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England. Premier League. Bоurnеmоuth vs Sоuthаmрtоn 30 September 2024 at 20:00. Browser Links 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 99% Web 993kbps 95% Aliez 1998kbps 95% Aliez 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 998kbps 95% Aliez 1999kbps 95% Aliez 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Voodc 95% Voodc 95% Voodc 95% Voodc 95% Voodc 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web 95% Web AceStream Links 8000kbps 95% 8000kbps 95% 8000kbps 95% 8000kbps 95% 95% Starting Lineup: 13.Kepa Arrizabalaga (G) 09.Evanilson 24.Antoine Semenyo 16.Marcus Tavernier 11.Dango Ouattara 10.Ryan Christie 04.Lewis Cook 27.Illia Zabarnyi 15.Adam Smith 05.Marcos Senesi 03.Milos Kerkez 30.Aaron Ramsdale (G) 33.Tyler Dibling 26.Lesley Ugochukwu 24.Ryan Fraser 22.Maxwel Cornet 18.Mateus Fernandes 04.Flynn Downes 35.Jan Bednarek 21.Charlie Taylor 16.Yukinari Sugawara 06.Taylor Harwood-Bellis Details England. Premier League. Pl W D L Gls Pts 1 Liverpool 6 5 0 1 12 / 2 15 2 Manchester City 6 4 2 0 14 / 6 14 3 Arsenal 6 4 2 0 12 / 5 14 4 Chelsea 6 4 1 1 15 / 7 13 5 Aston Villa 6 4 1 1 12 / 9 13 6 Fulham 6 3 2 1 8 / 5 11 7 Newcastle United 6 3 2 1 8 / 7 11 8 Tottenham 6 3 1 2 12 / 5 10 9 Brighton 6 2 3 1 10 / 8 9 10 Nottingham Forest 6 2 3 1 6 / 5 9 11 Brentford 6 2 1 3 8 / 10 7 12 Manchester Utd 6 2 1 3 5 / 8 7 13 Bournemouth 5 1 2 2 5 / 8 5 14 West Ham United 6 1 2 3 6 / 10 5 15 Ipswich Town 6 0 4 2 5 / 10 4 16 Everton 6 1 1 4 7 / 15 4 17 Leicester City 6 0 3 3 8 / 12 3 18 Crystal Palace 6 0 3 3 5 / 9 3 19 Southampton 5 0 1 4 2 / 9 1 20 Wolverhampton 6 0 1 5 6 / 16 1

Đorđe Petrović was immense

now: Manchester City eye Torino’s Samuele Ricci after Rodri is ruled out for season Blow for City as Rodri undergoes surgery for ACL injury Ricci one of the best young holding midfielders in Italy https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/sep/27/rodri-ruled-out-for-the-rest-of-the-season-for-manchester-city-with-acl-injury Manchester City are weighing up a move for Torino’s Samuele Ricci as they adjust to a season without Rodri after his anterior cruciate ligament injury. The 23-year-old Ricci has been central to Torino’s surprise ascent to the top of Serie A and excelled in the holding midfield role for Italy in their 3-1 win in Paris against France this month. Although he can play in a variety of midfield positions, he is emerging as one of the best young, deep-lying playmakers around and is high on City’s list if they decide they need to make a move in January to cover Rodri’s absence going into the busiest part of the season. Ricci would also be seen as a prudent long-term addition and, given his fee could go as high as £30m, he would not be a mere stop-gap. City have to decide whether to accelerate their summer plans because of Rodri’s injury. Ricci is right-footed with an excellent range of passing and manipulates the ball well under pressure. At 5ft 11in he has the physical presence to survive in the Premier League and is said to tackle and block well. Torino would be reluctant to sell mid-season, especially if they maintain their form and look likely to make the Champions League. But the lure of joining Premier League champions and, potentially, Champions League winners would probably be hard to resist for the player. On Friday Pep Guardiola confirmed that Rodri’s season was over as a result of the injury sustained in last Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal. The 28-year-old underwent surgery on his right knee on Friday morning, having been substituted early in the first half of Sunday’s game after going down under no challenge, and will now start his rehabilitation. “[There was] good surgery this morning for an ACL and some meniscus or something. Next season he will be here. This season is over,” stated Guardiola. “Unfortunately we got the worst [outcome]. At this level sometimes it unfortunately happens and we will be there to support him. Good recovery now, step by step and move forward.” City are at Newcastle on Saturday and the manager feels sure he can find a solution for the absence of a player he described as “irreplaceable” in midweek. “What he gives us, we don’t have a similar player but the other players altogether can replace what Rodri has given since he arrived to us,” said Guardiola. “We have to do it as a team and we have to find the way to play during a lot of months without an important player. Everybody knows it.” Guardiola was asked if a squad that contains potential replacements in Mateo Kovacic, Ilkay Gündogan, Bernardo Silva, Matheus Nunes, John Stones, Manuel Akanji and Rico Lewis is more able to cover for Rodri than in previous years when not all of these players were available. “If we win, yeah,” he said. “If we don’t win it’s because we miss Rodri. “There is not one day in the last years where I was not confident. Of course we are stronger with him, we are stronger with Nathan Aké and Oscar Bobb and Kevin [De Bruyne]. “We know that, we don’t want it but football happens and it is pity because it a long injury – eight or nine months. After it is not ‘you have to be ready in one month’, because when you have an ACL injury, a year after you have a lot of muscular problems for sure. That is why it is longer. I think Rodri will become his best not after just eight or nine months. We have magnificent players and we will find the solution.” De Bruyne remains out of action with a muscular problem, Guardiola confirmed.

RC STRASBOURG ALSACE - OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE (1-0) - Week 6 - Ligue 1 McDonald's 24/25

Tyrique George needs to be loaned to RC Strasbourg next season IMHO

Diogo Costa Guillaume Restes Lucas Chevalier

I need to watch more of their games

crazy that those 3 teams make it but Barca, Pool, and AC Milan do not plus 4 of these 8 should NEVER be in it (each of these 2 regions should get 2 teams) plus the US gets a SECOND team (as hosts, BUT they already have on in, the Seattle Sounders, via winning their Champions League, so they do not count that and will give them ANOTHER team in as well, which is just silly)

site of the final one of the ugliest, most generic huge stadiums built in the last 20 years 🤮

FIFA announces 2025 Club World Cup stadiums and cities https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5798811/2024/09/28/club-world-cup-2025-venues/ FIFA has confirmed the 12 stadiums that will stage the inaugural Club World Cup in the United States next summer. The Athletic reported last week that FIFA president Gianni Infantino had promised global broadcasters that the Club World Cup venues would be announced by the end of September. FIFA has not announced a broadcast partner for the tournament. Infantino confirmed the full list of venues on Saturday evening at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, New York. “Football is the most popular sport on the planet, and in 2025 a new era for club football will kick off when FIFA stages the greatest, most inclusive and merit-based global club competition right here in the United States,” Infantino said in a FIFA press release. Lumen Field and the Rose Bowl are the only west-coast venues selected for next summer’s tournament. Lumen Field is the 68,000-capacity home of MLS side Seattle Sounders, NWSL club Seattle Reign and NFL franchise the Seattle Seahawks. The Sounders are one of the teams competing at the 2025 competition and are expected to play at least one game at Lumen Field. There are only two west-coast stadiums selected for the Club World Cup in part due to the 2025 CONCACAF men’s Gold Cup — the international tournament between teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean — taking place at the same time in the U.S and Canada, one year out from the nations co-hosting the World Cup with Mexico. The 14 locations selected for the 2025 Gold Cup were announced earlier this week and include the following 2026 World Cup venues: Arlington’s AT&T Stadium, Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, San Francisco’s Levi Stadium, Houston’s NRG Stadium and Vancouver’s BC Place. Training bases, sponsors and broadcasters, meanwhile, are yet to be announced for the Club World Cup. In April, the New York Times reported that a global streaming deal with Apple was close but that did not come to fruition. FIFA then launched a media rights tender in July for both the 2025 and 2029 editions of the tournament in the hope it would raise interest and competition. The deadline for submissions was August 24. In January, FIFA confirmed that it was planning to stage the first women’s Club World Cup at the start of 2026, with further editions to follow every four years. No details have yet been announced on the host nation or how clubs will qualify for the inaugural 16-team tournament. GO DEEPER Infantino calls emergency meeting with broadcasters over lack of FIFA Club World Cup deal 2025 Club World Cup stadiums: Full list MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, N.J.)* Meredes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta) Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte) TQL Stadium (Cincinnati) Rose Bowl Stadium (Los Angeles) Hard Rock Stadium (Miami) GEODIS Park (Nashville) Camping World Stadium (Orlando) Inter&Co Stadium (Orlando) Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia) Lumen Field (Seattle) Audi Field (Washington, D.C.) *denotes 2026 World Cup final venue What to make of the crowded 2025 calendar So it’s official. FIFA will hold its controversial Club World Cup for the first time next summer in the U.S. A number of high-profile players have recently pushed back on the tournament’s concept amid an increasingly crowded football calendar. Manchester City midfielder Rodri suggested recently that players could strike if their schedules continue to be overcrowded with various competitions. “I think it’s the general opinion of the players,” Rodri told reporters on Sept. 17. “And if it keeps this way, there will be a moment where we have no other option.” In the meantime, the show will go on. The majority of matches will be played on the U.S. east coast with kickoff times that will suit European audiences. The CONCACAF Gold Cup will be played simultaneously (mainly on the West Coast) with the final set for July 13. Overlap is expected but The Athletic reported in January that CONCACAF and FIFA officials were discussing creating “smart schedules” to allow fans to enjoy both tournaments. Still, it’s difficult to predict how successful this tournament will be. Will it captivate American audiences beyond the highly-engaged English Premier League market in the States? Will fans from around the world travel to support their clubs and positively impact overall attendance numbers? While players and pundits debate the tournament’s importance, FIFA remains bullish. — Felipe Cardenas, senior soccer writer Which clubs will compete at the 2025 Club World Cup? UEFA Chelsea (2021 Champions League winners) Real Madrid (2022, 2024 Champions League winners) Manchester City (2023 Champions League winners) Bayern Munich (ranking) Paris Saint-Germain (ranking) Inter Milan (ranking) Porto (ranking) Benfica (ranking) Borussia Dortmund (ranking) Juventus (ranking) Atletico Madrid (ranking) Red Bull Salzburg (ranking) Despite their high UEFA ranking, Liverpool and AC Milan have missed out on a place due to FIFA’s rule that a maximum of two teams per nation can compete at the tournament (Photo: Pier Marco Tacca / Getty Images) CONCACAF Monterrey (2021 Champions League winners) Seattle Sounders (2022 Champions League winners) Leon (2023 Champions League winners) Pachuca (2024 Champions League winners) GO DEEPER One year until the Club World Cup in the United States - what's going on? AFC Al Hilal (2021 Champions League winners) Urawa Red Diamonds (2022 Champions League winners) Al Ain (2024 Champions League winners) Ulsan HD (ranking) CAF Al Ahly (2021, 2023, 2024 Champions League winners) Wydad AC (2022 Champions League winners) Esperance de Tunis (ranking) Mamelodi Sundowns (ranking) CONMEBOL Palmeiras (2021 Copa Libertadores winners) Flamengo (2022 Copa Libertadores winners) Fluminense (2023 Copa Libertadores winners) River Plate (ranking or 2024 Copa Libertadores winners) Boca Juniors (ranking) OFC Auckland City (best OFC Champions League winners in four-year period) There are three spots still left to be decided for the 2025 Club World Cup. Two clubs will come from CONCACAF, with one of those going to the winner of the 2024 Copa Libertadores. Argentinian giants River Plate are guaranteed to be one of the two teams from South America due to their high ranking but could also win the Libertadores in November. If they do, the final CONMEBOL place will go to Paraguayan side Olimpia. The final spot will be a team from the U.S. as the hosts. FIFA has not yet announced how this place will be determined. GO DEEPER Explained: Why players' unions are taking FIFA to court over the Club World Cup So, what is the FIFA Intercontinental Cup? The proposal for an annual Intercontinental Cup was approved at a FIFA Council meeting in March. In the first round of the tournament, on an alternating basis, the AFC Champions League winners or the CAF Champions League winners will play at home against the OFC Champions League winners. The victor of this round will go on to play either the AFC Champions League winners or the CAF Champions League winners in the next round. Meanwhile, CONCACAF Champions Cup winners will play the Copa Libertadores winners in a single-leg game, with the host to alternate every year. The winners of those two paths will face each other in a play-off at a neutral venue a few days before the final. The play-off winner will then face the UEFA Champions League winner at the same neutral venue. The Intercontinental Cup will take place for the first time this year, with the play-off on December 14 and the final on December 18. Real Madrid, European champions, will compete in the final, with Al Ain, Auckland City, Al Ahly, Pachuca and the Copa Libertadores winners all competing in earlier rounds. The location of the inaugural edition is to be determined. What about player welfare concerns? FIFA have said that “the expanded (Club World Cup) competition will undercut the rest and recovery time of these players at the end of the 2024-25 season, and further disrupt national employment markets by changing the balance between national and international competitions”. FIFPRO adds that the match calendar has again been enlarged without “appropriate safeguards” or “any say” from players. The union has also called for FIFA to “facilitate discussions with all football stakeholders about the introduction of a basic set of player health and safety regulations to support the welfare”. In March, the FIFA Council “unanimously approved the establishment of a dedicated task force on player welfare to ensure the smooth implementation of player welfare principles such as mandatory rest periods”. FIFPRO says there “has (been) no follow-up and requests by FIFPRO to launch this process have gone unanswered”. FIFA did not directly respond when asked by The Athletic about the task force. GO DEEPER How can we ensure footballers get more rest? Is a player strike the only way? FIFPRO, at a minimum, believes that players should have an off-season break of 28 days. The new Club World Cup, though, is likely to end only a month before the start of the 2025-26 seasons. The last six Premier League campaigns (not including the 2020-21 COVID-impacted season) have begun on August 16 (2024), August 11 (2023), August 5 (2022), August 13 (2021), August 9 (2019) and August 10 (2018), for example, leaving little time for a break and pre-season before domestic football resumes. The end of the 2025 Club World Cup is not dissimilar to when a European Championship, Copa America or World Cup might end, all of which also usually take place over June and July. It means, though, that prominent European players may only have one summer off in a four-year cycle, with the Club World Cup now coming in the year between a Euros and a World Cup. In its workload research paper about men’s football, published earlier this year, FIFPRO also called for an in-season break of 14 days and says players should have at least one day off per week. FIFPRO also wants guidelines introduced to limit the amount of successive back-to-back games, where players have two games or more per week. To address player welfare concerns regarding the 2025 Club World Cup, FIFA says teams will have at least three days’ rest between fixtures. FIFA also points out that the International Match Calendar, which includes the 2025 reworked Club World Cup, was approved with a memorandum of understanding by the European Club Association (ECA) earlier this year. The World Leagues Forum (WLF), the lobby group for the top national divisions, has also voiced its concerns over the expanded Club World Cup. It has written a letter to FIFA lodging in which it complains about the governing body overloading the match calendar and refusing to consider the interests of national competitions.

The FIFA Club World Cup has venues at last – but so many questions still remain https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5802442/2024/09/29/fifa-club-world-cup-questions/ The controversial Club World Cup is coming closer to fruition. FIFA on Saturday night chose the annual, star-studded Global Citizen Festival in Central Park to announce the 12 cities and venues that will host the inaugural tournament, with president Gianni Infantino, who did not seem unhappy at sharing a stage with Hugh Jackman, talking excitedly of fans recreating the festival’s “buzz” between June 15 and July 13 next year. The update by FIFA — including that the final will be played at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, which will also host the final of the men’s World Cup almost exactly one year later — was certainly welcome, given how little has been shared about the tournament. It signalled to the world, and those potentially investing in the competition, that FIFA is still ploughing on with the 32-team competition, despite speculation to the contrary. However, significant steps must still be taken over the next 259 days. There remains no media rights partner for the tournament, sponsorship agreements are pending and, because of this, the monetary value for participating clubs remains a giant question mark. Infantino last week went as far as calling an emergency meeting with broadcasters in hopes of persuading them of the merits of the tournament, as pressures behind the scenes mount for FIFA to make good on its hopes for billions in TV revenues to help fund the prize money for competing clubs. The FIFA head promised global broadcasters in the video call that venues would be announced before the end of the month, a promise he successfully kept. It seems FIFA is, in some ways, leveraging the success of their men’s World Cup to draw interest for the Club World Cup. On Saturday, FIFA also announced it had teamed up with Global Citizen for the first World Cup final half-time show in 2026 — a foreign concept in global football, but a beloved tradition in American football. Gianni Infantino (left), Hugh Jackman and Gayle King at the Global Citizen Festival in New York (Noam Galai/Getty Images for Global Citizen) Next year’s Club World Cup is also important for FIFA to course-correct the U.S. market after last summer’s Copa America, especially in the run-up to the World Cup in 2026. Though CONMEBOL runs the South American tournament, many critics questioned if the U.S. was ready for a World Cup after security failings and less-than-stellar crowds, even for matches featuring the U.S. men’s national team. Though a World Cup is likely to draw sellouts simply by being the world’s most popular sporting event, a Club World Cup, like the South American tournament, will be a much harder sell for American fans. The Club World Cup has already faced serious opposition, notably around player welfare. There have been growing concerns that players could go on strike over the number of games they are being asked to play in, with the Club World Cup adding to an already-congested global match calendar, and in the middle of a summer transfer window. Some have pointed to the recent season-ending injury of Spanish footballer Rodri as an example of what can happen if this level of congestion is not taken seriously. The Manchester City midfielder, who spoke out to say players were “close” to going on strike, suffered the injury just one week after expressing his concerns about workload. It’s worth noting that City face an 11-month-long campaign if they reach the final of the Club World Cup. Javier Tebas, the head of La Liga in Spain, recently said at a press conference that he would welcome a strike if it wiped the Club World Cup off the agenda but the controversy isn’t just brewing in the court of public opinion. Three of Europe’s biggest players unions also recently filed legal action against FIFA over the saturated calendar, calling the new tournament a “tipping point”. The English Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), the Italian players union (AIC) and their French counterparts (UNFP) say the rights of players are being violated under EU laws after FIFA added the Club World Cup to the end of the 2024-25 season. FIFPro, the global footballers union, is supporting the case, with the ultimate goal of challenging the legality of FIFA’s ability to “unilaterally” set the international match calendar. Despite the pushback, FIFA is committing to the men’s Club World Cup, although mystery still surrounds the women’s event. No details have been announced for that competition, which FIFA had originally said would be staged in January 2026 and feature 16 teams. Even the host country remains unknown. It was largely expected the men’s competition would overwhelmingly be an East Coast affair, with at least one match set for Seattle because Major League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders are in the competition. Since the CONCACAF Gold Cup is taking place in the U.S. simultaneously, FIFA and CONCACAF had come to a previous agreement to host matches on opposite sides of the country to avoid any overlap. The Club World Cup is proposed to be held every four years, with some describing it as Infantino’s prized possession. It will act as a primer for the expanded men’s World Cup in the U.S. held that following summer, with five World Cup 2026 venues, including MetLife, also slated to host Club World Cup games next year. Now, as the world awaits sponsorship and media rights deals for the men’s Club World Cup, and any information at all about the women’s event, the next expected update will be in December, when the tournament’s draw will take place. Future details for the draw, FIFA said on Saturday, will be released “in due course” — but the clock is ticking.

Atleti went back to their old badge this season

Conor is like, are most matches here going to be like this? lolol

look at the stats! insanely close

1 1 FT crazy game

yep

probably a red on Marcos Llorente

1 1 wow