Luis Enrique hailed Spain’s ‘almost perfect performance’ in their Nations League semi-final win over Italy.
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Ferran Torres bagged a brace to help Spain hold off a late charge from 10-man Italy in a 1-2 victory in the semi-finals of the 2021 Nations League finals on Wednesday night at the San Siro in Milan, Italy.
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The £300million Saudi takeover of Newcastle United has finally been concluded and it promises to have seismic consequences on Tyneside and far beyond.
Mike Ashley’s 14-year ownership of the St James’ Park club will now draw to a close as the Premier League officially sign off the deal, with the new owners eager to get straight down to work.
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Vaccinated Leeds forward Rodrigo says individual players ‘have to be free to choose’ whether they get jabbed against Covid-19 or not.
Football’s governing bodies have urged all players to be fully vaccinated and last month the Premier League is understood to have wrote to all its clubs offering incentives to ensure their playing and coaching staff had both jabs.
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Emma Hayes has been named as the fourth and final inductee of 2021 into the Women’s Super League (WSL) Hall of Fame.
The Chelsea Women boss is the longest-serving head coach in the WSL, having first taken charge in 2012.
She has since led Chelsea to four league titles, two Continental Tyres League Cups and two FA Cups, as well as the final of the Women’s Champions League earlier this year.
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Brazil have now won all 9 of their world cup qualifying matches.
They’ve outscored their opponent 22-3
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Romelu Lukaku ended a run of five games without a goal but Theo Hernandez broke Belgian hearts as France fought back from 2-0 down to win in the last minute.
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Game is over and the final score is Venezuela 1-3 Brazil. Marquinhos nets, Barbosa hits pen as Tite’s side complete late comeback, Antony scores 94-min goal.
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Romelu Lukaku ended a run of five games without a goal but Theo Hernandez broke Belgian hearts as France fought back from 2-0 down to win in the last minute.
His sweet strike provided a thrilling finish to a splendid semi-final, and booked the world champions a date with Spain in the UEFA Nations League final in Milan on Sunday.
For this talented generation of footballers from Belgium, it was another crushing disappointment in the long search for silverware on a night that started so well.
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A worrying incident for both Belgium and Real Madrid involving Eden Hazard took place in the Nations League semi-final between the Red Devils and France on Thursday night.
The Real Madrid forward stopped running after passing the ball in the 75th minute of the match, didn’t participate more in the play and began walking towards the sidelines while removing his armband.
Then, Hazard was immediately replaced by Leandro Trossard and went to the bench, where he wasn’t attended by the team’s doctor.
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Argentina failed to score for the first time since June 2019 but a 0-0 draw at Paraguay on Thursday maintained their unbeaten record in South America’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
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Manchester United have appointed their first director of data science as they aim to ramp up the use of analytics to aid Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
United, who continue to back Solskjaer amid a turbulent start to the season, have moved to take Dominic Jordan from local online retailer N Brown Group, whose brands include Jacamo.
Jordan has a background in geospatial analytics with a similar skillset to those hired by rivals Manchester City and Liverpool in recent years. The Cambridge University graduate will be tasked with building a wider data team at Old Trafford.
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Fewer footballers are known for their physique than Cristiano Ronaldo but his Portugal team-mate Jose Fonte has revealed that even the Manchester United star has cheat days.
And, while known for his meticulous condition on the pitch, it appears Ronaldo’s strict regime has an effect off it too, influencing his team-mates’ diets.
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Joan Laporta has confirmed that Barcelona did consider making a move for Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar over the summer, despite the Catalans’ crippling financial problems forcing them to lose Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann.
Neymar has consistently been linked with a return to the Camp Nou since leaving the club in 2017 and, as it turns out, the reports weren’t unfounded.
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Thomas Muller scored his 40th international goal⚽
Only eight men have scored more goals for Germany. Respect!!!
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Bukayo Saka is the youngest player to score in a consecutive appearance for England men’s team since wayne Rooney in 2004.
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