He said during the trial in October: When he [Benzema] told me he wanted to talk to me, I did not think he would talk to me about that. When I had that conversation, I came out of the room, I was shocked. I felt that he insisted that I meet with a person who was to act as an intermediary. He was very insistent.
“We are OK under the circumstances but it was obviously a very traumatic and scary moment for both me and my little kids.
Hibernian have another home league game in a congested schedule as they host Motherwell on Saturday (15:00 GMT), while Rangers face Dundee at Ibrox at the same time.
Newcastle United have officially confirmed the signing of exciting Brazil international midfielder Bruno Guimaraes.
Winning four World Cups and four gold Olympic medals, the women’s national soccer team is arguably one of America’s finest exports. Leading football journalist Caitlin Murray’s book shows how the team has broken records, brought in piles of money, and earned acres of respect for an underappreciated side of our sport.
Of these, there were 42 new positive cases, the Premier League said in a statement. More to follow....
After the break, Gyokeres' early second-half effort was diverted away from the Cherries' goal by skipper Lloyd Kelly before the visitors added a third goal in the 55th minute when Solanke ghosted in behind the home defence to latch on to Ryan Christie's precise pass and confidently shot across the face of goal to find the bottom corner from 10 yards.
He is my brother, not with blood, but through our friendship, Rafael says. For me, it was a good experience to see him win. He has won everything this year. He is the midfielder and the brains of his teams.
Bundesliga news | Fixtures | TableThey took their first chance through Gnabry, who controlled the ball at the edge of the box with one touch and released a fierce volley past 'keeper Marwin Hitz, left frozen on the spot.
Zidane Iqbal has become the first British South Asian footballer in Manchester United's history after coming off the bench in the Champions League game against Young Boys.
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The Greenock boy learned Spanish quite quickly to adapt to life at Inter Miami, where there is a strong Hispanic culture - English is the second language at the club.
And with Messi back in France during this international break, their contributions are more important than ever.
They had no idea how to stop him. Tales of this kid from the streets of Santo Antonio, in the north-east of Funchal, rippled through the city.
Up until the 85th minute, Craig Dawson had been the best player on the pitch, but he threw that away when he brought Lukaku down in the box to get himself sent off and gift Chelsea the chance to win the game. Alonso however, was Chelsea’s best player and was one of the only players that caused a threat during the game.
With the quality of Arsenal and Chelsea, I can't see them dropping points to the likes of West Ham and Tottenham.
Feel free to play along at home, Tuesday's are meant for procrastination, but here's the Warm-Up's pick: Ramsdale; Lamptey, Zouma, Varane, Digne; Rice, Tielemans, Fernandes; Sancho, Ronaldo, Son.
What the manager said…Spurs boss Nuno Espirito Santo speaking to BT Sport: Pretty good [performance].
Sky Bet League One Plymouth crashed to their second straight defeat while Rotherham took over at the top of League One with a 2-0 win at Ipswich.
And yet it is correct to call Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side a pressing team. That is a concept Klopp made famous when he said gegenpressing was the best playmaker.
They took a big element of our attacking play away from us straight away. Credit to them because you could see they had watched us.
Having already scored a stoppage-time winner at Wolves, this was his third Premier League goal of the season despite not starting once.
Murat Yakin’s side started the match knowing they would require a favour from Northern Ireland against Italy in Belfast to finish top of Group C.
He used his programme notes before Thursday's 3-1 win against Newcastle to encourage people to get jabbed, writing: If I come across friends or people I care about in my life away from football and they tell me they haven't had a jab yet, I do my best to encourage them to listen to experts.
A useful way to pinpoint areas to exploit is by looking at how many times a player has been dribbled past.
“And when you score goals you are always confident that the ball will come to you. So, yes, I try to chase the ball, be alive and score goals.
Explaining the decision to replace him, Benitez cited a calf problem and claimed the player knew at half-time there was a strong chance he would be replaced in order to protect him ahead of a busy fixture period.
The game's tempo died down after Friend was forced into a temporary spell in goal late on as Sarkic was taken off with an arm injury.
Page explained: No, [James] didn't look happy [at being taken off]. It's for the good of the team.
That has seen them reportedly move onto two other targets: Sevilla’s Diego Carlos and Fiorentina’s Serbian international Nikola Milenkovic.
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A frustrated Thomas Tuchel fumed that everything is going against Chelsea after a late Danny Welbeck equaliser condemned his side to a damaging 1-1 draw with Brighton on Wednesday.
St Johnstone made two changes at half-time to try to freshen things up, with Stevie May and Shaun Rooney on for Middleton and Michael O'Halloran.
But in the more immediate future, Giovanni van Bronckhorst's side showed they are a team to be feared in the Europa League.
My years with Chelsea were so special to me, and I'm incredibly proud of everything we won as a team.
Scotland head coach Pedro Martinez Losa has one main ambition for the new year, and that's securing a place at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
Baroness Casey wrote: Finally, the biggest challenge I lay down is around the culture that led some individuals on the day at Wembley, and in the days after on social media, to choose to behave in this way.
Winless in four in the Premier League and knocked out of the FA Cup by Nottingham Forest earlier this month, Rodgers needed his team to put in a solid performance against their Danish Superliga opponents.
Off the field, Carvalho is said to be a very determined personality, described as “dedicated to self-improvement” by Fulham’s academy director, Huw Jennings.
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Cristiano Ronaldo tilted his head towards the sky and threw his arms up in frustration as Southampton’s Romain Perraud cleared his low effort off the line during Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.
The Brazil international turned in a typical, all-action display at El Madrigal to help his side to a vital 2-0 win and with it, qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League, putting out fires in front of United's back four before the break.
Group I: England all-but qualified England coasted to victory over Albania as Harry Kane's hat-trick all but secured World Cup qualification.
Dortmund have remained almost ever-presents in the Champions League - finishing in the top four in 10 of the last 11 seasons - and are priced at just 1/150 (1.01) to maintain that record this time out.
What worries me about this game, is their quality in both boxes, especially at the back - a common theme for Bielsa's teams.
Woodward and successor Richard Arnold have used the club's vast following on various social media platforms as a positive during talks with investors.
With Riyad Mahrez away with Algeria, Guardiola looks to have a like-for-like replacement tailormade to slot in.
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He should have had an assist with Kai Havertz to blame for not converting following a delicious cross.
