Internationals Archives: 06/2016

Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny both featured for France as they beat Ireland 2-1 to seal their place in the quarter-finals, with Oli putting in a great shift.

Alexis Sanchez was forced to withdraw from training on Saturday after he was injured in a collision with teammate Enzo Roco.

David Ospina and Colombia defeated the USA 1-0 in the Copa America third-place playoff which was played in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Stoke’s Xherdan Shaqiri has defended Granit Xhaka after the Arsenal midfielder blasted his penalty wide, costing his country a place in the quarter finals.

Things have, perhaps not unexpectedly been a bit quite over the last few days. With no actual football to talk about and the UK tearing…

Aaron Ramsey has made it through to the quarter-finals of the Euros with Wales but they needed an own goal to seal the win over Northern Ireland.

Granit Xhaka and his Switzerland team-mates have been knocked out of this summer’s European Championships, following a nerve-racking defeat on penalties against a well-drilled Poland side in the first knockout fixture of the tournament.

Alex Iwobi has been included in the provisional Nigeria Olympic squad for the games this summer in Rio.

Thursday was, of course, dominated by the news that Jamie Vardy had signed a new contract and would be staying at Leicester.

Mesut Ozil and new boy Granit Xhaka have been named in the top ten best performing players at this year’s Euros so far.

Olivier Giroud will be fit to face Ireland in the last 16 of the Euros after being ‘manipulated’ by physios.

Petr Cech has said that being a genius does not help him in football as he can’t stop goals with his IQ.

Alexis Sanchez was named Man of the Match as Chile beat Colombia 2-0 to book a place in the Copa America final.

Mesut Ozil has given a huge indicator that he’ll be signing a new deal with Arsenal by urging his German compatriots to join the Premier League.

Here’s a look at what happened in the Goonerverse on Tuesday.

It was a bad day at the office for Hector Bellerin and Petr Cech; Cech let in two goals while Hector didn’t get a look in.

Mesut Ozil was brilliant again during Germany’s 1-0 win over Northern Ireland; Wojciech Szczesny didn’t feature for Poland due to a thigh injury.

Arsene Wenger has admitted that although Paul Pogba isn’t currently meeting expectations with the France national team, his time will come.

Aaron Ramsey put in a proper shift, once again, against Russia on Monday night.

Jack Wilshere was given his first start of the Euros against Slovakia and his lack of playing time showed.