ISTANBUL (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Fenerbahce defeated VfB Stuttgart 1893 1-0 on Thursday to hand the German Cup winners a second straight defeat in the Europa League. Kerem Aktürkoglu converted a 34th-minute penalty in Istanbul after Angelo Stiller had pulled down Milan Skriniar. Both sides had their chances, but former Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson and his…
FREIBURG (CONVERSEER) – Freiburg stretched their unbeaten run across all competitions to eight matches with a 2-0 Europa League victory over Dutch side Utrecht on Thursday. Unmarked Yuiko Suzuki gave Freiburg a 20th-minute lead when Christian Günter laid the ball back to him from the left. Freiburg remained dominant, with goalkeeper Vasilios Barkas tipping Suzuki’s…
MAINZ (DPA, CONVERSEER) – FSV Mainz 05 made it two victories out of two in the Conference League on Thursday, 1-0 over 10-man Zrjinski Mostar. Sota Kawasaki and Andreas Hanche-Olsen aimed inches wide as Mainz dominated the Bosnian champions from the kick-off. A goal was just a matter of time, and it came in the 24th…
By Monika Wendel, dpa BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – More than 1,000 cranes are thought to have died in a large outbreak of bird flu near Berlin, conservationists recovering the animals’ bodies said on Thursday. A total of 839 dead cranes have been counted since Sunday in the pond area in Linum, around 30 kilometres north-west…
By Doris Pundy and Marek Majewsky, dpa BERLIN (DPA. CONVERSEER) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday a decision by the European Parliament to not move forward with the reform of the European Union’s supply chain law for the time being “is unacceptable.” The European Parliament’s legal committee had worked out a compromise on…
