While Alan Smith accepts Liverpool have every right to be hurt by the VAR error which cost them in Saturday s loss to Tottenham, he thinks Jurgen Klopp s team have no choice but to move on.
PGMOL, the body responsible for match officials in English football, admitted a significant human error was committed when the decision to disallow Luis Diaz s first-half strike – which was flagged offside – was not overturned.
The audio recording of the decision-making process surrounding the incident was made public on Tuesday, revealing VAR Darren England misunderstood the nature of the on-field decision when clearing the check.
Diaz s wrongly disallowed effort occurred when the game was goalless, with Liverpool down to 10 men following Curtis Jones straight red card.…
The 2016 European Championship is nearing closer by the day and with national team coaches finalising their squads for the tournament finals, this feels like the right time to present you what we believe are the best outright bets for Euro 2016. Rather than backing the favourites at short odds, we have taken extra time to find markets where the bookmakers may have made a mistake, and we feel the bets featured below should give punters the best value for their money.
1.) France to reach semi-final
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Having already won two major trophies on home soil, we can safely say that home advantage could be a major factor for France, who would certainly be among the main candidates for the trophy even if playing away from home. Les Bleus have been hit with several late…
Australia defeated Indonesia 4-0 on Sunday to advance to the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup, where they will be joined by tournament debutants Tajikistan.
Two goals in the first half put 2015 Asian Cup champions Australia in control in the last-16 clash with Indonesia at the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium on Sunday.
Martin Boyle s header added to an early own goal from Elkan Baggott.
Late strikes from Craig Goodwin and Harry Souttar scuppered any hopes that Indonesia, playing their first game in the knockout stage, may have had of getting back into the match.
We knew they would come out here with nothing to lose today, we knew they would come and fight and run, said Jackson Irvine, who had a hand in two goals.
In the first half they caused us some pr…
The coronavirus pandemic forced the world of sport to get creative and UEFA was not spared the scheduling headache caused by the breakout of COVID-19.
Football in Europe ground to a halt in March, with the Champions League and Europa League suspended as hero health workers around the globe battled to keep the virus under control.
UEFA landed on a solution of completing both tournaments as one-game knockouts from the quarter-finals onwards (some last-16 ties in the Europa League were also single-leg ties) in a format mirroring the latter stages of a World Cup or European Championship.
It has proven very popular with supporters, who saw Lyon and RB Leipzig upset the odds to reach the Champions League semi-finals perhaps emboldened by the all-or-nothing situation th…
Best odds: 12/19
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Following an inconsistent start to the season, Lazio will aim for their second home win in Serie A when they face Hellas Verona on Monday.
The two sides will meet at Stadio Olimpico, with the hosts unexpectedly sitting behind their visitors in the standings after a spirited draw against AC Milan just before the international break.
Lazio
After an opening-day win over newly promoted Venezia, Lazio were unable to follow up with another victory, falling short against Udinese a week later. In their most recent match at the Olimpico, they were close to securing three points having overturned the Rossoneri s early lead through Taty Castellanos and Boulaye Dia, but Rafael Leao netted the second equalizer of the game in the 72nd minu…
Luton Town s relegation from the Premier League was confirmed following a 4-2 defeat by Fulham at Kenilworth Road.
Rob Edwards side bowed out of the top flight after a single season, as Raul Jimenez s brace and further strikes from Adama Traore and Harry Wilson helped the visitors prevail in a six-goal thriller.
The Hatters – for whom Carlton Morris and Alfie Doughty were on target – headed into the final day three points from safety and needing an ambitious 12-goal swing to stand any chance of usurping 17th-place Nottingham Forest.
The Reds win at Burnley ultimately rendered this result irrelevant, condemning Luton to an immediate return to the Championship after finishing in 18th place. Fulham end the campaign in 13th.
The hosts thought they had tak…
Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas insists that he will be 100 percent fit for the start of Euro 2012.
The Barcelona man suffered a thigh injury shortly after coming on as a substitute in Friday night s Copa del Rey final win over Athletic Bilbao and has been ruled out of action for 10 days.
The news has cast some doubt on Fabregas participation in his country s tournament opener against Italy on June 10 but the former Arsenal star has moved to reassure fans that he will be alright to play.
Thank u all for caring abt (sic) my injury. Im (sic) fine and with no pain. Soon will be 100 [percent] ready to start preparing the euros with the national team, he wrote on Twitter.
Fabregas has struggled for both form and fitness over the second half of the Spanish se…
The group stage of the World Cup is now officially over and it’s with great excitement that we now move into the knockout stages of the tournament in Russia.
The initial phase of the competition brought several surprises the biggest of which is Germany getting eliminated from the group stage and not participating in the elimination stage for the first time in 80 years.
Die Mannschaft were given a huge slap in the face by South Korea in their final group game and they return home disappointed and disheartened following a spiritless World Cup campaign.
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The World Cup 2018 has thus far been a problematic tournament for most of the favourites. Brazil and France are through to the Last 16 off the back of an underwhelming group stage, whereas Leo Messi…
FIFA security adviser Andre Pruis is confident Brazil has the proper safety plans in place to successfully host the 2014 World Cup.
The build up to next year s tournament has been dogged by construction delays and civil unrest across Brazil.
But Pruis, who was involved with the security team for the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, says he has full confidence in the organisers in Brazil.
If you ask me whether I have faith in the security establishment in Brazil, I immediately must say yes, Pruis said.
Not only planning with them but working with them during the Confederations Cup and it s clear to me that excellent plans are in place and committed members are ready to implement the plans.
During the whole of the Confederations Cup only 14 incidents of the…
UEFA has announced Saint Petersburg s Gazprom Arena, Munich s Allianz Arena and London s Wembley as the Champions League final venues from 2021 to 2023.
The governing body confirmed the allocation of the locations following a meeting in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana on Tuesday.
The 2021 showpiece will be at Zenit s 68,000-capacity Gazprom Arena, making it the second time Russia has hosted a Champions League final following the 2008 clash between Manchester United and Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
Germany will stage the 2022 climax at Bayern Munich s Allianz Arena, which holds 75,000 spectators, having hosted the final when Chelsea beat the Bavarian giants on penalties in 2012.
Confirmed: London’s Wembley Stadium will be the host for th…