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Mesaque Dju is hoping to keep scoring for West Ham after netting his first goal for the club’s Under-23 side on Monday.

Dju netted in the Hammers’ 3-0 win over Swansea City after coming on as a substitute.

What’s the word?

Dju joined the Hammers in January, arriving on a free transfer from Benfica.

The winger had played just 82 minutes of football for the club prior to the encounter with Swansea, where he scored with his first touch.

And he has expressed his delight at hitting the back of the net as the Hammers’ Under-23 team battle against relegation.

“I am very happy to get my first goal for this big club,” he told the club’s official website. “Now I have to keep going because we need the points in the league. We have worked hard every day and it was a good win for us tonight.

“It was my first touch I think but I didn’t think – my focus was on the team and doing my best out there and I was very happy to be in the position to score the goal. It was a good touch for me to score and it’s a good night for me.

“When Nathan [Holland] received the ball, I saw him and my first thought was to get inside the box because I know Nathan has the quality and the speed to get across and put the ball in the centre. Luckily, I was in the right place and I am very happy when I touched the ball to score.”

An exciting time for Hammers fans

Dju has only just scored his first goal for the club but fans should be excited.

A Portugal youth international who has been capped at every level from the Under-16s to the Under-20s, he may well be the next exciting academy graduate in east London.

It remains to be seen how long it will take for him to earn senior recognition, but there is surely more to come from Dju.

West Ham fans ought to keep a close eye on him.

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Arsenal fans have taken to Twitter to react after Mesut Ozil made just his second start of 2019, against BATE Borisov in the Europa League Round of 32 tie at the Emirates.

The Gunners had a job to do as they looked to reverse a 1-0 deficit from the first leg, but found the task at hand an easy one as they romped to a 3-0 win in front of their home support.

In Ozil’s case, the former Germany international and 2014 World Cup winner managed to play 90 minutes for the first time since December, and appeared to make the north London-based side’s attacking play tick.

There has been something of a power battle between boss Unai Emery and the 6 foot midfielder for the most part of this season, but with results suffering without the former Real Madrid playmaker, the Gunners manager has a decision to make over the 30-year-old.

It appears to be a situation that is dividing the fanbase too, if you were to take a look at the Arsenal fans’ reactions to his performance on Twitter…

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Sunderland manager Jack Ross has laughed off the idea of playing two strikers at the Stadium of Light.

The Black Cats have scored in every game this season – they are the only team in the top four divisions to do so – but they have struggled to score more than once in recent outings, doing so just once in their last nine games.

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Sunderland striker Josh Maja left the club for Bordeaux in the January transfer window.

The news was a major blow to Ross, who saw a striker who had scored 15 goals in League One this season head for France.

A deal to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Kazaiah Sterling on loan was secured in the wake of that move, along with a £4million deal for Will Grigg, signed from Wigan Athletic.

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And Ross says that there is little chance that he will revert to a two-up formation, though he accepts that he must find a way to make the Black Cats less predictable.

“It’s a nonsense statement that is thrown out by some people,” he said, per the Chronicle.

“The whole thing about two strikers makes me laugh whenever I hear it.

“If you’re playing two strikers and four midfielders, is that more attacking than playing a striker and two wingers?

“Because two wingers and a striker, that’s three attackers in total.”

He added: “Earlier in the season we were probably a bit more unpredictable because we had to chop and change so much, whereas now we are more settled.

“We have to assess whether there is now more familiarity with what we do and whether that has made it more comfortable for the opposition.

“So we’re looking at it and searching for ways that we can be a little bit less predictable.”

Grigg to lead the line

It appears that Grigg will lead the line after his move and that may well be the best thing for him to do.

He has genuine League One pedigree, scoring a total of 96 goals in 260 appearances in the competition, compared to just nine in 50 in the Championship.

And throwing him in as something of a wildcard will help Ross overcome the club’s current predictability.

Add into the fact that Sterling, on loan from Tottenham Hotspur, has something to prove away from north London and Ross appears to hold all the cards needed to get the Black Cats firing again.

They are currently fourth in League One, nine points behind leaders Luton Town, but they also have three games in hand, and they appear to have brought in the exact reinforcements needed to close that gap.

Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti complained that referees do not understand coaches after a tense meeting at the Spanish Football Association (RFEF).

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Ancelotti attended meeting at RFEF officesReal Madrid boss left the discussion angryCoach says referees 'don't understand' coachesWHAT HAPPENED?

Ancelotti and his Barcelona counterpart Xavi, along with several other La Liga coaches, were present at a meeting at the RFEF's headquarters. The gathering was held to discuss refereeing and other issues in Spanish football – most notably a lack of severance pay received by coached when they're sacked.

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Ancelotti has previously complained that the referees in La Liga do not show enough respect to coaches, while Xavi has reportedly proposed a joint-press conference so that managers can express their grievances.

WHAT CARLO ANCELOTTI SAID

The meeting at the RFEF headquarters seems to have done very little to resolve the tension between referees, coaches and the RFEF in general, as Ancelotti voiced his anger afterwards. Asked by a journalist how the meeting went, Ancelotti said it was "a mess", adding: "They don't understand us coaches".

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The Italian left RFEF's headquarters early so that he could lead Madrid's training session on Tuesday. Their next game is against Cadiz on November 26.

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“Vem aqui que quero te mostrar uma coisa no computador. Qual é a emoção ao fazer um gol desses?” Essa pergunta foi feita por um dirigente do Metalist, na Ucrânia,no meio de 2010, antes de Cleiton Xavier assinar contrato. E foi mais uma prova do tamanho do feito do jogador há exatamente 11 anos: o seu golaço na vitória por 1 a 0 sobre o Colo-Colo, em 29 de abril de 2009, no Chile, classificou o Palmeiras na Libertadores e marcou sua vida para sempre.
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​- Estou esperando que reprisem esse jogo entre tantos que estão repetindo. Fico até emocionado. Vejo esse lance direto. Sempre tem alguém me mandando vídeo ou palmeirense postando e me marcando. É assim todo ano que chega essa data ou tem jogo de Libertadores. Todos falam desse gol. Foi legal saber que até na Ucrânia viram – disse o ex-meia, aposentado desde 2018, em conversa com o LANCE!, por telefone, de São José da Tapera, no interior de Alagoas, onde mantém a “Escolinha CX10” para crianças carentes.

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O jogo foi batizado de “Batalha da Cordilheira”. Ao Colo-Colo, em casa, bastava empatar. O Verdão só se classificava ao mata-mata com vitória, e pressionou: duas bolas na trave de Keirrison e chance na pequena área que Cleiton Xavier perdeu. Para piorar, o volante Pierre e o meia Diego Souza, destaques do time, se machucaram e o zagueiro Marcão foi expulso, aos 17 do segundo tempo.

Cleiton Xavier já tinha arriscado de fora da área. Aos 42 minutos, limpou o seu marcador, de muito longe do gol, e armou o chute. Na época, o goleiro Marcos admitiu que gritou para o colega não chutar. Dirigentes do Palmeiras, na época, fizeram o mesmo, do camarote. Mas a bola entrou no ângulo esquerdo.

– Fomos para cima desde o início, jogamos bem, criamos várias oportunidades, tentamos de todo jeito. Um pouco antes do gol, pensei ‘hoje, essa bola não entra’. No fim, o gol saiu na pior das hipóteses.Eu estava no melhor ano da carreira, confiança lá em cima, tudo dando certo. Pensei em tentar driblar e, se tivesse um espacinho, chutar. Quando apareceu, não pensei duas vezes: me desvencilhei e fui muito feliz. Não tinha outro ângulo para a bola entrar – lembrou Cleiton Xavier, que sentiu já no dia seguinte a dimensão do que fez.

– Vi muita gente me esperando no desembarque e não entendi nada. Demorou para cair a ficha. Até então, era um gol legal, de classificação, passamos de fase. No Brasil, vi a proporção que tomou. Foi como se tivesse sido campeão, com todos comentando em jornais, televisão. Passei a semana dando entrevista – lembrou, sem dúvidas ao falar do que considera o principal gol da carreira.

– Fiz um gol na Ucrânia na saída de bola e outro parecido com aquele contra o Colo-Colo, só que do outro lado e, claro, sem a mesma proporção, emoção e calor do jogo. Na campanha do título brasileiro de 2016, fiz gols importantes contra Vitória, Inter e Corinthians, e falo sempre que fazer gol no Corinthians é um campeonato à parte, nem tem comparação. Mas esse contra o Colo-Colo tem importância maior por tudo que estava envolvido naquele jogo – indicou.

Confira a ficha técnica da partida realizada em 29 de abril de 2009:

FICHA TÉCNICA
COLO-COLO 0 X 1 PALMEIRAS

Local: Monumental David Arellano, Santiago (Chile)
Data: 29/4/2009
Árbitro: Carlos Torres (Paraguai)
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Cartões amarelos: Caroca, Figueroa e Millar (COL); Maurício Ramos e Willians (PAL)
Cartão vermelho: Marcão (17’/2°T)
Gol: Cleiton Xavier (42’/2°T) (1-0)

COLO-COLO: Muñoz; Figueroa, Mena, Riffo e Salcedo; Sanhueza, Meléndez (Jara, aos 18’/2ºT), Millar e Torres (Caroca, aos 16’/1ºT); Carranza (González, aos 40’/2ºT) e Barrios. Técnico: Gualberto Jara

PALMEIRAS: Marcos; Wendel (Willians, intervalo), Maurício Ramos, Danilo e Armero; Marcão, Pierre (Evandro, aos 15’/2ºT), Souza e Cleiton Xavier; Diego Souza (Ortigoza, aos 36’/2ºT) e Keirrison. Técnico: Vanderlei Luxemburgo

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Some of the world's most costly squads have been assembled in Europe as clubs pursue silverware.

UEFA's annual Club Licensing Benchmarking Report has revealed that the top 20 most expensively assembled squads on the continent rose in value by 26 per cent at the end of the 2018 financial year when compared with 12 months previously.

Some of the confederation's biggest clubs are included in the list, while there are also some surprises.

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Chesney Hughes hit an unbeaten 137 as Derbyshire comfortably batted out for a draw on the final day of their match with Gloucestershire in Bristol

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Chesney Hughes hit an unbeaten 137 as Derbyshire comfortably batted out for a draw on the final day of their match with Gloucestershire in Bristol.With Hamish Rutherford contributing 78 to a second-wicket stand of 174, the visitors wiped out Gloucestershire’s first innings lead of 119 with few alarms under largely cloudless skies.Derbyshire had reached 260 for 2 when the players shook hands at 4.50pm, by which time Hughes, who had fallen four short of a hundred in the first innings, had faced 240 balls and hit 20 fours and a six without giving a chance.It was an impressive display by the powerful left-hander. Gloucestershire took 12 points and Derbyshire eight from a game dominated by the bat on a slow, benign wicket.The final day began with the hosts leading by 119 on first innings. Derbyshire’s first task was to avoid losing early wickets, but Lady Luck soon took a hand.Ben Slater was unfortunate to be run out for 6 when seamer Liam Norwell, operating from the Pavilion End, tipped a straight drive from Hughes onto the stumps at the bowler’s end.Gloucestershire were unable to capitalise on a surface offering little in terms of spin or seam movement and soon the draw was looking inevitable.By lunch Derbyshire were virtually safe on 105 for 1, with Hughes having moved to fifty off 75 balls, with 10 fours, and the less secure Rutherford on 37.The home side had to wait until the 55th over for a second success when Rutherford, who had escaped some airy shots, was caught by the diving Chris Dent at cover off Jack Taylor, having faced 142 balls and hit 10 fours.Rutherford had made an important contribution, while never looking in great form, and by the time he fell his side were 61 ahead.Hughes moved confidently to his eighth first-class century and second against Gloucestershire, bringing it up with his 16th four, forcing offspinner Taylor through the off side.He was unbeaten on 123 at tea, which was taken with Derbyshire 219 for 2, exactly 100 ahead.The shortened final session saw Hughes and Wayne Madsen (27 not out) bat effortlessly as Gloucestershire rested their main seamers.But there was a scare for the hosts near the end as skipper and wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick had to leave the field with a hand injury, sustained standing up to the medium-pace of Kieran Noema-Barnett.It was a match made memorable by the third-day century of Gloucestershire nightwatchman Norwell, but otherwise home supporters will be hoping for more entertaining cricket when Worcestershire provide the opposition on Sunday.

Matthew Carter’s ten wickets on debut proved in vain as Somerset’s veterans completed an epic comeback

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ScorecardPeter Trego’s bristling innings helped take Somerset most of the way to victory•Getty ImagesAfter summoning the spirit of the Wurzels in clouting Somerset to a monumental and, potentially, season-altering run-chase at Taunton, a croaky Peter Trego admitted afterwards that he had “blown his larynx” in a lusty dressing-room rendition of the team’s victory song.”I like to add a little bit of Wurzel to the Wurzels team song,” he said. “This is why we play the game and love pulling on the shirt. Win, lose or draw, we put heart and soul into each game, and days like this are worth all the bad days.”There have been a fair few bad days flying around the west country in recent weeks, but the euphoria that greeted Somerset’s achievement on the final day at Taunton was so heartfelt it was as if that eponymous blackbird himself had been been hunted down.The triumph was sealed with five minutes of the morning session remaining as Abdur Rehman launched a volley of three fours in four balls off the 19-year-old Nottinghamshire offspinner Matthew Carter, whose ten wickets on debut proved in vain as Somerset’s veterans completed an epic comeback.”To chase down 400 on a wicket that was assisting, that’s a massive feather in the cap of our batting line-up who have been having their rough times in the season,” Trego said. “But we are coming good and hopefully this will be the catalyst for a few more good results.”It wasn’t simply the size of the chase that astonished – Somerset had themselves been on the wrong end of a 400-plus chase when Middlesex beat them by five wickets at Taunton in April, so they knew that such a feat could be achieved at the County Ground.More remarkable still was their comeback from a first-innings deficit of 210, especially having shipped 300 runs in 71 overs on the first day, with Brendan Taylor’s 152 steering Nottinghamshire towards what ought to have been an unassailable position.”We showed great character to fight back from that deficit,” Trego said. “Our ageing attack bowling the team out for 190, and two ageing middle-order players putting on a hundred partnership. That’s one thing in this game you can’t replace: experience.”Needing a further 127 for victory, but having squandered a very solid start by losing four wickets for 46 in a nervy evening session on day three, Trego launched his day’s work as if he’d come out whistling his favourite refrain. “With a girt big stick I’ll knock ‘im down. Blackbird, I’ll ‘ave ee!”The blackbird in his sights from the outset was Carter, whose 7 for 56 in the first innings had done so much to put the skids under Somerset’s hopes in this contest. But Trego swung his big stick for two whistling cover drives from his first two balls of the day to set an emphatic and aggressive tone for his team.Alongside him in a critical sixth-wicket stand of 116 was Jim Allenby, who bided his time as his team-mate set the tempo by reaching his fifty from 63 balls. Allenby took half an hour to add four runs to his overnight 32, before stepping up his tempo with a whistling pull for four off Jake Ball.The pair had whittled the victory target down to a meagre 42 before the wobble that all of Somerset had expected and feared. Allenby was trapped lbw for 62 by Samit Patel, whose natural feistiness had been exacerbated by the rap on the knuckles he had received for a run-in with umpire Benson on the third afternoon.Tim Groenewald then survived an early chance as Ben Hilfenhaus spilled a skier, running in from third man, but Carter, the unlucky bowler, then claimed an even more vital scalp three runs later, as Trego pushed too firmly outside off once too often, and Steve Mullaney at slip set up an agonising finale, with 36 still needed and three wickets standing.Groenewald ground out a vital 13 before, with the requirement now whittled down to 20, he became Patel’s second lbw victim of the morning. At the other end was the Somerset debutant Michael Bates – one of the finest wicketkeepers in the country, no doubt, but a man who had been released by Hampshire for his failure to score enough runs.But Bates showed immense composure in what could hardly have been a more taxing audition, picking off the gaps in an oddly deep-set field to make 14 not out from 31 balls, then Rehman saw his opportunity for a sprint to the finish, with two back cuts for four through third man off Carter, before a hoick to leg and a punch of the air sealed the glory.Afterwards, Marcus Trescothick, Somerset’s captain, praised the composure of Trego and the tail in sealing a result that has earned them 20 precious points and enabled them to vault from rock bottom in the first division to the mid-table sanctuary of sixth. Suddenly it is Nottinghamshire, with one win from seven and home-and-away losses against Somerset to contemplate, who can’t help but have one anxious eye on that trapdoor.”It wasn’t just how many they got but the fashion they got them in,” he said. “It’s always good to be positive in this situation, when you are trying to bring down low totals. You need to score the runs quickly otherwise the pressure builds up and it plays a different part in the game.””Ow’s yer father?” the Wurzels might have added. “Alright!”

Opening batsman Ed Cowan will officially be part of the New South Wales squad again after being handed a state contract for 2015-16

ESPNcricinfo staff04-May-2015Opening batsman Ed Cowan will officially be part of the New South Wales squad again after being handed a state contract for 2015-16. Cowan had in March announced his decision to leave Tasmania and return to Sydney for family reasons, but he did so at the time without an offer from the Blues and with uncertainty surrounding his future in the game.However, Cowan’s experience and form – he was fifth on the Sheffield Shield run tally last summer with 815 at 47.94 – were sufficient to prompt New South Wales to include him in their squad for next season. Cowan began his career with the Blues before moving to Tasmania and earning 18 Test caps; he hopes to add more after the likely retirement of Chris Rogers after this year’s Ashes tour.”I certainly still have really strong desire to play Test cricket,” Cowan said. “There will probably be an opportunity for an opening batsman to put their hand up after the Ashes. First and foremost for me it’s about scoring a lot of runs for New South Wales and enjoying my cricket.”Andrew Jones, the Cricket New South Wales chief executive, said: “We are delighted to have Ed Cowan back. During his time in Tasmania, Ed has developed himself into an international player and we are very fortunate that he has chosen to bring his family home.”Cowan is one of four inclusions on the New South Wales list, alongside offspinner William Somerville, opening batsman Nick Larkin and allrounder Ben Dwarshuis. Opening batsman Scott Henry has been cut from the squad after playing every Shield game in 2014-15 for 471 runs at 33.64, while Jake Doran has moved to Tasmania and Patrick Pisel has been delisted.Peter Nevill, Nic Maddinson, Sean Abbott and Kurtis Patterson have each been locked in for a further two years, while new rookies to the squad include Mickey Edwards, Henry Thornton, Daniel Solway, Jonte Pattison and Ryan Gibson.”There hasn’t been much change to our squad from last season,” David Freedman, the New South Wales talent manager said. “We have a lot of very talented young cricketers, like Nic Maddinson, Sean Abbott, Gurinder Sandhu and Kurtis Patterson, who have now played a few seasons of first-class cricket.”Coupled with the significant experience of guys like Moises Henriques, Peter Nevill, Steve O’Keefe, Doug Bollinger and now Ed Cowan, the squad is very well placed to challenge for titles next summer.”New South Wales squad Sean Abbott, Doug Bollinger, Ryan Carters, Michael Clarke (Cricket Australia contract), Trent Copeland, Ed Cowan, Pat Cummins (CA), Ben Dwarshuis, Brad Haddin (CA), Josh Hazlewood (CA), Moises Henriques, Daniel Hughes, Josh Lalor, Nick Larkin, Nathan Lyon (CA), Nic Maddinson, Peter Nevill, Steve O’Keefe, Kurtis Patterson, Ben Rohrer, Gurinder Sandhu, Steven Smith (CA), Will Somerville, Mitchell Starc (CA), David Warner (CA), Shane Watson (CA). Rookies Mickey Edwards, Henry Thornton, Daniel Solway, Jonte Pattison, Ryan Gibson, Harry Conway.

أكد أحمد حسام ميدو لاعب ومدرب الزمالك الأسبق ومقدم البرامج الرياضية الحالي، أن مجلس إدارة القلعة البيضاء الجديد برئاسة حسين لبيب مُحترف.

وكان مجلس إدارة نادي الزمالك الجديد قد عقد أمس الإثنين، أول اجتماعاته بعد نجاحه في الانتخابات الماضية.

وقال ميدو في تصريحات تلفزيونية بفضائية “المحور” عبر برنامج “الريمونتادا”: “جميع القرارات التي سيتم اتخاذها ستكون مبنية على دراسة وأرقام ودلائل وثوابت”.

على رأسها تعيين متحدث رسمي والمشرفين على كرة القدم.. أبرز قرارات مجلس الزمالك بعد اجتماع اليوم

وأضاف: “واحدة من أهم أولويات مجلس إدارة نادي الزمالك برئاسة حسين لبيب، عودة أنس أسامة لاعب فريق الاتحاد والزمالك سابقًا، ولا يوجد هناك مفاوضات ولكني أعلم أن أحد أهم أولويات مجلس حسين لبيب عودة اللاعب”.

وأردف: “طبيعي بعد انتخابات الزمالك وفوز مجلس حسين لبيب أن يُعبر الجميع عن احتفاله وآرائه خاصة مع انتقاد بعض الجماهير لفكرة حديث المجلس بالكامل إعلاميًا”.

وواصل: “هناك تعليمات بداية من اليوم من جانب رئيس مجلس إدارة نادي الزمالك حسين لبيب، بأن من يتحدث فقط باسم النادي، هو أحمد سالم”.

واستكمل: “القرار جاء من حسين لبيب، ونبه على المجلس بالكامل ضرورة عدم الحديث إعلاميًا ومن يتحدث فقط هو أحمد سالم المتحدث الرسمي”.

واستطرد: “كان هناك جلسة بين مسؤولي الزمالك في الأيام الماضية، مع الوكالة الراعية للنادي لمناقشة وتعديل بعض البنود”.

واستأنف: “كان هناك اتفاق على تعديل في بعض البنود لصالح الطرفين، والأمر ليس (خناقة)، الزمالك من الممكن أن يحقق عوائد تسويقية بأشكال وطرق مختلفة”.

وكشف: “مسؤولو الزمالك لا يستعجلون التجديد لأي لاعب إلا اثنين فقط، هما أحمد فتوح، ومحمود عبد الرازق شيكابالا”.

وأوضح: “الزمالك يريد تجديد عقد شيكابالا لمدة موسم جديد نظرًا لأهميته داخل الفريق، شيكابالا يستحق التحية والإشادة ويستحق اختيار وقت اعتزاله وفقا لمًا يريد، ويجب أن يعيد له النادي جزءًا من حقه، أطالب مسؤولي الزمالك بسرعة تجديد عقد شيكابالا، اللاعب ظُلم كثيرًا”.