Pep Guardiola does not expect Erling Haaland to be fit for Manchester City’s Premier League match against Crystal Palace on Saturday, and admitted the Norway striker is a doubt for next week’s Club World Cup fixtures.
City’s top scorer, who has 19 goals this season, missed last weekend’s win at Luton and the midweek victory over Red Star Belgrade with a foot injury, and has been receiving treatment in Marbella.
Haaland reported back at City on Friday morning and Guardiola said he would be assessed by club doctors before any further decisions are made.
PEP (On Haaland injury update) He arrived today, he will see the doctors and then we will see. He has had treatment. Hopefully, he can travel to Saudi… I don t think he will be ready to play this weekend�…
Newcastle return to the Champions League group stage for the first time in two decades on Tuesday night.
The Magpies travel to San Siro, where they take on AC Milan before facing PSG and Borussia Dortmund in their remaining Group F fixtures.
Here, the PA news agency takes a look at the last time Newcastle were in Europe’s premier club competition back in 2002-03.
First Group Stage
After qualifying for the competition with a fourth-placed finish in the previous Premier League season, Newcastle reached the first group stage of the tournament where they were drawn against Dynamo Kiev, Feyenoord and Juventus in Group E.Their opening fixture against Dynamo Kiev ended in defeat at the Olympic Stadium in Ukraine’s capital as Maksim Shatskikh and Alyaksandr Khatskev…
Kylian Mbappe is the future of football as Real Madrid fight to make him the next Galactico signing after Victor Sanchez compared the Paris Saint-Germain star to former team-mate Lionel Messi.
PSG lured Messi to the French capital after his contract expired at Barcelona, but the six-time Ballon d Or winner s arrival has not changed Mbappe s stance, with the Frenchman eyeing an exit.
Long tipped to join Madrid, the LaLiga giants reportedly made a €160million offer for Mbappe – who is out of contract at the end of the season – but PSG are holding out for at least €220m.
Sanchez played alongside Messi at Barca, where he emerged from the club s youth system in 2005 and made his first-team debut in 2008 before joining and captaining rivals Espanyol.
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Karl Darlow, Ciaran Clark, Matt Ritchie and Isaac Hayden all started for Newcastle United in the final game of the Mike Ashley era. Dwight Gayle appeared from the bench.
Those were five of Newcastle s 12 most-used players in the Championship in 2016-17, appearing for a combined 14,122 minutes. Gayle, with 23 goals, was their leading scorer.
Steve Bruce, in charge against Wolves, regularly cited this longevity as a positive as the team battled relegation.
Like Bruce, though, clinging to his job ahead of his 1,000th career game in management against Tottenham, their stays are highly unlikely to be extended long into the ownership of Saudi Arabia s Public Investment Fund, which last week purchased 80 per cent of the St James Park outfit to become the richest foot…
Amid the furore of Real Madrid s quite astonishing great escape in the Champions League – well, their latest – it s easy to forget they only won the Spanish title last weekend.
Of course, it had been long foreseen, but Madrid s 35th LaLiga crown was secured with their 4-0 win over Espanyol at the Santiago Bernabeu, leading to a party that had Marcelo climbing statues, Carlo Ancelotti smoking a cigar and David Alaba getting his chair out again.
With a record-extending 17th Champions League final appearance wrapped up, Madrid can turn their attention back to LaLiga knowing they still have a reason to keep themselves sharp, and they could yet equal their best points tally (93) since reaching 100 in 2011-12.
Fittingly, their first league match as champions comes …
Pohang Steelers came from behind to book their AFC Champions League final spot with a 5-4 penalty shootout victory over 10-man Ulsan Hyundai after a 1-1 draw.
Alex Grant nodded in a late equaliser before Pohang scored each of their five penalties, with Davy Bulthuis missing for Ulsan.
A cagey first half saw just two clear-cut chances, with Lee Seung-mo heading against the left post in the sixth minute for Pohang before Ulsan should have gone ahead on the stroke of half-time as Yun Il-lok headed a free-kick wastefully wide after being found unmarked at the back post.
The deadlock was broken seven minutes after the restart when Yoon Bit-garam s low ball across the face of goal was spilled by Jun Lee, allowing Yun to pounce on the loose ball and fire in…
Manchester United are interested in signing Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot in the summer transfer window, according to . Rabiot is out of contract at Juventus at the end of the season, and the report in the Italian news outlet has claimed that United are keen on securing the services of the midfielder on a free transfer.
Juventus are reportedly concerned about handing Rabiot a new contract on current terms. That has opened the door for United to try to get a deal done with the 29-year-old France international midfielder to bring him to Old Trafford for next season and beyond.
Rabiot is one of the best midfielders in Serie A. The 29-year-old has been on the books of Juventus since 2019 and has done extremely well. The France international also starred for Paris Saint-…
Roberto Mancini knows Italy face an uphill climb to qualify for Euro 2024 after they were beaten 2-1 by England but took heart from their second-half display.
Declan Rice opened the scoring and Harry Kane become England s outright record goalscorer with his 54th strike for his country from the penalty spot just before half-time in Thursday s Group C opener at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
Argentina-born Mateo Retegui marked his debut with a goal to get the European champions back in the game and there was further hope for Italy when Luke Shaw was sent off in the 80th minute.
England held on to gain a measure of revenge for a defeat in the Euro 2020 final, securing their first away win over Italy since May 1961.
Gareth Southgate s side ended Italy s run o…
Sheffield United continued their fine start to the Championship with a comfortable 2-0 win away to Hull City.
Goals from Gustavo Hamer and Sam McCallum were enough to give Chris Wilder s side victory and send them up to third in the table.
The home side made an encouraging start to the game but fell behind after a stunning Blades counter-attack, with Callum O Hare driving forward before playing in Hamer, who gave keeper Ivor Pandur no chance with a neat finish.
Hull went close to equalising through Abdulkadir Omar s free-kick, but he was thwarted by a flying save from Michael Cooper in the Sheffield United goal.
The away side doubled their advantage in the second half as substitute McCallum swept in a fine effort from Andre Brooks cutback.
Marvin …
Market: Czech Republic win
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Securing their spot at EURO 2020 in midweek, Czech Republic will look to keep up the party atmosphere when they travel to Group A strugglers Bulgaria on Sunday afternoon.
Starting with the hosts, suffering a 1-0 defeat at home against Paraguay on Thursday night to sum up what has been a woeful year for Bulgaria both on and off the pitch, it really has been a qualifying campaign to forget for the Greens. Now losing six of their last seven matches across all formats and yet to record a single Group A victory this year, fans around Sofia will be most concerned by their side s continued struggles in the final third. Now failing to find the net in each of their last three appearances, Bulgaria also suffered a 2-1 loss when they faced…