31 July 2018

Ticket sales began for the Asian football championship

In 2019 we will learn 3 champions from 3 various confederations. Two of them are going to be held in summer at both American continents, while the other is starting early next year.
Edition number 17 of the Asian Cup will begin on 05 January and is going to entertain us until 01 February. This competiton is going to be in center of the football world stage right after the new year, the host is United Arab Emirates, and six months before the event every lovers of this sport can purchase tickets. This morning exactly at 10.00 CET tickets for this super tournament, which you do not want to miss, can be bought for all 51 matches at the Asian confederation web page. All football fans are invited to take part at this great spectacle, as we are awaiting even 3 newcommers on an expanded 24 teams tournament, all the quality will be on one place which equals, that the excitement is certainly guaranteed!

30 July 2018

Part two of second qualifying round next week

As it stands, return legs from the second qualifying phase in European Cups is going to be played in two months. In total we are having 58 duels where, most of them are playing on the last day / night each at both tournaments.

In the end of this month and on the first day of the following month 'the strongest competition' is always playing in 48-hours time. Majority of matches from Champions league are going to be played on the last day and while some teams are already qualifyied for the next stage, plenty are struggling to get there. Saying this, some games might play more than 90 minutes.

Tuesday, 31 July at 19.00 CET: Hapoel Beer Sheva - Dinamo Zagreb.
Tuesday, 31 July at 19.00 CET: Sheriff Tiraspol - Skendija.
Tuesday, 31 July at 20.30 CET: Spartak Trnava - Legia.

Wednesday, 01 August at 18.00 CET: HJK Helsinki - BATE Borisov.
Wednesday, 01 August at 19.00 CET: Midtjylland - Astana.
Wednesday, 01 August at 19.00 CET: Qarabag - Kukesi.
Wednesday, 01 August at 19.15 CET: Malmo - CFR Cluj.
Wednesday, 01 August at 19.30 CET: Suduva - Crvena Zvezda.
Wednesday, 01 August at 20.00 CET: Basel - PAOK.
Wednesday, 01 August at 20.00 CET: Videoton - Ludogorets.
Wednesday, 01 August at 20.30 CET: Sturm - Ajax.
Wednesday, 01 August at 20.45 CET: Rosenborg - Celtic.

Europa league is back playing on three days. Football lovers can enjoy jumping from match to match, plus there is possibility that this tournament will go into Friday morning, which equals plenty of excitements.

Tuesday, 31 July at 18.00 CET: Pyunik - Tobol.

Wednesday, 01 August at 18.00 CET: Fola Esch - Genk.

Thursday, 02 August at 17.00 CET: Alashkert - Sutjeska.
Thursday, 02 August at 17.00 CET: Laci - Molde.
Thursday, 02 August at 17.30 CET: AEK Larnaca - Dundalk.
Thursday, 02 August at 17.30 CET: Trencin - Gornik Zabrze.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.00 CET: Dinamo Minsk - Dunajska Streda.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.00 CET: Flora - APOEL Nicosia.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.00 CET: Slavia Sofia - Hajduk.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.00 CET: Trakai - Partizan.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.00 CET: Valletta - Zrinjski.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.30 CET: Hacken - RasenBallsport Leipzig.
Thursday, 02 August at 18.30 CET: Lillestrom - LASK Linz.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Admira Wacker - CSKA Sofia.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: AIK - Nordsjaelland.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Apollon Limassol - Zeljeznicar.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Lincoln Red Imps - TNS.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Mariupol - Djurgarden.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Progres Niederkorn - Honved.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Sparta Prague - Spartak Subotica.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.00 CET: Vaduz - Zalgiris.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.15 CET: Atromitos - Dinamo Brest.
Thursday, 02 August at 19.30 CET: Slovan Bratislava - Balzan.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.00 CET: Asteras Tripolis - Hibernian.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.00 CET: Besiktas - B36 Torshavn.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.00 CET: FC Copenhagen - Stjarnan.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.00 CET: Vikingur - Torpedo Kutaisi.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.00 CET: Vitesse - Viitorul.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.15 CET: Maribor - Chikhura Sachkhere.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.15 CET: Sarajevo - Atalanta.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.30 CET: Domzale - Ufa.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.30 CET: Steaua - Rudar Velenje.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: AZ Alkmaar - Kairat.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: Bordeaux - Ventspils.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: Burnley - Aberdeen.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: Drita - Dudelange.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: Glasgow Rangers - Osijek.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: La Fiorita - Spartaks Jurmala.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: Lech - Shakhtyor Soligorsk.
Thursday, 02 August at 20.45 CET: Sarpsborg 08 - Saint Gallen.
Thursday, 02 August at 21.00 CET: Crusaders - Olimpija Ljubljana.
Thursday, 02 August at 21.00 CET: Radnicki Nis - Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Thursday, 02 August at 21.00 CET: Rio Ave - Jagiellonia.
Thursday, 02 August at 21.00 CET: Ujpest - Sevilla.
Thursday, 02 August at 21.15 CET: FH Hafnarfjordur - Hapoel Haifa.
Thursday, 02 August at 22.00 CET: Valur - Santa Coloma.

29 July 2018

Our own World Cup team

One of the biggest sporting event this year is over, and all we can do now is summarizing the World Cup 2018 competition. Achievements of the tournament are all written after the final game, while two weeks after that it has appeared one more list.
We (the loyal fans of this sport around the globe) has made up our own team from the twenty first edition. Media released our 11 choice four days ago, spectators certainly love the 4-3-3 formation the most, and in the list are (this time without substitutes): Thibaut Courtois (Belgium) - Marcelo (Brazil), Raphael Varane (France), Diego Godin (Uruguay), Thiago Silva (Brazil) - Philippe Coutinho (Brazil), Luka Modric (Croatia), Kevin de Bruyne (Belgium) - Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Harry Kane (England), Kylian Mbappe (France).

28 July 2018

Avoiding prison

One of the best strikers Cristiano Ronaldo escaped jail sentence. In the most boring story nowadays (of tax evasion), the new Juventus player was accused of arrogating 5.7 million euros of illegal tax money from 2011 until 2014 in Spain. Thus he made a deal with the authorities and finally this case is over (for now): yesterday it was announced that the 33-year-old have to pay 3.2 million euros plus receiving 2 years of suspended jail sentence. Since it is the first offence, luckily the Portuguese star cannot be behind bars for the second scenario. Instead, everyday he has to say goodbye to 250 euros for a period of 48 months.
Those who are better with mathematics and wants to play with numbers can summarize what this player has to give away overall: 3.2 million euros for punishment + 5.7 million euros in back taxes + 1 million euros in accrued interest + 250 euros daily in 48 months for the prison sentence. The end figure is stunning: Cristiano Ronaldo will be poor for around 19 million euros due to this tax oblivion.

27 July 2018

Began with zero, ended with four

Ufa - Domzale 0:0

Ventspils - Bordeaux 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 03 Zaydou Youssouf

Viitorul - Vitesse 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 44 Denis Mihai Dragus
              2:0 49 Denis Mihai Dragus
              2:1 54 Tim Matavz
              2:2 72 Bryan Linssen

- Just 6 minutes after coming on as substitute, Andrei Artean (Viitorul) earned a direct red card at 79.

Tobol - Pyunik 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 49 Maxim Fedin
              2:0 80 Azat Nurgaliev
              2:1 89 Ruslan Koryan

Kairat - AZ Alkmaar 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 12 Aderinsola Habib Eseola
            2:0 50 Aderinsola Habib Eseola

Spartaks - La Fiorita 6:0

Scorers: 1:0 06 Yevgeni Kobzar
              2:0 19 Artemi Maleyev
              3:0 26 Yevgeni Kobzar
              4:0 64 Ingus Slampe
              5:0 66 Ariagner Smith Medina
              6:0 73 Ingars Stuglis

Rudar Velenje - Steaua 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 04 Dennis Man
              0:2 74 Filipe Teixeira

Hapoel Haifa - FH Hafnarfjordur 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 53 Edigerson Funny Gomes
              1:1 65 Athanasios Papazoglou

Torpedo Kutaisi - Vikingur 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 27 Tornike Kapanadze
              2:0 73 Giorgi Kimadze
              3:0 84 Levan Kutalia

Chikhura Sachkhere - Maribor 0:0

Balzan - Slovan Bratislava 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 17 Bojan Kaljevic
              2:0 67 Uros Ljubomirac
              2:1 74 Vukan Savicevic

Dudelange - Drita 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 45+2 Xhevdet Shabani
              1:1 66 Nicolas Perez
              2:1 81-pen David Turpel

- Bad boy was Endrit Krasniqi (Drita) who received second yellow card at 80.

RasenBallsport Leipzig - Hacken 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 35 Bruma
              2:0 38 Matheus Cunha
              3:0 49 Kevin Kampl
              4:0 84 Jean-Kevin Augustin

- At 81 Stefan Ilsanker (RasenBallsport Leipzig) got his second yellow card.

CSKA Sofia - Admira Wacker 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 29 Kiril Despodov
              2:0 34 Kiril Despodov
              3:0 38-pen Maurides

Zalgiris - Vaduz 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 86 Liviu Antal

Honved - Progres Niedercorn 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 82 (81.58) Botond Barath

Maccabi Tel Aviv - Radnicki Nis 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 51 Vidar Orn Kjartansson
            2:0 69-pen Vidar Orn Kjartansson

- Omer Atzili (Maccabi Tel Aviv) needed only 120 seconds to receive two yellow cards. The automatic red happened at 79.

Djurgarden - Mariupol 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 37 Serhiy Yarovskyi
              1:1 90+4 Aliou Badji

Zrinjski - Valletta 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 51 Nemanja Bilbija
              1:1 90 Mario Fontanella

Molde - Laci 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 06-pen Erling Braut Haland
              2:0 24 Eirik Hestad
              3:0 79 Leke James

APOEL Nicosia - Flora 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 25 Yohan Tavares
              2:0 44 Lucas Vieira de Souza
              3:0 47-pen Nuno Morais
              4:0 73 Roland Sallai
              5:0 78 Dellatorre

Jagiellonia - Rio Ave 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 09 Mateusz Machaj

Shakhtyor Soligorsk - Lech 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 53 Elis Bakaj
              1:1 89 Joao Pedro Reis Amaral

LASK Linz - Lillestrom 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 05 (05.03) Thomas Goiginger
              2:0 45 (45.08) James Holland
              3:0 70 (69.37) Thomas Goiginger
              4:0 90 (90.03) Dominik Frieser

Dinamo Brest - Atromitos 4:3

Scorers: 1:0 06 Zeljko Filipovic
              2:0 14-pen Pavel Savitski
              3:0 61 Pavel Savitski
              4:0 70 Pavel Savitski
              4:1 74 Giorgos Manousos
              4:2 80-own goal Oleg Veretilo
              4:3 88 Efthimis Koulouris

Nordsjaelland - AIK 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 10 Magnus Kofod Andersen

- At 50 Tarik Elyounoussi missed a chance from 11 metres to equalize for the guests.

Santa Coloma - Valur 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 72-own goal Bjarni Olafur Eiriksson

Olimpija Ljubljana - Crusaders 5:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 Kingsley Boateng
              2:0 56 Matic Crnic
              3:0 68 Kingsley Boateng
              3:1 73-own goal Brako Ilic
              4:1 75 Matic Crnic
              5:1 90+2 Haris Kadric

Sutjeska - Alashkert 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 11 Mladen Zeljkovic

TNS - Lincoln Red Imps 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 06 Dean Ebbe
              1:1 31 Joseph Chipolina
              2:1 83 Blaine Hudson

Hajduk - Slavia Sofia 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 78 (78.14) Said Ahmed Said

- The guests finished the match with 10 men, as Aleksandar Aleksandrov collected his second yellow at 83 (82.40).

B36 Torshavn - Besiktas 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 08 Jeremain Lens
              0:2 26 Gokhan Gonul

Gornik Zabrze - Trencin 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 39 Philip Azango Elayo

Genk - Fola Esch 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 04 Ruslan Malinovskiy
              2:0 19 Alejandro Pozuelo
              3:0 24 Leandro Trossard
              4:0 28 Sebastien Dewaest
              5:0 73-pen Leandro Trossard

Saint Gallen - Sarpsborg 08 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 05 Tobias Heintz
              1:1 41 Silvan Hefti
              2:1 66 Roman Buess

- Milan Vilotic had to departure the game after just 240 seconds as the home player received a direct red card.

Zeljeznicar - Apollon 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 23-own goal Jadranko Bogicevic
              0:2 79 Esteban Sachetti
              1:2 90 Sulejman Krpic

Atalanta - Sarajevo 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 11 Rafael Toloi
              2:0 45+3 Gianluca Mancini
              2:1 67 Haris Handzic
              2:2 72 Aladin Sisic

Partizan - Trakai 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 57-own goal Justinas Janusevkis

- Modestas Vorobjovas (Trakai) got his second yellow card at 53.

Dundalk - AEK Larnaca 0:0

Spartak Subotica - Sparta Prague 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 08 Nemanja Calasan
              2:0 57 Ognjen Djuricin

Aberdeen - Burnley 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 19-pen Gary Mackay-Steven
              1:1 80 Sam Vokes

Osijek - Glasgow Rangers 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 18 Alfredo Morelos

Hibernian - Asteras Tripolis 3:2

Scorers: 0:1 12 Giorgos Kyriakopoulos
              0:2 35 Giorgos Kyriakopoulos
              1:2 64 Efe Eric Ambrose
              2:2 77 David Gray
              3:2 90+3 Florian Kamberi

- The visitors finished the game with 10 players. In 83 Triantafyllos Pasalidis received two yellow cards.

Stjarnan - FC Copenhagen 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 52 Kenan Kodro
              0:2 58 Viktor Fischer

Dunajska Streda - Dinamo Minsk 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 24 Roman Begunov
              1:1 45-pen Erik Pacinda
              1:2 77 Alyaksandr Makas
              1:3 90+4 Uros Nikolic

- Bad boy in this match was Milan Simcak who was sent off at 39. The Dunajska Streda defender picked his second yellow in 6 minutes.

Sevilla - Ujpest 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.41) Jesus Navas
              2:0 31-pen (31.15) Wissam ben Yedder
              3:0 43 (42.58) Pablo Sarabia
              4:0 90+2 (91.32) Franco Vazquez

- Ujpest finished this play with 10 players. At 30 (30.03) Branko Pauljevic got a direct red card.

26 July 2018

Champions league qualifying disgrace: first goal arrived after 284 minutes

Ludogorets - Videoton 0:0

Kukesi - Qarabag 0:0

BATE Borisov - HJK Helsinki 0:0

Ajax - Sturm 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 14 (14.19) Hakim Ziyech
              2:0 57 (56.29) Lasse Schone

- Two seconds before he scored a goal for Ajax, a penalty from Lasse Schone 57 (56.27) was saved.

Celtic - Rosenborg 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 15 (14.48) Birger Meling
              1:1 43 (42.45) Odsonne Edouard
              2:1 46 (45.39) Olivier Ntcham
              3:1 75 (74.30) Odsonne Edouard

22 July 2018

Fancy goalkeeper

We all know who is the expensive worldwide striker, but what about goalkeepers? That is Gianluigi Buffon whom Juventus bought him from Parma for 53 million euros in 2001. However, 17 years later that record is not valid anymore.
Now the best paid ‘number 1’ is Brazilian Alisson Becker which yesterday left Roma to play for Liverpool. The 25-year old goalkeeper become costly in the world and his transfer is worth 72.5 million euros.

21 July 2018

Italian club changed its owner...again

Italian Serie A team Milan have new owners. From last Wednesday new proprietor of the club is the American investment company Elliott who have bought them from Li Yonghong. Last year in April this Chinese businessman borrowed money from the firm to buy the Italian giants, but failed to pay 31 million euros by 07 July. Thus Elliott management took over his majority shares, which also announced and promised financial injection of 50 million euros.
Due to financial fair-play rule last month the team was kicked out from European Cups in the next two seasons. The court of arbitration for sport have received their appeal and supposed yesterday to give the verdict, however the decision was postponed for today. In Lausanne it was decided that this case was 'too harsh and unproportional'. Therefore the overturned decision is now back to UEFA which have to react quickly, as the qualifying round at Europa league (which Milan has earned right to play) already started.
And the third news related to this team is the change of kits. Adidas was supplier of this club for 20 years, and now the new equipment manufacturers will be Puma.

20 July 2018

Two long plays

Kairat - UE Engordany 7:1

Scorers: 1:0 04 Marton Eppel
              2:0 11 Marton Eppel
              3:0 42 Aderinsola Habib Eseola
              4:0 44 Marton Eppel
              5:0 53 Bauyrzhan Islamkhan
              5:1 72 Morgan Lafont
              6:1 75 Marton Eppel
              7:1 87 Yan Vorogovskiy

Tobol Kostanay - Samtredia 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 12 Baurzhan Turysbek
              2:0 83 Aslan Darabaev

Laci - Anorthosis Famagusta 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 88 Myrto Uzuni

Irtysh - Trakai 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 19 Svajunas Cyzas

Dinamo Minsk - Derry City 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 07 Alistair Roy
              1:1 28 Aleksandr Sachivko
              1:2 74 Rory Hale

Viitorul - Racing Union Luxembourg 0:0

Gandzasar Kapan - Lech 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 49 Lubambo Musonda
              2:0 67 Gegham Harutyunyan
              2:1 90+5 Lukasz Tralka

Slavia Sofia - Ilves Tampere 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 36 Galin Ivanov
              1:1 55 Marius Noubissi
              2:1 56 Galin Ivanov

Nomme Kalju - Stjarnan 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 88 Alex Matthias Tamm

Gzira United - Radnicki Nis 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 08 Radovan Pankov

Molde - Glenavon 5:1

Scorers: 1:0 28-pen Etzaz Hussain
              2:0 34 Eirik Hestad
              3:0 59 Eirik Hestad
              3:1 62 Vegard Forren
              4:1 89 Eirik Hestad
              5:1 90+3 Babacar Sarr

Riga - CSKA Sofia 1:0, on penalties: 3-5

Scorer: 1:0 44 Antonijs Cernomordijs

- At 74 Tiago Rodrigues (CSKA Sofia) received a dkirect red card.
- Penalty miss from Kiril Despodov (CSKA Sofia) at 89.
- Stefan Panic (Riga) concealed his second yellow card at 108.
- After the lottery, 4 players were catched in fight like little children and got a direct red card: Thiago Primao and Bogdan Vastsuk (Riga) together with Bozhidar Chorbadzhiyski and Edwin Gyasi (CSKA Sofia).

Slovan Bratislava - Milsami 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 14 Andras Sporar
              2:0 25 Andraz Sporar
              3:0 33 Khadfi Rharsalla
              4:0 52 Boris Cmiljanic
              5:0 77 Khadfi Rharsalla

Dinamo Tbilisi - Dunajska Streda 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 41 Budu Zivzivadze
              1:1 86 Vakoun Issouf Bayo
              1:2 90+3 Vakoun Issouf Bayo

Pristina - Fola Esch 0:0, on penalties 4-5

Shakhtyor Soligorsk - Connah's Quay Nomads 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 24-pen Elis Bakaj
              2:0 82 Maksim Bardachow

- For dirty play Andre Owens (Connah's Quay Nomads) at 62 was awarded with direct red card.

Zaria Balti - Gornik Zabrze 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 07 Giulherme
              1:1 84 Daniel Smuga

Kesla - Balzan 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 11-pen Cesar Meza Colli

              2:0 90+2 Slavik Alxasov
              2:1 90+6 Andrija Majdevac

- Minute after the goal Andrija Majdevac (Balzan) got his second yellow.

Apollon Limassol - Stumbras 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 07 Hector Yuste

            2:0 62 Hector Yuste

Maccabi Tel Aviv - Ferencvaros 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 45+1 (45.43) Eliran Atar

Zalgiris - KI Klaksvik 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 06 Liviu Antal

              1:1 64 Ronni Moller-Iversen

AIK - Shamrock Rovers 0:1, after extra time 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 19 Daniel Carr
              1:1 94 Nicolas Stefanelli

Hacken - Liepaja 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 10 Sady Gueye
              1:1 42 Nasiru Mohammed
              1:2 86 Girts Karlsons

Sarpsborg - IB Vestmannaeyja 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 13 Mikkel Agger
            2:0 82 Mikkel Agger

Progres Niederkorn - Gabala 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 28 Steven Joseph-Monrose

- Tamkin Khalilzadeh (Gabala) played dangerously for which he received a direct red card at 79.

Nordsjaelland - Cliftonville 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 06-pen Joe Gormley
              1:1 58 Godsway Donyoh
              2:1 83-own goal Jamie Harney

Beitar Jerusalem - Chikhura Sachkhere 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 62 Idan Vered
              1:1 74 Levan Kakubava
              1:2 83-pen Giorgi Gabedava

Lufterari - Ventspils 3:3

Scorers: 1:0 44-pen Vasil Shkurtaj
              1:1 45+4 Adeleke Akinola Akinyemi
              1:2 45+8 Adeleke Akinola Akinyemi
              2:2 54 Maldin Ymeraj
              3:2 61 Vladan Mirosavljev
              3:3 90+3 Abdullahi Alfa

FC Copenhagen - KuPS Kuopio 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 74 Rasmus Karjalainen
              1:1 81-pen Denis vavro

Maribor - Partizani 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 31 Amir Dervisevic
              2:0 90+3 Marcos Tavares

Sarajevo - Banants 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 31 Nihad Mujakic
              2:0 38 Mersudin Ahmetovic
              3:0 72 Sevkija Resic

OFK Titograd - B36 Torshavn 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 04 Zoran Petrovic
              1:1 51-own goal Milos Radulovic
              1:2 83 kaimar Saag

Trencin - Buducnost 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 69 Antonio Mance
              1:1 90 Mihailo Perovic

- Penalty miss from Igor Ivanovic (Buducnost) at 84.

Partizan - Rudar Pljevlja 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 09 Danilo Pantic
              2:0 44 Ognjen Ozegovic
              3:0 83 Ricardo Gomes

Coleraine - Spartak Subotica 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 33 Mile Savkovic
              0:2 90+2 Bojan Cecaric

NSI Runavik - Hibernian 4:6

Scorers: 1:0 01-own goal Efe Eric Ambrose
              2:0 05 Klaemint Olsen
              2:1 10 John McGinn
              2:2 16 Lewis Stevenson
              3:2 35 Klaemit Olsen
              3:3 45 David Gray
              3:4 49 Efe Eric Ambrose
              4:4 57 Klaemint Olsen
              4:5 69 Stephen Mallan
              4:6 77 Stephen Mallan

Osijek - Petrocub 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 14 Robert Mudrazija
                 1:1 22-pen Vladimir Ambros
              2:1 61 Borna Barisic

Dundalk - Levadia 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 31 Pat Hoban
              2:0 33 Michael Duffy
              2:1 42 Roman Debelko

Tre Fiori - Rudar Velenje 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 43 Klemen Bolha
              0:2 47 Vlatko Simunac
              0:3 71 Abu Kamara

Ujpest - Nefci 4:0 

Scorers: 1:0 19 (18.31) Robert Litauszki
              2:0 21 (20.52) Bojan Sankovic
              3:0 49 (48.41) Donat Zsoter
              3:0 65 (64.36) Obinna Nwobodo

Domzale - Siroki Brijeg 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 11 Dario Melnjak
              1:1 73 Bernardo Matic

FH Hafnarfjordur - Lahti 0:0

19 July 2018

Exaggeration with penalties: scandalous referee gave three in a game

Champions league

Qarabag - Olimpija Ljubljana 0:0


- Marko Gajic (Olimpija Ljubljana) received his second yellow card at 90+5 (95.01) after the game was finished.


Zrinjski - Spartak Trnava 1:1


Scorers: 0:1 15 (14.30) Boris Godal
              1:1 58 (57.34) Ognjen Todorovic

Sheriff Tiraspol - Torpedo Kutaisi 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 09 (08.21) Ziguy Badibanga

              2:0 40 (39.22) Jo Santos (also known as Joalisson)
              3:0 55 (54.24) Jo Santos (also known as Joalisson)

Rosenborg - Valur Reykjavik 3:1


Scorers: 1:0 55-pen (54.22) Nicklas Bendtner

             2:0 72 (71.21) Andres Trondsen
             2:1 85-pen (84.20) Kristinn Freyr Sigurdsson
             3:1 90+3-pen (93.05) Nicklas Bendtner

- Valur 
Reykjavik has finished the match with 10 men as Patrick Pedersen received straight red card at 90+2.

Sutjeska - Astana 0:2


Scorers: 0:1 37 (37.13) Djordje Despotovic

             0:2 64 (64.03) Serikzhan Muzhikov

Celtic - Alashkert 3:0


Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.55) Moussa Dembele

              2:0 19-pen (18.46) Moussa Dembele
              3:0 35 (34.26) James Forrest

- For nasty play Jozo Simunovic (Celtic) got straight red card at 11.


Additional information: Qarabag, Spartak Trnava, Sheriff Tiraspol, Rosenborg, Astana, Celtic qualified for the next stage.


Europa league

Zeljeznicar - Narva Trans 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 04 (04.14) Viktor Plotnikov

              1:1 24 (23.57) Dzenan Zajmovic
              2:1 28 (28.13) Sulejman Krpic
              3:1 81 (81.07) Sulejman Krpic

Additional information: We are going to see Zeljeznicar playing in the second qualifying round.

18 July 2018

European Cups began with its second 90 minutes

Champions league:

Valletta - Kukesi 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 67 Malano Santiago
              1:1 84 Irakli Dzaria

- Vangjel Zguro (Kukesi) picked second yellow at 87.

HJK Helsinki - Vikingur 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 01 Joao Clauss de Mello
              2:0 10 Evans Mensah
              3:0 19 Moshtagh Yaghoubi
              3:1 21 Gunnar Vatnhamar

Hapoel Beer Sheva - Flora 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 14 (14.13) Hen Ezra
              2:0 26 (25.58) Hanan Maman
              3:0 48 (47.49) Maor Melikson
              3:1 86 (85.32) Rauno Alliku

APOEL Nicosia - Suduva 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 20 (19.46) Mickael Pote

Malmo - Drita 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 54 Carlos Strandberg
              2:0 59 Eric Larsson

Videoton - F91 Dudelange 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 17 (17.13) Danko Lazovic
              1:1 54 (53.36) Clement Couturier
              2:1 58 (57.51) Marko Scepovic

- Direct red card for Dudelange player: Bryan Melisse at 90+3 (92.48).

Crvena Zvezda - Spartaks Jurmala 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 78 (77.36) Ben el Fardou
              2:0 81 (80.51) Nenad Krsticic

Crusaders - Ludogorets 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 11-own goal (10.24) Rodney Brown
              0:2 64 (64.07) Jakub Swierczok

Legia - Cork City 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 27 (26.57) Jose Kante Martinez
              2:0 73-pen (72.22) Miroslav Radovic
              3:0 88 (88.08) Carlitos Lopez

Additional information: Kukesi, HJK Helsinki, Hapoel Beer Sheva, Suduva, Malmo, Videoton, Crvena Zvezda, Ludogorets and Legia are all in the next phase - at second qualifying round.

Europa league:

Levski Sofia - Vaduz 3:2

Scorers: 0:1 25 (24.49) Mohamed Coulibaly
              1:1 35 (34.42) Sergiu Bus
              2:1 52 (52.12) Aimen Belaid
              2:2 54 (53.53) Igor Tadic
              3:2 84 (84.05) Jerson Cabral

- Penalty from Sergiu Bus (Levski Sofia) saved at 75 (74.58).
- At 90+3 (93.11) straight red card received Stanislav Kostov (Levski Sofia).
- Vaduz has entered to the second qualifying round in this competition.

17 July 2018

Numbers from the 2018 greatest tournament

After the spectacular welcome home of the top 3 world teams into their own countries, it is time to summarize the World Cup 2018 edition. We are all sad that one of the best and an successful event in history has ended yesterday, and now all we can do is to have retrospective with numbers what was happening in the past 25 active days (plus free ones) throughout Russia.

Goals, own goals, late goals and an interesting fact.
- Incredible 165 goals were scored, plus 3 of them were given in extra time. From this number 65 was given in first 45 minutes, while even 100 were scored at the second half. In other words: 2.58 goals have been scored in every game or 2.62 if all matches are going be played in 120 minutes.
- For those unfortunate scorers which kicked the ball into their own net, 11 of them were given. Every player has offered the other team with goal just once.
- Because the stoppage time is part of this sport, 18 goals were scored after the ninetieth minute. By teams: 12 has entered once, while even 3 managed to score 2 goals: Russia, Brazil and South Korea.
- Mario Mandzukic is the only player in history who have scored 2 goals in the final...but on different ways. The 32-year-old striker gave one own goal plus one goal, this time for the right team where he plays: Croatia.

Spectacular misses and fantastic saves from 11 metres.
- Referees gave in total 21 penalties. At 17 duels there was only one punishment and 2 matches ended with 2 penalties. France and Australia both scored from 11 metres in their clash, while one 'man in blue' adored England more as the team received 2 penalties in a match (against Panama).
But all penalties are not always easy to kick.
- There were 4 saved punishments, and 'guilty' players were: Lionel Messi (Argentina, second half against Iceland), Mosaed al Muwallad (Saudi Arabia, first half versus Egypt), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, second half against IR Iran) and Luka Modric (Croatia, second half of the extra time versus Denmark).
- Extraordinary misses happened 3 times: Christian Cueva (Peru, first half versus Denmark), Gylfi Sigurdsson (Iceland, second half against Nigeria) and Bryan Ruiz (Costa Rica, second half versus Switzerland).

Dirty play.
Only 4 red cards were given. In an equal distribution, 2 players recived 2 yellow cards: Jerome Boateng (Germany) and Igor Smolnikov (Russia), while the rest were straight red: Carlos Sanchez (Colombia, in the third minute) and Michael Lang (Switzerland, at the ninety third minute).

Additional minutes.
Croatia has played the most games in extra time at this tournament: 3. Spain - Russia and Colombia - England also played 120 minute each. Only in 2 duels players scored 3 goals, while 4 matches went into penalty shoot out.

Interesting facts.
- For the first time at the World Cup 2018 event was introduced 'policeman technology system' from above better known as video assistant referee system. Referees started to use in France - Australia match where first goal was scored and after that was in action many times for controversial decisions.
- The quickest goal in this competition was scored by Denmark in just 58 seconds (against Croatia).
- Anti-football and completely dull game was played in Denmark - France duel where it was the only match who finished scoreless.
- Belgium will be remembered who played memorable and outstanding football in 2 games. The first one was versus Tunisia where the duel has ended in 7 goals. At the other was just 5, but against Japan they basically arise from the dead to win in stoppage time (at last 16).
- Two teams have met twice at this competition, and in both of them Belgium was the winner. In the group phase one goal was scored where now we can freely say that England deliberately lost the game (in order not to have troubles and not to oppose difficult teams later on on their path), whilst one more goal was scored at the third-fourth classification duel.
- One South American has been written into history books as second man who officiate the starting and closing match. Nestor Pitana (Argentina) refereed the opening game (Russia - Saudi Arabia) and final (France - Croatia). His countryman Horacio Elizondo was the first at the World Cup 2006 edition in Germany.
- Just one day after the final, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has revealed that more than 3 million guests have visited the country during the tournament. This is almost a double amount more visitors than the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang (South Korea) this February where it had estimated figure of approximately 1.57 million tourists.

Awards.
- The title for the best player in the twenty first edition of the World Cup belonged to Luka Modric (Croatia).
- Youth player award goes to Kylian Mbappe (France).
- Harry Kane (England) is the top goalscorer with 6 goals.
- Best goalkeeper is Thibaut Courtois (Belgium).
- Spain has received the fair play award.

Overall.
World Cup 2018 in Russia was very well organized and now we are eagerly awaiting the next worldwide edition number 22 in four years time in Qatar, where for the first time will be played in winter. Qualifying schedule for this event will be announced in July 2019. See you then!