Planet Football Archives - Page 46 of 54

The renaissance of Lingardinho should make everybody smile

Posted on February 22, 2021 by admin

The renaissance of Jesse Lingard, from Manchester United bench-warmer to frontman of The Backstreet Moyes at West Ham, has been one of this season’s most heartwarming developments. It may feel like another lifetime ago, but it’s not been that long since Lingard was curling one into the Panama net at the 2018 World Cup, cementing his reputation as a player […]

19 things we loved this wkend: Lukaku, Haaland, Mount & more

Posted on February 22, 2021 by admin

It was business as usual in the Premier League this weekend as Manchester City kept up their run at the top of the table, while Liverpool‘s implosion continued. Elsewhere, a rare Atletico Madrid defeat breathed life back into the La Liga title race, Antonio Conte’s Inter made a big step forward with a 3-0 win in the Milan […]

Revisiting Bayern Munich’s six FM2011 wonderkids, 10 years on

Posted on February 21, 2021 by admin

Bayern Munich may have been reigning Bundesliga champions at the time of Football Manager 2011’s release, but the German giants’ title defence was already unravelling. Just six wins in their opening 15 Bundesliga fixtures paved the way for Borussia Dortmund to start two years of glory and ultimately cost Louis van Gaal his job as […]

10 remarkable stats behind Everton’s first Anfield win since 1999

Posted on February 21, 2021 by admin

It’s something of an understatement to say that Everton fans have had little to cheer when it comes to matches against Liverpool in recent years, but finally they got a long-awaited 2-0 win at Anfield. Following Richarlison’s early opener and Gylfi Sigurdsson’s late penalty, Carlo Ancelotti’s Toffees moved level on points with the reigning Premier […]

Adriano’s top 10 thunderb*stards: Madrid, Roma, Argentina…

Posted on February 21, 2021 by admin

No footballer in the history of the sport has been more worthy of a compilation of their goals set to Alan Partridge’s “foot like a traction engine” commentary as Serie A cult hero Adriano. While the Brazilian couldn’t quite maintain his Pro-Evo pomp in real life, he was a force of nature on his day. […]

How Salah’s Liverpool record compares to Torres and Suarez

Posted on February 21, 2021 by admin

Mohamed Salah has already secured his status as a Liverpool legend, but how does his goalscoring record compare to two of the club’s other great forwards of the modern era? After joining from Roma in the summer of 2017, Liverpool’s Egyptian King will complete a fourth full season at Anfield, meaning he’s outlasted Luis Suarez […]

How Salah’s Liverpool record compares to Torres and Suarez

Posted on February 21, 2021 by admin

Revisiting Gazzetta’s 2015 list of the 50 best Under-20 stars

Posted on February 20, 2021 by admin

Spotting a footballer with potential is easy. Spotting a football who will fulfil that potential is much more difficult. In 2015, Gazzetta Dello Sport published a list of the 50 best players in world football aged under 20, and it must be said they did pretty well. Obviously, there were a couple of stinkers, and […]

Where are they now? Rashford’s team-mates from his last Man Utd U21 game

Posted on February 20, 2021 by admin

Marcus Rashford burst onto the scene at Manchester United with a debut brace in the Europa League in 2016. The rest, as they say, is history. But just five days before that famous introduction, on February 20, 2016, Rashford was slogging it out with United’s U21 side in 1-0 defeat to Manchester City. So what happened to […]

A tribute to Jari Litmanen, the ‘Man of Glass’ who just wouldn’t quit

Posted on February 20, 2021 by admin

Jari Litmanen was cursed with injuries yet still managed to play football across four decades. As Ajax and Liverpool fans can attest, his long and storied career was far from wasted. Packing your greatest achievements into the early stages of your career isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For Finnish football legend Jari Litmanen, doing so […]