Andy Brassell
Football Writer at Freelance
European football writing/talking on @guardian_sport @footballramble @talkSPORT & others. NBA. Too many trainers. Latest book We Play On out now (link below)
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
The words left Joshua Kimmich’s lips at around 9pm on Saturday night in the lower corridors of the Allianz Arena but could easily have done so four days before in exactly the same place.
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Andy Brassell
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
As Didier Drogba’s penalty swept into the corner of the net, everything stopped. It had been written that it was Bayern Munich’s night. After having their chances in the 2010 Champions League final but ending up as a footnote in Inter’s treble, this was where they would put it right. They could have done little more, piling the pressure on a prone and wounded Chelsea.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
It was fitting that it happened here, and how Marco Rose himself must have felt the inevitable creep of irony as the afternoon went on, and as the end result trundled into view in Mönchengladbach. He had plenty of time to acquaint himself with the possibility during a second half in which RB Leipzig rarely looked like scoring. If the game was still going on now, their vaunted collection of attacking players might still be looking for the breakthrough.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Brassell
They did little wrong, but fortune refused to shine on them. Lukas Hradecky spread himself with authority, denying Ermedin Demirovic’s finish, but his block cannoned straight into the onrushing Granit Xhaka and the ball nestled in the net in front of the Cannstatter Kurve. Bayer Leverkusen have been bowed far more often than is habitual in the last few weeks, and now they looked to be down and out.
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