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mercredi 23 octobre 2013
samedi 17 août 2013
Liverpool overcame Stoke in the first Premier League game of the season at Anfield after Daniel Sturridge netted the only goal of the game.
The tie should have perhaps been settled sooner, and debutant Simon Mignolet had to produce a late double save from a Jonathan Walters penalty, and then from Kenwyne Jones to seal the three points.
Brendan Rodgers will have been impressed by his teams style especially, and will have been encouraged by the fact controversial striker Luis Suarez looked happy to be at the match.
Suarez had asked to leave the club last week in search of Champions League football, with Arsenal having a bid rejected, though he was forced to apologise to his team-mates before he trained with them again.
He then seemed to be all smiles at the ground before the game as he paraded his daughter around the pitch while waving to the fans.
Liverpool started the game on the front foot, closing Hughes' side down quickly and not allowing them to settle on the ball.
That said, the former Blackburn Rovers and Manchester City manager did seem to implement a new passing style with his new team, despite fielding a Tony Pulis-esque line-up.
And Robert Huth went closest earlier on to give the travelling side a shock lead, firing the ball against the crossbar after good work from Geoff Cameron.
Rodgers' side soon began to turn up the heat again though, having a Sturridge's goal rightly disallowed for offside after 11 minutes, before hitting the bar themselves through experienced centre-half Kolo Toure, who was making his first appearance for the club.
dimanche 11 août 2013
Rafael Nadal held off Novak Djokovic in three tense sets on Saturday and will now try to stop Canadian Milos Raonic from making more tennis history at the Montreal Masters.
Fourth seed Nadal, winner of the event in 2005 and 2008, defeated top seed and two-time defending champion Djokovic 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-2) to reach his 10th final of the season.
Raonic, meanwhile, became the first Canadian into the tournament's final since 1958, when Robert Bedard won it.
Raonic booked his place with a 6-4 1-6 7-6 (7-4) victory over compatriot Vasek Pospisil, and with the win ensured he'll be the first Canadian ever to reach the top 10 in the ATP world rankings.
Raonic will have his work cut out against Nadal. The Spaniard has won all three of their prior encounters, including two on hard courts.
Nadal's two-hour, 20-minute struggle with Djokovic was a tight affair, with small margins determining victory.
Nadal dominated the third-set tiebreaker, taking a 6-0 lead. Djokovic saved two match points before falling.
"I tried my best in the tiebreaker," said Nadal, winner of seven titles this season. "I had to hit some fantastic shots to compete well against a big player like Novak. I'm very, very satisfied."
Nadal let the second set slip as he lost the eighth game from a position of strength, letting go of a 40-0 lead to drop serve and trail 3-5.
"You cannot let up against the top players for even a minute," said Nadal, whose 57 career titles include a dozen grand slams.
Nadal has now won two of three meetings with world No.1 Djokovic this year, including a five-set thriller in the semi-finals of the French Open, just weeks after Djokovic had taken the Spaniard's Monte Carlo crown in the final.
Djokovic's defeat ended a 13-match win streak in Canada for the Serbian, who also won the title in 2007 before his back-to-back triumphs in 2011 and 2012.
"I had my chances. He had his chances. At the end he played better," Djokovic said.
"I made a lot of double faults, which I couldn't explain."
Raonic was the winner in the first ATP semi-final between Canadians since Martin Wostenholme beat Andrew Sznajder in Rio de Janeiro 23 years ago.
"The top 10 stands out because it's a goal that I set out this year," he said. "To be able to do it here in Montreal is pretty amazing."
Gareth Bale will report for training with Wales this week - but is understood to be reluctant to
risk his fitness by playing for his country while his future remains in the balance.
Talks between Tottenham and Real Madrid over his career are due to resume later this week.
His transfer is still expected to go through before the window closes and could even be concluded by next weekend.
'Gareth has been instructed to report for international duty,' said AVB last night.
'He has been training alone and working with our medical department, and we will make sure they pass all the relevant information across to the Wales team.
'Will he play for Wales? That's not up to me.'
Yet Wales may tread a diplomatic path and pull Bale out of the friendly to avoid causing their star any embarrassment. But no one foresees him turning out for Spurs in the near future.
All roads lead to Spain - even if he must negotiate Wales first.
Spurs fans did not chant Bale's name or parade banners pleading with him to stay as Tottenham drew 1-1 with Espanyol on Saturday.
It was as though the Welshman had never been king of White Hart Lane.
In any event, the club may have a new hero - and he wears No 9.
It took £26 million club record signing Roberto Soldado just 28 minutes and 39 seconds to open his account for Tottenham.
He may not have Bale's extraordinary physique, pace and athleticism, but the Spaniard is a threat and he has the quiet confidence to become a Premier League match-winner.
Soldado and the other new signings, Paulinho and Nacer Chadli, received a rapturous reception before the match.
Paulinho had an early downward header into goal disallowed for offside.
But it was Soldado who broke the deadlock from the penalty spot.
Danny Rose was upended by Javi Lopez just inside the box, and Soldado netted crisply into the corner.
'It is always important to score a goal and I hope this was the first of many,' said Soldado.
Chadli was quiet on the left of midfield, a reminder that Bale is irreplaceable.
Espanyol danger man David Lopez equalised with a thumping header just before half-time, exposing deficiencies at the centre of the Tottenham defence.
Skipper Michael Dawson said: 'The new signings are going to improve us. It was great for Roberto to get his goal. We're looking forward to the start of the season.'
samedi 10 août 2013
Sad to see Jamie Donaldson having to withdraw following a first-round 80 after suffering a back injury.
Sometimes these injuries seem terribly convenient, but Donaldson once took a year off with back problems and was told he would never play again.
Let’s hope this injury is of the twinge variety.
There are one-major wonders — and then there is Shaun Micheel.
It was 10 years ago when he hit one of the greatest shots in Grand Slam history to win the US PGA here at Oak Hill.
Now look at the poor bloke.
Never mind the PGA Tour, the 44-year-old American hasn’t made a cut all year on the reserve circuit and is ranked outside the top 1,000 players in the world. That US PGA title remains his only victory, and one that got him into this event, where he shot a first-round 76.
And yet Micheel is a better player than Lee Westwood because he has a major title to his
name?
Pep Guardiola has highlighted the improvements still needed to be made in his Bayern Munich side after their 3-1 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach kicked off the new Bundesliga season.
Guardiola took charge of his first Bundesliga game as Bayern coach on Friday at Munich's Allianz Arena and spent 71 of the 90 minutes barking instructions from the sidelines.
Goals by Dutch winger Arjen Robben, Croatia's Mario Mandzukic and Austria's David Alaba gave defending German champions Bayern three points at home on Friday night.
But the Spaniard then presented an extensive list of areas Bayern must improve -- something of concern for the club's senior figures, who have set high standards.
"We didn't always press well, gave Gladbach too much time, our counter-attacks weren't always well controlled and when we lost the ball, we didn't always get back into position straight away," said Guardiola.
Bayern leaked just 18 goals last season -- a record low in the Bundesliga -- but goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had a busy night against Gladbach.
"I had lots and lots to do," admitted the Germany 'keeper who is more used to quieter evenings when Bayern dominated last season.
Part of the problem stems from Bayern's new system, with Guardiola having discarded the 4-2-3-1 formation which won the treble of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup.
Instead, Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger is being used as a single defensive midfielder in front of the back four, but as Friday night showed, it can leave big holes.
"Pep isn't a magician," admitted Bayern's director of sport Matthias Sammer, but Guardiola's team is clearly not yet comfortable with the new system.
Guardiola admits he still struggles to express himself to his players -- and hinted the 4-1-4-1 system could be abandoned.
"Sometimes it's difficult to explain to the players, in my German, what I want," he said.
"I like the system, but maybe in the future I have to adapt to my players and change it.
"I would have no problem with that."
As France winger Franck Ribery succinctly put it: "For the first game it was okay, but we need to improve".
In fairness, Guardiola has had just eight weeks to work with his players since succeeding treble-winning Jupp Heynckes, even less with others.
Brazil centre-back Dante, who conceded an own-goal just before the half-time break against Gladbach, and Spain's Javi Martinez both came into preparations late after Confederations Cup duty.
And Schweinsteiger also joined pre-season training late after an ankle operation.
"I am not responsible for the tactics, but at the moment some players still need to catch up," said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
"Especially the Confederations Cup participants as Dante or Javi Martinez, but Bastian Schweinsteiger is still not at 100 percent. We will surely become stronger."
Guardiola has often acknowledged the pressure he is under at Bayern and it has been made clear they expect to win the treble again this season.
Sammer has directly said the Bavarian giants expect to become the first team to defend the Champions League title.
"At Bayern, there is always pressure, so it might not be bad if Pep gets used to it directly," added Rummenigge.
"He can't do anything about the hype around him, neither can the club.
"He is clearly very interesting for the media, but that's not a problem, we can handle it."
Mo Farah underlined his status as Great Britain’s greatest ever distance runner by winning the world 10,000 metres title in Moscow.
The double Olympic champion exacted revenge over Ibrahim Jeilan in a pulsating race, taking the lead with two laps to go and refusing to relinquish his lead as he won his fourth global gold medal.
No Briton has ever achieved that feat and, with the chance to retain his world 5,000m title still to come this week, Farah could yet add more gold to his impressive collection.
Two years in Daegu he was passed by Jeilan with metres remaining; a look of pure agony consuming Farah’s face as he realised he would have to settle for silver. He responded by winning 5,000m gold and both Olympic titles and, in 2013, it was the Briton looking over his shoulder at the man from Ethiopia behind him.
Farah won in 27mins 21.71secs, a 54.49sec last lap proving too much for Jeilan, who took silver, and bronze medallist Paul Kipngetich Tanui from Kenya, who did most of the early running.
A delighted Farah told the BBC: ‘I had the experience from a couple of years ago and this time I saw him (Jeilan) coming at the bell so I knew he was always behind me so it was important I had something left and it was nice to win it and beat him this time after finishing second (in 2011).
‘I nearly went down a couple of times but thank God I didn’t go down and I just managed to cover every move. It was important that it was me and my training partner Galen Rupp working together. We knew from the pace that the guys knew we’ve got speed so they were going out there to take a lot out of me.
‘I didn’t want to lose again. I remember a couple of years ago I was second and I was just digging in, digging in and making sure I didn’t over-stride, that important. I kept looking across and you could see in my eyes, just making sure they didn’t come after me.
‘It was nice to come out here and win it. That was the one missing. It was definitely well worth it.’
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