Celtic and Rangers meet once more in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday, with the reigning champions looking to recover from last weekend’s 3-0 Premier Sports Cup quarter-final defeat at Ibrox and a 3-1 Europa League setback against Ferencvaros. Those poor results have increased the scrutiny on Martin O’Neill’s team, although Celtic can still stretch their […]
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Arsenal and Manchester City are the only sides to have collected the maximum 12 points from their opening four matches. The pair already sit four points clear of third-placed Hull City, whose excellent early results may not yet make them genuine title contenders, and five ahead of every other team. Arsenal entered the campaign as […]
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The defence has been much more consistent this season, with Zak Vyner, Hyam and Callum Doyle—who scored for Wrexham in the defeat by Birmingham—forming the back three in each of the Red Dragons’ first four matches. Parkinson also admitted that transfer speculation might have distracted some members of his squad against Birmingham, especially during the […]
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Unlike at previous Wafcon tournaments, when Nigeria had little time to prepare, Madugu and his coaching team have been able to assess the squad through several friendly matches. Two games against Cameroon earlier in the year were followed by a pair of June warm-ups with Senegal and a win over Tanzania last week. Among the […]
Continue ReadingThe foundation of that defensive strength starts with Unai Simon. The Spanish shot-stopper continues to set new landmarks as he stretched his clean sheet streak at the World Cup to a historic 609 minutes, keeping Cristiano Ronaldo and his teammates off the scoreboard in Dallas. “Portugal controlled large portions of the match, but Rafael Leao […]
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