‘Wolfsburg’ Archives
Thursday night: Europa League
Benfica 2 - 1 Liverpool I know you don't care, but Benfica striker Oscar Cardozo has scored more goals than any other player left in the Europa League (a whopping 6). Daniel Agger's strike was Liverpool's first goal against Benfica in four meetings, since Ian Rush's hat-trick at Anfield way back in October 1984. Benfica 2 - Liverpool 1 [...]
Thursday night footy (Europa League dross): 25th February
Unirea Urziceni 1 - 3 Liverpool (agg 1-4) Liverpool win a game, Rafa is great... whatever. Unirea Urziceni 1 - Liverpool 3- Watch more Sports Videos at Vodpod. Sporting Lisbon 3 - 0 Everton (agg 4-2) Everton escape the Mickey Mouse tournament and can finally concentrate on nicking 4th place from Liverpool. [...]
Matches of the decade: Wolfsburg 5 – 1 Bayern Munich (2009)
Wolfsburg surprised everyone, including themselves, in claiming the league title in football's last great league championship, thanks in no small part to having Europe's most lethal strike partnership in Grafite and Dzeko. The intrigue of the Champions League does not lie in exhibitionistic display of all that money can buy. Perfection cannot [...]
The FIFA Puskas Awards 2009: Top ten goals of the year
Can't argue with this little lot... FIFA Puskas Award 2009- Top ten goals of the year- Watch more Videos at Vodpod. The Grafite effort against Bayern is my favourite.
Champions League lowlights, November 3rd and 4th
November 3rd Jammy Manc buggers. Oh well, at least it livened up the evening. I spent it watching Beşiktaş meekly raising the white flag against the VW boys, while flicking over to the surprisingly entertaining Madrid - Milan match. Manchester United 3 - 3 CSKA Moscow Sir Alex has reacted angrily to Darren Fletcher's booking for diving [...]
European roundup, September 29th and 30th
A quickie... here are all the goals from last night's games: And here are the Englishmen and their foreign friends... Arsenal 2 - 0 Olympiakos Late goals from Robin van Persie and Andrey Arshavin gave the Gunners victory over Olympiakos. I'd already fallen asleep by then though. Arsenal 2 - 0 Olympiakos - Watch more [...]
Trabzon and the VW boys get back on track
Schalke 1 - 2 Wolfsburg The VW boys' Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko opened the scoring in the 55th minute with a mental header from a quickly taken corner. Ten minutes later, Benedikt Howedes managed to level against the reigning champs with a close-range header, but Schalke’s joy was shortlived as that lad Dzeko grabbed the winner in the 81st [...]
European roundup
Here we are then with my ever popular look around Europe in one action packed post and many, many goals... AZ Alkmaar 2 - 1 Willem II Reigning champs AZ opened the scoring in the seventh minute when Brett Holman fired home. Midway through the first half, Sergio Zijler equalised from close in, but a minute later central defender Hector Moreno [...]
Bundesliga weekend
Cologne 1 - 3 Wolfsburg Cologne’s Fabrice Ehret had given his side a first-half lead after pouncing on a rare mistake in the champions’ defence, but a 73rd minute strike from Edin Dzeko and an own goal from Cologne’s Pierre Wome just a minute later put Wolfsburg ahead before Obafemi Martins struck the decisive third. Cologne 1 - 3 [...]
Wolfsburg 2 – 0 Stuttgart
In the opening match of the new Bundesliga season, Wolfsburg and Stuttgart played out an entertaining but goalless first half. The VW boys claimed victory in the final 20 minutes, first through Zvjezdan Misimovic’s clean left-footed strike in the 71st minute and then last season’s top goalscorer Grafite turning in number two eight minutes from [...]
