Sibling rivalry, Spanish magic and English drubbings all play a part in this week’s USMNT Player Tracker. Taylor Booth celebrates with his team-mate, Oscar Fraulo But they embraced on the pitch afterwards and it was a proud occasion for their family — a game Taylor’s victorious club later dubbed ‘The Booth Battle’. Richards battles with Brighton’s Carlos Baleba “If I …
PSV dropped points for the first time this season as their 17-match winning run came to an end in Utrecht. “We clearly weren’t good enough and Utrecht played extremely well.” Utrecht unbeaten run The result means Utrecht extended their unbeaten run in the league to 11 matches, including seven draws, leaving them in 14th place. The Rotterdammers went ahead in …
PSV picked up a hard-fought victory against FC Volendam on Sunday. Ruud van Nistelrooij’s side ran out 2-3 winners due to goals from Luuk de Jong, and Guus Til. Henk Veerman lost the ball in a promising position for Volendam, which was punished with a fantastic pass by his namesake Joey Veerman finding Til, who only had to lay the …
FC Twente and AZ Alkmaar both dropped points against relegation candidates on the 20th match day of the Eredivisie season. Twente drew away to FC Groningen on Sunday after AZ failed to beat FC Volendam a day earlier. FC Emmen also got a draw at home to Vitesse, meaning the bottom three sides of the league all got a point …
John Heitinga successfully started his job as interim manager of Ajax. It was Ajax’s first win since October 22, when they beat RKC Waalwijk. Captain Dusan Tadic was put in the team as a striker, with Mohamed Kudus playing right wing. Tadic opened the scoring after 15 minutes from a penalty; Ajax was given the penalty because Sven Nieuwpoort fouled …