It was just unfortunate that Luca Modric, Vinicius Jr and Benzema carry such quality that they are gifted enough to take those half chances.
United spent big money under Mourinho too, bringing in the likes of Romelu Lukaku (£76m), Paul Pogba (£89m), Fred (£47m) and Henrikh Mkhitaryan (£30m) to name but a few bad buys.
“This is a good situation for the coaches where we have two amazing goalkeepers. Mendy did a fantastic performance, he won the Africa Cup, and was the best goalkeeper at the tournament.
Celtic inched closer to a 52nd Scottish title despite being held to a draw at home by nearest challengers Rangers.
The American must have watched on in disbelief as Meslier let the ball run under his studs to allow former Leeds loanee Nketiah to open the scoring after five minutes.
It is yet another hammer blow for City as their search for a first Champions League trophy goes on. We were close, Guardiola told BT Sport.
The action kicked off with hosts Cameroon beating Burkina Faso in Yaounde, and will culminate in the final on February 6 at the same Olembe Stadium.
Moyes: Nights like this really help you build West Ham boss David Moyes told BT Sport afterwards: This will be as high as we've had.
John Barnes makes it and he was obviously unbelievable in my day too. Chris Waddle was the same, and although his peak was before the Premier League era, he would be on any 'best wingers' list for me, because he was fantastic to play with.
Poland were also due to play their semi-final that day but will instead travel to Glasgow after FIFA threw opponents Russia out of the tournament as a sanction for the invasion.
However, with the odds stacked against them, Leeds put in a hugely spirited second-half display, grabbed a goal through Diego Llorente, and they put Arsenal under significant pressure towards the end of the game as they searched for an equaliser that would hand them what seemed like an unlikely point after 27 minutes of the game.
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He's very clever in what he does. It will hold him in good stead at Rangers. He's played there, he understands exactly what he's going into and the culture of the place. He understands living in Glasgow and that fish bowl of Rangers-Celtic.
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It was revealed on Tuesday that Rudiger will join Real Madrid in the summer after failing to agree new terms at Chelsea.
They give me credit for my past I think but now they're understanding this is the right way and they trust me and I trust them. Howe: We chased the gameNewcastle played what appeared to be an ideal away day performance for 43 minutes but they fell away badly in the second half.
We knew we just had to win the game, get after them and force errors. We are delighted to have him.
Sterling kept his cool to roll his 66th-minute spot-kick past Jose Sa after a lengthy VAR check ruled Joao Moutinho had illegally blocked Bernardo Silva's cross, even though it seemed to hit the Wolves midfielder on his armpit.
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As the back-up option would largely be playing wing back, James felt like the obvious choice given his experience and output featuring in that position for Chelsea.
Whether it's short on confidence, we've seen his quality before but we've not seen it for a year or two, said Keane.
“We tried everything but we were mentally, mentally tired”, said Tuchel, whose team has already played six fixtures in January, following on from the nine matches they faced in December.
Everton’s haphazard spending meant Benitez had little to work with after replacing Carlo Ancelotti in June. The Toffees spent less than £2 million ($2.6m) on five senior players in the summer transfer window, trimming their wage bill by releasing the likes of Bolasie and Walcott, as well as James Rodriguez, and loaning the unhappy Kean to Juventus.
Formiga, who currently plays for Sao Paulo, wrote her name into the record books as the first women's player to participate in seven Olympic Games in Tokyo in July.
The substitutes started getting in on the act with Carter touching home in the 56th minute, Beth England scored again in the 61st, and Scott, also introduced from the bench, then made it 13-0 in the 67th.
The Leeds United manager bemoaned his side's worst display since he took charge of the club in 2018 as Manchester City ran in seven unanswered goals at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night.
You'd play Granit Xhaka next to Partey, then Ozil in front, then have Aubameyang central, Bukayo Saka on the left, and try and get a tune out of Nicolas Pepe.
Villa boss Steven Gerrard was missing after testing positive for Covid-19 but Thomas Tuchel's presence was certainly felt with that bold half-time substitution, removing Trevor Chalobah to bring on his striker.
Hopefully Smith Rowe will be ok - he doesn't sound to be too far away. Arsenal showed a lot of backbone, a lot of steel to hang in there, he said.
I said to the players in there that some of you need to go and have a look at yourselves. The basics is the biggest thing.
This is a very special moment for myself and my family, but particularly my mum who is the real deserving recipient of the honour.
Ligue 1 news | Fixtures | TableThird-placed Marseille, who have a game in hand, trail Nice on goal difference after being caught cold at the Velodrome in a 1-1 draw against Reims, Dimitri Payet salvaging a point with a penalty eight minutes into injury-time.
Webb recalled: There were a lot of clubs interested in him, naturally, in the Championship, Premier League and abroad but - testament to Emile and thankfully for us, because he was outstanding for us at the time - he chose us, and I think that played a key role for the development of his character more than anything.
CL qualification plans must be completely dismissed'European Leagues has called for the 'complete dismissal' of plans to grant two clubs qualification for the new-look Champions League based on historic performance.
It's something which we are all really disappointed with and the club are dealing with it. That's the business of the club.
It's always special to have your first game at Ibrox as manager and I was really happy we could give the fans the game we did.
Leicester manager Rodgers made four changes to his side, with the likes of Ricardo Pereira, Kelechi Iheanacho, Harvey Barnes and Jonny Evans given a break ahead of their first-ever European semi-final on Thursday, with Patson Daka, James Justin and Ademola Lookman given chances to impress from the off.
His replacement, at least, got himself on the scoresheet. Minamino celebrated his 26th birthday on Sunday, and he got the ideal gift courtesy of Roberto Firmino, who robbed Christian Norgaard on the edge of his own box before feeding Minamino, who gleefully accepted the invitation to grab his sixth goal of the campaign.
It hasn't been free-flowing ever since then. But you also look at it and the chances aren't going in either.
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Issa Diop will replace Kurt Zouma in the starting XI, as he is unwell, West Ham wrote. Darren Randolph is added to the substitutes' bench.
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