Diego Costa, former Chelsea striker, has been sentenced to six months in jail for tax offences but will pay a €543,208 fine to avoid prison time. According to El Mundo, a Spanish online outlet, the 31-year-old Atlético forward, who appeared in a Madrid court on Thursday, pleaded guilty to defrauding the state of more than €1m by not declaring payments of over [...]
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Liverpool, defending UCL champions, were surprisingly eliminated from this season’s competition at the round of 16 by Atletico Madrid, who stunned their host 3-2 after extra time at Anfield to earn a 4-2 aggregate win over the English side. The loss was Liverpool’s first at home in 43 games in all competition. It was also Liverpool’s third defeat in four games. [...]
Atletico Madrid's early goal and gritty performance delivered a 1-0 win over Liverpool, the UCL defending champions, at their Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Spain. Atletico had won only once in seven games coming into this encounter, while the World Club champions and runaway EPL leaders are on a 14-game unbeaten streak in all competitions. Atletico Madrid, finalists twice under Diego Someone, stormed [...]
Alex Iwobi, Super Eagles forward, has been named among the 25-man squad for Arsenal's pre-season training tour of Singapore. The Nigerian, Germany's Mesut Özil and Egypt's Mohammed ELNeny will join the team in Singapore after returning from their World Cup duties. The team will jet out of London on Sunday, July 22, to Singapore. The squad is scheduled to play against Europa League champions [...]
European football governing body, UEFA have punished Europa League winners, Atlético Madrid over fans' unsporting conduct at Lyon's Olympic stadium during last month's 3-0 victory over Olympic Marseile in the Europa League final. Rising at a disciplinary meeting today in Nyon, Switzerland, UEFA the Spanish club's fans are guilty for displaying political far right banner during the game. The panel also found [...]
Atlético Madrid defeated Marseille 3-0 to win the Europa Cup for a third time in Wednesday. Marseille failed to become the first French team to win a major European competition since 1995/96, when PSG beat SK Rapid Wien in the Cup Winner’s Cup. Atletico Madrid led 1-0 at the break in the Europa League final. Antoine Griezman's strike separated the two sides as [...]
Atlético Madrid, Spanish professional football club, will be visiting Nigeria for the first time to play against the Super Eagles CHAN team in the maiden edition of the GoTv MAX Cup. The event is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, May 22 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. "We are delighted to bring one of the three biggest clubs [...]
Atlético Madrid won 1-0 at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium against Arsenal to qualify for the Europa League final thanks to a Diego Costa strike just before half time. Coach Diego Simeone served his touchline ban at a stadium where his team has not conceded in 11 matches, and they duly dominated on chances created in the match. It was despair for Arsenal, [...]
Atlético Madrid, despite playing 80 minutes with ten men, earned a smash and grab 1-1 draw against Arsenal at the Emirates stadium in the first leg of the Europa League semi final. Arsenal dominated from start with their strikers in busy mode. Lacazette hitting the outside of the post when he should have hit the back of the net, Monreal's header [...]
Arsenal FC will face Atletico Madrid in the Europa League semi-final. The encounter will be Arsenal's first ever competitive meeting with Atlético Madrid. The North London club's only European semi-final tie against Spanish opposition came in the 2005/06 Champions League tournament when they defeated Villarreal. French side Marseille was drawn to play Salzburg in the second semi-final tie. The Europa League draw took place at [...]
Arsenal survived an unlikely CSKA Moscow comeback to qualify for the semi finals of the Europa League. The Gunners, looking to win the competition as a back door entry into next season's UEFA Champions League came back from two goals down to draw 2-2 on the night and advance 6-3 on aggregate. On a cold Moscow night, Petr Cech race out to [...]
Alex Iwobi and Ahmed Musa, Super Eagles teammates, will play against one another in the quarter-final of the Europa League. Iwobi's Arsenal was drawn against Musa's CSKA Moscow on Friday. Athletico Madrid will face Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon while Olympique Marseille will face German side RB Leipzig. The ties will be played on April 5 and April 12. The draw in full: Atlético Madrid Vs [...]
Arsenal snapped a five-game winless streak by winning 3-1 away at AC Milan's San Siro stadium in one of eight Round of 16 Europa League first leg encounters played on Thursday evening. Although Gattuso's wards started brightly, Henrikh Mkhtaryan opened the scoring in the 15th minute when he curled beautifully into the top corner. The fallen Milan giants fell further behind in [...]
Arsenal FC has been drawn against Swedish side, Östersund, in the Europa League round of 32. Spanish giant, Atlético Madrid, will face FC Copenhagen while Borussia Dortmund will slug it out with Atalanta. Scottish side, Celtic FC, will face Russia's Zenit in the knock out round. Here is the full list of the draw: Borussia Dortmund Vs Atalanta Nice Vs Lokomotiv Moscow FC Copenhagen Vs Atlético [...]
Super Falcons forward Francisca Ordega has put pen to paper on a season-long loan with Spanish football club, Atletico Madrid. The 24-year-old Nigerian is on loan from American club Washington Spirit. "Atletico de Madrid Femenino strengthens its offensive line with Francisca Ordega, who arrives from the Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League," the statement read. "The 24-year-old Nigerian footballer is on [...]
Victor Moses was in form when Chelsea defeated Atlético Madrid 2-1 in the second group fixture game of the champions league on Wednesday. Michy Batshuayi won with what was quite literally the last kick of the game for Chelsea. Antoine Griezmann had fired Atlético Madrid ahead from the spot when David Luiz was penalised for a foul in the 40th minute. Alvaro Morata [...]
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