Author: Soccerhuz
Apparently, Christian McCaffrey still hasn’t fully recovered from the PCL injury he suffered against the Buffalo Bills on December 1. This week at the Super Bowl, his father, Ed McCaffrey, gave an update on his son’s knee. In that game, McCaffrey took a handoff, broke through the line and got tackled by his ankle. As he went down, his knee banged into the cold, frozen turf. But he stayed in the game for another play, which was another handoff for him. He took the ball, made one cut on his injured knee, went down, left the game and did not…
The Golden State Warriors got another star to pair with Stephen Curry for the next 2 1/2 seasons by trading for Jimmy Butler on Wednesday, hours before the 2025 NBA trade deadline. But Butler wasn’t necessarily Golden State’s first choice. The Warriors had been known to be searching for help ahead of the deadline, and Golden State was reportedly in on every available star. Earlier this week, however, their focus was seemingly on one familiar name: Kevin Durant. Yes, the current Phoenix Sun and future Hall of Famer who helped lead the Warriors to two championships, played three seasons with…
The Los Angeles Lakers could fall into a septic tank and come out smelling like the inside of a Sephora. At every point in their history, whenever they have endured a stretch of struggle, they have always come out of it with literally a Hall of Fame player — or players — to rescue them from the depths of NBA normalcy. They got Wilt. They got Kareem. They got Magic. They got Shaq and Kobe, and then when Shaq left for Miami, they finagled Pau Gasol from Memphis in a trade so lopsided that Gregg Popovich called for an investigation.…
New Milan signing Riccardo Sottil was impressed by Kyle Walker in training: ‘You realise that you must do the same.’ The 25-year-old winger joined Milan on loan with an option to buy from Fiorentina on the deadline day. During his unveiling press conference on Thursday, he spoke about training with ex-Manchester City defender Walker, who also joined Milan in the winter transfer window. “He is a champion, and he has won everything. Seeing him arrive at the training ground and head straight to the gym to work out makes you realise that you must do the same,” said Sottil via…
Warren Bondo has revealed that Adriano Galliani played a big part in letting him leave Monza mid-season to secure a dream move to AC Milan. It has been a long distance courtship from Milan when it comes to Bondo, given that the first strong links emerged back in 2021 when he was emerging as a talented teenager in the French second division. The Frenchman opted to make the switch to Monza and the Rossoneri kept an eye on his development, before Ismael Bennacer’s request to be sold on deadline day saw them make a concrete move. In the end they…
Niccolò Pisilli has revealed what he perceived the differences to be between how AC Milan played against Roma last night versus the meeting in December. One of the sub-plots to last night’s cup meeting was that the Milan-Roma league fixture around five weeks back ended up being Paulo Fonseca’s last game in charge before being sacked. He went into the game under a cloud with reports he was going to be dismissed regardless of the result, and indeed he was given his marching orders after failing to beat his former club. Sergio Conceicao was the man who replaced him and…
AC Milan celebrated a Coppa Italia triumph over Roma last night and the new signings impressed instantly, but Sergio Conceicao’s words about Rafael Leao also deserve some focus. As La Gazzetta dello Sport writes, one passage in Conceiçao’s post-match interview stands out in particular, regarding Leao: “He can do much, much more. He has incredible qualities. He must think that he is important when he has the ball at his feet, but when he doesn’t have the ball he is also important. “He must make himself available in all moments of the game for the team. I know that getting…
Santiago Gimenez’s 30-minute stint off the bench against Roma was only meant to be a teaser of what he can do, but it would be safe to say AC Milan fans are excited. Calciomercato.com have written a piece titled: ‘How did Gimenez’s debut go? In 31 minutes he was already everything that Morata couldn’t be’. Against Empoli, barring any surprises, he will be a starter, so last night was a sort of dress rehearsal for what is to come. The 31 minutes that Sergio Conceiçao gave him in his baptism at San Siro, as a substitute for Tammy Abraham against…
The AC Milan fans who attended San Siro for the Coppa Italia game against Roma hoped to see the debuts of Santiago Gimenez and Joao Felix, and they were not disappointed. As La Gazzetta dello Sport recalls, the first treat of the evening came from the PA announcer ‘Gegio’, who called out the names of the winter additions even if they were not among the starters. First Gimenez, then Joao, and the crowd went wild. Gimenez and Felix were welcomed like this for their baptism at San Siro, but in the end it would have all been in vain if…
Roma boss Claudio Ranieri was full of praise for what he saw from AC Milan, and revealed what he said to Sergio Conceicao at full-time. Milan advanced to the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia with what was in the end a quite comfortable and convincing win over Roma, and now a tie against the winner of Inter vs. Lazio awaits. The Rossoneri did the bulk of the work in the first half as Tammy Abraham returned to haunt his parent club, scoring with a towering header and a composed 1v1 finish, both from Theo Hernandez assists. Artem Dovbyk netted in…