Football Cryptic Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Sounds like profit! Spanish salt over both legs of right winger (7, 5)
  2. 5. Marching orders sent by Erik?! (3, 4)
  3. 7. Top scoring Persian now trimming sheep (4,7)
  4. 10. Did you hear a ewe nag Ole to score (6, 4)
  5. 11. This is just Kevin Keen but with goals and assists?! (5, 6)
  6. 14. Old School line up calls up two climbing plants and a nocturnal lemur (4, 4, 3)
  7. 16. hooray! Sounds like an awful place for a world cup embarrassment (4, 7)
  8. 17. Successful yanks initially unlock stuck window, not twists (1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
  9. 18. Former champions third place, majorly spawning anxiety?! (4)
  10. 23. Vozinha plays it here cool... cool... Scrambles! (4, 4)
  11. 24. Iconic nickname again fifty fifty on sins (3, 6)
  12. 26. Former city man can only mimic and stutter about heroics against the Huns (4, 7)
  13. 27. Short summer month for Middlesbrough baller (7)
  14. 30. Hard worker in whirlpool in Kent lagoon (5, 5)
Down
  1. 1. Optimistic Club scores first but it's made heartache tonight (2, 5, 6)
  2. 3. Final moment of shame reworked, daubed at zenith (6, 8)
  3. 4. Can't change anything now, are the U-boats all right?! (2,4,4)
  4. 6. Rangers' league start annexing Emilia Romagna club? (4)
  5. 8. Goddess discovered at Alan Taylor's (8)
  6. 9. This cliché's divided the whole sport! (1, 4, 2, 6)
  7. 12. African centre back jinxes past a bonded Mo (6, 7)
  8. 13. Easy to buy back two thirds of a fifth (1, 1, 1, 1)
  9. 15. Six goals and assists for this Spanish midfielder (4)
  10. 19. Wahey! Not home or away, but with a royal honour losing inside neutral stadium (7)
  11. 20. Informal Mockery discovered in Lviv and even spurs man cannot defend it (5, 3, 2, 3)
  12. 21. Iran Leopard mistaken for bearded manager (6, 5)
  13. 22. Club takes loss from ordeal with you on edge of box (7)
  14. 25. goes in punch between legs!? (6)
  15. 28. Youth for ourselves or old lady? (8)
  16. 29. 500 partial companions, is that 50? 1000? Or zero world champions? (4, 4)