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After all the investment into the playing squad over the last couple of years, Manchester United have stuttered and failed to push their way back up to the top end of the Premier League.

Boss Erik ten Hag is entering his third season in charge at Old Trafford, but despite winning two trophies in his first two seasons, there is a real demand from the fanbase to improve and push themselves up the table.

This season hasn’t started the way many would’ve hoped, sitting in 14th place on just three points after the first three matches of the new campaign.

Despite multiple new additions in various needed areas of the pitch, issues in the middle of the park have once again reared their heads, with various players failing to make an impact.

One first-team member in particular has produced various disappointing displays, looking past his best after his big-money move to Old Trafford.

Casemiro’s disappointing time at Man United

After joining the Red Devils in a £70m deal from Real Madrid in 2022, Casemiro was signed to try and provide needed quality and experience in the centre of midfield.

However, the move hasn’t gone to plan, with the Brazilian failing to make the impact many would’ve envisaged, picking up two red cards and looking way off the pace in the Premier League.

Jamie Carragher demanded that he leaves for Saudi Arabia last season and perhaps he should have heeded that advice.

He was touted with a move away from Manchester this summer, but remained at the club upon the closure of the transfer window, producing a disaster class against Liverpool during last weekend's 3-0 defeat.

The 32-year-old was at fault for both of the goals in the first half against Arne Slot’s side, being replaced at the break by academy graduate Toby Collyer.

However, the club may have made a mistake in allowing one midfielder to leave, with the former United ace undoubtedly a better talent than Casemiro in 2024.

United made a mistake allowing £9m ace to leave

James Garner is one of many stars who have come through the United academy, making seven appearances for the club’s first team.

He was sent on various loan spells to Watford and Nottingham Forest, before securing a permanent £9m transfer to fellow Premier League side Everton during the summer of 2022.

The move has allowed the 23-year-old to gain consistent first-team minutes – featuring 62 times for the Toffees under Sean Dyche and developing into a fabulous talent.

His development has progressed rapidly in a short period of time, with the Englishman now undoubtedly a better midfield option than Casemiro when delving into his stats from last season.

Garner may have won slightly fewer tackles per 90 minutes, but did dominate in possession, completing more progressive carries whilst succeeding with more take-on attempts than the Brazilian.

Garner vs Casemiro compare in Premier League (2023/24)

Statistics (per 90)

Garner

Casemiro

Games played

37

25

Goals + assists

3

3

Progressive carries

1.1

0.6

Key passes

1.32

0.73

Shot-on-target accuracy

24%

23%

Shot-creating actions

2.93

1.86

Tackles won

1.3

2.6

Interceptions

1.35

0.82

Take-ons completed

0.6

0.4

Errors leading to goals

1

2

Stats via FBref

He also registered fewer errors that led to goals than the current United midfielder, with Garner undoubtedly a more dependable option than the 32-year-old.

Given his form in the Premier League, the Red Devils certainly made a mistake by allowing the youngster to depart the club.

With Garner only being 23, he still has the potential to improve further, potentially developing into a top-quality midfielder – demonstrating what he’s capable of after his departure from his boyhood club.

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تحدث مدرب برشلونة هانز فليك، بعد الفوز أمام إشبيلية في منافسات بطولة الدوري الإسباني، مساء الأحد.

وحقق برشلونة فوزًا على إشبيلية بأربعة أهداف مقابل هدف، ورفع رصيده للنقطة 48 في المركز الثالث، خلف الوصيف أتلتيكو مدريد بفارق نقطة، وخلف المتصدر ريال مدريد بفارق نقطتين.

وقال فليك في تصريحات نشرتها صحيفة “ماركا” الإسبانية: “أود أن أسلط الضوء على أدائنا، في الشوط الأول لعبنا بشكل جيد، كانت مباراة جيدة، وفي الشوط الثاني قاتلنا وغيرنا الأمور، لعبنا بسرعة، وغيرنا المراكز”.

وأضاف: “ساعدنا هدف فيرمين، ثم هدف رافينها، أنا فخور بالفريق، كانت البطاقة الحمراء اختبارًا رائعًا وسجلنا، نا سعيد جدًا بأدائنا، خاصة في الشوط الثاني حيث كنا نلعب بعشرة لاعبين فقط وكافحنا للحصول على النقاط الثلاث”.

وأضاف: “أنا سعيد جدًا بتلك اللحظات الأخيرة من المباراة، على الأجنحة كان لديهم لاعبين سريعين، لكن الفريق تمكن من التصدي لذلك، أنا حقًا سعيد بتلك الدقائق الأخيرة”.

وعن المنافسة في الدوري الإسباني، أكد: “نحن لا نهتم بالآخرين، لقد قلت ذلك بالفعل، علينا أن نقوم بعملنا، علينا أن نركز على أنفسنا ولا نفكر في الآخرين”.

وأردف بشأن إصابة رونالد أراوخو: “علينا الانتظار حتى غدًا لنرى ما الذي يعاني منه أراوخو، لا يبدو أنها إصابة خطيرة، نتمنى ذلك”.

وعن لاعبه فيرمين لوبيز الذي شارك بديلاً وسجل هدفًا وغادر لاحقًا ببطاقة حمراء، أستطرد: “هو محبط، هدف فيرمين مهم جدًا، سجل ثم تلقى بطاقة حمراء، هو لاعب حماسي، كما أنها درس جيد له، وسيفيده في المستقبل”.

وواصل بشأن فيرمين لوبيز وجافي: “لديهم إمكانيات وأنا سعيد من أجل حماستهم، أحيانًا تحدث هذه الأمور (بشأن الطرد) يجب قبولها، أرى أن الفريق يتحسن في هذه المواقف”.

وسُئل عن الديربي الذي انتهى بتعادل إيجابي بين ريال مدريد وأتلتيكو مدريد، وتصريح سيميوني الذي قال أن برشلونة أقوى فريق، ورد فليك: “في الدوري الإسباني هناك ثلاث، أربع، أو خمس فرق قوية جدًا، ونحن واحد منهم، نحن نركز على أنفسنا”.

وأصر: “أنا سعيد لأننا فزنا، هذه ثلاث نقاط مهمة، الطريق طويل، هذا يساعدنا، يجب أن نستمر بهذه العقلية، سيكون لدينا ثلاثة أيام راحة للتعافي، الفريق يستحق ذلك، ثم يوم الخميس سنبدأ في التحضير للمباراة القادمة”.

وبشأن أنسو فاتي، أوضح: “كنت صريحًا معه، تحدثت معه، في يوم واحد لا يكون كل شيء مثاليًا، لكنه قريب من الفريق، هذا أمر مهم، رأيته في أفضل مستوى له، وهذا هو المستوى الذي أريد أن يكون عليه، ليس طريقًا سهلًا، لكن كل يوم يقترب أكثر من العودة إلى الفريق”.

وأتم بشأن بيدري: “إنه مذهل، مع الكرة يساعدنا كثيرًا، يخرج من ضغط المنافس… يفعل ذلك بشكل رائع، أنا سعيد جدًا لأنه لعب كل المباراة”.

Opener’s 136 single-handedly holds Notts together for first win of Blast

David Hopps13-Jun-2021

Joe Clarke acknowledges his hundred•Getty Images

If you are England, then you habitually look away now. But perhaps the time has come when you shouldn’t. Joe Clarke, who has been easy to ignore since his career went off the rails, played one of the finest T20 innings ever produced in England, an innings so mellow in its destruction that birds might have fallen from the sky, or traffic outside the Northampton ground come to a halt in supplication.Clarke’s 136 from 65 balls, with 11 sixes and six fours, was the eighth-highest T20 score in England and the best by a Notts batter. His 11 sixes have only been surpassed by three players – Graham Napier and Cameron Delport, both for Essex, and Chris Gayle for Somerset. Gayle might have possessed more awe, but surely none of them played with Clarke’s sweetness of touch. In this sort of form, very few do: he is the best England-qualified batter without an international cap in the country.He single-handedly took hold of Notts’ stuttering start to the Blast and guided it into winning territory at the third time of asking. Northants’ innings was the undercard, but they can feel good about getting within 14 runs.They retained slight hopes of chasing down Notts’ 214 for 7 with 87 needed off the last seven overs, and Josh Cobb on 55 from 24 balls, and going long at every opportunity, but then Cobb yanked a hamstring, the offspinner Matt Carter, who was excellent throughout, reasserted control, and from then on it was just a matter of how close they could get.It is worth reminding ourselves after Clarke’s gentle demolition of Northants’ attack that there is not one England batter who is but two. Alex Hales, he of the Johnny Ringo moustache, is the sharpshooter who will probably never escape those “Wanted: Alive or Dead” posters, and appeals for clemency are regularly lodged on his behalf. But Clarke, too, was once England’s golden child, only for his magical adventure to turn into the Golden Child, Eddie Murphy style, a mess of a film which ranks at 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.He does not make light of his mistakes, as he made clear in a revealing interview in ESPNcricinfo last year, and he saw a psychologist last summer to help him further understand that phase of his life and how to respond to it. More pertinent for his batting career, though, might have been a discussion with Peter Moores, Notts’ coach, who told him he was sort of a messed-up version of Marnus Labuschagne.By his own admission, he has missed out on a couple of Championship hundreds that were in the offing this summer, but If the ego of a talented youngster has finally given way to the substance that is found in true quality, then the runs may be about to flow. And England are not exactly drowning in that commodity, not in Test cricket at least. Forgiveness is given most readily to those who are most needed – that’s just the desperate way of the world.Cold statistics illustrate how much Clarke dominated Notts’ innings. His 136 came off 65 balls at a strike rate of 209. The rest of Notts’ batting line-up managed 67 off 57 at a strike rate of 117. Clarke hit 11 sixes; the rest mustered only two more. It was a supreme one-man show.From the second ball, it felt as if he meant business as the left-arm spinner Graeme White was treated to the gentlest of inside-out blows over extra cover, a shot played as if he was carrying out an MOT on his timing. Dropped on 29, he exacted mean punishment. White and the swing (non-existent on this occasion) of Ben Sanderson were most harshly dealt with, with Sanderson conceding three sixes in succession in the 16th over.The first of these blows left Sanderson with hands on hips, as he exchanged a few words of despair with the non-striker, Steven Mullaney. A shimmy across his stumps, followed by the laziest six over midwicket, left Sanderson with hands on knees. The next ball, with the bowler by then disorientated, was a full toss which was deposited over long-on. By then Sanderson didn’t know where to put his hands – or put the ball.Only the South African Wayne Parnell, the one bowler of international quality, escaped punishment – or sixes – and, suitably, he almost pulled off a return catch, on 125, although he was probably just grateful he escaped with his hand intact. He was also caught off Brandon Glover’s waist-high no-ball on 127, a second blemish which saw Glover removed from the attack. He fell in the last over, a nine iron down the ground against Tom Taylor.The rest of Notts’ much-vaunted batting line-up failed to fire, although Peter Trego, promoted up to No. 3 in the absence of Ben Duckett, who did not travel to Northampton as a Covid precaution, did share in an 82-run stand before he became one of a succession of batsman to slog to deep midwicket.Clarke marked his hundred with a beating of his chest – although he did not appear to follow up with some appropriate verses from St Luke about requesting God to be merciful because he was a sinner. It is time for England to be merciful though and to contact him to state, in the clearest terms, that runs are now all that matter.

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Para seguir sonhando pelo acesso na Série B do Brasileirão, o CSA visitou o Coritiba e conseguiu uma grande vitória por 1 a 0 que o manteve matematicamente com possibilidade de entrar no G4 na última rodada.

Suspenso contra o Coxa, o zagueiro Matheus Felipe reforçará o time do técnico Mozart Santos frente ao Brasil de Pelotas. Não à toa, ele destacou a importância da vitória no Couto Pereira e acredita que o resultado pode fazer a diferença na tabela.

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– Sabíamos da importância e do peso que tinha esse jogo para nós. Já esperávamos que seria ser um jogo muito difícil por conta da tabela para as duas equipes. Eles precisavam vencer para manter o sonho do título e a gente tinha mais uma final para seguir vivo na briga pelo G4. Graças a Deus conseguimos sair com o triunfo, que pode fazer a diferença no final – disse.

Para a verdadeira “decisão” no Estádio Rei Pelé, no próximo domingo (28), o zagueiro ressalta a dificuldade do confronto apesar do clube gaúcho já estar rebaixado. Ele afirma que o foco do CSA tem que ser em conseguir o resultado positivo na própria partida, apesar de precisar de uma combinação de resultados envolvendo tropeços de Avaí e CRB, para conquistar o acesso.

– Temos em mente que vai ser um jogo difícil, mesmo sabendo que a equipe deles já está rebaixada, porém é muito importante entrarmos com concentração máxima para conquistar os três pontos. Temos que fazer nossa parte, esse tem que ser nosso foco e depois do apito final veremos como vai ficar a tabela – concluiu.

أعلن الاتحاد المصري لكرة القدم عن مواعيد المواجهات المؤجلة في الدور الأول من الدوري المصري موسم 2023-2024.

كما كشف الاتحاد المصري عن موعد مباراة الأهلي والزمالك في قمة مواجهات الدور الأول من الدوري المصري الممتاز.

اقرأ أيضًا.. غياب لاعب الأهلي عن مباراة يانج أفريكانز في دوري أبطال إفريقيا

مباراة القمة بين الأهلي والزمالك تقام ضمن منافسات الجولة العاشرة من عمر الدوري المصري هذا الموسم. موعد مباراة الأهلي والزمالك في الدور الأول من الدوري المصري

تقام مباراة الأهلي والزمالك يوم الإثنين 15 أبريل 2024 على استاد القاهرة الدولي، في تمام الساعة السابعة مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، الثامنة بتوقيت السعودية.

A collection of fans online have slammed West Ham United for perhaps tempting fate by having a team bus ready to go announcing the Irons as European champions.

What has David Moyes said about the final?

Tonight at 8pm (UK time), the Hammers take on Italian outfit Fiorentina in Prague with both teams looking to secure the Europa Conference League title.

Anticipation is understandably high seeing as the Premier League club have not actually played in a European final since 1976 and they lasted lifted a major trophy 43 years ago when they won the FA Cup.

Speaking ahead of the game, manager David Moyes even admitted it was the “biggest moment” of his managerial career.

He told Sky Sports: “It is slightly surreal. To turn up and have your own dressing room is a big thrill for me. I really hope I can take it to the next level and win the game.

“I’ve had a really good career since I started coaching at 35. Over a thousand matches, been in some finals, had some promotions. But this is the biggest moment. To be a coach for as long as I’ve been, you’re obviously doing something right.”

Despite all the excitement in East London, though, they shouldn’t forget there is an Italian side who will be just as desperate to win the trophy.

With that in mind, many supporters have warned West Ham that they might come to regret the team bus that was spotted and circulated online by TalkSport.

It’s safe to say plenty of fans were worried that this “premature” decision may come back to haunt the club. Indeed, many quickly flocked to social media to make their feelings known.

Here are the best reactions on Twitter…

I mean, they really wouldn’t want to lose now…

Usman Khawaja expects to be dropped from Australia’s ODI team the moment Aaron Finch is fit after a finger fracture, despite his Man of the Match-winning turn against Ireland in the opening match of the South Africa tour

Daniel Brettig28-Sep-2016

“I enjoy opening the batting in shorter form cricket, so it was good fun and with Davey at the other end going berserk it made life a lot easier”•AFP

Usman Khawaja expects to be dropped from Australia’s ODI team the moment Aaron Finch is fit after a finger fracture, despite his Man of the Match-winning turn against Ireland in the opening match of the South Africa tour.Clearly benefiting from conditions more familiar than those witnessed recently in Sri Lanka, Khawaja stroked his way to an unbeaten 82 in the company of David Warner and Steven Smith. While hopeful the innings meant a turnaround from his wretched times in Sri Lanka, Khawaja had no illusions about where he now stood in the limited-overs order of preference.”You can never count your chickens in cricket or in life, you can’t get too far ahead,” he said. “I’m only here because Shaun Marsh hurt a finger and Finch was out with a broken finger as well, so I got an opportunity opening the batting. To get out there and be Man of the Match first game of the tour is a really nice feeling.”Nice to get out there early on, I enjoy opening the batting in shorter form cricket, so it was good fun and with Davey at the other end going berserk it made life a lot easier.”It was a tough time over there [in Sri Lanka], it’s been a tough couple of months. So from an individual point of view it’s nice to get out there and score some runs. We played some really good cricket the back half of Sri Lanka, but I still didn’t contribute the way I wanted to contribute over there, so I had a tough time there, but glad I could contribute to a win first up here.”The Australians were quickly into a groove against Ireland, and now face a South Africa side shorn of AB de Villiers due to injury. Khawaja said it was useful to pick up the winning habit instantly in South Africa, and acknowledged the hosts would have to be weakened by de Villiers’ enforced absence.”We won and that’s the main thing,” Khawaja said. “You want to win as much as you can and keep reaffirming that winning feeling. Winning is a habit, it’s a cliche but it’s true, the more you win, the more natural it becomes. Every game you play we want to win every time, whether it’s a dead rubber or a final, because that’ll keep us in good stead for really close games.”I don’t know who’s going to take over [AB’s] role but they’ve got big shoes to fill, he’s one of the best batsmen in the world. Looking at it from that point of view it’s never nice to see a player not play, especially someone like AB because he brings a lot of people through the gates and that’s what it’s all about in the end. But he’s a big player for them, so they are weakened, but South Africa have a lot of depth.”

أعلن الجهاز الطبي لفريق الكرة الأول بنادي الزمالك بقيادة أحمد أسامة عن إصابة الظهير الأيسر محمد عبد الشافي، بقطع في الرباط الصليبي.

وكان عبد الشافي قد تعرض لإصابة في الركبة خلال تدريبات الفريق قبل أيام، ليتم الإعلان رسميًا اليوم عن تفاصيل الفحوصات الطبية.

غياب 11 لاعبًا عن الزمالك أمام الإسماعيلي.. 5 صفقات أحدهم لوجهة نظر فنية

وكشف الدكتور محمد أسامة رئيس الجهاز الطبي للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي الزمالك عبر تصريحات رسمية أن الفحوصات الطبية أثبتت إصابة عبد الشافي بقطع في الرباط الصليبي.

وأكد رئيس الجهاز الطبي أن عبد الشافي خضع لفحوصات طبية مكثفة لتحديد حجم الإصابة وتحديد بروتوكول العلاج المناسب.

جوميز يعلن قائمة الزمالك لمباراة الإسماعيلي في الدوري.. ضم عبد الله السعيد

وشدد رئيس الجهاز الطبي على أن اللاعب سيسافر إلى ألمانيا خلال الأيام القليلة المقبلة من أجل العرض على أحد الأطباء والخضوع للعملية الجراحية، بناء على قرار الكابتن حسين لبيب رئيس مجلس إدارة نادي الزمالك.

Batsman Shai Hope and allrounder Rovman Powell have been picked in West Indies’ squad for next month’s tri-series in Zimbabwe, after the selectors decided to drop Kieron Pollard and Denesh Ramdin

ESPNcricinfo staff13-Oct-2016

Shai Hope, who is uncapped in limited-overs internationals, recently scored 76 in the three-day warm-up match against the PCB Patron’s XI side•AFP

Batsman Shai Hope and allrounder Rovman Powell have been picked in West Indies’ squad for next month’s tri-series in Zimbabwe, after the selectors decided to drop Kieron Pollard and Denesh Ramdin. Pollard and Ramdin’s exclusions are the only changes to the squad that suffered a 3-0 defeat in the ODI series against Pakistan earlier this month.WI ODI squad for Zimbabwe

Sulieman Benn, Carlos Brathwaite, Kraigg Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Jonathan Carter, Johnson Charles, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder (capt), Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Evin Lewis, Sunil Narine, Ashley Nurse, Rovman Powell, Marlon Samuels
In Shai Hope, Rovman Powell
Out Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin

Both Pollard and Ramdin had poor returns in the limited-overs series in the UAE. Pollard managed 43 runs in the three T20s, and bowled two overs, going wicketless. In the three-match ODI series, Pollard scored 42 runs at an average of 14.00. He took one wicket in the 12 overs he bowled across the three matches. Ramdin, who was recalled to the ODI squad, compiled 79 runs at 26.33 in the three ODIs and did not feature in the T20s.Hope, who is a part of the Test side in the UAE, is uncapped in limited-overs internationals, but has played six Tests since May 2015 scoring 171 runs at an average of 15.54. He scored 76 in the three-day tour match against the PCB Patron’s XI, played under lights with the pink ball.Powell, uncapped in international cricket, had been named in the T20 squad for the UAE tour following a promising performance in CPL 2016. His only match on the tour was the practice T20 game against the Emirates Cricket Board XI where he scored 38 and bowled two overs for 14 runs.The Zimbabwe series will begin on November 14 with a match between the hosts and Sri Lanka. West Indies’ first match in the series will be against Sri Lanka on November 16. The final will be played on November 27.

N’Golo Kante’s sudden departure from Stamford Bridge means Chelsea now have to act.

The World Cup winner had been close to an agreement to extend his stay in the English capital, but a €100m (£86m) a season deal with Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad suddenly looks set to end his fruitful career in Europe.

His last year at the Blues was ravaged by injury, and he only made nine appearances in all competitions – this prolonged absence was one of the reasons for Chelsea’s spectacular decline into the bottom half of the table.

The 32-year-old must be replaced and Moises Caicedo is a player who can adopt a similar role.

What’s the latest on Moises Caicedo to Chelsea?

Having missed out on the signature of CP Sporting’s Manuel Ugarte, the West Londoners are expected to accelerate their efforts to tempt Caicedo to join.

Whilst it seemed that Chelsea were prioritising a deal for the Uruguayan, it’s been revealed that the 2021 Champions League winners have been equally interested in the Brighton star for around £80m.

This has been reaffirmed by reputable journalist Dean Jones, who told GIVEMESPORT: “I don’t think it’s even a case of getting back of the Caicedo trail, they’ve already been on it. The whole time the Ugarte thing has been going on, Caicedo is still the one I’ve been hearing more about. I’ve always expected that Chelsea would go for Caicedo.”

Can Caicedo replicate Kante’s exploits at Chelsea?

Across seven years at Chelsea, the former Leicester City star notched 269 appearances, 29 goal involvements, and six different trophies, winning everything available aside from the Carabao Cup.

The 53-cap international is renowned for his energetic and insufferable ability to break up opposition attacks and protect his backline.

Due to his unbelievable consistency, Cesc Fabregas has labelled Kante as “world-class”, a sentiment that was echoed by Ally McCoist, who described the player as “absolutely magic.”

The beautiful chapter of Kante’s tremendous story at Chelsea has rightfully ended, forging the pathway for Caicedo to possibly repeat the heroics of his positional peer.

Within his age bracket, the youngster has brilliantly excelled as the £60k-per-week star has won possession in the midfield third the most times (142) of any U21 player this season.

Across the continent, the 30-cap international has also emerged as a formidable asset, ranking within the top 26% in Europe’s top five leagues among other midfielders for progressive passes, as well as the highest 11% for interceptions per 90, according to FBref.

So far in his short, but equally dazzling career, Caicedo has demonstrated himself to be a phenomenal pivot with an uncoachable quality to read the game and sniff out danger.

South American Football expert Tim Vickery has described the Ecuadorian as “terrific” and whilst it would be foolish to suggest he can instantly fill Kante’s void if he continues on his currently frightening trajectory, he could be unstoppable.