Articles tagged with "match reports"
Bayern 4 - 1 Hertha Berlin
By Angela | May 17th, 2008Today's match saw champions Bayern take on Hertha Berlin. It was the final match of both Oliver Kahn and Ottmar Hitzfeld. If Bayern can keep Hertha under two goals, they will have overthrown Werder Bremen's record of least goals conceded in a Bunde ...
Match 6: Puerto Rico Islanders 2-2 Portland Timbers
By Bob Kellett | May 16th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers came back from a two-goal deficit to pick up their first point in four tries in Puerto Rico in front of 6,922 at Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium. The Islanders (1-3-1) struck first on a header from Sandy Gbandi in t ...
Celtic 2-Hibs 0: Survive and advance
By Matt | May 11th, 2008Well it will go to the last day. In their last game at Celtic Park this year, Celtic defeated Hibernian 2 to 0. Celtic got goals from Stephen McManus and Scott McDonald. The game also saw Hibs finish up with 9 players as two Hibees accumulated 2 y ...
Match 5: Seattle Sounders 0-0 Portland Timbers
By Bob Kellett | May 10th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers paid their final regular season USL First Division visit to Seattle on Saturday evening and played the Sounders to a 0-0 draw before 10,184 at Qwest Field. With both teams struggling to find their attack, th ...
Eins, Zwei, Drei, Neun
By Abby | May 10th, 2008Apologies for lack of posting in a week where actual things were going on, but I've been having a birthday and therefore without time to write up posts. But in my absence, Hertha's done surprisingly well for themselves. Three wins in a row as of t ...
Match 4: Portland Timbers 0-0 Rochester Rhinos
By Bob Kellett | May 8th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers and Rochester Rhinos played to a nil-nil draw on a Thursday evening in front of 7,519 at PGE Park. Coming off a 12-day layoff, the Timbers could not find a rhythm against a Rochester side that kept the acti ...
Who are ya? – Rochester Rhinos
By Bob Kellett | May 7th, 2008The Details: Portland Timbers v Rochester Rhinos, Thursday, May 8, 7pm, PGE Park. Web audio broadcast, Video webcast, Spanish radio on La X 1040AM Last season: The 2007 Rochester Rhinos had high hopes playing their second season at Paetec Par ...
Thanks Buddy!
By Abby | May 5th, 2008It feels nice to win again. Even if it was a bit lucky in the end, every team is due a bit of that now and again. It's our turn. KSC started bright, missing several good chances before giving us a present- keeper Markus Miller misjudged a lon ...
Saints 3 Sheffield United 2
By Mike | May 4th, 2008Phew! A rollercoaster game to end a rollercoaster season saw Saints survive by the skin of their teeth. Why an extra 10,000 people suddenly felt the club was worth supporting for one day I don't know but Saints were glad they did at the atmosphere g ...
Celtic 2-Motherwell1: Pittsburgh Edition!
By Matt | May 4th, 2008Bhoy, are you guys unlucky. I was planning on doing a live blog for yesterdays game, bright and early at 7:30 Eastern Time. You would have been exposed to some unprecedented obscenities for the first 60 minutes of the game. "Some artists work in o ...
TFC 1- 1 NYRB ( Reader Reviews)
By nicholas | May 1st, 2008This game was not the prettiest of games, but there were a few tidbits worth noting. 1. MARCO VELEZ SCORED 2. MARCO VELEZ SCORED 3. MARCO VELEZ SCORED 4. You are starting to get the idea 5. Claudio Reyna got injured ( Hands up for a ...
Weekend Trips
By Abby | April 30th, 2008Hertha and I both had weekend work-related trips, with the boys going off to Hanover and me to Chicago. Of course, my trip made me unable to watch theirs. In fact, it didn't even let me see much of what happened until now. And what a whirlwind of ...
Celtic 3-Rangers 2-Eric Cartman Analysis
By Matt | April 27th, 2008"It's on!"-Eric Cartman Two Scott McDonald goals and a Barry "Robo Cop" Robson penalty give Celtic the 3-2 victory over the hated Rangers at Celtic Park today. McDonald got things started with a goal in the fourth minute that looked like he might ...
Match 3: Portland Timbers 2-0 Seattle Sounders
By Bob Kellett | April 26th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers made it three victories in a row at PGE Park to open the 2008 season with a 2-0 triumph over Northwest rival Seattle Sounders in front of 9,894 on a beautiful spring night in Portland. Takayuki Suzuki score ...
Who are ya? - Seattle Sounders
By Bob Kellett | April 25th, 2008The Details: Portland Timbers v Seattle Sounders, Saturday, April 26, 7pm, PGE Park. Web audio broadcast, Video webcast, Spanish radio on La X 1040AM Last season: The 2007 Seattle Sounders edged out the Timbers in the regular season, finishing 3 p ...
Match 2: Portland Timbers 2-1 Minnesota Thunder
By Bob Kellett | April 24th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers remained undefeated at home in regular season games under coach Gavin Wilkinson by defeating the Minnesota Thunder 2-1 in front of 4,921 at PGE Park. Chris Brown scored for the second straight game, beating ...
Who are ya? - Minnesota Thunder
By Bob Kellett | April 23rd, 2008The Details: Portland Timbers v Minnesota Thunder, Thursday, April 24, 7pm, PGE Park. Web audio broadcast, Video webcast, Spanish radio on La X 1040AM Last season: Once a perennial contender in the USL, the Minnesota Thunder missed the playoffs fo ...
Tevez Inspires the Relief Inducing Headlines
By Nick | April 21st, 2008*Attack mentality makes it United's title to lose now -- [The Guardian] *Carlos Tevez keeps Man Utd on target -- [The Telegraph] *Fear of failure fires United, says Hughes -- [The Daily Mail] *Last-gasp Tevez saves United blushes -- [The Ind ...
Saints 0 Burnley 1
By Mike | April 21st, 2008If the Bristol City game showed why Saints should be challenging for promotion, then this defeat showed why we're battling relegation. Since relegation from the premiership I've lost count of the number of games which follow the same pattern: Saints ...
Match 1: Portland Timbers 1-0 Puerto Rico Islanders
By Bob Kellett | April 17th, 2008The Bottom Line: The Portland Timbers ushered in the 2008 season with a 1-0 victory against the Puerto Rico Islanders in front of 10,977 at PGE Park. Playing a man up after the Islanders Tairo Atieno was shown a straight card in the 40th minut ...
Perhaps I'll write more...
By Matt | April 16th, 2008If my previous post was not enough for you to get the gist of the game, I suppose I'll write more. Perhaps you were occupied during the game. Or if you were like me, you had a class at 3pm where a paper was due. Never fear for me, the internet and ...
Who are ya? - Puerto Rico Islanders
By Bob Kellett | April 16th, 2008The Details: Portland v Puerto Rico Islanders, Thursday, April 17, 7pm, PGE Park. Audio broadcast. Video webcast Last season: The Puerto Rico Islanders finished in sixth place in 2007 with a (10-8-10) record, making the playoffs for the second con ...
Super 6!
By irish_steve | April 16th, 2008I know, I know, its Derby but when you win any game 6 nil you deserve a pat on the back. Villa have scored 10 and given up 0 goals in the past 2 games and we are now in the race for the Intertoto Cup. Man City and Blackburn are hot on our heels but i ...
Totally Not Mind-Numbingly Dull
By Abby | April 15th, 2008You mean a game between two injury-or-suspension-hit teams in indifferent form wasn't going to be super-exciting? Er, well, that's what can really be said about today's game. It wasn't all that interesting. It was a 0-0 draw against Hamburg, who'v ...
Charlton 1 Saints 1
By Mike | April 14th, 2008Saints inched a further point towards safety in an open game against play-off contenders Charlton. Both sides went looking for the win initially and Saints got a bizarre lead when Charlton's young replacement keeper Randolph dropped a soft Stern Jo ...
Signs of Life:Celtic 4-Motherwell 1
By Matt | April 13th, 2008The Celtic team that has been missing for the entire month of March decided to show up on Sunday at Fir Park and was able to defeat Motherwell 4-1. The goals came from Stephen McManus (17), Scott McDonald (30), Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (44, 57). ...
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