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How Chelsea lost 0- 1 to Liverpool : on Virgil van Dijk wins Carabao Cup for Reds with dramatic extra time goal

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Dutch defender, Virgil van Dijk helped a young Liverpool team to Carabao Cup glory on Sunday night, February 25.

Van Dijk headed home an 118th-minute winner from a corner – after having an earlier effort controversially disallowed by VAR as the Reds condemned Chelsea to a sixth consecutive Wembley cup final defeat.

 

Klopp put in three teenage substitutes in the latter stages of the game but still saw his injury-ravaged side defeat Chelsea’s team, leaving Mauricio Pochettino, still without a trophy in English football

 

With Mo Salah, Darwin Nunez and Dominik Szoboszlai all injured, Chelsea should have made light work of Liverpool but that wasn’t the case.

The Blues started poorly with Levi Colwill at the heart of the defence. Chelsea’s keeper Djordje Petrovic was soon forced into a decent save from a powerful Luis Diaz shot.

 

Chelsea came close on 21 minutes – Sterling was blocked off by Conor Bradley, only for Conor Gallagher’s close-range effort to be brilliantly saved by Caoimhin Kelleher.

Moises Caicedo was guilty of a horrible late challenge on Ryan Gravenberch, which left him in agony on the touchline but referee Chris Kavanagh, consistently one of the Premier League’s worst officials, missed it and VAR didn’t suggest the possibility of a straight red card.

Gravenberch was withdrawn, replaced by Joe Gomez, then Bradley moved into midfield, a tactical change from Klopp.

Raheem Sterling goal for the Blues, however, a skeptical offside call denied their celebration.

 

Later on Cole Palmer’s through-ball fed Jackson, who squared for Sterling to find the net.

But Jackson was flagged offside and despite the Chelsea striker looking to be onside, Brooks again refused to get involved.

Liverpool twice went close themselves, Cody Gakpo crashing a header against the post, then Brdaley having a shot blocked

 

Andy Robertson swung in a free-kick from the left and Van Dijk scored with a towering header only for the effort to be disallowed by the forensics department spotting a block by an offside Wataru Endo on Colwill.

In extra time, Klopp sent on three teenagers – Bobby Clark, Jayden Danns and James McConnell.


Liverpool caused a corner in Chelsea’s post and Tsimikas delivered it to the near post. Van Dijk shook off Disasi and headed in front of Mykhailo Mudryk to score inside the far post.

With three more trophies up for grabs, Liverpool football club ended the night as the 2023/2024 Carabao cup champions.

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EPL: Fulham must move on from defeat to Manchester City — Iwobi

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Alex Iwobi says Fulham must stay positive despite their 5-4 defeat to Manchester City at Craven Cottage on Tuesday.

Marco Silva’s side put up a spirited display in the encounter, and were unlucky not to get at least one point.

Iwobi started the fight back by scoring the second goal for Fulham early in the second half.

The versatile midfielder’s compatriot, Samuel Chukwueze then rose from the bench to score two more goals for the Cottagers.

Manchester City, however, held on to go home with maximum points.

Iwobi stated that they deserved more from the game.

“I feel disappointed because we didn’t get anything out of the fighting spirit that we showed, but I think we have to take the positivity from the game,” Iwobi told the club’s official website.

Fulham will be away to Crystal Palace in their next Premier League game on Sunday.

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EPL: Guardiola names team that impresses him everyday

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Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola has named the Premier League club that has impressed him so much this season.

The Spaniard said that Enzo Maresca’s side have really impressed him with the improvement they make everyday.

Speaking after Manchester City beat Fulham 5-4 in the Premier League on Tuesday night, Guardiola pointed out that a team must remain consistent to win the title.

Pep Guardiola’s side closed the gap at the top of the Premier League to just two points behind Arsenal with the victory over Fulham, but the Gunners could maintain their five points lead with a win over Brentford on Wednesday night.

“Chelsea impresses me more and more every day with Enzo [Maresca], but it’s long,” he told reporters after the win.

“Premier League is so long, many things will happen. We won six Premier Leagues, four or five when we in December, January or February we were behind.

“The team who wins the Premier League is the team who grows during the months and this is what we try to do. No injuries, it’s so long.

“But at the same time, if we push, we will be better and push ourselves and control the situations better, the emotions and we will see what happens.”

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Outrage As ‘Biological Male’ Wins World’s Strongest Woman Event in Texas (Photos)

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The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman final has sparked outrage after an alleged transgender athlete won gold.

American Jammie Booker, who is accused of being a biological male, beat Great Britain’s Andrea Thompson to victory at the event in Arlington, Texas.

According to Mail Online, Thompson walked off the podium, appearing to say ‘this is bulls***,’ while Booker celebrated. The Brit has since been crowned the ‘true World’s Strongest Woman’ by her coach and some of her peers.

Rebecca Roberts, a three-time winner of World’s Strongest Woman, has sensationally claimed that no one – not even the organizers – knew about Booker’s background.

Details on the American are not clear, but the publication sighted a YouTube video – uploaded to what appears to be Booker’s YouTube channel in September 2017, with Booker saying: ‘Everyone is dying to tell their own story and I am obviously no exception to that.

‘I’m 21-year-old trans woman with a history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under the rule of her religious parents.’

On Monday night, Roberts posted a picture on Instagram that read ‘Protect Women’s Sports.’ She wrote alongside the picture: ‘I hold no hate toward transgender people. Everyone deserves dignity, respect, and the freedom to live their truth.

But I cannot stay silent about something that threatens the fairness and future of women’s strength sports. Transgender women, people born male, should not be competing in the women’s category.

This isn’t about identity. It isn’t about politics. It’s about the undeniable physical differences that exist in strength-based sports… differences that don’t disappear, and that matter more here than almost anywhere else. Women’s categories were created for a reason, and if we lose that, we lose the foundation of our sport.

‘What happened this weekend wasn’t transparent. None of us knew. Not even the organisers knew. And when fairness is taken by surprise, trust in the sport begins to crack.

‘My message is simple. Trans people belong in sport, but women’s divisions must remain biologically born female-only.

‘I love this sport. I have given my life to it. And I won’t ignore something that could quietly change it forever. Congratulations to @andreathompson_strongwoman… the true World’s Strongest Woman 2025’

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