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Com um gol aos 43 minutos do segundo tempo, o Novorizontino venceu o Linense por 3 a 2, na noite desta segunda-feira, em Lins, pela oitava rodada do Campeonato Paulista. A equipe de Novo Horizonte chegou a 11 pontos do Grupo C, que tem o Palmeiras na liderança, com 20. O São Bento tem 13. O Linense é o lanterna do Grupo A, do líder Corinthians (13), com apenas cinco pontos – é a pior campanha geral da competição após oito partidas.

Wilson abriu o placar para o time da casa a um minuto de jogo.Éder Ferreira empatou ainda no primeiro tempo e Juninho virou no segundo para o Novorizontino.Leandro Silva voltou a igualar o marcador, aos 17 minutos. No fim do jogo, Francis garantiu os três pontos para os visitantes.

O Novorizontino agora visita o Bragantino, no domingo, às 11h. O Linense encara o Botafogo, na segunda-feira, às 20h, em Ribeirão Preto.

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Phil Kirkbride has been left lauding the display of Anthony Gordon as Everton won 4-1 at home to Brentford in the FA Cup on Saturday afternoon.

The Lowdown: Perfect start

Frank Lampard got off to the perfect start as the new man in the dugout at Goodison Park as he saw his team run out winners in front of the home fans and book themselves a place in the next round.

Yerry Mina, Richarlison, Mason Holgate and Andros Townsend ensured that the Merseyside club went through in style, after Ivan Toney gave them a bit of a scare from the penalty spot.

The Latest: Kirkbride lauds Gordon

Taking to Twitter, The Liverpool Echo journalist Kirkbride has been left lauding the performance of Gordon in particular for the home side:

“Frank Lampard must be over the moon to have inherited a player of Anthony Gordon’s potential.

“But excellent again today, as he has been for most of the season.”

The Verdict: What a performance

Despite being just 20 years of age, Gordon was really a standout performer for the Toffees against fellow Premier League side Brentford.

He won five of his duels in total, the joint-fifth most out of his teammates, and was also successful in all three of his dribble attempts (SofaScore).

Gordon made one key pass and accurate cross, and achieved an impressive 89% overall pass accuracy, again ranking highly among the Blues squad (SofaScore).

Nonetheless, Lampard will no doubt be licking his lips at the prospect of working with the talented English midfielder.

In other news, find out which super-quick left-back EFC are now in the race to sign here!

Southampton’s Mohammed Salisu is one of the players Newcastle United have considered during the January transfer window, The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards has revealed. 

The lowdown

Newcastle are reportedly looking at domestic alternatives to their top centre-back target, Sevilla’s Diego Carlos, as the La Liga outfit hold firm in their demands (via The Athletic).

Salisu moved to England relatively recently, joining Saints from Real Valladolid in August 2020 for a fee of £10.8million. The 22-year-old, now valued at £9million by Transfermarkt, signed a contract that runs until the summer of 2024.

Salisu has been a regular under Ralph Hasenhuttl this season, starting 20 of their 23 Premier League matches.

The latest

Edwards tweeted on Monday afternoon that ‘NUFC have looked at’ the Ghanaian defender.

However, he ‘was told last week’ that the move didn’t look ‘possible’ in January.

The verdict

It’s tempting to wonder if Salisu’s sensational performance in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with league leaders Manchester City has only inflated his price tag.

Salisu made more clearances (14), tackles (seven), interceptions (four) and blocks (three) than anybody else, earning a place in Alan Shearer’s Team of the Week.

Football talent scout Jacek Kulig called it a ‘monstrous performance’, while The Express’ Charlie Gordon wrote that he deserved a ‘boxing licence’ after taking a ball to the chin and soldiering on.

He’s still young, and on the evidence of that display, it’s hard to dispute BBC journalist Tom Murray’s claim that ‘he has a frightening amount of potential’, so perhaps the Magpies should stump up a big offer and see how the south coast outfit respond.

In other news, Fabrizio Romano dropped a big NUFC transfer update on Monday morning.

Match Facts

Saturday, May 22, Start time 1530 (1930 GMT)
Sunday, May 23, Start time 1200 (1600 GMT)
Can Mahela Jayawardene win new fans with his methods that are far removed from what the USA expects from its baseball hitters?•AFP

The Big Picture

It is tempting to look at these matches – two Twenty20 internationals between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, being played in the USA – as precisely the reason why tournaments like IPL prosper. Twenty20 is the best vehicle for the globalisation of the game, which somehow – rightly or wrongly – seems to be a big concern for the administrators. The ICC sees the USA, with a team full of Asians and a country boasting enough immigrants to constitute a crowd for a match, as a prospective market. Since the two teams had been to the Caribbean, why not have them stop over on their way back.Yet, on another level, there is much to suggest that this series is yet another example of the ICC sanctioning an ill-timed series, one without context. It hasn’t been even a week since the end of the World Twenty20, and the fatigue, even for the slam-bang format, was evident among the audience during the bilateral series earlier this week between West Indies and South Africa. It would have been foolish to expect anything but in the first place: there is only so much Twenty20 people can take.In any event, it is going to be a huge weekend for cricket in the USA, especially as a venue. Already the series has been cut short because of poor floodlighting. It is the first time two Test teams are playing in America, and how the matches go from an organisational point of view will have a bearing on the future of international cricket in the USA.There has also been concern over whether New Zealand and Sri Lanka, small countries with small diaspora, will be able to attract enough supporters, leave alone taking the game to the natives, which should be the real aim. The onus will be on the teams to play attractive cricket; it is not easy to make a pitching-obsessed nation fall in love with bowling. They can’t turn up jaded, like West Indies and South Africa did, three days after the World Twenty20 final.

Form guide (most recent first)

New Zealand LWLWW
Sri Lanka LWLWW

Watch out for…

Mahela Jayawardene and Daniel Vettori are the complete antitheses of hitters and pitchers from baseball. If they are both at their best, who knows the Americans might just see the light.
The pitch and conditions are a complete unknown. “There’s a New Zealand groundsman here looking after it [the pitch] and preparing it,” said Ross Taylor. “To be honest, we don’t really know what to expect.” Isolated thunderstorms are also forecast for the weekend.

Team news

Between the World Twenty20 and now, New Zealand have lost Jesse Ryder to another injury, and Shane Bond for good. Gareth Hopkins has a knee injury so Brendon McCullum is likely to keep wicket, while offspinning allrounder Rob Nicol is set to make his debut.New Zealand (possible): 1 Brendon McCullum (wk), 2 Aaron Redmond, 3 Martin Guptill, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Scott Styris, 6 Jacob Oram, 7 Daniel Vettori (capt.), 8 Rob Nicol , 9 Kyle Mills, 10 Ian Butler, 11 Andy McKay.Sri Lanka should retain their combination from the World Twenty20 before Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Sanath Jayasuriya take a break.
Sri Lanka (possible): 1 Mahela Jayawardene 2 Sanath Jayasuriya, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (capt. & wk), 4 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 5 Chamara Kapugedera, 6 Angelo Mathews, 7 Chinthaka Jayasinghe, 8 Thissara Perera, 9 Suraj Randiv, 10 Thilan Thushara, 11 Lasith Malinga.

Stats and trivia

• Brendon McCullum, at 1081, is the highest run-getter in T20Is. Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, with 743 and 711 runs, are numbers four and five on the list.
• New Zealand have won four out of their seven games against Sri Lanka, including their latest victory in the World Twenty20.
  

  Quotes

  “Miami is a new place for all of us. Most of the guys haven’t been to the States. We’ve had a look around, went to a baseball game. It’s something different, going out of your routine of playing against top nations in venues you’re quite familiar with. It will be good fun.”
  
  “We’ve been waiting a long time for this. This is part of what we’ve been calling Destination USA. We took, with the board’s help, a view to try and bring in the best teams in the world and show that the United States is open for business as far as cricket is concerned.”

Tottenham are monitoring Manchester United goalkeeper Dean Henderson ahead of a possible summer swoop.

That’s according to The Daily Mail, with a number of Red Devils supporters reacting to the update on social media.

Henderson, on £120,000-a-week at Old Trafford, is under contract until 2025 but has told interim boss Ralf Rangnick over his wish to leave the club in search of regular game time.

The 24-year-old has made just two appearances in all competitions this season, with David de Gea re-establishing himself as first choice.

Rangnick informed Henderson he would rather keep him until the end of the campaign, with Spurs now keeping an eye on his situation ahead of the summer.

Antonio Conte’s side have Hugo Lloris out of contract at the end of June and possibly view Henderson as a long-term successor to the Frenchman, with current back-up option Pierluigi Gollini far from impressive.

United fans react

@utdreport shared the news regarding Tottenham and Henderson on Twitter. This is what these United fans had to say in reply, with many pointing to Antonio Conte’s affection for Red Devils players after he signed the likes of Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez at Inter…

“What a huge mistake we’re making”

Credit: @buche21

“Conte at it again with Manchester United players”

Credit: @YoFavWe_irdoUTD

“I’ll genuinely lose that little affection I still had for the club if we sell Henderson and keep De Gea”

Credit: @gashmufcv2

“God forbid selling a very good keeper to a new rival”

Credit: @3DHombreezle

“If Conte really wanted our players why couldn’t he wait a little and take the mufc job himself.”

Credit: @Mufc_Rayh

“Conte knows ball”

Credit: @TrickyTeun

In other news: ‘Wow’, ‘Surely not?’ – Many MUFC fans fume as ‘mad’ news emerges. 

Leeds United are stuck in a horrendous rut right now and if they don’t improve in the January transfer window, Marcelo Bielsa could lose his job with the Whites staring down the barrel of a potential relegation from the top-flight.

An added problem for Victor Orta and co is that the winter market is usually a tough one for Leeds to negotiate in with the famed Jean-Kevin Augustin move the nadir of the Spaniard’s work since arriving in Yorkshire.

What’s the word?

One area that Leeds desperately need to improve in heading into the New Year is in the middle of the park.

Kalvin Phillips enters 2022 injured while Mateusz Klich is desperately out of form too.

One player that they could sign is Macedonia international Ejif Elmas. That’s according to Talha Arslan via The Express who claim that Leeds are prepared to bid £15.3m for the Napoli midfielder.

However, that may fall some way short of the Italian club’s estimation of the 22-year-old with CIES valuing him at a mighty £59.2m.

The new Alioski

The comparisons with livewire and former Leeds player, Gjanni Alioski, are all too obvious.

For starters, they both hail from Macedonia, and secondly, they are both goal scoring wide players.

Although Elmas is capable of playing in the middle of the park too, he is a rampant threat when afforded the opportunity to play down the left flank, an area of the pitch that Alioski thrived in for Leeds.

The 29-year-old scored 22 goals and registered 19 assists while in Yorkshire but was never the most consistent of players.

That being said, he was a mainstay under Bielsa for years and developed nicely from an attacking winger into a full-back.

Elmas wouldn’t necessarily make the same transition but his ability to play in a multitude of positions, specifically in the centre of midfield, makes him an appealing proposition this winter.

However, his ability to score goals, like Alioski, is also a major plus point.

The North Macedonia international has bagged six times for Napoli this term while creating three goals for his teammates too.

Speaking about him in April, his agent commented: “I think Napoli have a jewel. A young footballer, a leader of his national team who often scores goals.”

With that sort of attacking threat in mind, he’d be a wise addition from the Leeds hierarchy this term and in the process, Bielsa could just discover his next Alioski; a vibrant and versatile attacking threat from Macedonia.

AND in other news, Orta can finally axe Leeds flop who left Bielsa “furious” by signing 28-goal “rocket”…

انتصر فريق شباب بلوزداد الجزائري على نظيره دجوليبا المالي، بهدفين دون رد، في المباراة التي جمعت الفريقين اليوم الجمعة بدوري أبطال إفريقيا.

شباب بلوزداد واجه دجوليبا، على ملعب الفريق الجزائري، في إطار إياب مواجهات دور الـ32 للبطولة القارية.

وسجل هدف بلوزداد الأول ميلود ربيعي في الدقيقة 27، وأضاف الهدف الثاني زميله عبد الرحمن بورديم في الدقيقة 79.

طالع | فيديو | الزمالك يسحق فلامبو بخماسية ويتأهل لمجموعات دوري أبطال إفريقيا

وكان الفريق الجزائري قد خسر مواجهة الذهاب في مالي بهدفين مقابل هدف.

بعد الفوز اليوم بهدفين دون رد، تأهل شباب بلوزداد إلي دور المجموعات لدوري أبطال إفريقيا بنتيجة 3-2 بمجموع مباراتي الذهاب والإياب.

يذكر أن المتأهلين إلى دور المجموعات حتى الآن، صن دوانز الجنوب إفريقي وبترو أتليتكو الأنجولي والزمالك، مع شباب بلوزداد.

On a day when the young Mahmudullah experienced the special joy of his successful baby steps in Test cricket, another young man sighed in relief thinking about his past. Ishant Sharma has been through tough times and though only the upcoming home series against South Africa will offer the real evidence of his escape from the hellhole, he reckons he is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”I had never seen such hard times in my life,” Ishant said about those dark days when he lost form and his critics found their voice. “It was a really big challenge and I was so desperate to perform at that time. Nothing was working. Before that, for two to three years, I was just going up, up and up.” And then he crash landed.Last year, he only picked 10 wickets from four Tests at an average of 46.90, and let’s not even talk about his horrors in ODIs. In his last Test, before this series, he leaked 135 runs from 35 overs. He was overlooked for Sreesanth in the next Test (in Kanpur). Life would have been anything but beautiful.The first fall from success can be the hardest to handle, and Ishant is just 21. Insecurity can make you can feel very alone in those times. However, luckily for Ishant, he was given a shot at a comeback. “I would like to thank the management for giving me chances in the ODIs against Sri Lanka,” he said. “Even I didn’t feel I deserved the spot in those two games. I am really thankful for the confidence and support.”Virender Sehwag was the captain in both those games, in Cuttack and Kolkata. Ishant’s selection might just not be a coincidence, as he himself said. “I am very thankful to Veeru because he because he had a lot to do with me playing in the first Test [in Chittagong].”Ishant also talked about learning from those dark days. “You needed patience to get out of those times. I have realised that a cricketer has to go through those kinds of patches in his life and it has been a great learning experience for me. It was needed, I guess.”Through this series, one visual has been a recurring theme: Zaheer Khan chatting with Ishant during and at the end of the overs. Ishant said he was really grateful for the words of advice, “Zaheer has been always helpful. He always talks to me, whether I am bowling well or badly, and I am really thankful for such support.” He also responded to a direct question on the contribution of Eric Simons, India’s new bowling consultant. “Till now, it’s going good with him; he has given tips about my wrist position and bowling action.”There has been a definite improvement in the lines he bowled but since it came against a batting line-up which has shown a tendency to self-destruct, the stamp of seal can only come after his battles against South Africa.”I am bowling better, in better rhythm and it has been a very good start to the New Year. It feels good to do well and be confident going into next tough series coming up against South Africa.”

Crystal Palace have received a potentially significant injury boost over key defender Joachim Andersen after he picked up a thigh problem.

What’s the word?

The 25-year-old has quickly established himself as a key player for the Eagles following his arrival over the summer, starting 11 Premier League games in a row before his fitness struggle kept him out of the weekend’s defeat against Aston Villa.

However, Andersen was forced to watch on from the sidelines as Palace’s seven-game unbeaten run came to an end at Selhurst Park.

But The Athletic’s Matt Woosnam was able to provide a positive update over the centre-back’s condition, providing hope that he will be able to make his return to first-team action sooner rather than later.

Following Saturday’s result, he tweeted: “Andersen’s absence with a hamstring problem not thought to be serious was a significant contribution to this defeat”.

Woosnam then added in a separate tweet: “Palace hopeful that Andersen will be back soon from what is understood to be a minor issue.”

Patrick Vieira will be buzzing

News that the Denmark international is not expected to be consigned to the treatment table for an extensive period of time will leave Patrick Vieira buzzing with relief.

Andersen’s partnership with Marc Guehi in the heart of defence has been pivotal to the south London outfit’s success this season, and his underlying numbers indicate why.

As per WhoScored, Andersen has averaged 1.5 interceptions per league game throughout 2021/22, 2.9 clearances and a whopping 6.3 long balls, placing him in the top three for each metric when compared to his teammates.

With the hectic festive schedule fast approaching, Vieira will be desperate to have his star defender back on the pitch as soon as possible, meaning Woosnam’s latest revelation will be warmly welcomed.

And, in other news…Palace “lining up” swoop for “complete” £12.6m-rated gem, Vieira surely buzzing

Newcastle are looking increasingly likely to sign Lazio goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha, according to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero (via Sport Witness).

The lowdown

The form of Newcastle’s goalkeepers has been a real problem so far this season, contributing to the Premier League’s joint-worst defensive record.

If you go by the shot-stopping metric of ‘post-shot expected goals minus goals allowed’, Freddie Woodman (-3.7) and Karl Darlow (-3.3) both figure in the league’s bottom five.

Martin Dubravka, who finished last season as the Magpies’ number one, has returned to the substitutes’ bench in recent weeks after recovering from a foot injury.

However, Newcastle may also look to the transfer market for a solution, and crucially Strakosha is out of contract at the end of the season.

The latest

Il Messaggero claimed (via Sport Witness) that Strakosha is on his way out of the Stadio Olimpico.

The report added that he will ‘probably’ end up at Newcastle, although it’s not clear whether he’ll join midway through the season or next summer.

The verdict

All of Strakosha’s minutes this season have come in the Europa League, with Pepe Reina recognised as Maurizio Sarri’s first-choice in Serie A.

The Albanian has kept two clean sheets in his four outings in Europe, redeeming himself for an almighty howler against Galatasaray in September. BT Sport’s official Twitter account called it an ‘absolute nightmare’ and their clip of the incident was viewed 132,000 times as it went viral at the time.

However, it seems that Newcastle will look past that moment to forget. Overall, the 26-year-old has played 181 matches for the Rome-based outfit, recording 53 shutouts, while he was also labelled ‘explosive’ by former goalkeeping team-mate Silvio Proto.

Such praise and statistics would suggest that he could indeed be very shrewd acquisition on a cut-price deal or a free transfer by the Magpies.

In other news, one possible target for Newcastle at the other end of the pitch has emerged