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Namibia kept Scotland to 268 for 7 on the first day of their Intercontinental Cup match in Windhoek, despite a century by opener Ryan Flannigan

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Kyle Coetzer scored 62 and added 113 for the third wicket with Ryan Flannigan•ICC/Helge Schutz

Namibia had Scotland at 268 for 7 at the end of the first day of their Intercontinental Cup match in Windhoek, despite a century by opener Ryan Flannigan.Choosing to bowl, Namibia got rid of Majid Haq and Preston Mommsen cheaply, but Flannigan proved difficult to dislodge. He was supported by Kyle Coetzer, and the pair put on 113 for the third wicket. Flannigan completed his maiden first-class century, but succumbed to Pikky la France soon after.Josh Davey and Richie Berrington showed brief promise, before Namibia’s opening bowlers, Kola Burger and Christi Viljoen, picked up three quick wickets before stumps to ensure honours were shared.

أعلن نادي بايرن ميونخ الألماني، في بيان رسمي قبل قليل، خضوع لاعب الفريق جوشوا كيميش لعملية جراحية، وذلك بعد إصابته في الكلاسيكو أمام بوروسيا دورتموند.

كيميش أصيب بعد تدخل من هالاند في منتصف الملعب، ليسقط لاعب بايرن ميونخ أرضًا، ولم يكن قادرًا على استكمال المباراة، وغادر أرضية الميدان باكيًا، في المباراة التي انتصر فيها البافاري على دورتموند بثلاثة أهداف مقابل هدفين.

وقال بايرن في بيانه: “أجرى كيميش عملية جراحية ناجحة في غضروف الركبة الأيمن، مساء اليوم الأحد”.

وأضاف: “الجهاز الطبي في بايرن ميونخ، يتوقع أن يكون لاعب الوسط مًتاحًا مرة أخرى في يناير”.

ℹ Joshua #Kimmich wurde am Sonntagabend erfolgreich am rechten Außenmeniskus operiert. Die medizinische Abteilung des #FCBayern geht davon aus, dass der Mittelfeldspieler im Januar wieder zur Verfügung stehen wird.

🔗 https://t.co/6gi09vukbx — FC Bayern München (@FCBayern) November 8, 2020

برر يورجن كلوب مدرب ليفربول قيامه بالدفع بـ دييجو جوتا على حساب روبرتو فيرمينو، في مباراة الأمس أمام أتالانتا في بطولة دوري أبطال أوروبا.

وتواجه الفريقان في الجولة الثالثة من دور المجموعات، حيث فاز ليفربول بخمسة أهداف دون رد.

وقرر كلوب الدفع بـ جوتا في التشكيل الأساسي بدلًا من فيرمينو، بجوار محمد صلاح وساديو ماني.

وقدم جوتا أداءً مميزًا في المباراة حيث تمكن من تسجيل 3 أهداف “هاتريك”.

وقال كلوب، في تصريحات نشرها الموقع الرسمي للنادي:”الأمور جيدة، الأداء الجيد لا يصيبني بصداع، بالنسبة لهذه الليلة كان هذا هو القرار، كان من المنطقي أن يلعب جوتا كأساسي، في ظل الأداء الجيد الذي يتمتع به مؤخرًا، كذلك بسبب طريقة لعب أتالانتا خاصة من الناحية الدفاعية، مهارات جوتا كانت ستساعدنا بكل تأكيد”.

وأضاف: “لكن العالم في بعض الأحيان مكان سيء حقًا، في اللحظة التي يتألق فيها شخص ما، نتحدث على الفور عن لاعب آخر، وكأنه لعب 500 مباراة متتالية لنا”.

وواصل: “بدون فيرمينو لما كنا حتى في دوري الأبطال، من المهم أن يكون لدينا أكثر من 11 لاعبًا، والليلة استغل جوتا مهاراته بشكل لا يُدق ولعب مباراة رائعة وخارقة”.

وأوضح: “لكن هذا لا يقول شيئًا عن بوبي ولن يصيبني الصداع بسبب ذلك، أنا أكثر من سعيد لأن الأولاد لعبوا بتلك الطريقة الليلة”.

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the only goal of the game as Arsenal beat Watford 1-0 on Monday evening but fans were not completely satisfied with the star’s performance.

The Gabon international capitalised on a terrible error from Ben Foster, blocking an attempted clearance and diverting it into the net.

Speaking to the club’s official website after the game, he said: “I’m a guy who always believes in small chances and that was a small chance for me and I tried my best to get to the goalkeeper and I did it and I scored so I am happy. I’ve waited a long time to score a goal like this!”

The goal was Aubameyang’s 18th in the Premier League this season, from 32 games, while he has also laid on five assists.

However, per WhoScored, his goal was his only shot on target through the game despite the fact he had five attempts. Two were off target while two were blocked by Watford’s defenders.

And fans believe that the 29-year-old could have made the result all the more comfortable for Unai Emery’s men.

Indeed, the Gunners spent the majority of the game playing against 10 men after Troy Deeney was sent off in the first half for an alleged elbow on Lucas Torreira.

Take a look at the best of the reaction below!

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has released the manacles which held back Paul Pogba under Jose Mourinho’s tutelage, but that tactical switch has had a negative impact on Jesse Lingard.

On the chalkboard

Much was made of the fractured relationship between Mourinho and Pogba. The dynamic between two superstar footballing figures provided a soap opera behind the scenes which served as an unwanted distraction until Mourinho walked out the exit door.

The Portuguese manager’s departure provided cathartic relief for both Pogba and the supporters who were forced to watch a pivotal relationship unravel in front of the public eye.

One of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s priorities when he took the job on an interim basis would almost certainly have revolved around Pogba’s glaring lack of form.

But the new manager immediately transformed United’s record-signing. A return of nine goals, seven assists and five man of the match awards provide tangible proof to vindicate the general feeling that Solskjaer has enabled him to find another gear.

However, as is so often the case, one player’s improvement is often intrinsically linked with the decline of another. Take Sadio Mane and Mo Salah at Liverpool this season and Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne at Manchester City.

Pogba’s influence has stifled Lingard

Is a similar pattern unfolding at Old Trafford? Well, its fair to say that Lingard’s influence has diminished in tandem with Pogba’s exponential improvement.

The 26-year-old was a revelation last season, scoring 13 goals and providing 7 assists in all-competitions, while showcasing a supreme level of confidence and ability in United’s attacking midfield.

Even Mourinho’s most vehement critic would have been forced to accept that he did a tremendous job in bringing the best out of a player who had been written off by the masses.

Lingard, who had once looked so timid, ineffective and out of his depth at the top level suddenly became the focal point of United’s attack. Solskjaer, though, has shifted the focus towards Pogba in the heart of midfield.

United’s Tuesday night defeat at Molineux provided a prime example of how Lingard is struggling to adapt to the new tactical system. While Pogba made five key passes and completed two dribbles, the England international made just one key pass and failed to complete a single dribble, per Whoscored.

Lingard was neat and tidy, boasting a passing accuracy of 87.5% compared to Pogba’s 70.2%, but in the position he plays the fans would surely rather see him lose the ball when taking risks to unlock the opponent – as he did under Mourinho – rather than playing percentage passes.

With United leading by one goal to nil in the first-half, Lingard also missed a glaring opportunity to double their advantage, a moment which pointed towards a distinct lack of confidence under the new manager.

Solskjaer has made great strides forward in his endeavour to maximise Pogba’s world class ability – now he must find a way to stop that from compromising Lingard’s form.

Everyone knows of  Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle’s years as ‘The Entertainers’, remembering them as Premier League runners-up in both 1996 and 1997 and Keegan’s rant at Sir Alex Ferguson in the first of those.

But the ‘entertainer’ seeds were sown in the years before that, when they had two sixth-placed finishes in their first two seasons in the Premier League.

With sixth place, came UEFA Cup football. No group stages back then, just a straight two-legged knock-out competition until the final.

A moment in time – Newcastle United, 1994

Newcastle’s return to European action saw them drawn against Belgian side, Royal Antwerp.

It was an eagerly anticipated game, with fans excited to travel abroad to watch their side, a luxury they hadn’t been afforded in years.

And so it was, over 4,000 Geordies made their way across the north sea to descend on the city that had been 1993’s European Capital Of Culture.

For many fans, the journey started at 3am on the Tuesday morning. Barrack Road outside St James’ Park a hive of nocturnal activity, as they boarded coach after coach to start their long trek by road and sea to Belgium.

On arrival in Antwerp — having emptied the beer taps on the ferry — they were met with a blanket of black and white, and a wall of noise from the thousands of fellow fans who had travelled by other means.

No signs of any misbehaving — just lots of drinking, singing and a massive buzz of excitement.

As the hoards made their way into the decrepit old stadium, the fencing was awash with Union Flags and St George’s Crosses, and the noise from behind the goal was immense — and there was still half an hour until kick-off!

When the game started, no one was quite sure what to expect. Having not played in Europe for so long, would Keegan’s attacking style work against continental sides?

It didn’t take long to get the answer.

53 seconds on the clock, and Rob Lee met a John Beresford cross to glance a header from 12 yards into the bottom corner to send the Toon Army wild.

It was a start Keegan and the fans could only dream of, but that was not the end of it.

Lee got on the end of a Ruel Fox cross to power another header goalward, to make it 2-0 in the tenth minute. Newcastle were announcing their European return with a bang.

Scott Sellars stroked in a third five minutes before the break and Newcastle fans were pinching themselves in disbelief.

Kicking towards the Geordie throng in the second half, Lee sealed his hat-trick of headers with a thumping nod into the corner from another pin-point cross.

Steve Watson came on as a substitute and latched onto a loose ball, rounded the goalkeeper and sealed a quite remarkable team performance with the visitors’ fifth of the night.

It was one of those nights that no one who was there would ever forget, and was the launchpad for an incredible few years for Newcastle fans, in what would become a surreal period in the club’s history.

In the return leg at St James’ Park, Newcastle were equally relentless, trouncing the Belgians again, 5-2 this time.

When Keegan took over as manager in February 1992, with the club looking destined for third tier football for the first time ever, no one would have thought a European night like this would be possible just two and a half years later.

It is history now, but for thousands of Newcastle fans, it will be cherished and remembered forever.

Did you make the trip to Antwerp for Newcastle’s triumphant return to European competition? Do you still reminisce over those years? Let us know below…

Nigerian striker, Umar Sadiq, will not be a player that is remembered in Rangers folklore for generations to come following his disastrous, short-lived loan spell at Ibrox.

His reputation was already tarnished to the blue half of Glasgow after a move that heralded much… but failed miserably, and whose only lasting memory at the club was to be publicly criticised by manager, Steven Gerrard, having gone to ground in a League Cup’ semi-final defeat, when he could have stayed on his feet and scored.

Speaking to the Sunday Post this weekend, it is clear that Sadiq is not a fan of Gerrard — whether the public criticism is a mitigating factor or not remains to be seen — and now suggests that he didn’t really want to join Rangers in the first place.

He said: “Gerrard proved to be very different from what I believed he would be.

“At the beginning, I didn’t know anything about the Rangers move. The negotiations were all between Roma and my representatives.

“And when my agent told me about it, I expressed my doubts. I wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do. But he kept arguing it would be good for me and my career.”

It would be hard to find a Rangers fan who would wish, in hindsight, that the move had not happened either.

Making just five appearances, and only two starts, the writing was on the wall for his Rangers future as early as September, when Gerrard implied that the Nigerian was not giving all he could to the cause, and needed to improve to be considered, despite receiving support from both the club and fans.

Still, in his interview, the striker claims his treatment was harsh and unfair, and that it was the club’s signing of Kyle Lafferty that led to his downfall, and he even claimed that Rangers still owe him part of his salary.

“I believe absolutely that I was not given a fair chance to show what I can do. They made me feel like a stranger.

“I started only once (in the League Cup semi-final against Aberdeen) and that was when there were no other strikers available.

“As I say, for me everything went wrong after they brought in another striker [Lafferty].”

“Once I put a ‘like’ on Instagram to a post from a fan – and I was fined £20,000, which was absurd.

“And Rangers didn’t even pay me up everything I was due. They still have to give me my salary for December.”

The whole issue sounds like sour grapes from a player who was simply not good enough. His desperation to pass the blame off onto everyone else and accept no responsibility for himself, speaks volumes about his attitude and it comes as little surprise he was shown the door.

His attitude and lack of commitment to Rangers is all too evident, when asked about the club’s future: “I honestly don’t care how they do.

“As long as I was a Rangers player, I behaved like a professional, giving everything I could of myself to the shirt. But now I don’t want to hear about them and what they are doing any more.”

I am not sure anyone at Rangers would agree that he gave everything to the shirt, as he claimed.

Rangers fans demand, and deserve, players to wear the blue shirt with pride, and accept nothing less than someone who would be willing to run through brick walls for the club.

They did not get either of those things from Sadiq.

He may be glad to be rid of Rangers, but it would be fair to say the fans are more glad to be rid of him.

What are your thoughts about Sadiq’s spell at Rangers? Was anyone other than the player to blame? Let us know below…

كشفت تقارير إخبارية عن قيمة انتقال مهاجم منتخب مصر الأولمبي ونادي هدرسفيلد تاون السابق، رمضان صبحي، إلى بيراميدز خلال الأسابيع القليلة الماضية.

وانضم رمضان صبحي بعقد مدته 5 سنوات إلى بيراميدز، بصفقة لم تكشف عن قيمتها من قبل الناديين ولكنها أثارت الكثير من الجدل داخل مصر.

وتأتي الصفقة مصحوبة بجدل كبير نظرًا لشعبية رمضان صبحي وقضاءه الكثير من السنوات داخل جدران النادي الأهلي، لكنه فضل في النهاية رفض عرض المقدم من القلعة الحمراء للاستمرار بها للانتقال إلى بيراميدز.

اقرأ أيضًا.. جون أنطوي: أنتظر اللعب بجوار رمضان صبحي

وبحسب الصحافة المصرية في الفترة الماضية، سيتقاضى رمضان صبحي ما يقرب من 100 مليون يورو كراتب عن السنوات الخمس التي سيقضيها مع بيراميدز.

ولكن لا أحد يعرف قيمة ما تحصل عليه هدرسفيلد حتى الآن، حيث وافق النادي الإنجليزي على عرض الأهلي من قبل بقيمة 3.2 مليون جنيه إسترليني قبل تغيير رأي رمضان صبحي وتوقف المفاوضات بين الناديين في بداية شهر أغسطس الماضي.

شبكة “Digi Sport”  الرومانية كشفت عن قيمة الصفقة بين بيراميدز وهدرسفيلد تاون وأكدت أن رمضان صبحي قد انتقل إلى النادي المصري بمقابل 4.85 مليون جنيه إسترليني وهو ما يتفوق على عرض الأهلي بقيمة 1.65 مليون جنيه إسترليني.

وشارك رمضان صبحي قبل أيام في تدريبات بيراميدز للمرة الأولى تحت قيادة المدير الفني الحالي للفريق، آنتي تشاتشيتش، ومن المفترض أن يشارك رسميًا بداية من الموسم المقبل سواء في الدوري المصري أو البطولات القارية إذا ما تأهل لها فريقه الجديد.

Football FanCast recently held a series of interviews with former England and Liverpool winger John Barnes, who was speaking on behalf of bookmaker comparison platform BonusCodeBets.co.uk.

In part one, Barnes discussed Liverpool’s current title credentials and his own experiences of being part of title-winning sides. In part two, he gave his insight into the blight of racism on football and society, and what role the media plays in this regard.

In this third and final instalment of our conversations with Barnes, focus turned to England’s run in the 2018 Russia World Cup, his own international experiences, Italia 90, and his recollections of playing under the likes of Graham Taylor…

What did you make of England’s time in Russia?

“It was fantastic. All you can ask of any team is to maximise their potential. What that means is to win the games you should win. Of course, you can beat teams who are better than you, but generally speaking, to be consistent, you’ve got to win the games you should win. That’s what England did.

“I think that had they been on the other half of the draw they wouldn’t have gotten to the semi-final. The two times we played teams who were ranked higher than us we lost. Against Belgium we lost and then we lost to Croatia.

“We should beat Sweden and we should beat Colombia, so we did well to get to the semi-finals, but Gareth Southgate has said himself about not getting carried away thinking we’re one of the best four teams in the world. We got to the top four, but we’re not one of the best four teams in the world.” 

Can this England squad build on this success?

“Yes, we can build. We got to the semi-final, so we’re doing well. We still aren’t one of the best teams in the world, but we can challenge and we did that in the World Cup. I think we can be consistent and consistently challenge for qualifying and getting into the latter stages of competitions. That’s all you can ask of any team.”

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Do you think the Italia 90 team should have achieved more?

“No, I don’t think so. The best game we played was against Germany and we lost, but we were lucky against Belgium in the last 16. So, yeah, if we were lucky we could have gone on to win, but we were never the favourites. 

“I think you have teams that underachieve. Maybe the Brazilians of 2018, could they have done more? Yes, they could. They could have won the World Cup. 

“But in terms of getting to the semi-final, that was a good achievement. Yes, with a bit of luck against Germany we could have gone on to the final. So, we could have achieved more. But to ask, ‘should’ we have achieved more? I don’t think so.”

Why does Italia 90 still hold such a special place in the history and heart of English football?

“Because, of course, that’s when the Premier League was about to start, that and Gazzamania meant that the media attention on football really started back then.

“Don’t forget, in football when Liverpool were winning the European Cup in the 70s and 80s and were the best team, there wasn’t the media attention that there was coming into the 90s because of the cultural revolution football-wise. 

“The media attention, with footballers really becoming household names, not just in football households but all over, meant that 1990 was a time when even people who weren’t interested in football were interested in football. Of course, we had the No.1 song as well with New Order. 

“I suppose it was just a time when football was coming to the mainstream.”

That tournament must have been an incredible thing to be a part of…

“I was a footballer, so no more so than in the 86 World Cup, or when I played for Watford in the 80s. I was just concerned with football. The football wasn’t any different. The perceptions of footballers were, and the media attention and the superstardom that surrounded football at that time was, yes. But for me, there was no difference between 1990 to 1986 or 1985 or any other time, because I was just a footballer.”

Why didn’t it work out for Graham Taylor during in his time in charge of the national team?

“Because England weren’t as good as they had been. They didn’t have the same players as they had in the past.”

Do you not think that that squad should have qualified for USA 94?

“Not really, because look at the players who were getting towards the end of their careers – Gary Lineker and myself. I got injured too.

“It was a new England team that he took over, which had to be given time. There was also the fact that, I believe, there was a bit of a media agenda against him. Which didn’t help things.

“The thing that Southgate has now – over a lot of England managers of the past – is the fact that the press and the clubs are behind him. Back then, you had people who were against Taylor. So regardless of how we played you had people who wanted him to lose, and fans weren’t behind him. Whereas now, the England fans are 100% behind the team. Even if they don’t play well and lose, the fans are still behind them, which is the way it should be.

“He [Taylor] was a bit unfortunate, but it was just one of those things.”

Taylor was a huge influence on your career, and one of the many great managers you played under…

“Well, I played under Taylor for my first six years. He was the best manager for me at that time, and what he did with Watford was incredible. Watford finishing second to Liverpool in the league, with players coming in from the fourth division, shows what a great manager he was.

“Then, when I went to Liverpool, it was obviously Kenny Dalglish. Bobby Robson was also fantastic, as was Terry Venables. So, I worked under a lot of great managers and different managers. 

“Some were at bigger clubs and able to win more things; Dalglish has won the double and European Cup, whereas Taylor hasn’t. But he [Taylor] wasn’t at a club that was able to do that. Taking Watford to second place is equally as good as winning the European Cup with Liverpool.

“So, yeah, I worked with some great managers.”

Looking back at your playing career, what personal highlights do you recall most fondly?

“My whole career. That’s it. My ten years at Liverpool, six years at Watford, two years at Newcastle. They’ve been good, they’ve been bad, but to show the person you are you have to show a consistency over a period of time. So I look at my whole career – and I don’t want to be too greedy and just say about the goal in Brazil and when I won the Players’ Player of the Year and Player of the Year – because you have to take it in its entirety.

“In its entirety, I’m delighted with what I’ve done.”

Before I ask this final question I’ll admit that I’m an Arsenal fan.

“Okay.”

What was the best ever finish to a top flight title race: Arsenal’s win over Liverpool in 1989 or Manchester City’s triumph in 2012?

“Arsenal’s in 89. It was the two teams who were involved in the championship. Manchester City scored against QPR – I mean, if Man City had beaten Man United to win the league, or vice versa, then that would have been [the best]. 

“Arsenal had to beat Liverpool 2-0, not even 1-0. There couldn’t have been a greater finish to the top flight championship.”

England’s Twenty20 captain, Stuart Broad, envisaged his side playing the “perfect game” in this World Twenty20 after Luke Wright calmed the jitters about their top order in a six-wicket defeat of New Zealand with seven balls to spare in their Super Eights tie in Pallakele.Things change quickly in T20. Only New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum, as the match finished, was ahead of Wright in the leading run-makers for the tournament. After all the talk of their batting frailties, England had three batsmen – Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales also – in the top five.Broad, visibly uplifted after the torment of England’s misconceived batting displays against India and West Indies, said: “Today’s result means a lot. Although it wasn’t perfect we put in a lot of strong performances. I genuinely believe that we will get that perfect game and I think we will be pretty unstoppable when that happens.”That perfect game might have to happen on Monday. England face Sri Lanka at Pallakele and will have to win to be assured of a place in the semi-finals. “It will be an electric atmosphere for us on Monday and it will be important for us to keep our composure,” Broad said. “It will be loud, it will be hectic and there will be a lot of fans shouting for Sri Lanka but that will be exciting for us.”Wright paced his innings to perfection, stroking 16 from his first 16 balls but then scoring 60 from his next 27 with five sixes, including four in the space of seven balls faced. New Zealand’s emphasis upon spin, with Rob Nicol’s part-time offbreaks also called up for three overs, was logical enough in view of a dry pitch and England’s reputation, but it failed to bring dividends.The rate got up to nine an over midway through the innings and stubbornly remained there for quite a while. England needed 54 from the last six overs before Wright’s six-hitting spree settled the game, with Tim Southee also punished as he failed to hit his yorkers. Wright took the Man-of-the-Match award, suggested that Steven Finn’s three wickets should have won it, and praised Eoin Morgan’s influence at the non-striker’s end for the pacing of his innings.Stuart Broad believes England are close to playing to their full potential•ICC/Getty

“It is easy to start panicking then and sat in the dugout you look out to the middle and get a bit nervous but the guys showed a lot of calmness to get us over the line as they did,” Broad said. “If we can really keep our wickets intact you will see the power we have. The key for us is to express ourselves but also to have the skill to pack that last 10 overs full of batsmen.”Wright, who made 99 in the group stage against Afghanistan, banished the memory of his first-baller against West Indies, an attempted leave which he steered to slip, a shot that had added to the uncertainty surrounding England’s top order. Against New Zealand, he played naturally, not trying to be something he isn’t, a strong hitter who allowed himself time to get in and then reaped the benefit.”It was just nice to get past the first ball after the last innings,” he said. “After that I was able to chill out a little bit and build a partnership. In the last game I tried to leave it and I found myself out so it wasn’t as if I was going at it too hard. One thing you find is that if you do have a batter in, people can bat around you and it’s amazing how much you can catch up and score.”