Новости за 27.09.2019

Tom Cairneys superb long-range strike capped Fulhams 2-0 home victory over Wigan which ended a run of five games in all competitions without a win for Scott Parkers side.Joe Bryan had fired the Cottagers ahead two minutes into the second half and Cairneys outstanding effort from 25 yards seven minutes from time ensured there was no way back for the visitors.The victory that came after three successive 1-1 draws moved the Cottagers up to seventh place in the Sky Bet Championship.And for Wigan, defeat... Читать дальше...

Bury will apply for a place in next seasons National League as local MP James Frith stressed there are still active and credible bidders for the stricken club.The Shakers were forced out of the Football League in August due to ongoing financial troubles, leaving League One with just 23 clubs, and they failed on Thursday with a bid to be readmitted in League Two next season.A meeting of the Bury FC Rescue Board followed on Friday after which Frith, the Labour MP for Bury North, shared an update on Twitter.He wrote... Читать дальше...

Celtic made an 8.7million post-tax profit last season despite losing about 18million in revenue, according to the clubs financial results.Failure to qualify for the Champions League group stages hit Celtics income while operating costs including the wage bill were broadly similar.Group revenue for the year to June 30 fell to 83.4milllion while post-tax profits halved in relation to the previous season.Celtic made a surplus on transfer dealings, mainly due to the then record sale of Moussa Dembele... Читать дальше...

There’s always a set of footballers who nudge themselves above the rest on each iteration of EA Sports’ pride and joy – and FIFA 20 is no different.These are the game’s most overpowered players, all of whom possess stats that allow them to outperform regular virtual beings.FIFA 20 best priceWhere to get FIFA 20 for the best price on PS4, Xbox One – plus great bundle dealsSo without further ado, here’s a look at 10 of the most overpowered players on FIFA 20...Wissam Ben YedderPrice: 42kBen Yedder... Читать дальше...

Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has urged his players to maintain their confidence against Rangers despite seeing their injury situation further deteriorate.James Wilson will miss Saturdays Ladbrokes Premiership encounter at Ibrox with a knee strain while fellow forward Connor McLennan is struggling with a dead leg.Defenders Scott McKenna and Ash Taylor were already missing along with midfieldersStephen Gleeson, Funso Ojo, Craig Bryson and Scott Wright.McInnes believes Rangers have made improvements... Читать дальше...

Unai Emery has called on Granit Xhaka to stand up and change the opinion of the majority of Arsenal fans after he was chosen by his team-mates to be the clubs new captain.The Gunners head coach held a blind vote among his squad to decide on his new skipper, with Xhaka winning the vote having worn the armband in six of the first eight games of the campaign.Emery had a leadership group of five players last year but three of those Laurent Koscielny, Petr Cech and Aaron Ramsey departed over the course of the summer. Читать дальше...

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson is pleased Teemu Pukki has showed his potential, having watched the Finland international when he was starting his career at KTP.Hodgson was in charge of the Finland national team between January 2006 and November 2007 before he left to take over at Fulham.Just over a year later, in February 2009, Pukki made his international debut, but the highly-rated teenager struggled while in Spain after signing for Sevilla from Veikkausliiga side KTP and only started to... Читать дальше...

Paul Pogba is a doubt for Manchester Uniteds Premier League clash against Arsenal because of a swollen ankle.The Frenchman returned to action for the first time since suffering the injury at Southampton last month but the issue has flared up again, leaving the midfielder touch and go to face the Gunners.Forward pair Anthony Martial (thigh) and Marcus Rashford (groin) are unlikely to feature while Phil Jones is definitely out but fellow defender Luke Shaw returned to training on Friday after a month... Читать дальше...

Dom Thomas has told Kilmarnock manager Angelo Alessio he can provide the attacking spark he is looking for after signing a new contract at Rugby Park.The former Motherwell player has signed a one-year extension to his deal, which was due to expire at the end of this season.The 23-year-old has scored once in nine appearances under Alessio but has not started since the opening game of the campaign against Connahs Quay Nomads in the Europa League qualifying rounds.But the midfielder believes he is pushing... Читать дальше...

Livingston midfielder Marvin Bartley senses that belief in the squad is growing as they look to play more football.But he knows that points are all that matter at Hamilton on Saturday after losing three games in a row.Livi have competed well against Rangers and Aberdeen in recent games but suffered a second defeat against Steven Gerrards men in quick succession when they went down 1-0 in the Betfred Cup on Wednesday.Gary Holts men were unbeaten in their first nine matches of the season and Bartley... Читать дальше...

The Golden Boot is the ultimate individual accolade for a Premier League goalscorer each season. It means statistical dominance over your fellow forwards, no matter how many of them came via the penalty spot (or off your backside). They all count, right?Records were smashed in 2017/18 by the man who netted a 38-game high 33 goals in the Premier League, but in 2018/19 the prize was shared between three players on 22 – the lowest winning haul since 2010/11. We're unlikely to see a repeat scenario this season, with goals flowing at a healthy rate.

Conor Pope, Amy Raphael, Ryan Herman and This Is Anfield's Matt Ladson discuss Jurgen Klopp, Amy's brilliant new book A Game of Two Halves and what Liverpool was like before the energetic German arrived.Klopp is a Champions League winner, a footballing philosopher, and now FIFA Manager of the Year 2019.But how did he become one of the greatest managers in the world? And how did he turn Liverpool into one of the great footballing sides?In the new issue of FourFourTwo we have an in-depth interview with Klopp conducted by comedian John Bishop. Читать дальше...

Bernardo Silva has written to the Football Association expressing regret at any unintentional offence his controversial tweet to Benjamin Mendy has caused.Anti-discriminatory organisation Kick It Out this week called on the FA to take action after Manchester City playmaker Silva compared team-mate Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos chocolates.Silva maintains the social media posting was intended as a joke but accepts it may have caused offence.Bernardo Silva and Benjamin Mendy were team-mates... Читать дальше...

James Maddison is a major injury concern for Leicester ahead of their Premier League game against Newcastle.The midfielder is battling to be fit after taking a knock to his ankle during the 2-1 win against Tottenham.Maddison looked to be in considerable discomfort in the late stages of last weekends game, raising concerns about his availability for Sunday.Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers gave an update on the 22-year-old at his press conference on Friday afternoon, saying: Well see over the next couple... Читать дальше...

Norwich head coach Daniel Farke has warned his squad not to let injury setbacks derail their bid to stay competitive in the Premier League.The Canaries head to Crystal Palace on Saturday without goalkeeper Tim Krul, who has a back issue, while midfielder Alex Tettey is sidelined by a groin injury picked up in last weeks defeat at Burnley.Defender Max Aarons, though, provided some positive news with an earlier-than-expected return from his ankle problem sustained while on international duty with England... Читать дальше...

Tthe Bundesliga is Europe's most entertaining top flight; the only one of this continent's Big Five leagues to average more than three (3.18) goals per game last season. And so far in 2019/20, that average is up to 3.24. Action is more or less guaranteed in Germany's top division, famous for its raucous atmospheres, cheap beer and glorious sausages. There's even some football too– and this year, as ever, it's on the rest of the Bundesliga to topple Bayern Munich. Borussia Dortmund gave it a good... Читать дальше...

The importance of a captain is often debated, but generally people can agree that they should probably be playing most of the time. Even some of the time would be a start.Unfortunately for Arsenal, that hasn't often been the case in recent years.Laurent Koscielny replaced the retired (and largely unused)Per Mertesacker by leaving under a cloud after a period of injury. Before Mikel Arteta, another non-player for his final two seasons, there was Thomas Vermaelen – who featured in only seven league... Читать дальше...

Star midfielder Christian Eriksen was angling for an exit at the end of last season, while the likes of Danny Rose and Toby Alderweireld also looked set to depart before staying put in north London.Spurs suffered a shock penalty shoot-out defeat to fourth-tier Colchester in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.It came on the back of a 2-1 defeat at Leicester City in the Premier League on Sunday, and Tottenham have now won just two out of eight games in all competitions in 2019/20.When asked about his team’s struggles... Читать дальше...

St Mirren midfielder Tony Andreu insists now is not a bad time to be facing Hearts despite their recent upturn in form.Hearts head to Paisley on Saturday buoyed by securing their first league victory of the season in last weekends Edinburgh derby clash with Hibernian.Craig Leveins men also set up a Betfred Cup semi-final clash with Rangers after beating Aberdeen in a penalty shoot-out on Wednesday night.But FrenchmanAndreu dismissed the idea that St Mirren are playing Hearts at a bad time and said... Читать дальше...

Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl is preparing to drop struggling forward Che Adams from his Premier League line-up following Danny Ings goal-scoring heroics in the south coast derby.Adams has started each of Saints six top-flight games this term following a reported 15million move from Birmingham but is yet to find the net.The 23-year-olds summer arrival at St Marys has been partly responsible for Ings recently being relegated to a peripheral role under Hasenhuttl.However, misfiring Adams attracted... Читать дальше...

Newcastle head coach Steve Bruce is refusing to be distracted by fresh takeover talks as he prepares for Sundays Premier League trip to Leicester.Reports claiming that former Manchester United and Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon is attempting to buy the club from current owner Mike Ashley for a second time, once again with financial backing from the United States, surfaced late on Thursday night.The PA news agency understands that no bid has yet been tabled and sources on Tyneside are treating... Читать дальше...

Kenyon, a former Manchester United and Chelsea chief executive, is working with American firm GACP Sports on a £300 million offer to buy the St. James’ Park club off current owner Mike Ashley.And The Sun reports that the document put together for potential investors includes a strange claim about the current Newcastle boss.It says: “GACP Sports plans to support the current manager,Steve Bruce, who has had unparalleled success in Europe.”That line was included despite the fact that Bruce has only once led a club into Europe... Читать дальше...

“I’ve never seen a game where someone controls it like that from the right wing. He was phenomenal and on top of his game. I was like, ‘How has he managed that?’Maybe it was because everyone looked for him subconsciously – muscle memory, give it to Becks. People forget how a good player he was.”So Emile Heskey told FourFourTwo in November 2018 of David Beckham’s remarkable performance against Greece in 2001 – one defined by that last-minute free-kick which qualified England for World Cup 2002, but... Читать дальше...

The Sunbelieves that is the fee required to prise the Argentine from north London, as United consider their options following a difficult start to the season.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is under pressure at Old Trafford after an unconvincing 2019/20 campaign so far.United needed penalties to edge past Rochdale in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, just three days on from their 2-0 defeat to West Ham in the Premier League.And while the board has backed the Norwegian for now, the outlet believes Pochettino is... Читать дальше...

The Mirror reports that although Beckham isn’t a licensed intermediary, he is thought to have been involved in Leroy Sané’s potential move from Manchester City to Bayern Munich over the summer.Beckham is listed as a director for the company Football Management Limited and could help them grow an exclusive list of clients, with former Nottingham Forest striker David Johnson in charge of managing players.FA rules prevent Beckham from obtaining an agent licence as he is a part-owner of Salford City... Читать дальше...