A Russia that is engaged in a bloody and debilitating conflict with a fellow Slav country. What an appalling result for President Putin.
Gerrard to miss Villa games after positive Covid-19 testFestive fixtures impacted by coronavirus - updatesWith this in mind, the Premier League have agreed to Wolves' request to have the match called off.
While Leicester City added a new name to the trophy with their shock win last season, 23 of the last 26 editions have been won by the same five clubs - Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Rangers searched for a rapid response. Joe Aribo slipped in Alfredo Morelos, but the striker's finish was tame.
We are making progress. Cardiff's Steve Morison: The second half was the worst 45 minutes I have had watching from the touchline.
The two goals were really poor goals to concede and it just comes from not being aggressive enough and a lack of concentration.
It would only get worse for the German as Alvaro Fernandez felled Christian Pulisic with five minutes to play, and Jorginho stepped up with superb composure to double the cushion and send the Blues into the last four.
I don't know how the mechanism works in terms of changing the rules in emergency situations like this, but our player was sent off when he shouldn't have been, missed half a game which would have left us 11 v 10, and now he misses a big game at Celtic so there's a frustration on our part.
The year is 2055. Everton are still based at Goodison Park. They have used the last bit of financing they secured to build Bramley-Moore Dock stadium to pay off Roberto Martinez after his eighth sacking at the club. Duncan Ferguson's Wikipedia page is longer than War and Peace after a 45th entry is added to his 'clubs managed' section. They all read 'Everton (caretaker manager)'.
With rivals AC Milan not in action until Sunday against Lazio, Inter took full advantage to move to the Serie A summit after beating a Roma side who had gone 12 games unbeaten in the Italian top flight before their trip to the San Siro.
There are youngsters who weren't even born when he was playing who will stop him on the street to say 'hello' or have a picture with him.
Brentford can be backed at 9/1 to go down and the Bees were many people’s favourites to suffer relegation in their debut Premier League campaign. However, Thomas Frank’s side have acquitted themselves admirably, recording famous derby wins over the likes of Arsenal and West Ham United, and will feel confident of posting a points tally that will be enough to see them over the line.
Only eligible to play competitive matches once he turned 16 in November 2020, the forward has since scored four goals in 26 first-team appearances - although he has featured largely from the bench.
Then he went and scored nine goals in no time. His greatest weapon is scoring goals. So what comes next for Rijkhoff, one of the best 2005-born strikers anywhere in the world right now?
Incredibly, over the last 180 minutes of football Tottenham have failed to deliver a single shot on target.
Berhalter's backing is a huge and timely vote of confidence in Steffen, particularly with qualification for the World Cup not certain.
I've got a very supportive board full of wise heads. They're a good source of counsel for us and they're all Rangers supporters.
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Alex Mowatt curled an early effort wide, before Grady Diangana cut in and fired a low left-foot shot, which was parried by Forest keeper Brice Samba and cleared. And Darnell Furlong should have done better when he ballooned a left-foot shot over.
This is not just a team without an overarching philosophy, this is a collection of players lacking – to go full Roy Keane here – the requisite desire and hunger to compete with a historically poor Magpies side.
Such has been Trippier's influence since becoming Newcastle's first signing since October's Saudi Arabian-backed takeover that manager Eddie Howe will hope the injury is not serious.
So to do that, enjoy the times I had with the fans and my team-mates and now to receive this accolade, is a true honour.
Connolly has since played 52 times for the Seagulls and has scored eight goals in all competitions in his time on the south coast.
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Then, deep into stoppage time, Jack Sparkes curled a stunning shot with the outside of his left foot over the head of the goalkeeper and into the far corner to claim an incredible win.
Halliday stretched Hearts' lead with his second of the match in the 58th minute when he fired a low left-footed shot in off the post from the edge of the box after good work by Cochrane and McKay to set him up.
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The rearranged postponed derby between Spurs and Arsenal, to be shown live on Sky Sports on May 12, is shaping up to be a potentially-decisive encounter in the race for Champions League qualification.
Following a year which saw the nation almost come to make a historic boycott of next year's tournament, narrowly avoided by powerbrokers in June, attention turned to the question of whether Haaland, captain Martin Odegaard and company could actually book a spot at all.
Alba spoke out after the Blaugrana's 1-0 win over Alaves on Sunday - a match he fared better in than last week's 3-2 Copa del Rey defeat to Athletic Club.
They've lost a Rolls Royce of a centre-half in Van Dijk, they lost his partner in Gomez and they've lost numerous others along the way, but it's gone too far now.
“We knew before it was going to be difficult, either through injury or to Covid, so it's pretty serious. But having said that, it's unfortunate, though there's no way we can change things so I expect myself and my players to approach this situation with a solution-oriented state of mind.
“It is impossible for the body, and for the mind as well. If you want to play football longer than 10 years you need a break. It's impossible to play the World Cup every two years. To get high performance levels it would be very difficult.
There was pressure on them today to deliver given the wins for Chelsea and City on Saturday [against Norwich and Brighton respectively] but this is a big, big result. Liverpool are only the second team in English top-flight history to win consecutive away games by a margin of five or more goals without conceding themselves, after Manchester United between February and March 1960.
Meanwhile, Liverpool's reward for becoming the first English side to win all six Champions League group games is a tie with Austrian outfit Salzburg, who finished second behind Lille in Group G.
We were looking for talent, speed, aggression, tolerance to pressure, the quickness of the rondos. It was crucial to make those changes.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Paris Saint-Germain, free Signed on a free transfer at the age of 34, Ibrahimovic settled well into life in the Premier League under Jose Mourinho.
Equatorial Guinea, meanwhile, responded brilliantly to losing their opening match by recording back-to-back 1-0 wins in their subsequent two group clashes to qualify for the last 16 for only the third time in their history.