But the reality is football will return and I don't think this decision should have been rushed. Being denied promotion would also have a financial impact on the club, he said. Had we got promoted we would have been in the same company as clubs like Spennymoor, Darlington, Gateshead and Blyth so there would have been a lot more local derbies and significantly higher gates," he added. We made some big investments this year in the effort to get up, so it's a difficult time.
Wayne Rooney curled home a sublime free-kick to score for the second game running as dominant Derby ended Stoke's recent Championship resurgence with an emphatic win. The ex-England captain found the top corner from 20 yards to beat former international team-mate Jack Butland for the Rams' third goal - and his first at Pride Park - midway through the second half. Martyn Waghorn's header and Chris Martin's fierce strike had put Derby in control, with full-back Jayden Bogle's superb 25-yard strike rounding off the rout.
Watford ended Liverpool's unbeaten runView more on twitterThe Hornets, who were in the relegation zone, beat the eventual champions 3-0 at Vicarage Road in February to end an 18-game winning run, 44-game unbeaten run and 36-game run of scoring. Don't ever call this game predictable. Kaka got nutmegged in Hackney Wick View more on twitterAs ringers go, 2007 Ballon d'Or winner Kaka is not the worst. Lockdown taught us a lotIt's fair to say we all did a lot of learning during lockdown.
Sturm Graz and Rapid Vienna will face each other in the upcoming match in the Austrian Bundesliga. Sturm Graz this season have the following results: 10W, 5D and 14L. Meanwhile Rapid Vienna have 15W, 7D and 7L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring.
Eight out of 11 is quite remarkable. This season City could win the treble, with the FA Cup and Champions League still available, but Guardiola's absurdly high standards mean that it will not be considered a success in his mind because they will almost certainly miss out on the Premier League title. They trail league leaders Liverpool by 22 points heading into the final stretch.
Raheem Sterling has found the back of the net in both of his Champions League appearances against Shakhtar Donetsk at the Etihad, netting in September 2017 and November 2018. Shakhtar DonetskShakhtar Donetsk are unbeaten in their last three away Champions League matches (won two, drew one) - they have never gone four in a row without defeat on the road in the competition. Shakhtar scored twice in the 90th minute of their 3-3 draw with Dinamo Zagreb on matchday four, becoming only the third team to do so in an away Champions League game, along with Ajax at Thun in November 2005 and Spurs at Inter Milan in October 2010.
Given that there is only four points between the pair and given just how tough Cagliari have been to get the better of, Lazio look too short in the early betting. Make no mistake about it, the visitors are a very useful side, but they're not infallible and crucially, haven't been anywhere near as good on the road as they have been at home. On this basis, a bet on 'Cagliari +0.50 Asian Handicap' is a viable option.
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The Austrian set up one goal and scored the other in their 2-0 victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach and was involved in eight of the 12 shots on Gladbach's goal. BAYERN WIN Champions Bayern Munich's 4-0 win at Hertha Berlin was their fourth league victory in a row and proved they will not give up their crown easily - even if they are still missing several key players to injury, including Kingsley Coman, Lucas Hernandez, Javi Martinez and Niklas Suele.
Djokovic responds to Olympic postponement World No 1 Novak Djokovic says he is "sad" that the Olympic Games have been postponed, but it is the "right decision". Federer makes donation in 'challenging times' Roger Federer and his wife Mirka have donated £857,000 (Fr. Swiss families affected by the coronavirus.
It’s only natural that we look towards another stalemate for the correct score prediction too. Three of Tranmere’s last five home games have ended 1-1, and they have averaged 1.54 goals per home game and conceded 1.27 at the other end. Coventry have a similar record of 1.4 goals scored and 1.6 conceded per away game, making a 1-1 draw the natural choice in this instance.
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KEY STATS Adam Webster has scored as many goals in his 15 Premier League games this season (three) as he netted in 44 Championship matches for Bristol City last term. All three of his goals in 2019-20 have come away from home. Brighton are winless in their last 11 Boxing Day games (D4 L7) since a 1-0 win over QPR in 2005.
This will be very easy win for Chelsea today in Premier league and I see here at least 4-0 for them. So, this team is playing very good and they are in very good form. I was watched them at Mestalla, where they are played one more interesting match in who was 2-2 and today, even they will play without Abraham, I see easy win for them. West Ham is reason for this bet - this team is just in very bad shape in last few weeks and I don't see what will change at Stamford Bridge today. This will be easy job for home team.
The game was scheduled to kick off at 1800 local time but had to be pushed back to 1815 after referee Maurizio Mariani discovered the issue during a pre-match pitch inspection. Genoa confirmed on social media that the delay had been called "to re-draw the lines that mark the penalty areas". Eight points separate 13th-placed Verona (22 points) from Genoa in 18th (14), as the visitors look for a win that would lift them out of the relegation zone.
Guardiola opted to play without a recognised striker at Old Trafford, giving De Bruyne and fellow midfielder Bernardo Silva licence to push forward centrally and the move worked perfectly as City scored three times before halftime. We did 15 minutes on it (tactics) in the morning, that's about it," De Bruyne told the British media on the plan to play with a 'false nine' in the first leg.
Bournemouth, apparently in an uncontrollable downward spiral a couple of weeks ago, claimed a second successive win as they beat fellow strugglers Aston Villa despite playing nearly half the match with 10 men. It all means that only three points separate 19th-placed Watford (23 points) and 15th-placed Brighton (26) while even the teams looking safe, such as Crystal Palace (30), Southampton (31), Newcastle United (31) and Burnley (31) will not be resting on their laurels yet.
Liverpool snatch 2-1 victory at Palace through Firmino * Manchester City edge plucky Chelsea at the Etihad (writes through after Manchester City win) By Neil Robinson LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Jose Mourinho began life as Tottenham Hotspur manager with a 3-2 victory at West Ham United on Saturday, while Premier League pacesetters Liverpool won to remain eight points clear and defending champions Manchester City also took three points.
Brest is a big favorite in this game but however I think that they will not have easy task and for me is better option to bet on goals, both teams showed a lot of weakness in defenses recently and that is the main reason for me why I expect that we will see more open game here I expect a lot of chances on both sides and my pick is over 3.5 goals, otherwise these two teams played a lot of efficient matches in the past and I see really good value for this bet and I will not miss it. Good luck!
That it's a Barca lad who's the youngest ever scorer in this competition delights us. The Italians started the day second in Group F and needed to match Borussia Dortmund's result to advance to the knockout phase of the Champions League for the first time since 2011-12. However, Dortmund won 2-1 at home against Slavia Prague to finish second, with Inter coming third. Ansu Fati has made 12 appearances in all competitions for Barcelona, including four starts'It should've ended differently'"Watching that Ansu Fati goal is painful, as it killed us in every way," said Inter boss Antonio Conte.
Similarly, Hoffenheim have also seen plenty of high scoring games recently. Six of Hoffenheim's last eight Bundesliga games have seen over 2.5 goals scored. Six of Hoffenheim's eight Bundesliga home games this season have also seen over 2.5 goals scored.
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FC Juniors will host Floridsdorfer AC for this fixture of the league. I believe, the hosts have better team than their opponent. FC Juniors have an effective attack. However, they have a vulnerable defense. Hosts have a better results in the last matches. They have two consecutive victories. Nevertheless, I think, this will not be an easy task for the hosts. I expect, the visitors will try to provide a strong resistance. Floridsdorfer have fallen into a very poor show. They have three consecutive losses. In any case, the visitors have the motivation to break the poor series because they are constantly getting closer to the relegation zone. My pick - Floridsdorfer to win.
Both teams scored in 67% of Sparta’s and 53% of Heracles matches this season, so we can expect to see goals being scored by both teams this weekend, especially as the hosts haven’t failed to score at home this season and Heracles have no clean sheets away from home and have conceded in both halves of away games in 43% of their trips on the road.
Uefa made it clear that it's up to the Football Associations of the corresponding countries to take the decision and the decision of our FA is to continue," Belarus Football Federation press officer Aleksandr Aleinik told BBC World Service. We had three football players who were suspected with this illness but no positive tests so far. We did consider holding matches behind closed doors but there were cases when fans still came and they gathered round the stadium, so it's not really thought of as a good measure.
The SFL also said that it would have to consider playing future matches behind closed doors in order to finish the season. The five matches in each of the Super League (top tier) and the Challenge League (second tier), which were scheduled from Friday to Sunday, will be postponed to an indefinite date," it said in a statement.
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Opava will play against Slovacko in 1. Liga of Czech Republic on Sunday. Opava are Winless from last four league games and just has one win from last 10 matches in the League. Opava also lost three of the last five home matches. They just scored one two in the last four home matches. While Slovacko Defeated Karvina by 2-0 in the last home game but lost last away game to Liberec by 1-3. Slovacko has quite good away record but Opava are the worst home performed team this season. Slovacko also has dominant head to head record against Opava .
Former Sheffield United midfielder Michael Brown, who spent five years at Bramall Lane from 1999 to 2004, believes the club is in a strong position to attract players in the January window after their solid start to the season. They have already become much more attractive for potential signings," said Brown. They will be thinking 'this club can stay up', whereas in the summer a lot of people were probably thinking 'it is going to be a long season for them'.
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Football clubs relate to the community. So when all this clears up, great; everyone’s well and everyone’s fine. But a major factor in a community could be that their football club’s gone. These clubs need help from somewhere, but I don’t know how it can be done fairly. Nicolas Pepe of Arsenal takes on Gaetano Berardi and Ezgjan Alioski of Leeds United during the FA Cup Third Round match between Arsenal FC and Leeds United at the Emirates Stadium on January 06, 2020Getty Images TALK OF PLAYING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IS PREMATURE I think we’ve jumped into a panic mode already, to be perfectly honest, talking about finishing games behind closed doors.
We are painfully aware that it seems wholly inappropriate to be giving any attention to the prior year's financial results at a time when so many individuals and businesses face worrying and difficult times," said Levy. We are, however, legally required to announce these by 31 March 2020. We are all facing uncertain times both at work and in our personal lives. I have spent nearly 20 years growing this club and there have been many hurdles along the way - none of this magnitude - the Covid-19 pandemic is the most serious of them all.
Setubal versus Sporting is this match for the best league in Portugal where the away team favorite are going to win and so I go with this 2 bet FT. The hosts so far after 15 matches have 19 points and are in the middle. Are coming from a defeat and this will be a tough match despite they play at home. This because the opponent have 26 points and are 5th in the league. Are better team and did 2 wins in the last 3 matches played and away they did 3 wins in the last 4 matches played.
We’re confident that a double chance bet on Swindon is the best way to bet on Saturday’s game and we have predicted a final scoreline of 2-1. The visitors have outplayed their hosts in all departments so far this season but both teams have been scoring and conceding goals on a regular basis which is why we have backed a final scoreline of 2-1.
