'Thai Messi' apologizes to Van Hau and Vietnamese fans; Ukraine and Italy meet in U20 World Cup semi-finals

'Thai Messi' Chanathip apologizes to Van Hau and Vietnamese fans

Yesterday afternoon, on his official fanpage and personal Facebook, Thailand's number 1 star Chanathip Songkrasin wrote a long status in Vietnamese to apologize to defender Doan Van Hau and Vietnamese fans for his inappropriate reaction.

Chanathip missed the 2019 King's Cup due to an injury while playing for Consadole Sapporo in the J.League.

In response to the harsh reaction to his impolite behavior, Chanathip later had to write an apology in Vietnamese: “First of all, I would like to apologize to Van Hau and the Vietnam National Team for what I have caused. I would like to sincerely apologize to all Vietnamese fans for what I said. This is truly my fault and I sincerely feel sorry for what I have done…”.

Chanathip missed the 2019 King's Cup due to an injury while playing for Consadole Sapporo in the J.League.

EURO 2020 Qualifiers: Spain Wins Third Match in a Row

EURO 2020 qualifying continued without too many surprises. Former champions Spain had their third consecutive win to top their group.

In Group B, Ukraine had a resounding 5-0 victory over Serbia to firmly hold the top spot. Meanwhile, Lithuania and Luxembourg drew 1-1. Luxembourg remained in second place while Serbia remained at the bottom of the table.

In Group D, the Republic of Ireland drew 1-1 away to Denmark but still maintained their top spot. In the other match, Georgia beat Gibralta 3-0. Gibralta remained bottom with 0 points while Georgia moved up to third place.

The former Spanish champions have won their third consecutive title.

Spain continued their fine start to qualifying with a third straight win in Group F, this time 4-1 against the Faroe Islands. Meanwhile, Norway held Romania to a 2-2 draw at home and Sweden beat Malta 3-0. Spain remain top, with Sweden two points behind and the Faroe Islands still without a point.

U20 World Cup quarter-finals: Ukraine and Italy meet in semi-finals

The first two names to enter the semi-finals of the 2019 U20 World Cup have been determined to be U20 Ukraine and U20 Italy.

After conceding a goal, U20 Colombia pushed up their formation, but all their efforts failed to materialize into goals. 1-0 was the final score of the first half.

U20 Ukraine took an early lead in the 11th minute in the match against U20 Colombia.

In the remaining minutes, having to play with one less player, U20 Colombia could do nothing else and had to accept a 0-1 defeat. With the minimal victory, U20 Ukraine officially won a ticket to the semi-finals of the U20 World Cup 2019.

In the quarter-final match that followed, U20 Italy took full advantage of the extra player advantage against U20 Mali to win and enter the semi-finals of the 2019 U20 World Cup.

U20 Italy beat U20 Mali 4-2 in the remaining quarter-final match.

Entering the match with not much superiority, U20 Italia still took the lead in the 12th minute thanks to an own goal by Ibrahima Kone of U20 Mali. U20 Italia even had the advantage of playing with one more player after Ousmane Diakite was sent off in the 21st minute. But then U20 Mali had a beautiful equalizer.

In the second half, U20 Italia continued to take the lead with a goal in the 59th minute by Andrea Pinamonti, but U20 Mali equalized the match in the 79th minute with a shot from Mohamed Camara. However, that was all U20 Mali could do in this match.

In just 2 minutes 83 and 84, captain Pinamonti and Davide Frattesi respectively put their names on the scoreboard to seal the victory for the team from Europe. With this result, U20 Italia is the second team to enter the semi-finals and their opponent will be U20 Ukraine.

Specific results

U20 Colombia 0-1 U20 Ukraine

U20 Italy 4-2 U20 Mali

Quarter-final schedule

22:30 June 8: U20 USA vs U20 Ecuador

1:30 a.m. June 9: U20 Korea vs U20 Senegal

MU is about to lose Rashford, Coutinho leaves Nou Camp

MU is at risk of losing Marcus Rashford to Barca, Coutinho announced that the Nou Camp leadership wants to leave this summer are the latest football news today, June 8.

Barca begins plan to steal Rashford from MU

According to Sport (Spain), Barca took the first step to sign Marcus Rashford by making an offer to Manchester United.

Many sources say Barca will spend 120 million euros to recruit the reigning world champion.

Despite winning La Liga for the second consecutive year, with an unbelievable exit in the Champions League semi-finals and a loss to Valencia in the Spanish King's Cup, Barca need to improve their squad this summer, buying new faces and also selling some names.

Barca have shown that their goalscoring is still largely dependent on Messi (51 goals in all competitions) and Luis Suarez (25 goals). However, the former Liverpool striker will be 33 in January next year, so coach Valverde needs a potential replacement. And Rashford is considered the perfect player to play alongside Messi.

The Catalan club estimates the fee for Rashford to be around 100 million euros. Barca aims to earn 250 million euros with Jose Semedo, Coutinho, Dembele on the transfer list.

Coutinho announces he wants to leave Barcelona

Cadena Ser source said, Philippe Coutinho told Barcelona leaders, he wants to leave Nou Camp.

Coutinho is not happy at Nou Camp and wants to leave

The Brazilian midfielder did everything he could to leave Liverpool to join Barca in January 2018.

At first, everything went quite well, Coutinho had 22 appearances for Barca, scoring 10 goals and 6 assists.

But last season was a disappointment for the £142 million signing: Coutinho was used 51 times by coach Valverde, but mainly from the bench, scoring 11 goals and only assisting his teammates 5 times.

Barca are reportedly ready to sell Coutinho this summer, if they receive a suitable offer. And according to the latest news, Coutinho has also told the Catalan club's leadership that he wants to leave.

There is information that Liverpool is the team that has the advantage in signing Coutinho, because the previous contract to sell to Barca has a buy-back clause.