Saturday, September 17, 2016
Zinedine Zidane confirms that he will be without his two biggest stars on Sunday, with the Portuguese suffering from flu and the Welsh forward battling a hip problem
Real Madrid will be without both Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale for their game against Espanyol on Sunday, Zinedine Zidane has confirmed.
Ronaldo has only just returned to action following a knee injury picked up in the final of Euro 2016 but has been sidelined through illness, while Bale has a knock.
Both players are, however, expected to be fit for Wednesday with Villarreal the visitors to the Bernabeu.
“Cristiano will not travel with us, he has a sore throat
Friday, September 16, 2016
Ballon d’Or returns to original format after L’Équipel, FIFA deal ends
The Ballon d’Or deal between France
football and FIFA has ended, the French publication and worldfootball’s
governing body announced on Friday.
FIFA and L’Équipe have not renewed their
arrangement to organise the trophy – voting for which will return to
journalists. FIFA may recover the FIFA World Player award.
The coveted world player of the year
award will from now on return to its original home after France
Football’s agreement with FIFA finished.
Guardiola begs City fans for support in Champions League
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola
warned supporters the club cannot achieve success in the Champions
League unless they start fully embracing the competition.
Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as City
opened their Group C campaign with a classy 4-0 win over Borussia
Moenchengladbach on Wednesday in a game that had been postponed on
Tuesday due to heavy rain.
But as in previous group-stage games,
the Etihad Stadium was far from full, with only 30,270 spectators
present in an arena that can hold 53,000 on European nights.
“Our fans, they have to know that we play for them,” Guardiola said.
Guardiola begs City fans for support in Champions League
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola
warned supporters the club cannot achieve success in the Champions
League unless they start fully embracing the competition.
Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as City
opened their Group C campaign with a classy 4-0 win over Borussia
Moenchengladbach on Wednesday in a game that had been postponed on
Tuesday due to heavy rain.
But as in previous group-stage games,
the Etihad Stadium was far from full, with only 30,270 spectators
present in an arena that can hold 53,000 on European nights.
“Our fans, they have to know that we play for them,” Guardiola said.
EPL: Conte confirms David Luiz for Liverpool
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has confirmed David Luiz will make his
second debut for the club against Liverpool in the Premier League on
Friday.
Luiz, who returned to the west London club from Paris Saint-Germain in a surprise £32 million ($42.7 million, 38 million euros) move on transfer deadline day, will replace injured Blues captain John Terry at Stamford Bridge.
The Brazilian defender’s first spell at Chelsea became known for his habit of making high-profile mistakes.
Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville memorably said Luiz looked like he was “being controlled by a 10-year-old in the crowd on a Playstation” after one especially error-strewn display and the 29-year-old was unable to shed that reputation during his time in France.
Man dies minutes after Man-U players grant final wish
A 73-year-old man died 45 minutes after his dying wish of meeting Manchester United players came true.
Paddy Lawler, a lifelong supporter of
the Red Devils and a prostate cancer patient, had told his family he
would love to meet with the United squad before his death.
Despite the request seeming like a long
shot, Lawler’s granddaughter, Kayleigh, posted an appeal on Facebook for
anyone to help get in touch with the club in order for his wish to be
granted.
The post was seen by the cousin on
United’s player, Jesse Lingard. The winger, alongside Marcus Rashford,
Ashley Young and Timothy Fosu-Mensah, visited Lawler three days later
and 45 minutes after the visit, he passed on.
Mourinho omits Rooney from Europa League Dutch trip
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney
will be rested along with several other stars for the club’s Europa
League group match with Dutch side Feyenoord in Rotterdam on Thursday.
The 30-year-old England skipper has been
omitted by Jose Mourinho from the squad along with fellow first team
regulars, defensive duo Luke Shaw and Ecuadorean Antonio Valencia.
One Red Devils star just about made it onto the flight home from Rotterdam after struggling to provide a urine sample following his side's Europa League defeat against Feyenoord
Manchester United fans would have been in a rush to get out of De Kuip after Thursday's 1-0 Europa League defeat to Feyenoord, but one player was almost trapped in Rotterdam, but for the help of police.
The Nigeria international has told Goal about how his in-form Chelsea team-mate is looking to silence his doubters following a disappointing campaign last season
John Obi Mikel believes Chelsea team-mate Diego Costa's scintillating early-season form can be put down to a desire to prove his critics wrong following a disappointing 2015-16 campaign.
Costa is the current joint-top goalscorer in the Premier League ahead of the Blues' match with Liverpool on Friday after scoring four goals in as many league matches under Antonio Conte.
The Spain international is already just eight goals behind his league tally in what proved to be a difficult campaign for the striker last season.
And Mikel reckons Costa is out to silence any doubters he picked up during his struggles by proving his class under Conte this term.
“I definitely think he can get even better," Mikel told Goal. “He can score more goals, he can help the team even more, but Diego is a player that likes to find and doesn’t give up.
“He knows that everyone had a bad season last year so I think this season he is trying to prove people wrong and he has started well and hopefully he will have a very good season.”
The Umuahia-based side have been slammed with a stadium ban for the behaviour of their fans, and the gaffer says the fans' absence will be a big miss
The Umuahia-based side have been slammed with a
stadium ban for the behaviour of their fans, and the gaffer says the
fans' absence will be a big miss
Warriors have been handed a total fine of N2.5m for the unruly conduct of their fans in an NPFL Match Day 34 fixture against FC Ifeanyi Ubah, with the club now set to play two home matches
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
The Portuguese is back to face his former club in the tournament he loves the most — but Real relies on him far less these days.
Ronaldo returns in his favorite competition - but Madrid can now function without him
The Portuguese is back to face his former club in the tournament he loves the most — but Real relies on him far less these days.
The Portuguese played his part. He scored 16 goals throughout the competition and his hat trick against Wolfsburg turned over a 2-0 deficit from the first leg in the quarterfinals. Not for the first time in recent years, he had got his team out of jail.
But as Zidane builds for the future, he is keen for Madrid to function with or without Ronaldo. While the 31-year-old is there and still scoring, everyone is content at the Santiago Bernabeu. But there is no longer a feeling that the club depends upon him as it once did.
In the semifinals of the Champions League last season, it was Gareth Bale who forced the winner versus Manchester City — an own goal by Fernando — and
The Premier League side will play its European games at the national stadium this season but will be looking to enjoy better luck there than Arsenal did.
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
Some weeks ago, the self-acclaimed
Kokomaster, D’banj, caused a frenzy in the digital space after news
broke that he secretly got married to his girlfriend, Lineo Didi
Kilgrow.
And since then, the singer has maintained silence on the issue till Saturday Beats caught up with him as he was sensitising the public on his new initiative, CREAM.
While addressing his marital status, the
singer said his private life was nobody’s concern and pleaded with the
public to keep his family life private.
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Friday, September 9, 2016
I won’t be Oshiomhole’s puppet – Obaseki
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The All Progressives Congress
governorship candidate in Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has declared
that he will not be a puppet to any godfather if elected governor of Edo
State in the Saturday’s election.
Obaseki made the declaration during an interview monitored on Television Continental on Wednesday.
“I will not be a puppet to any godfather or godmother if I become governor of Edo State,” Obaseki said.
The APC candidate said if he needed to
be a puppet to anybody, he would rather be a puppet to the good people
of Edo State, whose general mandate he was seeking to become their
governor.
Obaseki described Governor Adams
Oshiomhole as a true democrat who, according to him, does not even like
to be seen as a godfather, let alone expect someone to be his puppet.
He commended the achievements of the
Adams Oshiomhole administration and promised to continue work on the
good template already set by the governor so that he could move the
state to greater heights.
Some people say I got successful through diabolical means –Odunlade Adekola
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Yoruba actor, Odunlade Adekola, is
waxing stronger everyday and it seems some people are still amazed how
he was able to get to this height.
Interestingly, not just a few feel he
must have visited a ‘babalawo’ (native doctor), who would have performed
some sacrifices for him, which automatically boosted Adekola’s career.
And indeed, the actor, in a chat with Saturday Beats recently, affirmed that some people actually have such perception about his success.
“I never knew I would be successful as
an actor; my belief has always been that God should elevate me in my
endeavours. I always prayed that God should make me a successful person.
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