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Indonesia came from behind twice to secure their first point in the Asian Qualifiers Group G, playing out a 2-2 draw against neighbours Thailand at Al Maktoum Stadium on Thursday. Narubadin Weerawatnodom and Adisak Kraisorn scored the goals for Thailand, before Kadek Agung and Evan Dimas rescued their team from 6th conseutive defeat. The draw was a blow to Thailand as three points would have taken them top of the group, with Akira Nishino 's men set to play hosts United Arab Emirates on Monday. ASIA SPORTS CHANNEL In another match, Ali Mabkhout and Fabio de Lima scored two goals each to give UAE a comfortable 4-0 win over Malaysia in Dubai. The Emirates took possession throughout the match and gave very little opportunities to their opponent. UAE moved to second place in the group sharing same points with Malaysia and Thailand, while Indonesia remained at the bottom with just one point from yesterday's match. Vietnam is still on top of the table with 11 points from j...

What could have been a Manchester total domination of Europe 2021 became exactly the opposite.  Manchester City  squandered the best chance to secure their first  Champions League  Final win when they lost to  Chelsea  2 - 1 last night. This is a major bummer to the City of Manchester when their Red neighbors also lost out on a spectacularly in the Europa League Final just 48 hours earlier. Chelsea’s  Kai Havertz  repaid some of his huge transfer fee as his first-half goal sealed a 1-0 win for his side over Manchester City in the Champions League final on Saturday. The German youngster, Chelsea’s record signing, latched on to  Mason Mount ’s pass and evaded City keeper  Ederson  before rolling the ball into an empty net just 3 minutes before halftime.  SUFI SUPER YACHTS Premier League  champions City were favourites ahead of the final but suffered a desperately disappointing night in Estadio do Drago, Porto in what was the...

"Football, bloody hell!” This was quoted by Sir Alex Ferguson on  Manchester United 's dramatic Champions League final victory over Bayern Munich in 1999. The same quote came and haunt them exactly 22 years later when United was beaten at the final of  Europa League  in the night of 26 May 2021. United 2nd in the Premier League, is the favorite to clinch this trophy where  Villarreal  looked bewildered in the La Liga sitting only at 7th place in the table not even made the cut in any of the European Tournament. But Villarreal, against all the odds have won the Europa League after defeating Manchester United 11-10 in a penalty shoot-out after drew 1 all in the 90 minutes leading up to the shootout. Neither side able to find the winner after extra-time, the game headed to penalties in front of 9,500 fans at the Stadion Miejsk in Gdansk. In form and evergreen striker  Edinson Cavani 's strike cancelled out  Gerard Moreno 's first-half effort paying it for...

Atletico Madrid  ended a seven years wait to win  La Liga  title on Saturday.  Luis Suarez  was the hero as he fired them to a 2-1 comeback win at  Real Valladolid , which secured them the Spanish championship. The win placed Athletico on top of the league table with two points more than city rivals Real Madrid. THE MATCH Valladolid took the lead in the 18th minute when  Oscar Plano  slotted past  Jan Oblak  in a counter attack. Atletico tried to bounce back but missed a series of clear opportunities. However, in the 57th  Angel Correa  broke through the opponents' defence to score the equaliser. Ten minutes later, Suarez delivered the winner and put Atletico on their way to a victory. Real Madrid  beat  Villareal  2-1 at home and could have snatched the title away if Athletico failed to win. At the end, Atletico have been amazing this season and deserved to be the Champions of Spain. Suarez, who joined Atletico ...

Juventus  battled a tough season with another record breaking 14th  Italian Cup  victory. Currently fifth in Sirie A this season, the  Bianconeri  gave everything to beat  Atalanta  2-1 in the final at Mapei Stadium. About 4300 fans were allowed to watch the final in Reggio Emilia. Juventus took the lead in the 31st minute as  Dejan Kulusevski  scored from a counter attack initiated by  Juan Cuadrado  before  Weston McKennie  delivered a fine assist. Just 10 minutes later, Atalanta leveled the score through  Ruslan Malinovskyi  who smashed home an opportunity to beat  Gianluigi Buffon . Federico Chiesa  almost restore the lead for Juventus early in the second half. However his attempt from  Cristiano Ronaldo ’s backheeled flick went off the right post. Juventus got the winner in the 73rd minutes after a good one-two play by Kulusevski, and Chiesa drilled pass  Pierluigi Gollini . The match cou...

In their 137-year history,  Leicester City  had never previously won the FA Cup. They had reached four finals and lost them all. However, a superb long-range strike from  Youri Tielemans  gave Leicester City their first  FA Cup  triumph with a 1-0 victory over Chelsea at  Wembley Stadium  on Saturday. 21,000 fans returned to the stadium after last year's final was played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. Leicester's owner,  Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha  was invited on to the field to celebrate with his team. His father, Vichai, whose ownership helped to transform the Midlands club, died in 2018 in a helicopter crash at Leicester's stadium. ASIA SPORTS CHANNEL Chelsea  dominated the first half but could not find the net, and Leicester lost their centre half  Jonny Evans  in the 34th minute due to injury. Then in the 63rd minute, Tielemans collected the ball and moved forward. As the Chelsea defence backed o...

After 11 years of waiting,  Inter Milan  clinched their first  Serie A  title on Sunday after Atalanta failed to win at Sassuolo. A day before,  Christian Eriksen  and  Achraf Hakimi  scored in a 2-0 win for Inter over Crotone, a victory that moved  Antonio Conte 's side 14 points clear of  Atalanta  on Saturday. Atalanta's 1-1 draw Sassuolo ensured Inter wrapped up the title with four games of the season to play, its Scudetto success breaking Juventus' Serie A stranglehold. Conte knew that his players would do something extraordinary because Inter haven't won a  Scudetto  in 11 years, and will break-up a dynasty. They finally denied  Juventus  a 10th successive Serie A title. For the records,  Antoinio Conte  led Juventus to the first three of those nine consecutive league titles. TIGERS SUPER SPORTS