Football Archives: 06/2016

Aaron Ramsey grabbed a vital assists as Wales beat Slovakia thanks to a Hal Robson-Kanu goal. Watch his hilights here.

Joel Campbell and Costa Rica are heading home from the Copa America after the end of the group stages while David Ospina watched on from the bench as Colombia lost 3-2 to Joel’s team in Houston, Texas.

Everything worth talking about from Saturday.

Granit Xhaka made his 44th international appearnce against Albania in Saturday’s Group A encounter – but all of the pre-match analysis surrounded the sibling rivalry between himself…

After crating a fuss by taking a player to the Euros who had hardly kicked a ball for his club all season, Roy Hodgson confounded people further by leaving him on the bench.

Let’s have some fun!

In the build-up to Wales v Slovakia it was most certainly the Gareth Bale show as far the BBC were concerned, but there were a few other players involved, one of them even plays for Arsenal.

Granit Xhaka lined up alongside former Arsenal man Johan Djourou (Senderos was not included) as they defeated his brother’s Albania in the second game of this year’s Euros.

Laurent Koscielny said that the French fans will remember their victory over Romania for a long time after Dimitri Payet’s thunderbolt sealed the win for his country.

In our second exclusive interview with one of the Arsenal Ladies big talents from the youth set-up, this time we speak with the u17 captain, Laura Hooper.

In the midst of the euphoria over the start of the Euros, it’s easy to forget that we also have a few players in the States featuring in the Copa America.

Granit Xhaka, and his brother Taulant have revealed that they still give a whopping 80% of their wages to their parents.

Dimitri Payet left the pitch in tears on Friday night as he was subbed having won the opening game for France with an absolute screamer. So how did Olivier say thank you to his team mate?

Having been booed, heavily criticised and had his selection for the competition questioned, Olivier Giroud showed actual mental strength on a night that he, more than anyone, needed to be.

Olivier Giroud had a big hand to play in France’s 2-1 win against Romania in the opening game of Euro 2016.

Cesc Fabregas has praised his former team-mate, Petr Cech, ahead of Spain’s Euro clash against the Czech Republic.

Aaron Ramsey has admitted that he’s enjoyed winding up his fellow Arsenal players over Wales’ qualification to Euro 2016.

It looks like the lessons from the past have not been learnt, as there has been reports of trouble on Thursday night in Marseille.

Carrying on our series of interviews with the Arsenal Ladies’ youngsters, we spoke to Georgia Allen who is going to study at East Tennessee State University, following in the footsteps of former Arsenal reserves players like Alexis Passingham or Hannah Short.

The 2015/16 tournament has just finished with Lyon beating Wolfsburg on penalties and the new season will start soon with the draw for the qualifying round on the 24th of June.