Politicians have condemned some Premier League clubs for furloughing non-playing staff, saying they are living in a "moral vacuum. The Premier League, English Football League, PFA and League Managers' Association met on Wednesday and remain in discussions over "several high-profile matters, including player wages and the resumption of the 2019-20 season. Here is a round-up of what Premier League clubs have announced regarding pay so far.
Much of les Monegasques' dismay has come on the road so far though with four of their last five defeats all coming away from the Stade Louis II. Their home form has been rather good but they have picked up just five of a possible 21 points away from the Stade Louis II. However, they have kept up their attacking prowess by creating the second most chances of any Ligue 1 team away form home this season so Toulouse may just be the side to get their second away win of the campaign against.
Full TimePosted at 90'+5' Second Half ends, Manchester City 3, Leicester City 1. SubstitutionPosted at 90'+1' Substitution, Manchester City. Sergio Agüero replaces Kevin De Bruyne because of an injury. SubstitutionPosted at 89' Substitution, Manchester City. Phil Foden replaces Raheem Sterling. Posted at 81' Attempt saved. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom left corner.
Argentina captain Diego Maradona scored five goals at the 1986 World Cup finalsWright: "You knew instantly at home but it took a little while to show it on the television. It was so clever but felt so wrong. Gazza's tears1990 World Cup in ItalyThis was the summer that relaunched football mania in England as Sir Bobby Robson's side headed into a World Cup semi-final against West Germany. Paul Gascoigne was outstanding throughout the tournament and when his bottom lip wobbled and the tears flowed - after a booking that ruled him out of a final England would not reach - he captured the hearts of a nation.
Though that would require Liverpool to win all their matches in that time while Manchester City lose theirs - which seems unlikely. Even if City lost their next five games the likes of Leicester, currently third, would likely pick up enough points to keep the title race alive, just. Whatever happens, Liverpool know that 10 wins from their remaining 16 games will be enough to be crowned champions.
AnalysisFormer Derby County midfielder Craig Ramage, who works as Rams summariser for BBC Radio Derby"There is going to be more bums on seats because of the Rooney factor against Barnsley, that is inevitable. Everyone wants to see Wayne Rooney in a Rams shirt - it is still surreal now. He is the leading scorer of England and Manchester United, his CV is endless. I'm really looking forward to it, just to see that bit of quality.
Flick couldn't have asked for much better of a start than he has enjoyed as Bayern head coach. Bayern have won all four of their games under Flick's management. Furthermore, Bayern are yet to concede a single goal with Hansi Flick as head coach.
Union Berlin go to this game on a run of five winless matches, four of these being losses. They have no clean sheet in the last five matches and have conceded two or more goals in each of them while failing to score in the last two matches. Four of their last five matches have produced over 2. Their form at home doesn’t hold much promise either; they lost 2-0 to Bayern Munich as the league resumed and will be hoping to stop the run that has seen them winless in the last three home matches.
He previously managed Chelsea, winning the Premier League and FA Cup in his first season in 2009-10, before being sacked after a trophyless second campaign. He has also won domestic league titles with Milan, Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich. But the 60-year old manager now faces a different sort of challenge as he aims to haul under-achieving Everton back into the top half of the Premier League and transform them into a club vying for European competition again.
Asked if that put Lennon up there with McNeill among the club's greats, McGregor said: "Yeah definitely - as you said, there's not too many in that category, so it shows just how good a manager he is, the calibre that he's got. He's a born winner. He demands from the players every single day. Even this morning in the warm-up, he was on the players to do it properly. So it shows his mentality and his winning mentality and that's rubbing off on the group as well.
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And he also offers snooker fans and tournament organisers some advice for the coming months, telling Eurosport reporter Desmond Kane: " I think we’ve all got to batten down the hatches, and do the right thing by society by staying indoors for a while. It is hopefully a short time to help other people in the country, but we have to think about the bigger picture rather than self-interest.
I still struggle to this day thinking I could have done more. I was in turmoil with depression'When doctors turned off Sarah's life-support machine they allowed 15 minutes for a response. When nothing came, she was pronounced dead. Lynn was there at the end. She was the love of my life, and I will always love Sarah," she says. It took me a very long time to fall in love again, but in 2014 I finally did.
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I think we will see a slow match and we won't see more than 1 goal scored in this match and so my bet is the under 1.5 FT. The teams are Buyu Tepecikspor and Of so and this is a match for the Div 3 in Turkey. The hosts so far after 14 matches are in the middle and scored and conceded only 13 goals. They did a win 1-0 and a draw 0-0 in the last 2 matches played. The guests scored only 12 and conceded 13 and are coming from a defeat 1-0 and so I try this under.
The result ended a run of three consecutive wins for Napoli in all competitions and left the hosts in 11th place with 30 points, eight ahead of 17th-placed Lecce. Elsewhere, Diego Lopez was denied a win on his debut as Brescia coach after a stoppage-time equaliser from Udinese’s Rodrigo De Paul cancelled out Dimitri Bisoli’s opener to earn the visitors a 1-1 draw.
David Moyo (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Posted at 72' Attempt saved. Connor Goldson (Rangers) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Posted at 71' Corner, Rangers. Conceded by Aaron McGowan. Posted at 71' Attempt blocked. James Tavernier (Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Posted at 71' Corner, Rangers.
They have their wingers cutting in from wide and get their full-backs forward down the sides to get the ball into the box. If you wanted to write a coaching manual about how to stop them, then you would watch a video of this match first. This was a masterclass in how to defend against a superior side and, to carry it out, the Atletico players needed discipline and a clear understanding of what was expected from them.
We’re going to give him the time he needs. United are looking to end their great rivals 38-game unbeaten league run and scupper their chances of becoming just the third team in English top-flight history to go a full league season without losing. Victory for Liverpool would see them open up a 16-point gap on champions Manchester City with a game in hand.
There is a lot to them. But we can’t look back on anything. We are fighting for the top four and we have to go to Munich and show a lot of pride. I will keep working. Chelsea were a clear second-best to the Bundesliga champions throughout, and their misery was compounded when defender Alonso was red-carded late on for throwing his arm into the face of Lewandowski.
Bayern won the championship for the 8th consecutive time. The team now play against Freiburg, who has never won in Munich. Freiburg is still playing for a spot in the European Cup, for which place 7 is enough this season and where Freiburg is a point behind Hoffenheim and Wolfsburg.
French media, including the website of L'Equipe, said he died in a car crash after a training session. Julan was raised at Le Havre where he made his professional debut in Ligue 2 in 2015. He went on to make 42 appearances for Le Havre, scoring nine goals, before joining Guingamp in January 2018 when they were in Ligue 1.
So it does need looking at, and it does need the government to take some responsibility for not locking down sooner. The mayor of Madrid has already said the decision to allow the match to go ahead was "a mistake", as has Liverpool city council's director of public health Matthew Ashton. An interesting hypothesis'On the day of the match at Anfield, England's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, said the UK was "following the science and the evidence" in not banning sports events, as other countries had done by then.
United have still got tough fixtures. They’ve got Tottenham away as well, so there’s still a lot of pushing and shoving to go on yet to see who gets that fourth spot. OLE MUST PRIORITISE EUROPA LEAGUE The game on Thursday’s important, another away game. They’re going to have to start upping their performances in the Europa League as they haven’t been great but have got through so far relatively easily.
We matched them in the physical side of things because we had our own players who were physical and that was probably why we were such big rivals. We weren't unalike in the way we played. In his autobiography, Leeds midfielder Johnny Giles attests to “a special sort of animosity” between the teams. I had that bit of ‘previous’ with Eddie McCreadie,” adds Giles. John Hollins, who would usually mark me, could do a bit.
Lingard failed to score or assist in the Premier League in 2019 calendar year and has lost his place in Gareth Southgate's England squad ahead of this year's European Championship. Jesse has had his ups and downs as I've spoken about before," Solskjaer told a news conference ahead of United's League Cup semi-final first leg against Manchester City on Tuesday.
In the 'Correct Score' market, a 1-1 draw stands out as a viable option. Neither side have thrived offensively, but they've tended to score the odd goal, while they've both conceded exactly once in 50% of their respective home and away matches.
Nottingham Forest have the chance to go one place up, to third on the Championship standings when they play away to Millwall on Friday. The two sides go to the game separated by six points, with hosts Millwall on 26 points and placed 13th while Nottingham have 32 points and placed fourth. Millwall go to this game unbeaten in four matches, having drawn two and won two.
The reverse fixture between these two sides ended in a 1-1 draw. Seven of the last eight Sheffield United home league games have seen under 2.5 goals scored in them. Three of the last five away Tottenham away league games have had under 2.5 goals scored in them Sheffield United have slipped to eighth in the Premier League after two straight defeats.
Wolves have not done so well in the recent matches; they have managed just one win this year. While they have what it takes, as seen in their game against Manchester City, they somehow fall short against weaker teams. They have already lost to united this season and with one win in seven matches, and playing at Old Trafford, they won’t be in a very strong position. They have no clean sheet in their last nine league matches but have scored in 15 of their last 15 matches. United do not have so many clean sheets and we can’t back them to keep one here. We are going for a Manchester United win here.
The greatest pass I have ever seen'David is probably best known for being a silky number 10, sitting directly behind the strikers, but he also played on the left and right of midfield without it seeming to bother him in the slightest, and it is the same now he is in a deeper role. Anyone can play anywhere, but the difference with David is that he always affects the game. Some of my best games at right-back for City were with him in front of me, threading balls through for me to run on to all day long, easy as you like.
Interesting duel will be played in Portugal. After defeat at away, 2-1, Benfica will be forced to play on victory in second leg of a duel against Shakhtar Donetsk. Visitors are not easy opponent, their attacker Moraes is able to make a lot of problems to domestic defenders, we can say the same for Kovalenko, Taison and Marlos behind him, but the major goal for visitors will be to keep their goalkeeper secured. Chiquinho and Seferovic will be in attack for host, but major problem for Benfica will be to keep their net untouched, and it will be a really hard task.
Daegu have won four of their last six encounters with Incheon. Both sides are under the rule of new managers this season. Incheon finished in 10th place in 2019, narrowly avoiding relegation. Daegu finished in 5th place in 2019, their best-ever finish. The K-League kicks off this weekend sure in the knowledge that it will be taking a large number of new fans along for the ride.
Three weekends are expected to be needed to play the remaining rounds of the Women's FA Cup, which had reached the quarter-final stage. Birmingham City, who have reached the last eight of the cup, have the most WSL matches remaining - nine - because of games in hand. The West Midlands club could therefore have a maximum of 12 domestic fixtures remaining this term, if they were to reach the cup final.
Willem II secured a 3-3 draw at Den Haag last time out and sit sixth in the Eredivisie table as a result, while Sparta won 2-0 at home to Vitesse and will be hoping to emulate that result this weekend.
For black footballers for instance, being on Instagram is not even fun for us any more. You're not enjoying your profile. I don't even have Twitter on my phone any more because it's almost certain that you're going to get some sort of abuse. West Midlands Police said it was continuing its enquiries into the incident, but Zaha says social media companies also need to do more. I got racially abused after the stuff that I got before and it's like, what happens after that account gets blocked? Then they just make a new one straight after.
Zinedine Zidane's side took the lead early in the second half with a deflected distance shot from midfielder Valverde and extended their advantage in the 67th minute when Modric thrashed a bouncing ball home from inside the area. The Croatian's goal came from a cross from substitute Gareth Bale, who was given a mixed reception after irking Real supporters for celebrating Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a flag illustrated with the words 'Wales.
The 56-year-old Mourinho, who dubbed himself "a special one" when he breezed into Chelsea 15 years ago, said he had taken a long, hard look at himself during his 11-month absence from the dugout during which he worked as a TV pundit. I'm humble enough to try to analyse my career, not just the last year.
Leicester dug in, with Schmeichel making a series of saves to ensure the hosts had to wait to turn their vastly superior possession into further goals, but he could not delay the inevitable for long. Three minutes before the break, Ricardo Pereira lunged in on Raheem Sterling inside the box and, after Mike Dean pointed to the spot, Ilkay Gundogan fired his penalty into the bottom corner. Things continued in a similar pattern after half-time, with De Bruyne running the show and Leicester clinging on - knowing that while they were only one goal down they had a chance.
The offenders can always come back to the stadium, which shows these people have won," Sky Sports quoted Rudiger as saying after Chelsea beat Tottenham 2-1 on Saturday. Rudiger was subjected to jeers from some Tottenham fans during the match at Stamford Bridge. They never get punished and in the end, I'm the scapegoat.
Heerenveen are unbeaten at home this season, picking up three wins and five draws, while Willem II have won four times and drawn once on the road this season. The hosts average 1.75 points per home game and the visitors average 1.63 points per away game, showing just why we believe Friday’s match will end in a stalemate. Heerenveen score an average of 1.25 goals per home game and concede an average of 0.88 goals while Willem II score an average of 1.63 goals per away game and concede an average of 1.75 goals, and that is why we have backed a final scoreline of 1-1.
Asian Champions League games featuring Chinese clubs will be delayed until April and May due to coronavirus. Chinese clubs' matches in Perth and Sydney this month and in March have been rearranged after Australia imposed travel restrictions over the outbreak. After an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, the Asian Football Confederation confirmed the new dates. The outbreak has killed more than 400 people.
Emery arrived in May 2018 to succeed Arsene Wenger - who had been at Arsenal for 22 years - with a track record of European success with Sevilla and domestic titles with Paris St Germain, but has failed to move the club out of the Frenchman's shadow. So how has it all gone wrong for Emery and Arsenal?Emery failed to cure Arsenal flawsWenger's time was up at Arsenal - few would argue with that despite a magnificent career which brought three Premier League titles, seven FA Cups and the domestic Double in 1998 and 2002.
The UK has been in lockdown now for just over two months. In that time, we have missed lots of things - friends, family, pubs, popular high street pasty chains. We've also missed our favourite footballers. Nevertheless, in a way, it feels like we've got to know some of them better than ever, as they've let us into their homes - with broadcast group calls on IGLive and streamed yoga lessons. Many footballers have shown off new or hidden talents - from dancing, to playing the piano, to juggling toilet rolls.
Difficult decisions will have to be taken" to counter the financial impact of coronavirus on English football, say the Premier League, EFL and Professional Footballers' Association. All games have been postponed until at least 30 April and will only resume "when it is safe and conditions allow". A Premier League, EFL and PFA statement said their thoughts "continue to be with everyone affected by the virus".
TALKING POINT Rejuvenated Arsenal produce best display of their season. There had been signs of vast improvements under Arteta in Arsenal's defeat to Chelsea on Sunday before they ran out of steam, but rather than dwell on Frank Lampard's late show, they started like a steam train. Pepe was given just five minutes to impress as a late substitute that day, however, Arteta will be glad he took a chance on him by handing him a rare start.
Western Sydney started the season so promisingly, winning their opening three games and looking like genuine title contenders but their form in recent weeks has shown the glaring weaknesses in their games, losing five in a row and falling out of the playoff places, 14 points behind league leaders, and bitter rivals, Sydney FC.
