INFOGRAPHIC: New Year’s Day in Numbers

FOOTBALL – The Premier League will kick-off the new year with an action packed day of football on 1 January. Click on the ‘Continue reading’ button to check out our infographic on New Year’s Day in numbers.

THE Wave: Southampton – Chelsea

FOOTBALL – Southampton drew 1-1 with Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday. The wave shows a dominating first half by Southampton (red) until a couple of minutes before half time, when Chelsea ( blue) scored the equaliser. In the second half it was all Chelsea, but they failed to score the winning goal, which they might have deserved.

INFOGRAPHIC: Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2015

Infostrada Sports wishes you a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2015!

Here’s our infographic with some of the most memorable achievements of 2014. Click on the image for a larger version.

THE WAVE: Liverpool – Arsenal

FOOTBALL – After trailing in the 64th minute, Liverpool (in red) were pushing hard for the equaliser against Arsenal (in blue) on Sunday. Even after playing with 10 men, Liverpool kept pushing hard and eventually might have deserved more than one point.

REVIEW: Messi finishes 2014 calendar year on 50 goals for Barça

FOOTBALL – By scoring a brace late in a 5-0 victory over Córdoba CF, Lionel Messi raised his total of official goals for FC Barcelona in the 2014 calendar year to 50. At club level, Messi has now cracked the half century in four of the last five calendar years. The only exception in that span was last seasson, when he finished with 39 goals for the blaugranas.
When counting his goals for Argentina, Messi finishes the 2014 calendar year on 58 official goals for club and country

INFOGRAPHIC: Vonn vying to equal all-time record

ALPINE SKIING – This weekend, Lindsey Vonn will be vying to equal the all-time record for World Cup race victories in ladies’ alpine skiing. The American comes into the weekend in Val d’Isère as one of the favourites for both the Downhill and the Super G. Her 60 career World Cup race wins are two shy of the record by Austria’s Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Click on the picture to see the FULL SIZE Ingographic.

French all-time top scorer Thierry Henry retires

FOOTBALL – Thierry Henry has retired on 16 December 2014. France’s all-time top scorer Paris became an international superstar and played for AS Monaco, Juventus, Arsenal, Barcelona and New York Red Bulls. read more here.

Europa League seedings do not separate best and worst

Due to basing the seedings for the Europa League draws on six matches within uneven groupings which were created by the UEFA coefficient systems, the seedings for today’s Europa League draw do not actually separate the best and worst remaining teams into two separate groups. Using a longer term rating system, the Euro Club Index, reveals that the seeded and unseeded groups both contain some of the best teams left in the competition and the absolute best trio left in the competition are all unseeded.

REVIEW: Juve’s 25 home winning streak ends

FOOTBALL – Juventus’ 1-1 draw against Sampdoria ended their record 25-match home winning streak in Serie A. See below how this compares to other leagues.

REVIEW: Bayern claim 20th winter championship

FOOTBALL – Bayern München secured their 20th winter championship (‘Herbstmeister’ in German) after a 4-0 away win at Augsburg on Saturday. See below how many times they have converted that title into an actual league championship.