Proud Kroos pushes frustration: Sixth division takes Rooney's rump eleven by surprise

Sunday 10th January 2021

Proud Kroos pushes frustration
Sixth division by surprise Rooney's rump eleven

Football national player Toni Kroos has reached a milestone at Real Madrid, but his joy was clouded by the poor result in the league game. In France, Kevin Volland and AS Monaco are in great shape. The Italian leaders AC Milan can again fall back on their star striker. The duel between two German coaches in the Netherlands ended with a clear winner.

England: FC Chorley proved that the cup has its own laws in England too. Benefiting from the Corona quarantine of the A-team of trainer Wayne Rooney, the sixth division FC Chorley has thrown the second division Derby County, which has competed with young players, 2-0 out of the competition. For the first time in the club's 138-year history, the club from the National League North survived the 3rd round in the FA Cup. After the party with Adele's hit "Someone Like You", the Lancashire underdogs are hoping for a big opponent for the 4th round in the draw on Monday.

In the lottery wheel are, among other things, champions Liverpool FC and Premier League runner-up Manchester United, who struggled 1-0 against second division club Watford. The first division third Leicester City handled Stoke City easily 4-0. Chelsea FC and Manchester City also made it to the fourth round without difficulty. Thanks to the German national soccer players Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, the Blues effortlessly won 4-0 (2-0) against fourth division club Morecambe. Man City won 3-0 (3-0) against Birmingham City from the 2nd division without any problems. Premier League promoted Leeds United meanwhile embarrassed themselves to the bone – with a 0: 3 (0: 0) at the fourth division club Crawley Town.

Spain: Toni Kroos is on course for a record. In the 0-0 draw in the Primera Division at CA Osasuna, the international played his 300th game in Real Madrid's shirt. In keeping with this, the 31-year-old posted a shirt with a 300 under his name on Twitter and wrote: "300 games for the best club in the world". Only a German professional in Real's jersey could achieve more: Uli Stielike. Between 1977 and 1985, the former international made 308 appearances for Real Madrid. While Kroos was happy about his anniversary, he was disappointed with the goalless draw: "We can't be satisfied because we want to fight for first place and a draw won't help." City rivals Atlético remain first, whose game against Athletic Bilbao was canceled due to the winter chaos.

Italy: Zlatan Ibrahimovic is back. The star striker has made his comeback at AC Milan after a seven-week injury break. The 39-year-old came on in the 85th minute. With goals from Rafael Leao and Franck Kessie, Milan won 2-0 against FC Turin and maintained first place in Serie A. How important "Ibra" is for the Milanese, he proved with ten goals in his previous seven league games. "Ibrahimovic has advanced to become a mythological hero in Milan, half man and half god. His presence alone is enough to increase Milan's vibrations," commented the "La Repubblica". Cristiano Ronaldo, the first on the top scorer list, scored 14 goals in twelve appearances. The AC supporters also had reason to be happy the day after: Persecutors Inter Milan only scored 2-2 at third AS Roma and now have three points less than their city rivals in the top spot.

France: In Ligue 1, AS Monaco is stalking its way towards Champions League places thanks to Kevin Volland. The striker scored 2-0 in the 3-0 win against Angers SCO and scored his ninth goal of the season after moving from Bayer Leverkusen to the team of ex-Bayern coach Niko Kovac in the summer. Monaco improved to fourth. Olympique Lyon remains at the top of the table despite a 2-2 draw in the top duel of the 19th matchday at the fifth Stade Rennes. Pursuit and champion Paris Saint-Germain celebrated a safe 3-0 against Stade Brest and gave the new coach Mauricio Pochettino a successful home debut as the successor to the German coach Thomas Tuchel.

Netherlands: Without Mario Götze, PSV Eindhoven missed the leap to first place in the table in the top game of the Dutch Eredivisie. In the 2: 2 (2: 1) of the 24-time champions at the leaders Ajax Amsterdam, the 2014 world champion was missing due to muscle problems, national player Philipp Max played through on the left defensive side. After a double strike from Eran Zahavi (2nd / 21st), PSV quickly led 2-0, but Ajax struck back and ultimately successfully defended their one point lead. Quincy Promes (40th) and Antony (65th) scored for the hosts, who then pushed for the winning goal in vain.