Tag: goal

Swansea City 1-0 Watford: Myles Peart-Harris’ first Swans goal seals win
6 November 2024 Off

Swansea City 1-0 Watford: Myles Peart-Harris’ first Swans goal seals win

By Total Football News

Swansea City moved to within two points of the Championship play-off places as Myles Peart-Harris’ first goal for the club proved enough to see off Watford.

Peart-Harris slid home from close range to give Swansea a deserved lead at the end of a first half which they dominated.

Watford turned the game into more of a contest after the break, asking questions of Luke Williams’ rearguard without ever creating a

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Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Portsmouth: Michael Obafemi late goal seals rare Pilgrims win
6 November 2024 Off

Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Portsmouth: Michael Obafemi late goal seals rare Pilgrims win

By Total Football News

Having rested many of his first-choice attackers in the 3-0 loss at Leeds on Saturday, Rooney handed a full debut to Andre Gray up front as he made five changes, while Pompey made one change from the team that drew 1-1 at Hull on Saturday.

Portsmouth started superbly and had the ball in the home net after 48 seconds as Poole tapped in from close range, but he was offside

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Oxford United 1-2 Swansea City: Luke Williams’ side end goal drought to claim away win
2 November 2024 Off

Oxford United 1-2 Swansea City: Luke Williams’ side end goal drought to claim away win

By Total Football News

Oxford head coach Des Buckingham:

“I didn’t think we were very good at all for very large periods of the game.

“Despite not being very good with the ball, we have still created three very good goalscoring moments before Dane scored.

“We are so much better than what we have shown. We need to make sure we believe we are good enough to do what we do at this level.

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Nottingham Forest 3-0 West Ham: Chris Wood scores his eighth goal of season as Forest move up to third in Premier League table
2 November 2024 Off

Nottingham Forest 3-0 West Ham: Chris Wood scores his eighth goal of season as Forest move up to third in Premier League table

By Total Football News

Chris Wood continued his superb start to the season as Nottingham Forest beat West Ham in the Premier League on Saturday.

Forest came into the match as one of the league’s in-form sides, having won 16 points from their opening nine games while taking points off both Liverpool and Chelsea.

Wood’s form has been a key factor in the strong start, and it was the striker’s close-range header that gave

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Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle: Cole Palmer scores seventh goal of season
27 October 2024 Off

Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle: Cole Palmer scores seventh goal of season

By Total Football News

Cole Palmer scored his seventh goal of the season as Chelsea beat Newcastle to continue their impressive start.

Palmer struck early in the second half when his clean strike from just inside the penalty area beat Nick Pope at his near post.

Nicolas Jackson’s fifth league goal of the campaign had given the Blues an 18th-minute lead, when he fired home from Pedro Neto’s square ball after Palmer’s delicious pass

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Swansea City 0-1 Millwall: Lions snatch late winner as Swans goal drought goes on
26 October 2024 Off

Swansea City 0-1 Millwall: Lions snatch late winner as Swans goal drought goes on

By Total Football News

Millwall claimed an unlikely first away league victory of the season as Casper de Norre struck a 90th-minute winner at Swansea City.

Swansea had looked the more likely winners throughout a contest which they controlled for long spells.

But after the Welsh club’s goal drought passed 500 minutes – with Zan Vipotnik, Josh Key and Joe Allen all denied by Millwall goalkeeper Lukas Jensen – the Lions snatched victory with

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Derby County 1-1 Hull City: Dajaune Brown rescues Rams with first goal
26 October 2024 Off

Derby County 1-1 Hull City: Dajaune Brown rescues Rams with first goal

By Total Football News

Derby County head coach Paul Warne told BBC Radio Derby:

“I just thought it was two good teams going for it.

“Take the result out of it and just looking at it from a performance point of view and the lads giving everything, they can’t give anything more than they gave today.

“The lads I took off were gassed out, there are a lot of very tired bodies and this

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Wolves v Man City: Winning goal a ‘grey area’ – but what does law say?
20 October 2024 Off

Wolves v Man City: Winning goal a ‘grey area’ – but what does law say?

By Total Football News

Replays of the incident also showed Silva backing in and nudging his Portugal international team-mate Sa as the corner came in.

The goal was initially ruled out for offside, but a player cannot be offside from a corner.

By the time Stones connected with the ball, Silva had moved away from Sa and deemed not to be impacting the keeper’s vision or ability to get to the ball.

It could,

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Plymouth Argyle 2-1 Blackburn Rovers: Late goal seals Pilgrims win
5 October 2024 Off

Plymouth Argyle 2-1 Blackburn Rovers: Late goal seals Pilgrims win

By Total Football News

Morgan Whittaker’s dramatic 97th-minute winner saw Plymouth beat Blackburn after home boss Wayne Rooney was sent off.

Rovers thought they had grabbed a point through Joe Rankin-Costello’s late equaliser, which saw Rooney shown a red card in the aftermath, only for Whittaker to head home in the final seconds.

Rooney appeared to think there had been a foul in the build-up to Blackburn’s leveller and remonstrated with the fourth official.

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Late Nkunku goal earns Chelsea win at Bournemouth
14 September 2024 Off

Late Nkunku goal earns Chelsea win at Bournemouth

By Total Football News

Substitute Christopher Nkunku netted a late goal to snatch a 1-0 away win for Chelsea despite a dominant attacking display from Bournemouth.

The Cherries’ £40m record signing Evanilson had earlier missed an excellent chance to score his first Premier League goal when he had a poor first-half penalty parried away by Robert Sanchez.

Bournemouth constantly tormented Chelsea’s defence, capitalising on their often lacklustre distribution and getting in behind the back

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