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O Athletico conseguiu um empate por 1 a 1 com o Libertad, no Defensores Del Chaco, e carimbou um lugar entre os oito melhores da Libertadores da América.

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A vaga foi muito comemorada pelos jogadores, que voltaram a colocar o Furacão entre os oito melhores da América depois de 17 anos.

Agora, elenco e Luiz Felipe Scolari aguardam o término das eliminatórias das oitavas para conhecer o caminho até Guayaquil.

Na próxima fase, o Athletico mede forças contra o Estudiantes de La Plata ou Fortaleza. No primeiro jogo, o duelo ficou empatado por 1 a 1. As equipes voltam a se enfrentar nesta quinta-feira, às 21h30, na Argentina.

Aston Villa secured passage to the FA Cup quarter-finals with a battling win over Championship strugglers Cardiff City on Friday night.

It wasn’t a vintage performance, but Unai Emery’s side were in control throughout and now step into the last eight of England’s top cup competition for the first time in a decade – and doesn’t Emery just love a knockout-style trophy.

The Bluebirds were resilient and thwarted Villa Park’s hosts before the interval, with Ollie Watkins and Marcus Rashford missing great chances to put Villa in front, but it was Marco Asensio once again who came up with the goods to avoid a cup upset and shift one step closer.

Marco Asensio strikes again

Aston Villa welcomed Asensio from Paris Saint-Germain in January, bringing him to England on loan until the end of the term.

After scoring twice during last weekend’s dramatic victory over Chelsea, the 29-year-old was benched at Selhurst Park as Villa were thrashed by Crystal Palace, but he proved his clinical worth once again in the FA Cup.

Sharp positioning and cutting finishing left the second-tier opponents unstuck, thwarting a determined defence and giving Emery something different in attack when Watkins doesn’t have his shooting boots laced.

Marco Asensio Performance vs Cardiff

Match Stats

#

Minutes played

82′

Goals

2

Touches

53

Shots (on target)

4 (2)

Accurate passes

30/35 (86%)

Key passes

2

Dribbles

1/2

Tackles

1

Duels won

3/6

Stats via Sofascore

That’s four goals from six matches for the Spaniard, who’s proving to be a real asset as Aston Villa step into the business end of the season.

However, he wasn’t the only one to shine in the FA Cup, with a much younger teammate showing the signs of becoming a top player.

Emery's new £39m star in the making

Dutch defender Lamare Bogarde has been at Aston Villa since joining the academy from Feyenoord in 2020, with his technical quality and strong defensive skills seeing him become an increasingly familiar face in Emery’s first team.

Cardiff were limited in their attacking play, but he was composed and cultured, very much settled among his more experienced teammates.

As per Sofascore, the 21-year-old was willing to get on the ball, taking 89 touches, winning three of four contested duels and making three clearances. He was crisp in possession too, completing 96% of his passes (79/82).

Birmingham Live’s John Townley was impressed by the young centre-half as he reprised his starting berth, handing him a 7/10 match rating and praising him for his partnership with Ezri Konsa, chasing back effectively when Cardiff attempted to play in behind the home side’s high line.

Konsa has risen from good to great over the past few years, regarded as a “Rolls-Royce” of a defender by former boss Dean Smith, but since becoming an enviable cog in a rounded and thriving team.

His versatility is one of the things that makes him so impressive, and Bogarde is demonstrating similar positionally flexible virtues, as you can see below.

Lamare Bogarde – Career Stats by Position

Position

Apps

Goals

Assists

Defensive midfield

44

4

5

Centre-back

41

0

1

Central midfield

18

0

3

Right-back

6

0

0

Stats via Transfermarkt

In fact, Bogarde’s noteworthy ranking among the top 4% of positional peers for pass completion and the top 5% for tackles per 90, as per FBref, has seen him drawn as one of Konsa’s most comparable players right now, among those in Europe’s top five leagues.

According to Football Transfers, the 27-year-old Konsa is valued at £39m, a measure of his progress since signing from Brentford for £12m in 2019.

But in actuality, Aston Villa would be within their rights to field enquiries totalling much more.

In Bogarde, Emery may well have a new young prospect to fashion into a top-class star. He will face tougher tests over the coming months but has come up trumps in recent weeks to help combat injury issues and indeed keep the trophy dream alive.

During the heavy defeat at Selhurst Park, Bogarde still won five of eight duels on the evening, making four clearances and preventing the likes of Ismaila Sarr from dribbling past him even once.

There’s real potential with this one.

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The bowling coach also calls South African bowlers conceding at 3.96 during Australia’s first innings a “red flag”

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South Africa bowling coach Charl Langeveldt has called on Kagiso Rabada to improve his control on flatter pitches in the same manner as Australia captain Pat Cummins, after South Africa conceded 575 for 8 at the MCG.Having caused Australia’s batters all sorts of problems in the two-day Test in Brisbane on a lively green monster, South Africa’s bowlers could not contain their opponents on a flatter surface in Melbourne across three brutal days in the field as David Warner made a double-century, Alex Carey a century, and Steven Smith, Travis Head and Cameron Green all made half-centuries to grind South Africa into the dirt.There was widespread praise for the efforts of Anrich Nortje who bowled with express pace and picked up three wickets. Langeveldt, meanwhile, singled out Rabada after he finished with figures of 1 for 144 from 28 overs with just one maiden and was the only South African bowler to concede more than five runs per over.Related

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“I think KG wasn’t on song if I can single him out,” Langeveldt said. “For KG, he is a wicket-taker, he always takes wickets. The challenge always for him is to be able to control that. I think Cummins when he started off, he leaked a few runs but then he got consistent, and he was aggressive. And I think that’s [Rabada’s] challenge going forward to make him a brilliant bowler. At the moment he is one of the leading wicket-takers in red-ball cricket. But going forward playing on flatter wickets, I think that’s going to be the challenge for him.”Kagiso Rabada finished with figures of 2 for 144 in the first innings at the MCG•Associated PressRabada is currently the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket in 2022 and is the only man in Test history with more than 200 Test wickets and strike rate under 40. Rabada’s strike rate of 39.8 is better than Cummins’ 46.5. Cummins has a slightly better average, but Rabada’s career economy rate of 3.38 is significantly more expensive than Cummins’ 2.73.Langeveldt said Australia’s run rate of 3.96 in the first innings was something that the entire group needed to take note of given it was even higher than what England’s Bazballers produced (3.89) against South Africa in Manchester in August.”It’s definitely a red flag,” Langeveldt said. “We always pride ourselves on bowling 18 consecutive balls and that’s kind of one of our KPIs. And we haven’t achieved that in this game and it’s a red flag going forward. We need to improve on that.”It’s been a tough three days for us I think as a bowling unit. The first session we probably didn’t start well on day one. The only problem is just our control. I think it’s something that we need to speak about, something we can improve.”But being a young bowling attack, it’s not an excuse, they’ve played a few tests together. It’s just being able to control the run rate for longer periods. But I was happy with the enthusiasm that the guys showed. I think they were brilliant. Can’t fault them.”

يستعد الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي، لضربة البداية في بطولة كأس العالم للأندية 2025، المقامة في الولايت المتحدة الأمريكية بمشاركة 32 فريقًا.

ويتواجد الأهلي في المجموعة الأولى ضمن منافسات كأس العالم للأندية، رفقة أندية إنتر ميامي الأمريكي، وبورتو البرتغالي، وبالميراس البرازيلي.

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ويفتتح الأهلي بطولة كأس العالم للأندية، بمواجهة إنتر ميامي الأمريكي، صباح يوم الأحد 15 يونيو 2025، في الثالثة فجرًا.

وتعادل الأهلي مع باتشوكا، 1-1، في الوقت الأصلي للقاء قبل أن يفوز الفريق المكسيكي بركلات الترجيح، خلال معسكره المقام بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، في أولى مواجهاته تحت قيادة الجهاز الفني الجديد بقيادة البرتغالي خوسيه ريببيرو.

وكشفت قناة أون سبورت، عن حقيقة خوض الأهلي مباراة ودية ثانية قبل مواجهة إنتر ميامي الأمريكي خلال الأيام المقبلة.

وأكدت القناة، أن الأهلي لن يخوض أي مباريات ودية استعدادًا لافتتاح كأس العالم للأندية وسيكتفي فقط بالتدريبات.

Will Wolves avoid Premier League relegation?

Recent victories over Aston Villa and Bournemouth mean Vítor Pereira’s team are currently five points clear of the drop zone.

However, a 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Fulham means Wolverhampton Wanderers have lost six of their eight league outings since the start of 2025, meaning they very much remain in danger.

On Saturday night, the Old Gold will welcome Everton to Molineux, but will have to face that clash, as well as upcoming games against Southampton, West Ham and Ipswich without their star man, so will they be made to rue selling a player now starring in Serie A?

The latest on Matheus Cunha's ban

Matheus Cunha has scored 15 goals this season, 13 of which have come in the Premier League, meaning only six players have scored more than him, namely Mohamed Salah, Erling Haaland, Alexander Isak, Chris Wood, Bryan Mbeumo and Cole Palmer. Not bad company to keep.

During last weekend’s FA Cup tie at Bournemouth, however, in which Wolves were ousted on penalties, Cunha equalised with an absolute rocket, before being sent off right at the end of extra time for headbutting Miloš Kerkez, which Will Magee of the Guardian described as a ‘complete headloss’.

Cunha has already been sent off this season, dismissed after the full-time whistle for ‘scuffling’ with a member of Ipswich Town’s staff in December, infamously stealing his glasses, a ban reduced to two matches given that he ‘offered to pay for a new pair’.

Nevertheless, given that this is the Brazilian’s second red card of the campaign, Cunha is set for a four-match ban, thereby unable to feature until 12 April, which is a massive blow, considering his importance to Wolves.

Cunha has 17 league goal involvements to his name this season, Jørgen Strand Larsen has the next most of any Wolves player with nine, so how does he compare to the rest of the Premier League’s best?

Salah

25

17

42

63.64%

Isak

19

5

24

52.17%

Haaland

20

3

23

43.40%

Wood

18

3

21

47.73%

Palmer

14

6

20

36.46%

Mbeumo

15

4

19

39.58%

Watkins

12

6

18

45%

Cunha

13

4

17

45.95%

Kluivert

12

5

17

37.78%

As the table shows, only Chris Wood, Alexander Isak and Mohamed Salah, who Alex Keble believes is having ‘the best Premier League season in history’, have contributed to a higher percentage of their team’s goals than Cunha.

Thus, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Wolves struggle to score goals in the Brazilian’s absence, but did they have a ready-made deputy in their squad, allowed to leave in 2022?

Forgotten Wolves striker in form in Serie A

Back in the summer of 2019, having qualified for the Europa League, Wolves signed AC Milan striker Patrick Cutrone for a fee that could rise to £20m, a deal that then sporting director Kevin Thelwell described as an “exciting signing”.

Fair to say, this move did not go to plan, given that Cutrone scored just three goals in 28 appearances, quickly loaned out to Fiorentina before, following brief stints at Valencia and Empoli, joining Como, then of Serie B, on a free transfer in 2022.

Having been born and raised in Como, Cutrone described it as a ‘real honour’ to ‘play and represent the club of my city’ adding ‘as soon as I heard about Como, I had no doubts it was the right move’.

I Lariani finished mid-table during Cutrone’s first campaign at the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, before gaining promotion to Serie A for the first time since 2003 last season, with Cutrone their top-scorer, bagging 14 goals.

Now, Cesc Fàbregas’ side are establishing themselves in the top flight; I Biancoblù currently sit 13th in the Serie A table, with Cutrone having scored seven times this season, most notably bagging a brace against Hellas Verona.

James Horncastle of the Athletic believes Cutrone has now rediscovered the form he showed back when he was a teenager who ‘burst on the scene’ at AC Milan eight years ago, so will Wolves live to rue letting the Italian striker go, especially at a time when they’re without Cunha? He may well have been the perfect deputy in his absence.

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Young quick Jordan Buckingham claimed six wickets to give Australia A a marginal first-innings lead in their unofficial Test against a New Zealand side.On the finest day of his first-class career, Buckingham took 6 for 58 to help dismiss New Zealand A for 246 in reply to Australia A’s 253.The visitors then went to stumps on day two of four in Canterbury at 59 for 1, with Matt Renshaw on 20 and Campbell Kellaway 29.But the day belonged to 23-year-old Buckingham, who was a late call-up to the tour squad after Joel Paris was injured. He claimed the first six wickets of New Zealand A’s innings, moving the ball subtly and claiming outside edges at will.His pick of the deliveries was a hooping in-swinger to Tom Bruce, taking the right-hander’s outside edge to have him caught at slip by Renshaw.The return marked Buckingham’s first five-wicket haul in first-class cricket, after he made his debut for South Australia at the end of the 2022-23 season.Legspinner Mitchell Swepson also bagged two wickets in the innings while Renshaw claimed 2 for 32 with his offspinners.

أوضح نجم المنتخب البرازيلي ولاعب فريق سانتوس، نيمار جونيور، أنه كان قريباً من المشاركة في كأس العالم للأندية 2025، والتي تقام حالياً في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.

وارتبط نيمار بالانتقال إلى صفوف فريق فلومينينسي على سبيل الإعارة لخوض منافسات كأس العالم للأندية بجانب قائد السامبا السابق، تياجو سيلفا.

ويتواجد فلومينينسي في المجموعة السادسة بمنافسات كاس العالم للأندية، بجانب كل من بوروسيا دورتموند، صن داونز بالإضافة إلى أولسان إتش دي.

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نجم البرازيل بدأ مباراة واحدة فقط مع سانتوس بعد غيابه عن خمس مباريات بسبب إصابة في العضلة الخلفية، ويركز على استعادة حالته البدنية في الوقت الحالي، وهذا السبب الرئيسي لبقائه في سانتوس.

وقال نيمار في تصريحات نقلتها شبكة “جول” العالمية: “أنا في حالة بدنية جيدة، أجرينا محادثات مع بعض الفرق للعب في كأس العالم للأندية، وكان مع فلومينينسي شيئًا قريبًا جدًا من الحدوث، لكنني فضلت البقاء للتدريب قليلاً أكثر”.

واختتم: “أنا لائق بنسبة 100% بدنيًا، لكنني أحتاج إلى التحسن لأتمكن من العودة في حالة جيدة”.

Arsenal’s hard-fought win over Leicester City on the weekend just about kept them in the Premier League title race for another week.

However, while two late goals are always great for morale, Mikel Arteta’s side remain comfortably behind Liverpool in first place.

Moreover, with a thread-bare attack, it certainly feels like it would take a minor miracle for the North Londoners to finally get their hands on the trophy this season.

Worse yet, an attacker they sold back in 2017 has just returned to the Premier League and is now worth millions more than what they sold him for.

Arsenal's notable 2017 transfers

Before getting to the player in question, it’s worth looking back at a couple of signings made by Arsenal in 2017, starting with Sead Kolašinac, who joined on a free from FC Schalke in June that year.

He may have been moving to the Gunners for nothing, but there was a level of excitement over his arrival, as in the season prior, he scored three goals and provided nine assists for the Bundesliga side in just 36 games.

Unfortunately, despite producing nine goal involvements in his first season with the club, the Bosnian international never truly got to grips with English football, being labelled “naive” and “irresponsible” by Gary Neville in his very first game for the club, and after a few more mediocre seasons, he was sent back to Schalke on loan for the latter half of 20/21 and then released by mutual consent in summer 2022.

A more successful signing made in 2017 was that of Alexandre Lacazette, as while he probably didn’t score quite as many goals as fans would’ve liked for his then-club record fee of £46.5m, he was a useful member of the first team throughout his five-year stay in North London.

In all, the French centre-forward made 206 appearances for the Gunners, in which he won an FA Cup, scored 76 goals and provided 32 assists, which comes out to an average of a goal involvement every other game, which is just the sort of attacker the club could do with at the moment.

Likewise, the player the club sold for pennies on the dollar that same summer is also someone Arteta could do with today, especially as he’s now worth millions more.

The Arsenal star sold too soon

There were a few notable sales from the first team in the summer of 2017, such as Wojciech Szczęsny and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, but in this instance, the player was sold from the academy side.

Donyell Malen joined Arsenal as a child and had a reasonable record of 18 goals and nine assists in 57 games for the various youth sides, but was ultimately sold to PSV Eindhoven for around £200k in 2017.

Back in the Netherlands, the Wieringen-born star went from strength to strength and eventually ended up with a record of 55 goals and 24 assists in 116 first-team games for the club, which was enough to secure a £27m move to Borussia Dortmund in July 2021.

He was less prolific in front of goal in Germany but still effective.

Over the next three and a half seasons, the “sizzling” Dutchman, as dubbed by U23 scout Antonio Mango, would still rack up a respectable haul of 39 goals and 20 assists in 132 games, which was once again enough to earn him another move to a top five league, only this time it was the Premier League.

Malen’s Dortmund career
Season	21/22	22/23	23/24	24/25
Appearances	38	35	38	21
Minutes	2312′	2193′	2378′	957′
Goals	9	10	15	5
Assists	6	8	5	1
Goal Involvements per Match	0.39	0.51	0.52	0.28
Minutes per Goal Involvement	154.1′	121.8′	118.9′	159.5′
All Stats via Transfermarkt

Aston Villa were on the lookout for attacking reinforcements last month and set their sights on the former Hale Ender, who they eventually secured for around £21.5m, which is a massive £20.8m increase on the price the Gunners sold him for six and a half years ago.

In fact, the price paid by the Villans represents an incredible 10650% increase on the fee Arsenal received when they sold the attacker to PSV.

Ultimately, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but once he was out of the capital, it didn’t take long for Malen to show his stuff, and while he might not have been a regular starter for the Gunners, we reckon his presence in the team would make their current injury crisis a lot more manageable.

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Tottenham Hotspur are now “in the running” to sign a “freak of nature” midfielder this summer, having conducted scouting missions this season, according to former scout Mick Brown.

Spurs eyeing move for midfielder

Tottenham’s midfield has looked solid at times when everyone is fully-fit, with the trio of James Maddison, Rodrigo Bentancur and Lucas Bergvall performing well in the recent 1-0 victory against Manchester United in the Premier League.

Maddison bagged the winner in the narrow victory over the Red Devils, which saw the Lilywhites rise to 12th place.

However, Ange Postecoglou clearly feels some additional depth is required, given that the manager has been left short on midfield options at times this season due to the injury crisis he has had to deal with.

Several targets have been identified by Spurs, with the likes of Palmeiras’ Richard Rios and Real Betis’ Johnny Cardoso on the shortlist, and there is now a feeling they are also keen on signing one of the Championship’s stars.

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In a recent interview with Football Insider, ex-scout Mick Brown stated Tottenham are one of the clubs keeping a close eye on Sunderland’s Jobe Bellingham, who could leave this summer if the Black Cats receive a big offer.

“Crystal Palace and Tottenham have had scouts watching him this season so they’ll be two of the teams in the running if he is going to leave. So it’ll be up to them to assess whether he’s ready to make that jump.

“From a Sunderland point of view, knowing the way the owners want to operate, I think if they get a huge bid for him then they’ll let him go.“

Amid links to Arsenal last month, the Sunderland star was thought to have a price tag of £20m, but the asking price could theoretically rise if he continues to impress over the course of the next few months.

Bellingham emerging as key player for Sunderland

The Black Cats are pushing for promotion to the Premier League this season, and the 19-year-old has established himself as a key player, making 28 appearances in the Championship, during which time he has picked up four goals and three assists.

Not only is the teenager a threat going forward, but he has also done a stellar job defensively over the past year, ranking in the 90th percentile for aerials won and the 87th percentile for clearances, when compared to his positional peers playing at a similar level.

Fellow Sunderland midfielder Dan Neil has lauded his teammate in the past, saying: “He’s an absolute freak of nature, physically. I have never seen a 17-year-old that size. Technically, he is a top, top, player as well.”

As such, it is exciting news that Tottenham could be in the race to sign Bellingham in the summer, and they should continue to monitor his performances between now and the end of the season.

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Madushka Balasuriya01-Feb-2023Vishmi Gunaratne, fresh from captaining Sri Lanka in the Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup, will now link up with the senior side, as Sri Lanka announced their 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup. Gunaratne’s inclusion is one of three changes to the squad that emerged runners-up in the Women’s Asia Cup last October, with veteran seamer Ama Kanchana and allrounder Sathya Sandeepani also earning recalls.Twenty-three-year-old Sandeepani was drafted in as an injury replacement for Hasini Perera, who misses out due to a finger injury sustained during practice. Kanchana, 31, who had been dropped for the Asia Cup, returns to add some experience to the camp. She replaces the young wristspinner Rashmi Silva, as Sri Lanka have opted to go with an extra seam option in the squad.Related

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Gunaratne, the highly-rated 17-year-old allrounder, is back fit and firing after recovering from the back stress fracture that had kept her out of the Asia Cup. Making way for her is allrounder Madushika Mettananda.Chamari Athapaththu will lead a batting group that includes Gunaratne, Harshitha Samarawickrama – who was the second-highest run-scorer at the Asia Cup – Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Malsha Shehani, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Anushka Sanjeewani and Kaushini Nuthyangana. One of the latter two will keep wickets.Kanchana and Tharika Sewwandi make up the seam contingent, and the likes of Achini Kulasuriya, Shehani and de Silva are capable part-time operators. Inoka Ranaweera, the joint top wicket-taker at the Asia Cup, will lead Sri Lanka’s pack of spinners, which also includes Sugandika Kumari, Athapaththu, Dilhari and Ranasinghe.ESPNcricinfo LtdSri Lanka’s tournament preparations haven’t been the smoothest, however, with head coach Hashan Tillakaratne resigning following the Asia Cup – he has since taken up the role of head coach with Bangladesh Women. Sri Lanka remain without a head coach – the players have been training under Rumesh Ratnayake, who is part of SLC’s high-performance set-up.The team hasn’t played any international cricket either since that Asia Cup final defeat to India.Sri Lanka will begin their World Cup campaign with warm-up matches on February 6 and 8 against Ireland and West Indies, before their first match of the tournament on February 10 against South Africa.