O São Paulo terá uma sequência importante na volta do Brasileirão após a parada por conta da Copa do Mundo. Dos quatro próximos jogos, o Tricolor terá pela frente o líder Flamengo, clássico contra o Corinthians e confrontos com Grêmio e Cruzeiro, que também estão na parte de cima da tabela.
Os jogadores são-paulinos estão cientes da importância dessa sequência. O volante Hudson, por exemplo, disse ter “noção da responsabilidade” das partidas. Já o lateral-esquerdo Reinaldo quer o Tricolor “roubando pontos fora de casa” no retorno do Brasileirão.
– São jogos muito importantes, é importante somar pontos, porque são adversários diretos. Fazendo uma boa sequência contra esses times, mesmo jogando fora de casa, vamos nos manter na parte de cima. Temos a noção da responsabilidade desses jogos – afirmou Hudson.
– Com certeza (será decisiva), foi um começo de Brasileiro muito bom. Espero que a gente mantenha a intensidade para sair com resultado positivo. É uma sequência difícil, mas vai ser difícil para quem enfrentar o São Paulo. Estamos focados e tenho certeza de que vamos conseguir manter essa meta de roubar pontos fora de casa e fazer os três pontos em casa – disse Reinaldo.
O São Paulo é o terceiro colocado do Brasileirão, com 23 pontos, quatro a menos que o Flamengo. O Grêmio tem 20 e aparece em quinto lugar, enquanto o Cruzeiro soma 18 pontos e está em oitavo. Já o Corinthians tem 16 e ocupa a décima colocação.
Na sequência dos próximos quatro jogos, o São Paulo visita o Flamengo, recebe o Corinthians e depois visita o Grêmio e o Cruzeiro. Depois disso, o Tricolor tem partida pela Sul-Americana: em casa, contra o Colón.
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Eoin Morgan will captain England for the first time in career when he faces his former countrymen, Ireland, in a one-off ODI in Dublin next week
ESPNcricinfo staff20-Aug-2011Eoin Morgan will captain England for the first time in career when he faces his former countrymen, Ireland, in a one-off ODI in Dublin next week.Morgan, who did not play in England’s sensational World Cup defeat against Ireland in Bangalore due to injury, will lead a new-look 13-man squad including several up-and-coming members of the England Lions, after the selectors decided to rest a number of its senior players ahead of the five-match ODI series against India later this month,Leicestershire’s James Taylor, Yorkshire’s Jonathan Bairstow and Durham’s Ben Stokes and Scott Borthwick all recently featured in the England Lions’ ODI series win over Sri Lanka A. None of them has yet been selected in a senior international, but with Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, James Anderson and Stuart Broad among the key absentees, a draft of debutants can be expected in the fixture.”The squad we’re looking to take to Ireland involves a number of exciting young England players as we rest several players currently involved in the npower Test series against India,” said the national selector, Geoff Miller.”By resting several players that have played international cricket since the start of the summer the opportunity has arisen for a number of talented up and coming players to continue their development on the international stage. We know from previous encounters that Ireland are a tough ODI outfit and we’ll be fielding a very strong England side that will need to play well.”We’re also presented with the opportunity to provide Eoin Morgan with further leadership experience and I know he is very much looking forward to assuming the captaincy and developing his leadership credentials while in charge of a young England squad.”One senior player who will making the trip is Jonathan Trott, who has recovered from the shoulder injury he sustained during the second Test at Trent Bridge, and is expected to be fit to play. His replacement in the third and fourth Tests, Ravi Bopara, also makes the trip, as do Steven Finn and Graham Onions, the two unused fast bowlers from the Oval Test squad.Last week it was confirmed that Andy Flower, the team director, would also be missing the trip to Ireland. He will link up with the squad ahead of the Twenty20 international against India on August 31. In his absence, England’s assistant coach Richard Halsall will take charge.Morgan, who is England’s official Twenty20 vice-captain, becomes the fourth England captain of the 2011 summer, following on from the Test skipper Andrew Strauss, the regular ODI captain Cook, and Stuart Broad, the Twenty20 captain.It promises to be a tough baptism against an Ireland side who came uncomfortably close to winning their last bilateral fixture against England, at Belfast in 2009. That match, which took place in the immediate aftermath of the Ashes victory at The Oval, finished with England sneaking over the line by three runs, only after Morgan, fielding as a substitute at long-on, parried a Trent Johnston six back into play with one ball of the match remaining.Squad Eoin Morgan (capt), Jonathan Bairstow, Ravi Bopara, Scott Borthwick, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter, Graham Onions, Samit Patel, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, Jonathan Trott, Chris Woakes
Chris Tremlett is a man whose sheer physical presence at Cardiff on Monday translated into the most telling spell of his career to date
Andrew Miller at Lord's01-Jun-2011
Chris Tremlett routed Sri Lanka on the final day in Cardiff•Getty Images
At 6’6″, Stuart Broad cannot have been dismissed as a “midget” on too many occasions in his international career, but he could well be made to look like the runt of the litter if, as expected, England field the tallest pace trio in Test history at Lord’s this week. The lanky Steven Finn is standing by to replace the injured James Anderson, but towering above all of his colleagues will be the bona fide beefcake, Chris Tremlett, a man whose sheer physical presence at Cardiff on Monday translated into the most telling spell of his career to date.There’s only a matter of inches separating the heights of England’s three tallest seamers, but with legs like tree-trunks and shoulders that can appear to be the width of the pitch as he bears down on his opponents, Tremlett’s physique has more in common with brick privies than the beanpoles that his team-mates can occasionally resemble. At the age of 29, and four Tests into his second coming as an international cricketer, he has at last found the self-confidence to match his natural aptitude for fast bowling.”Naturally I’m a pretty wide-built guy and I’m a pretty intimidating character to face,” Tremlett told reporters at Lord’s, two days after his spell of 4 for 40 in ten overs had secured a stunning England victory by an innings and 14 runs in the first Test. “I guess I’ve always been a believer in letting the ball do the talking, but in the last couple of years, I’ve become more confident and more aggressive on the field. Being six foot whatever you always have a slight advantage bowling at any batsman.”It took a well-documented shift from the home comforts of Hampshire (where his father Tim is director of cricket) to Surrey for Tremlett to prove he was ready to resume his Test career. However, the impact he has made in his second coming has been staggering. From his five-wicket haul on the first day of the Perth Test to his Ashes-clinching dismissal of Michael Beer at Sydney, he has been in the thick of the action for England, and was at it again in Cardiff this week, when he scalped both Sri Lanka’s openers in the space of eight deliveries to make possible their sensational collapse to 82 all out.Such imposing performances had been anticipated when Tremlett made his Test debut against India four years ago. However, despite some encouraging performances – particularly at Trent Bridge where he claimed six wickets in the match including 3 for 12 to delay India’s victory charge on the fifth morning – there was a certain something lacking from his armoury. “I did try to be aggressive but I guess it was forced a bit, to be honest,” he recalled. “I tried to be someone I wasn’t … it was difficult to be nasty.”He’s finding it rather easier now. As many of the great West Indian fast bowlers would testify, verbal aggression is not a requisite to Test success – witness the silent menace of Andy Roberts, Joel Garner and Curtly Ambrose, to name but three. However, in the opinion of his former captain at Hampshire, Shane Warne, Tremlett’s body language betrayed him as a soft touch, a charge the man himself did not dispute.”I won’t disagree with Warney,” he said. “I was a bit timid at times, but the older I’ve got, with more confidence and age, being more aggressive comes more naturally to me, and I guess my competitiveness has gone up, certainly since moving to Surrey. I perhaps held back a bit at Hampshire. These days, I don’t think about it too much – it just happens.”Nevertheless, it was Warne who came up with the one piece of advice that Tremlett has carried into the rest of his career. “If it wasn’t going well for me, for example, bowling no-balls, he said ‘just find a way’. That’s really stuck with me in my career. Don’t look for excuses, keep going and somehow find a way to get the job done.”He did that and more in Cardiff, in a bowling performance that scattered Sri Lanka’s batting in less than 25 overs all told, and left their coach, Stuart Law, ruefully contemplating the challenge of “getting forward to half-volleys that hit you in the chest.” “In the first innings I tried to get it up a little bit but my execution wasn’t quite as good,” said Tremlett. “In the second innings I did get it right, and my rhythm felt a lot better.”Had it not been for Anderson’s side strain, Tremlett might not have been unleashed with the new ball for that decisive spell, but having used the conditions to perfection, it might be a while before England strip him of the honour. “I maybe offer a bit more with the extra bounce you get with a new ball, so I do enjoy bowling with it,” he said. “But I still feel I can play whatever role, new ball or change. I’m pretty flexible on that.”The wicket at Cardiff was particularly slow, so it will be interesting to see what it’s like at Lord’s and whether we’ll go for our shorter bowlers. But myself, Finny and Broad always have that natural advantage over those guys that are 6ft. The short ball is a great weapon – and playing against this team, they are not used to it at times. It could be a plan we’ll go with, but we’ll assess that on the day. It’s something to think of.”The overall impression is of a cricketer who has found his niche. Jonathan Trott, England’s new-crowned player of the year, admitted it took him until his century in the Boxing Day Test to truly feel as though he belonged in the side, and while Tremlett was careful not to tempt fate given his history of injuries, he too admitted he feels at ease in the set-up, and confident of his worth.”The England management know what they’re going to get – whereas maybe a couple of years ago, when I was bit more inconsistent, they didn’t know which Chris Tremlett was going to turn up on the day,” he said. “I guess anything can happen with injuries as a bowler, so I’m not taking anything for granted, and I have had an injury history which will always stick with me in some regards, but it’s great to have had an injury-free year and hopefully that will continue.”
Tottenham Hotspur insider John Wenham has suggested that there is set to be more talk over the signing of West Brom goalkeeper Sam Johnstone over the coming weeks, before an offer is officially made.
The Lowdown: Johnstone wants to join Spurs
The 29-year-old’s current contract at the Hawthorns is set to expire at the end of the season, and Baggies manager Steve Bruce has admitted that it’s likely the club will allow him to leave when his deal ends, sparking interest from plenty of potential Premier League suitors, one of those being the Lilywhites.
Football Insider revealed just last month that the shot-stopper is claimed to have told friends that he wants to seal a switch to north London this summer, and with Spurs reportedly having no plans to convert Pierluigi Gollini’s loan deal into a permanent one, Wenham is expecting talks between the player and club to majorly increase ahead of the end of May.
When asked for an update on Johnstone’s transfer situation, Wenham told Football Insider: “Tottenham can’t officially approach him until 30 May.
“I think in the days before then and certainly the days after we will hear a lot more talk and have a much clearer picture of what is going on.
“We know Tottenham are very interested, he ticks a lot of boxes and it lines up with Gollini going back to Atalanta at the end of the season.
“I have always said I would rate the signing as he is a Premier League quality keeper coming in on a free.”
The Verdict: Competition for Lloris
The three-cap international has enjoyed a hugely successful spell with the Midlands outfit since arriving in a £6.5m move from Manchester United four years ago, where he’s made 167 club appearances and kept a total of 45 clean sheets during that time, as per Transfermarkt.
Last campaign, Johnstone, who has been hailed a “fantastic” player by Sky Sports pundit Kevin Phillips, picked up both the Albion’s Players’ Player of the Season and Supporters’ Player of the Season awards, showing just how much of a positive influence he can have on a team.
If Antonio Conte does manage to bring his 6 foot 2 transfer target to the capital in the coming months, he would be able to provide great competition for current Spurs number one Hugo Lloris and more than has the potential to take over the jersey from him once the time comes for the Tottenham captain to hang up his boots.
In other news… a Sky Sports pundit has told Spurs to completely forget about trying to sign one of their ‘unbelievable’ transfer targets.
Sunderland could have striker Nathan Broadhead available for tomorrow’s crunch League One play-off semi-final second leg away at Sheffield Wednesday.
What’s the latest?
The Black Cats ran out 1-0 victors against Darren Moore’s men on Friday evening, although they will feel as though their aggregate lead should be more going into their trip to Hillsborough after a dominant display.
Following the match, Sunderland boss Alex Neil claimed, as quoted by the Sunderland Echo: “He [Broadhead] will have a chance for Monday. Unfortunately, tonight was too soon.
“We will assess him over the next few days and make a call.
“Tonight he wasn’t ready. It’s tough as he is a good player but we have other good players.”
Supporters will be hopeful
Although Broadhead’s availability isn’t 100% confirmed, the Sunderland faithful will be hopeful that the 24-year-old will at least make the squad that travels to south Yorkshire tomorrow.
The Everton-loanee has had an excellent campaign for the Wearside outfit, scoring 13 goals in 25 appearances although injuries have prevented the Welshman from making a serious impact at the Stadium of Light.
With this season being their fourth consecutive campaign in the third tier, Neil’s side arguably have their best chance of finally escaping League One since suffering back-to-back relegations in 2017 and 2018.
The Black Cats did manage to reach the play-off final in their first season in League One back in 2019, although victorious Charlton Athletic were deserved winners on the day.
Despite having the lead on aggregate, their advantage is small and will certainly be tested by a Sheffield Wednesday side who boast the best home form in League One this term.
Moreover, Sunderland lost 3-0 on their previous visit to Hillsborough earlier this season, although that was under their previous manager Lee Johnson.
Therefore, having extra firepower available in Broadhead will be a major boost for Neil’s side’s chances of making it to Wembley where they will face either Wycombe Wanderers or MK Dons for a place in the Championship on 21 May.
AND in other news: Neil can blow SAFC supporters away with £3.4k-p/w gem who was made “in a laboratory”
Sky Sports have now shared a major transfer update on Tottenham Hotspur’s pursuit of exciting Championship starlet Djed Spence.
The Lowdown: Paratici bids made…
The 21-year-old, currently shining on loan at Nottingham Forest from parent club Middlesbrough, has been at the centre of Spurs’ interest in recent months.
Antonio Conte is reportedly keen to bring in a right-wing-back, and while Spence may well be one more for the future, the Lilywhites have been determined to land him in recent months.
Tottenham chief Fabio Paratici allegedly lodged multiple January bids in an attempt to bring Spence to the Premier League, as per ESPN, with their interest continuing long past winter.
Credible source Jack Rosser of The Evening Standard backs that the north Londoners are set to battle with rivals Arsenal over the homegrown ace’s summer signing.
The Latest: Sky share big update…
Sky Sports reporter Florian Plettenberg, taking to Twitter, now claims that Spence has an ‘offer’ from Spurs – but they aren’t the only ones making approaches.
There are as many as five clubs vying for the defender, including Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich, but it is believed that Spence has his eye on one move in particular.
Plettenberg explained: “Update Spence: Selling price is €12-15m! It is said that he has got 5 offers. City, Arsenal & Tottenham are among the interested clubs. Djed’s dream is to play for #MUFC one day. He is a fan! Been told there should be still a loose contact with FC Bayern.”
The Verdict: Get it done…
The exciting rising star has been a revelation in England’s second tier and could leave for just £13 million – not to mention his signing would go some way to solving Spurs’ homegrown quota crisis.
Despite his tender age, Spence has proved a ‘massive player’ for Forest over 2021/2022, as claimed by Sky Sports pundit Jobi McAnuff.His WhoScored stats certainly back just how brilliant he has been this season, ranking among Forest’s top-four performers in the Championship going by average match rating.Out of Steve Cooper’s current crop, only forward Keinan Davis has completed more successful take-ons per 90 than Spence domestically (WhoScored) – backing the top talent’s proven attacking threat as an effective RWB.His quality is evident, but given his interesting in moving to Old Trafford and all the fierce competition, it appears Paratici faces a tough task to get the deal done.In other news: Source: Tottenham edge closer to ‘top signing’, he now really wants to join Conte! Find out more here.
Liverpool have been boosted by the news that Villarreal key player Gerard Moreno could miss both Champions League semi-final clashes with the Reds.
The Lowdown: Liverpool one step from Paris
Jurgen Klopp’s men overcame Benfica in the quarter-finals, following an exciting 6-4 win on aggregate, booking their place in the semis in the process.
It is Villarreal who Liverpool are up against next, following their surprise win over Bayern Munich, with a place in the final in Paris now within touching distance.
With the first leg at Anfield arriving on April 27th, a key injury update has emerged from Spain.
The Latest: Moreno could miss out
Taking to Twitter on Monday, journalist David Lynch shared confirmation that Moreno has picked up a hamstring problem that could rule him out of both legs of the tie:
“Villarreal confirm striker Gerard Moreno has suffered a hamstring strain. No timescale but that doesn’t bode well for his chances of facing Liverpool.”
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The Verdict: Undoubted boost for Reds
Moreno has arguably become one of Villarreal’s most important attacking players, so the idea of him missing both legs is undoubtedly a positive for Liverpool.
He has scored nine goals in 14 La Liga starts this season, as well as picking up the all-important assist for Samuel Chukwueze’s goal away to Bayern earlier this month.
It is worth stressing that Moreno hasn’t officially been ruled out yet but the current news suggests Liverpool’s hopes of reaching the Champions League final have been boosted.
In other news, one Liverpool player has been backed to leave this summer. Find out who it is here.
Matthew Mott will have to choose between coaching New South Wales or Kochi if he gets a job with the new IPL franchise. Mott went to India “five or six weeks ago” but said he was still waiting to hear back from the organisation.”It’s just wait and see,” he said in the Sydney Morning Herald. “But it’s getting close to the season [starting in Australia] and you have to draw the line somewhere.”Mott spent two seasons as an assistant to John Buchanan at Kolkata, but the demands of the IPL sides have changed and he has been told by New South Wales he won’t be able to juggle both roles. The Australian domestic campaign starts in October and the Blues are already deep into pre-season training.”Motty has indicated to me that he wants to go through the interview process with Kochi,” David Gilbert, New South Wales’ chief executive, said. “I respect that. But if he is offered the job and decides to accept it, then he would have to resign from the role here. Motty realises that something has to give. This is a full-time job here at Cricket NSW.”Mott has one year remaining on his deal with the Blues, who he has coached for three years. He was interviewed for the New Zealand job last year but stayed in Sydney.
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Wolves could potentially make a summer move for Marseille and Croatia centre-back Duje Caleta-Car, according to journalist Pete O’Rourke.
The Lowdown: No centre-backs added
Wanderers ended up having a quiet January transfer window, with no marquee additions coming in and Adama Traore joining Barcelona on loan.
Bruno Lage was linked with bringing in a centre-back in order to provide him with more depth in that area, but he will now rely on the likes of Max Kilman, Conor Coady and Romain Saiss staying fit.
It would be a surprise if a defender wasn’t signed in the summer, though, and a new update suggests that it’s a position which could be addressed.
The Latest: Wolves backed to sign Caleta-Car
Speaking to GiveMeSport, O’Rourke claimed that Caleta-Car could again be a target for Wolves, with the summer looking more likely for a move than January did.
The journalist stated: “I think maybe in the summertime, it could be a more realistic option that Caleta-Car could come back onto Wolves’ radar and be a more serious target than for January.”
The Verdict: Strong summer acquisition
Caleta-Car is a formidable defender who has become a key figure for both Marseille and Croatia, highlighting why he could be a good prospective signing for Wolves.
The 25-year-old has a hugely impressive 91.8% pass completion rate in Ligue 1 this season across 12 appearances, whereas Coady tops the pile with 88% for Wanderers in the Premier League.
Caleta-Car is also averaging 1.2 tackles and 2.1 clearances per game, showing that he is both a class act on the ball and a dominant figure out of possession, so it’s refreshing to hear that the Old Gold are set to maintain their interest in him.
In other news, Tim Spiers has provided a key Wolves injury update. Read more here.