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Only looking to pile more pressure onto Southend this weekend, Boreham Wood will welcome the Shrimpers to Meadow Park on Saturday afternoon.
Starting with the hosts, while Boreham Wood would have been disappointed by that 2-1 loss away at Chesterfield last weekend, the Whites managed to make an immediate return to winning ways. Claiming a deserved 1-0 victory away at King s Lynn, Luke Garrard s side find themselves battling it out in the promotion chase. Clearly making a host of improvements over the summer, the Hertfordshire-based outfit currently sits third in the table. Claiming eye-catching back-to-back 2-0 wins against Dagenham Redbridge and Torquay earlier in the month, Boreham Wood have also continued to shine on home …
RB Leipzig have confirmed American teenager Caden Clark will join them from New York Red Bulls.
Midfielder Clark will move to the Bundesliga club on a deal that runs until June 2024, though not until the end of the MLS season.
The 18-year-old was part of Barcelona s youth system before moving to New York. He scored on his first-team debut last October and has made eight appearances in 2020-21, managing four goals and an assist.
Caden Clark has fantastic skills and enormous potential, Leipzig technical director Christopher Vivell said. He can play anywhere across attacking midfield and is incredibly adaptable in his playing style.
As well as that, he is a scoring threat, has great passing quality and strikes the ball well, allowing him to score goals…
Croatia boss Slaven Bilic believes his side have no excuse not to make the Euro 2012 finals despite a tough play-off draw against Turkey.
The two teams will lock horns in a two-legged tie, which will be a re-match of their Euro 2008 quarter-final clash, which Turkey won in penalty shoot-out.
Bilic believes his side are much stronger now and went as far as to claim he expects Croatia to progress to the showpiece event in Poland and Ukraine.
The Turkish team are strong, but not stronger than us, Bilic said. For three years, since that match in Vienna (in 2008), we have been waiting for the opportunity to get revenge.
Turkey are the strongest team we could have gotten in the draw, but we have more quality and we should go through.
The 43-year-ol…
Gareth Southgate praised Jude Bellingham’s never-say-die attitude after saving England from defeat against Belgium at the end of an international break that provides plenty of food for thought ahead of the Euros.
Among the favourites for glory this summer, the side third in FIFA’s world rankings stepped up preparations with a pair of high-level friendlies against the nations directly behind them in those standings.
Brazil are fifth and struck late on Saturday to inflict a first defeat on England in 15 months, which fourth-placed Belgium looked set to compound at rainy Wembley three days later.
Youri Tielemans opened the scoring after a Jordan Pickford error, with a Lewis Dunk mistake resulting in the Aston Villa midfielder scoring again after Ivan Toney had c…
Netherlands assistant coach Patrick Kluivert said he believes winger Arjen Robben has been the best player at the 2014 World Cup.
Kluivert s Dutch outfit are preparing for a FIFA World Cup semi-final with Argentina at the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo.
While the former Netherlands international said the current senior team were a combined force, Robben stood out as the best of the lot as he prepares for a battle with three-time Ballon d Or winner Lionel Messi.
We individually may not be the best players in the world, but are a great collective, Kluivert said, as reported by telegraaf.nl.
Though we have, of course, about Arjen Robben, who in my eyes currently is the best player of the World Cup.
We should also not dwell on the good results, be…
Yann M Vila stated that the prospect of helping Inter return to the top of Italian football motivated him to join the club.
The 24-year-old France international completed his move from Russian Premier League outfit Rubin Kazan earlier this week, on an initial loan deal with the option to make the move permanent, bringing an end to weeks of speculation.
M Vila had been linked with the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool earlier in the close-season but it soon became clear that Inter was the most likely destination for the midfielder.
Inter completed a treble of the Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Champions League under the stewardship of Jose Mourinho in 2010, but the past two seasons have seen the club finish ninth and fifth in the league.
However, under new ow…
Real Madrid claimed the UEFA Super Cup with a 2-1 victory over Manchester United in Skopje on Tuesday.
Goals from Casemiro and Isco secured a fully-deserved triumph for the Champions League holders, who have now won the trophy three times since 2014.
Romelu Lukaku halved the deficit on his competitive debut, but the Europa League winners looked well short of matching Madrid for much of the encounter in a hot and humid Philip II Arena, where drinks breaks were required.
United beat Madrid on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the International Champions Cup last month, but they were second best for the majority against Zinedine Zidane s side, for whom Gareth Bale started and Cristiano Ronaldo made a late cameo appearance as a substitute.
Jose Mourinho han…
Javier Aguirre singled out Shinji Kagawa for particular praise following Japan s Asian Cup victory over Jordan on Tuesday.
Javier Aguirre hailed the performance of Shinji Kagawa in a 2-0 win over Jordan but sought to play down Japan s chances of retaining their Asian Cup crown.
The 2011 champions rarely got out of second gear in dispatching the Gulf nation at AAMI Park on Tuesday, sealing top spot in Group D with maximum points and without conceding a goal in their three matches played.
Kagawa netted his first competitive international goal since the Confederations Cup in June 2013 to make sure of the points in Melbourne, after Keisuke Honda had opened the scoring, and Aguirre singled out the Borussia Dortmund playmaker for special praise.
Shinji s a…
Verdict: Ajax win
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Looking to pick up an early advantage on Tuesday, Ajax will travel to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Tuesday night.
Tottenham
Starting with the hosts, coming off the back of a 1-0 loss at home to London rivals West Ham on Saturday and also suffering their first loss at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Mauricio Pochettino will be demanding an immediate response from his side. Coming past Manchester City in the most dramatic of fashion earlier in the month, Spurs have shown some minor struggles at the back end of the season. Despite sitting in pole position to land another top-four finish, the Whites have won three of their last 10 matchups against top-flight opposition. With attacking talisman Harry Kane s…
Arturo Vidal has pledged to never abandon Chile after comments attributed to him on Tuesday seemed to suggest he was retiring from international football following the team s failure to qualify for the World Cup.
Chile lost 3-0 to Brazil on Wednesday in their final qualifier, as Peru equalised against Colombia to book a play-off with New Zealand.
That failure went down as a huge shock considering Chile s back-to-back Copa America titles in 2015 and 2016, and Vidal was emotional after the match as he appeared to quit, saying thank you for everything in an interview.
However, the 30-year-old has since clarified his position and does not appear to be withdrawing from international duty any time soon, seemingly still eager to add to his 98 caps.
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