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Former Manchester United goalkeeper Jack Butland is eyeing a return to the England national team ahead of Euro 2024.

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Butland eyeing England return ahead of the EurosLast played for England in 2018Kept 22 clean sheets for Rangers this seasonWHAT HAPPENED?

Butland, who last played for The Three Lions in 2018 before being dropped by manager Gareth Southgate, is eyeing a return to the national team ahead of Euro 2024. Earlier this month, Southgate admitted that he is facing a crisis in the goalkeeping position as Newcastle's Nick Pope is out with an injury while Arsenal's Aaron Ramsdale and Crystal Palace's Sam Johnstone have not received enough game time this season. Only England's first-choice goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has regularly played for his club, Everton, and is available for selection.

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Speaking to the , the 30-year-old custodian said, "People have been selected for England from Scotland before. It's not out of the question but it's also not a given either. It's certainly closer now than it has been for the last three, four, maybe five years. It's as good as I've played in that period of time.

"I've been to major tournaments. I would love to go to another one. I still believe I can offer a lot. That comes with doing my job here, that puts me in the conversation. If that gets me in, great. If it doesn't, then we just carry on."

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The former Leeds United and Manchester United goalkeeper left Crystal Palace to join Rangers ahead of the 2023/24 season. In the ongoing campaign, he appeared in 42 matches across all competitions where he has managed to keep 22 clean sheets for the Scottish Premiership leaders. After consistently performing in Scotland the goalkeeper will now hope to return to the national team ahead of their upcoming friendly matches against Brazil and Belgium next month.

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Butland will be next seen in action for The Light Blues on Wednesday as they take on Kilmarnock in a league clash. It remains to be seen if Southgate takes notice.

Jadon Sancho reportedly feels like a scapegoat at Manchester United because Erik ten Hag continues to favour underperforming players ahead of him.

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Red Devils winger dropped for Arsenal gameDutch coach questioned training levelsForward disagrees with those commentsWHAT HAPPENED?

The England international forward has been thrust back under the spotlight at Old Trafford after being left out of the Red Devils’ squad for a Premier League clash with Arsenal. Ten Hag has claimed that decision was taken on the back of performances in training.

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Sancho has responded with a statement of his own, claiming that he has “been a scapegoat for a long time which isn't fair” while defending his actions behind the scenes and maintaining that he wants to “play football with a smile on my face”. He may face consequences for speaking out against his manager.

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It is, however, being claimed by that Sancho feels unfairly treated by his Dutch coach. The 23-year-old has not been in the best of form himself since completing a £75 million ($94m) transfer from Borussia Dortmund in 2021, but he is struggling to understand how others are “getting a game every week”.

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Sancho is said to be looking for an opportunity to prove his worth, having been given time by Ten Hag to work on his fitness, but those chances have not materialised. Instead, the likes of Antony and Anthony Martial have continued to see game time despite facing plenty of questions regarding their uninspiring performances. Sancho has seen just 76 minutes of action this season across three substitute appearances.

The temporary boss has propelled the Red Devils into top-four contention and progressed to the Champions League last eight but will it be enough?

When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer became Manchester United’s caretaker-manager on December 19, he was given six months to make a case for the right to be Jose Mourinho’s permanent successor.

A little over halfway into the temporary job, Solskjaer has worked wonders to this point but has yet to be confirmed as the long-term United boss, with executive vice-chair Ed Woodward and the United board yet to make a final decision on who will take charge in 2019-20.

With a number of criteria to fulfil, the Norwegian has excelled in some but how has he performed across the board so far?

Goal takes a look at how he has managed to impact Manchester United to date.

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  Results

  Fourteen wins in 19 ensures an immediate pass mark in this category, even if that comes with the qualifier that things were looking even more impressive until defeats to Arsenal and Wolves in their last two fixtures.

  The FA Cup exit will have hurt Solskjaer more than it might have stung some of his predecessors, so intent has he been on hunting down silverware above and beyond any other targets.

  However, his excellent return across the three months he has been in charge has put United in far better shape than they were in in December.

  Back in with a shout of a top-four finish in the Premier League and looking ahead to a Champions League clash with Barcelona, United are a world away from the train wreck Jose Mourinho left behind.

  Indeed, the Portuguese claimed shortly before his dismissal that it would be “almost a miracle” for them to get back into the top four yet here they are, in fifth place, just two points behind Arsenal and with eight games still to play.

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  Tactics

  The Norwegian has brought a real Manchester United edge back to his team’s play, with the greater urgency injected into their football resulting in greater rewards.

  He has not changed their shape too dramatically, alternating primarily between the 4-3-3 employed by Mourinho in the second half of his reign and a diamond midfield which has similarly promoted a more dynamic style of play.

  His greatest success has been in getting better performances out of Paul Pogba, with the Frenchman revelling in the opportunity to play with greater freedom thanks to the deployment of Nemanja Matic and Ander Herrera in clearer roles than was once the case.

  It has also been to Pogba’s – and United’s – advantage that the forward players have been encouraged to ask more questions of opposition defenders, with bigger spaces opening up for the World Cup winner to exploit as a result of a more energetic attack and a higher pressing game off the ball.

  Also, the victory at Tottenham early in Solskjaer’s reign was achieved thanks in large part to the decision to pick Marcus Rashford on the right of attack rather than through the middle, with Jesse Lingard being asked to act as a conduit between the midfield and the forward line in the centre of the pitch.

  That success was just one of a number of examples of Solskjaer making slight alterations, and he has often made in-game changes which have addressed issues when things haven’t quite gone to plan, such as switching to a back three away to Arsenal in order to regain a foothold in the game after some early struggles.

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  Not only has Pogba become an entirely different player under Solskjaer, but the likes of Marcus Rashford, Luke Shaw and Anthony Martial have also excelled since the change of management.

  Rashford was actually starting to find his stride towards the end of Mourinho’s time in charge, but he has reached a new level under Ole.

  A run of 10 goals in 21 games, including eight in 18 since Solskjaer came in, marks his greatest streak of scoring form at first-team level, and his composure in front of goal has reached heights that he barely seemed capable of troubling during some of his more profligate moments of seasons gone by.

  Shaw has clearly benefitted from the new levels of attacking freedom allowed by the caretaker-manager, and the departure of a man who publicly undermined him so relentlessly can surely only have helped his development too.

  Martial may not have delivered the goals return of some of the other forwards, but he has looked a much greater threat when given licence to attack space.

  Victor Lindelof has also gone from strength to strength, while even Romelu Lukaku has rediscovered his scoring touch despite going through a period during which he was basically asked to play the role of super-sub.

  The main concern in this area right now is Alexis Sanchez, with the Chilean still dropping way short of the performances he delivered in the colours of Arsenal, Barcelona and Udinese.

  His latest injury setback has hardly helped his cause and it is he who provides Solskjaer with his biggest question mark at this point, even if the boss has left it on the player’s shoulders to find a long-term solution.

  “I can’t do anything about Alexis Sanchez. When he plays he needs to find himself, because we know there is a quality player there,” said Solskjaer in February.

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  It took Lukaku only two minutes to score after coming on against Bournemouth in Solskjaer’s third game in charge, and when he netted within a minute of entering the following match at Newcastle to break the deadlock, it looked as though the caretaker had a golden touch.

  But it hasn’t been plain sailing in this regard since then, even if some of his decisions of late have been conditioned by a mounting injury list which has left him dipping into the academy ranks.

  In the home leg against Paris Saint-Germain it took him until six minutes from time to release Lukaku into the game, leaving the Belgian with little chance to affect the 0-2 scoreline, while in the recent FA Cup reverse to Wolves, Solskjaer failed to make a move until after an opening Wolves goal which had been coming for some time.

  He also left it until the last five minutes to throw in Juan Mata and Scott McTominay rather than looking to change his side’s fortunes immediately after falling two goals behind.

  For the most part he has proved adaptable, though, and his great relationship with his coaching staff has helped to bring about considered changes at crucial times in other games.

  He encourages input from Mike Phelan, Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna at all times, ensuring that while he makes the final call, there is always group input into any switch made during matches.

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Sucinto e sem desculpas. Logo depois do apito final onde o Grêmio foi derrotado por 2 a 0 em casa para o Caxias na estreia do Campeonato Gaúcho, essa foi a forma que o goleiro Vanderlei decidiu se comportar para comentar sobre o lance do segundo gol caxiense.

Apontado como tendo falhado na hora de cair para defender o chute do latera Ivan, o arqueiro preferiu não tecer maiores comentários técnicos e apontou que a trajetória da bola foi fugindo de seu alcance. Já preferindo, inclusive, pensar nas próximas partidas sem se “martirizar”:

-Não tem o que explicar. Ele bateu bem na bola e ela acabou saindo de mim. São coisas do futebol. Temos de trabalhar, acertar o que deu errado e pensar na próxima partida.

Já Renato Portaluppi, na entrevista coletiva pós-jogo, foi bastante direto ao dizer com todas as letras que seu goleiro efetivamente cometeu um erro no lance. Porém, logo depois disso, ele agregou sobre sua confiança na qualidade técnica do reforço vindo do Santos além de pontuar o fato de que tanto Vanderlei como todo o elenco ainda estão em processo de readquirir sua melhor forma:

-O Vanderlei falhou no gol, mas ele é um grande goleiro. É um dos melhores do Brasil. O Vanderlei praticamente não jogou em 2019. Então ele tem de ganhar ritmo. Vai pegar ritmo quando? No Carnaval? Ele precisa jogar.

-É até difícil falar nessas horas porque o grupo vem das férias. A gente teve oito ou nove dias para preparar o time. No fundo você não tem tempo para nada. Por que colocamos os atletas para jogar tão cedo? Porque você precisa de ritmo de jogo. Logo na frente temos uma Libertadores. Não é normal perder em casa no estadual, mas aconteceu. O Grêmio vai crescer, aí nós vamos medir forças ali na frente – garantiu o comandante gremista.

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Sri Lanka’s stand-in T20 captain Angelo Mathews has said that the seniors have not delivered, which has put their Asia Cup final chances in jeopardy

Mohammad Isam in Mirpur02-Mar-2016Angelo Mathews looked like a man who didn’t want to be at the press conference, following Sri Lanka’s five-wicket defeat against India. Inside the Shere Bangla National Stadium’s belly, Mathews gave one answer after another about his team’s lackluster showing at the Asia Cup.Only thanks to same late blows, Sri Lanka reached 138 for 9 in 20 overs against India on Tuesday. Their first productive over came in the 11th, when they scored 10. Overall, there were only four overs that fetched more than 10 runs. Dinesh Chandimal and Tillakaratne Dilshan struggled to get going while Chamara Kapugedara gave it away after a good start. Thisara Perera hit out at the death, but was wrongly adjudged stumped in the penultimate over of the innings.Sri Lanka were eventually put out of their misery by a cameo from Yuvraj Singh. Sri Lanka’s stand-in T20 captain Mathews has said that the senior batsmen have not delivered. Mathews also wanted the youngsters to step up and help spark a turnaround.”I am repeating myself every day,” Mathews said. “We have the team we have here; we are depending on a handful of seniors most of the time. If the seniors fail, we are in a spot of bother most of the time. Specially in a tournament like the Asia Cup and the World Cup you need a lot of seniors in the team. Unfortunately we haven’t clicked. It will take a little time for the younger guys to start performing. We have to be patient, but this is not the right time to be patient.”I think firstly that it’s not just the seniors who have to perform. The selectors have picked a squad and everyone has to perform. This is a big stage and no one is here to learn. This is a stage where you have to perform. You can’t rely on a handful of seniors. We all know Dilshan has been a great servant of Sri Lankan cricket for a long time, and I don’t think this is the time to make that massive change. I am just the stand-in captain. I don’t really know what the selectors and the captain are thinking. But I think we have to be patient and hope the batting lineup fires in the next game.”Mathews conceded that Sri Lanka’s confidence was shot, but said that he saw glimpses of positive intent during their batting. “It is quite damaging, especially the confidence level and the morale,” Mathews said. “You can’t keep losing, it’s difficult to digest. So close to the World Cup, we have to connect the dots together and maybe try a few combinations.”We just have to be positive. But I kind of sensed a positive approach in our batting today and that’s how we have to play.”Dilshan’s form has been a big worry for Sri Lanka. After a hand injury forced him out of the first T20 against India in Pune, Dilshan managed only a run in the next two matches. The struggle seeped into the Asia Cup as well. He made only 57 runs in three games in Mirpur. Mathews, however, backed Dilshan to come good.”I think everybody hits a rough patch, and he has had a few rough patches here and there and his last few innings were not very bad,” Mathews said. “We all need to take responsibility. Not just the seniors.”The selectors and the captain have picked a squad, which they think is good. And so we have to try and go out there with who we have in the squad. We need to have faith in them and move forward.”The losses against Bangladesh and India have put Sri Lanka’s final chances in jeopardy. Sri Lanka need Pakistan to beat Bangladesh and then defeat Pakistan themselves and wait on the net run rate.If Bangladesh put it across Pakistan on Wednesday, Sri Lanka are out of the tournament. Already on Tuesday, Mathews looked and spoke like the stand-in captain of a team that was on its way out.

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O Corinthians apresentou na manhã desta segunda-feira a parceria com a Immortal Gaming Club (IGC) para competições de e-sports sob o nome do Alvinegro. No CT Joaquim Grava, a empresa apresentou sua equipe de Free Fire – um dos principais jogos de battle royale do momento.

-Estamos muito felizes com a parceria junto a IGC, uma das mais respeitadas instituições de e-sports do mundo e temos certeza que ampliamos nossa caminhada neste cenário com o parceiro do tamanho que o Corinthians merece – afirmou Alex Watanabe, gerente de marketing do Timão.

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Membros do elenco profissional do Corinthians, Vagner Love, Mateus Vital e Matheus Jesus recepcionaram os novos atletas do Timão de Free Fire na sala de imprensa do CT Joaquim Grava e posaram para fotos. Depois disputaram uma partida do jogo virtual.

Exceção ao futebol, que é tocado por outra empresa, a Immortal Gaming Club será a responsável por montar as equipes do Corinthians em games dePC, mobile e console.

-Acreditamos que nossa parceria com o Corinthians fortalece a posição da IGC como líder global em e-sports, e o lançamento com Free Fire nos posiciona unicamente no ecossistema local, no que hoje é o título com maior número de jogadores de todo o continente. Seguimos com nossa missão de construirmos comunidades de esports inclusivas, e este passo é mais um que segue claramente em direção isso – festejou Ari Segal, CEO da Immortals.

West Indies team manager, Richie Richardson, was disappointed with the side’s nine-wicket defeat to England in the warm-up match but stressed it was not a reflection of their preparations

George Dobell at the SCG09-Feb-2015If West Indies’ aim really was “not to peak too early” as the team manager, Richie Richardson suggested, they can look back on their crushing defeat at the SCG with a sense of a mission accomplished.Beaten by nine wickets in a game that barely lasted 50 overs in its entirety, it is true that West Indies cannot sink much lower. But with only one more warm-up match to go – they play Scotland here on Thursday – until they face Ireland in their opening World Cup match, they are running out of time to find their form and confidence.But Richardson, left to perform media duties in an almost impossible situation, was certainly not going to express any sign of panic. While admitting to some “shock” over the standard of performance, he insisted it was not a true reflection of the state of the side.”It wasn’t a very good start,” he said with beautiful understatement. “But it’s not about the start; it’s about the finish. We don’t want to peak too early.”This performance tonight is no reflection of how we’ve been training or anything about the mood in the camp. We have worked really hard. It is just very strange that England got the better of us. It’s just one of those things. We have prepared well.”Of course we are unhappy with the performance. So we will review, we will reassess and we will come back. But if you had seen us training, you would have seen a bunch of really happy guys, who are training hard and did everything they had to do.”So this performance came as a shock. I don’t have explanations because I didn’t expect it.”Asked why Chris Gayle, who was dismissed first ball, did not field, Richardson replied: “He is our most senior player. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He played football with the guys this morning.”The alarm that caused an evacuation of the SCG moments after might have nothing to do with the players – it was a minor issue in the kitchens – but as a metaphor for their state of West Indies side, it was remarkably accurate.

A round-up of the Plunket Shield matches that ended on December 14, 2014

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Dec-2014Canterbury captain Peter Fulton’s unbeaten double-hundred in the second innings set up his team’s 102-run win against Central Districts in Christchurch. However, it was Central Districts who made the early running in the match, as Canterbury, having been inserted, were bowled out for 269 in the first innings.Fulton was the team’s top-scorer with 76, but no other batsman could raise a fifty, as a six-wicket haul from Doug Bracewell (6 for 41) meant Canterbury were dismissed in 84.1 overs. Will Young (82) and Kieran Noema-Barnett (69) then led Central Districts’ reply with half-centuries of their own, powering the team to 305 and earning a crucial 36-run lead.Canterbury lost their opener Greg Dawson early in the second essay, but Fulton, coming in at No.3, batted for more than eight hours to make 209 not out. His knock included 20 fours and five sixes, and guided the team to 412 for 7, after which they declared.This meant that Central Districts needed 377 for victory, but seven of their batsmen fell for single-digit scores, as they were bundled out for 274. Jamie How made 82 and Kruger van Wyk contributed 74, but both batsmen were hard-pressed to find partners who stayed long enough at the other end to really trouble Canterbury. Logan van Week was the pick of the bowlers, collecting 4 for 53, while Todd Astle and Andrew Ellis chipped in with two scalps each.Otago nearly completed a stunning chase in the fourth innings, but Northern Districts held on for a 27-run win in Dunedin. Set a daunting 502 for victory, Hamish Rutherford gave Otago an ideal platform by scoring 74, before Michael Bracewell stroked his way to a sixth first-class ton – a 236-ball 147.The Northern Districts bowlers, though, fought back with wickets at key intervals, and reduced their opponents to 372 for 9. However, Mark Craig and Jacob Duffy batted for the next 25 overs to defy Northern Districts. The pair’s 102-run partnership, powered for the large part by Craig’s 104, took Otago to within 27 runs of a famous win, but Scott Kuggeleijn bowled Craig in the 137th over, sealing Northern Districts’ second win of the season.Northern Districts had earlier made a bright start, posting 380 in their first innings thanks to half-centuries from Daniel Flynn (68), Brad Wilson (61) and Ish Sodhi (82*). They followed that up by bowling Otago out for 189, with Rutherford (78) posting a notable score. Sodhi followed up his first-innings fifty with a fine bowling performance, picking up 5 for 27 to rattle the team’s middle and lower order.With a massive 191-run lead in hand, Northern Districts scored 310 for 4 in their second innings before declaring. Their innings was built around a 127-run partnership between Brad Wilson (82) and Joe Carter, who drilled 16 fours and two sixes during his 125.Six-wicket match hauls from Michael Bates and Matthew Quinn helped Auckland beat Wellington by six wickets at Basin Reserve, despite a shortened second day where only 29 overs of play was possible.After being inserted, Wellington were shot out for 199 in 60 overs, with no batsman scoring a much-needed fifty. Apart from Brady Barnett who was trapped lbw, all the other nine wickets came as a result of a catch from one of the three Cachopa brothers – Carl, Brad and Craig. Auckland did not fare much better themselves in their reply, and lost wickets at regular intervals. However, handy knocks at the top of the order from Carl, Craig and Colin Munro helped the team to 205 for 9, to secure a six-run lead.In order to force a result, Auckland declared and consolidated their advantage with another strong bowling performance. Bates (4 for 47) and Carl (3 for 20) wrecked Wellington’s line-up in the second innings, restricting them to just 133, setting Auckland 128 for a win. The visitors overhauled that paltry total in 36.1 overs, thanks to a 59 from Munro.

أعرب ميكيل أرتيتا المدير الفني لفريق كرة القدم الأول بنادي آرسنال الإنجليزي، عن سعادته بتعاطف اللاعبين مع زميلهم كاي هافيرتز بعد تسجيله أول أهدافه أمس.

الدولي الألماني انضم إلى آرسنال في الصيف قادمًا من تشيلسي، لكنه لم يسجل أي هدف في أول 6 مباريات في الدوري الإنجليزي، مما أثار الجدل حول مستواه.

كاي هافريتز سجل في فوز آرسنال على بورنموث برباعية نظيفة أمس على ملعب فيتاليتي رود، ضمن الجولة السابعة من الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

أرتيتا في تصريحات عقب المباراة لوسائل الإعلام المختلفة، قال: “أحب أن أكون جزءًا من فريق يُظهر هذه الصفات الإنسانية الرائعة”.

وأضاف: “التعاطف تجاه لاعب لديه بعض علامات الاستفهام، جعلني أشعر بسعادة كبيرة، حصلت على المزيد من الرسائل بعد احتفال اللاعبين مع هافيرتز”.

واختتم: “أنا ممتن للجماهير لأنهم كذلك كانوا يغنون باسم كاي هافيرتز، كاي يستحق ذلك كثيرًا”.

خسر الفريق الأول لكرة السلة بالنادي الأهلي، مباراته أمام فرانكا البرازيلي، في ثاني مواجهات الأحمر ببطولة كأس العالم للأندية.

وتقام بطولة كأس العالم للأندية لكرة السلة، في سنغافورة، وتلعب خلال الفترة من 21 حتى 24 سبتمبر الجاري.

ويتواجد الأهلي في المجموعة الأولى التي تضم إجنايت الأمريكي وفرانكا البرازيلي، بينما المجموعة الثانية تشهد تواجد المنامة البحريني وبون تيليكوم الألماني وجولدن بولز بطل الصين.

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وحقق الأهلي الفوز على حساب ايجنايت الأمريكي بنتيجة 82-76 في المباراة الأولى، ليتصدر المجموعة الأولى في البطولة.

ولكن خسر الأهلي مباراته الثانية، اليوم الجمعة، أمام فرانكا البرازيلي بنتيجة 90-70.

ويلعب متصدر كل مجموعة مع الآخر في النهائي يوم الأحد المقبل، بينما وصيف كل مجموعة يلعب على الميدالية البرونزية ويتواجه صاحب المركز الثالث من كل مجموعة من أجل مواجهة المركزين الخامس والسادس.