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Juventus defeat Lyon 2–1 in friendly

by Niccolo Conte on July 25, 2010 · 2 comments

Juven­tus have been prepar­ing for their Europa League qual­i­fier which will be played against Sham­rock Rovers with friend­lies against Ham­burg (0–0) and Lyon (2–1 for Juven­tus). Juven­tus will play the Irish club over two legs, and the team with the best results over the two legs will go through. The first leg will be played […]

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On Sat­ur­day Jun­inho showed why he is the mas­ter of the free kick after bring­ing Lyon single-handedly back into this one, with a clin­i­cal dis­play of scor­ing from the dead­ball sit­u­a­tion. While wait­ing for Inter - Cata­nia to start I decided to turn the dial to TV5 and have a look-see of French Ligue One with Lyon vs. Nice. I wasn’t dis­ap­pointed as every­thing wasn’t going Lyon’s way early on […]

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It’s true Lyon have finally been knocked from their pedestal, and Bor­deaux win 5 — 4 on penal­ties, the first Cup of the sea­son and the first Girondins’ Super Cup vic­tory since 1987.  Lyon hav­ing won the Super Cup 6 years run­ning makes this a huge change of scenery for French Foot­ball. Bor­deaux started the […]

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Is Tiago On The Juve Chopping Block?

by Kevin Walker on July 31, 2008 · 1 comment

Rumours of Tiago Mendes leav­ing Juven­tus are circulating, after vacat­ing his home in Turin.  The tal­ented Por­tuguese mid­fielder was pre­vi­ously linked to both Tot­ten­ham and West Ham United of the Eng­lish Pre­mier League in Jan­u­ary of this year.  Tiago, who is a reg­u­lar in the national team, spent one sea­son at Chelsea after Jose Mour­inho took him from Ben­fica and he […]

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