Soccer (FIFA)

Soccer (FIFA)

The race for Bayern Munich defender Dayot Upamecano is heating up, with Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain and LaLiga giants Real Madrid headlining a list of suitors that also includes Manchester United. From Sport Bild, as captured by @iMiaSanMia: PSG, Manchester United and especially Real Madrid are interested in signing Dayot Upamecano on a free transfer next summer. Bayern would have to meet the Frenchman's wage demands if they don't want to lose him [@cfbayern]

If I think back to those Chelsea teams that won everything, they had Petr Cech, Carvalho, John Terry that's the basis of any team, Hargreaves said, as quoted by the Metro. It's not a criticism, it's just a fact and I thought the two young centre-backs did okay but we're talking about (Luis) Diaz, (Michael) Olise and Kane, some of the top performers, it was a big ask for them but mistakes cost them more than anything.

Ah, team bonding. An opportunity to knit a diverse squad of footballers closer together and strengthen relationships, commonly used in periods of adversity. "I ended up fighting with Craig Gordon at go-karting," former Heart of Midlothian player and manager Robbie Neilson tells the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast. "He threw his helmet at me, I threw a punch, he threw a punch and then we all started fighting."

No. I wouldn't dare. I don't dare because of my physical integrity, which is not the best right now.

There is a lot of expectation on a wonderful goalkeeper who is one of the best in world football. There was talk that this might be City looking beyond Pep Guardiola, but the save he made from Bryan Mbeumo was who he is - a world-class save to keep United at nil and he just gets up like 'that's what my job is'.

People sometimes create debate and talk with no sense, he said on the eve of the USA's friendly against Japan. If people want to talk about bullshit, they can talk about bullshit. Sometimes people want to talk only to analyze the result and want to be negative, Pochettino continued, responding to the swelling criticism of his call-ups and a slew of losses to the stronger opponents he faced when he had his much of his A-team available.

Few footballer players have ever struck a ball quite like former Liverpool duo Steven Gerrard and John Arne Riise Gerrard with his thunderous right foot, Riise with his cannon of a left. Both are remembered for iconic goals: Gerrard's stoppage-time rocket in the 2006 FA Cup final, and Riise's unstoppable free-kick against Manchester United in 2001. But after years of debate over who really had the hardest shot, the two Reds legends finally put it to the test and Riise came out on top.

The feeling of euphoria that comes with a late winner is addictive, as Liverpool have found out, but it is not a sustainable plan. Virgil van Dijk was the fifth player to settle a match in dramatic fashion in as many games for the Premier League champions this season but his 92nd-minute goal against Atletico Madrid was only the fourth-latest in the team's series of extraordinary climaxes.

Nottingham Forest and Ange Postecoglou discovered first-hand at the Swansea dot com Stadium on Wednesday night that just because some players who don't make the grade at Old Trafford immediately, it doesn't mean they aren't talented. Swansea staged an incredible comeback against Postecoglou's new side, scoring three second half goals to overturn a two-nil deficit and progress to the next round of this season's League Cup.

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Welcoming Atletico to Anfield, he helped Liverpool open up the match with a quick contribution, assisting Andy Robertson off a set piece, though it looked more like a deflection in the fourth minute. Just two minutes later, he doubled the lead, linking up with Ryan Gravenberch in a slick one-two on the right wing. As Gravenberch bounced the ball back to him, he darted through three Atletico defenders before calmly slotting the ball into the bottom-left corner.

Marseille are interested in signing Dani Ceballos from Real Madrid in the January transfer window, according to Fichajes. The Ligue 1 club wanted to secure the services of the midfielder in the summer transfer window, but the Madrid star decided to stay put at the Santiago Bernabeu. That has not put off Marseille from trying again for Ceballos, with the French club set to make another attempt to convince the 29-year-old to make the switch.