Posted on 6th April 2018
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Zenit’s recent 2,000km trip to Ufa in Bashkortostan makes a rainy night in Stoke seem trivial – but they came away with three points thanks in part this own goal – the defender hindered by the use of a white ball on the snow-covered pitch.
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This week Argentinian defender Martin Mantovani scored three goals in La Liga: two in the right end and one in the wrong one as Huesca beat Leganés 2-1 on the final day. Incidentally, Mantovani made over 200 appearances for Leganés previously but his superhero antics weren’t enough to save Huesca from the drop.
Valencia beat Barcelona in the Copa Del Rey final this week with a 2-1 win at Estadio Benito Villamarín. Arturo Vidal had a chance to get Barcelona back in the game in the 55th minute, after the usual sublime skill from Lionel Messi, but the Chilean’s wild slice sent the rebound into row Z.
Echoes of Jason Cundy at Portman Road in the nineties with this week’s And finally – a truly daft goal from Extremadura’s Carlos Pomares against Cadiz in La Liga II – a block tackle on the halfway sending the ball 50 yards over the Cadiz keeper.
Wendy Renard gives us the first entry into the And finally… archive from this summer’s Women’s World Cup in France. The French defender’s meek intervention sends the ball trickling over the line (skip to 51 seconds).
