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Sucessor de Rogério Ceni no São Paulo, o goleiro Denis terá de se desdobrar para mudar o cenário do Tricolor no Allianz Parque: foram sete gols sofridos nos dois jogos disputados no estádio. Todos com o ex-arqueiro são-paulino embaixo das traves.Para os palmeirenses, as lembranças do Choque-Rei em casa são ótimas. Em março de 2015, Robinho abriu o placar com golaço do meio-campo para a vitória alviverde por 3 a 0. Rafael Marques fez dois. Em junho, nova goleada palmeirense por 4 a 0 (veja detalhes abaixo).

Agora, é a vez dos dois times se reencontrarem no Allianz Parque. Se o ex-capitão são-paulino Rogério Ceni levou sete, Denis não teme goleadas. Pelo contrário, se apoia no empate por 1 a 1 com o Corinthians, na Arena, em Itaquera, pelo Campeonato Brasileiro, para ficar tranquilo quanto a partida desta quarta-feira, às 21h45, no Allianz Parque.

– Claro que o jogo é difícil. Mas vou lembrar que tivemos um clássico contra o Corinthians, logo depois da (eliminação do São Paulo da) Libertadores, a maioria das pessoas já dava o jogo como perdido, e fomos lá e saímos com o empate, merecedores da vitória. O que temos de fazer é lutar, se empenhar, para fazer um grande jogo – disse Denis, em coletiva de imprensa.

No entanto, é justamente na Arena do Corinthians onde Denis tem retrospecto ruim: sofreu 12 dos 14 gols já marcados pelo Alvinegro no São Paulo desde a inauguração.Cabe a Denis repetir a boa atuação da última partida do São Paulo em Itaquera para tentar parar o líder do Brasileirão.

Enquanto o Palmeiras tem folga de três pontos na ponta da tabela, o São Paulo, em 12, está a apenas quatro do rebaixamento, não vence há três jogos e se fechou no CT da Barra Funda por uma semana depois de ter o local invadido por torcedores. A crise, de acordo com o camisa 1, não entra em campo.

– Todo clube tem seu ponto fraco. Cabe a nós, acharmos o deles. Achar alguma limitação. Estamos estudando o Palmeiras – seguiu Denis.

Para seguir no topo e começar a sequência mais complicada do ano (Grêmio, Flamengo e Corinthians são os próximos adversários), o Palmeiras pode contar com uma ajuda especial: artilheiro do Brasileirão, ao lado de Sassá e Robinho, com 10 gols, Gabriel Jesus deve estar, ao menos, à disposição de Cuca.

OS SETE GOLS
Robinho
Rogério Ceni sai jogando errado e o volante, do meio de campo, domina no peito, deixa a bola quicar e acerta um belo chute por cobertura. Gol rendeu até placa dois dias depois do jogo.

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Rafael Marques
Dudu faz jogada pela esquerda e toca rasteiro para o meio da área. Robinho passa pela bola e ela chega até Rafael Marques. Ele ajeita e bate cruzado de perna direita.

Rafael Marques
Novamente o atacante. Depois do cruzamento de Zé Roberto da esquerda, Rafael pega de primeira de perna direita e fecha a goleada em jogo válido pelo Paulistão do ano passado.

Leandro Pereira
Pelo Brasileirão-2015, Egídio toca rasteiro da esquerda e o atacante pega de primeira. A bola bate em Souza, Ceni toca nela, mas não evita o gol.

Victor Ramos
Robinho cobra escanteio da direita na cabeça de Victor Ramos. Ele escora no canto direito baixo de Rogério.

Rafael Marques
Em contra-ataque, Arouca toca para Egídio na esquerda. Ele dá passe longo rasteiro para Rafael Marques, que toca de pé direito para aumentar o placar. É o terceiro gol de Rafael Marques em dois jogos contra o São Paulo no Allianz Parque.

Cristaldo
Outra assistência de Egídio. O lateral cruza da intermediária na cabeça de Cristaldo, que havia entrado há pouco tempo na partida. O argentino finaliza, Rogério toca na bola, mas não evita o quarto gol do Palmeiras.

OS TRÊS GOLEIROS MAIS VAZADOS NO ALLIANZ
Rogério Ceni
Levou sete gols em duas partidas no Allianz. Pelo Paulistão do ano passado, foram três e no Brasileirão-2015 outros quatro gols.

Diego Cavalieri
Revelado pelo Palmeiras, ele esteve três vezes no estádio e sofreu seis gols. Foram nos Brasileirões de 2015 e 2016, além da semifinal da Copa do Brasil do ano passado.

Ruan
O arqueiro do Sampaio Corrêa foi vazado cinco vezes na derrota por 5 a 1 na Copa do Brasil do ano passado. É a maior goleada do Allianz.

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Plenty of Aston Villa fans have waxed lyrical over young midfielder Aaron Ramsey on social media following his display in the FA Youth Cup on Wednesday evening.

The 18-year-old signed his first professional contract at Villa Park just last week and netted twice against Brighton & Hove Albion in a 3-0 win.

Ramsey, younger brother of first-team midfielder Jacob, was captaining the side and netted a brace after half time to ensure Villa booked their place in the fifth round.

Kaine Kesler-Hayden had opened the scoring with just under 20 minutes remaining, with Ramsey scoring twice in the space of six minutes to seal the win at Villa Park.

Villa fans react

Aston Villa provided live updates of the clash with the Seagulls on their official Twitter page on Wednesday evening.

This is what these Villa supporters had to say following Ramsey’s second of the game, with one describing the midfielder as ‘unbelievable’.

“What is happening”

Credit: @OcBen

“our future is so good omg”

Credit: @tiwari0216

“WOW!”

Credit: @Billiam40

“He’s unbelievable”

Credit: @AVFCsean_

“Get him in first team right now”

Credit: @camavfc__

“He’s motm by far tonight. Been class.”

Credit: @luckysalt

“He’s actually lit good lord”

Credit: @matty__jeff

In other news: Villa ready to listen to offers to 24y/o star, find out more here. 

Finance football guru Kieran Maguire has dropped a claim on the potential takeover of Newcastle United by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) group.

This comes after the news emerged (via NUFC) that both Allan Saint-Maximin and Miguel Almiron would be out until April after suffering knee and groin injuries respectively, adding to the already injured Callum Wilson in what is a devastating blow to their forward line.

Speaking to Football Insider, Maguire has claimed that any potential buyers would have been ‘discouraged’ and ‘uncomfortable’ with the injury news, as it means that Steve Bruce’s team are more likely to be relegated from the Premier League down to the EFL Championship because of it, which in turn would mean that they would be more reluctant to pay the asking price set by Mike Ashley:

“The price that somebody is going to pay will be determined to a certain extent by where the club is going to be next season.

“If you have those three players injured, any interested party is going to be discouraged.

“If Mike Ashley says, ‘it’s £300m or nothing’, they are going to say ‘nothing’ because this is increasing the chances of relegation. Newcastle in the Championship are worth less money.

“There’s no guarantee they will bounce back straight away. They have done on the last two occasions but if they do spend two or three seasons in the Championship, why pay £300m when you can buy Derby County for £60m?

“These injuries and Newcastle’s poor form recently has got potential bidders feeling uncomfortable because they don’t exactly know what they’re buying into.”

Newcastle injuries a big blow

For the North East club to lose arguably their three best players going forward to injury is a big blow to their hopes of surviving in the top flight.

As Maguire suggests, the Magpies being down in the Championship may be less attractive to any potential bidders, including the KSA consortium, and so it may result in a stand-off in terms of the kind of money that Ashley would demand for them to pay to take over.

In other news, find out which ‘outstanding’ talent Lee Clark has urged NUFC to sign here!

As Pedro Goncalves gears up for a potential £50m move to one of Europe’s top clubs, Wolves will be living with regret at what could have been.

The Portuguese ace was key man the year Wolves’ U23 side won Premier League 2 but since then, not a huge number of their academy players have been granted regular first-team opportunities. Goncalves only played once, for instance.

One of the fortunate young players to be given their chance is Max Kilman. The former Futsal player has become a valuable option both at left-back and in the centre of defence for Nuno Espirito Santo, but with defensive problems rife this season, he could be searching for new players in the summer.

Wolves may have kept three clean sheets in their last four games, but before that, they had kept just one clean sheet in the league since October.

Though, if Nuno and Jeff Shi do look for other options in the summer, they could do worse than look at their academy; namely Lewis Richards.

The 19-year-old has featured among the substitutes in five Premier League matches without ever earning his senior debut. Yet, that should change in the not too distant future.

Richards earned a new contract with the club last year and has since made promising strides in the U23s, playing nine times in Premier League 2.

He saved what was arguably his best performance of the campaign for a win over Crystal Palace last weekend. A centre-half by trade, he plays very similarly to club captain Conor Coady, and he demonstrated that in the victory against Palace.

Richards claimed an assist for Theo Corbeanu’s goal, a moment the Wolves’ website described as follows: “Lewis Richards channelled his inner Conor Coady with a 40-yard raking ball out of defence and straight to the boot of Corbeanu.” What followed was the winger firing a deflected shot into the back of the net.

Richards is clearly conformable on the ball, and like Coady, he is a technical defender.

After winning the club’s Academy Player of the Year in 2018/19, Kevin Thelwell said: “He’s a very technical player who’s got the ability to pass the ball and start off play and help us to build out from the back, but also then very capable physically.”

Further praise was heaped on Richards after he signed his new contract back in August. Scott Sellars spoke highly of the teenager, commenting: “We try to reward success and he certainly comes under that bracket and deserves it. He’s always had potential. We saw it as a 15-year-old when we took him from Brentford. Now he’s obviously growing up.”

Richards has long been tipped for a bright future and now it’s up to Nuno to extract his immense promise. He likes his defenders to be able to play out from the back so he certainly suits the club’s way of playing.

It surely won’t be too long before we see him earn first-team minutes.

AND in other news, Forget Jota: Wolves should regret losing 14-goal star Rob Edwards called “outstanding”

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A desconfiança predomina tanto nas Laranjeiras quanto na Toca da Raposa, neste início de temporada. Mas o pessimismo não entrou em campo na noite desta quarta-feira no Mineirão. Em uma partida movimentada e recheada de emoção, o Fluminense venceu o Cruzeiro por 4 a 3, com um show de Diego Souza – autor de três gols-, e seguiu vivo na Primeira Liga.

Derrotado na estreia pelo Atlético-PR em Volta Redonda, o Fluminense, apesar de visitante, tinha a mesma necessidade da vitória que o rival mineiro. Só que a ambição cruzeirense começou a tomar forma logo aos 4 minutos. De Arrascaeta tabelou com Sánchez Miño, recebeu de volta e rolou para Rafael Silva. O atacante passou por Diego Cavalieri e estufou as redes.

Sem Fred, suspenso por cinco jogos no torneio, o Tricolor depositava suas esperanças em Diego Souza. E foi ele quem acabou com a vantagem celeste. Na primeira tentativa, buscou o cruzamento para a área. Porém, o braço de Fabiano encontrou a bola, e o árbitro marcou pênalti. Na cobrança, paradinha e goleiro fora da foto: 1 a 1.

O empate não abateu a Raposa, que só não marcou pouco depois porque os zagueiros Dedé e, principalmente, Manoel, perderam oportunidades debaixo da meta de Diego Cavalieri, após falta lançada na área.

E, se os defensores jogam fora as chegadas ao ataque, Diego Souza, do outro lado, não perdoa. Em uma arrancada, Wellington Silva foi até a linha de fundo e tocou para trás. O camisa 10 bateu firme e guardou.

Aos 37, o meia artilheiro virou garçom e serviu Gustavo Scarpa, que soltou a bomba para ampliar: 3 a 1. Antes da ida para o intervalo, Rafael Silva provocou um “flashback” na cabeça do torcedor e diminuiu, desta vez de cabeça.

O jogo quente pelou a cabeça de Deivid, que acabou expulso e deixou o Cruzeiro órfão de seu treinador assim que a bola rolou para a etapa final.

Mesmo assim, os anfitriões buscaram o prejuízo. Aos 20, Élber avançou e cruzou para De Arrascaeta desviar para o gol.

Cinco minutos depois, Fábio derrubou Felipe Amorim dentro da área. Nova penalidade, que também foi convertida por Diego Souza.

A pressão dos donos da casa não foi suficiente e o Tricolor deixou o gramado com a primeira vitória na competição. De quebra, pulou da lanterna para a vice-liderança, atrás do Atlético-PR no saldo de gols. O Furacão ainda joga na rodada contra o Criciúma, na próxima semana. Embalado, o Flu faz clássico com o Flamengo, domingo, em Brasília.

FICHA TÉCNICA
CRUZEIRO 3 X 4 FLUMINENSE

Local: Estádio Mineirão, em Belo Horizonte (MG)
Data-Hora: 17/2/2016 – 19h30 (horário de Brasília)
Árbitro: Francisco Paula Silva Neto (RS)
Auxiliares: Rafael Alves (RS) e Elio Nepomuceno (RS)
Público/renda:21.118pagantes/ R$ 400.748,00
Cartões amarelos:Fabrício (CRU); Marcos Junior, Giovanni, Diego Cavalieri e Pierre (FLU)
Gols: Rafael Silva (4’/1°T) (1-0), Diego Souza (28’/1°T) (1-1), Diego Souza (34’/1°T) (1-2), Gustavo Scarpa (37’/1°T) (1-3), Rafael Silva (43’/1°T) (2-3), De Arrascaeta (20’/2°T) (3-3) e Diego Souza (25’/2°T) (3-4)
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CRUZEIRO: Fábio, Fabiano, Manoel, Dedé e Fabrício; Henrique, Ariel Cabral (Pisano, 32’/2°T), De Arrascaeta e Sánchez Miño (Élber, aos 10’/2°T); Alisson e Rafael Silva (Vinícius Araújo, aos 38’/2°T) -Técnico: Deivid

FLUMINENSE: Diego Cavalieri, Wellington Silva, Henrique, Marlon e Giovanni; Pierre, Douglas (Edson, aos 43’/2°T), Gustavo Scarpa (Osvaldo, intervalo) e Marcos Junior (Felipe Amorim, aos 18’/2°T); Cícero e Diego Souza – Técnico: Eduardo Baptista

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As soon as he came on, you just knew Folarin Balogun was going to make his mark.

The 19-year-old once again stepped on to the pitch for Arsenal as a second-half substitute, this time replacing Eddie Nketiah in the Gunners’ Europa League clash against Dundalk.

The teenager made his presence felt from the off, showing incredible touch and strength to link up the play, and he got himself an assist when he saw Joe Willock fire home from his set-up.

And then came the moment that Arsenal fans probably knew was coming, coming in off the left flank and bending one into the bottom corner from Nicolas Pepe’s pass.

With Balogun’s contract coming to an end next summer, there is of course a big concern about what the future holds for him, but Mikel Arteta moved to play down those fears.

Speaking in his post-match press conference, Arteta said: “Well, we’re having some discussions with the player he knows we want to retain him at the club. We know that the length of his contract at the moment is an issue, but we’re trying to resolve it in the best possible way. We want him to stay he said to me he wants to stay at the club, so hopefully we can reach an agreement and extend his contract.”

But the only way Arteta can truly convince Balogun that his long-term future still lies at Arsenal, is by playing him in the more meaningful games.

It’s all well and good playing him in the Europa League when Arsenal are playing against far inferior opponents and have cake-walked their group. It’s another to give him significant minutes in the competitions that matter the most, like the Premier League.

And it seemed like a lot of Arsenal fans agreed on just how talented Balogun really is.

With Gabriel Martinelli still slowly working his way back to fitness after considerable time away through injury, Balogun surely deserves the chance to play in the Premier League.

كشفت تقارير صحفية مغربية، أسباب فسخ نادي النصر السعودي تعاقده مع الدولي عبد الرزاق حمدالله مهاجم الفريق الأول.

وكان نادي النصر السعودي قد فسخ تعاقده مع عبد الرزاق حمد لله مهاجم الفريق، لسبب قانوني يخص الاتحاد الدولي لكرة القدم “فيفا”. (طالع التفاصيل من هنـــا)

ونقلا عن موقع “le 360 سبور” المغربي، فإن إدارة النصر سئمت من تصرفات عبد الرزاق حمدالله خاصة في الأشهر القليلة الماضية.

وأضاف الموقع من خلال مصادر مقربة لإدارة النادي السعودي، أن حمد الله تظاهر أكثر من مرة بالإصابة في مباريات حاسمة، كما أنه يسافر إلى المغرب، وسط الموسم الكروي ودون فترة التوقف الدولي.

وأوضح أن القشة التي قسمت ظهر البعير، بين اللاعب والنصر، هي تورطه في تسجيل يتضمن ألفاظ نابية تجاه مسؤول نصراوي، إلى جانب سخريته من حصة تدريبية برمجها فريقه على الساعة التاسعة صباحًا.

علق سمير كمونة لاعب الأهلي السابق ومنتخب مصر على اختيارات كارلوس كيروش المدير الفني للفراعنة في المعسكرات الماضية.

وقال كمونة في تصريحات لبرنامج “بوكس تو بوكس” عبر فضائية “ETC”: “عدم انضمام كناريا لمعسكر كأس العرب رغم انضمامه لآخر معسكر، كان اختبارًا تحسبًا لأي ظروف، ربما تكون رؤية للمساعدين”.

وتابع: “كيروش يمكن أن يكون مستمعًا جيدًا للمساعدين، ولكن الرأي الآخير يعود له في النهاية، يختار المستوى الأفضل للاعب من الناحية الفنية والبدنية قبل النظر لأي شيء آخر”.

وأضاف: “أفشة لاعب رائع، يربك حسابات أي مدرب في كل مباراة، يحوّل دائمًا طريقة اللعب بتحركاته بالكرة أو بدونها، وهو ما يميزه عن أي لاعب آخر، بالنسبة لي، لا أفهم لماذا استبعد كيروش أفشة؟، أرى أنه لا يمكن أن يجلس بديلًا أو يٌستبعد في بعض المباريات”.

طالع أيضا.. سمير كمونة: قائمة منتخب مصر لـ كأس العرب ينقصها ثنائي الأهلي وبيراميدز

وواصل: “عصام الحضري يقوم باختيارات الحُراس بدقة في منتخب مصر، وتابعته منذ أن كان في سيراميكا ومستواه وتعامله مع الحُراس رائع، وفي بطولة العرب قد يشارك جميع الحراس من أجل اكتساب الخبرات قبل بطولة كأس الأمم الإفريقية، وبالنسبة لي محمد صبحي سيكون عصام الحضري الجديد”.

وأردف: “عمر كمال عبد الواحد وأحمد رفعت من اللاعبين المميزين، جميع اللاعبين المنضمين لقائمة كأس العرب يستحقون التواجد بعد مستواهم هذا الموسم، كأس العرب قد تكون انطلاقة لـ رفعت في الفترة المقبلة، وتابعته منذ أن كان في ناشئي إنبي، كنت أعرف أنه لاعب مميز، وتألق مع علي ماهر في المصري، رغم أنه لم يوفق مع الزمالك، لأنه مع ماهر كان يلعب باستمرار”.

ويشارك منتخب مصر في البطولة، وأسفرت القرعة التي أقيمت في قطر، عن تواجد الفراعنة بالمجموعة الرابعة بجانب لبنان والجزائر والسوادن.

Theo Walcott may have played his final Everton game already, having hinted at a move into coaching during his spell on loan with boyhood club Southampton.

The attacker returned to St. Mary’s on Deadline Day after the Saints struck a deal with Everton that sees the Goodison Park natives continue to pay £45,000 of the 31-year-old’s £100,000-per-week contract.

His terms are set to expire at the end of the season, though, and it is unlikely that a new deal is tabled having fallen down the pecking order under Carlo Ancelotti, with just 950 minutes of action handed to the former Arsenal star since the Italian’s appointment.

Walcott is yet to fully establish himself in the first-team fold at Southampton following his return to the south coast, with Ralph Hasenhuttl starting the attacker against Chelsea and seeing him assist in the 3-3 draw only to then be without the ex-England ace in victory over Everton.

But Walcott has revealed that he has been working closely with Hasenhuttl off the pitch since his homecoming, and could continue working with the Saints boss beyond his one-season loan.

“The manager has pulled me to one side a few times and put me in a room to go through a lot of tactics, which is nice to see, just to get my coaching head on, because that’s something in the future I might want to look at,” Walcott told the Saints’ website.

“It’s very interesting. I’m really enjoying my short time working with the manager at the moment and hopefully it can be a long-term thing.”

Along with working with Hasenhuttl, Walcott has been working with Southampton’s young talents and, given his comments, could look to move into a coaching position at the end of the season.

“I want to help the academy graduates coming through now,” Walcott added. “I’m sure they’ve got a lot of questions to ask – quite a few of them have already been asking me things.

“A lot of them have been saying, ‘I watched you at Arsenal and now I’m playing with you’, so that’s a nice touch. I feel like everyone’s a really hard worker.”

Should Walcott not be offered a new contract for next season and leaves Everton, his record at Goodison Park will not be as fruitful as he would have liked when signed for more than £20million by Sam Allardyce in 2018, having scored just 11 times and offered nine assists in 85 games.

He is clearly now looking at the bigger picture, though, and the forward maestro would be a superb addition for Southampton in a player-coach type role given his 47-caps for England, experience competing in the Champions League and 348 career Premier League appearances.

Walcott also has a superb footballing brain, and was hailed by Arsene Wenger during their time at the Emirates Stadium with the former Arsenal boss once noting via Sky Sports: “He has all the ingredients to be a great striker, because of the quality of his runs. He is an intelligent player, a good finisher.”

AND in other news, Marcel Brands can repeat his summer masterclass by landing an Everton-linked £76k-p/w powerhouse.

After yet another drab display in the Premier League saw Arsenal slip to an almost typical 1-0 defeat to Leicester City on Sunday night, there is still one lingering question that threatens to completely derail the Gunners.

Just how do they solve their creativity issue? As per WhoScored, their total of 8.8 shots per game is the fourth-worst record in the entire division – even Burnley are above them – and with Mesut Ozil not even being named in their 25-man squad, it’s something that Mikel Arteta is already having to face questions about.

Club legend Martin Keown even claimed that the Spaniard is making the same mistakes that Unai Emery did. Quite the turnaround from a couple of months ago when Arteta was on top of the world after clinching both the FA Cup and Community Shield.

But whilst the club may have missed out on a potential solution to their creativity problem in Lyon’s Houssem Aouar in the summer transfer window, they do have another player in their ranks who could hold the key: Emile Smith Rowe.

The academy product spent time on loan at Championship side Huddersfield last season, and the 20-year-old left a huge impression there, with Terriers boss Danny Cowley saying: “Emile is just a really lovely player, isn’t he? He has that ability to find space; he could find space in a telephone box; he speeds the play up for you and draws and commits and I think it would have been a brilliant performance if he had scored.

“I am always going to be demanding of him because, to me, he is a Premier League player so I have to treat him like that and demand Premier League standards from him – in training and in games, day in and day out.”

With the Gunners not really having another player in their ranks who looks capable of playing in between the lines and operating as a number ten – Ozil not included – Arteta could do a lot worse than unleashing Smith Rowe sometime soon.

The north Londoners have already seen a fellow academy product in Bukayo Saka flourish after being given a chance. Now is the time to do the same for Smith Rowe too.