#adrien-rabiot

#adrien-rabiot

France aren't doing too well in terms of their players' fitness, and it looks like Bayern Munich winger Kingsley Coman wasn't feeling well which explains why he didn't play against Morocco in the World Cup Semifinals.Ahead of a massive showdown with Lionel Messi's Argentina as well, this is probably the worst time for an illness scare.

The general assumption for weeks now is that Adrien Rabiot will be donning the jersey of another team come later this summer, signing a nice and healthy contract in the process.This is nothing new, and the fact that Rabiot's future has already been pretty much written outside of an official farewell is just a sign of what we've all expected to be the case.

Basically ever since he walked into the lobby at Continassa, Filip Kostic has done one thing over and over and over again.That's cross the ball.And then cross the ball.And then cross the ball so more.Of all Juventus ' attacking players, Kostic averages one of the fewest shot-per-game totals, The man, clearly, has one main priority - and it's to set his teammates up more than bomb his own shots toward goal.

Man United have been in contact over the potential signing of Adrien Rabiot.Last summer, Manchester United put in the effort to convince Adrien Rabiot to make the move to the club.However, the financial package the Red Devils placed on the table wasn't to the Frenchman's liking...
Seemingly, Erik ten Hag is a big admirer of Rabiot's.

Marcel Sabitzer will not play for Man United again this season.Back in January, Manchester United made a move to sign Marcel Sabitzer due to an injury suffered by Christian Eriksen.Midfield was already an area where the Red Devils were pretty thin outside of their regular starters, hence a loan move for the Austrian.

Man United are seemingly trying to bring in Adrien Rabiot on a free transfer.Manchester United need a huge summer transfer window as they look to close the gap on Manchester City at the top.The current club ownership status is clouding the next few months, though let's hope money is available for the boss.

Man United are still keen on Juventus midfielder, Adrien Rabiot.Manchester United were linked with a whole host of midfielders during the summer just gone, with Erik ten Hag eventually settling on both Casemiro and Christian Eriksen.Further tweaking is needed in that area of the field, as Scott McTominay and Donny van de Beek do not seem anywhere near consistent enough.

Nearly 30 seconds past the minimum six minutes of added time in the first leg against Sevilla in the Europa League semifinals, the young Federico Gatti ambled into the penalty area for Juventus ' last chance at an equalizer.When Paul Pogba managed to redirect a header from Danilo back to the center of the box, the Italian center back rumbled his way toward goal, pushing aside teammate Arkadiusz Milik in the process, leaped into the air, and gave the Old Lady life.

Gianluca Mancini's thunderous strike moved Roma up to fourth place in Serie A with a 1-0 victory over Juventus at Stadio Olimpico on Sunday.The centre-back's rasping second-half drive sealed three precious points, boosting Roma's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.After a week dominated by off-field headlines for head coach Jose Mourinho and former Juve playmaker Pablo Dybala, the Giallorossi claimed what could prove to be a huge victory.

After four games without a win, Juventus were in desperate need of a victory to keep their place in the top four secure.Under most circumstances, a game against Lecce at home would be considered easy points in a situation like this.The 2022-23 season, with its losses to Monza, Maccabi Haifa, and Sassuolo, has definitely not been most circumstances.

France defender Benjamin Pavard made a spectacular comeback to the team as his superb second-half strike saw them beat Republic of Ireland 1-0 away in Euro 2024 qualifying Group B on Monday.Pavard, cast aside at last year's World Cup after a woeful opening game, struck from 18 metres to put France on six points from two games after Friday's 4-0 drubbing of the Netherlands.

ARSENAL are "pushing" to sign Adrien Rabiot from Juventus next month, according to reports.The midfielder, 27, has shone over recent weeks as he helped France to reach a second-consecutive World Cup Final.And Repubblica are claiming  Arsenal are now pushing to sign Rabiot in the January transfer window.

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France have been hit with a virus that could see the team's starting centre-back pairing miss the World Cup final, sources have told ESPN.According to sources, Raphael Varane has small symptoms of the virus and fellow defender Ibrahima Konate has not left his room after feeling unwell.

Liverpool have been linked with a move for the French international midfielder Adrien Rabiot in recent months.The Reds are hoping to bring in midfield reinforcements, especially with players like Naby Keita, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain and James Milner expected to leave the club on a free transfer.Rabiot has done well in the recently concluded World Cup with France and he helped his country reach the finals of the competition.

With the midpoint of Juventus ' big final stretch of games before the first international break of the 2023 arrives, the level of difficulty certain got ramped up a level or two.Things didn't go well for Max Allegri's squad against Roma in the Italian capital, but Juve were able to bounce back with a pair of victories that proved to be valuable in multiple ways.

Juventus frittered away a comfortable two-goal lead against the league's bottom club Sampdoria before reawakening in the second half to pick up another three points.Two goals from fluid, counter-attacking moves had threatened to create a big upset in Turin tonight after Bremer and Adrien Rabiot had put Juve up 2-0 with towering headers in the box.

Adrien Rabiot's header was enough to earn Juventus a 1-0 win over Fiorentina that lifted them into the top half of the Serie A table despite some late controversy.Rabiot scored the winner in the first half of a typically feisty affair between two long-standing rivals at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday, moving the beleaguered Bianconeri up to ninth.

So, let me pose a question to the masses: To whom do we attribute the fact that the final minutes of Juventus' matchup against Fiorentina on Sunday evening ended up being so nervy in the final minutes?Is it the VAR room full of folks who now rely on the slimmest of margins thanks to the technology at hand?

It was a truly thrilling Turin Derby on Tuesday at the Allianz Stadium as Juventus came back from a goal down twice to beat Torino 4-2.It was Yann Karamoh who broke the deadlock less than two minutes in.Juan Cuadrado equalized in the 16th, but Torino moved ahead again in the 43rd through Antonio Sanabria.

Juventus fell to a spectacular winner away at AS Roma in an otherwise tight affair in the nation's capital.Defender Gianluca Mancini got the unlikely goal while the Bianconeri were unlucky to have hit the woodwork three times in a game they should have won clearly, much like the previous leg played in Turin.

Knowing that Juventus was headed toward another fiscal year with a whole lot of millions in losses being reported, Leandro Paredes would have to do a whole lot on the field to make picking up his buy option as well as continuing to pay his very high salary worth it.As we've seen for much of the 2022-23 season, Paredes has not done that.

Prediction: Juventus to win 2-1
Juventus and Monza will face each other in Serie A this coming weekend.The match between La Vecchia Signora and I Biancorossi will take place at Juventus Stadium in Turn and is scheduled to kick off at 2pm UK time on Sunday.Juventus
Juventus are 10th in the Serie A table at the moment with 23 points from 19 matches.

As Serie A returned to our lives, there were two potentially scenarios for Juventus as they faced their first challenge of 2023.Juve could either author a dominant performance reminiscent of the form they had in late 2022, or they could struggle against a relegation battler as they had done for most of the aforementioned 2022.

More than a few times I've thought to myself over the course of the World Cup break about just how I think Juventus will come out of having 50-something days in between games.Each time, I come back to the same question."What the heck is this team going to look like after such a long time in between games?"

As Juventus went into the World Cup break on a six-game domestic winning streak, I don't think anybody could deny that not every one of those wins were exactly pretty.While they were wins and three points earned, it's not like the overall team performances were plenty to write (good things) home about.

As Heraclitus opined, you never step onto the same pitch twice.This axiom has proved inexorably true for Juventus over the last couple of campaigns, during which time a cavalcade of injuries and money problems and coaching changes has precluded not only any sort of year-over-year tactical stability, but even in-season continuity.

France's commitment to proving the unrivaled depth of its resources, at this stage, swept past impressive long ago.It is now skirting the borders of remarkable.Before the World Cup started, Didier Deschamps, France's coach, had already lost five players to injury  most of them likely starters.Deschamps did not so much as blink.

Croatia finished the World Cup as bronze medallists after beating Morocco 2-1 in Saturday's third-place play-off, while preparations continued for Argentina and France ahead of their showdown in Sunday's final.Here, the PA news agency looks at how things unfolded on the penultimate day of the tournament in Qatar.

Didier Deschamps saw his France side dig deep to beat Morocco and set up a World Cup final against Argentina before revealing a number of ill players have had to be isolated from the rest of his squad ahead of Sunday's blockbuster clash.Lionel Messi and company may be waiting at Lusail Stadium on Sunday night but Les Bleus  who could become the first nation since the revered Brazil side of 1962 to retain their status as champions of the world  were pushed all the way before sealing a hard-fought 2-0 win.