Marcus Rashford scored on a free kick to give Manchester United a 1-0 win at Spanish club Celta in the first leg of their Europa League semifinal series.
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Europa League: Ajax moves closer to final
Once-mighty Dutch Ajax moved closer to reaching its first European final in 21 years by beating Lyon, 4-1, in Amsterdam in the first leg of their Europa League semifinal. Burkina Fasonational team forward Bertrand Traore, on loan from Chelsea, scored two goals while Danish teenager Kasper Dolberg and German Amin Younes also scored for Ajax.
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Hoffenheim headed to Europe for first time
Kerem Demirbay‘s goal in stoppage time gave Hoffenheim a 1-1 draw at FC Cologne that clinched its first berth in Europe. The point sealed Europa League qualification at the very least.Hoffenheim will likely clinch a berth in the UEFA Champions League if it wins one of its last four games.
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Food for thought: refereeing and data
As an engineer and a computer scientist, I am comfortable with numbers. I believe that the numbers do not lie, but they do not necessarily tell all the truth. Data, statistics and dataanalysis had been used extensively in sports, especially in the non-soccer U.S. sports. Some teams like the Oakland A’s of the MLB used […]
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Europa League: Price to pay for Manchester United win
Manchester United’s 2-1 overtime victory over Anderlecht in the Europa League came with a potentially high price as defender Marcos Rojo and star forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic both sufferedpossibly serious knee injuries.
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Short-handed Ajax rallies to reach semifinals
Ajax Amsterdam came back from a 3-0 deficit on the evening and with only 10 men to score two late goals and eliminate Schalke 04 in the Europa League quarterfinals on Thursday and join Lyon, Celta andManchester United in the semifinals.
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Lopes hero for Lyon in shootout win at Besiktas
Lyon won its controversial Europa League series with Besiktas that almost got both clubs thrown out of Europe when it captured an eight-round shootout, 7-6, in Istanbul after the two legs ended 3-3.Goalkeeper Anthony Lopes was the hero, saving from Dusko Tosic and Matej Mitrovic in the seventh and eighth rounds.
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Bale returns to training for Real Madrid
Gareth Bale, who sustained a calf injury during Real Madrid’s 2-1 Champions League victory at Bayern Munich, has returned to first-team training a week later, but it is unclear if he willbe fit in time for El Clasico.
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Lyon 'goes to war' again, at Bastia
For the second time in four days, scenes of chaos dominated the pre-game images at matches involving French club Lyon. On Thursday, it was fans of Turkish club Besiktas throwingprojectiles from the upper deck of Parc OL at Lyon fans below, forcing home supporters to run for safety on the field. On Sunday, it was […]
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Lyon-Besiktas match marred by crowd trouble
The start of the Lyon-Besiktas Europa League match in Lyon was delayed 45 minutes as fans spilled on the field at Parc OL following crowd disturbances. Lyon rallied to win, 2-1, on late goals byCorentin Tolisso and Jeremy Morel.