Brendan Rodgers says Leicester are aiming to achieve “a result that will be heard around the world” when they take on Manchester United on Sunday with qualification for the Champions League on the line.
A Leicester win would lift them back into the top four above United, who would be left hoping Chelsea lose at home against Wolves. Rodgers believes United will go into the showdown at the King Power Stadium with more pressure.
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“We want to qualify for the Champions League, they need to,” he said. “If you analyse budgets and everything else, we should actually be nowhere near the position of Manchester United. That’s the reality. This…
“I think I’m technically unemployed, so any managers, hit me up on WhatsApp,” were Adebayo Akinfenwa’s words in a live television pitch-side interview after scoring at Wembley to clinch promotion to League One with AFC Wimbledon six years ago – a come-and-get me-plea if there ever was one – and so it seems fitting that one of the game’s household names will return there for one last kick, one last dance, to bring down the curtain on 22 years as a professional. He ended up fielding offers from from Argentina to Australia but signed for Wycombe Wanderers, where an initial one-year deal has turned into a six-year stay and the best days of his career. “I remember looking in my DMs, there were CEOs and I thought: ‘I should have done this years ago!’”…
Brenden Aaronson scored a 95th-minute equaliser for Leeds United as they began their Championship campaign with a thrilling 3-3 draw versus Portsmouth at Elland Road.
Aaronson, who spent the 2023-24 season on loan at Union Berlin, squeezed his finish into the bottom-left corner deep into stoppage time to deny John Mousinho s newly promoted visitors a dream start to the season.
Pascal Struijk s early penalty gave Leeds the lead but they were quickly pegged back by Elias Sorensen s leveller, and Portsmouth then inched ahead on two occasions.
Callum Lang s stunning strike from distance put them 2-1 up shortly before half-time, only for Wilfried Gnonto to drag Leeds level just 54 seconds into the second half, beating Will Norris with a clever reverse finish.
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Raheem Sterling highlighted his incredible development at Manchester City after signing a contract extension with the Premier League champions on Friday.
England forward Sterling has penned new terms running until the end of the 2022-23 season, after demonstrating continued improvement since joining City from Liverpool in 2015.
In each of his three full seasons at the Etihad Stadium, Sterling has proven ever more prolific in terms of goal involvements.
We look at his increasingly valuable contribution to City s cause.
He’s going nowhere! has today committed himself to the Club until 2023!
— Manchester City (@ManCity)
2015-16
Appearances: 47
Goals: 11
Assists: 10
Sterling managed nine goals…
Cristiano Ronaldo has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Ballon d Or, taking out the most prestigious individual prize in world football for the fourth time.
Respected publication France Football named the 31-year-old forward as its player of the year on Monday, Ronaldo claiming the accolade ahead of arch-rival Lionel Messi of Barcelona.
Ronaldo enjoyed a glittering 2015-16 season with club and country, lifting the Champions League with Real Madrid and finally ending his wait for international honours, as Portugal triumphed at Euro 2016.
The former Sporting CP player won his first Ballon d Or at Manchester United in 2008, before collecting the prize again at Madrid in 2013 and 2014.
Ballon d or France Football 2016 winner : CRISTIANO RONALDO
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Newly crowned European champions Spain have risen to third in the FIFA world rankings.
The latest rankings were published on Thursday, with World Cup winners Argentina holding on to the top spot following their Copa America triumph.
There were some notable changes to the world rankings after a busy month for football, with Argentina beating Colombia to win the Copa America and Spain defeating England to win Euro 2024.
Euros runners-up England moved up to fourth, leapfrogging Brazil after their underwhelming Copa America campaign.
Venezuela, who reached the Copa America quarter-finals, were the most improved side in the rankings, rising 17 places to 37th.
One of the other big movers were Euros quarter-finalists Turkiye, who jumped 16 places up to 2…
Following Manchester City s 3-1 victory at Swansea City in the FA Cup last Wednesday, Pep Guardiola s side won their 15th successive match.
In doing so, they set a new record for an English top-flight club in all competitions, overtaking the 14-game winning runs of Arsenal and Preston North End in 1987 and 1892, respectively.
They have since extended this streak to 17 after great wins over both Tottenham and Everton in the Premier League.
Back in 2017, it was claimed by some that City had secured 20 wins on the trot, between August 26 and December 3 until they eventually lost 2-1 away at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on December 6.
The bone of contention stemmed from the 12th game in this run; a 0-0 draw against Wolves in the EFL Cup, which saw…
If the Buffalo Bills want to fully ascend and be the best team in the AFC, they have to slay their dragon. And Buffalo heads right into the dragon’s lair in Week 5, visiting Arrowhead Stadium to face the Kansas City Chiefs in the spotlight of Sunday Night Football.
The Chiefs got the best of the Bills in both meetings last season, the most recent being a 38-24 triumph in the AFC Championship — a game Buffalo led 9-0 early before falling apart. NFL betting lines have the vengeful Bills listed as 2.5-point underdogs for this primetime showdown.
Here are our free NFL picks and predictions for Bills vs. Chiefs on Sunday, October 10.
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Last NFL season saw a number of historical marks equaled or broken.
T.J. Watt finally brought some legitimacy back to the sack record, equalling Michael Strahan’s 22.5, while Tom Brady re-took the career passing yards record he and Drew Brees had exchanged for a brief period. With the league well into the advent of the passing boom, all sorts of records in NFL history are at threat of falling in any given season.
With the 2022/23 campaign just a few weeks away, we’re taking a look at various NFL records that could fall and milestones that could be reached — and how to take advantage in the betting market.
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