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Leeds United travel away to The Emirates tonight as they go in search of progress through to the fifth round of the competition.

They face Arsenal after holding Wolves to a 1-1 draw at the weekend in the Premier League, with the Whites sat just above the relegation zone as it stands.

Rodrigo scored a last-minute penalty for Leeds after Hee-Chan Hwang’s opening goal for Wolves and Marcelo Bielsa could make changes to his side to freshen things up for this cup clash.

Get Rid

One player he must ruthlessly axe from the team is left-winger Jack Harrison, as the forward struggled badly at the weekend and is having a difficult season.

Per SofaScore, he lost 100% of his duels against Bruno Lage’s Wolves. He failed in all seven of his individual battles and only completed 67% of his passes, whilst failing to complete either of his two attempted dribbles either.

His statistics over the course of the Premier League campaign do not make for much better reading. The winger is yet to contribute with a goal or assist in eight matches, losing 66% of his duels and giving away possession 15.9 times per match.

This shows that he is currently in poor form and the performance against Wolves was simply the tip of the iceberg, which is why Bielsa must axe him. He should be dropped from the XI for this cup tie with Arsenal to give others a chance to impress.

On the one hand, you can look at it as a ruthless axing from the team in the sense that his performances do not warrant a place in the starting line-up. He has not shown enough consistently this season to prove that he deserves to start and that is one of the reasons why the manager should name him on the substitute’s bench.

On the other hand, it could be a tactic to motivate Harrison to up his game. He may spend his time on the bench wondering what he could do to improve and then put that into place in training in an attempt to impress Bielsa and win his starting berth back for Sunday’s trip to Carrow Road to face 20th-placed Norwich.

Therefore, Bielsa must drop Harrison down to the bench to, firstly, improve the team in the immediate future and, secondly, to motivate him to train harder and get back to his best.

AND in other news, “From what I’ve gauged”: Leeds journo makes key transfer claim that should excite fans…

أعلن المدير الفني للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي آرسنال، ميكل أرتيتا، تشكيل اللاعبين الذين سيخوضون مباراة ليستر سيتي في الجولة الثانية من بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي 2022/2023.

وتنطلق مباراة آرسنال وليستر سيتي في تمام الساعة الرابعة عصرًا بتوقيت “القاهرة” على ملعب “الإمارات” في العاصمة “لندن” بقيادة الحكم، ديفيد إنجلاند.

وشهد تشكيل آرسنال غياب لاعب وسط منتخب مصر، محمد النني، وظهوره على مقاعد البدلاء فقط كما حدث في المباراة الأولى أمام كريستال بالاس.

ويحتل آرسنال المركز الثاني في ترتيب الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز خلف توتنهام المتصدر برصيد 3 نقاط، بينما يأتي ليستر سيتي في المركز الثاني عشر برصيد نقطة واحدة.

اقرأ أيضًا.. ديلي ميل تتعجب من غياب محمد صلاح عن جائزة أفضل لاعب في أوروبا

🚨 TEAM NEWS!

We’re unchanged from our 2-0 win over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park 🔥#ARSLEI — Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 13, 2022

تشكيل آرسنال أمام ليستر سيتي اليوم

حراسة المرمى: آرون رامسدال.

الدفاع: أوليكسندر زينتشينكو، جابريل، ويليام صاليبا، بن وايت.

الوسط: جرانيت تشاكا، توماس بارتي، بوكايو ساكا.

الهجوم: مارتن اوديجارد، جابريل جيسوس، جابريل مارتينيلي.

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Depois de vencer o Paysandu fora de casa na última rodada da Série B, o Figueirense recebe o Goiás neste sábado, em Florianópolis, visando um triunfo para incluir uma boa sequência na competição. Para o atacante alvinegro Zé Love, a equipe está motivada para o segundo turno da disputa.

– Vamos procurar fazer um grande segundo turno para brigarmos lá na frente da tabela de classificação. Temos que acreditar até o fim. Não faltará luta e entrega da equipe até o último jogo da Série B. A torcida pode ter certeza a disso.

Ainda segundo o centroavante, desde seu retorno da cirurgia para correção de uma hérnia de disco, sua evolução foi grande – ele marcou um gol em duas partidas na segundona.

– Desde que retornei da cirurgia que fiz tive uma evolução muito grande. Espero continuar crescendo de produção para ajudar o Figueirense a conquistar seus objetivos na Série B. Estou muito motivado para isso.

Figueirense e Goiás entram em campo neste sábado, às 19h, no Orlando Scarpelli.

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Geoff Miller, England’s national selector, hopes the new head coach is named quickly so that he can begin putting his plans in place for the hectic season ahead

Cricinfo staff09-Apr-2009

England’s national selector Geoff Miller has called for a quick resolution to the England coaching search to allow him to commence planning for the hectic season ahead.Miller will name his first Test squad of the season, to face West Indies at Lord’s, on April 18. It will be a larger assembly of players than usual, resembling more of a touring squad, partly because a number of key members of the England team are involved in the Indian Premier League.Andy Flower, the interim coach, will advise on the squad selection even though he has not been confirmed as England’s full-time director of cricket. Following a winter of distractions, Miller implored the ECB to make a swift coaching appointment to restore a degree of stability to the national squad.”I would very much like it to be as soon as possible, personally, because it makes my job far easier,” Miller told reporters at Lord’s. “I can get on making decisions with him about what we’re going to do this summer.”Miller was at Lord’s with Flower – who is the frontrunner to become the director of cricket – partly so the pair could debrief about the recently completed West Indies tour, and also to watch fringe players in the MCC side hoping to push their claims for national selection. With Durham batting throughout the shortened first day, both men left St John’s Wood none the wiser as to which of the MCC’s senior batsmen could best contend for the No. 3 spot.Michael Vaughan, Ian Bell and Robert Key can each make a case to replace Owais Shah, one of England’s IPL-bound players, in the Test side if the selectors feel change is required. Though the England squad will be named next week, the identity of precisely who will hold down the No. 3 slot will remain unresolved. As many as three candidates could be named in the expanded squad.Those players will have a maximum of two more rounds of Championship games (or a possible England Lions match against West Indies) to make a final push before the Test squad meet up on May 4.”There might be one or two that need to get some runs but they know the situation,” Miller said. “There are lots of permutations. The reason these players are playing here – it’s not a trial as such – is for us to see where they are with their specific games at this moment in time because early decisions have to be made in the selection.”Bell, one of those hoping for a recall, knows there is only one way back into the team. “I’ve got to go to Warwickshire score as many runs as I can,” he told Cricinfo earlier this week. “If I can give the selectors no alternative but to pick me because I’ve scored so many runs that’s the way I’d like to go.”It is a busy time for the England selectors, who have announced the preliminary 30-man ICC World Twenty20 squad and the performance squad in the last week. The final 15-man party for the World Twenty20, which will also need a captain, will be named before May 1.Two bowlers in the Twenty20 squad, Tim Bresnan and 20-year-old Chris Woakes, impressed on the opening day at Lord’s. Bresnan, a late selection for the match, claimed two wickets and Woakes removed Gordon Muchall during a testing spell of swing.

Aston Villa are eyeing a move for Stoke City star Harry Souttar in the January transfer window, and Alan Hutton has given his seal of approval behind a move.

What’s the story?

Reports in recent days have suggested that Dean Smith’s side have got their eye on a new year swoop for the centre-back, and former Villa man Hutton has insisted Souttar would be a great signing for them.

He said: “I think when you look at the boys who are there, they’re all good in the air. I’ve worked with them, I know they can be physical but they like playing with the ball at their feet as well.

“I think it’s very good to have those different styles of footballers within your armoury. It gives you the option if you want. If somebody’s injured, you want to play four at the back, three at the back or something may happen, you’ve got room to manoeuvre. I think that was Dean Smith’s plan moving forward. The starting XI was very good but they needed to bolster the squad.

“I think that’s the situation that they’re in at the moment. He obviously ticks all the boxes. He’s very physical, he’s there to win the ball and it’s good to have someone like that in your backline.”

Shades of Tyrone Mings

Once described as a “Rolls-Royce” by Stoke stalwart Ryan Shawcross, the defender has been compared to a number of different big-name players, including the likes of Harry Maguire and Virgil van Dijk.

His manager at Stoke, Michael O’Neill, is clearly a big fan of the kind of modern, ball-playing centre-back that Souttar is, saying: “He’s a player blessed with great natural attributes. Obviously his height but also he’s got good game intelligence and he’s a great user of the ball as well. That’s something which I think will set him apart from the other defenders in this league.”

And, when you compare his physical attributes (he’s an inch taller than Mings at a towering 6 foot 6), as well as his key defensive stats to the Villa man, they favour well.

As per Whoscored, he averages a whopping six times the amount of tackles per game as Mings, while he also boasts more interceptions per match in the Championship too. Not only that, but Souttar also makes close to eighty passes per game on average for Stoke (29 more than Mings), and at a far better accuracy too.

The Stoke beast could bring some added physicality to Villa’s back-line and give Smith some extra depth in that centre-back role. His height, reading of the game and ability to play out from the back has got real shades of Mings.

Meanwhile, Ashley Preece has confirmed an Aston Villa “blow”…

Newcastle United are now reportedly targeting a move for Mauro Icardi after the takeover by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) consortium went through.

The Lowdown: Game time limited

The 28-year-old is currently enduring a tough time at Paris Saint-Germain, where he has seen his game-time becoming limited following the arrival of Lionel Messi from Barcelona.

Icardi has only managed to play the full 90 minutes on two separate occasions so far this season, with many of his appearances coming as a substitute.

The Latest: Icardi targeted

As per Calciomercato, Newcastle are now targeting a move for Icardi ahead of the January transfer window coming up.

However, they will reportedly face competition from both Tottenham Hotspur and Juventus for his signature.

The Verdict: Sign

As money is no object to the new owners, the Tyneside club should be looking to sign the £31.5m-rated Icardi. He should be relatively easy to acquire given his lack of game-time at PSG, and he may be a player who they would consider selling for the right price.

At 28 years of age, the Argentina international is a goalscorer in his prime, and with no fewer than 172 senior goals to his name for club and country combined, he certainly knows how to find the back of the net.

The striker would certainly be a statement signing which should hopefully persuade other global stars to follow him to St James’ Park.

In other news, find out which ‘phenomenal’ ace Newcastle are also eyeing

South African allrounder Albie Morkel will be pushing to take Chennai Super Kings to victory in the second season of the IPL but he isn’t about to reveal any secrets

Cricinfo staff22-Apr-2009

South African allrounder Albie Morkel will be pushing hard to take Chennai Super Kings to victory in the second season of the IPL but he isn’t about to reveal secrets with the World Twenty20 around the corner.Graeme Smith, JP Duminy, AB de Villiers, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Herschelle Gibbs, Dale Steyn and Roelof van der Merwe are some of the South Africans who play for other teams in the IPL and Morkel said they had been given instructions not to reveal secrets with the World Twenty20 coming up in June.”We’ve been given specific instructions by our boards not to reveal all our secrets, especially with the World Twenty20 coming up in a couple of months’ time,” Albie told . “It’s not that we don’t talk, but we don’t reveal all our strategies. That is as per instructions from our boards. We cannot show off all our secret weapons and there’s not much we can do about it. It’s true not just for me, but for the others as well.”However, Morkel did not feel that it affected the competitiveness of the game. “Not quite. We try and innovate and find new facets to our game. That only helps us develop as cricketers,” he said. “For me, the last IPL was such a big help in my growth as a cricketer. I learnt a lot about playing in India, which in turn added something more to my game, especially the bowling.”

يشهد اليوم الخميس 4-8-2022 إقامة العديد من المباريات في الدوري المصري، بجانب انطلاق منافسات بطولة الدوري الأوروبي.

وتنطلق مساء اليوم منافسات الجولة الـ29 من بطولة الدوري المصري بإقامة 3 مواجهات الأولى بين سموحة وسيراميكا كليوباترا والثانية بين إنبي ومنافسه ايسترن كومباني.

وتختتم مباريات اليوم بلقاء قوي بين المصري وطلائع الجيش على أرضية استاد برج العرب.

كما تبدأ مواجهات الدور التمهيدي ببطولة الدوري الأوروبي بإقامة عدد من اللقاءات أبرزها مباراة فنربخشة أمام سلوفاكو. مواعيد مباريات اليوم الخميس 4-8-2022 والقنوات الناقلةمواعيد مباريات الدوري المصري اليوم

سموحة أمام سيراميكا كليوباتر وتُذاع على ON Time Sports 2

إنبي ضد ايسترن كومباني وتُذاع على ON Time Sports 3

وتنطلق المباراتان في تمام 6:30 مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، 7:30 مساءً بتوقيت السعودية.

المصري أمام طلائع الجيش وتنطلق المباراة في تمام 9 مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، 10 مساءً بتوقيت السعودية، وتُذاع على ON Time Sports 1 مواعيد مباريات الدوري الأوروبي اليوم

فنربخشة التركي أمام سلوفاكو التشيكي وتنطلق المباراة في تمام 7 مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، 8 مساءً بتوقيت السعودية.

أولمبياكوس اليوناني ضد سلوفان براتسيلافا السلوفاكي وتنطلق المباراة في تمام 9 مساءً بتوقيت القاهرة، 10 مساءً بتوقيت السعودية.

يمكنكم مطالعة مواعيد ونتائج جميع المباريات لحظة بلحظة من مركز المباريات من هنا.

تواصل مسؤولو النادي الأهلي مع نظرائهم في طلائع الجيش، من أجل حسم صفقة انتقال لاعب الأخير لصفوف المارد الأحمر، خلال فترة الانتقالات الصيفية المُقبلة.

وعلم “بطولات” أن الأهلي لديه الرغبة في التعاقد مع مصطفى الزناري مدافع الجيش، بعد ظهوره بمستوى مميز مع فريقه هذا الموسم.

وأبدى مسؤولو الأهلي مرونة في التعاقد مع اللاعب بمقابل مادي، بالإضافة إلى إعارة لاعب أو اثنين من الفريق الأحمر للطلائع، علمًا بأن هناك أنباء قوية ترددت مؤخرًا عن دخول الزمالك في مفاوضات مع الزناري لضمه في الموسم الجديد.

طالع أيضًا.. التعاون يرد على رغبة الأهلي في ضم مصطفى فتحي

وكان الأهلي قد حقق الفوز على مصر المقاصة بهدف دون رد، في المباراة التي أقيمت على استاد الكلية الحربية، ليواصل احتلال المركز الثالث بجدول ترتيب الدوري ولديه 54 نقطة.

ويستعد الأهلي لمواجهة المقاولون العرب مساء الغد، في المباراة المؤجلة بينهما من الجولة 21 من المسابقة المحلية.

The world is about to find out just how good Mitchell Johnson can be with the key weapon of swinging the ball in to right-handers

Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town17-Mar-2009
The ability to get the ball back into the right-hander has made Mitchell Johnson even more dangerous © Getty Images
Batsmen the world over must be whispering to each other in hushed,worried tones. Word is spreading that Mitchell Johnson has found . The second top wicket-taker in Tests last year, Johnsonpicked up his 63 breakthroughs without the key weapon of swinging the ball in to right-handers. Observers wondered how good he could be if he ever mastered that skill. The world is about to find out.When he took the new ball in the first Test in Johannesburg, Johnson surprised the South Africans immediately with his newfound ability. Where once he had relied almost exclusively on his speed and bounce as the ball followed his natural angle, Johnson moved the ball in to NeilMcKenzie and then found an outside edge from the left-hander Graeme Smith to give Australia the perfect start to the series.”I don’t know if it was the first or second ball that swung back into McKenzie,” Johnson said. “My first two balls to Smith swung and obviously the second one got him. Being a left-armer bowling to a left-hander you’ve more chance of swinging it but it was actually really nice to see it swing back into the right-hander and swing back as much as it did.”It put a bit of a smile on my face when it came about. I knew I’d done all the hard work in the nets. It wasn’t like it just happened out of the blue. I’d been swinging it in the nets and it had beengoing well, and had my opportunity with the new ball and really wanted that chance to go out there and bowl with the new ball and swing it.”The opportunity to take the new ball was given to Johnson during last year’s tour of the West Indies and was then withdrawn because he battled to control the swing. His existing armoury was enough to cause chaos every now and then, like when he skittled South Africa in Perthand grabbed 8 for 61. There haven’t been any quite so devastating spells on the return tour but he is still the leading wicket-taker in the series with 12 at an average of 21.Other breakthroughs were more telling in securing Australia’s wins but few would have had Australia’s coaching staff licking their lips like the perfect inswinger at Kingsmead that angled across Hashim Amla, pitched in line and straightened so dramatically that he was plumblbw. Johnson said the key to discovering his new talent was relaxing and going back to basics.”In the game situation I probably pushed a little bit too hard at times,” Johnson said. “Now I’ve pulled it back just slightly and tried to be nice and tall in my action and tried to swing that ball. It does help when you get the new ball. I had my opportunities in the West Indies and I didn’t swing it there.”So I went back to the drawing board. I have worked a lot with Troy [Cooley] and he keeps in close contact with Dennis Lillee. Ben Hilfenhaus has given me a few tips as well because he can swing the ball. It’s good when young guys like that can come through and have the confidence to speak to, I guess you could call me a more experienced member of the team.”It’s easy to forget how experienced Johnson has become in a short space of time. He made his Test debut two summers ago but in a changing attack has quickly become its spearhead in South Africa. Few would call Johnson a senior bowler compared to the injured Stuart Clark but the two have exactly the same number of Test wickets – 90.Few would call Mitchell Johnson a senior bowler compared to the injured Stuart Clark but the two have exactly the same number of Test wickets – 90It’s Johnson the Australians will look to as they aim for a 3-0 series clean sweep when the third Test begins on Thursday in Cape Town, where he will take the new ball against a fresh opening pair, Ashwell Prince and Imraan Khan. Incredibly, he has never bowled to the veteran Princebut has recent memories of the debutant Imraan, who made 100 againstAustralia in the tour match in Potchefstroom.”In the first innings [Imraan] batted quite well,” Johnson said. “In the second innings we tried a bit of a different tactic towards him, bowling a few more shorter ones and getting him stuck on the crease a little bit. We’ll have a bowlers’ meeting in the next day or so, and talk about those two players. It’s going to be exciting for him in his first Test and hopefully we can make it hard for him.”I haven’t played against [Prince] and I haven’t seen a hell of a lot of him but I know he’s got a good record and he has been performing very well recently so you’ve still got to be wary of that type of player. He can probably bat anywhere. Maybe in the back of mind there’s a little bit of hope that he doesn’t want to be out there and maybe we can exploit it a little bit.”