Tag: secondhalf

18 May 2025 Off

Brentford 2-3 Fulham: Cottagers’ second-half fightback keeps European hopes alive

By Total Football News

Fulham host Manchester City on the final day of the season, but Brighton can end the Cottagers’ hopes of an eighth-place finish on Monday if they beat champions Liverpool at Amex Stadium.

Had City beaten Palace in the FA Cup final on Saturday and gone on to finish in the top six, the team that came eighth would have qualified for next season’s Uefa Conference League.

However, that team will

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20 April 2025 Off

Pablo Sarabia’s second-half free-kick gives Wolves victory at Manchester United

By Total Football News

It really did not need spelling out but everyone connected with Manchester United knows winning the Europa League is the only thing standing between them and a catastrophic campaign, the like of which it was impossible to imagine in the financially driven Premier League era.

Even last season, when they finished eighth, was better than this.

There were elements of positivity, which chiefly came through the mature performances of youngsters

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8 April 2025 Off

Blackburn 2-2 Sheffield Wednesday: Rovers produce second-half fightback

By Total Football News

Blackburn Rovers produced a spirited second-half fightback to force a 2-2 draw against Sheffield Wednesday and pick up a second point for manager Valerien Ismael.

A dismal first-half effort from Rovers saw them go in two goals down with Yan Valery and Djeidi Gassana on the scoresheet and saw them booed off with a sixth straight loss looming.

But they emerged unrecognisable from their first-half performance, piling on the pressure

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9 March 2025 Off

Chelsea 1-0 Leicester City: Marc Cucurella strikes second-half winner

By Total Football News

In isolation, Leicester boss Ruud van Nistelrooy will take some positives from his side’s display at Stamford Bridge.

They were defensively resolute, afforded Chelsea few chances and looked bright on the counter-attack during the first half.

The problem is that, with 10 matches left in the Premier League season, Leicester cannot afford to judge anything in isolation.

Points are the only thing that matter at this stage and they are

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10 March 2024 0

Huddersfield Town 1-4 West Bromwich Albion: Baggies score four second-half goals

By Total Football News

West Brom's Mikey Johnston celebrates scoring
Mikey Johnston joined West Brom on loan from Celtic on 1 February

Mikey Johnston scored twice and Okay Yokuslu netted a long-range thunderbolt in a superb West Bromwich Albion comeback victory at relegation-threatened Huddersfield Town.

The Terriers would have moved out of the Championship’s bottom three with a win and led with Delano Burgzorg’s 30th-minute goal, his left-footed angled shot squirming underneath visiting goalkeeper Alex Palmer.

But fifth-placed Albion, far

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