He is very good back to goal, you can play up to him. Great link player, but maybe the best thing about him is his personality, so he's got the whole lot really. He had three touches before his fourth, the finish. All them touches were high quality but he had to make them to create the space for himself. But the strike is on the half-volley, great timing. No-one would have saved that one so anyone would be proud of that finish.
Metz lost 4-1 to Nice last week to extend their winless run to eight games, seeing them slump down to 18th in the process. Vincent Hognon's men have really struggled with the step up in quality since being promoted from Ligue 2 and it has been evident to see as they've failed to impress in many games against teams of a similar stature like Nîmes (1-1), Toulouse (2-2) and Brest (0-2). They've conceded 25 goals in 17 games and have scored just 14 in reply which is rather worrying.
I am enjoying my football. The main thing is getting the result and how the team are playing. We are sharp. His man-of-the-match performance drew further praise from former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin, who was at Etihad Stadium as a summariser for BBC Radio 5 Live. Foden stood out as the best player on the pitch," said Nevin. He had everything about his game - good energy and runs with the ball, but also the eye of a pass which all City players have.
Bayern, who were also without suspended Joshua Kimmich, scored four times in 24 minutes in the second half to move into second place. I am happy to start the year like that," Bayern's interim coach Hansi Flick said. After such a short training camp sometimes it is unclear where the team stands so it is outstanding to start the second round in such a way.
Josh Kroenke gives "sincere thanks" Club owner Josh Kroenke said in a statement this morning that the board and owners gave their most "sincere thanks to Unai and his colleagues who were unrelenting in their efforts to get the club back to comepeting at the level we all expect and demand. Arsenal announce the sacking of Unai Emery The #EmeryOut contingent will no doubt be pleased to hear that Arsenal's head coach of 18 months has been given the elbow, this morning.
Posted at 74' Foul by Layvin Kurzawa (Paris Saint Germain). Posted at 74' Mahdi Camara (St Etienne) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!Posted at 72' Goal! St Etienne 0, Paris Saint Germain 3. Mauro Icardi (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
PL appearances for club, 4 PL wins, 4 FA Cups, 3 League Cups, Champions League, Europa LeagueArjen Robben (FW) - from PSV, £12m. PL appearances for club, 15 goals. PL wins, FA Cup, 2 League CupsMateja Kezman (FW) - from PSV, £5. PL appearances for club, 4 goals. PL win, 1 League CupDidier Drogba (FW) - from Marseille, £24m. PL appearances for club, 104 goals. PL wins, 4 FA Cups, 3 League Cups, Champions LeagueTiago (MF) - from Benfica, £10m.
Football Daily podcast: Eriksen's Inter view and a Newcastle Cup runIs there a sense of relief to get all the talk of your future over and get playing at a club without all the background noise?Eriksen: "Yes. England, for the last few years, was very hectic. After what I said in the summer, it was just about 'when is he going to leave?' Every game it was 'Is he leaving? Is he not leaving?' Of course, a lot of people were speaking about it.
Match of the Day that night was notable for the absence of regular pundits Alan Hansen and Trevor Brooking - the pair perhaps surprisingly replaced by Frank Skinner and David Baddiel. Wright: "Everton have always been one of my favourite teams in the Premier League - and not just because I always scored against them! I remember before this game thinking 'oh my goodness, Everton could go down today and they've never been relegated'.
Posted at 60' Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Marin Pongracic. Posted at 60' Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Serge Gnabry with a cross. Posted at 59' Attempt saved. Daniel Ginczek (VfL Wolfsburg) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Josip Brekalo.
With four wins and nine losses in their last 15 league matches, it looks so bleak for them going to this match. Leipzig, Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and drawing with Borussia Dortmund. This is the form they will hope to turn on in this game, but coming from a heavy loss at home to Basel says all about their unpredictability.
Leicester v Liverpool (20:00)It is a big positive for Liverpool that they have had a week away in the sun together and, while it was not cracking the flags in Qatar, it was warmer and it was a nice change of scenery to train in. Of course they brought home the Club World Cup too, and if you put all of that together it was perfect preparation for this game. Leicester, who lost at Manchester City, will not roll over and they have got a decent record against Liverpool in recent years.
Morgan Sanson (Marseille) WHY COULD HE MOVE Constrained by financial fair play, Marseille will have no choice but to let him go. His box-to-box prowess should suit a number of top clubs, especially after another solid season, and reports in France suggest Sanson will be spoiled for choice. WHO IS INTERESTED? Sanson has plenty of admirers in the Premier League with Leicester City, West Ham and Aston Villa all linked with the French midfielder.
West Ham's season risks going from disappointment to disaster. Since beating Bournemouth 4-0 on New Years Day, the Hammers have accrued just two points from five games and enter a tough spell of fixtures. After visiting champions Manchester City on Sunday, David Moyes's team face Liverpool, Southampton, Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.
Posted at 48' Foul by Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Dortmund). Aberdeen move up to third in the Scottish Premiership as Sam Cosgrove's 19th goal of the season was enough to send Hamilton Academical to the bottom. Derek McInnes' side had all the chances in a goalless first half but had to wait until the 53rd minute before Cosgrove fired in off a post.
I have a good relationship with Cristiano. If a player who has won so much is angry about being substituted, it means he still has a lot of motivation, and this is something positive," he said. Group D leaders Juventus have already qualified for the knockout stages with two games to spare and a win on Tuesday would ensure they win the group.
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COMING UP Football never stops. Or at least it doesn’t seem to, whether you want it to or not. So of course there’s a full round of Premier League games this midweek, regardless of whether any of us asked for them. The big one is of course Chelsea v Arsenal, but Aston Villa v Watford should be good, Sheffield United have a decent chance of getting something from Manchester City while Bournemouth v Brighton should be grimly interesting too.
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These teams have been the worst ones of this League in the first 2 rounds of this season, considering that they have both lost their 2 games, however Gorodeya has been certainly worse than Belshina: the visitors have been the only team to have scored no goal at all yet, conceding 3 total goals in their matches vs Vitebsk and Soligorsk. Belshina has conceded one goal more than them, but they have at least scored once so far, so I think they could be favorite in this home clash. Belshina has won a friendly game vs Gorodeya few weeks ago, so I will bet on them today.
Later that day after scoring in Manchester United’s 3-0 win over Tottenham, he threw a few punches at the air before collapsing dramatically for his celebration. The wild celebrationsKetsbaia goes berserkA celebration so iconic it’s the main thing Temuri Ketsbaia is known for in England. After scoring a last-minute winner for Newcastle against Bolton in January 1998, the Georgian threw his shirt into the crowd and tried to take his boots off before repeatedly kicking the advertising hoardings while shrugging off team-mate Philippe Albert.
My actions in this matter are in direct contrast to what I should have been doing regarding the lockdown. And I want to re-iterate the message: stay home, stay safe. Walker is the second high-profile Premier League player to express his regret for breaking government guidelines on social distancing. Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish apologised after being pictured at the scene of a car accident, hours after he posted a video urging fans to stay safe at home on social media.
Bale held a fan's Welsh flag emblazoned with the message 'Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order' after victory over Hungary on Tuesday night which became the talk of the Spanish press in the following days. The forward was left on the bench by Zinedine Zidane and the crowd whistled when his name was announced before the game, then again when he entered the field of play in the 67th minute.
With over 100 millimetres of rain falling in the Sydney area over the past two days, and in the interest of player welfare, all parties agreed that it was not possible to play the match as scheduled," FFA Head of Leagues Greg O'Rourke said. Whilst it is disappointing that a nearly sold-out crowd is unable to see another iconic Sydney derby today, this was the right decision.
The Reds needs 19 points from the remaining 27 to beat Manchester City's total of 100 points from 2017-18, while they could also better City's record title-winning margin of 19 points from the same campaign. Then there is, of course, the Premier League's top scorer. Leicester striker Jamie Vardy leads the way with 19 goals but Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (17), Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (16), Sergio Aguero of Manchester City (16) and Southampton's Danny Ings (15) are in contention.
Assisted by Stuart Dallas following a fast break. Posted at 79' Liam Cooper (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 79' Foul by Marcus Tavernier (Middlesbrough). Posted at 78' Attempt blocked. Lukas Nmecha (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Britt Assombalonga. Posted at 77' Luke Ayling (Leeds United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
She battled to help Yeovil gain promotion to the Women's Super League in 2017 before spending two years at Birmingham and she is confident these experiences have taught her enough to guide Spurs to success. I think coming to Tottenham is really pushing my game forward," she said. I needed that challenge, I needed to step up myself and have people look up to me and have people learn from me.
And then it gets intense . The goal they scored was a counterattack when we were 1-0 up – that makes not too much sense. Then they scored and there were another five to 10 minutes of Wolves’ time. Then we calmed the game down again and controlled it . Then [we got] a worldie from Bobby. It was a super, super, super goal.
We were very confident, we were a good side and we always thought we would win," recalled Lee. It was raining very hard and there were puddles on the pitch but we knocked it about well and we created several chances. The guy who was marking me was called Jerzy Gorgon, and he was as big as Desperate Dan, but I still did pretty well against him. We were 2-0 up by half-time but it could have been three or four by then.
The Solskjaer comparisons are therefore impossible to ignore. Solskjaer may have spent time at Cardiff City and Molde between stints as United’s reserves manager and then interim manager, but here was a man who knew the club and importantly what made the fans at Old Trafford tick. The same can be said for Ljungberg and Arsenal.
You might think that this would put them in contention for a top four spot, but the fact that they’ve only won five of these 11 games means that they find themselves 6th in the table, five points adrift of Chelsea in the last of the Champions League qualification spots.
Forest captain Watson was fortunate not to concede a penalty on 21 minutes, knocking Pritchard down as he skipped into the box. A well-worked free-kick routine on the edge of the area just before the half-hour mark led to Huddersfield's best first-half chance, only for Ameobi to intervene by hacking Grant's shot over the bar. Despite the Terriers looking the more industrious for long periods of the first half, it was the Reds that took the lead - Grabban showing brilliant technique with a close-range volley after being picked out by Worrall at the far post.
Tottenham are investigating after right-back Serge Aurier appeared to breach coronavirus social-distancing rules for the third time. The 27-year-old posted a photo on social media of himself and a barber after getting a haircut. Hairdressers will open from 4 July at the earliest in England, and people cannot have visitors at their homes. Tottenham said they were "investigating the circumstances and will deal with the incident appropriately".
There are a lot of clubs and attractive projects for me to take on," Pochettino told Fox Sports in Argentina. FULL STORY 15:40 - Messi has touched down Will it be a wasted trip though? 15:23 - Dann, Cahill out for Palace Crystal Palace defenders Scott Dann and Gary Cahill will miss Tuesday's Premier League match with Bournemouth due to injury, manager Roy Hodgson said on Monday.
Defeat puts them just a point above the drop zone, with third-from-bottom Huddersfield poised to leapfrog them if they beat Nottingham Forest on Sunday. Boro climb a place above the Potters to 19th, with a two-point buffer between them and the bottom three. Warnock has immediate impact on confident Boro Neil Warnock was making his first appearance back in the dugout since leaving Cardiff in NovemberWarnock and trusty assistant Kevin Blackwell had barely a couple of training sessions with their new players before this game but from this evidence it had been time well spent.
We’re confident that a double chance bet on the visitors will payout this Saturday and we have predicted a final score of 2-1. The hosts are in poor form and have struggled for the most part this season, and are still to win at home in the Primeira Liga. Famalicao, on the other hand, have adapted excellently to life in the top flight and are currently the nearest challengers to Benfica and Porto for the league title thanks to them losing just once in the league this season, so confidence is high within the visitors camp.
With the Reds on an 11-game winning run and top of the table, Gerrard slipped attempting to control a pass, allowing Demba Ba to run through and slot past Simon Mignolet in front of the Kop. Willian scored a second late on as control of the Premier League title race fell out of the hands of Brendan Rodgers' side. Manchester City never looked back. Perhaps the most ironic thing about the whole incident was Gerrard's impassioned "we don't let this slip" speech after the previous home match against City.
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Ineos rider Rowe replaces NHS medic's stolen bike Time for a heartwarming tale (in the end. Team Ineos rider Luke Rowe has stepped in and replaced an NHS medic's stolen bike after reading about the theft on social media. Anaesthetic registrar Dr Tom Roberts tweeted about the theft of his bike while he was on a shift at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, and Rowe responded with the bike to be delivered today.
Goa is currently the leader of this competition and will try to continue the good results after four consecutive victories. Nevertheless, Bengaluru is a tough team to beat and at home will be very hard for Goa to be able to get the win here. Looking at the market on this contest, the price for Bengaluru has dropped almost 10% since the opening odds on the 1x2 market. For that reason, we will follow the trend here and back Bengaluru on the 1x2 market to get the win at home on this match here against Goa that will take place this Friday.
Everton said they were "appalled" after images emerged appearing to show striker Moise Kean at a house party. The Daily Star Sunday reported that Italian Kean, 20, filmed himself at the party in his apartment. Everton said they were "appalled to learn of an incident in which a first-team player ignored government guidance and club policy in relation to the coronavirus crisis". The club has "strongly expressed its disappointment to the player.
It could have been six, seven or eight' - the gameGoals from Barr and Skacel put Hearts in a commanding position, but James McPake pulled one back for Hibs before the break. After half-time, Pa Kujabi gave away a penalty and was sent off before Grainger scored from the spot. McGowan's header and Skacel's second then sealed the win against the dishevelled 10 men. Grainger: "It could have been six, seven or eight.
I think everyone has good moments and bad moments, the way he looks at it when I speak with him, he sounds pretty convinced," said Arteta. But if he can see the success and direction we are taking, it is the right one, I think he'll be more positive about it. Big players get criticism when things don't work. But he showed today on the pitch - not talking - what he can do. Arsenal will face Chelsea or Manchester United in the FA Cup final on 1 August.
United have won only one of the 12 Premier League games in 2019-20 where they have had more than 50% of possession. They are unbeaten against the seven teams above them and have beaten four of them - but they have beaten only two of the 11 teams they have faced who are below them. Burnley are the only side they are yet to play. Using that pace is key to United's game. Where they struggle is against teams lower down the table, like Watford, who sit deep and defend in numbers and let United have the ball.
You know that the championships are stopped in almost all countries because of the coronavirus pandemic," the Dushanbe-based Istiklol manager Vitaliy Levchenko told a news conference on the eve of the Super Cup clash. Thank God, there is no coronavirus in Tajikistan and the new football season begins in the country.
Bayern Munich are talking about getting a forward, possibly, because they have a deal with Leroy Sane or Timo Werner but when you hear Cristiano Ronaldo going to Manchester United or Real Madrid, it is pure fantasy. Having said that, Juventus would not be so unhappy if they let Ronaldo go because of the amount of wages that they have to pay for him and somebody made a call to Real Madrid. Real answered 'Sorry, no.
Substitute Phil Foden netted a third for the defending champions, capitalising on a rebound from Sergio Aguero's strike. Arsenal were second best throughout as manager Mikel Arteta left Alexandre Lacazette on the bench and Mesut Ozil was kept out of the extended 20-man squad. There were bursts of energy from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Eddie Nketiah going forward in the first half but it was City who were more dangerous.
