Tag: hopes

16 March 2025 Off

Fulham 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Cottagers beat Spurs to boost European hopes

By Total Football News

Fulham’s Marco Silva, in his 200th game as a Premier League manager, would not have been happy with how his side performed for 75 minutes.

They were lacking in creativity and decisiveness, but one passage of play changed the feeling of the game and lifted the mood, with Fulham winning the ball high up the field and eventually working it to Muniz who finished in fine fashion.

Fulham looked more

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12 March 2025 Off

Derby County 2-0 Coventry City: Rams boost survival hopes in win over in-form Coventry

By Total Football News

Derby boosted their hopes of Championship survival after goals from Matt Clarke and Marcus Harness saw them beat in-form Coventry at a raucous Pride Park.

Clarke opened the scoring against the run of play after latching on to a Harness cross from the right after 23 minutes.

Having set up the first, Harness then scored the second with a neat finish at the start of the second half, guiding the

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9 March 2025 Off

Burnley 4-0 Luton Town: Clarents maintain promotion hopes

By Total Football News

Burnley head coach Scott Parker told BBC Radio Lancashire:

“Our performance was rock solid, showed our quality. Of course they got a man sent off pretty early in the game but sometimes that can prove pretty difficult [to play against].

“They’re a difficult side. I know where they are in the division but they’re fighting for their lives and we never gave them any oxygen today.

“We managed every scenario,

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22 February 2025 Off

Arsenal 0-1 West Ham: Jarrod Bowen strike dents Gunners’ title hopes

By Total Football News

Arsenal missed the chance to close the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool as West Ham ended a four-match winless run with a stunning victory at Emirates Stadium.

Jarrod Bowen got the winner against a Gunners side who later had Myles Lewis-Skelly sent off.

Victory would have moved Arsenal to within five points of Arne Slot’s team, who visit champions Manchester City on Sunday, but they struggled badly against a

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6 February 2025 Off

QPR 2-1 Blackburn Rovers: Colback strike boosts Rs’ play-off hopes

By Total Football News

Those misses appeared costly when Dolan took his chance to convert from the spot, scoring his first goal in 20 appearances following a foul by Koki Saito on Callum Brittain.

After Blackburn’s bristling start to the second half slowed, Colback powered QPR decisively back in front via Pears’ fingertips for the midfielder’s first goal since last February.

QPR are 13th and have won five of their eight league games in

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11 December 2024 Off

Planet Premier League. Gaël Clichy On Manchester Derby & Chelsea’s Title Hopes. Audio, 42 minutesPlanet Premier LeagueGaël Clichy On Manchester Derby & Chelsea’s Title Hopes

By Total Football News

Planet Premier League. Gaël Clichy On Manchester Derby & Chelsea’s Title Hopes. Audio, 42 minutesPlanet Premier LeagueGaël Clichy On Manchester Derby & Chelsea’s Title Hopes

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13 November 2024 Off

Football regulator: EFL chief hopes ‘seminal review’ can end Premier League ‘deadlock’

By Total Football News

Parry also expressed concern at “a whole raft of competition law cases which are impacting on the way that we run the game”.

He continued: “Having been left more or less free to set their own rules for many years, now the competition law authorities… seem to be saying, ‘we don’t think that the people running football are doing a terribly good job of it’.

“To be looking over our

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4 November 2024 Off

Swansea City: Zan Vipotnik hopes pressure is off after scoring

By Total Football News

Swansea City striker Zan Vipotnik says he felt he was not doing his job well enough before ending his – and the team’s – long goal drought at Oxford.

The Slovenia international ended Swansea’s 563-minute run without scoring by netting in the first half of Saturday’s 2-1 win, his first goal since 17 August.

Florian Bianchini then grabbed his first goal for the club, before Oxford pulled one back to

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