Wales captain Gareth Bale looks ahead to the side’s qualifier match against Luka Modric and Croatia in Cardiff.
Steve Nicol breaks down Eden Hazard’s slow start at Real Madrid and how he can turn it around.
Real Madrid’s uneven start to the campaign continued as they were held to a 2-2 draw against Club Brugge at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Belgian side led 2-0 through an Emmanuel Dennis brace, but a revived Real were able to snatch a point in the second half courtesy of headers from Sergio Ramos and Casemiro.
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There was a nice, quick passing movement through the middle and, at times, Real were able to carve the visitors open at will. When they were seemingly down and out at half-time, they…
Azerbaijan earned their first point of the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with a late equalizer that cancelled out Luka Modric’s first half penalty.
Nikola Vlasic takes on Slovakia’s defense by himself and opens the scoring for Croatia in a 4-0 away win.
Romania scored twice in the first 15 minutes as they prevailed 4-1 over Croatia in their Group C opener of the Euro U-21 Championship.
Croatia held off Wales’ late second half surge for a vital 2-1 win in Group E of European Championship qualifying.
Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric will miss Saturday’s match against Levante after the club announced he has suffered an injury to the abductor muscle on his right leg, and is a doubt for Wednesday’s clash with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
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Mark Donaldson and Shaka Hislop weigh up which players at Real Madrid should be kept and offloaded to improve the squad in the summer.
Red-hot Karim Benzema continued what may be the best spell of his 10-years run at Real Madrid.
Real Madrid returned to third place in La Liga after an entertaining 4-2 victory at Espanyol on Sunday evening.
Positives
Blancos fans who were bored by their team just a few weeks back will have enjoyed a second 4-2 victory in four days. Karim Benzema’s opener on 187 seconds was Madrid’s quickest goal of the season, with collective intensity from first whistle a big difference to lethargic starts earlier in the campaign. Big players Benzema, Sergio Ramos and Luka Modric are hitting their best…
Red-hot Karim Benzema continued what may be the best spell of his 10-years run at Real Madrid.
Real Madrid returned to third place in La Liga after an entertaining 4-2 victory at Espanyol on Sunday evening.
Positives
Blancos fans who were bored by their team just a few weeks back will have enjoyed a second 4-2 victory in four days. Karim Benzema’s opener on 187 seconds was Madrid’s quickest goal of the season, with collective intensity from first whistle a big difference to lethargic starts earlier in the campaign. Big players Benzema, Sergio Ramos and Luka Modric are hitting their best…
Luka Modric’s late goal wrapped up the points for Madrid and capped a strong performance from the Ballon d’Or winner.
Real Madrid moved into third place in La Liga thanks to a 2-0 victory over Sevilla at the Bernabeu on Saturday afternoon, with midfielders Casemiro and Luka Modric getting on the scoresheet in the second half.
Positives
Madrid were the better team in a battle against a direct rival for Champions League qualification — even if that shows the lowered standards around the Bernabeu at the moment. A clean sheet and improved defensive performance also seemed to be an objective achieved for the coach….
It has been an unforgettable 2018 for Luka Modric. Champions League winner, World Cup finalist and the man who finally ended the decade-long stranglehold of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the Ballon d’Or.
It could have been better, of course. With every individual award — Modric also won the Golden Ball as the best player at the World Cup, and was voted as the No. 1 central midfielder in the ESPN FC 100 — the 33-year-old has insisted that he would swap them all for a World Cup winners’…
From the ‘Most Time Spent Horizontal’ to ‘Nutritionist of the Year’, the Exploding Heads present their quirky alternative Ballon d’Or awards.
PARIS — You almost felt sorry for Luka Modric, receiving the Ballon d’Or (“Golden Ball”) for player of the year on stage in Paris’s Grand Palais. It looked as if the French were punishing him for depriving one of their world champions of the prize.
There, on a table beside the stage, taunting him, stood the World Cup trophy itself, the one that his Croatia team lost in the final in Moscow this past July. On stage, David Ginola, the former French winger turned moderator, was throwing fatuous…