UEFA are considering whether to radically overhaul the Champions League for the remainder of the 2019/20 season, with the possibility of ‘one-legged games’ being introduced to speed up the competition.
European football’s governing body are currently planning to see the Champions League and Europa League return in August, with UEFA’s ideal outcome being to see both competitions finish with their normal format.
But Marca reports UEFA also have a back up plan which could see ‘one-legged games’ introduced, as well as a ‘final four’ which would take place in Istanbul.
All matches will be played behind closed doors regardless of what happens with the format of both competitions, but Marca’s report suggests the prospect of ‘one-legged games’ being introduced at the quarter final stage could be popular among the remaining teams.
At this stage it’s only hypothetical, but it’s a step which would help to limit the amount of travel teams would have to undergo in the Champions League and Europa League – thus limiting the amount of exposure players and staff could have with coronavirus.
One major stumbling block UEFA could face with their back-up plan, just like domestic leagues are realising, is a dispute with broadcasters.
Companies have already paid fees for a set amount of matches, so ‘one-legged games’ could prompt broadcasters to demand money back from European football’s governing body.
UEFA are expected to make their final decision on 17 June.
Eight teams in the Champions League still need to play the second leg of their last 16 matches to determine which clubs have reached the quarter final stage – including Manchester City, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Bayern Munich.
Paris Saint-Germain, Atlético Madrid, RB Leipzig and Atalanta have already reached the next stage of the competition.
In the Europa League, meanwhile, the likes of Sevilla, Roma, Inter and Getafe still haven’t played the first leg of their last 16 matches.
LONDON: Penyerang Chelsea, Callum Hudson-Odoi ditahan atas dakwaan rogol setelah dilaporkan bertengkar dengan seorang wanita di rumahnya di sini.
Kejadian dilaporkan berlaku pada Ahad.
Hudson-Odoi dibebaskan dari tahanan dan diikat jamin dengan syarat dia mesti kembali ke balai polis pada pertengahan bulan Jun ketika siasatan dijalankan.
Sementara itu, wanita yang mendakwa menjadi mangsa kejadian kini dirawat di hospital.
Kelab bola sepak Chelsea enggan mengeluarkan sebarang kenyataan berhubung kejadian.
Hudson-Odoi baharu sahaja menyambung kontrak lima tahun bersama The Blues.
Dia adalah pemain Liga Perdana Inggeris pertama yang disahkan positif koronavirus.
MADRID – Real Madrid telah kembali berlatih di Valdebebas pada pekan lalu. Para pemain Madrid berlatih sendiri-sendiri mengikuti protokol kesehatan yang dianjurkan. Akan tetapi, para pemain Madrid telah diperbolekan berlatih dalam kelompok sejak kemarin.
Eden Hazard adalah salah satu pemain yang sejak awal ikut dalam latihan Los Blancos –julukan Madrid. Hazard sangat senang karena bisa kembali berlatih dengan rekan-rekan setimnya. Hazard berlatih semaksimal mungkin agar siap saat tenaganya dibutuhkan Madrid.
Hazard sangat rindu untuk bermain dalam pertandingan, karena waktunya lebih banyak dihabiskan di ruang perawatan pada musim ini. Pemain berpaspor Belgia itu dua kali menderita cedera pada pergelangan kaki kanannya. Hazard pun baru tampil 15 kali pada musim ini akibat cedera tersebut.
Setelah sekian lama absen membela Los Blancos, Hazard ingin membuktikan kualitasnya kepada para penggemar. Hazard tidak mau dicap sebagai pembelian gagal oleh para penggemar Madrid. Apalagi, Hazard dibebani ekspektasi tinggi sejak datang ke Madrid.
Eks pemain Chelsea itu diharapkan bisa menggantikan peran Cristiano Ronaldo, yang pergi ke Juventus pada musim lalu. Kesempatan bagi Hazard untuk unjuk gigi akan hadir saat Liga Spanyol 2019-2020 kembali digulirkan pada 12 Juni mendatang.
“Saya sangat senang bisa kembali ke lapangan bekerja dengan rekan satu tim saya. Sekarang kami harus menunggu pertandingan datang, tapi saya sangat senang. Setelah dua bulan lagi (absen) saya membutuhkan lebih banyak latihan fisik dan lebih banyak latihan dengan bola. Saya hanya ingin siap untuk pertandingan berikutnya,” ujar Hazard, menyadur dari Sportskeeda, Selasa (19/5/2020).
On 18 May 2012, Leicester City forked out a cool £1m to bring Jamie Vardy all the way from the Conference to the Championship, breaking a non-League transfer record in the process.
Eight years, 126 goals, one Premier League title and one…….. Rebekah Vardy later, we can all agree that it was money exceptionally well spent.
Vardy is not the first player to be plucked from non-League obscurity to go onto great things though, so where does he rank among his fellow National League zero to hero stories?
9 – Andre Gray
Aston Villa v Watford FC – Premier League
Having been released by Shrewsbury, Gray was picked up by Hinckley United in English football’s seventh tier, before moving to Conference side Luton in 2012.
His 30-goal haul helped the Hatters to the Conference title during the 2013/14 season, persuading Championship outfit Brentford to take the gamble on bringing him to Griffin Park.
By 2016, he was playing Premier League football for Burnley, having fired the Clarets to promotion with 25 goals in the Championship.
To date, he has over 20 goals in England’s top flight.
8 – Charlie Austin
Charlton Athletic v West Bromwich Albion – FA Cup Third Round
Austin spent his teenage years working his way up through the football pyramid; first at Kintbury Rangers, then Hungerford Town, Thatcham Town and finally Poole Town, where he balanced playing with his career as a bricklayer.
His astonishing goal scoring record at Poole – 46 goals in 46 appearances during the 2008/09 season – tempted League One side Swindon Town to offer him a trial.
Austin has been similarly prolific at every level since, and just five years on from playing semi-professional football with Poole, he earned his first shot at the Premier League with QPR in 2014.
Now a Premier League mainstay, Austin received an England call-up in 2015 for his exploits with QPR, but didn’t feature for the Three Lions.
7 – Michail Antonio
West Ham United v Southampton FC – Premier League
Antonio made his senior football bow at the age of 17 for Tooting and Mitcham, having joined the eighth tier side at the age of 12.
Reading signed him at the age of 18, and by the age of 25, Antonio was in the Premier League with West Ham via spells at Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest.
The king of versatility has looked right at home in the top flight since, scooping West Ham’s Player of the Year award during the 2016/17 season and has made well over 100 top flight appearances.
Antonio has also received two England call-ups, but is yet to make his international debut.
6 – Tyrone Mings
Leicester City v Aston Villa – Premier League
Mings was plying his trade with Chippenham Town and working as a mortgage advisor when Championship outfit Ipswich paid £10,000 to bring him to Portman Road.
After playing understudy to Aaron Cresswell for a season and a half, Mings came into his own when his former teammate moved to West Ham and was rewarded with an £8m move to Premier League side Bournemouth following a single season of first team Championship football.
Injuries plagued his time with the Cherries, but since Dean Smith brought him to Aston Villa and converted him into a centre half, Mings has flourished, earning his first England caps in November 2019 and a reputation as one of the country’s top centre backs with an eye-watering market value.
5 – Steve Finnan
Liverpool v Middlesbrough
Finnan has the arguably best claim to fame in the whole of football: he is the only player to have played in the World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Intertoto Cup and the top five tiers of English football. And with no Intertoto Cup anymore, that niche record should remain Finnan’s forever.
The fullback holds this proud record thanks to the two years he spent with Welling City at the start of his career, before Birmingham forked out £100,000 to secure his signature.
Within seven years of making his final appearance for Welling, Finnan was playing in the top flight with Fulham, before spending five years at Liverpool, winning the FA Cup and Champions League in the process.
The right back was also capped 52 times for the Republic or Ireland, representing his country at the 2002 World Cup.
4 – Chris Smalling
FC Barcelona v Manchester United – UEFA Champions League Quarter Final: Second Leg
Smalling was plying his trade for Maidstone United and planning to go to university that autumn when Premier League side Fulham signed him in 2008.
His meteoric rise continued when just 18 months later Manchester United paid just over £7m to bring him to Old Trafford.
Smalling has gone on to win the Premier League twice, the FA Cup, the Europa League, and represent his country at two major tournaments.
Prior to the break, the former Maidstone centre half could be found in Serie A, enjoying something of a career renaissance with Roma.
3 – Les Ferdinand
Newcastle v Villa
Ferdinand began his career with non-League side AEL, before moving to Southall and then Hayes, where he was scouted by top-flight side QPR.
The Rs paid £50,000 to bring Ferdinand to Loftus Road, where he would stay for eight hugely successful seasons, before moving to Newcastle and then Tottenham.
Ferdinand won PFA Player of the Year during his debut season at St James’ Park, and his 149 top flight goals make him the eighth highest scorer in Premier League history. The forward also made 17 appearances for England, and went to two major tournaments with the Three Lions.
2- Jamie Vardy
Leicester City v Everton – Premier League
Vardy had spells at Stocksbridge Park Steels and Halifax Town before signing for Fleetwood, where his 31 league goals during the 2011/12 season famously helped seal his big money move to Leicester City.
Within two years he had helped guide the club to promotion to the top flight, and a further two years later Andrea Bocelli was singing at the King Power as the Foxes were crowned Premier League champions. Such a rapid rise to stardom had not been seen since Santiago Munez won the Champions League with Real Madrid.
Vardy’s 24 goals helped Leicester to the title, and he went to the European Championships with England that summer. The arrival of Brendan Rodgers at Leicester has reignited the 33-year-old’s spark, with Vardy a good bet for the 2019/20 Golden Boot.
1- Ian Wright
Ian Wright of Arsenal
After an assortment of trials and rejections, Crystal Palace signed Wright from Greenwich Borough at the age of 21.
His goals helped fire Palace to promotion, before famously scoring twice in the remarkable 1990 FA Cup final. At the age of 28, Wright finally earned his big move to Arsenal.
The striker won the Premier League and FA Cup with the Gunners, and hit 113 Premier League goals in the process. He is the club’s all time second top scorer, his strike rate bettered only by Thierry Henry.
Wright also represented England 33 times, scoring nine goals.
Erling Haaland đã lập công ngay trong ngày Bundesliga trở lại hôm 16/5 vừa qua và giúp Dortmund đại thắng Schalke 04.
Với bàn thắng mở tỉ số vào lưới Schalke, Haaland đã cán mốc 41 bàn thắng trên mọi đấu trường mùa này 2019/20. Thành tích này của Haaland vượt cả Messi lẫn Ronaldo, khi tính về độ tuổi.
Xem thêm: Màn ăn mừng của Haaland ở Bundesliga chính là đại diện cho bóng đá hiện tại trong mùa nCoV
Thời điểm mà sao trẻ của Dortmund ghi bàn thứ 41, anh chỉ mới 19 tuổi, 9 tháng và 23 ngày. Thành tích này giúp Haaland vượt không chỉ cả Mess lẫn Ronaldo mà còn một loạt tiền đạo đẳng cấp nhất thế giới hiện tại. Cùng xem qua danh sách này:
1. Lionel Messi: 22 tuổi, 10 tháng và sáu ngày
Messi là cầu thủ trẻ nhất sau Haaland cán mốc 41 bàn
Lionel Messi đạt mốc 41 bàn thắng vào mùa 2009/10, khi đó ngôi sao của Barcelona mới 22 tuổi, 10 tháng và sáu ngày.
2. Luis Suarez: 23 tuổi
Luis Suarez cán mốc 41 bàn vào mùa 2009/10, khi anh còn chơi cho Ajax
Trước khi sang Liverpool và Barcelona thì Luis Suarez là một cỗ máy ghi bàn hạng nặng ở Ajax. Tiền đạo người Uruguay tiến đến con số 41 bàn ở tuổi 23.
3. Cristiano Ronaldo: 23 tuổi, ba tháng và sáu ngày
Cristiano Ronaldo đạt 41 bàn thắng khi đã 23 tuổi, ba tháng và sáu ngày
Ronaldo tiến đến con số 42 bàn thắng là vào mùa 2007/08, khi đó tiền đạo người Bồ đang chơi cho Manchester United và ở vào 23 tuổi, ba tháng và sáu ngày.
4. Harry Kane: 24 tuổi
Harry Kane đạt mốc 41 bàn sau 48 trận vào mùa 2017/18
5. Mohamed Salah: 25 tuổi
Mohamed Salah cán mốc 41 bàn vào năm 2016, khi đó anh đang chơi cho AS Roma
6. Robert Lewandowski: 27 tuổi
Lewandowski 27 tuổi khi anh đạt mốc 41 bàn thắng trong sự nghiệp, đó là vào mùa 2012/13, mùa bóng thứ ba anh thi đấu cho Borussia Dortmund
7. Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang: 27 tuổi
Aubameyang đạt mốc 41 bàn từ trước khi chuyển sang thi đấu ở đỉnh cao châu Âu, khi đó anh đang chơi cho AS Saint-Étienne của Pháp
8. Edinson Cavani: 29 tuổi
Cavani đạt mốc 41 bàn khi 29 tuổi, anh đang thi đấu cho Napoli khi đó ở
MEMALUKAN! Itu tegas bekas jurulatih Kedah, Azraai Khor Abdullah, berhubung situasi Persatuan Bolasepak Kedah (KFA) yang masih gagal menyelesaikan isu tunggakan gaji pemain dan jurulatih skuad Lang Merah gara-gara krisis politik di negeri itu.
Status pasukan Hijau Kuning itu selaku pasukan elit Liga Malaysia (Liga-M) tercemar gara-gara isu gaji tertunggak.
Membabitkan gaji sejak Februari lalu, pemain serta pegawai pasukan utara itu hilang sumber pendapatan menjelang Aidilfitri.
Situasi bertambah rumit apabila bakal berlaku perubahan pucuk kepimpinan KFA susulan isu politik di negeri itu.
“Bagi saya (perkembangan) ini sungguh memalukan. Kedah tiada sejarah langsung dengan masalah gaji.
“Ini kali pertama (berlaku), memang sangat memalukan,” katanya ketika diwawancara wakil Nadi Arena, Zulhelmi Zainal Azam.
Bahkan, jurulatih berumur 68 tahun itu turut mempersoalkan hala tuju Lang Merah yang dilihat tidak seimbang daripada segi merekrut pemain.
“Beberapa pemain import yang diambil sekadar duduk di bangku simpanan.
“Mengapa Kedah tidak ketengahkan pemain-pemain muda sebagai tujuan pembangunan, seperti (formula) kejayaan memenangi tiga kejuaraan dalam tempoh dua tahun berturut-turut sebelum ini, naikkan (status) pemain B-21.
“Ketika itu, kami menggunakan khidmat rata-rata anak jati dan pemain pelapis.
“Tidak mengapa kalau ingin ambil pemain matang, tetapi ia tidak menjadi.
“Ia satu pembaziran, perancangan Kedah nampaknya gagal.”
Bayern Munich vừa đánh bại Union Berlin để củng cố ngôi đầu bảng xếp hạng Bundesliga 2019/20.
Bundesliga đã trở lại với vòng đấu 26 diễn ra hồi cuối tuần qua. Trong đó Borussia Dortmund đánh bại Schalke 04 để tiếp tục bám đuổi Bayern, nhưng RB Leipzig đã phải hòa vất vả để rồi mất vị trí thứ ba vào tay Monchengladbach.
Sau vòng 26, Bayern đang có 58 điểm, với ba điểm vừa qua từ trận thắng 2-0 trước Union Berlin. Hai trận đấu tối 17.5 vừa qua còn có trận hòa 2-2 giữa Koln và Mainz.
BXH Bundesliga mới nhất sau vòng 26
Ở top cuối BXH là Paderbon, Fortuna và Bremen. Trong đó Werder Bremen vẫn còn hai trận chưa đá và hoàn toàn có khả năng bức ra khỏi nhóm cầm đèn đỏ.
Bundesliga là giải đấu đầu tiên trong top 5 League châu Âu trở lại giữa mùa Covid-19. Giải đấu đã thu hút sự chú ý của cả thế giới khi áp dụng những biện pháp mới nhất để tranh sự lây lan của dịch. Trong đó có không bắt tay nhau trước trận, không ôm nhau khi ăn mừng và không hề có bóng khán giả nào đến sân.
