Former Manchester United and PSV star Memphis Depay, who currently plays his club football for Olympique Lyon has released a set of photos of him playing with his pet liger (lion + tiger cross). The liger is currently only a cub, and the pictures, as you might have expected, have attracted a fair bit of controversy.
One photo shows Memphis and his pet liger face the camera, another shows the Dutch star carry the liger and the last one sees the cub looking at Memphis’ lion tattoo.
It appears that Marcos Llorente has named his pet pug Anfield. The young Atleti star scored twice in extra time to knock defending champions Liverpool out of the Champions League last month- one of world football’s last major games before coronavirus lead to fixtures being scrapped all across Europe. Check out this screenshot from Llorente’s … Read more
Here is a look at the player ratings from some of the big European newspapers (France, Spain & England) following Atletico Madrid’s stunning 3-2 win in extra time over Liverpool that saw them knock Jurgen Klopp’s side out of the Champions League.
L’Equipe player ratings LFC vs Atletico Madrid
French publication L’Equipe thought Adrian and Joe Gomez both had terrible evenings, giving them a 3/10 rating. The game changer was Marcos Llorente- he got a 9/10 from the bench, and the player he replaced, Diego Costa, was a 3/10.
AS Newspaper ratings LFC 2-3 Atleti Second Leg Round of 16
Spanish newspaper AS thought that Adrian and Diego Costa’s performances were not even worthy of a rating. They liked Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, giving him three stars. The pick of the lot was obviously two goal hero Llorente, with AS giving him four stars for his performance.
