Roll of honour Let's take a quick (bullet point assisted) trip down memory lane and revisit the winners of the last 10 Ballon d'Ors. Spot the odd one out. Luka Modric 2017: Cristiano Ronaldo 2016: Cristiano Ronaldo 2015: Lionel Messi 2014: Cristiano Ronaldo 2013: Cristiano Ronaldo 2012: Lionel Messi 2011: Lionel Messi 2010: Lionel Messi 2009: Lionel Messi 11:05 - 'There are no losers' Virgil van Dijk is already pre-empting defeat in tonight's ceremony by insisting there will be "no losers".
Some players take six months, but the point was (to) get him in because of the quality. He relishes it, loves being around the place, gives everyone a boost and has an aura. Solskjaer confirmed injured midfielder Paul Pogba will return to training with the first team next week while forward Marcus Rashford and winger Daniel James are still sidelined.
The victory took them to second place in Serie A and they now travel to AC Milan who moved up to fifth after a win at Sassuolo on Tuesday. Atlalanta moved to within six points of leaders Juventus but from a game more. They lead third placed Inter by two points, though they will be overtaken if Inter beat Fiorentina on Wednesday.
With a string of high scoring games at St Andrew’s of late, we also expect the visitors to claim a 2-1 victory here. The Blues have conceded twice in each of their last four home games, while Blackburn have scored eight times across their last five trips. With Rovers seeing over 2.5 goals in 62% of their away trips, we are backing a 2-1 away win.
Inter is in first place in Seria A with 45 points with the same points as Juventus and they are doing great in this season. With Antonio Conte the team have changed a lot and they are the main team and the favorite team to win Serie A title this season.
I don't think they will be buoyed by a defeat, but they will still take plenty of encouragement out of the day because they showed they could dig out a performance against a superior team. They almost got their reward for hanging in there when Bjorn Engels went close to an equaliser at the end - it was a great save from Claudio Bravo to deny him.
SubstitutionPosted at 88' Substitution, Everton. Oumar Niasse replaces Theo Walcott. Posted at 87' Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Yerry Mina. Posted at 86' Foul by Tom Davies (Everton). Posted at 86' Fabian Schär (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 85' VAR Decision: No card change Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton). Posted at 84' Foul by Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton).
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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.
We've now got a variety of handball rules, which is madness. Is new handball rule spot-on or misguided?Moyes says there is a movement to change the handball rule and believes the International Football Association Board (IFAB) should be looking at the law. At the moment there is a big campaign to try and change this ruling," he said. You could say they are trying to change the offside rule as well.
Full TimePosted at 90'+5' Second Half ends, Borussia Dortmund 1, Sport-Club Freiburg 0. Posted at 90'+4' Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Philipp Lienhart. Posted at 90'+1' Attempt blocked. Nicolas Höfler (Sport-Club Freiburg) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nico Schlotterbeck. Posted at 89' Attempt missed. Raphael Guerreiro (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Fulham have won their last three league games. Swansea have only won one of their last six home league matches. Fulham have only lost two of their last 13 league games. Third placed Fulham travel to Swansea City on Friday evening looking to make it four league wins in a row. Their opponents are fifth in the table, two points behind the London club.
He is not alone in making that call of course - most Premier League clubs, and significantly many Championship teams too, had fielded weakened sides this weekend. But nor can Klopp complain about having to play a replay after choosing to leave his first-choice strike action on the bench against the Shropshire side.
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Having scored more than two goals only twice in their last 15 games at Molineux, Wolves tend to be more efficient than prolific in the final third at home, though two goals should be enough to see off a United team that hit the net two or fewer times in seven of their last eight games away from Old Trafford.
In the modern game he would be an out and out winger but he could do more than that. He could get on the ball and do things. Frank McAvennie: What a player. Frank had it all. He could head the ball, he could run, he could score goals, he could be cheeky, he could defend, he could close people down. Tommy Burns: Left foot, cultured, but he drove manager Billy McNeil mad because he would run all over the place and Billy would tell him to stay on the left, but when Tommy was a manager he would preach the same thing to his players.
They tasted defeat in their last game, with Western United claiming a 2-1 win and they’ll be hoping to bounce back here. No new injury worries will be a boost to the side and the goalscoring exploits of Mitch Duke will buoy them further, with the Socceroo scoring four so far this season. The defence has been the biggest bonus for the side, however, with just four goals conceded, averaging less than a goal a game. But that record will be under threat this weekend as they come up against the league’s top marksman, Jamie Maclaren.
40% of Sporting’s home games have produced exactly three goals and the hosts have obtained as many one-goal margin wins as wins with a margin of two goals or more, while Moreirense have conceded as many one-goal margin defeats as defeats with a margin of two goals or more, which backs up our prediction for a 2-1 home win.
Ronaldinho, he was the one,” Sterling told BBC Sport. If you see my history on Youtube, I have seen every single clip of his playing career. I used to go into the garden and try to recreate what he’d done, but I couldn’t. I tried to the best to my ability. He was something special. With football likely to remain in shutdown for the foreseeable future, Sterling has been getting his football fix by pulling on a virtual Manchester City shirt and representing the club in ePremier League Invitational Fifa 20 tournament.
Odds on goals are very small in this match, but never mind, I will still take that. So, it is the fact that both of rivals are very very offensive and I hope that both of them can continue that way and this time. Municipal Jalapa U20 is excellent team and in last five matches, this team is even four times played with three or more goals. Real Esteli U20 is similar team and they are also team who is playing for a goal more than rival. In last round, they are won in league 4-1 at home. Over is real.
What happens next? Needless to say, Messi’s comments have caused shockwaves. Sport - the paper that got the interview with Abidal - described the situation as a “tsunami”. While others called it “chaos”, Mundo Deportivo’s headline of “Abidal against Messi”, and a graphic which shows the pair going head to head, surely doesn’t bode well for Abidal.
An arbitration panel appointed by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) found he had terminated his contract and fined him 61,000 euros (£50,701). So Riza appealed, first to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), then the Swiss Federal Court, and ultimately to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Last month, Riza - who has retired as a player and is now coaching at Watford's academy - heard he had finally won a decade-long legal battle.
Real Madrid has 10 points 3 points less than the play-off zone before this round starts, this while Ocotal is one place behind them with 9 points, so a very important game for both these sides if they are to make it to the play-offs at the end of this season they need to win this one. But really, look at Ocotal on the road and you shall see them losing 5-0 away at Esteli, lost 2-0 at Diriangen their last away games also losing 2-1 away at both Ferretti and Jalapa and just a 0-0 draw away at Sabanas which is bottom in the league.
The streets are deserted, the shutters of the stores lowered and industrial activity has stopped. It is very difficult to manage,” comments the technical director of Atalanta. The players are at home and they do not all have the possibility of training on treadmills or specific machines. It is normal that this is more complicated for some.
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Modern football can leave you cold sometimes but Sheffield United are different. They are not just doing really well, they are the embodiment of a real-life 'Roy of the Rovers' story in the Premier League at the moment and they have earned everyone's respect. I admire the hard work and graft they have put in to get the results they have done, and they have had plenty of shining moments along the way.
In a statement on their official website, the side announced that those involved in both the football and basketball side of the clubs have voluntarily taken a pay cut of between 10% and 20% depending on the course of the virus and the season. The cut is in order to mitigate the impacts in the severe decline in commercial revenue that has hit Real Madrid and other football sides arising from the suspension of footballing activity for the foreseeable future.
The Club World Cup will give them the chance to get a feel for the conditions first hand - and at the right time of year. Most of the 2022 World Cup will take place in December. Temperatures won't be as high as the 41C they can reach in the sweltering summer months, but will still reach a pretty toasty 30C. Players will get to see how their bodies deal with that sort of heat over 90 minutes. Also, the Club World Cup final is taking place at Doha's Khalifa International Stadium, which is one of the venues for the World Cup.
Aswan have lost 5 of their 8 outings so far and having scored just 7 times and conceded a big 14, it's not hard to see why. The side will make this trip with spirits low and their issues are only compounded by the fact that forward Ahmed Abdel-Zaher has now been ruled for a long period after rupturing his ACL.
Leigh Griffiths, Allan McGregor and Marc McNulty have all played for Scotland in the recent past. Darren Fletcher, Kenny Miller and Gary Caldwell did so not too long ago. Before them, John Collins, Peter Cormack and Mark Burchill did, too. Lizzie Arnot and Claire Emslie went to the World Cup finals with Scotland's women last summer. Alfred Finnbogason scored Iceland's first ever World Cup goal in 2018.
Juventus Managua U20 recovered from the surprise home defeat to last placed Diriangen U20 with a 5-1 win home win over Real Madrid U20. They have now won 3 of the last 4 matches at home scoring 13 goals. Overall they have won 5 of the 8 games at home so far this season.
Jan Bednarek tries a through ball, but Che Adams is caught offside. SubstitutionPosted at 78' Substitution, Southampton. Sofiane Boufal replaces Nathan Redmond. Posted at 77' VAR Decision: Goal Wolverhampton Wanderers - Southampton 2-3 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Raúl Jiménez). Goal!Posted at 76' Goal! Southampton 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 3. Raúl Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Dennis Praet fired home a cross from birthday boy Jamie Vardy to score his first goal for Leicester before Stuart Armstrong equalised for Southampton just five minutes later. Ings scored the winner after being put through on goal by Che Adams, firing beyond Kasper Schmeichel, while City's Jonny Evans had a late goal ruled out by the video assistant referee (VAR) for offside. In Saturday's lunchtime kick-off, Jordan Ayew's deflected equaliser salvaged a point for Crystal Palace in a fiesty encounter at home to Arsenal.
Aymeric with his left foot, plays the left side and he is quick," Guardiola added. He settled quickly in this league since he arrived. Of course (his return) is important for us but we have to respect the process. Another City player recovering from a long-term knee injury is winger Leroy Sane. German media have recently reported that Bayern Munich's long-standing interest in him has been put on hold until the end of the season.
In a strongly worded statement on Tuesday, chairman Levy confirmed Spurs were taking advantage of the Government’s furlough scheme in order to "protect jobs”, with those involved set to be paid 80 per cent of their wages through April and May. We shall all need to work together to ensure the impact of this crisis does not undermine the future stability of the club," the statement read.
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A spot in the Semis will be at stake when these two sides meet. Diriangen are coming from a victory. They conceded early in the match but somehow managed to win that match by 3-1 goals, now they have managed victory in the last 5 home games. Flavio Rego’s men have turned their home into a fortress, and they are likely to come away with a victory. Juventus Managua have been very much inconsistent and having their ups and downs in recent, they are coming off a 1-1 draw against Las Sabanas, somehow they managed to get into the play-offs. But in my perspective it is unlikely that they can manage a good result here.
Flick was promoted from the coaching staff after Niko Kovac's dismissal following Bayern's 5-1 thrashing away to Eintracht Frankfurt last month. He was initially hired for two matches against Olympiakos in the Champions League and against Borussia Dortmund in the league. But after two wins he was trusted to continue until the winter break.
