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Manchester United v Manchester City: Women’s Super League – live

⚽ Latest updates from Manchester derby at 1.30pm (GMT) ⚽ Glut of derbies could have diluting effect | Email Xaymaca Xaymaca will be along shortly. In the meantime, here’s what the Manchester City head coach, Andree Jeglertz, had to say before his league-leading side’s short trip to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United in the derby. These games live their own lives. Because a derby in this city is always going to get 100% energised players from both teams at the beginning. It almost doesn’t matter what tempo you start as your opponent will be ready. These games aren’t determined by 15, 20 minutes. Definitely the longer the game goes, it can be a challenge but it’s how the game turns out and what happens. Definitely in the beginning both teams will be 100% focused and energised, they really want to get three points in this game.” City are top of the league for a reason but we will take that challenge on. Once you accept that challenge, you can rise to a new level. Continue reading...

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Iran footballers pay tribute to victims of school strike against Nigeria

The attack happened on the day the United States and Israel launched the war with attacks across Iran........ The post Iran footballers pay tribute to victims of school strike against Nigeria appeared first on Vanguard News.

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Henderson backs White after boos, Scotland buildup and WSL derby day – matchday live

⚽ News, discussion and buildup before day’s football action ⚽ Get in touch! Email us here with your thoughts Let’s take a look at some other results from yesterday: World Cup holders Argentina only squeezed past Mauritania at La Bombonera, although the African side’s goal was a stoppage-time consolation. Enzo ‘I’m not sure about my Chelsea future’ Fernández and Como’s Nico Paz were on the scoresheet. With Lionel Messi not coming on until half-time, Paz took his chance to shine with a converted free-kick. Continue reading...

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Pochettino, Pulisic and the pressure of the USMNT’s World Cup moment

As a player, Mauricio Pochettino suffered under World Cup pressure. As a manager, he hopes to help the USMNT’s belief in the face of it US men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino probably understands the pressure of playing for your national team in a way few of his players can. Pochettino was a late cut from Argentina’s World Cup plans in 1994 and 1998. He finally made the squad as a veteran in 2002, part of a stacked team favored by many to win the entire tournament. The country itself was in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis and an entire nation turned to La Albiceleste for a bit of hope. Continue reading...

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England reaction, Scotland buildup and derby day in WSL – matchday live

⚽ News, discussion and buildup before day’s football action ⚽ Get in touch! Email us here with your thoughts Right, who’s ready for four hours of England chat? No, I’m just kidding. I think we’d all had enough of football for one day year by the full-time whistle last night. I’ll sift through the main talking points and hopefully find some positives from one of those evenings at Wembley. In terms of live action, today is mainly about the Women’s Super League. There are three local derbies on offer on Merseyside, in Manchester and north London as the WSL enters its final straight. United v City at Old Trafford has massive consequences for the title race. Continue reading...

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England reaction after White booed, Scotland buildup and WSL derby day – matchday live

⚽ News, discussion and buildup before day’s football action ⚽ Get in touch! Email us here with your thoughts Right, who’s ready for four hours of England chat? No, I’m just kidding. I think we’d all had enough of football for one day year by the full-time whistle last night. I’ll sift through the main talking points and hopefully find some positives from one of those evenings at Wembley. In terms of live action, today is mainly about the Women’s Super League. There are three local derbies on offer on Merseyside, in Manchester and north London as the WSL enters its final straight. United v City at Old Trafford has massive consequences for the title race. Continue reading...

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Island pride: Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man aiming high despite challenges

With their non-league sides effectively serving as national teams for the crown dependencies they have dreams of climbing higher in the football pyramid Clad top-to-toe in Jersey Bulls paraphernalia, Andy Lane takes a brief step away from drum-banging duties on the Springfield Stadium touchline and rolls up a sleeve to reveal the tattooed badge of a football team in only their seventh year of competition. The bull rearing up Lane’s right forearm matches that on his wife Jojo’s left calf, encapsulating the impact the club has made on the local community. “It’s about pride,” Lane says. Bulls’ latest visitors are Hassocks, a club hailing from a village just north of Brighton. Like every other team in the eighth-tier Isthmian League South East Division, this away day was the first they sought out when the fixture list was unveiled last summer, and more than 50 supporters have flown over for the occasion. “It’s a great novelty fixture,” says the Hassocks chair, Patrick Harding. Continue reading...

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‘I’m disappointed’: Tuchel unimpressed by Wembley crowd’s booing of Ben White

White jeered when brought on against Uruguay ‘It cannot be the majority,’ says England manager Thomas Tuchel called the Wembley crowd “disappointing” for booing Ben White’s international return and hammered the refereeing during England’s 1-1 draw with Uruguay. White was hero and villain on a night when Ronald Araújo escaped a red card for a painful tackle on Phil Foden and Noni Madueke left the stadium in a leg brace after suffering an injury during the first half. Continue reading...

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Roberto Martínez: ‘It’s a hammer blow when you don’t succeed, but let us dream’

Portugal head coach, who describes the country as a ‘football school’, explains why he is ready to take risks in pursuit of World Cup glory ‘You get there and the mountain is so big, you have no objective other than survive.” It was summer 1995, Roberto Martínez was 21, he had made one brief appearance for Real Zaragoza and just completed military service while playing regional football back in his home town of Balaguer. A complete unknown, he was heading to Wigan, wherever that was, and didn’t speak a word of English. He was also heading to the Third Division, where whatever they played it wasn’t football, not as he knew it. “There is fear: ‘No,’” he says. “But my attitude was always: ‘Why not?’”. Martínez now stands in the hallway at the Portuguese federations’s base in Oeiras near Lisbon, arms out in a warm welcome. Trophies sit in cases, the Nations League the latest addition. Only one cup is not there, which is why Martínez is. Seventy-five days until the World Cup starts, he takes Portugal into their final pre-tournament international break with matches against two of the co-hosts, Mexico and the United States. The man whose favourite goal was against Scunthorpe at Springfield Park leads a team who are among the favourites to triumph this summer, willing to dream precisely because he never dreamed any of this. Continue reading...

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Tuchel’s chemistry-free team of strangers and second-choicers goes to war with itself | Barney Ronay

England were disjointed against Uruguay but no wonder – the head coach’s team selection was an act of self sabotage Before this game Thomas Tuchel had said he would base his starting XI on what he saw on the training ground. Halfway through an evening at Wembley Stadium that felt like being stabbed very slowly through the eyes with a butter knife made entirely from death, ear wax and empty corporate leisure product, it was tempting to wonder about this. What exactly had the players left out done in training to be deemed ineligible for this England team? Turn up naked? Vomit into a traffic cone? Attempt to stage a game of Cluedo during set-piece practice? Perhaps Adam Wharton had killed a crow and stapled its innards to the dressing‑room door. Continue reading...

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Ipswich chair apologises for causing fans ‘hurt and pain’ after Farage’s visit to club

Chair says ‘staff are hurting’ after ‘difficult week’ Reform UK leader visited club on Monday The Ipswich Town chair and chief executive, Mark Ashton, has apologised for “any hurt, pain or distress” caused by Nigel Farage’s visit to Portman Road this week. Farage visited the club on Monday, and footage of his trip – including images of the Reform UK leader holding up an Ipswich No 10 shirt with his name on the back – was used by the political party on social media. Continue reading...

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Ben White goes from hero to villain on England return in draw with Uruguay

Ben White arrived to a chorus of jeers from the England support at Wembley when Thomas Tuchel introduced him as a 68th minute substitute. Of course he did. There ought to be no second chances for the Arsenal defender in the eyes of plenty of those present. He let the country down when he walked out on the England squad during the 2022 World Cup and made himself unavailable for the next two years. The real surprise was what happened next. It was one of those paper aeroplane Wembley friendlies, the fans making their own entertainment in the absence of very much on the pitch. It was listless stuff from Thomas Tuchel’s scratch lineup, the manager’s idea that fringe players could push their World Cup claims amounting to little. What did he actually learn? The only boost was his resting of his over-worked key players. Continue reading...

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Ben White makes eventful England return in draw with Uruguay

Ben White arrived to a chorus of jeers from the England support at Wembley when Thomas Tuchel introduced him as a 68th minute substitute. Of course he did. There ought to be no second chances for the Arsenal defender in the eyes of plenty of those present. He let the country down when he walked out on the England squad during the 2022 World Cup and made himself unavailable for the next two years. The real surprise was what happened next. It was one of those paper aeroplane Wembley friendlies, the fans making their own entertainment in the absence of very much on the pitch. It was listless stuff from Thomas Tuchel’s scratch lineup, the manager’s idea that fringe players could push their World Cup claims amounting to little. What did he actually learn? The only boost was his resting of his over-worked key players. Continue reading...

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Pochettino ‘suffering two months in advance’ as USMNT faces midfield headache

The toughest cuts for the World Cup roster will likely come at the position the US manager considers to be the most important on the field Throughout his tenure as US men’s national team manager, Pochettino has needed to be experimental in the heart of the park. The player pool he inherited had a first-choice midfield trio – Tyler Adams, Weston McKennie, and Yunus Musah – with few adequately tested alternatives. There has since been ample rotation, testing partnerships and combinations. Today one thing has become clear: this World Cup squad’s harshest cuts will come in midfield. Continue reading...

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England 1-1 Uruguay: men’s international football friendly – live

⚽ Updates from the Wembley game; kick-off 7.45pm GMT ⚽ Live scores | Follow us on Bluesky | And email Scott The teams are out! England in that aforementioned red, Uruguay in their sky blue. Time for the anthems. God Save the King we all know about; the Uruguayan one really gets the juices flowing, though. And while we’re on the subject of Jonathan Wilson, which we kind of were, he tells a wonderful anecdote about that anthem during today’s edition of Football Weekly Extra. Just before the 45-minute mark should get you there; enjoy, enjoy. We’ll be off in a couple of seconds. Uruguay are not heading into this match in the finest of fettle. Jonathan Wilson reports on that 5-1 shellacking by the USA and some Luis Suárez-infused rancour. Continue reading...

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Sudden center-back shortage offers USMNT a chance to try World Cup-style adjustments

Chris Richards and Miles Robinson out for Belgium game Robinson to also miss Tuesday friendly v Portugal Richards arrived from Crystal Palace with knee issue If the US men’s national team needed a test run for how a sudden injury crisis could affect preparations for games against top opponents at the World Cup, they have one now. Injuries to defenders Chris Richards and Miles Robinson have the US facing a sudden center-back shortage ahead of friendlies against Belgium on Saturday and Portugal on Tuesday – the final two games before head coach Mauricio Pochettino names his roster for this summer’s World Cup on home soil. Richards, who is a presumed starter and unquestioned leader along the backline, was ruled out for the first friendly against Belgium with what Pochettino termed a “problem” with his knee, while Miles Robinson will miss both games after suffering a groin injury in training with the US earlier this week. Continue reading...

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Super Eagles Striker Attracts Bundesliga Interest .

Bundesliga clubs Bayer Leverkusen, VFL Wolfsburg, and Werder Bremen are tracking Trabzonspor forward Paul Onuachu, Completesports.com. Onuachu has starred for Trabzonspor this season, helping the club push for a continental ticket. The Nigeria international is currently the leading scorer in the Turkish Super Lig with 21 goals from 24 matches. Saudi club Al-Ahli have also [...] The post Super Eagles Striker Attracts Bundesliga Interest . appeared first on Complete Sports.

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Nwaiwu relishes maiden Super Eagles appearance

Chibuike Nwaiwu can’t hide his excitement after making his debut for the Super Eagles, reports Completesports.com. The Trabzonspor defender made his debut for the Super Eagles in the 2-1 victory over Iran in Antalya, Turkey on Friday. Nwaiwu replaced Igoh Ogbuh in the second half of the encounter. The 22-year-old was called up as a […] Nwaiwu relishes maiden Super Eagles appearance

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