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An update has emerged on Ederson and Gabriel Jesus, regarding their availability for Manchester City this weekend. 

What’s the talk?

According to Sky Sports, Manchester City are set to be without both Ederson and Gabriel Jesus for their clash with Leicester in the Premier League this weekend.

The report claims that FIFA are poised to hand five-day bans to players whose clubs blocked them from playing for Brazil due to Covid restrictions, at the request of the Brazilian FA.

Pep will be fuming

Pep Guardiola will surely be left fuming by this news as it means that two of his key players will have to miss out on the game against Leicester. The Spanish head coach’s team will be weakened due to issues that are out of his, or the player’s, control and that will be frustrating for everyone involved.

Man City only had two options; block the players from playing or allow them to play and have them miss 10 days through quarantine upon their return. Either way, given the subsequent action, it would have resulted in Ederson and Jesus missing the game against Leicester due to the Brazilian FA’s request.

The report claims that FIFA remains in talks with the UK government over an exemption to the 10-day quarantine coming back from certain countries, but that is with future international breaks in mind rather than with a view to rectifying the current issues.

Guardiola will be livid that two key players are out of Saturday’s clash. Ederson is his number one goalkeeper and has won the Premier League Golden Glove in each of the past two seasons, suggesting that he has been the best player in his position in the division during that period.

Jesus, meanwhile, has one goal and three assists in two Premier League starts for City this season, averaging a superb WhoScored rating of 7.85. This means that Guardiola will be without an in-form forward for the clash with Leicester.

Whilst frustrating, it is something ManCity are seemingly going to have to deal with for this match. They will then need to hope that the problems can be resolved ahead of the October and November international breaks, or else Edersona and Jesus may be in trouble again.

AND in other news, 73% duels won: Man City dynamo with 120 touches will have wowed Pep with performance…

Plays of the Day for the third day of the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi

Cricinfo staff31-Oct-2008
For what seemed an eternity, the players lay on their tummies © Getty Images
Good morning Haydos
Just before play started, Matthew Hayden kept Zaheer Khan waiting. For two minutes, he gardened on the pitch, on the non-strikers’ end too, and then when Zaheer was getting ready to run in, Hayden squatted and made Zaheer wait again. Then he got what he asked for. A fired up Zaheer delivered a sharp, accurate bouncer which Hayden failed to negotiate and was hit in the helmet. A concerned Simon Katich walked up to his partner to check on him. Hayden hadn’t seen the last of it though as the third ball of the over, another bouncer, hit his shoulder.Angry young fielder
India didn’t start with Ishant Sharma today. One can’t be sure if that riled him up, but the moment he got an opportunity to have a shy at the stumps, he absolutely let it rip. Katich had played it straight to Ishant at mid-on, and dashed off for a single in a frenzied manner. Ishant took aim and broke the middle stump into two, shattering the stump camera in the process.Beeroz Shah Kotla
At least once each during their umpiring careers, Aleem Dar and Billy Bowden have officiated in matches where bees have attacked the field and held up play. It happened to Bowden in Vishakhapatnam, during the India-Pakistan one-dayer in 2005 and Dar faced it in Kandy, during the England-Sri Lanka Test in 2007-08. The bee attack seemed inevitable when the two united for the Kotla Test.This one was an assault like no other. For what seemed an eternity, the players lay on their tummies, waiting the bees to go away. As the players pondered whether to bee or not to bee, everybody had a good laugh. Ishant, fielding at the fine-leg boundary, was the only brave man standing. Sachin Tendulkar, covering his ears with his hat, sported a bee-tific smile, and Hayden rolled on the grass like a child. Bowden tried to be brave and started moving first, but the bees put him back in his place. Sourav Ganguly was, as expected, the last one to get up once the bees went away. All in all, what a bee-mer.Gettin’ jiggy with it
The IPL has not left the Kotla. Popular local music blares at every break in play, however small, and none of the players have taken a liking to it. Just after mid-day drinks, Virender Sehwag ran in to bowl to Hayden, but the music didn’t seem to stop. Hayden lost his concentration and had to pull out of the second delivery. He also did a little jig to suggest he may as well start dancing if the music didn’t stop. We can’t be sure whether the whole thing affected Bowden’s concentration, because Hayden was given lbw off the next ball to a delivery which may or may not have gone over the stumps.

Ricky Ponting needs to show more patience and caution at the start of his innings if he is to reverse his terrible batting record in India, according to former Australian captain Ian Chappell

Cricinfo staff19-Sep-2008
Ricky Ponting will want to right his poor batting record in India in the upcoming series © Getty Images
Ricky Ponting needs to show more patience and caution at the start of his innings if he is to reverse his terrible batting record in India, according to former Australian captain Ian Chappell.”Ponting’s desire to dictate gets him into a bit of trouble in India,” Chappell was quoted as saying in the . “He hasn’t displayed the patience required at the start of an innings when you are facing good spinners in India.”Ponting has scored only 172 runs in 14 innings in India at an average of 12.28. He was tormented by Harbhajan Singh during the 2001 tour, falling to the offspinner five out of five times, and played only one Test – in which he scored 11 and 12 – on the 2004 tour because of injury.However, Ponting hasn’t struggled on the rest of the subcontinent. He averages 65.70 in six Tests in Sri Lanka and scored 119 in his only Test in Pakistan.”He tends to push out at the ball when defending rather than letting the ball come to him,” Chappell said. “Good players of spin reach out to smother the spin in attack, but in defence let the ball come to them. Ponting has been dismissed for so many low scores; he hasn’t found a method that will allow him to survive this danger period.”The important things … are finding a survival method, watching the ball off the pitch really closely, working out what shots you can and can’t play, and learning you have a fraction of a second longer to play the ball off the pitch when compared to Australia.”In his column in the , Ponting said he was hoping to rectify his poor record in India, and wrote about his experience in 2001. “The one thing that brought me undone was that I didn’t trust my technique enough,” he said. “I got out in my first innings in a way that I shouldn’t have and from then on I tried not to do it again, but every time I tried something different I got out again.”It’s a matter of me trusting my technique. I have a reasonable record in Sri Lanka and everywhere else the ball has spun. India is the one place that has brought me undone.”

Many Everton fans have been left fuming as a transfer update emerged on James Rodriguez.

Speaking on El Chiringuito TV, sports journalist Edu Aguirre has claimed that Rafa Benitez has told the Colombia international that he ‘doesn’t count on him’, and added that Rodriguez ‘wants to play’ and is ‘looking for a away out’.

The former Real Madrid star was such a key player for the Merseyside club in the 2020/21 term, scoring six goals and making a further nine assists in 26 games in total over all competitions (Transfermarkt).

His creativity in the final third of the pitch may be vital for their hopes of achieving European qualification next season, but it seems as if the 30-year-old may be forced out of the Toffees after just one campaign.

Thus, it is not a surprise at all to see so many Blues supporters fuming after hearing the news.

Everton fans on Rodriguez transfer update

These EFC fans fumed as the transfer update on Rodriguez was shared on Twitter:

“Give up.”

Credit: @MattyGraham18

“This better not be true.”

Credit: @lewissefc

“Woah woah woah Benitez?? Been in the club a minute my guy can’t be telling Rodriguez he’s not wanted”

Credit: @__GS2__

“Rafa out”

Credit: @GeorgeWoodEFC

“We finally have a player of world-class ability who WANTS to stay here, but he’s being told to leave? Everton that.”

Credit: @_NateTweets

“If this is true, RAFA OUT”

Credit: @keepitreal_82

In other news, find out what confirmed exit has Evertonians talking here!

MatériaMais Notícias

Após o encerramento do empate sem gols entre Cruzeiro e Atlético-MG, no último domingo, válido pela ida da final do Campeonato Mineiro, o presidente da Federação Mineira de Futebol (FMF), Castellar Guimarães Neto, disse estar confiante para ver as duas torcidas na segunda final, no domingo que vem, no Independência.

-A expectativa da Federação, inclusive, é de que, evidentemente, a torcida do Cruzeiro seja permitida de assistir à partida. Nós todos sabemos do investimento que foi feito naquele estádio, da competência da nossa Polícia Militar, e temos, portanto, a plena convicção que, de mãos dadas, todas as partes envolvidas vão encontrar uma solução para essa questão – disse o dirigente à Rede Minas.

O martelo deve ser batido em reunião na entidade na tarde desta terça-feira, em Belo Horizonte. Inicialmente, a Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais havia proibido que o Horto recebesse o maior clássico do Estado, por questões de segurança.

Assim, a torcida cruzeirense estaria proibida de ir ao segundo jogo da final. A diretoria da Raposa, em reunião na FMF, na semana passada, pediu que os dois jogos fossem no Mineirão, com torcidas mistas, mas o Atlético-MG optou por ter a vantagem de jogar em casa. Tal decisão fez dirigentes do Cruzeiro se juntarem ao Ministério Público de Minas Gerais para pedir à Polícia Militar uma revisão de sua decisão.

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حقق قائد منتخب الأرجنتين، ليونيل ميسي، إنجازين تاريخيين، وذلك بعد الميجا هاتريك التي سجلها في شباك إستونيا في المباراة الودية التي جمعت بينهما، مساء اليوم الأحد.

وتغلب منتخب الأرجنتين، بخمسة أهداف مقابل لا شيء، وتكفل ميسي بالأهداف الخمسة، في المواجهة الودية ضمن استعدادات التانجو لنهائيات كأس العالم 2022.

ميسي سجل ميجا هاتريك، في الدقائق، 8، 45، 47، 71، 76، ليقود الأرجنتين للفوز بخماسية نظيفة. شاهد اهداف الأرجنتين وإستونيا

وذكر حساب “ميستر شيب” للأرقام والإحصائيات أن ميسي وصل للهاتريك الثامن في تاريخ مشاركاته مع الأرجنتين، والميجا هاتريك الأول في تاريخه.

ليونيل ميسي بات كذلك ثالث لاعب أرجنتيني يسجل خماسية في مباراة واحدة والأول منذ 80 عامًا، حيث سبقه من قبل خوان مارفيززي الذي سجل ميجا هاتريك في شباك الأكوادور عام 1941، وبعده بعام في 1942 أحرز الراحل خوسيه مانويل مورينو، ميجا هاتريك في المنتخب ذاته.

اقرأ أيضًا.. مارتينيز: الأرجنتين تقاتل كالأسود من أجل ميسي

ميسي بات رابع اللاعبين في ترتيب الهدافين في تاريخ المنتخبات الوطنية، بـ86 هدفًا، وتخطى المجرى فيرينتس بوشكاش الذي أحرز 84 هدفًا.

ميسي الفارق بينه وبين صاحب المرتبة الأولى في هدافي المنتخبات الوطنية، كريستيانو رونالدو، 31 هدفًا، حيث سجل مهاجم مانشستر يونايتد، هدفين مع البرتغال في شباك سويسرا، وبات رصيد الدون من الأهداف 117 هدفًا. ترتيب الهدافين التاريخيين للمنتخبات

كريستيانو رونالدو (البرتغال) – 117 هدفًا.

على دائي (إيران) – 109 هدفًا.

مختار ظاهري (ماليزيا) – 89 هدفًا.

ليونيل ميسي (الأرجنتين) – 86 هدفًا.

فيرينتس بوشكاش (المجر) – 84 هدفًا.

According to a report by The Telegraph, Fabio Paratici and co have made Southampton striker Danny Ings Tottenham’s new transfer priority this summer.

The Lowdown: New striker incoming?

Tottenham did not take up the option to make Carlos Vinicius’ 2020/2021 season-long loan a permanent move, with Sky Sports recently detailing that the club will be on the look out for a new forward.

Ings has been loosely linked to Spurs this summer but now The Telegraph have taken that one step further.

The Latest: Spurs make Ings priority…

As per the outlet and reliable journalist Matt Law, Paratici and co have now earmarked the 28-year-old as a possible partner for Harry Kane this summer.

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It is believed the club have now made Ings a priority signing for Spurs with a firm belief he can play alongside Kane under Nuno Espirito Santo.

Tottenham’s new manager allegedly wants to play two up front with a ready-made Premier League goal scorer next to their superstar talisman.

This comes after recruitment meetings, which followed the appointments of Nuno and Paratici, where it has been recommended that Spurs pursue Ings this summer.

The Verdict: Do it Paratici…

We could think of no better possible partner for Kane next season as Nuno eyes a dynamic duo up front.

Scoring 12 goals and assisting four others in the English top flight over 2020/2021, he also averaged more shots on goal per game (2) than the likes of Son Heung-min and Gareth Bale (WhoScored).

His threat in the final third is perhaps best summed up by Alan Hutton when speaking to Football Insider, who called simply him a ‘proven goalscorer’.

Jamie O’Hara also believes he would be a great Tottenham acquisition, labelling Ings the ‘perfect fit’ for Spurs when speaking to talkSPORT.

He could indeed be a worthwhile acquisition for Spurs this summer.

In other news: Tottenham chiefs perform Kane U-turn as report shares behind-scenes developments, find out more here.

Leeds United transfer target Harrison Reed could solve a major problem for Marcelo Bielsa amid David Norris’ transfer claim.

What’s the story?

Reports in recent days and weeks have linked them with a move for Cagliari dynamo Nahitan Nandez, before The Daily Mail claimed that that the Whites tracked Fulham’s Reed last season with a view to a summer swoop.

It was suggested that with the Cottagers’ relegation from the Premier League, Leeds see the midfielder as an “excellent addition”, and now Norris has thrown his backing behind a potential move.

Speaking exclusively to This is Futbol, the former Leeds man said: “The key things with the players that Leeds want to bring in is that they have to suit their high tempo style of play and the manager has to trust them.

“Looking at Reed from the outside looking in, he fits the bill, is busy, looks like he can graft, he is a team player and he’s got a bit of quality as well.”

Solves Bielsa’s problem

A regular presence for the Cottagers last season, the £9m-rated Reed made 31 appearances in the top-flight, often playing alongside Andre Zambo Anguissa in the heart of midfield.

As per Sofascore, Reed won four duels per game in the Premier League last season, as well as making an impressive two tackles and 1.6 interceptions per match while also winning back possession 0.6 times.

To put that into context, Chelsea star and recent Champions League winner N’Golo Kante averaged 3.7 duels won and made 2.6 tackles and two interceptions per game. He also won back possession just as often as Reed at 0.6 times per match.

It’s no surprise that the 26-year-old’s former boss Tony Mowbray has waxed lyrical about the kind of engine Reed possesses, and also the kind of attitude he has – all shades of Chelsea’s midfield dynamo.

The Blackburn manager said: “

Immense! He’s been fantastic playing in a wide position, working like a trojan, running forward, blocking off the wide play, helping his full-back, in to out, in to out, and yet playing centre-mid today, it shows you where his true position really is on the pitch.

“He’s a fantastic player, but beyond his playing ability, his personality fits in amazingly well with our group.”

One of the big issues last season was having someone who could fill Kalvin Phillips’ shoes when he was missing from action, with the Whites actually winning just twice in the nine Premier League games that he was unavailable for.

In the tough-tackling Reed, Leeds could have someone who would be more than capable of stepping into the breach when required to be the anchorman in front of the back-four, and given his tigerish work-rate and personality, seems a perfect fit for Bielsa’s demands.

Meanwhile, Beren Cross has dropped a Leeds United transfer update…

Many West Ham United fans are desperate for the club to sign Danny Ings this summer after it was revealed he turned down a four-year contract at Southampton.

The Hammers enjoyed a fantastic campaign last time out as they finished sixth in the Premier League, which means they will be competing in the Europa League in 2021/22. However, David Moyes will surely need to add to his striking options – he currently only has one natural centre-forward at his disposal in Michail Antonio, who has had his share of injury troubles.

The Irons should be busy in transfer market as they prepare for the new campaign, and they may have an eye on Ings now that this big development has emerged. Indeed, talkSPORT’s Alex Crook claimed a few weeks ago that West Ham were chasing the 28-year-old.

The Athletic reported that Ings – a scorer of 101 senior career goals – has the rejected a new contract offer at St Mary’s, even though it would have made him the best-paid player in Southampton’s history had he accepted.

As a result, many West Ham fans want their club to sign the former Liverpool striker, and they took to social media platform Twitter to share their thoughts.

Let’s see what these fans had to say about Ings’ contract snub

“Get him and Adam Armstrong and I will be a happy man, Antonio can go back out wide and we will have 2 top strikers fighting it out”

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“He has to be on our list of striker targets surely… Would be a great signing if we could get him!”

Credit: @WestHamViews_

“This is the signing we should be going all out for. Proven PL striker, carried that awful Southampton team. Would rather this than taking a punt on someone from abroad who could be another Haller”

Credit: @WestHamJim1

“I’d welcome this signing. Cost too much though?”

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“Gladly take him”

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“Given our history of signing unsuccessful strikers who struggle in the Prem, would love to see @WestHam #WHUFC go for Danny Ings now he has rejected a new deal at Southampton. We can offer European football and his fee will be lower with 1 year left on his deal.”

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In other news, the Hammers have been linked with this South American.

Australia’s leg-spinning maestro Shane Warne has sent out a huge warning to England as they prepare for the Ashes series by smashing more Test records in what has become a rejuvenation of his career against Pakistan.

Lynn McConnell22-Oct-2002Australia’s leg-spinning maestro Shane Warne has sent out a huge warning to England as they prepare for the Ashes series, smashing more Test records in what has become a rejuvenation of his career against Pakistan.Pakistan were 47 runs behind Australia’s first-innings score of 444 with only two of their second innings wickets remaining in the third Test. Warne has three for 56 in the innings and Glenn McGrath three for 18.Playing in Sharjah, where the black gold of oil has created great wealth, Warne has bowled into a rich vein of his own and has smashed the Australian record for most wickets in a three-Test series.He has taken 27 wickets so far to move past Dennis Lillee, who took 23 in the 1979/80 series against England. Warne’s wickets have come at an incredible average of 12.66 runs per wicket.Warne has given himself every chance of becoming only the second player to take 500 wickets during the Ashes series, as he has now taken 477 wickets in his 104 Tests at an average of 25.73. Only West Indian Courtney Walsh has taken more Test wickets – 519.Warne has also moved into equal seventh place on the list of wickets taken in three-Test-match series, a position he shares with Pakistan’s Waqar Younis.Warne’s best figures in any series are the 34 he took on his first tour of England in 1993.If getting some respite from Warne is not enough, pace-man Glenn McGrath moved past the 400-mark in the same innings, only the second Australian to take that many wickets.McGrath, in his 87th Test, has now taken 403 wickets at 21.52.Those ahead of him are: Walsh, Warne, Kapil Dev (434), Richard Hadlee (431), Muttiah Muralitharan (430), Wasim Akram (414) and Curtly Ambrose (405).Most wickets for Australia in a three-Test series:

Runs  Wkts Avge342   27   12.66   SK Warne             Australia v Pakistan         2002/03388   23   16.86   DK Lillee            Australia v England          1979/80388   23   16.86   R Benaud             Australia v India            1956/57261   21   12.42   CTB Turner           Australia v England          1888438   21   20.85   GD McGrath           Australia v Sri Lanka        1995/96452   21   21.52   DK Lillee            Australia v India            1980/81540   21   25.71   DK Lillee            Australia v Pakistan         1976/77417   20   20.85   SK Warne             Australia v South Africa     1997/98442   20   22.10   SK Warne             Australia v South Africa     2001/02446   20   22.30   B Yardley            Australia v West Indies      1981/82Most wickets by all countries in three-Tests:Runs  Wkts  Avge203   35   5.80   GA Lohmann           England v South Africa       1895/96401   33  12.15   RJ Hadlee            New Zealand v Australia      1985/86545   32  17.03   Harbhajan Singh      India v Australia            2000/01294   30   9.80   M Muralitharan       Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe         2001/02437   30  14.56   Abdul Qadir          Pakistan v England           1987/88315   29  10.86   Waqar Younis         Pakistan v New Zealand       1990/91342   27  12.66   Shane Warne          Australia v Pakistan         2002/03373   27  13.81   Waqar Younis         Pakistan v Zimbabwe          1993/94270   26  10.38   C Blythe             England v South Africa       1907401   26  15.42   WPUJC Vaas           Sri Lanka v West Indies      2001/02