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Ten Hag Says He Will Finish Season At Ajax Amid Rumours

Ajax coach Erik ten Hag on Monday ruled himself out of the running to take over as Bayern Munich coach, for the time being, saying he would be staying at the Dutch champions until at least the end of the current season.
Bayern sacked Niko Kovac on Sunday, sparking heated speculation as to who the Bundesliga giants could appoint in his place, with Ten Hag reportedly high on the list after Ajax’s scintillating run to the Champions League semi-finals last season and their impressive start to this campaign.

Ten Hag was Bayern’s reserves coach from 2013-15 under Pep Guardiola, but

Granit Xhaka Stripped Of Arsenal Captaincy

Arsenal midfielder has been stripped of the club captaincy days after clashing with the Gunners supporters, Arsenal manager Unai Emery said.
Xhaka appeared to swear at Arsenal supporters after his second-half substitution prompted sarcastic cheers and booing during s 2-2 home draw with Crystal Palace, with the 27-year-old cupping his ears, waving his arms angrily and ripping off his shirt before storming down the tunnel.Xhaka has faced calls to be stripped of the Arsenal captaincy and he was left out of last Wednesday’s League Cup defeat at Liverpool after Gunners boss Emery admitted his reaction was wrong.

Barcelona Stumble To Home Draw Against Slavia

Ernesto Valverde is under mounting pressure at Barcelona after his team followed up their La Liga defeat by Levante with a goalless draw at home to Slavia Prague on Tuesday in the Champions League.
Lionel Messi hit the crossbar in the first half but that was as close as Barca came during a disjointed display that risks dragging Valverde’s team back into the fight for qualification from Group F.

Barcelona sits four points ahead of both Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan, whose game in hand comes against each other later on Tuesday. Barca plays Dortmund at home next but will

Liverpool To Play Twice In 2 Days In 2 Different Countries

Liverpool will play two games in two days nearly 5,000 miles apart after their League Cup quarter-final against Aston Villa was scheduled for the day before their Club World Cup semi-final in Qatar.

The European champions will travel to Villa on December 17, League Cup organisers the English Football League announced on Tuesday.

Liverpool plays their first match of the Club World Cup in Doha the following day, meaning the Red’s will be forced to use two separate squads for the fixtures.

“We will be utilising two playing squads simultaneously, with one squad participating in the FIFA Club World Cup …

Iheanacho Short-Listed For Leicester’s Goal-Of-The-Month

Iheanacho Short-Listed For Leicester’s Goal-Of-The-Month

Kelechi Iheanacho and another Nigerian, Josh Eppiah, have been nominated for Leicester City’s goal of the month prize for October 2019.

Out-of-favour Nigeria international, Iheanacho, made it two goals in as many games when he opened the scoring in the seventh minute against Burton Albion in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup on October 29.

An excellent sweeping move from Leicester City culminated in Iheanacho finding the back of the net, assisted by Youri Tielemans.

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Eppiah netted the game’s winning goal with a long-range strike in the 90th minute to help …

Vardy Playing With A Smile, Says Leicester Boss Rodgers

Vardy Playing With A Smile, Says Leicester Boss Rodgers

Jamie Vardy is playing with a smile on his face after “little adjustments” helped him rocket to the top of the Premier League goalscoring charts, according to Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers.

The 32-year-old former England marksman took his tally to 10 league goals with the Foxes’ second goal in their 2-0 win over Crystal Palace on Sunday which took them back into third place in the Premier League.

Leicester is ahead of Chelsea on goal difference and six points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal, whom they host next weekend, in the early battle for a place in next season’s Champions

Barty Tops End-Of-Season Women’s Ranking

Barty Tops End-Of-Season Women’s Ranking

Ashleigh Barty of Australia tops the end of season women’s tennis rankings released Monday, a day after her triumph in the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, China.With 7,851 points, Barty, who has topped the rankings since early September, eclipsed second-placed Karolína Plíšková (5,940 points) by almost 2,000 points.

Naomi Osaka (5,497) held on to third place from Simona Halep, who moved up one spot to fourth on 5.462 points.

Barty dominated Elina Svitolina in Sunday’s final in Shenzhen, winning 6-4, 6-3 to collect the richest prize in women’s tennis of $4.4

Bournemouth End Man United’s 3-Match Winning Run

Bournemouth End Man United’s 3-Match Winning Run

King struck just before interval to condemn Manchester United to another defeat on the road.

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The former Manchester United youngster flicked the ball over Aaron Wan-Bissaka before beating David De Gea as the hosts ended a run of 358 minutes without scoring.

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United enjoyed plenty of the ball but didn’t create enough chances in the game.

The defeat ended United’s

South Africa Crush England In World Cup Final

South Africa Crush England In World Cup Final

2019 Rugby World Cup final
England: (6) 12
Pen: Farrell 4
South Africa: (12) 32
Try: Mapimpi, Kolbe Con: Pollard 2 Pen: Pollard 6

South Africa broke English hearts with a ruthless display of power rugby to seize their third Rugby World Cup in devastating fashion.

Twenty two points from the boot of nerveless fly-half Handre Pollard and second-half tries from wingers Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe ground England into the Yokohama dirt on a horrible night for Eddie Jones’s men.

England had trailed 12-6 at the interval after taking a hammering in the scrum and making a series of …

Bayern Thrashed 5-1 At Frankfurt In Heaviest League Defeat

Bayern Thrashed 5-1 At Frankfurt In Heaviest League Defeat

Bayern Munich crashed to their heaviest Bundesliga defeat for a decade with a 5-1 thrashing at Eintracht Frankfurt which leaves head coach Niko Kovac under huge pressure.

Defending champions Bayern, who had to play the majority of the match with 10 men following Jerome Boateng’s ninth-minute red card, are fourth, four points behind leaders Borussia Moenchengladbach who won 2-1 at Bayer Leverkusen.

It was Bayern’s biggest league defeat since April 2009 when they crashed 5-1 at Wolfsburg, who won the 2008/09 league title.After a shock 2-1 loss at home to Hoffenheim last month, Bayern suffered a second league defeat of …

Late Turnaround Keeps Man City On Liverpool’s Tails

Late Turnaround Keeps Man City On Liverpool’s Tails

Kyle Walker volleyed home a dramatic 87th minute winner as Manchester City warmed up for next week’s visit to Premier League leaders Liverpool by crucially coming from a goal down to beat Southampton 2-1 on Saturday.

Barely a week after conceding nine goals against Leicester, Southampton led for 70 minutes thanks to a shock first half goal from James Ward-Prowse.

But Sergio Aguero equalised for Pep Guardiola’s side before right-back Walker became the unlikely goalscoring hero in the closing minutes.

Angelino, making his first league start for City, unleashed a dangerous cross which keeper Alex McCarthy palmed unconvincingly away from …

Ndidi Beats Kante To EPL’s Top Tackler

Ndidi Beats Kante To EPL’s Top Tackler

SUPER Eagles and Leicester City midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, Wilfred Ndidi, has beaten Chel- sea midfielder, N’Golo Kante, to another significant landmark in the Premier League.

nine-game appearance for the English giants in the new season, so far.

The Nigerian international has recorded 394 tackles to beat ex-Everton midfielder, Idrissa Gueye (302) as well as Chelsea star, N’Golo Kante (263) to the landmark, Whoscored.com reported that Ndidi hit 68 tackles before moving to Premier League.

The 22-year-old ace, who joined Leicester in a mouth- watering £17million deal from KRC Genk in 2017, has bagged two goals in nine appearances of Premier