An xG of 1.76 against Brentford was their third-highest of the season, and only the second match with a significantly higher tally than their opposition.
Krzysztof Piatek's injury-time penalty gave Poland a late 1-1 draw withScotland at Hampden Park. The Scots finished the half strongly.
He's always in the gym doing stuff and keeping up on his fitness. He's very particular what he eats. He looks after his body and is in good shape.
I was a bit worried in the first 15 minutes that he could find another gear, said Tuchel of Loftus-Cheek afterwards.
He did the deal because he could speak Italian, Roy tells Sky Sports. But what was more important was how he looked after me once he had done the deal.
First and foremost I tell them (the new players) they're in the squad because they've impressed me so they don't need to run around like crazy on the training pitch trying to impress me even more, he said.
Championship fixtures | table | highlightsGet Sky SportsHis finish too proved disappointing with neither side bettering those opportunities to score in the remaining 60 minutes.
I was obviously naive to the tactics but I would be thinking if this is what you are doing to score a goal, why don't you start the game like this? Why do you just do this at the very end when you are desperate?
One side argued that the Gunners may never get a better price for the attacking midfielder, who ended the 2020-21 campaign by scoring in eight successive Premier League games, saving Newcastle from relegation in the process.
We see players like him as an outer layer of the staff, we need to lean on him. We had to ride our luck some times in the first half.
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Plymouth have a tough test at leaders Wigan while Sunderland, level on points with Wycombe, host mid-table Cambridge.
In a campaign that has seen Ole Gunnar Solskjaer lose his job and Ralf Rangnick become interim manager, United suffered early exits in both domestic cup competitions and were knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage by Atletico Madrid.
Only in their 1-0 defeat to Tottenham in August did they have more shots at Molineux without getting a goal this season.
The sacking of the popular Farke is testimony to that ambition and in Smith, the Canaries will feel they have someone with a Premier League pedigree who can maintain their top-flight status but also, should the worst happen, a record of working and winning promotion in the Championship.
We can never accept loss of life through youth violence as ‘normal’ in our city and it’s so important that we all work together to create a better environment for young people.
The players are not avoiding reality. We all understand the importance of continuing to play. We all understand if you postpone games, time needs to be found to play them in an already congested fixture calendar. The players understand the struggles from postponing or cancelling games.
Alonso found himself out of a job in January in favour of the Londoner's old United team-mate Phil Neville, but perhaps took some consolation in the fact that while he squeezed Inter into the play-offs his replacement fell short, finishing a lowly 11th in the 2021 campaign.
Five Premier League fixtures have been postponed due to outbreaks at a number of clubs this week amid fears of widespread disruption across European football.
So far, so good, you’d say. Haaland’s record, first for Bryne, then for Molde, later for Salzburg and now for Dortmund, is exceptional. In the Bundesliga alone, he averages a goal a game. In the Champions League it’s ever better. For Norway’s senior side, he has netted 12 times in 15 appearances.
After all, Manchester United have to be the biggest blank slate in football at the moment. Everything about the first team is under question, and so everything is up for grabs. United's best players on Tuesday were, in order, Jadon Sancho, Hannibal Mejbri and Alejandro Garnacho, and one of them didn't even get off the bench. We've included him here because the sight of his name on the teamsheet didn't make anybody wince or laugh. What do you do with that? Well,
This will ensure those clubs further down the pyramid entering those rounds, really feel the benefit of the prize money earned.
The bigger picture for us is that it's a great learning experience for our players. We've said in there that now they know the standard, and even senior players can take it away.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side would grab a third in stoppage-time, but that effort from Marquinhos was registered after Neymar had been forced from the field.
It was catastrophic, the doctor said he had never seen it this bad, said Foster. He said, given the injuries I had, I should not have been breathing or talking on my own.
On his conversation with Eriksen, Davies added: It was pretty horrific when it was happening, to not know what was going to happen and how his family was going to be, but I've spoken to Christian since and he seems to be in good spirits.
Accrington came from behind to beat 10-man Fleetwood 2-1. Cambridge were awarded a penalty three minutes later and Ironside slotted home from the spot.
At times, the German even preferred to deploy him at right-sided centre-back rather than at wing-back.
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Defensively, we weren't great but, after conceding an early goal from a set-play, we got back in front with two lovely goals and some good play.
Jonas Eidevall's side lost the delayed 2020/21 FA Cup final 3-0 to Chelsea last Sunday and followed that up with a 4-0 thumping at the hands of Barcelona in the Champions League four days later.
Consequently, there were those that argued that, at least initially, Van De Beek should be used more regularly in the Champions League, where he had made his name with Ajax.
Being asked to take on a No 8 role of late might not have helped, of course. It did not work because it left Tottenham without a solid base and no build-up play to their game.
The key to a rapid pressing system is that it relies on the whole team working in unison. If one cog of the team does not do their job, the whole design can fall apart. For example, it will be ineffective if nine outfield players are applying pressure but the tenth is in a compromised position that could see the shape dismantled by one simple pass from the opponent.
Aleksandar Mitrovic has equalled the record for most league goals scored in a Championship season since the league rebranded in 2004
While the five players above are perhaps the best known, Lyttle spoke just as enthusiastically about a range of other prospects he has high hopes for.
Burnley have the tools at their disposal to secure another season of top-flight football but the only thing missing was the spark.
