Chinese coffee and a lethal insect
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Two coffee-makers harsh rivals to pieces in a globe’s tea hub
A 50-hour game, a stately initial hold and a stand adult a Tatra Mountains
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21 years had upheld given a Germany men’s inhabitant organisation – that has a repute for being one for a large arise – boasted a winning record in finals until Sunday. Die Mannschaft once had a 75 per cent record in deciders, though back-to-back waste in a conclusions to a 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™ and UEFA EURO 2008 left them carrying mislaid 7 of 13. After conquering Brazil 2014, however, a Germans won a FIFA Confederations Cup to lift their record in finals to 53 per cent. Lars Stindl’s unanswered idea in a consummate opposite Chile left his nation carrying scored in 10 unbroken games in a foe – a figure surpassed usually by Mexico (11 between 1995 and ’99) and Brazil (13 ongoing from 2005). Curiously, Germany became a initial Confederations Cup-winning organisation to take 5 matches to record a purify piece – all though one (Mexico in 1999) purebred a shutout in during slightest one of their initial dual outings.
9 approach free-kicks in a MLS is what Sebastian Giovinco done it on Wednesday to tie a all-time record common by Jeff Larentowicz and Javier Morales. But while a Californian and a Argentinian have been personification in a foe invariably given 2005 and ’07 respectively, a little Torinese had played usually two-and-a-half seasons there. David Beckham, subsequent on a list, managed 7 approach free-kicks. Giovinco’s free-kick hermetic a 3-1 win during Orlando City that gave Toronto FC a initial divided win in 6 attempts and left them averaging dual points per diversion in a joining this season. ‘The Atomic Ant’ has now netted 5 goals in his final 4 appearances in all competitions, and is usually dual bashful of apropos a seventh European to strech a 50-goal separator in a MLS after Robbie Keane, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Sebastien Le Toux, Dom Dwyer, Thierry Henry and David Villa.
7 goals is a domain Shanghai Shenhua kick Liaoning Kaixin by to record a third-biggest feat in Chinese top-flight story – and Gus Poyet’s organisation did it though a male they done a highest-paid actor on a planet. With Carlos Tevez nursing a calf injury, Fredy Guarin incited 31, sealed a new contract, scored twice and set adult another on a frenetically bustling day personally. Giovanni Moreno, another Colombian who ironically distinguished his 31st birthday a day after, and Obafemi Martins also finished a 8-1 win with dual goals and an support apiece. The usually bigger victories in a foe were Beijing Guoan’s 9-1 thrashing of Shanghai Shenhua in 1997 and Dalian Wanda’s 8-0 thumping of Bayi in 2001. The weekend finished with Paulinho outscoring his crony and former team-mate Alexandre Pato 2-1, though it being deficient to forestall Tianjin Quanjian rising 4-3 victors and finale leaders Guangzhou Evergrande’s ten-match winning run. It was a initial time Guangzhou had conceded over 3 goals in a diversion in 6 years – they mislaid 5-2 to Jiangsu Suning when they already had a pretension cumulative in 2011 – while they had, thereafter, scored 4 or some-more a whopping 41 times.
1 idea scored, 42 conceded – that was Progres Niederkorn’s record in 13 winless matches in UEFA bar foe until they doubled that total inside 9 celestial mins on Tuesday night. The 1919-founded Progres usually finished fourth in a 14-team Luxembourger tip moody final season, and surprisingly usually mislaid 1-0 divided to Rangers – holders of a world-record 54 domestic joining titles and a 1971/72 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup winners – in a initial leg of their UEFA Europa League qualifier. Emmanuel Francoise pennyless a deadlock in a 66th notation in Luxembourg, scoring Progres’s initial European idea given they got their usually one during home to Northern Irish minnows Glentoran in a European Cup in 1981. A Sebastian Thill free-kick fast done it 2-0 and, after Rangers had strike a crossbar twice in blocking time, Progres hold on for a material dissapoint and a next-round date with AEL Limassol.
Quick hits
64 places is what Poland have rocketed adult a FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking in usually dual years and 10 months. In Sep 2014 they trailed a likes of Cape Verde Islands, Guatemala and Jordan, while they are now in their highest-ever position of sixth.
50 hours of uninterrupted futsal is what a fundraising organisation of Tranmere Rovers players, staff and supporters partook in over a weekend, violation a prior Guinness World Record by 10 hours.
31 years after Gary Lineker became a final English footballer to join Barcelona, Toni Duggan became a next. The former Everton forwards were both 25, both attackers, both uninformed from finishing as runners adult in a English tip flights and personification in a FA Cup final, and both left homes on Merseyside to live in Catalonia.
4 seconds after entrance on as substitute, Philadelphia Union’s Roland Alberg, with his initial touch, swerved home a 30-yard MLS Goal of a Year Award contender opposite New England Revolution.
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