When Real scored against the run of play with 11 minutes gone, it felt like a sucker punch. After Dani Ceballos had drawn a foul from Javi Martinez out wide on the left, Marco Asensio teed him up to float a cross to Karim Benzema as he ghosted in at the far post.
For what he's given to the country over the years, he deserves all of the plaudits he's going to get. The Czech clash has been arranged at short notice as Wales await the winners of the play-off semi-final between Scotland and Ukraine.
Our mentality is to try and get out of the group - and we'll take it from there. Wales have had a difficult build-up to Euro 2020 off the pitch with Robert Page in interim charge.
Despite Southampton's strong statement of intent to make a deal happen, both he and Chelsea will defer any transfer talks until the summer.
He's the value play to score against a side that have faced the most shots and conceded the highest amount of expected goals from set pieces.
Northampton made it four wins in a row as they saw off Carlisle 3-0 in Keith Millen's first game in charge of the Cumbrians.
However, they made a flying start and Joe Hart had already made saves before Espejord, a new signing from Heerenveen, slotted home inside seven minutes after some sharp passing around the edge of the Celtic box.
“He is very committed. That is why it was so surprising to me. He scored against Villa and then the next game but he was there and decisive. I never, before the interview, had the slightest doubt that he was not committed. He is an emotional guy, he does not hold back with his opinion. We should not just blame him and point on the negative side of it, we have to adapt. It created some noise that you don't want but there are zero doubts in his commitment to the team.”
Although the context may have changed, the content of the quotes have frustrated many people around Lukaku.
But Claudio Ranieri's Watford caused his old side headaches throughout, deservedly levelling through Emmanuel Dennis' deflected effort off Antonio Rudiger (43).
That does not mean he cannot impact games, but being further away from goal has made it harder for him to get those key goal and assist stats that he will judged upon come the end of the campaign.
Iqbal, who has a father from Pakistan and an Iraqi mother, signed his first professional contract in April.
The Southampton corners bet. Sky Bet's line for them to win five or more at Evens certainly has a strong chance of landing.
It will take the 30-year-old midfielder six weeks to recover, and Leeds' last game of the season is at his former club Brentford on 22 May.
“It’s half-time,” Klopp told his post-match press conference. “All to play for next week in London,” posted Virgil van Dijk.
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Ultimately, Zorniger believes Manchester United are getting an innovator who has had the biggest influence on coaching and coaches in Germany in the past 20 years.
The 23-year-old Argentine notched the second double-digit goal tally of his young career this campaign, scoring 19 times after previously scoring 11 times in 2019.
The 25-year-old midfielder is out of favour at Juve, and the former Barcelona player could bolster Arsenal’s squad for the remainder of the season after Ainsley Maitland-Niles joined Roma on loan.
The clash between Steven Gerrard's hosts and Sean Dyche's Clarets at Villa Park becomes the latest top-flight game in England to be affected by the current Omicron surge across the country.
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Eurosport Spain's Felix Martin has given his expert reaction to Real Madrid's now-famous comeback to beat Manchester City and reach the Champions League final.
And defensively, we had a situation in the first half where Victor Lindelof won the first ball and two seconds later, because the ball bounced off into the next lane, he won the ball again, so he had two situations in the middle of the other team's half where, as a full-back, he marked through, played very proactively and won both balls.
The 41-year-old has been spending a lot of time around the club's Cobham training centre in recent months and will now contribute to the growth of their youth development programme.
The demand has been enormous. If we could produce more, we would sell even more. Has PSG's social media following increased?
It's always nice to hear things like that from such good players, especially ones that have played for Forest, said Johnson, who won his first senior cap against the United States in November 2020.
Manager Howe has done well to guide them to a position of safety in the Premier League with weeks to spare when relegation was once a realistic prospect - now even more significant work awaits in the summer.
You have to go back to December for the last time Atleti put together back-to-back wins and Simeone will take the flak. His decision to partner the in-form Correa with Matheus Cunha will raise questions as the forwards looked like strangers. Luis Suarez was only given 25 minutes to make a difference but showed more than the latter did in the preceding 65 minutes. And yet they still failed to register a single shot on target.
Rangnick said: “After the final training session before the Crystal Palace game, after having trained with the team, he informed the doctor and the medical department that he would not be available because the pain in his knee is too big. We have to wait and see. Maybe he can train again (Sunday) but I have to speak to the doctor first.
They were better with the ball, we struggled, but thanks to our team performance, we did not give them much space. The format of this competition provides second opportunities, and Czech Republic have turned around their Euro 2020 fortunes to book a quarter-final clash with Denmark having only reached the knockout phase after finishing third in their group.
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There were also cheers at the sight of James Forrest warming up following his return to fitness and a convincing piece of penalty-box defending from Cameron Carter-Vickers when Andrew Shinnie looked like he might get a chance to repeat his September winner against Celtic.
“It's time to remind UEFA who Real Madrid is. Real Madrid created FIFA along with seven federations, then created the Champions League in 1955 along with L'Equipe. UEFA is a monopoly.”
Malawi, making a third appearance at the finals and first since 2010, had 13 members of their squad unavailable following a Covid-19 outbreak in their camp, which meant they could only name four players on the bench that included two goalkeepers.
Today I had one change and I couldn't take it because he didn't say anything, and this for me is not acceptable.
It will feel like two points dropped for Leicester, who had the possession and second-half chances to see off Spartak.
The 13-time former winners have a hat-trick from Karim Benzema to thank for their healthy advantage ahead of the Bernabeu fixture. Orchestrating from the dugout is Carlo Ancelotti with the Italian manager in his second spell at the club having previously led the club to their long-awaited ‘Decima’ Champions League win in 2014.
People didn't know I was from Balham, but I became aware of all these teenagers shouting, 'You've got to come and see this kid on pitch 12!
