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One of many shock packages in Europe this season, Brest will face one in every of their hardest challenges but, as they tackle Barcelona on Tuesday. With each groups gathering three wins in 4 matches to date, securing all of the spoils on this affair may go a good distance in solidifying their place within the prime eight. Heading into …

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in Al Nassr’s AFC Champions League match at Al Gharafa on Monday, easing the captain’s disgruntlement after he appeared to rant at officers at half-time. The 39-year-old had been denied the prospect to take his twentieth penalty for Al Nassr following a prolonged evaluation throughout the first half on the Al Bayt Stadium, the place Sadio …

Paul Merson has predicted Newcastle United to file a cushty 3-0 victory towards West Ham and turn into robust challengers for a Champions League spot. Newcastle host the Hammers in tonight’s 8pm kick-off at St James’ Park, with us coming off the again of three wins on the bounce earlier than heading into the worldwide break. West Ham, nonetheless, have …

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Lamine Yamal is extremely unlikely to characteristic in Barcelona’s upcoming conflict towards Brest on Tuesday, which varieties a part of the fifth spherical of the Champions League group stage.  The younger expertise, who has been a standout performer for the Catalan giants, missed Monday’s coaching session with the principle group, successfully ruling him out of competition for the match towards …

Legendary Juventus captain Alessandro Del Piero might quickly announce he’s working for the function of FIGC president. The 50-year-old’s potential candidacy first emerged on the information yesterday, with an out-of-the-blue report from Adnkronos. The supply claimed that some vital figures in Italian soccer have thrown the long-lasting striker’s title within the hat. The elections will happen on February third, and …

Rodolfo Borrell, a former coach at La Masía (Barcelona‘s famed youth academy) between 1996 and 2006 and later assistant to Pep Guardiola at Manchester Metropolis, made maybe one of the crucial inaccurate participant evaluations in soccer historical past: he didn’t imagine Lionel Messi had the potential to succeed at Barcelona. Cristian Hernández, a former teammate of Messi’s within the Barcelona …

“It’s just like serving to somebody on the pitch. You all the time assume you assist somebody by going in direction of him however you assist him essentially the most by strolling away from him. For instance, I’ve bought the ball, I like taking part in 1v1, so serving to me means strolling away.” — Johan Cruyff You heard the …

Match Preview Bayern Munich will look to take their all-conquering home kind into tomorrow night time’s Champions League conflict with Paris Saint-Germain. Friday night time’s 3-0 win towards Augsburg – secured by one other Harry Kane hat-trick – was their fifth on the spin with out conceding a objective within the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal. It has not been as simple …

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi outlined the final decade and a half with their swashbuckling performances, establishing themselves as among the many greatest within the course of. Messi and Ronaldo’s plaudits are backed by numbers as effectively, as they’re the one two gamers to have scored a minimum of 100 targets within the UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo tops the record …