Showing articles from the category #ICYMI
Clear filterA very wet and windy Wankdorf Stadium was the scene of a classic in the Swiss Super League this week as the current champions – a very out of form Young Boys – beat historic rivals Basel 3-2 thanks to two late own goals, including this clanger by Mohamed Dräger, from the Rotblau. It’s now 18 games in Bern without a win for Basel.
Action from Eredivisie as Mario Engels scored a wondergoal for Heracles from inside his own half. That’s what happens when you don’t marx Engels (sorry).
Lionel Messi might think he’s the GOAT and, ok, he grabbed his 58th career hat-trick and 846th goal this week – but he still doesn’t match up to Landon Donovan when it coms to international assists. Landon has 58 compared to Messi’s paltry 57. Pull your socks up Messi.
Ex-pros and pundits often bleat on about referees not knowing the game but this week’s ridiculous draw in Bundesliga 2 between Magdeburg and Greuther Fürth shows that sometimes the referees do know best. Top “What the hell were they thinking?” moments from both sides.
At times this season, the average age of Inter Miami’s starting 11 has been 30.4 years and with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in the team, now both 37, it’s easy to see why. The two salmon-clad veterans almost combined in the 112th minute to take all three points against Charlotte FC but the Uruguayan with hundreds of goals to his name properly scuffed it.
There was an upset in the Polish Cup this week, in the round of 64, when third tier Piast Gliwice knocked out the Premier League’s Hutnik Krakow on penalties after a mad 3-3 draw. It was Daniel Hoyo-Kowalski’s freakish penalty miss that ultimately cost his side the shootout. Unlucky.
Derby County took full advantage of Cardiff’s rotten start to the season this week, beating them 1-0 at Pride Park, but Ebou Adams should have made it two at the end of the game. The midfielder took mercy on the Blues though, delivering what will probably go down as the miss of the season.
It’s international week and there were some truly outstanding goals scored across the globe – but we’re ignoring them all for some world class cheating from the Italian sixth division. The way he holds his hands up after the offence is absolutely magnificent. “I was going for the ball ref…”
Worthing FC’s Danny Cashman is one of the stars of this week’s #ICYMI. The National League South side’s attacker finished off a fantastic counter-attacking move away at Boreham Wood this week, sealing all three points for the Mackerel Men.
Jihlava are rock-bottom of the Czech second division after seven games and are likely to stay there if this passage of play is the norm. This week Jihlava, seen here in bright yellow squandered a chance to take a point away from Prostějov in the 95th minute with a dreadful miss following a goalmouth scramble.
A classic over at the Crown Ground this week where hosts Accrington Stanley drew 3-3 with Harrogate Town – and things got off to a legendary start with this bit of protracted head tennis that would make the xG crowd cringe. Beautiful.
Liverpool tried some fancy-pants passing-out-from-the-back in their final pre-season friendly against Sevilla at Anfield this week and Stanis Idumbo should have punished their sloppiness. But instead, the Sevilla forward rounded off pre-season in comical fashion. Liverpool won 4-1.
Lanus’s Walter Bou best make some space on his mantelpiece for that massive and weirdly long Puskas Award trophy. The Argentinian forward scored a sensational bicycle kick on Monday securing all three points for his side in the final moments of their match against Tigre.
Professional footballers are dusting off the cobwebs again and this week Crystal Palace’s Joachim Andersen demonstrated why pre-season can be so important. The Dane dropped an absolute clanger at a sun-drenched Broadfield Stadium – good to get them out of the way before the season kicks-off!
To a packed Firhill Stadium for more Scottish League Cup drama this week where hosts Partick Thistle lost 3-2 to Clyde. Things started going south for Thistle on 20 minutes thanks to this honking own goal from Lee Ashcroft – a genuine classic of the dodgy backpass genre.
Can you believe that the Scottish League Cup has just got underway? Not only has it already started but almost 30 games have been played in the competition already. One of the highlights so far has been Stirling Albion keeper Derek Gaston doing a bit of early-season groundskeeping at home to Raith Rovers. Proper Football™.
Eight years ago (the year England crashed out of Euro 2016 to Iceland) Ollie Watkins was playing for supporter-owned Exeter City having emerged from their academy. Now he’s fired the Three Lions to the final of Euro 2024. Check out his wonder goal for the club against local rivals Plymouth Argyle that season.
Argentina are through to the semi-finals of Copa America, squeezing past Ecuador on penalties last night. Emi Martinez was once again Argentina’s saviour with two fine penalty stops, sparing the blushes of his captain who hit the bar with an ill-advised panenka.
The era of referees turning into WWE announcers (something no-one in their right minds wants or asked for) is finally here! Thanks go to MLS official Filip Dujic for bringing us into this brave new world.
Turkey vs Georgia has been one of the games of Euro 2024 so far, and it included two absolute screamers from Turkey’s Mert Muldur and Arda Güler respectively. We reckon Muldur’s volley just pips his teammate’s as goal of the tournament so far. An absolute cracker.
