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Arsenal's poor start to the English season worsened Saturday with a 4-3 loss to Blackburn despite leading twice in the first half. Elsewhere in the Premier League, all three promoted clubs won on the same day for the first time since February 2007.Ayegbeni Yakubu scored twice in his debut and Arsenal's hapless defense allowed two own-goals in Blackburn's first victory of the season. Arsenal has just four points from five games, with one of its losses an 8-2 rout at first-place Manchester United ."It is terrible, it is just not good enough," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. "Of course, we are very frustrated. The spirit in the team is quite willing but, if you look at the number of goals we have conceded, that is not good enough."Welsh club Swansea scored its first goals as a Premier League club in beating West Bromwich Albion 3-0, while fellow newcomer Queens Park Rangers won 3-0 victory at Wolverhampton. Norwich completed the trio of wins for the promoted clubs, with Anthony Pilkin...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — DaMarcus Beasley may have boosted his World Cup chances. Jonathan Bornstein and Robbie Findlay did nothing to help theirs. And Stuart Holden joined ...
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — West Bromwich Albion midfielder Robert Koren , Bochum forward Zlatko Dedic and Udinese goalkeeper Samir Handanovic headed Slovenia's 30-ma...
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Soccer often takes a back seat in Slovenia, a country of just two million where winter sports such as Alpine skiing , ski jumping and ice hocke...
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Goalkeeper Samir Handanovic is the only squad member to have played every minute of Slovenia's 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, and he kept ...
LJULJANA (Reuters) - Slovenia coach Matjaz Kek said on Saturday he would not overestimate his team's World Cup chances after they beat New Zealand 3-1 in their final...
By Gideon LongPOLOKWANE (Reuters) - Algeria coach Rabah Saadane named midfielder Fouad Kadir in his starting lineup to face Slovenia in their opening World Cup match...
By Zoran MilosavljevicJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - United States coach Bob Bradley has made one change to his starting line-up, introducing midfielder Jose Torres instea...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Jose Torres will start in central midfield for the United States instead of Ricardo Clark in Friday's Group C match against Slovenia.That was the...
By Simon EvansJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The United States made a dramatic comeback from two goals down at halftime to draw 2-2 with Slovenia and rescue their World Cu...
By Zoran MilosavljevicJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Slovenia forward Nejc Pecnik is out of the World Cup after breaking his ankle in Friday's 2-2 draw with the United Sta...
By Martin PettyPORT ELIZABETH (Reuters) - England's World Cup campaign is in tatters with crisis meetings, furious fans, misfiring strikers and splits in the camp an...
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa — A revived England made the round of the 16 at the World Cup on Wednesday, beating Slovenia 1-0 on Jermain Dafoe's goal in the 23rd min...
Borussia Dortmund conceded an early goal but charged back to score six without reply in a 6-1 win at Cologne on Sunday that keeps the defending champions five points...
A goal from Kevin Grosskreutz in the 66th 0, at the Olympiastadion.The loss is the fifth straight for Hertha, which sits two points above the drop zone, and will be ...
Bayern Munich claimed a comfortable 0 win over Kaiserslautern on Saturday as Mario Gomez scored three times.The German striker opened the scoring after 37 minutes wh...
A pair of second-half goals from Lukas 1 win at Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday, game unbeaten streak.The opening goal arrived shortly before halftime when Podolski hel...
Manchester United's unbeaten start to the Premier League season ended Saturday with a startling 2-1 defeat at last-place Wolverhampton.The upset came on the highest-...
American midfielder Clint Dempsey helped Fulham beat Blackpool 3-0 in the English Premier League on Sunday. Manchester City routed Sunderland 5-0 to strengthen its c...
Salomon Kalou scored in the 89th minute, leading Chelsea past Tottenham 2-1 and keeping alive his team's hopes of retaining the Premier League title.Sandro put Totte...