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Football: Rodgers plays down talk of Euro bid

March 10, 2013 22:01
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is refusing to contemplate the possibility of qualifying for Europe despite his team's rise to sixth place after an impressive 3-2 win over Tottenham. Inspired by Luis Suarez, Rodgers' side have suddenly hit a rich vein of form and after putting 12 goals past Swansea, Zenit St Petersburg and Wigan, Liverpool fired another three as they came from behind to beat Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday.

UPDATE 2-Soccer-Germany break France jinx with 2-1 win in Paris

February 6, 2013 18:16
(Adds quotes, detail) By Julien Pretot PARIS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Germany claimed their first win over France in 26 years when goals by Thomas Mueller and Sami Khedira secured a 2-1 win in an entertaining friendly at the Stade de France on Wednesday. Both second-half goals came from France left back Patrice Evra's side of the defence as Germany fought back after Mathieu Valbuena had opened the scoring on the stroke of halftime.
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