Geovanni and Brown
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- Created: Saturday, 07 March 2009 20:24
- Written by David Moftakhar
Hull City’s Geovanni is undoubtedly a quality player. At Barcelona he was earmarked as the natural successor to Rivaldo, and in terms of creativity, trickery and goalscoring ability, there are obvious similarities.
The Tiger’s spectacular start to the season was in no small part thanks to the Brazilian’s contribution. Hull boss, Phil Brown, sent his side out in a cavalier 4-3-1-2, with Geovanni given license to roam as the trequartista behind the front two.
Thousands of delighted Basque fans flooded onto the pitch to celebrate Athletic Club Bilbao's first cup final in 24 years. The 'Lions' of Bilbao went into the game 2-1 down on aggregate but roared out of the blocks at home last night, instantly asserting their authority on this second leg, and soon finding reward with young Javi Martinez arriving into the box from midfield, as he so often does to effect, and slotting past Palop in the 3rd minute.
Now for an update on the Eredivisie, and a look at how the football giants of the Dutch lowlands have been fairing. To be honest there has been little change in the standings. As the weeks move on AZ Alkmaar continue to exuberate a dominance on Dutch football, which resembes Manchester Utd's current control in the Premiership.
Football is a game, of two halves none the less, and it has spawned a raft of internet football games that can broadly be split into two halves.
If the Portuguese League were an episode of Batman Porto would be Catwoman, Benfica would be Batman and Sporting would be Robin.