Once I made the decision, I flew out of Manchester airport to go on pre-season tour in the far east. On the way to the airport, I rang Sir Alex, no answer. I didn't want to leave him a message so I rang him again, but the third time I had to leave a message because he wasn't answering. I left a message and, no surprise, I never got a call back. Here are Shearer's three classic matches. Newcastle 5-0 Man Utd20 October 1996 Despite the victory early in the season, Newcastle lost out on the Premier League title to Manchester UnitedKeegan's side had been beaten to the title by United in the previous season but they gained revenge in stunning fashion by thrashing their rivals at St James' Park.
For the first time in a long time, Juventus are involved in a league campaign where they've got a serious, serious title rival. Napoli pushed them hard back in 17/18 but at no point did Juventus look second favourites, which given that they're two points behind Inter, who continue to bowl along in front, is what they're starting to look like now.
Man Of The Match - Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) This was far from a vintage Manchester City performance, and it was far from De Bruyne’s best efforts too. Nonetheless, he was at the heart of the home side’s best moves and without him they may well have come away without the win today. De Bruyne was the pick of an uninspiring City performanceGetty Images Matchcast: Full Match Stats And Commentary Player Ratings Manchester City: Bravo 6, Walker 6, Garcia 6, Fernandinho 6, Zinchenko 6, Rodrigo 6, Bernardo 6, De Bruyne 7, Sterling 6, Mahrez 7, Aguero 7.
Dowden said it was also important to send out a message that was "consistent" with that being given to the public. Football is suspended indefinitely across most of Europe because of the continued spread of Covid-19. Return 'will be behind closed doors'What should happen to the Premier League season?What is the state of play in Europe's major leagues?Discussing how sports would be broadcast if held behind closed doors, as is expected to be the case initially, he told the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee: "I have said to the Premier League it wouldn't send the best signal if they were one of the first major sports to resume behind closed doors and the public at large couldn't have access to it.
Newcastle are offering season ticket holders a free additional half-season ticket to gift to fellow supporters to help try and fill St James' Park. Sunday's 2-1 victory over Southampton was Newcastle's lowest home crowd for a Premier League match since November 2010, with 42,303 in attendance. The free ticket will cover 10 home Premier League games, starting against Everton on 28 December. Tickets will be available on a first-come first-served basis from Tuesday.
Fiorentina are unbeaten in their last six home matches in Coppa Italia. Atalanta have not lost to Fiorentina in their last four meetings. Atalanta have scored in 13 of their last 15 matches. Fiorentina have scored in eight of their last 10 home matches. Atalanta have six losses in 10 Coppa Italia away matches.
Karl Robinson's title challengers have won six of their last seven at Kassam Stadium and are now unbeaten in eight at home. Not only have they won six of their last seven home matches, but they've done so in tremendously solid style, conceding zero goals. Well over ten hours of football have passed since Oxford conceded a goal in front of their own fans. In addition to keeping a clean sheet, the U's have generally done a good job of restricting teams, conceding an average of just 2.6 shots on target.
For this match we're targeting the 'Both Teams To Score' market but we're backing the opposite to happen in this match. Monaco have been famous for extremely exciting matches this season with the BTTS market a regular for Leonardo Jardim's side but it has been a different story away from home. Both teams have scored in just two of Monaco's last six away games and just one of Bordeaux's last five at the Matmut Atlantique.
They head to the Camp Nou on a run of four consecutive league wins, sitting comfortably in third place, three points above Atletico Madrid, seven behind second-placed Barca and 10 adrift of leaders Real Madrid. Last week they enjoyed a resounding 3-0 win over Valencia, who had no shots on target and did not even win a corner.
Excelsior and Nijmegen will face each other in the upcoming match in the Eerste Divisie in Holland. Excelsior this season have the following results: 8W, 4D and 5L. Meanwhile Nijmegen have 7W, 6D and 4L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring.
On the Tuesday, as the team trained at the Nou Camp, Ferguson sensed reality had landed one between Keane’s eyes. Ned Kelly, United’s head of security, remembered Ferguson coming to see him about Keane during training. I think it’s just hit him how big a game he’s missing out on, and I don’t want to have to deal with any dramas,” said Ferguson.
The fixture would become an annual event after that, and it was in 1874 that the Scots claimed their first win, triumphing 2-1 in Glasgow. As the game continued to grow, Scotland would enjoy a successful period in the late 1870s, claiming three consecutive victories over the Auld Enemy, including a 7-2 thrashing in 1878 that stood as England's record defeat until 1954. Media playback is not supported on this device England v Scotland - Why does the rivalry matter? In the following years, friendlies against Wales and Ireland were introduced, before the formation of the British Home Championship in 1883, adding a competitive edge to the games and heightening the rivalry.
Inter are second, 19 points ahead of ninth-placed Milan. But Conte warned that the table does not tell the full story, with Milan unbeaten in five league games since the January arrival of former Inter striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic on a free transfer. Milan deserve a lot more points than they currently have,” Conte told a media conference on Saturday.
In a leaked email regarding UEFA’s decision to pursue City for the alleged “serious breaches” around “overestimating sponsorship revenue”, club lawyer Simon Cliff recalled that, “Khaldoon (Al Mubarak, City Football Group chairman) said he would rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue them for the next 10 years.
Messi was crowned world player of the year for a record sixth time when he received the Ballon d'Or in Paris on Monday and set alarm bells ringing by saying in his speech "you enjoy these moments more because my retirement is getting nearer". It's something natural, it seems normal, Leo is 32-years-old and although I don't think he's thinking about retiring now it's something which is in the air," Valverde told reporters ahead of his side's La Liga game at home to Real Mallorca on Saturday.
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Second HalfPosted at Second Half begins Tottenham Hotspur 3, Burnley 0. Half TimePosted at 45'+4' First Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 3, Burnley 0. Posted at 45'+3' Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane. Posted at 45'+1' Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Posted at 45'+1' Foul by Dwight McNeil (Burnley).
Posted at 77' Foul by Marvin Friedrich (1. FC Union Berlin). SubstitutionPosted at 73' Substitution, 1. FC Union Berlin. Grischa Prömel replaces Christian Gentner. Posted at 71' Attempt saved. Marcus Ingvartsen (1. FC Union Berlin) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Full TimePosted at 90'+6' Second Half ends, Aston Villa 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Posted at 90'+5' Romain Saïss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 90'+5' Foul by Kortney Hause (Aston Villa). Posted at 90'+5' Foul by Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers). Posted at 90'+5' Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 90'+4' Foul by Adama Traoré (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Bluewings are not at the level from the previous season, and they are having issues in all lines of the team in this one. Attack cannot cover, when back line is missing to defend and team is hard to make good play, even against the low table rivals at the moment.
Kane pulled up after scoring a goal that was subsequently ruled out for offside by VAR in the 1-0 defeat to Southampton on New Year’s Day. Video - Mourinho expecting 'bad news' about Kane injury01:03 Kane has started 20 of Tottenham’s 21 matches so far this season, scoring 11 goals, and is the only recognised out-and-out striker in the senior set-up.
You can't say they're the best because a lot of teams won that Premier League with more competition than they have now. Even that Liverpool team of the 80s, there was always a doubt when they came up against the Arsenals and Manchester Uniteds of this world. Nowadays teams set out knowing they'll lose games and aim for the next game against a weaker opponent.
Modric killed off Valencia's faint hopes of a second-half revival, providing a classy finish with the outside of his boot in the 65th minute to completing another incisive Real counter-attack. We were in complete control throughout the game, we came out with the intention of getting hold of the ball, that's what we did and our plan worked perfectly," Real midfielder Casemiro told reporters.
We are playing against a fantastic team who are in real, strong form. Again they won at the weekend, so we need to be ready and we need to try and play as close to our best as we can. What happened in the first leg?Rangers pulled off an astonishing late comeback from 2-0 down to rescue their Europa League hopes with a dramatic victory over Braga at Ibrox. The slick Portuguese were dominant and cruising in the last-32 first leg after goals from Fransergio and Abel Ruiz.
Mirandes against Ponferradina. With a win, the home team would be fully back in the play-off promotion group, while the guests who are in the middle of the table have nothing to gain or lose. Mirandes are hopefully more motivated team. Both clubs, remembering their previous direct matches from 02/03/2014, CD Mirandes won 2 of these matches, and Ponferradina 2 and 2 were drawn in normal time. Opposed to Ponferradina who can also still hope for the play-offs, the 2 teams should go for the victory. A match which should be opened and ended with at least 2 goals between 2 offensive teams. My pick draw 1-1 or 2-2.
The away side were noticeably superior in the first half and could easily have led by more had Thorgan Hazard been able to steer his first-time effort from the edge of the box on target instead of wide. Wolfsburg came out fighting in the second half, though, and should have been level soon after the break. However, Renato Steffen could only hit the top of the bar with his shot after being put through on goal by Wout Weghorst.
He didn't, but the opener did come when Odsonne Edouard fired a shot at Joel Pereira, which the goalkeeper simply parried to Ntcham rather than divert wide. The midfielder finished calmly to reinforce his recent impact. You feared the worst for Hearts but they began to create chances with Celtic increasingly sloppy and the formation switch looking effective. They ought to have been punished though before half-time when Edouard slipped Leigh Griffiths in, but the striker misfired and hit the side netting.
Premier League promotion hopefuls Leeds United went top of the Championship and moved seven points clear of third-placed Fulham with a comfortable win over local rivals Huddersfield. The hosts raced into a third-minute lead when full-back Luke Ayling smashed home a superb volley from Jack Harrison's deep cross. Patrick Bamford wrapped up the win with a close-range finish after Town goalkeeper Jonas Lossl could only tip Ben White's header into his path, while Harrison also hit the woodwork for the hosts.
The stakes are high' - why Man City v Uefa is a watershed momentMan City's European ban Q&ACas arbitration procedures involve an exchange of written submissions between the parties while a panel of arbitrators is convened to hear the appeal. The independent adjudicatory chamber of the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) said it found City had broken the rules by "overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016", adding that the club "failed to cooperate in the investigation".
Liverpool's relentless pursuit of points continued at the weekend in their hard-fought 2-1 over Brighton in front of the Kop – a performance and result that followed the same pattern of uninspiring but effective Reds displays of the past couple of months.
Atletico, who are third in La Liga and into the last 16 of the Champions League, beat Barcelona 3-2 in the Spanish Super Cup earlier this month and held Real Madrid to a draw in the competition's final before losing on penalties. But Saul expressed concern about his side's recent performances against smaller teams, less than a week after they slumped to a 2-0 defeat at struggling Eibar.
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Getafe punched well above their weight to secure 5th last term and only narrowly missed out on Champions League qualification. They had a sticky start to the new campaign with just one win landed in their first seven games; however they have gone from strength to strength since the end of September.
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Making sure he gets the best out of Messi will be current manager Quique Setien's main job, just as it was Valverde's. Unfortunately he will face the same problems - namely trying to keep Messi on side with a team that has lost many of those elements that made it such a force in the past. Messi understands the team is not playing well and there is a transition into what Setien wants to do at the club, which is different to what Valverde wanted.
Malaga are in their 5 last league matches unbeaten and will like to maintain the record with this game, after 30 matches they are 12th position with 38 points. They managed to accumulate points away and try all possible to win at home and I believe they will try to get at least 1 valued point here.
Bruce said he was pleased to secure a deal for Rose to boost their defence, which has conceded 36 goals in 24 matches. It's been clear we've needed some help in the left back position, so we're absolutely delighted to get a player of Danny's calibre through the door," Bruce said. He's proven quality, as he's shown over several years for club and country, and is a class act.
