Tottenham will have to assess Cristian Romero and Richarlison ahead of Thursday’s Premier League trip to Brighton.
The duo were forced off during Spurs’ hard-fought 2-1 win over Everton with hamstring and back injuries respectively.
A third consecutive win ensured Tottenham will spend Christmas Day in the top four, but Romero and Richarlison have provided boss Ange Postecoglou with more fitness concerns.
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On Romero, Postecoglou revealed: “He felt tiredness in his hamstring just before half-time, so we had to take him off.”
The prognosis on Richarlison was better after the forward continued his fine form wit…
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Hoping to find a route into the top-half of the Serie B table late on Friday night, Ponte Preta will welcome Goias to the Moises Lucarelli.
Starting with the hosts, while Ponte Preta might have spent large spells of last season looking over their shoulder at a looming relegation scrap, Nelsinho Baptista’s side have made plenty of improvements this time around. Snatching what was a dramatic last-gasp equaliser away at Coritiba as they snatched a 1-1 stalemate last week, the former Corinthians boss has his sights set on securing a top-half finish in 2024. Losing just a pair of their previous nine Serie B appearances, the Sao Paulo-based outfit will also be excited by their continued purple patch on home soil. Last seen…
Manchester City have welcomed their alleged breaches of financial regulations being brought before an independent commission, having been surprised by the Premier League s claims on Monday.
The league has referred a number of alleged breaches of the competition s rules – which stretch back as far as the 2009-10 season – to the commission.
But a City response claimed the club had a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence in their defence.
Manchester City FC is surprised by the issuing of these alleged breaches of the Premier League rules, particularly given the extensive engagement and vast amount of detailed materials that the EPL has been provided with, a statement read.
The club welcomes the review of this matter by an independent commission, t…
Jamal Lewis has become the first British player to sign for Sao Paulo as his season-long loan move from Newcastle United was confirmed on Tuesday.
Lewis, who spent last season with Watford in the Championship, has signed with the Brazilian side for the upcoming campaign with a view to make the move permanent.
The Northern Ireland international made 36 appearances in all competitions for Newcastle following his £15million move from Norwich in 2020.
But Lewis fell quickly out of favour, and during the 2021-22 Premier League season, was even omitted from the 25-player squad list for the remainder of the term.
The 26-year-old s final appearance for the Magpies came as a substitute in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea in 2023, but he expressed his excitement about hi…
Sean Dyche challenged his Everton players to go and do it again after his team defeated Liverpool at Goodison Park in the Merseyside derby.
Everton won 2-0 on Wednesday, clinching a home victory over their local rivals for the first time since 2010 thanks to goals from Jarrad Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
While it also dented Liverpool s title hopes, the victory presented a huge step forward in Everton s hopes of staying up.
They are now eight points clear of the relegation zone, with four games left to play, and the possibility of points to come back should they successfully appeal the second of their points deductions for financial breaches.
Dyche, though, insisted the job is not done as he looks towards another big game on Saturday, when Brent…
Gaizka Mendieta does not expect Spain to make wholesale changes, despite the departure of long-serving coach Vicente del Bosque, as the European giants enter a new era following their unsuccessful Euro 2016 campaign.
Spain s quest for a third consecutive European Championship title was ended by Italy in the round of 16 on Monday, with Del Bosque swiftly announcing his intention to step down after eight years at the helm.
Del Bosque guided Spain to 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 glory, though he was unable to lead them out of the group stage in Brazil two years ago.
Former Sevilla and Athletic Bilbao coach Joaquin Caparros has been linked to the post, as the Spanish Football Federation and chief Angel Maria Villar plan for the future.
Regardless of who …
Erik ten Hag says Lisandro Martinez could make his first Manchester United appearance since March when the Red Devils host Newcastle United on Wednesday.
Having made just 11 appearances during an injury-hit season, the Argentina international is set to return from a calf problem that has kept him sidelined since his most recent outing in the draw at Brentford six weeks ago.
Although, the game comes too soon for fellow defender Raphael Varane, who announced he will leave the club at the end of the season, but Ten Hag hopes the France international can feature again before he departs Old Trafford.
The Dutchman said of Martinez: I think he will return [against Newcastle]. He had some [training] sessions and, if everything is okay, he will be involved.
We a…
The Copa Libertadores is arguably the most entertaining club competition in football, and the 2019 edition gets under way on Tuesday.
Less than three months has passed since River Plate overcame arch-rivals Boca Juniors in a dramatic Superclasico final that will be remembered for years to come – for good and bad reasons.
An attack on Boca s team bus as it made its way to El Monumental resulted in River losing the opportunity to host the second leg of the showpiece at home, with CONMEBOL controversially taking the game to Madrid instead.
The final will take place at a neutral venue again in 2019, with the Estadio Nacional in Santiago earmarked to stage the first one-off finale in the competition s history.
But who could make a run to the latter stages an…
The Czech Republic held off Greece to record a 2-1 win in Wroclaw on Tuesday, kick-starting their Euro 2012 Group A campaign.
After going down 4-1 to Russia in their opening match last Friday, the Czechs were out to make amends against Greece.
And they made a flying start to the contest at Stadion Miejski, with two goals in the first six minutes from Petr Jiracek and Vaclav Pilar.
Jiracek collected a through ball and beat the offside trap to score three minutes from kick-off, the fourth fastest goal in the history of the European Championships.
The Greek cause was not helped by the loss of goalkeeper Kostas Chalkias to injury on 22 minutes, he was replaced by Michalis Sifakis.
Greece thought they had pulled a goal back with five minutes remaining…
In an ordinary World Cup year, we would either already be engrossed in the group stages or be a matter of days away from the big kick-off.
But this is no ordinary World Cup year. We still have two of the 32 places to be confirmed for Qatar 2022, which is due to begin in November.
Tuesday s intercontinental play-off between Costa Rica and New Zealand will complete line-up, with their contest falling exactly four years to the day since Russia thrashed Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the opening game of the 2018 World Cup.
Before that meeting, however, New Zealand s neighbours Australia face Peru in the penultimate play-off on Monday.
Both matches will give the victorious teams a vital taste of what it s like to play in Qatar, with the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium playing hos…