Cristiano Ronaldo remains a doubt for Portugal s next Nations League game against Sweden on Tuesday after missing Saturday s 4-1 win over Croatia with an infected toe.
Santos revealed the nature of Ronaldo s problem in his media conference ahead of the Croatia clash, confirming the infection was thought to have been caused by a bee sting.
Portugal had no issues in his absence at the Dragao, as Joao Cancel, Diogo Jota, Joao Felix and Andre Silva did the damage against a Croatia side that hardly threatened at all before Bruno Petkovic s consolation late on.
The Nations League s defending champions will hope to build on this win by beating Sweden next week, and they could yet call upon Ronaldo, though Santos insisted that he was not resting the Juventus star.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers hope to sell Patrick Cutrone in the January transfer window, according to . It has been reported that the Premier League club are looking to sign Maxi Gomez from Valencia when the transfer window opens next month and are hoping to get some cash by parting company with Cutrone.
Cutrone has been on the books of Wolves since 2019 when he joined the club after leaving AC Milan. The Italy international striker has failed to make a huge impact at the Wanderers and has made only a handful of appearances for the first team.
The 22-year-old striker joined Italian club Fiorentina on an 18-month loan deal from Wolves in January 2020. According to , the 22-year-old made nine starts and 10 substitute appearances in Serie A for Fiorentina during the second hal…
West Ham bowed out of the Europa League but only after giving new German champions Bayer Leverkusen an almighty fright.
Michail Antonio’s early goal had the Hammers, 2-0 down from the first leg, dreaming of inflicting a first defeat of the season on Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen and of maybe reaching a third European semi-final in three years.
But they were unable to find a second and were then left crastfallen when a deflected goal from Jeremie Frimpong a minute from time made it 1-1 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate to end the Hammers’ hopes.
Our Europa League journey comes to an end.
— West Ham United (@WestHam)
Few gave David Moyes’ side any chance of overturning the deficit against one of the best teams in Europe, even if they were a l…
Burnley boss Sean Dyche fries journalist for question about walking out in snow in his shirt (Video)
Burnley boss Sean Dyche was seen walking around the pitch at Turf Moor before his team s match against Tottenham Hotspur was postponed for snow, wearing a shirt and a tie no jacket or a coat. However, he was in no mood for questions about it in his next press conference.
Look a bit overdressed there Sean?
Sean Are we really going to make a story out of the fact I had a shirt on? Is that the best we can do today?
Sean Dyche is not having the press conference being dominated by him wearing just a shirt in the snow
— Football Daily (@footballdaily)
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Midfielder Danny Drinkwater has committed his future to Leicester City by signing a five-year contract with the Premier League champions.
The 26-year-old is now tied to the club until 2021, in an important piece of business for manager Claudio Ranieri, who lost another key midfielder in N Golo Kante to Chelsea last month.
Drinkwater joined the Foxes from Manchester United in 2012, helping the team to achieve promotion to the top flight in 2014, before their sensational title triumph last term.
Delighted to sign a new contract ! It s been a great few years, full of success. The future is bright!!
— Danny Drinkwater (@DannyDrinkwater)
Drinkwater s performances in 2015-16 saw him make his senior England debut against Netherlands in March, b…
Barcelona began their quest for a sixth Champions League title with an emphatic 7-0 win over Celtic at Camp Nou.
A hat-trick from Lionel Messi, plus goals from Neymar, Andres Iniesta and Luis Suarez s double, gave Luis Enrique s side all three points to banish memories of Saturday s shock LaLiga defeat to Alaves.
Messi rifled in an early opener and he combined superbly with Neymar to double Barca s lead after Moussa Dembele had seen a penalty saved by Marc-Andre ter Stegen.
Neymar bent a free-kick over the wall and beyond Dorus de Vries from 20 yards just after half-time, and the Brazil star set up Iniesta for a sumptuous fourth before the hour mark before Messi completed his treble just a minute later.
Brendan Rodgers side could scarcely get out of …
La Gazzetta dello Sport understands that Serie A leaders Napoli have agreed a deal to sign Amin Younes from Ajax.
The talented winger will be out of contract at the end of the season and the Azzurri reportedly had a €5 million proposal accepted by the Amsterdammers.
Napoli were looking to reinforce their front line this winter and they managed to wrap up the deal for the Germany starlet.
Younes, 24, joined Ajax in July 2015 from Borussia M’gladbach and went on to produce 17 goals and 24 assists in 96 competitive outings.
Swansea City were also keen on signing the highly rated youngster, but Napoli eventually won the chase.
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Luka Modric hopes his latest Real Madrid contract renewal is not his last and he expressed a desire to retire at the Santiago Bernabeu.
The Croatia midfielder extended his stay with the LaLiga giants until June 2020 on Tuesday, by which time he will be 34.
Modric, who joined from Tottenham in 2012, overcame a difficult start to his career in Spain to develop into a key figure at Madrid.
And the 31-year-old believes he has plenty left to offer Los Blancos.
I hope it is not my last contract renewal. My desire is to retire at Real Madrid and with this renewal I am closer to that challenge, Modric said at a news conference.
But it depends on many things. How I feel, what I contribute to the team But my idea is to retire here. I feel very happy and…
Diego Simeone said Atletico Madrid s 4-0 thrashing to Bayern Munich left a bad taste but refused to criticise his players for the manner of the loss.
Atleti were comprehensively outclassed by the Champions League holders in their Group A opening game in Munich on Wednesday with Bayern winger Kingsley Coman instrumental in the result.
France international Coman scored two goals – the second a superb individual effort – with Leon Goretzka and Corentin Tolisso also on target for the defending champions.
The defeat was Atletico s joint-worst in the competition, as they managed just one shot on target, but head coach Simeone felt there were still some positives to take.
I am left with the bad taste of defeat, Simeone said in his post-match media conferenc…
Cristiano Ronaldo scored four to take his international tally to 93 goals as Portugal claimed a 5-1 win over Lithuania in Euro 2020 qualifying on a night to forget for goalkeeper Ernestas Setkus.
With Ronaldo s early penalty having been cancelled out by Vytautas Andriuskevicius before half-time, Setkus was guilty of a blooper when he fumbled a strike from the Juventus forward to again hand this year s Nations League winners the advantage.
Ronaldo soon added two more before William Carvalho added a late fifth to seal the win over Group B s bottom side.
Second-placed Portugal moved within five points of leaders Ukraine, who they have a game in hand on, with the victory.
— UEFA EURO 2020 (@UEFAEURO)
The visitors got off to t…