ improbable second half comeback.
Unless you’re someone who paid for early access, FIFA 22 comes out in a week. Until then, we got an early preview of the game on Saturday when Inter Milan and Atalanta scored some ridiculous goals you normally only see in video games.
Inter and Atalanta played a thrilling 2-2 draw on Saturday, with both teams thinking they’d won it late only for circumstances to rule otherwise. The draw was probably fair and allows us to focus on the first two goals of the match, which looked straight out of a video game.
ROME — A Serie A season like no other heralded a changing of the guard at the top of Italian football.
In his second year in charge of Inter Milan, Antonio Conte masterminded a superb league campaign that ended his club's 11-year wait for the title.
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Dato duro: un minuto después de que Genaro Gattuso decidiera sacar del campo a Hirving Lozano, el Napoli recibió un gol que dejó al club fuera de la Champions League 2021/22.
Llámenla "La Maldición del Chucky", si quieren.
Cristiano Ronaldo won’t be forced to play in the Europa League next season. Juventus hammered Bologna 4-1 on the final day of the Serie A campaign on Sunday. Combined with Napoli’s 1-1 draw with Hellas Verona, the Old Lady was catapulted into fourth place to claim the final Champions League berth.
Juventus claimed the 2020-21 Coppa Italia 2-1 with a commanding second-half display against Atalanta at the Mapei Stadium on Wednesday night. Dejan Kulusevski put Juve in front after receiving the ball from Weston McKennie, but Ruslan Malinovskiy answered for La Dea — seeking its first major title since the 1963 Coppa — setting the stage for Federico Chiesa’s excellent second-half winner.
4,300 fans were allowed into the stadium in northern Italy, amounting to the country’s largest attendance since the pandemic began.
130 partidos le tomó a Cristiano Ronaldo alcanzar su gol número 100 con la camiseta de la Juventus. El portugués logró la cifra en la victoria sobre el Sassuolo por 1-3 y en una semana en que brotan rumores de que el plantel no está muy contento con él.
La Vecchia Signora visitó al Sassuolo con la obligación de ganar y así mantener las chances de clasificar a la Champions League 2021/22. La misión no sería fácil.