In June 1948, 18,000 people came to New York's Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, to watch a touring Liverpool team that included Scottish legend Billy Liddell beat Swedish club Djurgaden 3-2 in a friendly. The United States Soccer Football Association and the American Soccer League organisations, keen to spread the message of soccer, saw an opportunity to raise the sport's profile. On the world stage, Fifa wanted to get the World Cup up and running again after the cancellation of the tournament in 1942 and 1946.
They are also unbeaten in the last four home matches, having scored at least thrice in three of the four. In their seven matches in the Europa League this season, they have lost just once, away to Sporting Braga and while they were a bit shaky away from home, it was completely different in Austria. They won each of their group games and are unbeaten, with straight wins in their last five Europa League games at home.
But United have the edge when these two go head to head, and I think they will beat the Blues for the fourth time this season on Sunday. United's improvement is not just down to the fact their front three are playing well, but it definitely helps that they are finishing off so much of the good work done by the rest of their team. Chelsea are dangerous when they come forward too, of course. I just think United carry more of a threat, and they are more solid at the other end too.
We’re confident that a double chance bet on the visitors will payout this Thursday and we have predicted a final scoreline of 2-1. Standard have outperformed their hosts in Group F this season but are yet to win away which is why we have backed the double chance bet rather than an outright away win on Thursday even though we have backed Standard to win 2-1. The hosts have looked poor in Europe but have only suffered narrow defeats and are expected to get on the scoreboard against their Belgian guests but Standard have the momentum and motivation to secure a positive result in Portugal.
Really, though, he shouldn't have smelt it. Brilliant save! Henderson dances into space across the face of the box and has options , but instead opts to panel one with his laces, that De Gea somehow tips onto the post as it screeches past him! Liverpool are on one here! 59’ - United are having a little period, and Martial drifts left, plays a one-two off Pereira and he's in.
Aluko, who won 102 caps for her country and represented Britain at the 2012 London Olympics, retired as a player last week after leaving Serie A champions Juventus in December. The forward made her breakthrough at Birmingham City before making her name at Chelsea. Villa are currently three points clear at the top of the Championship and are bidding for a promotion to the FA Women's Super League.
Conceded by Sergey Krivtsov. Posted at 83' Attempt blocked. Alejandro Gómez (Atalanta) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marten de Roon. Posted at 82' Foul by Robin Gosens (Atalanta). Posted at 82' Manor Solomon (Shakhtar Donetsk) wins a free kick on the right wing. Goal!Posted at 80' Goal! Shakhtar Donetsk 0, Atalanta 2. Mario Pasalic (Atalanta) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Speaking ahead of Sunday's FA Cup third-round clash against neighbours Everton, the German reiterated the need to space out matches or risk losing players to injuries. I don't think the Premier League or the FA are in any doubt about my opinion. It's not because of me. I think somebody has to speak for the players," Klopp told reporters on Friday.
Assisted by Jack Harrison with a cross. Posted at 74' Corner, Leeds United. Conceded by Samba Sow. Posted at 73' Attempt missed. Joe Lolley (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick. BookingPosted at 72' Ben White (Leeds United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Seoul E. will host Ansan Greeners for this fixture of the league. Both teams are not very good teams in this league. True, the hosts have better results in this campaign. Seoul E. are currently on the 7th place with 9 points. Also, the have two consecutive victories. On the other hand Ansan Greeners is worst team in the league. Ansan are currently on the 10th place with 3 points. Yeah, the visitors have a very difficult task. They have fallen into a very poor show. They have five consecutive losses. In any case, the visitors have the motivation to break the poor series. I think, Ansan will try to win this match.
How does Kane's goalscoring record compare?Only Manchester City's Sergio Aguero - and only just, with 138 - scored more goals in his first 200 Premier League appearances for a single club than Kane has done for Tottenham (137). In fact, Kane has been scoring at a better rate than Arsenal legend Thierry Henry, who scored 131 in his first 200 league games for the Gunners. Kane also became just the 11th outfield player to reach 200 Premier League appearances for Spurs.
Pep Guardiola in any of his 381 games as a top-flight coach -- than Chelsea shows the Blues more than matched the champions. But it was not the first time Chelsea have tasted defeat this season in a match they could, and possibly should, have taken something from. Their 4-0 loss to Manchester United at Old Trafford on the opening day of the season would normally suggest an inept showing but Chelsea had more shots than the hosts, hitting the bar and post in the first half, and again more possession.
Willem II are in excellent form at the moment with a 7-1-1 record in the last 9 games. In the Eredivisie they are currently on the third place in the league and in the cup they have won 6 of the last 7 games at home with the only defeat against Ajax.
Other sources of confusion include the new handball rule and how far back in a move VAR officials should go when checking for infringements. Do we check five minutes, do we check 15 minutes?" he said. The referee never said in the past that we had to go back to a foul seven minutes ago. We still don't know which handball is handball, who is drawing the lines, how thick the lines are.
This is a game from from Iranian premier league. Persepolis is the table leader while the hosts are at numbers 4 of the league table. It's a hard game for the gamblers to make a thing in this game, hosts have won 4 games of their last 5 games home games in a row and one resulted as a draw. The visitors are in a very long winning run so it will be very difficult to lose the game here today. So I will be playing a hard option which suits both teams here and has good money in it
Arrizabalaga had earlier denied another Brighton substitute in Aaron Connolly, who turned and shot from close range while Chelsea also had several chances to close out the game. Earlier, Chelsea had stepped off the gas pedal following their goal and nearly paid the price before the break but Arrizabalaga produced another acrobatic save to deny Leandro Trossard.
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But the Spaniard said he has no plans to quit before the end of his contract in 2021. Unless they sack me, I am staying, 100%," Guardiola told reporters. I enjoy working with them and I like it, but even if it's going bad and we are not in the Champions League, I will not leave. As a manager, there are good and bad moments, you don't win all the time.
The National League, which also has a lower tier of Northern and Southern divisions, had played at the weekend despite the Premier League and the three divisions of the Football League having suspended their fixtures. In the knowledge of the government measures now announced including not to support sporting events with emergency services workers it is clearly not practical for its fixtures to be fulfilled in the immediate future," the league said in a statement.
The 21-year-old Moroccan international has impressed while on loan at Borussia Dortmund, but his contract with Real runs until 2023. That means that interest from Juventus and Borussia Dortmund is almost certain to come to nothing. Paper Round’s view: Hakimi is an impressive full-back, but his ability to play as a winger adds versatility to the Real Madrid squad next season.
Dinamo host Manchester City on the same night. Colombian forward Muriel put the hosts ahead from the penalty spot after he was felled in the box by Zagreb defender Dino Peric as the ball crashed back off the crossbar from Robin Gosens's angled shot. Hans Hateboer saw his shot cleared off the line, but at the other end Dinamo's Mislav Orsic, scorer of a hat-trick against Atalanta on match day one, curled an effort against the bar.
The Toffees are close to tying up a deal to appoint highly-regarded Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti as their new manager, while Arsenal have made moves to instil former Gunners and Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta as their new boss.
AnalysisJohn Bennett, BBC World ServiceOver the years we've come to expect German football success on the pitch but this feels like a victory for their clear, detailed and, above all, collective planning off the pitch. Back on 23 April, DFL president Christian Seifert revealed the league's proposals for matches behind closed doors, collaborating with five laboratories and involving around 20,000 tests and it appears to have impressed the local and national government.
Having lost their last two, Blackburn aren’t exactly arriving on a high. However, before that pair of defeats they were on an eight-game unbeaten run. The visitors are looking return to form by capitalising on this current Birmingham side. The Blues look to be there for the taking, so we can see the visitors getting a result here.
The hosts are indeed in the relegation group but if you ask me they have too much quality in their side to be ending up in the bottom 3 clubs there for example simply had no problems defeating Chindia last round in the league at home scoring an early goal and could have easily scored more goals, while against stronger opponents before the league was divided they drew 2-2 at home with Sepsis game in which they were 1-0 and 2-1 down but got a 2-2 draw as their attack is scoring goals.
Lille won this competition back in 2011 but since then it has been a rather barren run with just two quarter-finals appearances being their best achievements in this time. Lille are now out of the Champions League though so will be looking elsewhere for their silverware and the Coupe de France looks a prime opportunity. As last year shown, it doesn't always have to be PSG with the trophy come May.
It would not surprise me at all if they went through the season undefeated just like Arsenal did (in 2003-04). Other clubs are in transition in terms of Man City, Tottenham, Chelsea. Leicester have had a brilliant, brilliant season in terms of where they were. But I don't think it's a negative on the standard of the Premier League at all.
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He also reminded them that Bayern’s gameplan would be to score early and shut the game down. The warning was delivered with feeling because United had made a habit of handicapping themselves during their European run. They conceded the opening goal after 11 minutes away to Bayern, after six minutes at Juventus in the semi-final, and after 49 seconds against Barcelona in the group stages.
We are expecting a tight scoreline though. The Red Devils have averaged 1.83 goals per game at Old Trafford this term but have shipped 0.83 per game at the other end. Villa’s average of 1.5 goals per away game is skewed thanks to that demolition of Norwich, and when you discount that it reduces to a more reasonable 0.8 goals per game. All things considered, backing a 2-1 correct score prediction looks a good value option.
The $650 million, 65,000-seat venue was officially opened last week and was built to be ready for next year's continent-wide European Championship – a tournament Hungary could miss. The government has spent more than $2 billion on football since Orban took power in 2010, with nearly $400 million in 2018 alone, according to budget data summarised by the Hungarian Football Association.
And he believes help from other clubs could find even more missing children. He told BBC Sport: "What Roma can do on its own is nowhere near what other clubs could do if we all got together. We're looking at a campaign on 25 May which is International Missing Children's Day, where we try and unite the football world behind the same campaign and not just through transfers. I don't expect we will have any kick-back when we approach other clubs and ask if they will join the campaign.
West Ham manager David Moyes says the Carabao Cup should be revamped as the "British Cup" and include teams from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Scot, 56, said top teams should be able to opt out of the competition to help deal with fixture congestion. The comments come after Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said it would be "better for everyone" if the competition was scrapped. I think it could do with a revamp," Moyes said.
The Crocodiles have now conceded the second most goals in Ligue 1 (28) while also scoring the second least, hitting the back of the net on twelve occasions. Just two of those goals have come in their last six matches and with four losses in this time, it's hard to see how they get out of this as the challenge of Nantes will be another tough one. Many teams have relied on their home form to get points on the board this season but Nîmes haven't been able to copy that as they have picked up the least points of all Ligue 1 teams at their home stadium where they are winless in their last four.
Wolverhampton 15 5 8 2 21 17 23 . Man Utd 15 5 6 4 23 18 21 7 Crystal Palace 15 6 3 6 14 18 21 . Tottenham 15 5 5 5 25 23 20 9 Sheff Utd 14 4 7 3 17 13 19 10 Arsenal 14 4 7 3 20 21 19 11 Burnley 15 5 3 7 21 24 18 12 Bournemouth 15 4 4 7 18 21 16 13 West Ham 15 4 4 7 17 25 16 14 Newcastle 14 4 4 6 13 22 16 15 Aston Villa 15 4 3 8 22 24 15 16 Brighton 14 4 3 7 16 21 15 17 Southampton 15 4 3 8 17 33 15 .
They began the campaign in solid fashion with just two defeats suffered from their first ten matches, but they have increasingly found victories difficult to attain, with a 3-0 home success against Mallorca in November being their only three point haul in their last nine outings.
Brighton were much the better side throughout, dictating the tempo of the game, and were filled with offensive intent throughout, orchestrated by Davy Propper in a deep-lying midfield role, and the ever-dangerous Aaron Mooy and Pascal Gross roamed in the half spaces, proving difficult for the Palace midfielders and defence to pick up.
