Dortmund Claims Revenge on Bayern as they win German's Super Cup

Dortmund beats Bayern Munchen as they win the first cup of the 2013/14 season. It was a six-goal thriller, and it determines the Bundesliga 13/14 to be exciting, and this also makes Germany one of the toughest competitors for the 2014 World Cup. This also proves that Guardiola is not so fit for being a coach in a German team, keeping him responsible for the loss. In this game, German winger Marco Reus was the man of the match, by scoring two goals, but Bayern's loss could also be caused by the absence of an important playmaker, Franck Ribery, and one of the greatest goalkeepers in the world, Manuel Neuer. This match keeps both teams rivals and favorites for the Bundesliga.  The precise score was 4-2, with a goal in the first half and five in the second. The first goal was scored by Marco Reus, in the 6th minute when Sven Bender headed the ball and Reus headed again, and unfortunately Munich keeper Tom Starke couldn't save it, and that was the first goal. On the 53rd minute, The Bavarians equalized by Arjen Robben but two minutes later, Van Buyten headed the ball to his own net, and Gundogan scored a minute later. With a two goal cushion, Bayern caught up with a goal in the 64th but Reus scored an extra goal in the 86th for Dortmund.

Chelsea Brings Another Nightmare For Indonesia

Eden Hazard, Ramires, Demba Ba, John Terry, Bertrand Traore, and Romelu Lukaku all finished Indonesia's friendly pre-season series of matches with losses. All the friendly matches that Indonesia has played ended with losses. The loss chronicles started around a month ago, when Netherlands beat them 3-0. Then there was Arsenal, who beat them bad, with a score of 7-0. After that, Liverpool delivered a loss that wasn't so bad, 2-0. But Chelsea, a world-class team with a recent Champions League win, totally destroyed Indonesia with a humiliating scoreline of 8-1, and they scored all the goals. The stadium was filled with loud football fanatics, around 70.000 of them, watching their favorite team play. If you see the stadium from the inside and you see the fan's seats, all you can see is the color blue. Literally. The start of the goal-party was when Indonesia player Hamka Hamzah fouled John Terry in the penalty box. Eden Hazard didn't waist an opportunity, by sending Indonesian keeper Kurnia Mega flying the opposite way of where he aimed the ball to. Eight minutes later, Brazilian player Ramires doubled the goals by shooting the ball in the net after anticipating a cross from Eden Hazard. The third time Kurnia Mega had to see his goal ripped was in the 32nd minute, when Ba scored another goal for The Blues, which was a rebound anticipated from Ramires. On the last minute, Terry completed the first-half colored by four goals, by heading a ball headed by Gary Cahill.

Jose Mourinho looked pleased with the score of the half, and just six minutes after break, Chelsea started their goalathon from a goal from Bertrand Traore. Romelu Lukaku also wanted to get his name on the scoreline so he scored a goal just after Indonesia started the kickoff. Ramires then doubled his name on the scoreline by scoring his second goal of the game on the 57th minute. Lukaku then doubled his goal on the 66th minute. Just three minutes later, Chelsea scored their ninth goal, which was an own-goal scored by Tomas Kalas. On the 76th minute, Lukaku almost completed his hat-trick but Indonesian keeper Kurnia Mega managed to tip the ball over the goal. Thanks for reading, come the next three days for Bayern Munchen vs Borussia Dortmund

Liverpool Continues Indonesia's Losing Streak

Indonesia weren't so bad, they didn't lose for more than 2-0 but that makes no difference. Not important how many goals you lost. Losing is losing. Liverpool did dominate the whole entire match but it din't look like how The Gunners totally dismantled the South-East Asian team. Luis Suarez did get all the credit for Liverpool's achievement for EPL such as topscorer for LFC but not only one South American can dominate. Not only Suarez. And that South American is Philippe Coutinho. We see large teams seeking for Coutinho. Coutinho has dominated the pre-season league for Liverpool. Just a week before the match even started, fans of The Reds were crazy. The fans came to meet and greets, street vendors selling clothes and scarves, billboards around the street about the game and just a day before the match started, there was a coaching clinic for kids to learn skills from the stars of England. Liverpool had quite a lot of chances and the closest Indonesia ever got to scoring was Sergio Van Dijk, by unleashing a 25-yard rocketing shot that was tipped over by Simon Mignolet, hoping that Rodgers will make him his first choice keeper. The first goal was of course, to Liverpool awarded by Brazilian striker Philippe Coutinho, with a perfect finish to the goal in the 9th minute. The second goal was awarded by the young Jamaican, Raheem Sterling. Lucky for Indonesia, Luis Alberto and Sterling hit the post with thundershots of their own and if they were a bit more precise, The Reds could possibly beat Arsenal's Highscore thumping.
Thanks for reading, come back the next two days for Chelsea vs Indonesia.

The Gunners Demolish Indonesia in a Once In a Lifetime Friendly

Arsenal's Asia tour was going well, with no certain losses. One of their huge, definite wins were against a country that was full of football fanatics but couldn't really play football well. The Southeast Asian team was killed (literally) with a very disappointing loss (7-0) considering that they played in their own home. The Gunners dominated the whole match for ninety minutes and I even couldn't keep track with the goalscorers. The youngsters from the top English team were outstanding; how they scored, the passes, just like playing in the English league, just half as good. The Arsenal fans from Indonesia were very loud and they were actually happy about the scoreline. The noisy stadium, filled with 88.000 people; all soccer fans never stopped screaming, watching their favorite team playing, just live. The so-called dream-team weren't so bad in the first half, losing just one goal away, by Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain. The winger slipped passed two defenders and crossed to Walcott. Walcott easily struck the ball low in the net. 18th minute, 1 to nil for Arsenal. Just 13 minutes after Halftime, Chuba Akpom successfully scored Arsenal's 2nd goal. 20 minutes after that, Arsenal star Olivier Giroud successfully scored Arsenal's 3rd and his 1st goal of the match. Heated and loaded, the French striker scored his 2nd goal of the game, just 2 minutes before his first. Still haven't had enough, Lukas Podolski nailed another goal that totally hammered Indonesia. Just 2 minutes after the German number 10 scored, The Gunners had no mercy, having Kristoffer Olsson to score. Just after another two minute goal delay, Thomas Eisfeld ended the game with the score of seven zip. Thanks for reading, come back tomorrow for Liverpool vs Indonesia XI.

France Wins by an Inch Over Uruguay, Uruguay Feels Spain's Pain In the Finals

    French players celebrating their hard fought win against Uruguay (Look Below). 

 Score was stable, the whole match, with great attempts yet incredible saves, and a not so tense penalty shoot-out and we now all know that Uruguay ain't that good in penalties after losing quite badly against Italy in penalties. It was a hard fought win for France although they had an advantage with players who performed spectacular and better than how the Uruguayans did. For example say Pogba and Zouma. Those young talented players have got skill and I think that Manchester United will regret selling the French midfield. Paris Saint Germain's second keeper, Alphonse Areloa made a great amount of spectacular saves and he has saved as many as two shots in normal time and one of the shots he saved was from the striker that brought Uruguay to the finals, Felipe Avenatti. Areloa also did promising after saving 2 (two) penalties from Uruguay and that was quite the story of how the supreme loser of the 2010 World Cup triumphed to win their first U20 World Cup. Thanx for reading, have a nice day :)

Spain Disappoints Once More, France Destroys Uzbekistan And Both Teams Rise To the Semi-finals

                                   Felipe Avenatti scores

U-20 World Cup, Uruguay takes revenge on Spain, advances to semi-finals. An extra time, but Felipe Avenatti rises as Uruguay's hero. Despite the record of the only team that didn't lose on the major tournament, Spain was knocked out. Just like the classics, still remember Spain vs Germany? Extra time and Puyol scored a header for Spain. It was as if Uruguay had taken revenge for Germany. The tall 1.95 M striker struck the ball in the net with a fearsome header just after he played for five minutes* in the 103rd. Great match, the greatest team lost, again. Uruguay now joins Iraq after the Middle-east country defeated South Korea 5-4 on penalties while France finds Ghana on their way to the finals. About France vs Uzbekistan, goals were  from Yaya Sanogo in the 31st minute, and two goals from Pogba and Florian Thauvin, the goals from Pogba and Thauvin were penalties, please note that. And the last goal was recorded in the 64th minute from defender Kurt Zouma with a lunging header in the net. Honestly I never really liked U-20 but it's still not bad. Thanks for reading and goodbye. Please tune in tomorrow for more football scores, previews, and probably transfers.
*Goal was from a corner

Another tense penalty shoot-out for Italy, but they come out victorious

                               Italian players celebrate after beating Uruguay on penalties

2-2 (3-2) was the precise scoreline in the 3rd place playoffs that night and it was the Italians that came out victorious. Goals were from Davide Astori in the 24th minute, Edinson Cavani with the equalizer in the 58th minute, Allesandro Diamanti in the 72nd minute, and another equalizer from Cavani six minutes after Diamanti's goal. Davide Astori's goal was a really easy goal; starting from a free kick from Diamanti that smashed the post, hit Muslera's back, and the Italian defender just struck the ball to an open net. The next goal from Cavani was quite an impressive one. With Gargano flying through the middle, then into the box, he passed the ball to Cavani and the Napoli striker calmly put the ball in the right side of the net. The next goal was a stunner from Diamanti; he shocked the South American giant by converting a 20 yard free kick into a wonderful goal. Cavani then did the same thing as Diamanti did except Diamanti's goal was more accurate and Buffon could have put more effort on Cavani's kick. Extra time was disappointing for Azzuri; Montolivo got sent off in the 110th minute after not making any contact with Liverpool's Luis Suarez after fouling him. He saw his 2nd yellow for the day and he walked off the field. For the penalty shootout section, Buffon saved three penalties from Forlan, Gargano, and Ceceres. While two Uruguayans (Suarez and Cavani) managed to successfully score. Although Giaccherini failed to impress the Salvador crowd, Buffon did with his masterful saves. Buffon was the hero, like it or not. Salvador saw Azzuri take 3rd. 

8 July 2013, Pascal Tanujaya

Clobbers Spain, wins cup and Reveals tikki-takka Weakness

                               Neymar of Brazil scores

I'm back, sorry haven't updated for roughly a week. I didn't have time to and anyways, the finals were down with an unexpected scoreline. The "Best team in the world" just lost three zip to the South American giants. The Brazilians learnt from The Bavarians how to eliminate the tikki takka tactic (Passing fast, short distance) with an all simple 4-3-3 formation. They learnt how to stop passing from the Spaniards in dangerous positions, and believe me, it wasn't Spain that was bad, it was Brazil that was really good. Goals were from Fred in the early 2nd minute, a wonderful goal by Neymar in the 44th, and another goal from Fred saw the South American side win their third Confederation Cup. Just 20 minutes before the not-so tense match ended, the tall Barcelona back saw the color red. Not long after Fred's 1st first goal, Jordi Alba went left and passed to the Barcelona striker, Pedro. Pedro was clear in the penalty box and he curled the ball left to the net. QPR's keeper Cesar just saw the ball but the Chelsea back sprinted to the net and did a remarkable save with his legs. With the Spanish bench already celebrating, the Brazilian crowd chanted as loud as when Fred scored the 1st goal, but Barca's new striker managed to turn up the volume with a wonderful goal. Also, one more important point of the match was that Sergio Ramos missed a penalty. Thanks for reading!

Pascal Tanujaya,  July 8