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In his latest CricInfo Diary entry, Alec Stewart looks ahead to the prospect of captaining England in the second and final Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, and in the triangular one-day series which follows

Alec Stewart30-May-2001In his latest CricInfo Diary entry, Alec Stewart looks ahead to the prospect of captaining England in the second and final Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, and in the triangular one-day series which follows.I didn’t have any doubts about taking on the England captaincy for the NatWest One-Day Series against Pakistan and Australia. I’ve done it on a number of occasions – the fact that I turned it down in Sri Lanka at the end of the Test series was purely because of the heat, the humidity and the conditions. I just didn’t feel I’d be able to do all three jobs to the right standard. In this country and most parts of the world there’s no problem. As to leading the side in the Second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, we’ve come away from a good win at Lord’s – I also captained the side that won at Lord’s last year. I’m fully aware that it’s a one-off game for me, and I’ll be doing my best to perform well with the bat and the gloves, and anything I can add as captain.I didn’t have any say on team selection. Nick Knight’s started the season very, very well – I remember batting with him for a length of time when he scored a hundred against Pakistan at Headingley four or five years ago. That was his first Test hundred, and I know he’ll be looking to make full use of his opportunity. We know Nasser Hussain will be back soon, but if Knight can score heavily in this game and have a good one-day series, that’s obviously a good way to stake a claim for a place in the Ashes series. At this stage we expect to play seven batsmen, so he can expect to play.As to my own form, I copped a first ball in the B & H, which can happen, but obviously very happy to have scored a hundred in the CricInfo Championship game in between the Test Matches. It’s always nice to spend some time in the middle, and I feel I’ve been hitting the ball well all season.We can’t lose the series against Pakistan, but any games we go into we try to win. This one will be no different. We know that they’re a good side and will bounce back, and I suggest that if there’s one ground in England that they could choose to play us on it would be Old Trafford – there’s always been reverse swing there in the past, which they enjoy; the wicket can turn, and they’ve got quality spinners, and there’ll be strong Pakistani support in the area. It’s been a terrible start to the summer at Old Trafford – Lancashire have just had one one-day game there so far, against Glamorgan. But Pakistan will be looking to make it one all there. We’ll be going for two nil at best, or at worst draw the game and win the series.

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Uma das preocupações do Flamengo para a partida contra o Atlético-PR
era o gramado sintético da Arena da Baixada. Por conta disso, o técnico
Zé Ricardo até comandou alguns treinos visando a adaptação do elenco ao piso. Porém, os jogadores acabaram sentindo a diferença.O meia Alan Patrick admitiu que o time estranhou o campo.

– A gente estranhou um pouco. Durante esses dias de preparação fizemos alguns treinamentos para se adaptar, mas é claro que a gente estranha um pouco – disse o meia na saída de campo para ‘TV Globo’.

O Flamengo sentiu o gramado do Furacão principalmente no primeiro tempo. Ainda se acostumando com o campo, o Rubro-Negro errou alguns passes e domínios de bola. Além disso, o ritmo era mais rápido.

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In an exclusive interview with Football FanCast, David Norris, who made 36 appearances for Leeds United, has claimed that their on-loan winger, Jack Harrison, would be a good squad player at his parent club Manchester City, but that he could be a “force” if he moved to Elland Road permanently.

Harrison signed for City from New York City in January 2018 and was immediately shipped out on loan to Championship side Middlesbrough where he only made four appearances during the second half of the season.

After signing an initial two-year loan deal at Leeds in the summer of 2018, Harrison then signed another one-year loan deal last summer and it’s expected that the move will become permanent at the end of the season.

Speaking on why Harrison would be a good squad player at Man City but why it would be better for him to stay at Leeds, Norris told FFC exclusively:

“He would be a good squad player for them but I just don’t think he would get the game time, but I think he would suit City and he could be a capable squad player.

“At Leeds though I think he could be a big force and name so I would like to see him stick it out and see what happens over the next year or two.”

Since 2018, Harrison has made 124 appearances for Leeds, becoming a crucial player in Marcelo Bielsa’s incredibly attacking side.

It has been reported that Leeds will be able to sign Harrison for a bargain price of just £11 million this summer as Man City have no plans to include him into their side.

Patryk Klimala looks set to be closing in on a Celtic exit.

Interim manager John Kennedy admitted on Friday that the 22-year-old is days away from completing his move to MLS side New York Red Bulls.

The Hoops landed Klimala for £3.6m last January, but he has failed to make an impact in Glasgow, scoring just three times in 28 appearances.

Despite his struggles, it seems as if Celtic could be recouping all of their money on the Polish Under-21 international.

Pundit Noel Whelan, talking to Football Insider, had his say on Celtic potentially making their money back, labelling the Hoops as ‘very lucky’ to make back their initial outlay on the striker.

“For someone who’s hardly featured, to recoup the £3.5million that you paid? That’s either very good business by the board or stupidity from the people that are buying him.

“They could have got him for cheaper probably but Celtic will not complain. Surplus to requirements, no club wants to lose money on a player.

“So, all in all, I think they would probably think themselves very lucky in that position that recoups everything that they paid.”

Transfer Tavern take

We’re with Whelan in believing Celtic won’t complain about what they’ll be receiving for Klimala. His Transfermarkt value has halved during his 12 months at Celtic Park to £1.8m, but it seems as if the Hoops will be receiving double that amount from the MLS outfit.

You can understand why the 22-year-old’s valuation has dropped since his move to Parkhead. He has started just three league games during the current campaign and has failed to establish himself under either Neil Lennon or John Kennedy.

It hasn’t worked out for Klimala in Scotland, but financially it seems that Celtic won’t be making a loss on him.

In other news: Expert drops Celtic managerial claim with Monday admission, find out more here. 

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Com aproveitamento de 79% dos pontos no returno, o Palmeiras tem agora a maior distância na ponta do Brasileiro – seis pontos para o Flamengo, segundo colocado. Sem perder há 15 rodadas (dez vitórias e cinco empates), o Verdão pode decidir o título apenas com as suas partidas em casa.

Se vencer os três jogos como mandante (Inter, Botafogo e Chapecoense), o time chegará a 76 pontos, acima até dos 75 que Cuca considera necessários para ser campeão. Mesmo que seja derrotado nos outros três jogos fora, incluindo contra o ameaçado Vitória na última rodada, o Verdão obrigaria seus adversários a serem quase perfeitos.

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O Flamengo, além de torcer para que o líder tenha apenas 50% de aproveitamento nesta reta final, precisaria, no mínimo, vencer cinco jogos e empatar um. Aproveitamento altíssimo, de 88,8% dos pontos.

Atlético-MG e Santos, a oito e nove pontos do Verdão, respectivamente, precisam ser perfeitos. Vencer os seis jogos, incluindo os duelos em casa com o Palmeiras, e torcer por mais duas derrotas do líder até o fim.

Estes cenários são analisados isoladamente, já que ainda há mais dois confrontos diretos entre os rivais: Flamengo x Atlético-MG e Santos x Flamengo. Ou seja, um atrapalhará o outro nas últimas seis rodadas.

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Além disso, o Verdão é o melhor visitante do Brasileiro e perdeu cinco vezes em 32 rodadas. Seria inesperado ver o time de Cuca ser batido mais três vezes neste fim de ano, porque a última derrota foi dia 31 de julho, contra o Botafogo por 3 a 1, no primeiro turno, durante o pior momento da equipe.

– O Flamengo, que é o segundo, tem 61 pontos, disputa mais 18 pontos. Se ganhar cinco passa a ter 76 pontos, é difícil. Hoje quem que encaixou cinco ou seis vitórias em sequência? É difícil, para nós também é difícil. Por isso que calculamos hoje esse número, mas podem muito bem cair – justificou o treinador.

Após a vitória de domingo, Cuca chamou todo o elenco para uma roda no meio-campo e teve uma conversa com o grupo, como vem fazendo a cada novo triunfo. A meta: não deixar se influenciar pela euforia da torcida palmeirense nesta reta final.

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Celtic’s resounding 6-0 win this weekend will have breathed fresh life into the Bhoys and its entire staff.

It’s not often the Hoops have managed to record convincing victories this term but it was a wonderful statement from their interim boss.

What’s the word?

John Kennedy is currently in temporary charge of the Hoops and the win he engineered over Livingston on Saturday was a big message to the hierarchy.

He is by no means the favourite to become their new manager with the coach facing competition from Eddie Howe.

That being said, there have been a number of twists and turns. Frank McAvennie doesn’t think he’ll land the job because of complications regarding Fergal Harkin and Richard Hughes.

Howe wants Hughes instead of the former as his director of football which has led to Celtic considering Lucien Favre as their manager instead.

In a fresh batch of news, McAvennie told Football Insider the latest:

“There are names pinging about all over the place up here, they don’t know who’s coming or going.

“But if Howe says no, they haven’t put all their eggs in one basket and I’m told by my sources if they have to start again, they can.”

Positive news

The Celtic hierarchy have had a habit of getting things wrong this season.

Take last summer’s recruitment for instance. They spent £4.5m on error-prone Vasilis Barkas while they also splashed out £5m on Albian Ajeti, a forward who has scored just six times since arriving from West Ham.

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Their failure to sack Neil Lennon led to protests from the Green Brigade outside of Parkhead and Dermot Desmond has been questioned in recent weeks over his role too.

He was asked whether he would sell his shares before issuing a defiant statement; he was going nowhere.

The Hoops haven’t particularly covered themselves in glory over their manager hunt either. Roy Keane was the favourite before rumours of his entrance evaporated in swift fashion.

They are now failing to get Howe through the door, either. Thus, news that they’re happy to start again and look elsewhere should come as encouraging news.

Desmond clearly has other irons in the fire and they evidently have contingency plans. The very fact that Favre is in the picture as well tells the story.

With Howe previously in advanced discussions, it looked as though they had placed all their eggs in the 43-year-old’s basket. That, however, certainly isn’t the case.

Celtic supporters should be pleased by the meticulous nature of the board. After all, a failure to appoint the right man could lead to another disastrous season chasing Rangers’ tail.

AND in other news, Sold for £2m, now worth £25.2m: Celtic will rue terrible call on “superb” £50k-p/w gem…

Darren Moore picked up his first win as Sheffield Wednesday manager on Saturday afternoon but despite all of the positives, there was one glaring downside – the performance of Adam Reach.

The versatile 28-year-old has been the epitome of inconsistency throughout his Owls career – you get moments of magic with the odd screamer thrown in there, and then you get displays like that.

This is something Reach has even admitted himself, speaking to YorkshireLive last season, he said: “My own season’s been similar to the team’s, a little bit topsy-turvy. I’ve had some good moments and some not-so-good moments.”

We certainly saw the latter this weekend, even if Wednesday ended a run of eight matches without a victory.

SofaScore graded him as the worst player on the pitch with a 5.9 ratings yet somehow, he lasted the entire duration of the match.

In that time, he lost possession a whopping 40 times, meaning he lost the ball once every two minutes and after racking up a squad-high 81 touches, it means every other touch involved him gifting possession back to Barnsley. Very, very poor.

On average, the £2.5m-rated star loses possession 13.6 times per outing, so this is rather telling on just how shocking he was on the day.

Reach was also weak in his battles, winning just five of 12 duels (42%), both on the ground and in the air. Moore is rather lucky that the in-form Tykes didn’t punish such mistakes as that left flank was clearly an area of weakness that could’ve been exploited.

In addition to that, the Owls ace was dribbled past three times – only adding to the idea that the home side should have done a lot more to damage their struggling rivals.

The rangy 6 foot 1 dynamo, who is thought to be among Wednesday’s high earners on £20k-per-week, badly let his manager down with his performance. He cannot be excused just because they finally won a game, he’ll have to improve to help ensure it wasn’t merely a fluke result in the coming weeks.

Reach was quite simply abysmal with the ball – he managed to make just 46% of his 46 passing attempts, including only five of 24 long balls finding a player in an Owls shirt, as per SofaScore.

Somehow, there were even worse returns amongst the Owls squad here, but still, this did not help Reach’s overall game.

The 28-year-old’s pathetic outing shouldn’t dent confidence going into the international break, though he will certainly need to improve if the Owls are to stand a chance of beating relegation.

AND in other news, 20 clearances: Owls colossus stole the show for Sheffield Wednesday…

أعلن المدير الفني لمنتخب الكاميرون الأول، أنطونيو كونسيساو، عن تشكيل الأسود في مواجهة إثيوبيا، في الجولة الثانية من مجموعات بطولة كأس أمم إفريقيا 2021.

وتنطلق المباراة في تمام الساعة السادسة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة على ملعب “أوليمبي” في العاصمة “ياوندي”، بقيادة الحكم الدولي من الكونغو الديمقراطية جاك ندالا.

وكان منتخب الكاميرون قد فاز في مباراة الجولة الأولى أمام بوركينا فاسو بنتيجة 2-1 بصعوبة، وخسرت إثيوبيا أولى مبارياتها أمام الرأس الأخضر بنتيجة 1-0.

تعرف أيضًا.. القنوات الناقلة لمباراة الكاميرون وإثيوبيا اليوم في كأس أمم إفريقيا

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Voici les XI #LionsIndomptables qui débuteront le match. #CANTOTALENERGIES2021#Ethiopie 🇪🇹 🆚 🇨🇲 #Cameroun

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🏟️ Olembe Stadium#GoLions#LetsRoarTogether#AllezLesLions pic.twitter.com/ldAaP5WQvt — Les Lions Indomptables Officiel (@LIndomptables) January 13, 2022

تشكيل الكاميرون أمام إثيوبيا اليوم

حراسة المرمى: أندريه أونانا.

الدفاع: توهو تولو، مايكل نجاديو، كاستيليتو، فاي كولينز.

الوسط: كارل توكو إيكامبي، زامبو إنجيسا، مارتن هونجالا، مومي نجاماليو.

الهجوم: فينسنت أبو بكر، إيريك تشوبو موتينج.

Plenty of Crystal Palace fans have been reacting to the club’s reported interest in Wolves’ Dion Sanderson on social media.

According to Football Insider, the Eagles, along with Huddersfield Town, have joined Sheffield United in the race to sign the 21-year-old.

Sanderson is currently out on loan in the North East with Sunderland, becoming a regular under new manager Lee Johnson at the Stadium of Light in recent months.

His contract at Molineux expires in just over 12 months time, with the report claiming Sanderson could cost just £2m in the summer window.

The Englishman, who has tuned out on 22 occasions for the Eagles, is thought to be open to a move away, should his current employers decide to cash in the upcoming window.

Palace fans react

@cpfc_xtra shared Football Insider’s report on Twitter on Wednesday morning. This is what these Palace supporters had to say in reply to the transfer update, with one describing the defender as a ‘baller’.

“he would surely choose us right?”

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“He’s a baller, probably got one of the big 6 after him”

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“would be too big of a step, we would be perfect”

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“well you’d like to think he’d choose us considering the other two and Sunderland will likely all be in the championship next season and if Wolves have any sense then the next step will be to loan him to a premier league team. #CPFC”

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“All the big clubs after him, what does that tell you. Just need West Brom and Newcastle to join the party now.”

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“Versatile, physical, young, confident, cheap, fairly available and home-grown… ticks plenty of boxes for Palace. Can’t see any huge risk here”

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In other news: Many Palace fans plead with current star as transfer comments emerge, find out more here. 

Lots of Derby County fans have flocked to a tweet from The Athletic’s Derby correspondent Ryan Conway, which shared Rams manager Wayne Rooney’s revelation that Krystian Bielik has torn his right ACL for a second time. 

The injury came during the East Midlands club’s 1-0 win over Bristol City on 30th January, however, the extent of the injury has only been confirmed more recently.

As explained in an article that Conway has written for The Athletic, Bielik tore his ACL last January too while playing with the Rams’ U23s to build up his fitness.  

In this report, the journalist explained that the 23-year-old’s absence will be a significant blow for the relegation-battling side – something fans are well aware of anyway. 

After Conway relayed Rooney’s confirmation of Bielik’s injury on Twitter, lots of Derby supporters flocked to his post. 

So, how have these Derby County fans been reacting to this news? 

This news has crushed many Rams supporters, who are understandably devastated for Bielik.

“Life is so unfair sometimes. I hope he finds the strength to recover a second time. Damn!”

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“When you think your night can’t get any worse #dcfcfans”

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“This sums up the season!”

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“What a night.”

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“Relegation confirmed”

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“Devastating.”

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“The news we were all fearing. Gutted for him and as proved tonight will be a massive miss.”

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In other news, Conway has dropped a damning Derby takeover claim.