Arsenal are eyeing a move for Brazilian wonderkid Detinho, according to reports in the Spanish media. The forward, who plays for Brazilian outfit Corintians, has been likened to the Gunners' latest youngster to grab the headlines, Carlos Vela. The Mexican 19-year-old scored a stunning hat-trick in Arsenal's recent 6-0 demolition of Sheffield United and reports in Spain [. Click to continue reading...

Wednesday's Matchday 2 for Liverpool will be against Dutch side, PSV Eindhoven, currently 2nd in the Dutch Eredivisie. This will be held at our fortress, so I supposed it is easy to conclude that we will win comfortably. My prediction: 3-1. It will be a Gernando show : ))

In fact I will not be surprised if PSV were to score first, just like Marseille did in Matchday 1.

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DERBY match-winner Fernando Torres has hailed unsung heroes Robbie Keane and Dirk Kuyt for providing him with the chances to defeat Everton at Goodison Park.

The Spanish striker, who netted 33 goals in his debut season at Anfield, took his tally to three for the new campaign thanks to his brace on Saturday and was only denied the first Merseyside hat-trick for 26 years by what seemed to be a fussy Mike Riley call when Kuyt was adjudged to have committed a foul. Click to continue reading...

I mentioned it in the recap, but we should really flood the box for Connor Casey's goal as Goal of the Week. It was an amazing, last-second, game-winning, hat-trick-clinching strike. So vote early and often Rapids fans. We really don't get enough of these.

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How did New York win the Super Bowl? They peaked at the end of their season, going into the playoffs. That's a different sport, of course, but it's a good lesson to remember: to win a title, you have to finish strong. And so far, the Rapids are doing just that.

It's hard to say that the Rapids don't have momentum right now.

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On the one hand, I am insanely busy right now. Booo. On the other hand, I finally have Setanta set up at my new apartment so I can watch the games properly. Yaaaay. So here we go...

Manchester United 2–0 Bolton
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Colorado Rapids midfielder Conor Casey has been named MLS Player of the Week for Week 27 after bagging a hat trick against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, including the game-winning goal in second-half stoppage time. In winning the honor, Casey's offensive outburst overshadowed other sensational individual performances by the likes of Yura Movsisyan and Darren Huckerby, who scored two goals each over the weekend. Click to continue reading...

Everyone got their breath back? The final whistle blew almost 24 hours ago and I can't seem to shake this game out of my mind. The image of Mehdi Ballouchy's fantastic cross onto Conor Casey's outstretched boot in the final minutes of the game remains largely fixed. It was not that the defenses were so poor on both sides. Click to continue reading...

I think I'll contradict my post yesterday where I stated that it doesn't really matter who scores, only that we win (link). The essence of it is still very much true, in that we just want the team to win, any way we can.

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At the Liberator Classic:
Bolivar Liberators - 5
Clinton 1
Matt Magana scores a hat trick to lead the Liberators past the Cardinals. Jake Condren and Sam Wall added the other two goals. Seth Hopwood, Bradley Stillwagon and Jacob Hampton recorded assists.

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Wayne Rooney has played in eight matches for United since he last scored, with that coming at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea. In the 2006/2007 season, Rooney went eight matches without scoring for United, then scored a hat-trick against Bolton. Hmmm... "Rooney Goes Eight Games Without A Goal Then. Click to continue reading...

England skipper John Terry believes the future is very bright for the national team and claimed Arsenal are not the only club with talented young English players. Only weeks ago there seemed to be very little to get excited about as far as the Three Lions set-up was concerned. But, following Theo Walcott's stunning hat-trick performance in [. Click to continue reading...

The Croatian FA has been fined 3000 CHF ( about £15000) for the racial abuse directed towards former Liverpool forward Emile Heskey in the home side's World Cup qualifier against England in Zagreb. England won the game 4-1 thanks to a Theo Walcott hat trick. The amount is not very significant from the English point [. Click to continue reading...

Fantasy Soccer Bootroom is a weekly column devoted to the ins and outs of fantasy soccer, especially the game played on www.mfls.com, and the RevMFLS division. Basically, there were two kinds of fantasy teams this week: those that had Landon Donovan, and those that didn't. LD's hat trick and assist in LA's 5-2 drubbing of DC [. Click to continue reading...

Robbie Keane is no stranger to scoring against Everton; watch this video of him scoring a hat-trick against them while playing for Spurs a few years ago!

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Robbie Keane is no stranger to scoring against Everton; watch this video of him scoring a hat-trick against them while playing for Spurs a few years ago!

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9/23 result Newton-Conover 10 Bunker Hill 1 Six different players score for N-C. Chris Jordan had a hat trick, Chee Nou Xiong and Jacob Harkins added two a piece.Oscar Luis, Ricardo Millian and Lucas Hernandez scored one each. Bunker Hill's lone goal was scored by Toua Yang. 9/24 results Newton-Conover 4 Bunker Hill 0 Chris Jordan scored twice with Oscar Luis and Lucas Hernandez each adding a Click to continue reading...

Rafael van der Vaart took a hat-trick off Sporting Gijon as Real Madrid walloped them 7-1 to go second in Spain's Primera Liga - one point behind Villareal
Real Madrid 7 - 1 Sporting Gijon Highlights

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Poor Sporting de Gijón. Ten years out of the top division and on your return you have to face Sevilla, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Villareal one after the other in your first five weeks. On Sunday, Barcelona put 6 past them and on Wednesday night Real Madrid went one better, making them the worst defensive side in La Liga in over 50 years. Click to continue reading...

Rafael van der Vaart took a hat-trick off Sporting Gijon as Real Madrid walloped them 7-1 to go second in Spain's Primera Liga - one point behind Villareal
Real Madrid 7 - 1 Sporting Gijon Highlights

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MLS is a cruel mistress, just when you think you might know what is going on - it pulls a weekend that has Landon Donovan score a hat trick for the Galaxy and Chicago losing 4-1 to Dallas (I picked... Click to continue reading...

MADRID, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Real Madrid new boy Rafael van der Vaart scored a hat-trick to help the champions thrash promoted Sporting Gijon 7-1 in the Primera Liga on Wednesday.

Sporting were subjected to a 6-1 beating at home to Barcelona on Sunday and were quickly on the back foot at the Bernabeu as Netherlands midfielder Van der Vaart completed his hat-trick in the 46th minute. Click to continue reading...

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There is still a month to go in the MLS regular season but with two clear front-runners for the MVP award we can start to talking about who might win the award.

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We had barely digested Saturday's match before it was time for another epic performance. This time Sheffield United were to be ridiculed by Arsenal's youngest team ever in the Carling Cup. The average age was merely 18 years and 6 months and the oldest player on Arsenal's side was Lukas Fabianski at the age of 23. Click to continue reading...

Courtesy of the Trinidad and Tobago Express....

"United States Major League Soccer (MLS) clubs Columbus Crew, New England Revolution and San Jose Earthquakes all wanted to sign the fleet-footed Guyanese, following his terrific showing over two legs in the CONCACAF Champions League against the Revolution, including scoring a hat trick in Public's 4-0 victory, in the away leg in Boston earlier this month.

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What a remarkable show the Arsenal youngsters put on against Sheffield United in the Carling Cup last night. A team with an average age of nineteen saw off the pretty decent Championship outfit 6-0. Arsenal's youngsters handed Sheffield United a football lesson as they eased into the fourth round. Click to continue reading...

Landon Donovan won MLS Player of the Week for his part in LA Galaxy's 5-2 win over DC United this past weekend. With a nice hat-trick (three good goals) and a beaut of an assist (around the 4:45 mark) there's little doubt he deserved it. And there's a growing whisper that maybe the time is [...] Click to continue reading...

Gooners are raving about the awesome display of the Arsenal last night and rightly so!

It was a Rolls-Royce performance and it does get you very excited about the future when you see the amount of talent coming through at Arsenal.

The way the youngsters play is unbelievable. They are a carbon copy of the way the first team play, the coaches and Le Boss deserve a huge amount of credit for helping these players get to those levels. Click to continue reading...

The basics on the 8 p.m. friendly were recounted in Tuesday's column.

Here's more on the challenges facing Sven.

And former CD Guadalajara prodigy Carlos Vela was otherwise engaged Tuesday banging home a hat trick for Arsenal in his first start for the London club.

I plan to blog from the game tonight and fans who are attending should remember there's a pre-game Futbol Fiesta Zone with live music and a massive 50-foot-tall Mexico National Team jersey fans can sign.

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Another day, another form of competition.

Here are Tuesday's knockout stage scores in the Round 3 of the Carling Cup. All the home teams won.

Arsenal's teenage forward Vela (right) had a hat trick. Good for him.

Arsenal 6-0 Sheff Utd
Burnley 1-0 Fulham
Leeds 3-2 Hartlepool
Rotherham 3-1 Southampton
Swansea 1-0 Cardiff
Watford 1-0 West Ham
Liverpool 2-1 Crewe
Man Utd 3-1 Middlesbrough
Stoke 2-2 Reading (Stoke wins shootout, 4-3)
Sunderland 2-2 Northampton (Sunderland wins shootout, 4-3)

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  To celebrate Carlos Vela's thunder performance against Championship side Sheffield United last night, Carlos Vela News is offering an exclusive Picture special of his first competitive start for the Gunners, as well as his magic 90 minutes, plus of course his magnificent hat-trick!!!           Article by - A. Click to continue reading...

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Originally uploaded by ZeCkTaSiS Arsenal 6 - Sheffield United 0 (League Cup, Septiembre 23, 2008)

En la Carling Cup el mexicano Carlos Vela salio inspirado y anoto tres muy buenos goles, en especial el segundo, mostrando calidad y temple.

A la delantera mexicana le hace falta un goleador y Carlos Vela parece querer alzar la mano, esta actuación aunque ante un débil equipo ingles sirve para darle confianza, el primer jugador mexicano en clavar 3 goles o sea un hat trick en Inglaterra. Click to continue reading...

I have to say I feel slightly envious of those who were at the Grove last night. With almost every game these days either on TV or available via a stream you really notice when there's just no way of seeing it. The fans who were in attendance were treated to a display from a team of great talent and potential and Sheffield United just couldn't live with them.

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Frivolous goal rankings based on a careful review of the Arsenal.com's 10-minute highlights from tonight's League Cup match:

1. The 3rd Goal, from Carlos Vela. The first of his hat trick. Bendtner, who already had a double at that point, won it in midfield and chipped a sweet pass to Vela down the right who had a great touch to play the ball into the box, and a stunning shot with his left boot. Click to continue reading...

Young Mexican forward Carlos Vela has scored in his first competitive start for the Gunners tonight a hat-trick, as Arsenal destroyed Championship side Sheffield United by six goals to nill.  Arsenal Manager Arsene Wenger has named for tonight's Carling Cup 3rd Round clash, the youngest ever Gunners side to face the Blades, including the first years scholars Jack Wilshere and Emmanuel Frimpong. Click to continue reading...