After finishing his playing career at Porto in 2010 - having famously been an unused substitute in the club's 2004 Champions League win under Jose Mourinho during an earlier stint at the Estadio do Dragao - the rookie coach was handed his first chance at Rio Ave, a club used to plodding along in the Portuguese top flight. To shake things up, a young squad and dynamic coaching team was assembled. Hassan 'Kouka' Ahmed was in his first season as a professional at Rio Ave when Nuno arrived.
We have to put the blinkers on," the 53-year-old said. It is not the easiest game I ever prepared with a team because there are two things tomorrow [Wednesday] night. Usually I don't have to think about anything else other than the football game and I can be focused. But in the end we can only win if we are 100% so we have to go for something as well, it is not as if we are there waiting for the party to start.
Ancelotti said: "I don't want to talk about this because I think it is unfair to talk about a player at a different club in this moment. Southampton are likely to demand more, or perhaps players in exchange, and they will hope Spurs spark a transfer battle with Everton by firming up their long-standing interest in the player who came to St Mary's from Bayern Munich in 2016. Spurs may wish to include defender Kyle Walker-Peters, who has been on loan at Southampton this season in any potential deal and it has been suggested Hojbjerg prefers a move to London.
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Hiroki Abe, 21, won three caps for Japan in last summer's Copa America. He played 79 times for Kashima Antlers before moving to Barca B last summer and has a £33. Rey Manaj - who was on the bench against Malaga - has played 16 times in Serie A for Inter Milan and Pescara. The 22-year-old has also featured 12 times for Albania, scoring two goals in Euro 2020 qualifying. Will Braithwaite actually play at Barcelona? Will he be there next season? Will Martin Braithwaite feature more than Kevin-Prince Boateng did last season?Last season Barca made the surprise loan signing in January of Kevin-Prince Boateng from Italian side Sassuolo - but the Ghanaian midfielder only played four times.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has launched a fundraiser to help fight coronavirus and has called on fellow footballers to help "kick this virus away". The AC Milan striker plays in Italy, the country so far worst affected by the pandemic other than China. It appears Ibrahimovic has made two 50,000 euro (£46,054) donations. Italy has always given me so much and, in this dramatic moment, I want to give back even more to this country that I love," Ibrahimovic said on Instagram.
It looked like Joelinton’s towering header, which clattered off the bar with Kepa beaten, would be the closest to a goal. But then Allan Saint-Maximin crossed, Hayden headed through Kepa and St James’ Park erupted. TALKING POINT – Why can’t Chelsea break down deep-lying defences? It’s been the same story for Chelsea all season – when teams sit deep, they struggle to create chances.
Bochum has now been undefeated in 7 games including 3 wins and has freed itself from relegation zone at first. Confidence should be on it's side. The team managed to win in last 2 games. St. Pauli sit13th place and that is also due to the weakness in away games (1-6-7), but in the last 4 away games Pauli has only lost once and only one game in the last 8 games, but in this ground they won last 3 games in a row. In the first leg there was a 1-1 draw, here too goals should be scored on both sides. Both teams are in fine situation but the hosts is better in table. Both teams should avoid defeat.
I found Wolves like better team at moment. After some break both teams are well rest and will try to play for a win tonight. I think that Leicester will go down in form from round to round. They will finish 4th but will lose several games till the end of Premier league. Home side is team who can win against any team in Premier league. They show many good performances this season and Traore is one of the best attackers in England and he will be the main danger for Leicester tonight. Expect easy home win. Good luck!
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However, after suffering his first defeat as Hibs boss on Wednesday away to Ross County, Ross' side have now closed a six-point gap on fifth-placed Kilmarnock to one point. Reaction & as it happenedGrowing confidence in LeithThis was a fixture that Hibernian had come to dread - they had earned just one win in their previous 16 Premiership games with Aberdeen, and only one point from their last six.
Chelsea don’t normally stand for this. The press, if it wasn’t Frank in charge, would be on the back of Chelsea Football Club, without a shadow of a doubt. SPURS CLASH A MUST-WIN GAME FOR UNDER-PRESSURE LAMPARD It’s a big game for them against Tottenham at the weekend but they’re not bad against Tottenham.
Theo under the 'spotlight'Peter Crouch was picked by Sven-Goran Eriksson for the England squad at the 2006 World Cup, alongside 17-year-old Theo Walcott. The uncapped forward was a surprise selection after recently completing a £12. Arsenal from Southampton. However, he did not feature at the tournament. Crouch and Walcott on the bench during the 2006 World Cup quarter-finalQ: What was the first pre-2006 training session really like when Theo Walcott got called up? Crouch: "It was weird because we took 30 players to a pre-World Cup training camp in Portugal and then eight payers got cut.
He resigned a few short weeks before the first game of this campaign with reports indicating that a disagreement with the board left his situation untenable. Under Andre, the strike duo of Edgar and Cesinha combined tremendously, scoring goals for fun. However, things haven't clicked for the pair this season with only one goal between them thus far.
This fixture features No. 1 vs No. 9 in the league, Arminia Bielefeld vs Sandhausen. The hosts coming from a 1 - 5 away win over Nuernberg (no. 15 in the league) and their last home game a 2 - 1 win over Holstein Kiel. The visitors coming from a 3 - 2 home win to Greuther Fuerth (No. 6 in the league) and their last away game a 1 - 1 draw to Hannover 96. The hosts should win this one but they played a lower table team than the visitors and scored multiple goals but conceded one goal to win the match then won their last home game to another team below the visitors facing a team coming from playing a team above themselves, scoring and conceding multiple goals to win the match then drawing their last away game to a team below themselves scoring and conceding so an over 2.5 is best to tip.
Parry, a former Liverpool chief executive, felt a "sensible solution which made the best of bad circumstances" had been taken after the club agreed for both matches to be played within 24 hours. The one thing I learned from being at Liverpool is you play your fixtures as soon as possible, you never push them back," added Parry. We've actually come up with a very pragmatic solution that first and foremost worked for Liverpool, it was sensible to say 'you have a major problem, what's going to be the right solution for you?' rather than a bureaucratic 'this is the rule'.
The balance of the team is essential and against Fiorentina, Gonzalo Higuain was more useful," he said after the 3-0 win. If we were to use all four together, it would end up sacrificing many of the positive characteristics of these players. TORINO REFLECTING ON MAZZARRI'S FUTURE Torino say they are "reflecting" on coach Walter Mazzarri's future after his side were thumped 4-0 at lowly Lecce on Sunday, having lost 7-0 at home to Atalanta the previous weekend.
Full TimePosted at 90'+5' Second Half ends, Rangers 0, Hamilton Academical 1. Posted at 90'+3' Attempt saved. Marios Ogkmpoe (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Posted at 90'+2' Attempt missed. Steven Davis (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Posted at 90' Foul by Steven Davis (Rangers). Posted at 90' Blair Alston (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Little more than a year after signing, he became the second-youngest player to appear in a Premier League game for the Gunners. Gnabry featured 18 times in all competitions for Arsene Wenger's side during his first two seasons as a professional. But when the minutes dried up, he was sent on loan to West Brom for the 2015-16 Premier League campaign. But he played just three times for Albion - whose manager at the time, Tony Pulis, delivered a telling assessment.
there is no more hope for the sonnenhof to avoid relegation this season and I m pretty confident they are going to lose this game despite on the other side meppen has nothing to play for and that is because meppen on the road is very good especially offensively and I think they will score at least two goals tonight and that should be enough for them to get the win because sonnenhof offense is really not so good and they are rarely scoring more than one goal when they are playing at home and surely their confidence is not on high level right now
And after being outplayed and outfought by the much superior hosts, Neville insisted his team are still a long way away from knocking the USA off their perch as the world's best. I don't see a team that lacked confidence in terms of the way we want to play, I see a team trying to play the right way and it feels as if we are so close but yet so far at this moment," he said "We had chances in the game, opportunities to be ruthless, and we didn't really commit to it.
We walked on to the pitch together, had a little kick about and then went to the bench. We were wrapped up in sleeping bags trying to keep ourselves warm. When you put the ball down, it was floating on the water. You were kicking it but the ball didn't go anywhere. We started so well. It was elation on the bench when Eric Black scored after seven minutes. The goal came from a corner routine that we had worked on in training.
With the Euros and Copa America postponed, however, it provides a window for domestic competitions to resume. A joint statement later from European soccer's various stakeholders said there was a commitment to complete all domestic leagues and European club competitions by June 30, should the situation improve.
AC Milan have closed the club’s museum, sent kids home from the academy (as they are not professionals) and called a halt to construction work at the training ground. Contact with external parties is being limited, which is why Stefano Pioli’s pre-match press conference was cancelled last week. He ended up speaking to Milan TV instead.
Bale twisted his ankle a bit. I'm not sure what it is but I don't think it'll be too big a problem. He wasn't able to continue, and we'll see how it develops," said Zidane. The good thing is that we've got players who hadn't played in a long time but their level was right up there, especially in terms of their intensity.
The usually shot-shy visitors will be pleased with their recent exploits in front of goal as they have netted five times across three matches. What's more is that they have only conceded one goal in this time, which means they have kept three clean sheets in their last four Premier League matches. Steve Bruce will expect the good run to continue against Bournemouth as his team are unbeaten in four games against the Cherries, winning twice.
Posted at 60' Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona) wins a free kick on the left wing. Posted at 60' Foul by Rubén Rochina (Levante). SubstitutionPosted at 60' Substitution, Levante. Borja Mayoral replaces José Luis Morales. SubstitutionPosted at 60' Substitution, Levante. Hernâni replaces Gonzalo Melero. Posted at 59' Lionel Messi (Barcelona) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Silvia Neid Silvia Neid enjoyed 11 years as Germany's national team bossDespite that relatively long list of strong contenders, it is worth remembering that, when the FA were last searching for a Lionesses boss in the winter of 2017-18, many of their preferred candidates pulled out of the running, and Neville's appointment came out of the blue. So it may be that the association's net is cast even wider this time and that may prompt them to approach some of the best-rated overseas coaches.
Schalke 04 are having a good season and are currently on the 5th place in the league. At home they have been strong this season losing only the first home game of the season against the current champions Bayern Munich.
Without pulling up any trees, Reims, who're unbeaten in their last six, have quietly done well this season. Tuesday's hosts are sat in a promising 6th position, which is largely down to their hard-to-beat nature.
He was the only natural midfielder in red with defenders Greg Leigh and Zac Vyner again providing company, and he was the main driving force, burrowing his way through the middle on numerous occasions. But ahead of him he found Cosgrove having an off day, and James Wilson, who had not scored since Aberdeen's last visit to Easter Road in May.
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Moreno first worked alongside Luis Enrique at Barcelona's B team and followed him to AS Roma, Celta Vigo and back to Barca, later joining his coaching staff when he landed the Spain job in July 2018. I understand his decision but cannot agree with it and told him I didn't want him as my assistant and that I felt strong," added Luis Enrique.
Peter Bonetti made 729 appearances for ChelseaTime and further observation suggests Bonetti was harshly treated and, whatever amount of blame has been apportioned, he must not be defined or diminished by the events of 120 minutes in the searing heat and humidity of Leon. He was a goalkeeper of the very highest calibre and one game alone cannot change that. Bonetti continued to be instrumental for Chelsea as they won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1971 after a 2-1 replay victory over Real Madrid in Piraeus in Greece.
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Roberto Firmino scored his first goal at Anfield in 20 games in all competitions, since netting vs Porto in April 2019 - 337 days ago. Since the start of the 2017-18 campaign, Liverpool's goalkeepers have made more errors leading to goals in the Champions League than any other team's keepers in this period (4 - Adrian x1 + Karius x3).
Now they’re up against a better-quality side in Club Bruges and then they’ve got to go into the game at the weekend. It’ll be interesting to see what Ole does in that Europa League game because that’s a winnable tournament. We saw United win it under Mourinho in 2017. You can’t write off United winning it and if you’re someone like Ole, he knows the only way he’s going to appease anybody – especially the people who’ve got it in for him – is to go and win a trophy.
Full TimePosted at 90'+7' Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0, Manchester United 0. Posted at 90'+7' Foul by Fred (Manchester United). Posted at 90'+7' João Moutinho (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 90'+5' Attempt blocked. Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ashley Young. Posted at 90'+5' Attempt missed.
