31 August 2022

Violet colour as a sign of (happy) change

For the first time in its history the Argentina football association is abandoning their dark blue and black jerseys and has revealed a completely new outfit that players on the away games will appear starting from a major and important tournament that this sport has to offer - the World Cup. Near the end of 2022 footballers who will run out on the terrain together with those sitting on the bench are going to appear in violet colour where (hopefully) this shift would be for a better one and bring more luck to the team. On the jerseys will be implemented graphic of the Sun exactly like is having their national flag.
Yesterday on the official presentation, manufacturer Adidas has said that this kit is bringing the message for gender equality.

30 August 2022

Abandoned games

As it was said on 23 August it started the Ukrainian championship for 2022-23 or for the fifteenth time. Despite all the problems that this country have on its soil, it looked like that everything would go as planned but that was not the case.
Because life has to go on and football can not be stopped playing, this season is very much different than the others. Previously agreed by all clubs each of the arenas have to have a shelter in a range of 500 metres in case the air-raid siren should sound out. That is exactly what happened on a duel between Rukh and Metalist where the kick-off was delayed, and then completely called off for the same reason. One day later Mynai and Lviv have experienced the identical scenario.

29 August 2022

Crowned best players for the old continent

This Thursday the European football organization has disclosed who are the topmost players for the previous season within its confederation.
Very much deservedly, for the main award, the Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was crowned the best for the year 2021 that gave 15 goals in the Champions league plus 1 at the Super Cup event. Information about the winners of the other prizes can be found and read of the continental website.

28 August 2022

Sales of entry papers has been disclosed

According to the Qatar organizer of the tournament the most popular match that fans like to watch is Argentina - Mexico followed by Argentina - Saudi Arabia. But the world football organization has published different information: Cameroon - Brazil, Brazil - Serbia together with Costa Rica - Germany are the most wanting games to be viewed live.
Nevertheless of the above, one of the greatest sporting show on earth is dangerously approaching and is starting less than three months away from now. Until nowadays tickets for the World Cup was bought by 2.45 million people, out of which 520.532 were gone only in the second phase that finished last Thursday. The total amount of golden entry papers is 3.2 million, where one third of those are reserved for sponsors and business partners. For those who missed the first two rounds there is a third one (that is commencing at the end of next month), who have to act quick because now the rule will be first-come-first-served.

27 August 2022

Identical 8 group letters with 96 clubs in them

In a space of two days the European football organization has conducted three draws. For all of them (who were conducted in Istanbul, Turkiye) was done the same thing - marking the official group phases for 2022-23 season.

Everyone know that for Champions league two nights are booked in advance, thus the entertainment would commence on 06 September and end on 02 November. Below are the eight groups that were drawn this Thursday night.
Group A: Ajax, Liverpool, Napoli, Glasgow rangers.
Group B: Porto, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Club Brugge.
Group C: Bayern, Barcelona, Inter, Viktoria.
Group D: Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham, Sporting, Olympique de Marseille.
Group E: Milan, Chelsea, Red bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb.
Group F: Real Madrid, Rasenballsport Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk, Celtic.
Group G: Manchester city, Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund, Kobenhavn.
Group H: PSG, Juventus, Benfica, Maccabi Haifa.

Just 19 and 20 and a half hours later the remaining 64 clubs have learned who are their opponents in the next two club competitions. Starting and finishing point for these two is the same: from 08 September until 03 November where matches will be played at only one night, and groups are the following:

Europa league...
Group A: Arsenal, PSV, Bodo/Glimt, Zurich.
Group B: Dynamo Kyiv, Stade Rennais, Fenerbahce, AEK (Larnaca).
Group C: Roma, Ludogorets, Real Betis, HJK.
Group D: Braga, Malmo, Union Berlin, Union Saint-Gilloise.
Group E: Manchester united, Real Sociedad, Sheriff, Omonia.
Group F: Lazio, Feyenoord, Midtjylland, Sturm.
Group G: Olympiacos, Qarabag, Freiburg, Nantes.
Group H: Crvena zvezda, Monaco, Ferencvaros, Trabzonspor.

...and Conference league.
Group A: Basaksehir, Fiorentina, Hearts, Rigas futbola skola.
Group B: West ham, FcsB, Anderlecht, Silkeborg.
Group C: Villarreal, Hapoel Be’er Sheva, Austria Wien, Lech.
Group D: Partizan, Koln, Nice, Slovacko.
Group E: AZ, Apollon, Vaduz, Dnipro-1.
Group F: Gent, Molde, Samrock rovers, Djurgarden.
Group G: Slavia Praha, Cluj, Sivasspor, Ballkani.
Group H: Basel, Slovan, Zalgiris, Pyunik.

26 August 2022

Quickest opening occurred

Europa league 2022-23 season, qualifying phase 4, leg 2:

AEK (Larnaca) - Dnipro-1 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 20 (20.03) Adam Gyurcso
               2:0 44 (44.20) Rafael Lopes
               3:0 77 (77.04) Nikos Englezou

Zalgiris - Ludogorets 3:2, 3:3 after extra time

Scorers: 1:0 19 seconds Fabien Ourega
               1:1 08 (07.39) Matias Tissera
               2:1 15 (14.52) Oliver Buff
               2:2 56 (56.04) Matias Tissera
               3:2 62 (62.15) Renan Oliveira
               3:3 119-pen (119.04) Olivier Verdon

Silkeborg - HJK 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 40 (39.50) Malik Abubakari
               1:1 74 (74.08) Joel Felix

Omonia - Gent 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 18 (17.52) Andronikos Kaoullis
               2:0 35 (35.10) Charalampos Charalampous

Sheriff - Pyunik 0:0, on penalties: 3-2

Sivasspor - Malmo 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 76 (75.35) Veljko Birmanchevich
               0:2 89 (89.02) Isaac Kiese Thelin

Fenerbahce - Austria Wien 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 12 (11.34) Ismail Yuksek
               2:0 43 (43.19) Irfan Can Kahveci
               2:1 45 (45.17) Marvin Martins
               3:1 69 (69.14) Irfan Can Kahveci
               4:1 78 (78.14) Mert Hakan Yandas

Hearts - Zurich 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 80 (79.43) Fabien Rohner

- Home midfielder Jorge Grant is a very bad actor when he received a deserved second yellow card for simulating a penalty on 54 (53.23).

Olympiacos - Apollon 1:1, on penalties: 3-1

Scorers: 1:0 01 (01.14) Georgios Masouras
               1:1 90 (89.24) Ioannis Pittas

-  On 99 Ousseynou Ba (Olympiacos) was awarded with his second yellow card.

Samrock rovers - Ferencvaros 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 88 (88.16) Andy Lyons

Additional information 1: we are going to be entertained with the following 10 clubs in fall - AEK (Larnaca), Ludogorets, HJK, Omonia, Sheriff, Malmo, Fenerbahce, Zurich, Olympiacos, Ferencvaros. Their rivals will appear again, but in Conference league.

Conference league 2022-23 season, elimination stage 4, leg 2 (night 2 out of 2):

Viking - FcsB 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 02 Malcom Edjouma
               1:1 25-pen Zlatko Tripich
               1:2 54 Andrei Cordea
               1:3 90+3-pen Risto Radunovic

Hapoel Be'er Sheva - Universitatea 0:0, 1:1 after extra time, on penalties: 4-3

Scorers: 0:1 105 Ante Roguljich
               1:1 105+1 Tomer Hemed

AIK - Slovacko

Scorer: 0:1 75 Vlasiy Sinyavskiy

Twente - Fiorentina 0:0

- Because of two yellow cards on 90+3 the visiting defender Igor Julio had to leave the game.

Slavia Praha - Rakow 1:0, after 30 additional minutes 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 62 Moses Usor
               2:0 120+1 Ivan Schranz

Wolfsberger - Molde 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 06 Emil Breivik
               0:2 34 Sivert Mannsverk
               0:3 72 Ola Brynhildsen
               0:4 90+3 Ola Brynhildsen

Basel - CSKA Sofia 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 66 (65.35) Fabian Frei
               2:0 84 (83.44) Michael Lang

Cluj - Maribor 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 89 Lovro Cvek

Fehervar - Koln 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 09 Timo Hubers
               0:2 46 Ellyes Skhiri
               0:3 90+3 Kingsley Schindler

Viborg - West ham 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 22 Gianluca Scamacca
               0:2 50 Mohamed Said Benrahma
               0:3 64 Tomash Souchek

Anderlecht - Young boys Bern 0:1, on penalties: 3-1

Scorer: 0:1 26 (25.32) Meschak Elia

Hamrun - Partizan 3:3

Scorers: 1:0 27 Roko Prsa
               1:1 34 Ricardo Gomes
               1:2 72 Slobodan Uroshevich
               1:3 79 Ricardo Gomes
               2:3 82-pen Vinicius Freitas
               3:3 90-pen Matteo Fedele

Nice - Maccabi Tel Aviv 1:0, 2:0 after 30 additional minutes

Scorers: 1:0 24 Alexis Claude-Maurice
               2:0 113 Alexis Beka Beka

- Amine Gouiri (Nice) received his second yellow card at 100.

Diddeleng - Lech 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 35 Mehdi Kirch
               1:1 59 Joel Pereira

Slovan - Zrinjski 1:0, after extra time 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 67 Eric Ramirez
               1:1 103 Igor Savic
               2:1 120+1 Eric Ramirez

- At 118 Jaba Kankava (Slovan) was awarded with a direct red card.

Linfield - Rigas futbola skola 0:0, 1:1 after extra time, on penalties: 2-4

Scorers: 1:0 104 Kyle McClean
               1:1 120-own goal Jimmy Callacher

Antwerp - Basaksehir 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 08 Berkay Ozcan
               1:1 55-pen Michael Frey
               1:2 58 Stefano Okaka
               1:3 83 Danijel Aleksic

Gil vicente - AZ 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 59 Hakon Evjen
               0:2 64 Tijjani Reijnders
               1:2 85 Juan Boselli

Rapid Wien - Vaduz 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 22 Tunahan Cicek

- Kevin Wimmer has left his Rapid Wien teammates on 34 waving goodbye to all with a direct red card.

Hajduk - Villarreal 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 37 (36.50) Alfonso Pedraza
               0:2 56 (55.30) Samuel Chukwueze

Additional information 2: FcsB, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Slovacko, Fiorentina, Slavia Praha, Molde, Basel, Cluj, Koln, West ham, Anderlecht, Partizan, Nice, Lech, Slovan, Rigas futbola skola, Basaksehir, AZ, Vaduz and Villarreal have all qualified for group phase of the tournament.

25 August 2022

Last traveler was found from additional minutes

Champions league 2022-23 season, qualifying round 4, leg 2 (night 2 of 2):

PSV - Glasgow rangers 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 60 (59.41) Antonio Cholak

Dinamo Zagreb - Bodo/Glimt 2:1, 4:1 after extra time

Scorers: 1:0 04 (03.32) Mislav Orshic
               2:0 34 (34.13) Bruno Petkovic
               2:1 69 (69.05) Albert Gronbaek
               3:1 116 (116.02) Josip Drmic
               4:1 120 (119.28) Petar Bochkaj

Trabzonspor - Kobenhavn 0:0

Additional information: the overall winners - Glasgow rangers, Dinamo Zagreb and Kobenhavn have qualified for the group stage of the competition. Their rivals will find consolation and appear at the group phase at Europa league.

24 August 2022

Turnaround for a club that deserved to be among the best

Conference league 2022-23 season, elimination stage 4, leg 2 (night 1 out of 2):

APOEL - Djurgarden 3:2

Scorers: 1:0 07 (06.22) Anton Maglica
               2:0 23 (22.46) Danny Blum
               2:1 69 (68.53) Elias Andersson
               3:1 74 (73.53) Marcos Natividade
               3:2 90+1 (90.49) Joel Asoro

Additional information 1: the first ever traveler to the group stage in 2022 is Djurgarden, while its opponent is going to watch this tournament from home.

Champions league 2022-23 season, qualifying round 4, leg 2 (night 1 of 2):

Crvena zvezda - Maccabi Haifa 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 26 (26.10) Aleksandar Peshic
               2:0 43 (42.48) Mirko Ivanic
               2:1 45+4 (49.16) Daniel Sundgren
               2:2 90-own goal (89.46) Milan Pavkov

- Just 15 seconds before the second goal for the guests was given, the penalty from midfielder Dolev Haziza was perfectly saved.

Viktoria - Qarabag 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 38 (37.57) Filip Ozobic
               1:1 58 (57.33) Jan Kopic
               2:1 72 (72.02) Jan Kliment 

Benfica - Dynamo Kyiv 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 26 (26.03) Nicolas Otamendi
               2:0 40 (39.32) Rafael Silva
               3:0 42 (41.58) David Neres

Additional information 2: Maccabi Haifa, Viktoria together with Benfica have made it to the group stage of the competition. Their rivals are transferred one step lower - Europa league.

23 August 2022

Ending the 2022 qualifiers of minus one game

Six days ago the world football organization has confirmed that one elimination duel from the World Cup 2022 event is not going to occur. In simple words, they quit to organize the game where at the same time the final tournament is looming away - three months from the kick off, thus it is the first time in history that qualifiers for (any) mentioned competition would be incomplete. And what a match had been awaited for us as it was the derby of the South American region, while the main reason of why it was completely abandoned is of course the pandemic situation and not finding a suitable dates after it.
The schedule said that on 05 September 2021 Brazil and Argentina had to meet each other in the sixth round. Previously (and neatly) all players of the visiting team have entered the country (without problems), and when this duel began (suddenly) in the fifth minute it was interrupted. Brazilian health authorities stormed the pitch (allegedly) looking for four Argentine footballers that were not allowed to be present at that time. Obviously the home association was way too guilty, but the two of them got punished by the affiliation which was silent for many months (exactly 12 plus some days) about the new date. Because this case also went to the Court of arbitration for sport, finally the organization has surrendered: after the agreement of the three parties this derby (who had a new kick off time for next month) it is called off because there is a high risk of injuries before an important competition like this one, plus the duel has no point of staging as the two nations have already qualified. Hence the rescheduled match that supposed to start on 21 September will not be played.

22 August 2022

Moment of truth

We came to the last elimination hurdle before entering the group stages. Just 90 minutes (or more) the following 72 clubs are going to battle hard to play in winter time by having a guaranteed six more duels. The overall losers will drop one step lower in the tournament system, while for the third significant event those who will not succeed to go through would end their participation for 2022, and watch the rest on television. Like the deciding games of the previous three qualifying rounds plenty of games were prolonged more than it should be, so in this one as well the same is predicted to happen because stakes are very high.
By completion of this club elimination process: at the fourth phase two competitions would start on two nights, for the third only one is enough, thus the schedule is going to look like this:

Conference league...
Tuesday, 23 August at 18.00 CET: APOEL - Djurgarden.

Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: AIK - Slovacko.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Basel - CSKA Sofia.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Cluj - Maribor.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Fehervar - Koln.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Hapoel Be'er Sheva - Universitatea.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Slavia Praha - Rakow.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Twente - Fiorentina.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Viborg - West ham.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Viking - FcsB.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Wolfsberger - Molde.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Anderlecht - Young boys Bern.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Ballkani - Skupi.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Hamrun - Partizan.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.00 CET: Nice - Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.30 CET: Slovan - Zrinsjki.
Thursday, 25 August at 20.45 CET: Linfield - Rigas futbola skola.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Gil vicente - AZ.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Hajduk - Villarreal.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Rapid Wien - Vaduz.

...Champions league...
Tuesday, 23 August at 21.00 CET: Benfica - Dynamo Kyiv.
Tuesday, 23 August at 21.00 CET: Crvena zvezda - Maccabi Haifa.
Tuesday, 23 August at 21.00 CET: Vitoria - Qarabag.

Wednesday, 24 August at 21.00 CET: Dinamo Zagreb - Bodo/Glimt.
Wednesday, 24 August at 21.00 CET: PSV - Glasgow rangers.
Wednesday, 24 August at 21.00 CET: Trabzonspor - Kobenhavn.

... and Europa league.
Thursday, 25 August at 18.00 CET: AEK (Larnaca) - Dnipro-1.
Thursday, 25 August at 18.00 CET: Zalgiris - Ludogorets.
Thursday, 25 August at 18.30 CET: Silkeborg - HJK.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Fenerbahce - Austria Wien.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Omonia - Gent.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Sheriff - Pyunik.
Thursday, 25 August at 19.00 CET: Sivasspor - Malmo.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Hearts - Zurich.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Olympiacos - Apollon.
Thursday, 25 August at 21.00 CET: Samrock rovers - Ferencvaros.

21 August 2022

Nominees for awards have been revealed

Eight days ago the European football organization has announced who entered into the award process for the best player of the continent for last season. There are 15 candidates for this trophy and all of them can be found and read on the website of the confederation. Who will win the prizes for 2021-22 season would be discovered at the group stage ceremony for the Champions league on Thursday, 25 August in Istanbul, Turkey.
Beside this reward three more are going to be given on this date together with the topmost footballer at each four positions (goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and attacker) for male and female category.

20 August 2022

Association cannot participate in football activities

Because of "undue influence of third parties" this Monday the world football organization have suspended India out of all of its tournaments until further notice. Previously in May the highest court of the country has dismantled its association and have set the new election within 18 months. In the meantime, if this situation will not be resolved any time soon, the upcoming under-17 World Cup for women which is scheduled to take place from 11 as far as 30 October have to be moved to another country, knowing that competitive games are now not allowed to be played on this subcontinent.
New elections are going to be staged on 28 August after the Supreme court approved the timeline.

19 August 2022

Scored two different goals: against and for his club

Europa league 2022-23 season, qualifying phase 4, leg 1:

HJK - Silkeborg 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 79 David Browne

- From Silkeborg has departed Andre Calisir who on 68 was awarded with a direct red card.

Ferencvaros - Samrock rovers 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 12 (12.11) Carlos Auzqui
               2:0 34 (33.53) Adama Traore
               3:0 47 (47.06) Adama Traore
               4:0 90+3 (92.46) Eldar Civic

Zurich - Hearts 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 22-pen Lawrence Shankland
               1:1 32 Adrian Guerrero
               2:1 33 33 Blerim Dzemaili

Apollon - Olympiacos 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 18 Rangelo Janga
               1:1 29 Hwang In-beom

Malmo - Sivasspor 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 18 Moustafa Zeidan
               1:1 29 Leke James
               2:1 37 Anders Christiansen
               3:1 68 Niklas Moisander

Pyunik - Sheriff 0:0

Ludogorets - Zalgiris 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 02-own goal Ivan Tatomirovic

- With two yellow cards the visiting midfielder Donatas Kazlauskas had to depart from the match on 90+4.

Dnipro-1 - AEK (Larnaca) 1:2 (neutral spot)

Scorers: 0:1 15 Omri Altman
               0:2 29-own goal Oleksandr Svatok
               1:2 90 Oleksandr Svatok

- On 90+5 Eduard Sarapiy left Dnipro-1 because he was awarded with his second yellow card.

Gent - Omonia 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 18 Charalampos Charalampous
               0:2 75 Brandon Barker

Austria Wien - Fenerbahce 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 08 Joshua King
               0:2 89 Serdar Dursun

- Defender Lucas Galvao (Austria Wien) left this duel at 83 due to two yellow cards.

Conference league 2022-23 season, elimination stage 4, leg 1 (night 2 out of 2):

Rakow - Slavia Praha 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 29 Ivan Lopez
               1:1 59 Tomash Holesh
               2:1 60 Fran Tudor

Slovacko - AIK 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 27 (27.03) Milan Petrzela
               2:0 76 (76.18)  Vlasiy Sinyavskiy
               3:0 80 (79.58) Petr Reinberk

Young boys Bern - Anderlecht 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 57 Hannes Delcroix

Molde - Wolfsberger 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 22 Tai Baribo

Rigas futbola skola - Linfield 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 38 Stephen Fallon
               0:2 69 Joel Cooper
               1:2 88 Kevin Friesenbichler
               2:2 90+5 Zhiga Lipushchek

- Petr Maresh (Rigas futbola skola) did not convert a penalty at 19.

CSKA Sofia - Basel 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 70-own goal (69.55) Sergio Lopez

Maccabi Tel Aviv - Nice 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 74 Stipe Perica

Universitatea - Hapoel Be'er Sheva 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 69 Rotem Hatuel
               1:1 74-pen Andrei Ivan

- Two defenders from both clubs were sent off: first in turn was for the home team at 46 Paul Papp who had to leave with a direct red card and its rival Hatem abd Elhamed followed him on 73 in the opposite dressing room.

Basaksehir - Antwerp 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 54 (53.24) Mounir Chouiar
               1:1 87 (87.00) Dinis Almeida

Vaduz - Rapid Wien 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 09 Dario Ulrich
               1:1 53 Ferdy Druijf

Zrinjski - Slovan 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 89 Nemanja Bilbija

- Beginning from 69 Slovan played with 10 footballers due to the two yellow cards of Tigran Barseghyan.

Maribor - Cluj 0:0

Koln - Fehervar 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 14 Florian Dietz
               1:1 32 Budu Zivzivadze
               1:2 39 Pal Dardai

- Julian Chabot has left the home club on 20 because of a direct red card.

FcsB - Viking 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 03 Florinel Coman
               1:1 04 Kevin Kabran
               1:2 34 Sondre Bjorshol

Lech - Diddeleng 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 05 Kristoffer Velde
               2:0 65 Mikael Ishak

- On 88 Lech was reduced to 10 players because Antonio Milic was awarded with a direct red card.

Villarreal - Hajduk 4:2

Scorers: 0:1 02 Stipe Biuk
               1:1 14 Jose Luis Morales
               2:1 19-own goal Marko Livaja
               3:1 35 Jose Luis Morales
               4:1 45 Gerard Moreno
               4:2 84-pen Marco Fossati

West ham - Viborg 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 23 Gianluca Scamacca
               2:0 64 Jarrod Bowen
               2:1 69 Jacob Bonde Jensen
               3:1 78 Michail Antonio

Partizan - Hamrun 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 14 Ricardo Gomes
               2:0 24 Slobodan Uroshevic
               3:0 33 Fousseni Diabate
               3:1 52 Matthew Guillaumier
               4:1 77 Patrick Andrade

AZ - Gil vicente 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 24 Dani de Wit
               2:0 78 Mayckel Lahdo
               3:0 84 Vangelis Pavlidis
               4:0 89 Mees de Wit

Fiorentina - Twente 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 02 Nicolas Gonzalez
               2:0 30 Arthur Cabral
               2:1 64 Vaclav Cherny

18 August 2022

Both nets refused to be shaken in the beginning

Champions league 2022-23 season, qualifying round 4, leg 1 (night 2 of 2):

Qarabag - Viktoria 0:0

Dynamo Kyiv - Benfica 0:2 (neutral place)

Scorers: 0:1 09 (08.58) Gilberto Moraes
               0:2 37 (36.28) Goncalo Ramos

Maccabi Haifa - Crvena zvezda 3:2

Scorers: 1:0 18 (17.44) Frantzdy Pierrot
               1:1 26 (26.16) Aleksandar Peshic
               1:2 39 (38.58) Guelor Kanga
               2:2 51 (50.23) Frantzdy Pierrot
               3:2 61 (60.39) Tjarron Chery

Conference league 2022-23 season, elimination stage 4, leg 1 (night 1 out of 2):

Djurgarden - APOEL 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 08 (08.01) Victor Edvardsen
               2:0 53 (53.03) Hjalmar Ekdal
               3:0 64 (64.17) Gustav Wikheim

- These two clubs have finished this match with 10 men: at 71 (70.24) Rasmus Schuller (Djurgarden) had to leave because of two yellow cards, while direct red has received the visiting defender Jose Crespo on 90+4 (93.59).

17 August 2022

Without an away win

Champions league 2022-23 season, qualifying round 4, leg 1 (night 1 of 2):

Bodo/Glimt - Dinamo Zagreb 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 36 (36.14) Amahl Pellegrino

Glasgow rangers - PSV 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 36 (36.08) Ibrahim Sangare
               1:1 40 (39.52) Antonio Cholak
               2:1 69 (69.10) Tom Lawrence
               2:2 78 (77.28) Armando Obispo

Kobenhavn - Trabzonspor 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 09 (08.27) Viktor Claesson
               2:0 48 (47.55) Lukas Lerager
               2:1 78 (78.18) Anastasios Bakasetas

16 August 2022

Details about a new club competition project

In the beginning of July it was only mentioned, while from last Friday in Tanzanian city of Arusha all facts have been revealed about the new club international tournament that will be launched on the African continent kicking off in exactly one year from now.
At the Super league event 24 clubs will be involved and those would come from three regions: Central/West, North together with Southern/East. Eight of them are going to participate from each region whilst maximum three clubs are permitted per country. Playing periods will be from August until May which means that the duration of the tournament for one season would be 10 months. Future finalists is going to play a maximum of 21 games, and the total account is 197. Relegation and promotion play offs are also expected to be staged.
Besides the trophy in terms of finance, the champions would be rich for 11.1 million euros, and the whole competition worth 97 million euros.

15 August 2022

Introducing the final elimination stage

Bit by bit we came towards the last elimination round in each of the three club international tournaments. Also called the fourth qualifying or play-off stage, the following clubs would play the first 90 minutes. Thus commencing in the second part of this month the layout for each duels will have to look like this:

Champions league...
Tuesday, 16 August at 21.00 CET: Bodo/Glimt - Dinamo Zagreb.
Tuesday, 16 August at 21.00 CET: Glasgow rangers - PSV.
Tuesday, 16 August at 21.00 CET: Kobenhavn - Trabzonspor.

Wednesday, 17 August at 18.45 CET: Qarabag - Viktoria.
Wednesday, 17 August at 21.00 CET: Dynamo Kyiv - Benfica (playing in Lodz, Poland).
Wednesday, 17 August at 21.00 CET: Maccabi Haifa - Crvena zvezda.

...Conference league...
Wednesday, 17 August at 18.45 CET: Djurgarden - APOEL.

Thursday, 18 August at 18.00 CET: Rakow - Slavia Praha.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: CSKA Sofia - Basel.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Nice.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Molde - Wolfsberger.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Rigas futbola skola - Linfield.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Slovacko - AIK.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Young boys Bern - Anderlecht.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.30 CET: Universitatea - Hapoel Be'er Sheva.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.45 CET: Basaksehir - Antwerp.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.00 CET: Zrinjski - Slovan.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.15 CET: Maribor - Cluj.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: FcsB - Viking.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: Koln - Fehervar.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: Lech - Diddeleng.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.45 CET: Villarreal - Hajduk.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.45 CET: West ham - Viborg.
Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: AZ - Gil vicente.
Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Fiorentina - Twente.
Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Partizan - Hamrun.
Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Skupi - Ballkani.
Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Vaduz - Rapid Wien.

...and Europa league.
Thursday, 18 August at 18.30 CET: Ferencvaros - Samrock rovers.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Apollon - Olympiacos.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Malmo - Sivasspor.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Pyunik - Sheriff.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.00 CET: Zurich - Hearts.
Thursday, 18 August at 19.45 CET: Ludogorets - Zalgiris.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.00 CET: Dnipro-1 - AEK [Larnaca (playing in Koshice, Slovakia)].
Thursday, 18 August at 20.00 CET: HJK - Silkeborg.
Thursday, 18 August at 20.30 CET: Gent - Omonia.
Thursday, 18 August at 21.00 CET: Austria Wien - Fenerbahce.

14 August 2022

Continuation of football activities

Since December 2021 football has not being played in Ukraine because of: first players went on deserved winter break, and then the war broke out in the country this February. Hence the whole last season got suspended while on 12 July it was revealed that the new one will start this month.
Former Olympic champion, and now minister of youth and sports Wadim Hutzajt announced the plan that the 2022-23 season would start on 23 August. Each duels are going to be played without spectators, whilst stadia will be equipped with shelters in case of air-raid siren would sound out.
This date was deliberately chosen for beginning because it is a day of the National flag of Ukraine.

13 August 2022

Forbidden name was mentioned

In some parts of the world the following name is loveable by many, while at the other end it is forbidden even to be mentioned. Exactly the second scenario happened at the football game in Turkey.
Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kyiv played their match on 27 July at the second elimination round of the Champions league event. During the duel the home public have chanted the name of Vladimir Putin, and that was the reason that the European football organization has conducted an investigation into this matter. At the end (somehow) they have concluded that the club was guilty of the behaviour of their spectators who just wanted to distract the guests. Because of that (incident) seven days ago the club was ordered to pay 50.000 euros.
And the same affiliation today has punished Hajduk who in the third phase of the Conference league played against Vitoria. Racist chants from their fans was the main reason of why this was issued, thus in the next match of the Croatian club against Villarreal at the play off stage have to close section of their stadium plus give away 23.000 euros.

12 August 2022

Goalkeeper took out the ball of his own net seven times

Conference league 2022-23 season, elimination stage 3, leg 2 (night 3 out of 3):

Kyzylzhar - APOEL 0:0

Tobol - Zrinjski 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 34 Mario Cuze
               1:1 53 Serges Deble

- The goalkeeper of the home team was awarded a direct red card at 79.

Rakow - Spartak Trnava 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 67 (67.13) Vladyslav Kochergin

Petrocub - Fehervar 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 30 Budu Zivzivadze
               1:1 34-pen Constantin Sandu
               1:2 39 Budu Zivzivade

Cluj - Shakhtyor 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 37 (36.31) Jefte Sanchez

Twente - Cukaricki 4:1

Scorers: 0:1 06 (06.16) Luka Adzic
               1:1 16 (15.56) Robin Propper
               2:1 33 (33.01) Michel Vlap
               3:1 83 (83.02) Christos Tzolis
               4:1 90+2 (91.37) Christos Tzolis

Konyaspor - Vaduz 2:4

Scorers: 0:1 17-pen (17.17) Guilherme Haubert Sitya
               1:1 27 (27.10) Franklin Sasere
               1:2 31 (30.41) Manuel Sutter
               1:3 67 (66.25) Tunahan Cicek
               1:4 88 (87.58) Cedric Gasser
               2:4 90+4 (94.10) Amir Hadziahmetovic

Djurgarden - Sepsi 3:1

Scorers: 0:1 08 Cosmin Matei
               1:1 12 Hampus Finndell
               2:1 23 Joel Asoro
               3:1 70 Joel Asoro

Hapoel Be'er Sheva - Lugano 3:1

Scorers: 1:0 50 Miguel Vitor
               2:0 60-own goal Albian Hajdari
               2:1 73-pen Ousmane Doumbia
               3:1 84 Rotem Hatuel

- On 42 Jonathan Sabbatini (Lugano) failed to convert a penalty.

Basel - Brondby 2:1 ; on penalties: 3-1

Scorers: 1:0 39-pen Fabian Frei
               1:1 45 Mathias Kvistgaarden
               2:1 45+4 Andi Zeqiri

Universitatea - Zorya 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 05 (04.29) Raul Michel Melo da Silva
               2:0 52 (52.19) Stefan Baiaram
               3:0 56 (55.57) Nicusor Bancu

FcsB - Dunajska Streda 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 28 (27.47) Andrei Cordea

Panathinaikos - Slavia Praha 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 57 (56.57) Andraz Sporar
               1:1 90+5 Vaclav Jurechka

Antwerp - Lillestrom 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 10 Anthony Valencia
               2:0 69 Birger Verstraete

Basaksehir - Bridablik 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 43 (43.18) Stefano Okaka
               2:0 73 (73.19) Ahmed Touba
               3:0 83 (83.13) Danijel Aleksic

KI - Ballkani 2:1 ; on penalties: 3-4

Scorers: 1:0 55 Mads Mikkelsen
               1:1 83 Ermal Krasniqi
               2:1 89 Patrick da Silva

Hibernians - Rigas futbola skola 1:3

Scorers: 0:1 44-pen Petr Maresh
               1:1 70-pen Jake Grech
               1:2 78 Andrej Ilic
               1:3 87 Andrej Ilic

Levski - Hamrun 1:2 ; on penalties 1-4

Scorers: 0:1 78 Matthew Guillaumier
               1:1 90 Wenderson de Freitas Soares
               1:2 90+2 Ryan Camenzuli

Anderlecht - Paide 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 62 Fabio Silva
               2:0 70 Michael Murillo
               3:0 74 Michael Murillo

Aris (Thessaloniki) - Maccabi Tel Aviv 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 60-pen (59.50) Andre Gray
               1:1 74 Eran Zahavi
               2:1 80 Cheick Doukoure

- Due to nasty foul on 58 the visiting midfielder Dan Glazer has received a direct red card.

Sligo rovers - Viking 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 44 William Fitzgerald

- Frank Liivak (Sligo rovers) has failed to convert an 11 metre punishment on 74.

Rapid Wien - Neftci 1:0, after 30 additional minutes 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 66 (66.16) Marco Grull
               2:0 112 (111.56) Ferdy Druijf

Lech - Vikingur (Reykjavik) 2:1, 4:1 after extra time

Scorers: 1:0 31 Mikael Ishak
               2:0 44 Kristoffer Velde
               2:1 90+5 Danijel Djuric
               3:1 96 Filip Marchwinski
               4:1 118 Afonso Sousa

- At 110 Julius Magnusson has received his second yellow card leaving the guests to finish this match with 10 men.
- The penalty from Afonso Sousa (Lech) was saved at 118.

Saint Patrick's athletic - CSKA Sofia 0:2

Scorers: 0:1 12 Mauricio Garcez
               0:2 82-pen Ivan Turitsov

Young boys Bern - KuPS 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 03 Jean-Pierre Nsame
               2:0 34 Vincent Sierro
               3:0 57 Jean-Pierre Nsame

Gil vicente - Riga 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 15-own goal Glody Ngonda Muzinga
               2:0 22 Kevin Villodres
               3:0 45 Francisco Navarro
               4:0 75-pen Francisco Navarro

Kisvarda - Molde 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 14 Jasir Asani
               2:0 29 Jasir Asani
               2:1 69 Sivert Mannsverk

AZ - Dundee united 7:0

Scorers: 1:0 21 (20.58) Vangelis Pavlidis
               2:0 30 (30.12) Tijjani Reijnders
               3:0 35 (35.15) Vangelis Pavlidis
               4:0 41 (40.29) Tijjani Reijnders
               5:0 44 (43.47) Hakon Evjen
               6:0 46 (49 seconds) Dani de Wit
               7:0 73 (73.18) Mayckel Lahdo

Additional information 1: APOEL, Zrinjski, Rakow, Fehrvar, Cluj, Twente, Vaduz, Djurgarden, Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Basel, UniversitateaFcsB, Slavia Praha, Antwerp, Basaksehir, Ballkani, Rigas futbola skola, Hamrun, Anderlecht, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Viking, Rapid Wien, Lech, CSKA Sofia, Young boys Bern, Gil vicente, Molde, AZ have all entered in the last qualifying phase.

Europa league 2022-23 season, qualifying phase 3, leg 2:

HJK- Maribor 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 54 Santeri Hostikka

Zurich - Linfield 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 10 Donis Avdijaj
               2:0 25 Donis Avdijaj
               3:0 84 Ivan Santini

Slovacko - Fenerbahce 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 56 (55.32) Serdar Dursun
               1:1 57 (57.16) Ondrej Shashinka

Diddeleng - Malmo 2:2

Scorers: 0:1 49 Mohamed Buya Turay
               0:2 52 Ola Toivonen
               1:2 55 Samir Hadji
               2:2 60 Dejvid Sinani
 
Slovan - Olympiacos 1:1, 2:2 after extra time ; on penalties: 3-4

Scorers: 0:1 53 (53.06) Philip Zinckernagel
               1:1 90+4 (93.44) Ivan Shaponjic
               1:2 100 (99.56) Aguibou Camara
               2:2 108 (107.40) Andre Green

- Myenty Abena (Slovan) was awarded with his second yellow card on 97 (96.22).

Partizan - AEK (Larnaca) 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 24 Ricardo Gomes
               1:1 50 Adam Gyurcso
               2:1 54 Ricardo Gomes
               2:2 57 Imad Faraj

Additional information 2: into the fourth elimination round are HJK, Zurich, Fenerbahce, Malmo, Olympiacos and AEK (Larnaca).