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Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is desperate for the Red Devils to qualify for the Champions League next season and has promised Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a lucrative bonus if he delivers them back to Europe's premier competition.

For T20I series against New Zealand: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Lokesh Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant , Dinesh Karthik , Kedar Jadhav , Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK), Hardik Pandya , Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed.

Mauricio Pochettino believes Tottenham have a role to play in this season's title race after claiming a fourth Premier League win in a row. "We will see if it's an issue", Pochettino said. Eriksen later scored in similar circumstances, arriving on the edge of the box after Kane had this time got in behind in a wide area. Any hope of an Everton revival was short-lived as substitute Erik Lamela slipped in the superb Son who confidently drove past Pickford to make it 5-2.

Therefore, USADA decided they wouldn't punish Jones , though the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to refuse to license the New Yorker. "This is the same substance that was detected in Jones' positive test from July 28, 2017 and for which he received a 15-month sanction from an independent arbitrator under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy".

The Liverpool striker sustained an injury after a challenge from Sergio Ramos and was unable to continue the match as his side went on to lose against Real Madrid . Real Madrid boss Santiago Solari said his side's three consecutive Club World Cup titles will be hard to repeat after Saturday's 4-1 final victory over hosts Al Ain in Abu Dhabi .

He said: "If you want to do the headline "Klopp says we need 105 points to win the title" then do it". "We all have the attitude that if someone says something to you, you have to take it on the chin". "Such a hard game to play, because all the things we want to do, everything you usually do, you take a bit of a risk". "The first half was better, the second half was unusual as it felt like they nullified us without us even knowing.

It's about just being myself. I'm confident. I've won the league, I've won cups, I've been relegated. Ole is the type of manager, as far as I know, who wants to play attacking football, who wants to go forward. Unfortunately for United fans they never got to see Zizou grace the turf at the Theatre of Dreams in a red shirt, but maybe in the near future they could see him prowl up and down the touchline.

Wentz saw his rookie season end early past year, following a torn ACL. The team isn't certain when Wentz got hurt and Pederson said the injury developed over time . The fracture will fully heal if given sufficient time , the source said. The quarterback is listed as "doubtful" for Sunday night's game against the Rams in Los Angeles and is scheduled to travel with the team.

Real Madrid's home-grown midfielder Marcos Llorente doubled the European champions lead on the hour mark with a superbly-struck volley from outside the area. Then, a mistake by Marcelo left El Sahat alone to round Courtois, only for Ramos to hustle back and block his shot on the line. A minute later the Champions League winners were in front as Vazquez delivered the ball from the right, Karim Benzema touched it to Modric and the Croatia global curled a shot into the bottom corner from ...

The former Manchester United captain directed a tirade at the Old Trafford stars after the Portuguese boss was sacked on Tuesday before being replaced with interim boss Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer. Not only have Man United's players practiced attacking football, they have all practiced Solskjær's "knee slide celebration" from '99 as well, it seems.

The last three games I don't think we played as hard as we did the previous eight when we were winning. "This is an intense schedule all the way through All-Star break starting tonight, and I think that, ultimately, we want as many guys feeling good as possible".

In MLB's view, the move was motivated by humanitarian concerns to halt the influence of smugglers and traffickers who have preyed upon Cuban defectors in the past. The administration official said the Trump administration will "restrict the Cuban regime's ability to profit from US business", and condemns human rights violations carried out by the Cuban government.

Second-string quarterback Taylor Heincke will start in his absence while third-striger Kyle Allen will be Heincke's backup. "He understood our thinking behind this and he's disappointed, he's frustrated". He's stepped in to throw a few Hail Mary passes this season for the Panthers because Newton's shoulder wasn't strong enough to get the ball down the field.

Mourinho was sacked on Tuesday in part because of his deteriorating relationship with the United players. Solskjaer arrived at United knowing the club are not planning to hire him in the long-term, and while he acknowledges he would love to be there permanently, he is just content to be helping out in a trying time.

If that's the only chip they have in this game of AD poker, in other words, then they're bound. "Interference is as bad as tampering - maybe worse in this case", an Eastern Conference GM told ESPN. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports that several small-market general managers have been privately expressing their anger with the NBA's seeming unwillingness to enforce tampering rules.

As for the return, the Dodgers will receive veteran arm Homer Bailey whose contract will wash some of what the Dodgers traded to the Reds. Bailey - owed $23 million in 2019 and counting $17.5 million toward the luxury tax, which uses the average annual value on contracts - waived his 10-and-5 rights to join the Dodgers and is expected to be released, according to reports.

Manny Machado is among the biggest names in Major League Baseball free agent market this winter. Despite spending more time with the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets , and winning a World Series with the Astros, Beltran has been connected to the Yankees since his retirement after the 2017 season.

Wolves have already beaten Chelsea here, drawn with Manchester City and were eventually defeated by Spurs (2-3) they also got a 1-1 draw at the Emirates so they will have no fear welcoming the league leaders. That's why we should concentrate on every game and not take any result for granted. The messages continually coming from the dressing room state that the players are not looking any further ahead than their next game.

The Panthers say Taylor Heinicke will be starting as quarterback this Sunday against the Falcons, and next Sunday, December 30 against the black and gold. But in the end the Saints kept marching, winning 12-9 in an ugly, ugly game. That was until a fumble by D.J. Moore on a run up the middle resulted in the Saints getting the ball back on their own 18-yard line.

Jose Mourinho has said he has a future in management and vowed not to talk about the reasons behind his sacking by Manchester United . United named former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Wednesday as their caretaker manager until the end of the season.

Bale also became the third player to register a hat-trick at the tournament, Ronaldo and Barcelona's Luis Suarez the other players to do so. Keylor Navas has played four times in the competition over the last two years, but it will be the first bow for the Belgium worldwide who is looking to pick his first Club World Cup title.

The majority of sources - including the Mirror , Times and Independent - are claiming Laurent Blanc, former Paris Saint Germain boss and Man United centre back, is the favourite to take over. The 45-year-old Norwegian, who only signed a new contract as coach of Molde earlier this month, had a hard spell at Cardiff City in 2014. "Solskjaer becomes our interim manager, 20 years after clinching the Treble with THAT goal at Camp Nou", the caption read, referencing Solskjaer's famous ...

Let us see how things stand for both the teams. You saw how the offence moves without him it's a matter of figuring out how to find a happy medium there. He will help fill the void created by Valanciunas' absence. The game against the Grizzlies on Wednesday was a low scoring one in which CJ McCollum scored a season-high 40 points.

Pat Cummins wrapped up the last two wickets in the space of four balls, Ishant Sharma edging behind for a duck and Jasprit Bumrah launching a shot high into the Western Australian sky with Cummins positioning himself to take the catch. Former England skipper Michael Vaughan believes India captain Virat Kohli is a better batsman across three formats than legends such as Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and Ricky Ponting.

We never give up". Goals from Sadio Mané and substitute Xherdan Shaqiri put paid to that notion, while Virgil Van Dijk kept Romelu Lukaku quiet down the other end. The Dutch global has featured 44 times for the Reds till date, scoring once and setting up two more and has established himself as one of the top defenders across Europe.

Matthew Gartner brought his son Gavin to cheer on the Warriors as they faced the Kings Friday night. Two days after a 20-point home loss to NBA-leading Toronto, the Warriors put up 103 points through three quarters, went stagnant for more than eight minutes in the fourth before outscoring the Kings 17-2 over the final 3:03.

Following 24 hours of skirmish and lukewarm sledging between the skippers, Paine landed the knockout blow when he whispered to Murali Vijay: "I know he (Kohli) is your captain, but you can't seriously like him as a bloke?". Umpire Chris Gaffaney: Oi, That's enough, that's enough. The Adelaide Test did not witness any major incident while the first two days of the ongoing Perth Test were not an exception either.

A few hours later, Klopp was asked about Mourinho's barbed comments. Rarely do you see him smile and he cuts a distant, lonely figure. Jose Mourinho's side sit 16 points behind rivals Liverpool ahead of their trip to Anfield on Sunday and have won just two of their last seven games in all competitions.

He probably should have capped his performance with a goal as well when he had a gilt-edged chance to double Arsenal's lead but fired nearly straight at the goalkeeper. "We need [to go through] a process with them, but in this process they need also to show us their development". "It was Wednesday in training", he said when asked when he knew he would be playing.

We don't want to be injured, but maybe this injury helped us", said Guardiola. "Of course he has to recover his full condition and he has to compete with the players who have done incredibly good so far, but when you have more players we can rotate it more".

Madrid coach, Santiago Solari made seven changes to his starting XI that defeated Huesca 1-0 in La Liga last weakened. The talented Spain global has been struggling under Santiago Solari following his appointment as Julen Lopetegui's successor.

Liverpool moved to the summit of the table last weekend following their 4-0 win over Bournemouth coupled with Man City 's defeat against Chelsea , a defeat which also leaves Jurgen Klopp's men as the only unbeaten side in the top flight.

The numbers do not lie - Lukaku has scored just five times in 14 Premier League matches during the current term, and he has been coming on and off the lineup during the past few weeks. The Spanish side is finding it hard to score goals and their worries have been compounded as they will miss striker Goncalo Guedes for Wednesday' tie.

Quarterbacks coach Kevin Stefanski will take over offensive coordinator duties on an interim basis during the Vikings' remaining games this season. Just look at former Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo . 1", Zimmer said. This move was as necessary as it was huge, as the Vikings, who are playing for their post-season lives, have averaged only 12.8 points over the last four games.

The running back, sitting out the 2018 season after receiving a second straight franchise tag, made sure to hit the heart button on a Steelers' Instagram post following a 24-21 loss to the Oakland Raiders . But after the Steelers lost the lead, Roethlisberger returned and promptly restored it by driving the offense 75 yards downfield with another 1-yard touchdown to Smith-Schuster.