A Europa League final hattrick put a seal on a career-best 15-goal campaign
MONTREAL — Forge FC secured a historic 2-1 victory over CF Montreal at Stade Saputo on Wednesday evening to book their ticket to the Canadian Championship semifinal. Daniel Parra and Kwasi Poku scored in the first half for the Canadian Premier League's Forge, which upset the Major League Soccer side with a 3-2 victory in the two-leg quarterfinal on aggregate. Victor Wanyama replied for Montreal, which is winless in eight games in all competitions. Forge won after being eliminated by Montreal in
The 26-year-old struggled to shine in the Premier League at Everton, Fulham and Leicester.
DUBLIN (AP) — It was five days short of a full year since Bayer Leverkusen and its standout young coach Xabi Alonso had lost a game of soccer. The reality of sports bit hard Wednesday when the new German champion’s unbeaten run came to a shuddering stop in its 52nd game of the season, the Europa League final. Leverkusen’s 3-0 loss to Atalanta's energetic, physical presence and the stunning hat trick of goals by Ademola Lookman was so total that it left no room for doubt. “The normality is not to