Kyle Albrecht succeeds Li Li Leung as USA Gymnastics leader.
Arsenal and Crystal Palace games moved by Premier League before Carabao Cup tie
Clubs face each other in cup quarter-final on 23 December
Their weekend league games go from Sunday to Saturday
Arsenal and Crystal Palace have succeeded with requests to the Premier League to move their fixtures the weekend before they meet in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.
The teams play in the cup at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday 23 December and had been due to play at 2pm GMT on Sunday 21 December. Instead Arsenal’s game at Everton and Palace’s at Leeds will take place at 8pm the previous day.
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Lille ‘to pursue legal action’ against some fans after racist insults at away games
Incidents alleged to have happened in two matches
‘Such behaviour is contrary to the club’s values’
The Ligue 1 club Lille will pursue legal action against some of their fans after incidents of hate speech and racist insults in the visitors’ stands during their matches at Red Star Belgrade and Strasbourg last week.
“LOSC strongly condemns the unacceptable behaviour observed, as well as the hateful comments and racist insults made by certain individuals in the visitors’ section during trips to Belgrade and Strasbourg last Thursday and Sunday,” the club said in a statement.
Continue reading...After hundreds of millions spent on players, what was Liverpool’s plan?
The defending Premier League champions spent big over the summer, but it’s hard to see how the new players fit
What was it supposed to look like? Amid all the talk around Liverpool and their disappointing form at the start of this season, that is perhaps the hardest question of all to answer. What were they trying to do? If it had worked, how would this team have played?
The champions spent £424m (about $550m) on new signings in the summer, but if all had gone well, they would have spent an additional £40m ($53m) to land Crystal Palace centre-back Marc Guéhi. The England international would, at the very least, have given an extra option at the back (the injury to Giovanni Leoni has diminished their defensive options further), allowing Arne Slot to rest Ibrahima Konaté, whose poor form continued in the 3-0 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday. An early City penalty was a direct result of Konaté getting in Conor Bradley’s way as Jérémy Doku cut in from the left.
This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond. Subscribe for free here. Have a question for Jonathan? Email soccerwithjw@theguardian.com, and he’ll answer the best in a future edition.
Continue reading...‘L’ultima bandiera’: Domenico Berardi raises final flag for loyalty in football | Nicky Bandini
Sassuolo forward is rarest of beasts – a one-club man – and virtuoso display against Atalanta reinforced his hero status
The man with the moustache held his teammate in a headlock and stared down the TV camera lens. “Berardi!” he yelled, jabbing a finger at the back of his colleague’s bonce. “BE-RAR-DI!”
It felt like that moment in a kids’ movie when the big brother drags his meek sibling back into frame after beating up the school bully. Mess with him again and see what happens. Only, Tarik Muharemovic is nine years younger than Domenico Berardi. And it was the older player, again, who had spent this afternoon tormenting his peers.
Continue reading...Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s football
Everton duo stake England claim, Jaydee Canvot steps up for Crystal Palace, and Benjamin Sesko struggles to settle
Amid the headlines about Phil Foden and Jude Bellingham being recalled for England, there was a little less said about Nico O’Reilly being named in Thomas Tuchel’s squad. Myles Lewis-Skelly paid the price for his lack of game time and now the City man gets his opportunity to stake a claim for a World Cup spot. The 20-year-old now goes into camp having become the latest defender to shut out Mohamed Salah. That’s less of an achievement than it used to be, but O’Reilly still had to show tenacity and patience against this nuggety, late-era version of the Egyptian superstar. The City full-back nicked the ball off his man regularly – much to the delight of the home fans – and got forward to decent effect, too. If Pep Guardiola trusts O’Reilly in the biggest games and he can avoid injury there is no reason to think that the City academy graduate cannot make England’s most open position his own. Tom Bassam
Match report: Manchester City 3-0 Liverpool
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Continue reading...MLS playoffs: San Diego rout Timbers, advance to Western semifinals
Amahl Pellegrino and Anders Dreyer score braces
San Diego to face Minnesota United in next round
Amahl Pellegrino and Anders Dreyer each scored twice and San Diego FC eased into their first-ever Western Conference semi-final appearance with a 4-0 victory over the visiting Portland Timbers to clinch their first-round series on Sunday night.
Dreyer also picked up an assist on Pellegrino’s second goal while helping top-seeded San Diego secure a home semi-final against fourth-seeded Minnesota after the November international window.
Continue reading...Manchester City 3-0 Liverpool: Premier League player ratings
Jérémy Doku’s pace was too much for the away defence, while Mohamed Salah and Florian Wirtz struggled in attack
Gianluigi Donnarumma Fine save from Szoboszlai showed concentration, though was lucky Van Dijk’s header was ruled out. 8
Continue reading...Manchester City 3-0 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened
A sensational performance from Jérémy Doku inspired City to a comprehensive victory in Pep Guardiola’s 1,000th game as manager
5 min Doku, who has made a lively start, nicks a loose ball on the edge of the area and forces his way between two Liverpool defenders. A third red shirt, Konate, steps across to clear.
5 min Gravenberch is penalised twice in the space of a minute for tackles on O’Reilly and Doku. Nothing naughty or yellow card-worthy, but I need to write something here.
Continue reading...European football: Inter beat Lazio and leapfrog Roma to go top of Serie A
Martínez and Bonny score in 2-0 home victory
Real Madrid held to goalless draw by Rayo Vallecano
Inter moved to the top of Serie A with a 2-0 home win against Lazio on Sunday, sealed by goals from Lautaro Martínez early in the first half and Ange-Yoan Bonny after the interval. The result lifted Inter to the summit, level on 24 points with second-placed Roma. Behind them are Milan and Napoli both with 22 points, while Bologna are fifth with 21.
It took three minutes for Martínez to give Inter the lead: receiving the ball inside the box, the captain angled it with the outside of his foot into the far corner. Inter doubled their lead and sent the home crowd into a frenzy in the 62nd minute. Federico Dimarco’s low ball across the face of goal found Bonny free at the back post, leaving him with a simple tap-in.
Continue reading...Crystal Palace and Brighton play out stalemate amid Guéhi injury fears
Crystal Palace supporters have spent the past six months taking great pleasure in reminding their Brighton counterparts that they have yet to win a major trophy. So the first meeting of the two clubs since Oliver Glasner’s side did the double over their adversaries from down the A23 for the first time since 1933 – before going on to win the FA Cup – was never going to be one for the faint-hearted.
But while the streets of south London had the usual heavy police presence for a rivalry that dates back to the days when these clubs were managed by Terry Venables and Alan Mullery in the late 1970s, there wasn’t the same quality to match the passion on display.
Continue reading...MLS playoffs: Minnesota best Seattle in a classic as Miami rout Nashville
Lionel Messi scores two and assists two in 4-0 win
Cincinnati eliminates Columbus on late Brenner goal
Dayne St Clair scored and Andrew Thomas hit the crossbar in a penalty-kick shootout that was decided by the goalkeepers in the 11th round, and Minnesota United staged a shorthanded rally to beat the Seattle Sounders on Saturday in the rubber match of the best-of-three first-round series for the MLS Cup after a 3-3 tie in regulation
Thomas, who replaced starter Stefan Frei in the 89th minute with a shootout looming, appeared to injure a finger on a miss by Joaquín Pereyra to begin the shootout. He finished with a heavily taped hand.
Continue reading...MLS playoffs: Inter Miami trounces Nashville 4-0 behind braces from Lionel Messi, Tadeo Allende
For the first time in franchise history, Inter Miami is heading to the conference semifinal.
MLS playoffs: Minnesota United defeats Sounders in heart-pounding penalty shootout after bonkers Game 3
The Loons came out on top, surviving a second half and PKs with 10 men in one of the wackiest MLS playoff games ever.