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Post by Webster on Aug 23, 2019 16:23:18 GMT
(The Guardian) Leicester City: Brendan Rodgers has been shooting the breeze ahead of Leicester’s match against Sheffield United this weekend and has said he is unconcerned that Jamie Vardy, who scored 18 Premier League goals last season, has yet to get off the mark in this campaign. “I’m sure he would love to go back to Sheffield and open his account, I hope so.,” he said of Vardy, who is a Sheffield Wednesday fan. “He’s gone close on a few occasions. It’s only a matter of time and he’s a top class operator at this level. You can sense the fear when he’s in front of goal and running towards goal and if he just keeps getting into those areas then the goals will come for him. I see that in training and in matches.”
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Post by Webster on Aug 23, 2019 16:25:13 GMT
(The Guardian) Sheffield United: Chris Wilder has been speaking ahead of his side’s match against Leicester city at Bramall Lane tomorrow, telling reporters how much he admires Jamie Vardy, a Sheffield Wednesday supporter. “I have got nothing but respect for his career and what he has done,” he said. “It is a great inspiration for a lot of non-league players. My career in coaching and management started out in non-league and I have a lot of affiliation and love for the grassroots game. He is the star performer in terms of where he started and where he has finished. “There is a lot of respect from me towards Jamie and how well he has done. And still, looking at the clips against Chelsea last weekend and the desire in his face, he still has that desire and hunger that has taken him to the very top.” Callum Robinson has recovered from injury and is expected to be involved against Leicester, after being forced off during the win against Crystal Palace. John Fleck also hobbled off with an injury last weekend and a late decision will be made on the midfielder’s fitness.
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Post by Webster on Aug 23, 2019 16:29:09 GMT
(The Guardian) Manchester City: In news of a slightly less impoverished outfit in the north-west, Manchester City will be without John Stones for their visit to Bournemouth on Sunday. The defender is sidelined with a muscle problem, while Benjamin Mendy is back in training but not yet ready to play following the knee injury which kept him out for most of last season. City have never lost to or even drawn with against Bournemouth City head to Bournemouth on Sunday to face a team they have never lost to. “We know each other quite well for the fact that it is the same managers from four years ago,” Guardiola said. “They have the same points as us after two games and they won away [against Aston Villa] when it is difficult to go to a newly promoted team in the first game of the season. They are defending incredibly well, setting up deep with a 5-4-1 or a 5-3-2, and they attack really well in the channels and from set-pieces so it is always tough.”
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Post by Webster on Aug 23, 2019 16:30:03 GMT
(The Guardian) Chelsea: Ever the optimist, Frank Lampard believes Chelsea could have won all three games so far had they been more clinical in attack. That’s something of a stretch given that one of those was a 4-0 loss but let’s not quibble with such minor details. Tammy Abraham, Olivier Giroud and Michy Batshuayi have a combined tally of zero goals in the Premier League so far but Lampard is backing his striking trio to come good. “As I said before, if we’d have been more clinical in front of goal we possibly could have had three wins. The competition is there and that’s the challenge for the strikers. “I’ve got no problems with their attitude and training. We work hard on the training ground as a team to create and also to finish. I used to love practising my finishing in training. “What I have got is great attitude in the three strikers. But others in the squad also always want to stay out, want to work harder. “Tammy’s goal goes in off the post against United, different story for him, different story for the game. But we can’t get too down about that, we’ve got to stay positive and it will come. “We’ve got some great attacking players here and it will come.”
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Post by Webster on Aug 23, 2019 19:40:37 GMT
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Post by Webster on Aug 24, 2019 2:43:28 GMT
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Post by Webster on Aug 25, 2019 3:51:31 GMT
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Post by Webster on Aug 26, 2019 15:42:43 GMT
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Post by Webster on Aug 31, 2019 15:27:39 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 1, 2019 2:01:38 GMT
Saturday saw eight games across the grounds of England as we approach the first International Break of the campaign.... (SA) In the day's early match, a 10-man Southampton side held Manchester United to a 1-1 draw down on the South Coast(SA) Out at Stamford Bridge, a late-second own goal by Chelsea's Kurt Zouma denied them the win, forcing them to settle with a 2-2 draw against Sheffield United(SA) Meanwhile, down in South London, Crystal Palace earned a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa courtesy of a Jordan Ayew goal(SA) Out at the King Power, a Jamie Vardy brace helped lead Leicester City to a 3-1 victory over visitors Bournemouth(SA) Give Brighton credit; although they lost at the Etihad 4-0 to Manchester City, they didn't try to park the bus but rather fought all 90 minutes(SA) Up in the Northeast, Newcastle United and Watford shared the points in a feisty 1-1 draw(SA) Over at the London Olympic, West Ham earned all three points in a 2-0 win over visitors Norwich City and (SA) In the day's late match, Liverpool - having momentarily fallen from 1st in the League table - retook 1st going into the break with an emphatic 3-0 win over Burnley out at Turf Moor
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Post by Webster on Sept 2, 2019 0:43:14 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 8, 2019 17:50:26 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 13, 2019 14:36:40 GMT
(The Guardian) Manchester United injury crisisOle Gunnar Solskjær could be missing up to seven Manchester United players for Leicester City’s visit to Old Trafford on Saturday. Anthony Martial, Paul Pogba, Diogo Dalot, Luke Shaw and Eric Bailly are unavailable, while Jesse Lingard and Aaron-Wan Bissaka are doubts. Solskjær said: “The treatment room’s been busy and still is so we don’t really know who’s going to be available – there’s maybe Aaron, maybe Jesse and I think maybe that’s it but I can’t promise those two will be available either. “Pogba won’t be fit, no, unless he’s had a miraculous recovery overnight from yesterday to today or tonight to tomorrow; he’s not been ready to do 100% training, no. We hope more can be ready for West Ham next week and Paul and Anthony are in that category, I think they’ll be ready for then and can’t say more than that really.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 13, 2019 14:38:03 GMT
(The Guardian) The admission by PGMOL chief Mike Riley that VAR has got four decisions wrong in the Premier League this season has led to a certain TV broadcaster loading their coverage with questions about the infernal machines. Per the BBC the decisions were: --Appeals for a penalty from Manchester City for a foul on midfielder David Silva in their 3-1 win at Bournemouth on 25 August should have been given. --A foul on West Ham striker Sebastien Haller in their win against Norwich on 31 August should have resulted in a penalty. --Leicester City’s Youri Tielemans should have been sent off for his foul on Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson on the same day. --Also on 31 August, a handball by Newcastle United’s Isaac Hayden was missed in the build-up to Fabian Schar’s equaliser against Watford. Eddie Howe, who speaks at 8am every week, was first on the blocks: “It’s a positive thing that mistakes have been admitted, there will be things that need to be ironed out. I’m still on the fence.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 13, 2019 14:40:52 GMT
(The Guardian) Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson has been speaking to media ahead of his side’s visit to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London. “If we come away tomorrow with points, we’ve got to give an exceptional performance at both ends of the field,” Hodgson said. It’s only three weeks since the Eagles emerged from Old Trafford with three points, so victory against Spurs is hardly beyond them. Team news-wise, Hodgson confirmed that defender Martin Kelly and striker Connor Wickham are both sidelined by injury, added to which “there are a couple of people we need to assess in the morning”. Scott Dann and James McArthur are the two players whose fitness remains in question.
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