Aston Villa’s FA Cup clash with Liverpool has been thrown into doubt after a significant outbreak of coronavirus at the club.
The club confirmed a ‘large number of first-team players and staff’ returned positive cases in the first round of routine testing on Monday and then even more positive results were produced among the squad in further tests on Tuesday.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, or Robert Lewandowski - who will come out on top this season?
The race for the 2020-21 Golden Shoe is on as the best strikers from across Europe look to boost their goal tallies and be crowned the contintent’s No 1 sharp-shooter.
Lionel Messi has now scored 48 direct free-kick goals for FCBarcelona in all competitions (37 in LaLiga), one more than Cristiano Ronaldo in his profesional club career (47).
Ronaldo equals Josef Bican’s record as joint topscorer in football history
After scoring Juventus’ third goal in the match against Sassuolo on Sunday, Cristiano Ronaldo became the joint top scorer for official goals in football history.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored the third goal in Juventus’ 3-1 win over Sassuolo on Sunday and with that he became the joint-highest scorer for club and country in the history of the game. With 759 career goals, Ronaldo equalled Josef Bican, the Austrian-Czech striker who played between 1931 and 1955.
Son Heung-min has been outperforming Lionel Messi & Cristiano Ronaldo since 2016
Forget Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski. Tottenham’s Son Heung-min has delivered a statistical anomaly that sets him out as bar far the deadliest finisher in Europe.
The way Son is performing in comparison to his expected goals (xG) is simply remarkable and eclipses all of football’s top marksmen since 2016.
Perceived wisdom is that eventually, players and teams performing above or below their xG will eventually turn the tide and the score will be about average, regressing to the mean.
Mamadou Sakho: “I lost my father when I was 13. Soon I had to become a man. For me, it wasn’t an option to play football, it was a must. Someone asked me if it was difficult to be PSG captain at 17, for me the hardest thing was to become captain of my family at 13.”
Barcelona REJECTED the chance to sign Cristiano Ronaldo for £15m in 2003
Barcelona presidential candidate Joan Laporta has fascinatingly revealed how the club turned down the chance to sign Cristiano Ronaldo for just £15million in 2003