The shortlist for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2020 has been revealed - and you can now vote for your winner. The five contenders for the BBC World Service accolade were chosen by a panel of experts, including coaches, players, administrators and journalists. The nominees are: Lucy Bronze - England and Lyon Julie Ertz - USA and Chicago Red StarsSam Kerr - Australia and ChelseaVivianne Miedema - Netherlands and ArsenalMegan Rapinoe - USA and Reign FCVoting closes at 09:00 GMT on Monday, 2 March 2020 and the winner of the award will be announced on Tuesday, 24 March on BBC World Service and the BBC Sport website.
Lazio had a big win over Juventus at the weekend but have it all to do to reach the knock-out stages of the Europa League. They are third in the table and travel to Rennes who are already confirmed to finish bottom. The Italian side are three points behind second placed CFR Cluj but will qualify with a win in France if Cluj lose at home to Celtic.
Sanz presided over the club between 1995 and 2000, in which they won two Champions League titles and one La Liga crown among other trophies. Their 1998 Champions League triumph was the first time they had won Europe's top prize, which they have lifted a record 13 times, in 32 years. My father has just passed away.
But his form this term means he may well have his sights set on Barcelona captain Messi's record tally of 73, set in 2011-12. He has more goals at this stage than the five-times Ballon d'Or winner did that year - 27 compared to Messi's 25. The Argentine went on to make 60 appearances as Barca won the Copa del Rey and the Club World Cup, despite falling short to Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid in La Liga and being knocked out of the Champions League by Chelsea in the semi-final.
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson also told the BBC he feared thousands of the club's fans would gather outside Anfield to celebrate the title, even if matches were played at neutral venues. However, recently retired West Yorkshire chief superintendent Owen West told the Guardian that the use of neutral stadiums had "no rationale", and such a proposal was not being enforced in Germany where the Bundesliga hopes to resume this weekend.
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Reading had been on a fine run in the Championship, but they couldn’t get around League One Blackpool in the Third Round. The Royals now face a second clash with the Seasiders, this time they’re heading for Bloomfield Road. However, will their class tell in this trip, or can Blackpool pull off a shock in front of their home crowd?
Leamington and Kings Lynn will face each other in the upcoming match in the National League North. Leamington this season have the following results: 9W, 7D and 14L. Meanwhile Kings Lynn have 18W, 6D and 4L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring.
Stamford Bridge has been the theatre for VAR's worst failings this week, with Manchester United's Harry Maguire lucky to escape a red card for directing his studs into Batshuayi and Kurt Zouma having a goal ruled out for a push by Cesar Azpilicueta on Brandon Williams when he had, in fact, been pushed himself by Fred.
It's so special. The numbers are incredible, so difficult. We are just in the situation and want to recover and prepare for the next game. Video - 'It's so special' - Klopp on Liverpool's winning streak00:32 "The next opponent is really waiting and wants to fight us, the whole stadium at Watford will go for us, that's completely normal.
It was nice to do that before the new manager came in," added Kane. It was a big shock on Tuesday night for everyone, the players included, and then it was a quick turnaround. All of a sudden we've got a new manager, one of the best managers there's been in the game, so automatically you have to turn your head towards that and focus on the game. Media playback is not supported on this device It's about the team, not me - Jose Mourinho 'We couldn't be luckier'Kane's team-mate Eric Dier believes Mourinho is the "perfect" replacement for Pochettino.
Mansfield Town vs Forest Green Rovers predictions for Saturday's match in League Two. mid-table Manfield will be hoping to put a dent into Forest Green's promotion hopes when the pair lock horns in League Two on Saturday. Read on for all our free predictions and betting tips.
Home form needs a lot of repair work though with just one league win in 13 games. Each of their last seven home league fixtures has been lost, even bottom-of-the-table Paderborn beat them. Their last five home games have been lost by an aggregate score of 16-1 with just that single goal in their last six home league fixtures.
Jordan Henderson entered proceedings; still De Jong probed and poked but it had looked like it might be to no avail when Lingard marched in to slot home. Alas, for those of an English persuasion, VAR decided he had made that march a fraction too soon, ruling his goal out with a digital offside flag. The Dutch had a penalty appeal turned down by VAR and it started to look like England could ride a crest of good fortune when Memphis Depay missed a hugely presentable opportunity in the dying embers of the match after some sloppy play from Harry Maguire.
Saka was as classy as ever going forward – there is no smoother attacking left-back available to Gareth Southgate - but struggled a little with Portsmouth’s direct approach at the other end. Nelson isn’t quite as elegant, but his dynamic, decisive running down the right made him a regular threat to Portsmouth.
Cardiff City have invited fans to pay tribute to Emiliano Sala on the first anniversary of the plane crash in which the Argentine striker died. Sala was flying to Cardiff from Nantes when the plane he was in crashed into the English Channel on 21 January 2019. The Bluebirds say fans can lay wreaths at the Fred Keenor statue at Cardiff City Stadium. Nantes are planning a commemorative shirt to raise funds for the Argentine clubs Sala, 28, played for.
The Rams are big outsiders in this trip, with the visitors down in 14th after some tough results this season. They’ve managed to improve their home record to make it the sixth-best in the division. However, Derby are winless away from home since the opening weekend (D3 L5), losing their last four in a row. They've not lost five consecutive away league games since May 2008 in the Premier League (six in a row).
My old man put his foot in it," he says. He starting saying to someone, 'I can't believe Sven didn't bring Theo on' - not realising he was talking to Sven's son. That isn't the only time Walcott Sr is mentioned during the podcast, as Theo reveals how he celebrated his World Cup call-up in the first place. I think I ended up playing Monopoly with my old man," he says. Low-key. How Arsene Wenger looked uncomfortable at homeWalcott moved from Southampton to Arsenal in 2006, joining a squad that included the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Ashley Cole, Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie.
Arda will play against Botev Plovdiv in the Relegation Group of Parva Liga of Bulgaria. Arda lost to Dunav Ruse by 0-2 in the Only Relegation Group Game. They also remained Winless in the last 9 games of Parva Liga. Three of the 9 Arda matches was Goalless Draw. While Botev Plovdiv Defeated Botev Vratsa by 3-2 in the Relegation Group Game. However they lost to Botev Vratsa by 0-1 in the Parva Liga game. They just scored three goals in the last six Parva Liga matches. Also last two head to head matches between these two teams just produced Two goals .
Kane (Tottenham) 11 A. Martial (Manchester United) T. Pukki (Norwich) R. Sterling (Manchester City) C. Leicester's goal-machine Vardy had not found the net since Dec. Leicester's lead shortly after replacing Kelechi Iheanacho. Harvey Barnes had opened the scoring before halftime. Vardy struck again after 79 minutes to take his league tally to 19 for the season before Barnes claimed his second to make it a miserable night for Leicester's Midlands rivals Villa.
Hamburger SV have ended their last year in poor form, but second-placed Hamburg made a good start to new year with a 4-1 win at home to Nurnberg on their last match. In contrast Bochum got most of their points and goals in their home ground. The most notable thing is that, they have managed to score at least two goals in all but one of their home league matches and now they will face the highest goal scorers in the league who scored 4 goals in their last match, so I expect this to be a high scoring affair.
Look, it's a hard job to play here," Bruce told British media. There is an expectation on him. A transfer fee, a burden. Sometimes that becomes difficult. Many, many players have come to the Premier League with big experience and find it a struggle. So let's hope it just gives him that bit of confidence which every striker needs.
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Premier League leaders Liverpool won again as they beat Bournemouth while Manchester United stunned rivals Manchester City in the derby. The defeat for City means they are now 14 points behind Liverpool and six behind Leicester, who claimed a club record eighth successive Premier League win with victory at Aston Villa. Elsewhere, Sheffield United came from behind to beat Norwich while Tottenham put in a five-star display to see off Burnley.
Giving its ruling, the court said: "The women's team has been paid more on both a cumulative and an average per-game basis than the men's team over the class period. The US team won the Women's World Cup last summer for their fourth title overall. They have also won five Olympic gold medals. After the equal pay claim was dismissed, striker Megan Rapinoe, who won the Golden Ball and Golden Boot at last year's World Cup, tweeted: "We will never stop fighting for equality.
The winner of this wild card match will play the 49ers in the Divisional play-offs, so they face a tough task there. Seattle had an 11-5 regular season record and were 8-4 against NFC teams. They are through to the play-offs for the seventh time in eight seasons but didn't end the season with as impressive a record as once looked likely.
Pedro now seems surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge and it's hardly surprising when Frank Lampard has Pulisic in his ranks. Provided the American can remain fit, Chelsea have a player who can make goals as well as score them. Did you know? Pulisic has scored six away league goals for Chelsea this season - this is the most ever by an American player away from home in a Premier League season, overtaking Clint Dempsey's five in 2011-12.
Stade Rennais vs Lorient live score, H2H and lineups Stade Rennais Lorient live score (and video online live stream) starts on 3 Mar 2024 at 16:05 UTC time at Roazhon Park stadium, Rennes city, France in Ligue ...
Both of these sides are inconsistent with seven league defeats between them. Gorodeja drew at the weekend but so nearly won at Rukh Brest. Scoring is their problem with only four this season and just a converted penalty at home. FC Minsk have had 26 goals scored in their seven league games with the worst defensive record in the league. Yes they concede lots of goals but can Gorodeja's goal shy attack do well against them? We're not convinced, so go for under 2.5 goals in this match.
Sure, you can see what he’s trying to do, and what he’s trying to say. But he might want to tread quite carefully here. Still, he probably did endear himself to their fans by declaring that they wouldn’t be signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic, a move that would surely have signalled they were going Full Jose.
Home team is in the danger place at the relegation position in the table. however, Zwickau is not an easy opponent when play here, and Rostock should have tough challenge in this one. Despite that, Hansa need to take three points from this, in order to get closer to the upper part of the league. They had aim to try getting back in the second level, and should use this part to get to the winning run that would pull the team from the mid.
Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl has said offside may as well be scrapped entirely if Arsene Wenger's proposed changes are introduced. Wenger, now chief of global football development for Fifa, wants to alter marginal VAR offside decisions. The ex-Arsenal manager's idea is that "you will not be offside if any part of the body that can score a goal is in line with the last defender". The only rule that really works in VAR is the offside," said Hasenhuttl.
Gareth Bale and his wife Emma have donated £500,000 to the charitable arm of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. The Cardiff & Vale Health Charity said it was the couple's wish that the money is used on "the response to Covid-19". The charity said the money will provide "those extras for staff and patients that normal NHS funding doesn't provide", during the pandemic. CVUHB chief executive Len Richards said the donation was "fantastic".
EFLAs the EFL explained in its statement, the disciplinary cases around Sheffield Wednesday and Derby are being dealt with by an independent panel. Insiders accept the unsatisfactory nature of the situation but it is being stressed the cases must be heard "expeditiously and fairly". Without knowing when the verdicts will be released, it is impossible to know what the speed and status of any appeals will be.
An excellent aperitif for Sunday's furious Milan derby will be Saturday night's confrontation between Verona and Juventus as part of the 23rd Serie A. Tour. To their great joy, the guys from the arena “Marc Antonio Bentegodi” will cease to be an elevator team, and if there is no enchanting failure will easily retain an elite residence permit, and will not go back to the first year after entering the top division.
The biggest thing is the Fabinho injury, that's massive," Klopp told BT Sport after the game. It's early and we all hope it's not too serious but it's pretty painful and in an area you don't want to have pain, around the ankle. Emery under pressure Good morning! Welcome to live coverage of Thursday's football stories.
Sant Andreu will play against Figueres in the Spain lower division. Sant Andreu are sitting on the 5th spot while The visitors are sitting on the 13th spot in the league table. Both have managed 37 points and 28 points respectively. The hosts have won 3 of their last 5 home matches while remaining undefeated in 10 of their 11 matches. The visitors have a good away record as they have won their last 3 away matches. But they face a difficult task here against Sant Andreu who is good in home. . I expect the hosts to secure the victory here in this match.
Both teams scored in just two of Emmen’s and two of Sparta’s last five matches, with the hosts failing to score in three of their last five competitive and non-competitive matches and the visitors keeping two clean sheets and failing to score on two occasions during that period, so you can see why we haven’t backed both teams to score this weekend.
That move was part of a College Draft pick trade with her old club Portland Thorns, but her time in the United States may nevertheless be over as reports suggest the 25-year-old could be poised to move to England. Looking to boost Olympic chancesFor any British players eligible for Team GB's Olympic women's football squad, 2020 is a key year. There can only be 18 in Phil Neville's final squad for the games in Tokyo, and he has already selected a 'longlist' of picks.
Only Jamie Vardy (23 goals) has scored more goals than Danny Ings (21) in the Premier League this season. Only Ederson, Alisson, and Nick Pope have kept more clean sheets than Dean Henderson in the Premier League this season. Sheffield United have failed to win their last five away games in the Premier League.
If he can get them to buy into the Arsenal team ethic on a regular basis then that is a good platform for progress. Arsenal's new manager was certainly not accompanied by Lady Luck on his return and he was not helped by an early injury to Calum Chambers, which saw Shkodran Mustafi introduced. The tactical adjustment was easy but the personnel change was not, Mustafi culpable as he was turned far too easily for Tammy Abraham's winner.
Despite being under the cosh, Theo Walcott sealed the most unlikely of wins, tapping in after a 90th minute counter-attack with a winner that leaves Watford still struggling one place from the bottom of the league. Watford's impressive revival under the stewardship of Nigel Pearson had earlier looked set to continue as they went two up through Adam Masina's 10th minute goal, his first in the Premier League, and Roberto Pereyra's smart 42nd minute finish.
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