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Harry Kane insisted England s drab performance against the United States was not the end of the world for us and kept the team in a strong position at Qatar 2022.
Captain Kane missed a late chance to make a breakthrough when he planted a header well wide as the game at Al Bayt Stadium finished goalless.
The USA were the better side for large parts of the game, but they passed up half-chances and England survived scares before improving in the closing stages.
It wasn t our best performance, for sure, Kane told ITV. We had some good spells with the ball and created some good positions, but we just didn t have the final product today.
It s a great clean sheet, it puts us in a great position in the group.
After the 6-2 opening win against Iran, the…
Ousmane Dembele scored and assisted three others as Barcelona warmed up for Wednesday s Champions League clash with Bayern Munich by thrashing Athletic Bilbao 4-0 at Camp Nou.
Xavi s team raced into a three-goal lead before half-time in Thursday s mauling of Villarreal and they repeated the trick on Sunday as Sergi Roberto and Robert Lewandowski joined Dembele on the scoresheet within 22 minutes.
Having set up Roberto and Lewandowski, Dembele continued to terrorise Athletic after the break and helped Barca add some gloss when he teed up Ferran Torres for a neat finish late on.
The result moved Barca back to within three points of leaders Real Madrid in the LaLiga standings, with Los Blancos having moved clear with a 3-1 win over Sevilla on Saturday.
Vicente del Bosque should stay on as Spain head coach beyond Euro 2016, according to former Real Madrid star Jose Antonio Camacho.
The future of the 65-year-old remains shrouded in doubt as he has not yet given a definitive answer on whether he will continue his eight-year spell with the national team beyond their title defence in France this year.
But Camacho, who reached the final of Euro 84 as a player before guiding them to the quarter-finals of World Cup 2002 as coach, says Del Bosque remains the best man for the role.
The coach who I like the most now is Vicente del Bosque and I think he certainly has to continue with the national team, he said at a coaching conference in Madrid.
Spain s World Cup defence came to an early end two years ago as they …
Mauricio Pochettino would be making a mistake by going back to Tottenham as Jamie Carragher believes a second Spurs stint would be akin to Kevin Keegan s Newcastle United return.
Pressure is building on Tottenham coach Antonio Conte after a desperate run that has ended their hopes of winning silverware this season.
After back-to-back Premier League victories lifted Spurs into the top four, they crashed out of the FA Cup at Sheffield United, lost at Wolves in the league and then exited the Champions League following a dismal goalless draw against Milan.
With Conte s contract up at the end of the season, it appears likely the former Juventus, Chelsea and Inter boss will soon be departing Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Pochettino, who spent five years at the clu…
Milan held Tottenham to a 0-0 draw on Wednesday to preserve their 1-0 lead from the first leg and advance to the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 11 years.
Brahim Diaz s goal in the early stages of the reverse fixture gave Milan something to protect at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and they did exactly that in a game of few chances.
Neither side managed an attempt on target in the first half and, while Spurs did show more urgency in the second period, there was not enough quality to break down Milan.
Spurs, who had Cristian Romero sent off 11 minutes from time for a second bookable offence, have now exited the Champions League and FA Cup in the past week.
Milan hold out!
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Joao Cancelo, currently playing for Bayern Munich on loan from Manchester City, is looking forward to facing his parent club in the Champions League quarterfinals, says Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel.
Meanwhile, City boss Pep Guardiola faces the club where he was in charge of the team for three years, from 2013 to 2016, before taking up his current position.
I know he is looking forward to it
Thomas Tuchel hopes Cancelo can manage his emotions against Man City this week playing for his loan side Bayern Munich in the Champions League
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Scotland midfielder Callum McGregor is relishing the prospect of opening Euro 2024 against the hosts.
Steve Clarke’s side will kick off the tournament on June 14 against Germany at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
Scotland will also take on Hungary and Switzerland in Group A following Saturday’s draw in Hamburg.
The first dates to write in your 2024 calendar…
— Scotland National Team (@ScotlandNT)
McGregor said: “It was great watching the draw. We have three really good teams and it’s a strong group.
“When you get to a tournament that’s what you want to do, you want to be against the best teams and that’s what we’ll do in the opening game against Germany.
“It doesn’t come much bigger than that as an occasion …
Former Arsenal, Chelsea and Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas has retired from football at the age of 36.
The 2010 World Cup-winner made the announcement via Twitter on Saturday having ended the two-year contract he signed with Italian Serie B side Como last summer 12 months early.
He retires having made more than 700 first-team club appearances since making his Arsenal debut as a 16-year-old in 2003.
It is with great sadness that the time has come for me to hang up my playing boots.
From my first days at Barca, Arsenal, Barca again, Chelsea, Monaco and Como, I will treasure them all. From lifting the World Cup, the Euros, to winning everything in England and Spain and…
— Cesc Fàbregas Soler (@cesc4official)
“It is with great sadness…
Newcomers are playing the tournament of their lives and making it difficult for the established powers at Euro 2016 according to Germany boss Joachim Low.
The world champions were held to a drab goalless draw by Poland at the Stade de France on Thursday, unable to build fully on their opening 2-0 win over Ukraine now eliminated from the competition following a shock 2-0 loss to Northern Ireland.
Slovakia, Hungary and Iceland have also pulled off impressive results against the odds and Low believes a succession of closely contested games to date are down to the confident counter-attacking approaches being undertaken by the lesser lights.
Poland would not fall easily into that category but their coach Adam Nawalka tellingly admitted to happily allowing Germany poss…
With the European Championship qualifiers getting back underway in midweek, it will be England’s Group C romp that steals most of this month’s headlines.
Watching the Three Lions look to punch their ticket to Germany with another statement, there are also a host of European Championship betting markets that are worth keeping an eye out for.
Ahead of what should be another pulsating fortnight of action from across Group C, we have taken an in-depth look at what could unfold and some of the most intriguing EURO 24 betting tips that are available.
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While England might have eventually been forced to settle for a World Cup quarter-final finish out in Qatar over the winter, Gareth Southgate’s squad have only continued on a ma…