Jack and Kenny always told the new signings that the dream was to win the league. Blackburn v Man UtdBlackburn FeeMan UtdFeeChris Sutton (Norwich)£5mDavid May (Blackburn)£1. Robbie Slater (Lens)£300,000Graeme Tomlinson (Bradford City)£100,000Tony Gale (West Ham)FreeAndy Cole (Newcastle)£6mJeff Kenna (Southampton)£1. Richard Witschge (Bordeaux)LoanTOTAL£6. The court jester and a smashed coach windowAs well as missing Gallacher, Blackburn also start the season without influential midfielder David Batty, who is recovering from a broken foot.
What if a loan expires before the season finishes? What if certain players don't want to sign an extension? What if players jump ship to finish the season at another club given FIFA’s transfer registration opens in July? We’ve had a scan through the website of glorious data-specialists Transfermarkt to assess the contract situations at the major European clubs.
Odds are not that bad for the over 2.5 goals as well with Tottenham playing all their games since Mourinho came as coach with at least 3 goals scored in them, for example at home they won 5-0 lately with Burnley, won 3-2 with Bournemouth or 4-2 with Olympiakos, this while away from home they won 3-2 away at West Ham but lost 2-1 at Manchester Utd and lately 3-1 away at Bayern Munich, so while they are playing better, defense is still an issue for them.
MANCHESTER, England, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Manchester City's Premier League title hopes were in tatters after suffering a 2-1 derby defeat at home to Manchester United on Saturday, leaving Pep Guardiola's champions 14 points behind leaders Liverpool. Goals from Marcus Rashford (penalty) and Anthony Martial put Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side 2-0 up at the break and City only pulled one back in the 85th minute through Nicolas Otamendi.
Against sides outside the top 10, Reading have scored twice in all but one of their home games. They also hit a couple in a 2-2 draw at QPR earlier this season, one of the Rs’ many high scoring clashes. With over 2.5 goals landing in 73% of Reading’s home games – including six of their last eight – we are going for at least three goals to be scored in this meeting.
Landskrona will against Thorns in match Sweden Club Friendlies. My prediction this match could be the win for Landskrona with margin score is 2 goals. Landskrona have great result on last 3 match in club friendlies due to Landskrona have won in 2 match and 1 match is draw. Meanwhile, Thorns have also better result on last 6 match in club friendlies due to Thorns have won in 4 match, 1 match is draw and 1 match is lose. Nevertheless, my prediction that Landskrona can beat Thorns due to Landskrona ever beat Thorns on last year with score 3-0. Surely Landskrona have more chance to win on this match.
Middlesbrough’s great form couldn’t keep them in the FA Cup in midweek, but they have another trip to London on Friday night. Just three days after their loss to Tottenham, Boro are away to promotion contenders Fulham. The Cottagers are in fourth place in the league, but they meet the team who currently top the form table this weekend. Can Fulham improve their recent run and pull off a victory in this clash?
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If the latest reports are accurate, then West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini could lose his job if the Irons are turned over by Southampton in the clubs' Premier League basement battle in Saturday's evening kick-off.
The versatile midfielder, who can also slot into defence, last played in the Premier League for Sunderland in May 2017. Hopefully we can kick-start his career. He's certainly got the desire and from a physical point of view there are no issues," Wilder added. I've sat down with him for a long time and spoke about his career going forward, it aligns with the club's goals.
Sydney FC are current league leaders a long distance from the rest of the pack right now, with some interesting signings this summer like striker Barbarouses or winger Baumjohann they have been very impressive so far this start of the season scoring goals with ease and winning most of the games played by them home or away from home for example a couple of weeks ago they beat Newcastle Jets very easy with no less than 4-1 at home.
Strevens has since been appointed Spitfires boss and wants a repeat of the heroics of 2015-16 when Eastleigh reached the third round before losing to Bolton, who were then in the Championship. Being at home is important if you are the lesser side," said Strevens before League Two Crewe's visit to the Silverlake Stadium. It evens the tie up. We want to test ourselves against Football League opposition.
That's despite some setbacks over the past week, such as Salomon Kalou's social media video, which showed him flouting social distancing rules at Hertha Berlin, and the fact that 10 players or members of staff have tested positive for coronavirus. The clubs have put a huge amount of work into this though and Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes assured me this week that his players feel safe now that there is testing every three or four days and temperature checks every day as they arrive at the training centre.
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Despite recent reports of unhappiness at Juventus amongst the squad, the Daily Mail quotes Ronaldo as saying: 'I'm in the best club in Italy, I'm playing alongside the best players. I'm happy we won trophies last year - and this year I hope to win as well. As an individual I am happy. I went to Juventus to score goals and do my best and I am very happy.
Read the full story 20:40 - England cricketers agree donations and wage cut The Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) has confirmed that contracted England men's players have agreed a donation of £500,000 to the ECB and various good causes to keep the game afloat in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Odds pretty much are too big for what this game promises to be, I mean I know that last round both these sides played games with under 2.5 goals as Vitebsk 2 struggled at home to get a 1-1 draw with Slavia Mozyr 2, while Soligorsk 2 lost at home to 10 men Isloch Minsk 2 with 1-0 in the end but had around 13 corner kicks and failed to score. But scoring against Vitebsk 2 is really not that hard, the hosts have conceded in all their games so far this season.
Shakhtar have had an unconvincing defence in their past few matches and as a result have shipped in a plenty of goals. Though they have been scoring quite well, their defensive problems stand to cost them here, looking at Wolfsburg’s form. Wolfsburg hit Malmo home and away in the last round and with four straight wins in the competition, they will be keen to take the first leg advantage. Playing at home will favor them too. However, with just one clean sheet in five Europa League home games, we feel they may concede here. Still we are backing the home side for a win.
Velez will be meeting with the away team Godoy and this game we have given the home and the away team will give us a draw as looking at this two teams when they meet together they are very used of balancing the results
We're committed to doing all that we can to try and finish this season. I'm not saying that that will happen, there are obviously a lot of other things still to consider, but that's what we are focused on trying to achieve. Oxford United echoed Portsmouth's thoughts with managing director Niall McWilliams emphasising the club "want to play". Obviously that's not going to be easy and I don't envy the EFL trying to find a way to make it happen," McWilliams told the club's website.
Arguably the most important catch was forward Valon Berisha who played 20 times for Norway before switching in 2016. BIGGER NATIONS Challandes said he could understand why players might choose bigger nations and that he did not stand in their way. The players must decide with a football mind," he said.
Nevertheless she has her own interests for diverting on the approach, as calling off the season would allow her West Ham to probably stay up in the league for another year. Read the full story Video - Who wins the Havertz race, Bayern or Liverpool? - Euro Papers01:40 West Ham consider Anderson sale West Ham are considering the sale of Felipe Anderson when the transfer window eventually re-opens, according to the Mirror.
Will take the handicap bet on Ceske here who still hold some chances of finishing the normal season inside the top 6 teams, it has been a very good season for them given the fact that last season they were playing just in the 2nd league level, and last home game they won 2-0 at home with Sigma Olomouc while last round they played away from home at Karvina and kept another clean sheet in what was a 0-0 draw in the end, but they should find it easy to score against Teplice team which conceded 9 goals in its last 3 league games.
Kfar Saba will be meeting with the away team beitar and this game looking at it very well we have seen that this two teams are not used of scoring over of 3.5 total goals and they have not recorded this in the last 7 games and so this makes us to see that this game they will not score over 3.5
Instead, they are turning into a badly scripted soap opera, making painful viewing for their fans. The first big decisions - to sack Roberto Martinez and hire Koeman - were welcomed, only for Moshiri to fatally compromise the new set-up by appointing Leicester City's title talent-spotter Steve Walsh as director of football, a role for which he was ill-suited, and revealed himself over-promoted. Koeman and Walsh's uneasy relationship produced an unstructured, scattergun and highly expensive transfer policy and both were sacked by Moshiri.
PAOK is currently on a very impressive streak with 4 consecutive victories, which allowed them to get to the first place of the Greek Superleague after a couple of draws from Olympiakos in the last weeks. PAOK has yet to lose a game this season after 12 wins and 4 drawers and on this match we expect another win from them. Aris is a decent team, is currently in the 6th place but PAOK is clearly the better side and with their price above events on the 1x2 market we can only take PAOK to get the victory on this match.
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They enhanced their chances with a 2-0 away win over Europa League aspirants Getafe and with Sevilla just two points below them, Atletico will attach some importance on this clash. In the last 15 matches, Atletico have not tasted defeat, winning nine and drawing six and in their 18 home matches this season in La Liga, they have only lost to Barcelona.
He has to manage the fitness of all of his players, in terms of how many minutes they have in their legs, to ensure they can last the duration. Man City's next five gamesDateCompetition & stageOpponents & venue* City lead 3-1 from the first legWednesday, 29 JanCarabao Cup semi-final second leg*Man Utd (h)Sunday, 2 FebPremier LeagueTottenham (a)Sunday, 9 FebPremier LeagueWest Ham (h)Saturday, 22 FebPremier LeagueLeicester (a)Wednesday, 26 FebChampions League R16 first legReal Madrid (a)They have got a tough month coming up before the first leg of the Real tie, including away games at Tottenham and Leicester, but Guardiola is not going to change the way he prepares for those matches just because they have a trip to the Bernabeu on the horizon.
The Bluebirds have seen both teams score in seven of their last eight matches, while they should continue that against the Swans. Both defences have been massively exposed in recent weeks, while we expect that to continue here. Cardiff have kept two clean sheets in 13 clashes with sides above them in the league. Meanwhile, Swansea have kept one clean sheet in 10 away trips in all competitions.
This was another occasion on which they could have taken at least a point from a hard-fought contest but for individual errors - with Engels having an afternoon to forget. The 25-year-old Belgian, who started because of Tyrone Mings' absence through illness, had a difficult time dealing with the movement and pace of Bergwijn, Son and Lucas Moura. It was his rash challenge on Bergwijn that allowed the visitors to go in at the interval with the lead in a game Villa had enjoyed the better of until then.
Just when defeat looked inevitable, Burnley rescued a point on Wednesday through Chris Wood's penalty in the last-minute of injury-time against Wolves at Turf Moor. The result means they are unbeaten at home since New Year's Day and consolidates their position in the top-half of the table - a successful season given the size of the clubs they are competing against. But with two games of the campaign remaining, the big question around Burnley centres on whether they will be the last two matches Sean Dyche spends in the manager's dugout.
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What Barcelona are doing is a bit ugly. They have to have some respect for their current coach, the way things are done are what hurt the most," Vissel Kobe midfielder Iniesta told Onda Cero radio station on Monday. Valverde's situation is very weak right now. Xavi) knows best if he's ready or not. Reports in Spain suggest Al-Sadd coach Xavi, who played with Iniesta at Barca in their most successful era where they won four Champions League titles among numerous other trophies, will not accept the job until the end of the current campaign and that the club are looking for a short-term appointment.
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Jose Mourinho says signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Tottenham "doesn't make sense" because he has the "best striker in England" in Harry Kane. Ibrahimovic, who played for Mourinho at Inter Milan and Manchester United, is available after his two-year spell at LA Galaxy ended. The new Tottenham manager said he has "more than a connection" with the former Sweden forward. But he said: "Amazing player, amazing guy, but I would say no chance.
Following Bayern's 2-0 win at home to VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday, CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic agreed that continuing with Flick is "explicitly a viable option". Under him as head coach, the on-field development has been outstanding, both in terms of the quality of our play and the results achieved," Rummenigge said in a statement.
It's been a busy few weeks for Monterrey, who came within a minute or so of taking the mighty Liverpool to extra-time at the FIFA Club World Cup, though that should only have sharpened their appetite. Following their disappointment in Qatar, Monday's visited turned their focus back to domestic matters and delivered a dominant performance to win the first leg of this tie.
Meanwhile, Southampton are still waiting for their first home league win of the season, and they have actually only won five of their 18 home Premier League matches since Hasenhuttl took charge. Each of their last four have ended in defeat, and while we’re not expecting Watford to claim all three points we do think backing a Hornets Win or Draw Double Chance is a good value option here.
We are working towards something," Lampard said. It doesn't come easy. We have seen that with other teams in recent years. It is step by step. We have shown lots of good stuff this year but we have to focus on the three finals we have - two league games and Arsenal in the FA Cup. Three games won't define the progress we have made but we are at the business end. He sets an amazing example' Media playback is not supported on this device Watch: Giroud's 'deft' finish gives Chelsea FA Cup lead Lampard was full of praise for Giroud - who you rated as your man of the match - as the veteran Frenchman scored for the sixth time in his last seven starts to open the scoring.
We have a busy few weeks ahead and the team needs your support. Let’s get to work!" ‘Let’s get to work’ – but for how long? Tottenham took under 24 hours to replace Mauricio Pochettino with Jose Mourinho, but Arsenal’s appointment of Ljungberg as interim head coach shows they are following Bayern Munich’s patient approach.
Aston Villa welcomes Newcastle at home at Villa Park in a classic meeting. It could well be said that these clubs are on a fairly similar level this year. The focus of both teams is to secure a new contract, but the fans demand a little more than that. There are two great clubs that wrap up a lot of fans at their matches, but in terms of gameplay it's not so much fun to watch. I think this is going to be very tight as none of the teams really enjoy running the game. I therefore believe in a relatively low goal match and like the prices below 2.5 goals here.
I don't know if he will need an operation, it's not my area. I can see he's not happy. It's important he stays positive but of course it's difficult. It's a bad moment, it won't be easy and he will feel like this for a while. Real, who play at home in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie against Manchester City on Wednesday, are second in La Liga, two points behind leaders Barcelona.
In Germany, Waldhof Mannheim and Viktoria Koln will be expected to face one another in a Liga 3 match which will be held at Carl-Benz-Stadion, Mannheim city. In the table, Mannheim takes position 3 with 47 points after playing 29 games while Viktoria takes position 13 with 38 points after playing 29 games.
Juventus remained unbeaten at home in Serie A in 2019 (W13 D4), one of only three sides in the big-5 European Leagues to do so along with Liverpool and Barcelona. On top of that, the champions are unbeaten in their last 29 Serie A home matches (W24 D5) and could avoid defeat in 30 in a row for the first time since September 2017. We see them adding to Cagliari’s run of consecutive defeats. The visitors lost both 2-1, while Juve have already seen that scoreline land six times. We see a repeat of that on Monday.
EINTRACHT FRANKFURT BRING IT ON THEMSELVES, SAYS BOBIC Eintracht Frankfurt sporting director Fred Bobic gave a withering assessment of his team's performance after they lost 2-1 to bottom club Paderborn to extend their winless run in the Bundesliga to seven matches, including six defeats. We brought it on ourselves and didn't take the fight to them from the start," he said.
World champions France, Germany and Portugal will be joined in Group F, to be played in Munich and Budapest, by the winners of playoff A or D in by far the toughest of the six first-round pools. Portugal were among the third seeded teams because of their relatively poor performance in the qualifiers.
Some Premier League clubs had mulled finishing the season by playing games without spectators in attendance but Shaw said that was not a view he endorsed as fans filling up stadiums was crucial. Fans are so important. You realise it even more (now)," Shaw, 24, added. I think the sport is for fans really .
He was used as a makeweight for Arsenal to land Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang back then, and now it appears he will be a pawn once more as Chelsea seek a striker capable of challenging Abraham for the starting spot. With Euro 2020 around the corner, it seems likely Giroud will move on so he can secure a place in France’s squad, but talk of Inter being interested in the 33-year-old is somewhat surprising.
