Month: October 2024

Jose Mourinho recited his famous if I speak one-liner following Fenerbahce s late exit from the Champions League to Lille on Tuesday.

Mourinho s side looked on course to take the tie to penalties after Bafode Diakite s late own-goal levelled the aggregate score in Istanbul.

But there was to be more drama as Jonathan David s long-range shot struck Jayden Oosterwolde s outstretched arm, with a penalty given after a VAR review.

David would step up to score from 12 yards in the 118th-minute, meaning the Turkish side will play in the Europa League next season as Mourinho faces a possible reunion with Manchester United or Tottenham.

Maç sonucu: Fenerbahce 1-1 LOSC Lille

— Fenerbahce SK (@Fenerbahce)

In his post-match assessment, Mourinh…

Raheem Sterling believes he has far more improvement in him under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City after signing a bumper new deal with the Premier League champions.

The England winger has reached terms running until the end of the 2022-23 campaign that could reportedly earn him as much as £300,000 per week.

Sterling joined City from Liverpool in 2015 and has proved himself an integral member of Guardiola s free-scoring side.

Season-on-season at the Etihad Stadium he has been involved in a greater number of goals and, with seven strikes and as many assists to his name this term, the 23-year-old feels the sky is the limit.

There s definitely a lot more to come, he told City TV. There s stuff that I m still working on. There s never a time when I think …

Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Ballon d Or for 2016, the fourth time he has been named the world s best player.

The 31-year-old started the year with critics claiming he was past his best, but went on to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and Euro 2016 with Portugal.

The Club World Cup could still follow before the end of the calendar year.

Here, we look at the best numbers from Ronaldo s year, with the help of Opta data:
 

51 – Ronaldo has scored 51 times for club and country in 2016 from a total of 55 appearances.

38 – Of those 51 goals, 38 were scored from 42 matches at club level – 31 in LaLiga and seven in the Champions League.

13 – He netted 13 times in as many games for Portugal in 2016 – his best goalscoring year…

After years of being derided as one of European football s worst elite leagues, Ligue 1 is now home to some of the best players in the game.

The respective fortunes of Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco have attracted a plethora of world-class players to French shores.

Household names such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva and Radamel Falcao all now call Ligue 1 home.

There is no doubt that the level of talent present in the division has increased markedly and, despite the financial fair play sanctions that were handed down to PSG in May, neither the defending champions nor Monaco are likely to stop their spending any time soon.

However, the adverse effect of PSG and Monaco s financial power is that it has left the rest of the league, which features a numbe…

Georges Mikautadze, who earned a share of the Golden Boot at Euro 2024, has returned to hometown club Lyon less than three weeks after being bought by Metz.

Mikautadze netted three times as Georgia reached the last 16 on their major tournament debut in Germany, only to lose 4-1 to eventual champions Spain.

That earned him a share of the Golden Boot alongside five other players; Cody Gakpo, Harry Kane, Dani Olmo, Jamal Musiala and Ivan Schranz.

He spent the second half of 2023-24 on loan at Metz from Ajax, scoring 13 times in 20 appearances but failing to prevent them from being relegated from Ligue 1.

Metz lost a relegation play-off to Saint-Etienne but still exercised a clause to sign Mikautadze permanently earlier this month.

However, it was sti…

Europe s qualifying section for the 2022 World Cup reaches its dramatic climax over the next week, with eight more nations set to secure their places in Qatar.

There will be 50 matches played during this international window, during which the outcome of all 10 groups will be decided, with Denmark and Germany the only European nations to have already booked their tickets.

Indeed, the other eight group winners will seal automatic qualification for Qatar 2022, while another 10 nations will advance to March s play-offs as the runners-up.

The 10 second-placed teams will be joined by the two best group winners from the 2020-21 Nations League who have neither already qualified nor sealed a play-off spot via the group stage.

With plenty of excitement and drama gu…

We’re at the one-third marker of the NFL season with Week 6 odds on the board. With the gap between contenders and pretenders becoming clear, the NFL lines tighten, and getting the best of the number is even more vital to keeping your best NFL bets in the black.

With that in mind, these are the best spreads and totals to bet now – and the best to bet later – in Week 6 of the NFL schedule.

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With Drew Brees jumping into the red-hot pickleball space and retired head coach Sean Payton putting his feet up (before picking out homes in Dallas), no one would have blamed the New Orleans Saints for tearing down the Mardi Gras float in 2022.

But, with veteran defensive coordinator Dennis Allen taking over the head coaching reigns and long-time Payton staffer Pete Carmichael calling the offense, it’s business as usual in the Big Easy. That means pushing for a postseason spot. 

The Saints’ NFL odds are split on the success of NOLA this season, with a break-even win total and the playoff props projecting a fight to the finish for New Orleans. Can the good times continue to roll in the Crescent City? We find out with our New Orleans Saints 202…

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Super Bowl Sunday! The most hotly-anticipated game on the sports calendar kicks off at about 6:30 p.m. ET at State Farm Stadium, as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles. 

If you’re wondering what the latest Super Bowl odds are, trying to finalize your Super Bowl predictions, or just looking to add some Super Bowl props to your docket, we’ve got your back with our last-minute updates below.

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It’s almost Halloween and if you’re looking for last-minute costume ideas, you might want to keep in mind that for an NFL quarterback, there is nothing more terrifying than a 270-pound behemoth trying to take your head off.

I hunt for those kinds of monsters as I dive into the NFL odds and find the best defensive player props to bet on. This week, that’s headlined by one of the scariest defensive players in the league — Philadelphia’s Haason Reddick. 

Here are my favorite sack and tackle NFL picks when it comes to the latest Week 8 odds. 

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