Clint Dempsey’s hat-trick helped Fulham come from behind to comprehensively thrash in-form Newcastle 5-2. The United States international was named his country’s player of the year on Friday and showed why with a superb second-half performance at Craven Cottage.
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Fulham 5-2 Newcastle
Open an account with Sportingbet today and get up to £100 in free bets! Could have done nothing to prevent Llorente’s excellent volley and did not have too many genuine scares at the back. Took the pressure off his team a few times with some well-timed catches of the ball from crosses.
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Player Ratings: Real Madrid 4-1 Athletic Bilbao
Fulham manager Martin Jol delighted as Clint Dempsey becomes the first American to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
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Dempsey helps Fulham to win over Newcastle
Mario Balotelli netted a stoppage-time penalty as Manchester City recorded a sensational 3-2 victory over Tottenham on Sunday.
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Football: Man City 3 : Tottenham 2
Week 18 in the Bundesliga wrapped up with two matches on Sunday. The early match saw Borussia Dortmund remind everyone that they are the defending champions, and the late match saw Bayer Leverkusen survive a strong challenge from Mainz. Hamburg vs Borussia Dortmund The champions went right after the Hamburg defense from the opening whistle and never stopped. Kevin Großkreutz was on the receiving …
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Bundesliga, Week 18: Dortmund Crush Hamburg, Leverkusen Outlast Mainz
Giampaolo Pazzini and Diego Milito were on target as Inter Milan fought back from a goal behind to beat Lazio 2-1 at the San Siro and leapfrog their opponents into fourth place in Serie A.
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Pazzini helps Inter leapfrog Lazio
Lionel Messi netted two typically brilliant goals and a rare header as Barcelona closed to within two points of La Liga leaders Real Madrid, at least for a few hours, with a 4-1 win at Malaga on Sunday.
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Magic Messi fires Barca to 4-1 win in Malaga
A La Liga game with few clear-cut chances ended in a goalless draw between Levante and Real Zaragoza, a result which leaves the former in fourth and the latter seven points adrift of safety.
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Levante, Zaragoza suffer stalemate
Football: Penalties either side of half-time from Mark Noble were enough to earn West Ham three points and send them to the Championship summit for the first time this season.
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West Ham 2-1 Nottingham Forest: Cotterill fumes at penalty decisions as Irons go top
Football: Mark Davies, Nigel Reo-Coker and Gretar Steinsson were all on target as struggling Bolton upset the form book to secure their best win of the season on Saturday evening against Kenny Dalglish’s Liverpool underachievers.
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Bolton 3-1 Liverpool: Dalglish turns on players after Wanderers defeat
BREMEN, Germany (AP) — Werder Bremen says defender Sebastian Proedl has been discharged from the hospital after breaking his nose, fracturing his jaw and suffering concussion in a Bundesliga match.
VANCOUVER, BC – Preparations for Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2012 Major League Soccer season begin today, with players undergoing physical assessments, followed by a week of training at Burnaby Lake West, starting on Monday.
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Whitecaps FC Kickoff 2012 Preseason Training on Monday
Craig Conway’s long range stunner caused Pompey to fall to a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat at the Cardiff City Stadium yesterday.
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Pompey Suffer Late Welsh Heartbreak
AC Milan, Udinese and Inter Milan each won Sunday to join Juventus in what is turning into a rare four-way race for the Serie A title at the Italian season’s midpoint.
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AC Milan, Udinese, Inter win in Serie A
Lionel Messi scored his 14th Barcelona hat-trick as the champions cruised to a 4-1 win at Malaga on Sunday to close the gap on Real Madrid at the top of La Liga to just two points.
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Messi hat-trick as Barca see off Malaga
Borussia Dortmund surged level on points with Bayern Munich and Schalke at the top of the Bundesliga on Sunday following a 5-1 rout at Hamburger SV in the first round after the winter break.
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Dortmund routs Hamburg in Bundesliga
Russian football fans will be able to fly to the European Football Championship in Ukraine and Poland for free, Aeroflot and Transaero have said. The commitment came after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told reporters that he couldn’t see how making “a couple of planes available” to fly fans to the tournament would hurt the airlines, Russia’s largest.
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Russian Fans to Fly for Free to Ukraine – While Their Team Plays in Poland
Eredivisie leaders AZ Alkmaar and fourth-placed Ajax battled out a 1-1 draw in a match marred by heavy winds at the AFAS Stadion. Rasmus Elm gave the hosts a 37th-minute lead with a free-kick but the Amsterdammers levelled 15 minutes from time through Simon Poulsen’s own goal.
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Leading trio draw little comfort
Despite leading 2-0 at half-time, Bayer Leverkusen needed a late winner from Lars Bender to secure a 3-2 victory at home to struggling Mainz in the Bundesliga.
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Leverkusen claim late win over Mainz
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is disappointed with the way his side played during the first 45 minutes against Manchester United, but was happier with their efforts in the second half despite falling toa 2-1 defeat at the Emirates.
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Wenger frustrated by first-half performance
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says he is happy to just “keep on the coattails” of local rivals Manchester City after a 2-1 win over Arsenal at the Emirates keeps them three points behind the Premier League leaders.
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Ferguson pleased with defensive display
Rasmus Elm’s fine first half free-kick was not enough to give AZ Alkmaar their second win in three days over Ajax after Simon Poulsen’s own goal saw it finish 1-1, while PSV were held to the same scoreline by Utrecht.
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AZ draw with Ajax, PSV held
PSV Eindhoven remain one point behind Eredivisie leaders AZ Alkmaar after both teams were held to 1-1 draws on Sunday.
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Eredivisie wrap: AZ, PSV fail to break shackles
Borussia Dortmund routed Hamburger SV 5-1 to climb level on points with Bayern Munich and Schalke at the top of the Bundesliga.
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Five-goal Dortmund hammer Hamburg
LONDON: Manchester United kept the pressure on Premier League leaders Manchester City as Danny Welbeck’s late strike clinched a dramatic 2-1 win over Arsenal on Sunday.
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Football: Welbeck keeps Manchester Utd hot on City's heels
It may not have been anywhere near as bad as the 8-2 hammering at Old Trafford, but a defeat is a defeat and Arsenal have now suffered eight in an increasingly miserable campaign.
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Manchester United exploit Arsenal’s frailty to stay in touch at the top
Bayer 04 Leverkusen won a valuable three points with a 3-2 victory over 1. FSV Mainz 05 to cement their position in the European places in Sunday’s late kick-off.
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Bayer scrape victory in five goal thriller
Bolton Wanderers climbed out of the bottom three with one of the most improbable results of their season, surprising not only Liverpool but possibly some of their own supporters with the quality of their football and the neatness of their execution. Liverpool were never allowed to settle, conceded early in both halves, and did not display too much appetite for getting back into the game. Where …
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West Bromwich Albion ended a 30-year hoodoo at Stoke City and their miserable run in the Premier League. After losing 13 games and drawing five of their previous 18 visits here, two mistakes by Thomas Sorensen gifted Albion the points. After the game, the Albion manager, Roy Hodgson, was forced to defend the scorer of his side’s first goal, James Morrison, for an apparent gesture towards the …
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Stoke City 1-2 West Bromwich Albion | Premier League match report
The Everton manager, David Moyes, conceded that his side had taken the lead with a goal that should not have stood, but insisted that Blackburn’s equaliser was no more legal. His demeanour more or less summed up a match that entertained in fits and starts but ended with Everton being booed off by their supporters. “We were fortunate to get a point,” Moyes said. “We were certainly fortunate to go …
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