Despite their domestic woes, Bayern remain an incredibly tough nut to crack in the Champions League, especially in Munich where they have been beaten only three times in 29 outings against the continent's best and brightest. Bayern suffered an unlikely home reverse in their last league game on their own patch in a 2-1 loss to Bayer Leverkusen, though their 4-0 battering of Dortmund in their home fixture directly before that shone a light on just how devastating der FCB can be when they are on song.
It's hard for us to score at the moment. Our first couple of mistakes they score and then it's very difficult. Their physicality is incredible, their defenders win the duels, they stop the game. They are very fast in attack. They can hurt us all of the time, they deserve to go through. If I can be critical of some of my players, I keep this for us.
It's been a busy few weeks for Monterrey, who came within a minute or so of taking the mighty Liverpool to extra-time at the FIFA Club World Cup, though that should only have sharpened their appetite. Following their disappointment in Qatar, Monday's visited turned their focus back to domestic matters and delivered a dominant performance to win the first leg of this tie.
Leicester's Harvey Barnes has scored in three consecutive league games for the first time in his senior career - he'd found the net in just two of his first 39 games in the competition. Antionio Rudiger became the first defender to score twice in a Premier League match for Chelsea since John Terry did so against Fulham in April 2013. At 38 years 126 days, Chelsea keeper Willy Caballero became the oldest player to appear in the Premier League so far this season.
I got a flight over around 6am and my medical took around nine or 10 hours. What happens in a 10-hour medical? Well, Fiorentina did a lot of tests. Then I had to do some running on a treadmill and have various scans - and then they had a couple of doctors look at the results. It was extremely thorough. As well as my knee, something came up with my hip as well - and I had never had any problems there, so that was news to me.
Essentially, Real have become far more compact, leaving less space for opponents to exploit and working together with a collective determination to protect their goal. In contrast to the cavalier style of recent years, which always left them vulnerable, they are now perfectly balanced and very difficult to score against. As a result, they boast the best defensive record in La Liga, having conceded just 23 goals in 37 league games - almost halving the number of goals they allowed in the previous two campaigns (46 last season, 44 in 2017-18).
Assisted by Marcos Alonso. BookingPosted at 88' Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) is shown the yellow card. Posted at 87' Michy Batshuayi (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Posted at 87' Foul by Nathan Aké (Bournemouth). Goal!Posted at 85' Goal! Bournemouth 2, Chelsea 2. Marcos Alonso (Chelsea) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner.
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers says Manchester City have to "feel your aggression" as the Foxes prepare to host Pep Guardiola's side on Saturday. Third-placed Leicester are four points behind the reigning Premier League champions with 12 matches remaining. In the reverse fixture at the Etihad in December they took an early lead but lost 3-1 and Rodgers admitted: "We were too passive. That was pretty clear.
Leicester City have struggled a bit since the resumption of football and their away record continues to deteriorate. They are faced with a must win game here as they look to hold on to a Champions League spot, but the same is the case for Bournemouth, who seek survival. Bournemouth have not done so well at home but will take inspiration from their performance against Tottenham in their last match. While Spurs were poor in attack, we can’t deny Bournemouth credit for the pressing game employed, and an improvement in attack going to the Leicester game could really boost the hosts. However, here they will face a different kind of challenge; a very attacking and ambitious team and we expect to see goals. on the balance of these teams’ home and away performances, we are backing this game to end in a scoring draw.
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Solskjaer confirmed Alexis Sanchez will return to the club at the end of the season and has backed the Chilean forward to regain his best form. Sanchez was loaned out to Inter Milan in the close season but niggling injuries and fitness problems has restricted him to just seven appearances across all competitions.
They had the wind with them in that first half, so we had to deal with the elements and a lot of direct football, and we gave away a lot of cheap free-kicks. The first 10, 15 minutes there were about 10 balls come straight into our box and we spoke about that beforehand. We were behind in the game, came out, had countless chances to equalise, concede a poor goal and were left chasing the game. Had we equalised at 1-0 down I think we would have won the game.
Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers will have to do it all again in the FA Cup after the Premier League pair played out a goalless draw at Molineux. See alsoWolves v Manchester United - LIVE FA Cup updates There were changes aplenty following a hectic festive period for both clubs and neither could get a foothold in a fairly drab first-half.
CHRISTMAS EVE’S BIG STORIES Jose Mourinho hasn’t changed Video - I fear more cases of racism - Jose Mourinho00:54 Man arrested for Son racial abuse The more serious matter in that game was the racial abuse coming from the terraces, and it turns out it was even worse than we feared at the time. Three times a message was broadcast over the PA warning that the game was being disrupted by racial abuse, but at the time we all thought the only incident was against Rudiger.
It wasn't all World Cup déjà vu though as instead of seeing an Ellen White equaliser, the Lionesses found themselves fighting a 2-0 deficit just a matter of minutes later. The Americans doubled their lead on 55 minutes through Lloyd, who ran onto a perfectly lifted ball from Horan to scoop over Telford, England's backline in no man's land to deal with her run.
I think Nuno Espirito Santo is trying to keep Traore off the transfer radar, you know. What other reason can there be not to play a player who is unplayable at the moment? Did you know? Traore has provided eight assists in the Premier League this season, with no Wolves player ever providing more in a single Premier League campaign. De Bruyne: I wasn't sure that Kevin De Bruyne realised the season had stopped for three months after his contribution for Manchester City against Arsenal.
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Meanwhile, after a 15th place finish last season, Amiens weren't expected to pull up many trees this campaign and they certainly haven't in the action we've seen so far. Indeed, currently 17th with 17 points from as many games, the visitors look set for a battle against the drop into Ligue 2.
Granada unsurprisingly fell away after briefly topping the standings in September, but last weekend's 3-0 success over Alaves at Los Carmenes inched Nazaries back up to 9th, and boosted their home return this season to five wins, one draw and two defeats from eight outings.
We had to win to regain our emotional equilibrium, to get rid of that frustration and we couldn't. And what is true is the social mass of Arsenal, which is very big, couldn't see it, couldn't connect with what was happening and it is true that in this situation, as happens in every country and with every team, the coach finds himself targeted. I spoke to the players three or four weeks before the process began to tell them that things were not going well and that I couldn't see the team I pictured on the field of play, I couldn't identify what I was looking for.
We never made Rod's house, though. We met him at some restaurant and he started making us mudslingers. Within an hour, we were all half cut and he disappeared. Then a stretch limo turned up to take us home. There was a phone in it and I'll never forget wee Charlie Nicholas hanging out of the sunroof calling his maw in Milton while we were driving down Sunset Boulevard. Tiny caves & Berti going undercoverAfter all that, Scotland were the last team to arrive in Mexico and took up residence in the middle of an Aztec heritage site.
Posted at 62' Foul by Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton). Posted at 61' Attempt saved. Richarlison (Everton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross. Kylian Mbappe and Neymar scored as Paris St-Germain beat Nantes 2-0 to extend their Ligue 1 lead to five points.
Money, though, is a big problem. Barca's budget is already stretched and they would almost certainly have to sell several players to meet Martinez's 111 million euro release clause at Inter. That could start with Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal, who is reportedly suing Barca in a dispute over unpaid bonuses and has already attracted Inter's interest. Cheaper options could be former Barca trainee Dani Olmo, who has shone for Dinamo Zagreb this season, and Osasuna striker Chimy Avila, whose hard-running style and penchant for spectacular goals has won admirers across Spain.
Oxford, who've won six out of nine at Kassam Stadium, have attacked well at home this season, as 17 goals in nine games suggests, but their best work had arguably been at the other end of the pitch. Robinson's men have shipped just seven goals at home. Only one of the other 23 League 1 teams has conceded fewer home goals.
Rangers' Europa League win over Braga was "no fluke" and was an "outstanding" display, says manager Steven Gerrard. Ryan Kent's strike in Portugal completed a 4-2 aggregate win and sent the Ibrox side through to the last 16. Gerrard's side have endured what he described as "indifferent" domestic form in recent weeks but the manager said they were "faultless" in Portugal. It's one thing giving a team a game plan, but it's another trusting them to carry it out," Gerrard told BT Sport.
He refereed the 2017 Community Shield at Wembley and oversaw 19 Premier League games in 2017-18. I started refereeing at 16, my career was over at 32," he said. I had my dream job, a well-paid and incredibly enjoyable job that I loved every single minute of. The footballs and medals are now all I have to remember those years of dedication and hard work. I try to help young referees where possible, offering advice on their own blossoming refereeing careers.
It is the final return leg game which will decide which club wins the title in Nicaragua and the first leg exceeded my expectations as I thought either a 0-0 draw or a 1-0 win for Esteli would happen and it was indeed 0-0 at half-time and somewhere after the 60 minute of the game Esteli opened the scoring but shortly after Managua FC had a reply and scored the 1-1 goal but it stayed like this till the end as it ended with under 2.5 goals and that bet was won but the under 2 goals bet was just void.
This doesn't bode well for a Paderborn team who have been particularly struggling for goals away from home this season. No Bundesliga side have scored fewer away goals than Paderborn. Furthermore, Paderborn have failed to score in four of their last five competitive games.
Raphael Guerreiro had hit the post with a first-half free kick but he made amends in the 74th, scoring with a powerful shot from 20 metres after a sloppy Eintracht clearance. Dortmund's dominant performance was exactly what they needed ahead of their Champions League round of 16 first leg against Paris St Germain on Tuesday, after suffering a 4-3 loss to Bayer Leverkusen last week.
Manchester City beat League One Oxford United 3-1 on Wednesday, while Manchester United overcame League Two Colchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford. Leicester City, who won the competition in 1999-2000, beat Everton 4-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park. Aston Villa, who reached the semi-finals for the first time since 2012/13, beat a youthful Liverpool 5-0 on Tuesday. Manchester City were beaten 2-1 by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United in the Premier League on 7 December.
Still, The Toffees’ defensive record will still be concerning Ancelotti, especially away from home. They haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last 10 Premier League away days, and they’re facing a West Ham side that have found the net in each of their last nine top flight home matches.
The midfielder almost had a goal inside eight minutes, his deflected strike hitting the outside of the post as the hosts pinned Villa into their own half in the opening stages. Djenepo then got to the byeline and his awkward-looking centre with the outside of his right foot found Long, who was able to convert at the near post for his third goal in six games. Danny Ings and Djenepo were denied by Reina but Saints remained on top after the break, with captain Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg forcing a low save from the veteran Spanish keeper.