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  • Premier League: Four days after 9-0 loss, Southampton crushed by Newcastle 3-2

    Image Source : AP Newcastle vs Southampton
    Four days after dropping 9-0 for the second time in 15 months, Southampton produced one other ragged defensive show to lose to a Newcastle aspect 3-2 that ended the English Premier League match with 9 males on Saturday.
    Newcastle scored three within the first half of a top-flight match for the primary time since 2015 to guide 3-1 at halftime, with Miguel Almiron netting twice after the opener from Joe Willock on his debut.

    Takumi Minamino, one other participant making his debut after a deadline-day transfer on Feb. 1, replied for Southampton for 2-1, and the guests pulled it again to a one-goal deficit once more when James Ward-Prowse scored off a shocking 30-meter free kick within the forty eighth.
    Jeff Hendrick was despatched off two minutes later after receiving his second yellow card for a pull of the jersey, and Fabian Schar was carried off within the 78th — by which era Newcastle had made three substitutes due to earlier accidents to Callum Wilson and Javier Manquillo.

    However, Newcastle held on regardless of waves of Southampton strain that noticed Danny Ings strike a shot in opposition to the publish.
    Just like within the record-tying loss at Manchester United on Tuesday, Southampton’s gamers had been their very own worst enemies at instances.
    Jan Bednarek scored an personal objective and was later despatched off in opposition to United — although the pink card was overturned — and he turned the ball into his personal internet in opposition to Newcastle, too, from a goal-bound shot from Almiron to make it 2-0 within the twenty sixth.
    Then, Southampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy delivered a slack go out from the sting of his space that led to Ryan Bertrand getting dispossessed and Almiron scoring his second in first-half damage time.

  • Premier League: Arsenal woes proceed as Villa hand them 1-0 defeat

    Image Source : AP Ollie Watkins and Rob Holding
    Aston Villa maintained its push for a end within the European qualification positions by beating Arsenal 1-0 within the Premier League because of a purpose after 74 seconds by Ollie Watkins on Saturday.
    Bertrand Traore pounced on a free go by Cedric Soares and crossed to Watkins, whose first-time shot from a central place took a deflection off Rob Holding and squirmed into the online previous Mat Ryan — an Arsenal debutant in purpose.

    Emi Martinez, a goalkeeper offered by Arsenal within the final offseason, preserved Villa’s win with a number of superb saves, notably from a free kick by Granit Xhaka that was heading into the highest nook.
    Villa moved into eighth place and solely 5 factors behind Liverpool, which got here into the twenty third spherical of video games in fourth place. Villa has a sport in hand, too, after lacking two fixtures early within the new yr due to a coronavirus outbreak within the squad.
    It was a second straight loss for mid-table Arsenal, which was overwhelmed 2-1 by Wolverhampton on Tuesday when it additionally had goalkeeper Bernd Leno and defender David Luiz despatched off.

  • Premier League: Revived underneath Tuchel, Chelsea hand Tottenham third-straight loss

    Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Not since 2012 has Tottenham endured three consecutive Premier League losses. Never earlier than in his managerial profession has Mourinho misplaced back-to-back house league video games.
    A Chelsea victory that prolonged the group’s revival underneath Thomas Tuchel left Tottenham experiencing new lows underneath Jose Mourinho.
    Not since 2012 has Tottenham endured three consecutive Premier League losses. Never earlier than in his managerial profession has Mourinho misplaced back-to-back house league video games.

    Being high of the league two months in the past is changing into a distant reminiscence for Tottenham after shedding 1-0 to Mourinho’s former facet on Thursday.
    Tottenham’s poor type was punctuated by the best way Eric Dier recklessly tripped Timo Werner to concede the penalty, which Jorginho transformed within the twenty fourth minute.
    Now it is Chelsea on the up once more since Frank Lampard was fired 10 days in the past, with two wins and a draw underneath Tuchel shifting shifting the London membership as much as sixth, 4 factors from Liverpool in fourth place.
    While solely a single purpose separated the perimeters, Chelsea managed the sport and prevented being unsettled by defender Thiago Silva limping off within the first half.
    “It is the style the manager wants us to play and it has been working well,” stated Mason Mount, who was so usually the impetus of Chelsea’s attacking risk. “It is new, it’s totally different for a few of us gamers. We are all studying however it’s clearly going effectively thus far.
    “It makes it difficult for any team we play against they don’t know what we are going to be coming with. I have been playing a bit deeper so being up in the box a little bit more I need to work on my finishing.”
    While Chelsea’s pursuit of the Champions League locations was given a carry, Tottenham is slipping away from the highest 4 in a disappointing second season in cost for Mourinho.
    Tottenham is seven factors from fourth in eighth place having performed a sport much less, and is sorely lacking the injured Harry Kane, who might return from ankle accidents subsequent week. Tottenham was additionally overwhelmed at its stadium final Thursday by Liverpool, earlier than collapsing at Brighton.

    Perhaps the one reduction for Mourinho is that supporters stay shut out of the stadium because of the pandemic so couldn’t vent their irritation on the stoop.
    Mourinho, although, wasn’t so pessimistic.
    “In the second half we were different, the spirit was different, the confidence too,” Mourinho said. “At the end the feeling that I have is that the team stuck together until the end, fought until the end … and to finish the game with this positive spirit helps.”
    Still, the state of affairs at Spurs appears miles away from the glory days of Mourinho’s two spells at Chelsea when he lifted the Premier League trophy 3 times and turned Stamford Bridge right into a fortress.
    Given the group’s present stoop, Mourinho shall be hoping Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is extra affected person than Chelsea proprietor Roman Abramovich.
    It was Abramovich’s restlessness that noticed Mourinho fired twice, a part of a managerial carousel at Chelsea that additionally led to Frank Lampard being dismissed final month.
    Chelsea had been leaking objectives underneath Lampard however has but to concede in three video games underneath Tuchel.
    “Every expertise we make is a step ahead if we’re open to study from it,” Tuchel stated.
    Tottenham’s toothless efficiency additionally raised questions as to why winger Gareth Bale was left on the bench. However, Mourinho would not say why Bale — again on mortgage at Tottenham from Real Madrid — is ignored so usually.
    Mourinho was extra vocal criticizing a penalty that appeared an apparent one given away by Dier.
    “It is a penalty that is difficult to accept,” Mourinho stated. “So to lose the game to a penalty like this is a bit painful.”

  • Liverpool set to handle center-back disaster on deadline day

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    Liverpool’s supervisor Jurgen Klopp reacts throughout the English Premier League match between West Ham and Liverpool on the the London Stadium in London, Sunday, Jan. 31
    Liverpool appears set to handle its damage disaster in central protection by making a low-key signing from England’s second division on the ultimate day of the January switch window.
    Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp hasn’t felt the necessity to usher in reinforcements at heart again after the lack of Virgil van Dijk, in October, and Joe Gomez, in November, to long-term knee accidents.

    But with the health of Joel Matip additionally proving unreliable, Klopp seems to have modified his thoughts and will herald as many as two heart backs on Monday.
    One is more likely to be Ben Davies, a 25-year-old left-sided heart half who performs for Preston within the second-tier Championship. He has been linked with a transfer to Scottish champion Celtic not too long ago.
    Such has been the scarcity of senior choices accessible to Klopp that he has fielded central midfielders Fabinho and, extra not too long ago, Jordan Henderson at heart again this season. Fabinho is presently out injured, too.

    Henderson performed alongside teenager Nathaniel Phillips within the 3-1 win at West Ham on Sunday, for the twelfth completely different center-back partnership in 21 Premier League video games this season.
    In a turbulent title defence, Liverpool are third within the league, 4 factors behind first-place Manchester City, after enjoying yet one more recreation.
    It could possibly be one of many quieter deadline days within the English high division, on the finish of a month when there was an outlay of solely round 60 million kilos ($85 million) on gamers primarily resulting from golf equipment reining of their spending throughout the pandemic.
    More than half of that’s on two gamers — Amad Diallo to Manchester United and Said Benrahma to West Ham — whose transfers have been first introduced in the summertime window.
    Compare that to 2018, when groups splashed out a complete of 420 million kilos ($575 million) in January and even final 12 months, when 230 million kilos ($315 million) was spent within the winter window.

  • Premier League: Leicester City miss probability to go 2nd with 3-1 loss to Leeds

    Image Source : AP Leeds United’s Stuart Dallas celebrates with teammates after scoring his facet’s opening objective throughout the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Leeds United
    Leicester missed the possibility to maneuver above Manchester United into second place within the Premier League by shedding 3-1 at dwelling to Leeds, for whom striker Patrick Bamford scored one objective and arrange the opposite two on Sunday.
    Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds recovered from conceding the opening objective of the sport to Harvey Barnes within the thirteenth minute by equalizing two minutes later by way of Stuart Dallas and including objectives after halftime from Bamford after which Jack Harrison on a counterattack.

    Bamford now has 11 objectives this marketing campaign and is beginning to dispel his popularity as a wasteful finisher. His objective towards Leicester was wonderful, amassing the ball after being performed in on the left of the penalty space and smashing a fierce shot into the far high nook.
    It was solely Leicester’s second league loss since Nov. 30 and saved Brendan Rodgers’ workforce in third place — when it might have moved two factors behind chief Man City.

  • Premier League: Man United lose floor in title race, Man City make case for protection in title cost

    Manchester United misplaced important floor within the title race after drawing 0-0 towards Arsenal within the Premier League on Saturday.
    United had a string of clear possibilities all through the match, however the guests couldn’t convert and seize the three factors. Instead, the Red Devils dropped two and remained in second place with 41 factors, three behind rival Manchester City on the prime.

    And to make issues worse, City on Saturday was capable of do what United couldn’t on Wednesday — beat backside facet Sheffield United.
    Arsenal prolonged its unbeaten run to seven matches and moved as much as eighth with 31 factors.
    “Both teams were trying to win. Both sides had opportunities,” Arsenal defender David Luiz stated. “It was a great match. But frustrating, frustrating (not to win).”
    United supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made 5 modifications after the Sheffield United defeat and his group had the majority of possibilities within the first half, with Fred’s shot from the sting of the realm drawing a fingertip save from Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno within the twentieth.
    “I feel we had the bigger chances to win the match,” Solskjaer stated. “I feel we had a good performance.”
    When central midfielder Scott McTominay got here off injured within the first half, the United supervisor made a constructive substitution, bringing on ahead Anthony Martial to attempt to deliver the sport to Arsenal.
    “I felt we had the upper hand,” Solskjaer stated. “And we wanted to get on the ball more.”
    Midfielder Bruno Fernandes got here shut a number of instances, together with a free kick simply outdoors the realm earlier than halftime. The ball appeared like it will simply clear the wall and was headed towards purpose, however Luiz headed the ball backward and over the crossbar.
    The guests had different possibilities, however poor ending and good defending by Arsenal stymied United, together with an important clearance by Gabriel Martinelli within the twenty ninth to move the ball out earlier than it reached Marcus Rashford within the space.
    Arsenal additionally had possibilities, with Alexandre Lacazette unleashing a 25-yard swerving shot within the seventeenth, however it was proper at goalkeeper David de Gea in the long run.
    Edinson Cavani had possibilities to supply a winner and almost scored within the 59th, however Arsenal left again Cedric Soares did sufficient to divert the ball away for a nook.
    Lacazette hit the crossbar within the sixty fifth from a free kick after the ahead was introduced down simply outdoors the realm by United captain Harry Maguire. A minute later, Emile Smith Rowe compelled a low save from de Gea on the close to publish with a strong shot.
    Arsenal was lacking three key gamers, together with captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who’s coping with private household points, winger Bukayo Saka (sore hip) and left again Kieran Tierney (proper calf).
    Man City making case for protection in newest EPL title cost
    A final-minute comfort and a bundled effort from a protracted throw-in are the one objectives Manchester City has conceded in 9 video games throughout all competitions in 2021.
    Pep Guardiola, one of the vital attack-minded coaches in soccer historical past, has constructed a nearly impenetrable defensive unit in his fifth season at City and it’s offering the platform for the group’s newest run on the Premier League title.
    City’s lead grew to a few factors on Saturday after its battling 1-0 win over last-place Sheffield United was adopted by second-place Manchester United’s newest slip-up, a 0-0 draw at Arsenal.

    That’s 5 straight shutouts for City within the league — or 10 in its final 12 league video games stretching again to a 2-0 loss at Tottenham on Nov. 21, when some had been questioning if Guardiola’s newest iteration had the potential of successful the title this season.
    City’s protection, marshalled by the superb Ruben Dias, was barely troubled.
    When is it ever as of late?
    “When I woke up and went out of my building, I saw it was windy and freezing and I said, ‘Today will be the toughest game we are going to play this season,’” Guardiola stated.
    “Our commitment was fantastic. We played really well. We didn’t create much but we conceded few again. I am grateful to my players for the victory we had. It was so, so difficult and we did it.”
    City’s 13 objectives conceded is by far the fewest within the league heading into the second half of the marketing campaign. Tottenham and Arsenal are tied for the subsequent finest report, with 20.
    Arsenal managed to maintain Man United scoreless at Emirates Stadium, which means Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s group has dropped 5 factors in three days after dropping 2-1 to Sheffield United on Wednesday.
    City has a sport in hand over United and is now the sturdy favourite for a 3rd league title underneath Guardiola.
    After 5 straight defeats that noticed the group plunge towards the relegation zone, Newcastle rebounded with a 2-0 win at Everton — by way of a second-half double from Callum Wilson — to maneuver eight factors away from the underside three.
    Fulham, which occupies the third and closing spot within the relegation zone, drew 2-2 at next-to-last West Bromwich Albion.
    Crystal Palace beat Wolverhampton 1-0 because of the newest marvel strike by Eberechi Eze.
    Southampton hosts Aston Villa within the late sport.

  • Premier League golf equipment comply with trial concussion substitutes

    Image Source : AP Arsenal’s David Luiz, heart, jumps for the ball with Crystal Palace’s Christian Benteke.
    Concussion substitutes might be trialled within the Premier League in response to mounting concern over head accidents, golf equipment agreed Wednesday.
    Teams might be allowed to make as much as two extra substitutions for gamers with suspected or confirmed concussion.

    The trial will start as soon as the league resolves with FIFA and soccer’s world lawmaking physique, IFAB, the right way to take care of non-public medical data from gamers.
    “With player welfare the Premier League’s priority, the protocols will allow a maximum of two concussion substitutes to be used per team, with the opposition side able to use the equivalent number,” the league said. “The additional concussion substitutions may be made regardless of the number of substitutions a team has already made.”
    The transfer comes with Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Raul Jimenez nonetheless working his means again to health from the fractured cranium he suffered in a conflict of heads with Arsenal defender David Luiz in November. Luiz initially performed on, however had to get replaced at halftime because of the collision.

  • Three extra COVID-19 positives at Manchester City

    Manchester City reserve goalkeeper Scott Carson, midfielder Cole Palmer and a member of workers have examined optimistic for COVID-19 hours earlier than their League Cup semi-final at Manchester United, the Premier League membership stated on Wednesday.The trio be part of a rising record of people which have contracted the illness on the membership, with City lacking six gamers as a consequence of optimistic checks of their 3-1 league victory towards Chelsea final weekend.The membership stated in an announcement https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/scott-carson-cole-palmer-covid-63745523 that they may observe a interval of self-isolation in accordance with league and UK Government protocols on quarantine.City’s recreation at Everton final week was additionally postponed as a consequence of a number of optimistic circumstances of their camp, with the Manchester membership becoming a member of Newcastle United, Sheffield United and Fulham amongst those that have suffered virus outbreaks.The Premier League returned 40 new COVID-19 circumstances on Tuesday, the very best in every week this season, after two rounds of testing final week.

  • 40 Covid -19 positives in newest Premier League testing

    The English Premier League says there have been 40 optimistic instances of the coronavirus amongst gamers and membership workers following two rounds of exams final week.It is greater than double the best weekly determine of optimistic instances since testing started forward of the return of league play final June. More individuals have been examined than in earlier weeks, nonetheless.Three league video games have been postponed final week following an elevated variety of optimistic exams at Manchester City and Fulham. The postponed video games have been Everton vs. Manchester City, Tottenham vs. Fulham, and Burnley vs. Fulham.The league says it “continues to have confidence in its COVID-19 protocols, fully backed by the government, to enable fixtures to be played as scheduled.”

  • Son Heung-min scores his one hundredth Tottenham aim in 3-0 win over Leeds in Premier League

    Image Source : AP Tottenham’s Son Heung-min celebrates after scoring his aspect’s second aim in the course of the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, Saturday, Jan. 2
    Son Heung-min scored his one hundredth Tottenham aim in a 3-0 victory over Leeds that ended a four-game winless run and despatched Jose Mourinho’s aspect as much as third place within the Premier League on Saturday.
    Son additionally arrange the third with a nook headed in by Toby Alderweireld 5 minutes into the second half.
    But it’s the partnership with Harry Kane that Son has benefited from a lot, combining now for 16 targets in as many league video games this season.

    Kane, who put Tottenham forward with a penalty within the twenty ninth minute, despatched within the cross that Son ran to the near-post to satisfy and he clipped a shot contained in the publish within the forty third.
    South Korea ahead has reached a century of targets in his sixth season at Tottenham, which received its first league sport in a month.
    But there was a blot on the efficiency with Matt Doherty despatched off after receiving a second reserving in stoppage time for a late problem on Paolo Hernandez.
    Leeds, which had received three of its final 4 video games, is eleventh within the standings in its first season again within the prime division after 16 years.