“It’s not up to me to say if I should win the Ballon d’Or, but it would be an incentive for other players, to show that not only goals are taken into account.”
The 80-year-old Pele, whose full name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, played at the stadium many times for Brazil and scored his 1,000th goal there in 1969 - for Santos against local club Vasco da Gama.
It's another half-season wasted by Everton, and at what cost? They're thrown their recruitment strategy out the window, with director of football Marcel Brands leaving last month, they've boosted a Premier League rival by giving them Lucas Digne last week, and all for what? To get rid of their manager midway through a transfer window that could have perhaps corrected some of the past mistakes.
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Ellis Simms has been allowed to go out on loan to Hearts while Nathan Patterson's arrival from Rangers this month also indicates that in spite of the immediate problems on the pitch, Everton still have one eye on the future.
The culture of every club is set at the top. The players out there [against Liverpool] were an absolute shambles.
Lingard has come out to dismiss Rangnick's comments via social media, insisting his omission from the Middlesbrough game has nothing to do with his mindset.
But league organisers say there have been developments in the case, and it is expected that the EFL will meet with administrators in the next 24 hours to attempt to reach a resolution.
Unless Southampton get drawn into the relegation fight - with their form, it's not impossible - it's looking like a four-horse race for one survival position.
That's why Burnley wanted to win tonight, in terms of getting the three points and getting closer to Everton, but also going into that Norwich game.
And, finally, we're keen to know how well these may help with cushioning a ball that's been fizzed across the astro-turf on a wet Wednesday evening.
The home supporters were grateful there was just one more gift for the road. But that goal came from Lukaku's determination to get Chelsea that opportunity.
Then, a quick change and off he went with Andreas Kornmayer, the head of fitness and conditioning, for some stretching and activation, a light run and then, finally, a few minutes of ball work outside.
Aston Villa are without a win in five Premier League games (D1 L4), after winning three in a row before that; they last endured a longer winless run in the top-flight between February and July 2020 (10 games without a victory).
It means the Red Devils have kept successive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since a run of four from February to March 2021, and have won three consecutive league games for only the second time this season.
Eagles fan Ingles calls it the biggest 'what if?' in Portuguese football, although Eusebio said the real story was that his mother signed the contracts because Benfica offered him a professional deal and Sporting just the chance to trial with their reserves.
But we knew that the following season things would pay off for us and with that season they played, added to some exceptional experienced players, would help the youngsters come through.
David Beckham's your boss. You have some underperforming big-name players and, if you can, you'll have some good money to spend.
We wanted guidance over would it be fair on Villa if we had symptomatic players around us? He continued: I am not saying all our players are symptomatic and have Covid because some are injured.
The all-time great is proud of his son's efforts, but insists no pressure will be put on the youngster to follow his lead in sporting circles.
“We need patience to improve, to be good again. We were poor not only technically and tactically but also mentally. It will take time to bring Tottenham back.”
For Nigel James, football is a family affair. But when he is not watching son Reece or daughter Lauren play for Chelsea, he is managing his own coaching business and helping young people thrive.
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Swedish players are in demand across the world and its national team will continue to thrive, but it will be interesting to see how clubs respond to the challenges they are beginning to face.
Aston Villa have agreed a £25 million ($34m) deal to sign Lucas Digne from Everton, GOAL can confirm.
Alexander-Arnold is an absolute phenomenon when it comes to the quality of his passing, his delivery.
Bayern's victory restored a commanding lead in their pursuit of a 10th consecutive Bundesliga title and all but ensured the team will take the symbolic prize of being top at the Christmas break with two games to go.
The result sees Boro move into the Sky Bet Championship play-off places, while Reading still linger above the relegation zone.
The two teams last met during the qualification phase for the 2019 edition of the tournament and played out a 1-1 draw in their first match, and you can get 12/1 for them to cancel each other out again.
Although they ended a run of 16 games without a clean sheet in last weekend’s 4-0 win over Newcastle, it is hard to see Brendan Rodgers’ team holding strong given they are without all of their senior centre-backs due to illness or injury.
The 19-year-old's most recent match was back in September, when he suffered the injury while on international duty with the United States.
In the first half hour, we did well and got a goal from the sort of thing we have been working at on the training ground all week.
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It's also not his fault that he ended up playing in such a dangerously imbalanced team, which is down to PSG's dreadful recruitment - Neymar and Mbappe aside - over the last two years.
It was easier then. We are a role model for others now. Jozak mentions a couple of other factors.
Centre-back: Kyle Bartley (West Brom) - 7.60 rating West Brom were one of four teams to go through September unbeaten with Kyle Bartley playing a key role at the heart of the defence.
Ndombele has struggled to make an impact since joining Spurs in a £55m deal in the summer of 2019.
The great Premier League title race disruptor was at it again as Tottenham manager Antonio Conte achieved what was starting to look impossible and stopped the Liverpool steamroller in its tracks.
But we turned the ball over too much in the first half, we did not make enough passes and took too many touches, so we never got fluidity.
Another chance went begging with 15 minutes to go as Archer's deflected shot looped over Horvath but landed just wide of the far post.
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Everybody loves a team that doesn't win anything! Maybe Jose is thinking: 'I'll just show you, this is what I've been left with!'.
The table itself is pretty hard to read at the moment, not only because there is such a disparity between the number of games clubs have played but because we have had a lot of managerial changes.
Pressed on whether it was helpful for a former player to make such remarks, the Arsenal manager added: It's just another opinion.
Gary Neville - Former Man Utd defender and Sky Sports pundit Neville made 400 Premier League appearances, lifting the trophy eight times.
“It’s a seven-step process,” Littlehales tells GOAL. “And at the core of it is the idea that we break down every 24 hours into 90-minute cycles.
I supported Feyenoord growing up, so it was Robin van Persie, Dirk Kuyt, Thomas Buffel. Then there was Raul at Real Madrid, these kind of players.
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