Everton striker Townsend provokes ManUtd mishaps with Ronaldo cheers

The English football champions Manchester United have again dropped points in the Premier League. Against FC Everton, the team around superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and the former Dortmund-based Jadon Sancho only managed to score 1: 1 (1: 0) in their own stadium on Saturday despite the halftime lead.

French Anthony Martial (43rd minute) shot the Red Devils, who started without regular players like Ronaldo, Sancho and Paul Pogba, in the lead shortly before half-time at Old Trafford. Andros Townsend (65th) achieved the somewhat surprising equalization for the guests, who almost even left the field as winners. Yerry Mina was offside before his alleged winner (86th) for Everton, as the video evidence showed.

Curiosity of the game: Townsend cheered with the Ronaldo gesture. How did the superstar like that? (nih / dpa)

Switzerland loses a possible national team player. Former Swiss U21 player Toni Domgjoni will play for the Kosovar national team in the future. Coach Bernard Challandes offered the 23-year-old midfielder for the World Cup qualifiers against Sweden and Georgia. He played 17 times for the Swiss U21s, most recently at the European Championship finals in March. However, Fifa still has to give the green light for the change of nation of the current Vitesse-Arnheim kicker. (nih)

At least since the 3-0 swat at Benfica Lisbon in the Champions League, Barça coach Ronaldo Koeman has been heavily criticized. According to rumors, the bosses of the Catalans have been looking for a successor to the Dutchman for a long time. But now Barça President Laporta spoke to “MundoDeportivo” and expressed his confidence in his coach: “Koeman will stay. He will remain our coach regardless of the outcome of today’s game against Atlético. He is a legend from Barcelona. I appreciate how he accepted to coach the club during these difficult times. ” (flo)

Iñaki Williams set a Spanish record in Athletic Bilbao’s home win against Alaves. The 27-year-old striker has played 203 games in a row. He replaced Jon Andoni Larrañaga. Williams’ streak started on matchday 34 of the 2015/2016 season when he came on after 60 minutes. He hasn’t missed a minute since then. Internationally only the German goalie legend Sepp Maier has more games than the Spaniard. Maier has played 442 games in a row for FC Bayern Munich. In Italy and England, too, two former goalkeepers hold the record with Franco Tancredi (258) and Brad Friedel (310). (ape)

After three draws in a row, 1. FC Köln celebrated the hoped-for home win in the Bundesliga in front of 40,000 spectators. Despite a fast deficit, coach Steffen Baumgart’s team won 3-1 (0-1) against promoted SpVgg Greuther Fürth on Friday evening. Sebastian Andersson (50th minute) and double goal scorer Ellyes Skhiri (55th / 89th) scored for the Domstadters, who were clearly superior only after the break. Defender Marco Meyerhöfer had brought the guests, who had played courageously for a long time, in the lead in the 7th minute. After their third win of the season, FC established themselves in sixth place in the Europa League with twelve points. The bottom of the table Fürth, on the other hand, has to wait for the first victory. Cedric Itten was used in the 63rd minute of the game at Führt. But he didn’t have a big impact on the game.

The Swiss trainer Raphael Wicky was fired from the MLS club Chicago Fire. As sources of the “Chicago Sun Times” report, the Valais was released shortly after his team’s 2-0 win against New York City FC. The reason for this is that Chicago is most likely to miss the playoffs.

The 44-year-old Wicky said a few days earlier when he asked about his job guarantee the question was: “There is always pressure and if the results are not correct, there are not many arguments.” And he added: “The only thing I can say is that I’m here and give 100 percent, I do my best every day.” That obviously didn’t seem to be enough for those responsible for the fire.

In the evening the club confirmed the media reports. “I would like to thank Rapha for his tireless efforts, with which he has made us a better club every day,” said sports director Georg Heitz. “We felt it was the right time to inform him that we will not exercise his contract option for 2022 while we start making decisions for the next season.”

Wicky kept getting back to Super -League clubs acted as a possible successor to endangered coaches. The crises in Lucerne and at FC Sion also fuel Wicky’s return to Switzerland. The Valais already coached FC Basel from 2017 to 2018, as a player he was twice under contract with FC Sion. (hua)

The French world champion N’Golo Kanté has tested positive for the corona virus. The midfielder of Chelsea FC has gone into ten days of isolation, as coach Thomas Tuchel announced on Tuesday at the press conference of the Premier League club. Like Kante, Tuchel also missed the ailing Mason Mount, Reece James and Christian Pulisic in Wednesday’s Champions League game against Juventus Turin. Kanté is also not in the league game against Southampton on Saturday.

You know not what percentage of his squad were vaccinated against Corona, said Tuchel, who was vaccinated himself. “It’s not that I don’t want to tell you. I just didn’t ask, “said the 48-year-old. He doesn’t want any of his players or employees to be vaccinated against the corona virus: “I’m not an expert on that. I’m a football coach. ” (dpa)

FC Barcelona ended their negative series after three games without a win. The Catalans prevailed 3-0 on Sunday in the Primera División against relegation candidate UD Levante and gave the under pressure coach Ronald Koeman their third win of the season. The Dutchman, who was criticized after nine points from the first five games of the season and the 0: 3 in the premier class against FC Bayern Munich, was not allowed to sit on the bench in the game because of his recent red card in the 0: 0 against Cadíz .

Against Levante, Barça went on the sixth match day with a goal from a newcomer Memphis Depay lead early. The Dutch converted a penalty (6th minute). His compatriot Frenkie de Jong increased to 2-0 (14th). The 18-year-old youngster Ansu Fati, who made his comeback as a joker in November 2020 after tearing his meniscus and scored 3-0 late (90 + 1), also provided positive news.

With the Third win, the Catalans climbed to fifth and are now five points behind arch-rivals Real Madrid, who have played one game more. Koeman had been heavily criticized after the disappointing start of the season in Barcelona, ​​and Spanish media had already speculated that the 58-year-old would be replaced soon. (dpa)

VfL Bochum remains in a relegation zone in the Bundesliga. A week after the 0: 7 at Bayern Munich, the promoted team did not make it past 0: 0 in front of 15,300 spectators in the home game against VfB Stuttgart. With four points after six match days, coach Thomas Reis’s team remains in 17th place, just ahead of fellow promoted SpVgg Greuther Fürth. VfB Stuttgart, on the other hand, improved to 13th place with five points after the second draw of the current season. (dpa)

Leipzig sends Hertha home with a 6-0 pack

The favorite opponent came at just the right time: As usual, RB Leipzig had no problems with Hertha BSC and took the first step to correct the false start in the Bundesliga. The runner-up defeated the capital club on Saturday 6: 0 and finally got the second win in the sixth game.

Wolfsburg with first league defeat of the season

Followers VfL Wolfsburg failed. The Bundesliga runner-up in the table conceded their first defeat of this season in the Bundesliga with a 1: 3 at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim on Saturday. Coach Mark van Bommel’s team initially slipped to third place in the table behind FC Bayern and now also behind Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Only one of the Swiss players played at Wolfsburg: Kevin Mbabu completed 90 minutes as a right-back.

Leverkusen and trainer Seoane are on course for the Champions League

Record man, super talent and problem solver: Florian Wirtz immortalized himself in the annals of the Bundesliga with his tenth goal of the season and put Bayer Leverkusen on the road to success. The winning goal of the German national player in the 62nd minute was leveled by the Bayer team to make it 1-0 in the top game against FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday. Wirtz is now 18 years old and 139 days old, the youngest Bundesliga professional with ten goals. Leverkusen with Swiss coach Gerardo Seoane remains in the Champions League with 13 points thanks to the fourth win of the season.

Andreas Gora / dpa

Urs Fischers Union Berlin with a spectacular home series

1. FC Union Berlin has expanded its famous home series to 20 games without defeat. Joker Kevin Behrens (88th minute) ensured the iron’s 1-0 victory in the Bundesliga with his late goal. Until then, it had looked for Union against the draw experts from East Westphalia on Saturday long after a disappointing zero number to prepare for the game in the Conference League on Thursday against Maccabi Haifa. At Bielefeld, the Swiss Cedric Brunner played until the 81st minute. In the end, Arminia was punished for its long passive style of play.

Eintracht still without a win

Eintracht Frankfurt is still waiting for the first win of the season in the Bundesliga. The Hessians with Nati player Djibril Sow in the starting eleven came on Saturday against 1. FC Köln only to a 1-1 and remain with five points in the lower half of the table. In front of 24,000 spectators, Ellyes Skhiri gave the guests the lead in the 14th minute, which Rafael Borré (45th + 6th) equalized.

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FC Bayern did not allow themselves to be stopped by being outnumbered for a long time in the Bundesliga. After the 7: 0 against VfL Bochum, Munich won the next and at times heated duel with a promoted team 3: 1 (2: 0) at SpVgg Greuther Fürth. The dismissal for world champion Benjamin Pavard in the 48th minute brocked Bayern almost half with one player less – and the late goal by Swiss striker Cedric Itten (88th minute). The goal premiere for the former St. Gallen striker at Fürth.

Thomas Müller (10th minute), Joshua Kimmich (31st) and Fürth Sebastian Griesbeck with an own goal (68th) but ultimately ensured that the series champion got in the right mood on Friday evening in front of 11,740 spectators in Franconia. In the intense second half, Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann saw the yellow card because he complained too violently to the referee.

Bayern had also not included the excitement shortly after the restart. Pavard dismissed Julian Green, who Leitl also because of his Bayern Verg pleasantness had sent into the game: “He should show that he has been well trained at FC Bayern.” Referee Robert Schröder showed red, on the sidelines Salihamidzic talked to the fourth official. Fürth could not really use the excess – except for the first goal by Cedric Itten for the new employer.

Daniel Karmann / dpa

SSC Napoli continues its dream start in the Italian Serie A. The former UEFA Cup winners took their fifth win in their fifth game with a confident 4-0 (2-0) win at Sampdoria Genoa on Thursday, thus continuing to lead the table. The first division soccer club from southern Italy started this well in 2017. Twice Victor Osimhen (10th and 50th minute) as well as Fabian (39th) and Piotr Zielinski (59th) scored the victory.

Naples has been waiting for its third championship since 1990. Last year the team missed the Champions League qualification. Luciano Spalletti has been the new coach since this season.

Italy’s football record champions Juventus Turin stopped the historically bad start of the season and with a lot of effort won their first Serie A win at Spezia Calcio with 3: 2 (1: 1). After the guest lead by Moise Kean after 28 minutes, the outsider struck back on Wednesday and turned the result around with goals from Emmanuel Gyasi (33rd) and Janis Antiste (49th) to a surprising 2-1 lead. Within six minutes, Federico Chiesa (66th) and Matthijs de Ligt (72nd) secured the triumph with their goals for the favorite.

Previously, Juve had with coach Massimiliano Allegri in the first four league games Only got two points, that happened to the Bianconeri for the last time 60 years ago and only three times in their club history (1942/43, 1955/56, 1961/62). The Turin team has been waiting for a clean sheet for 19 games – that has not happened to any other club in Europe’s top leagues during this period.

Due to racist abuses and massive misconduct by their fans in the game against England, Hungary’s national football team has to play the next home game of the World Cup qualifying in front of empty stands. As the world association Fifa announced on Tuesday, the Hungarian association is facing another ghost game if similar incidents occur within the next two years. At the same time, the disciplinary commission imposed a fine of 200,000 Swiss francs on the Hungarian Football Association Punished on September 2 in Budapest. In the game, viewers racially insulted English players, threw objects, fired fireworks and blocked stairs. “Fifa firmly rejects any form of racism, violence, discrimination and abuse and does not tolerate such horrific behavior in football in any way,” it said.

The substitution of Lionel Messi in Paris Saint-Germain’s 2-1 win against Xherdan Shaqiri’s Olympique Lyon was discussed across Europe. The Argentine striker had to leave the field after 76 minutes, which the superstar didn’t like. He refused to shake hands with coach Mauricio Pochettino.

Now the story has taken a new turn, as PSG announced today that Messi has suffered a lesion on his left knee and for Wednesday’s game at FC Metz will fail. An MRI scan showed signs of bruising on the bone. The Argentine is due to be examined again on Thursday. (ape / dpa)

The financially stricken FC Barcelona is slipping more and more into a sporting crisis. Six days after the 0: 3 against FC Bayern, the team just managed to score 1: 1 (0: 1) against FC Granada on Monday and are only in the middle of the table with eight points.

Ronald Araujo saved Barça with his equalizer in the final minute at least one point. Domingos Duarte had already put the Granada outsider in the lead in the second minute. After that, the Catalans often presented themselves without ideas despite being overweight. Luuk de Jong missed some of the few top chances miserably (79th). With increasing playing time, the whistles piled up from the stands.

Barça press debts amounting to 1.2 billion euros. For this reason, the club also had to let stars like Lionel Messi or Antoine Griezmann go in the summer. ( dpa )

Ronald Araujo trifft in der 90. Minute noch zum Ausgleichstreffer für den FC Barcelona.

Ronald Araujo meets in the 90th minute to the equalizer for FC Barcelona.

AFP

Napoli got off to a perfect start to the Serie A season with an undisputed 4-0 win in Udinese on Monday. With four wins in a row, Napoli are now leaders.

Osimhen scored the first goal against Udinese in the 24th minute. Another eleven minutes later, Rrahmani headed for a second goal for Napoli after a free kick. In the second half, Napoli tied in seamlessly and defender Koulibaly hit with a solid shot. Lozano scored the fourth and final goal for the new league leaders in the 84th minute. (ape)

Rrahmani feiert mit seinen Mitspielern den Sieg gegen Udinese.

Rrahmani celebrates the victory against Udinese with his teammates.

Ettore Griffoni / LPS via ZUMA Press Wire / dpa

Thanks to a dream start and despite being outnumbered for an hour, Bayer Leverkusen climbed back into the Champions League ranks in the Bundesliga. The team of coach Gerardo Seoane won 3-1 at VfB Stuttgart on Sunday Robert Andrich (2nd minute), Patrik Schick (19th) and the strong national player Florian Wirtz (70th) scored the goals in front of 23,450 spectators for the Werkself. For the hosts, who have not won since the 5: 1 against Fürth on the first match day and slipped into the lower third of the table, Orel Mangala scored (38th). In the 30th minute, Bayers Andrich saw the red card for a foul. ( dpa )

Florian Wirtz ist der Mann des Spiels.

Florian Wirtz is the man of the game.

imago images / RHR-Foto

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo also scored in the third competitive game after his return to Manchester United for the English football champions. In the 2-1 win in the away game at West Ham United, Ronaldo equalized in the 35th minute after the Hammers took the lead in the entertaining game through Said Benrahma (30th).

That Jesse Lingard (89th), who played on loan for West Ham last season, scored a late winning goal for Man United on Sunday. In the dramatic stoppage time, the hosts were awarded a hand penalty after video evidence. But the extra substitute Mark Noble failed with his shot at United goalkeeper David De Gea.

Ronaldo already had two goals in his Man United comeback a week ago to win 4-1 in contributed to the Premier League against Newcastle United. On Tuesday, the Portuguese met in the Champions League against YB to lead the Red Devils. However, his team was then defeated by 1: 2. ( dpa )

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