Alan Pardew has vowed to send resurgent Newcastle United out to attack Liverpool in Saturday s Premier League clash at St James Park.
The Tyneside club have put a dismal start to the season behind them by winning their last three matches in all competitions to ease the pressure on manager Pardew.
Newcastle s latest success came at the expense of Premier League champions Manchester City, who were consigned to a shock 2-0 League Cup defeat at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.
Few would have given Newcastle any hope of progressing to the last eight when Pardew name a much-changed side that included the likes of Rob Elliot, Rolando Aarons, Adam Armstrong and Ryan Taylor making his first start since August 2012.
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp named Darwin Nunez and Trent Alexander-Arnold on the bench as his team prepared to face Manchester City in the Premier League.
Despite scoring in each of his last two appearances, Nunez made way in the Liverpool attack, along with Fabio Carvalho, following the 7-1 Champions League win at Rangers. Diogo Jota and Ibrox hat-trick hero Mohamed Salah came in.
Alexander-Arnold had been expected to miss Sunday s fixture entirely after suffering an ankle injury in the 3-2 loss at Arsenal, but he was surprisingly among the substitutes for the clash at Anfield.
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James Milner got the nod to start at right-back in place of centre-back Ibrahima Konate, who missed out…
It could be a busy off-season for Real Madrid.
Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are reportedly high on Madrid s list of targets.
However, Robert Lewandowski and Paul Pogba are also believed to be of interest.
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Real Madrid are eyeing Bayern Munich talisman Robert Lewandowski and Manchester United star Paul Pogba, according to the front page of Saturday s Diario AS.
Lewandowski s future in Munich is reportedly uncertain and the Poland international could leave as Bayern eye in-demand Borussia Dortmund sensation Erling Haaland.
Saturday s report claims Lewandowski will prioritise a move to Madrid, who are determined to sign Paris Saint-Germain s Kylian Mbappe having also been linked…
Julian Nagelsmann admits confidence at RB Leipzig has suffered due to recent results – but believes sitting second in the table may work to their advantage ahead of the clash with leaders Bayern Munich.
Leipzig go into the crucial fixture on a three-match winless run, their latest setback coming with a 3-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in the DFB-Pokal on Tuesday.
They have slipped off top spot in the table and the blip is hardly ideal preparation for taking on an in-form Bayern side, who have won six on the spin in the league.
Ahead of the trip to the Allianz Arena on Sunday, Nagelsmann called for his players to get back to the style of play that was so successful earlier in the campaign, insisting they must embrace the challenge of toppling Bayern, rather t…
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Looking to officially wrap up a Champions League ticket on Sunday evening, Royale Union will welcome Genk to the Joseph Marien Stadium.
Starting with the hosts, while Royale Union might have eventually fallen short in their bid to claim a first domestic crown since 1935, Alexander Blessin’s men are signing off this year’s campaign with a real flurry. Knowing that three points on Sunday would be enough to book a lucrative Champions League return, Les Unionistes are unbeaten in all of their previous six Pro League appearances. Last seen claiming a 2-1 victory away at Cercle Brugge, the Yellows are enjoying their most fruitful spell since returning from March’s international break. Looking to make a final statement here, …
Olivier Giroud was dropped by France boss Didier Deschamps on Thursday in a move that casts early doubt on the striker s World Cup prospects.
The decision to omit France s second highest goalscorer of all time was taken by Deschamps ahead of the three World Cup qualifiers that await Les Bleus in early September.
Giroud, who turns 35 at the end of next month, has scored seven times for his country in the past 12 months but did not find the net at Euro 2020.
Pre-tournament comments, which were interpreted as Giroud criticising Kylian Mbappe, saw the veteran forward complain of a lack of service.
Mbappe was disappointed with those remarks, particularly with Giroud making them in public rather than in the dressing room, and it remains to be seen whether …
A second-string Mexico team battled to a 1-0 win over Ghana in an international friendly in Houston.
With Mexico s stars Javier Hernandez, Carlos Vela, Hirving Lozano, Giovani dos Santos and Andres Guardado away in Russia preparing for Thursday s Confederations Cup semi-final against Germany, Wednesday s fixture was a chance for the CONCACAF Gold Cup squad to impress.
And the Mexicans emerged triumphant thanks to Elias Hernandez s 32nd-minute penalty at NRG Stadium in the United States.
Luis Pompilio Paez – Juan Carlos Osorio s assistant – oversaw proceedings in Houston. The team – made up of players based in Mexico – only had six men with 10 caps or more as Hugo Ayala, Jesus Molina, Moises Munoz, Jesus Duenas and Hernandez were named in the starting XI.<…
Lautaro Martinez provided the finishing touch as Inter Milan cruised into the Champions League final with a 3-0 aggregate win over AC Milan.
Martinez fired the only goal of a stop-start second leg to add to their 2-0 victory in last week’s opening instalment and Inter will face either Manchester City or Real Madrid in Istanbul on June 10.
Argentina’s World Cup winning-striker, who was outstanding throughout, pounced in the 75th minute as Inter clinched an eighth successive win in front of a crowd of 76,000 at the San Siro.
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It secures their first Champions League final since 2010 – when Jose Mourinho masterminded the treble before leaving to join Real Madrid – and keeps alive hopes of lifting a fourth E…
The NFL Scouting Combine kicks off on Tuesday, March 1, and runs through the weekend before coming to completion on Monday, March 7.
It’s the last stop before 2022 NFL Draft, which runs from April 28-30. We’ve already got one 2022 Mock Draft ready to go, but the combine could change things.
As such, there are plenty of combine bets available for your perusal. Here are the current NFL Draft odds for a variety of combine events ahead of Tuesday’s start.
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