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Autor do gol do São Paulo no empate com o Corinthians, no Morumbi, o volante Petros reprovou a atuação da arbitragem. De acordo com o atleta, que jogou no Timão entre 2014 e 2015, houve erros capitais a favor dos visitantes. O principal teria sido no lance do gol de Clayson, em que Rodriguinho teria cometido falta em Júnior Tavares no início da jogada. Petros lamentou os pontos perdidos e lembrou da época em que atuou no rival para insinuar que o Corinthians foi ajudado pelo apito.

– Daria tudo para conseguir essa vitória. Resultado injusto. Dominamos por completo o Corinthians, poucas vezes vi uma superioridade tão grande, e olha que somos time de zona de rebaixamento.Se tem 50 lances como esse, são 50 faltas. Mas já joguei lá – disse Petros.

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Questionado sobre o que quis dizer com a frase, Petros tentou minimizar a afirmação e lembrou do tento anulado de Militão, aos 13 minutos do segundo tempo, quando estava 1 a 0 para o São Paulo. O juiz marcou falta de Pratto em Cássio no momento do gol, e não marcou a infração de Rodriguinho em Júnior Tavares. no lance que resultou no chute de Clayson nas redes de Sidão.

– O que quero dizer é que é falta. Ele deu falta igual do Pratto na área. Tem que apitar, aqui é o São Paulo. Não quero dar recado para ninguém. Não é vacilo, é falta, tem que apitar. Não tem que reclamar para apitar, tem que apitar – acrescentou o volante, defendendo o uso do árbitro de vídeo e criticando os desmandos da CBF em relação ao uso da tecnologia.

– A semana toda é polêmica, vai pôr árbitro de vídeo, depois não põe, a CBF volta atrás, e a gente não sabe o que vai acontecer – completou.

O empate mantém o Corinthians disparado na liderança, com 54 pontos, e o São Paulo continua na zona de rebaixamento.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte would love to secure a deal for Nicolo Barella in the January transfer window.

What’s the talk?

That’s according to the Daily Star journalist Paul Brown, who claimed in a recent interview with Give Me Sport that, amid Spurs’ links with a move for the Inter Milan midfielder, Tottenham’s new manager would love to seal a reunion with his former player in north London.

When questioned about Tottenham’s reported interest in a move for the Italy international, Brown said: “Conte would clearly love to have Barella come to Spurs.”

Paratici must move

The fact that Barella has recently put pen to paper on a new deal with the Nerazzurri would appear to make Tottenham’s potential move for the midfielder slightly more challenging. However, when taking into account just how impressive the 24-year-old has been in recent years, it would nevertheless appear an absolute must for Fabio Paratici to do that all he can to land the Italian in January.

Indeed, over his 11 Serie A appearances so far this season, the £58.5m-rated Barella has scored one goal, registered five assists and created a whopping nine big chances for his teammates, as well as taking two shots and making 1.8 key passes per game.

The player who Claudio Marchisio dubbed a “complete” midfielder has also impressed in metrics more typical of his position, making 0.5 interceptions, 1.6 tackles and 40 passes and winning 5.3 duels per match.

These returns have seen the £75k-per-week Italian average an extraordinary SofaScore match rating of 7.44, ranking him as the fifth-best performer in the whole of Serie A.

While it may be an expensive deal to get over the line, Barella clearly seems a player who would be well worth the cost. Also, he would be a signing around whom Conte could build his new-look Tottenham team, just like the 52-year-old did when piecing together his title-winning side at Inter.

In other news – “For sure”: Conte drops 12-word hint on £100k-p/w beast which will delight Spurs fans

The second `Test’ between India and England Under-19s ended in a tame draw on the fourth and final day at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, on Tuesday

Santhosh S22-Jul-2009The second `Test’ between India and England Under-19s ended in a tame draw on the fourth and final day at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, on Tuesday. At close of play England were 64/2 off 34 overs, in their second innings. John Sadler and Gary Pratt were unbeaten on 31 and 19 respectively.The pitch had not changed, even after four days’ cricket. It looked good enough to last for a few more weeks. As the Indian coach Roger Binny put it: “I can’t even see the bowler’s boot marks”.The weather throughout the four days was kind enough. England were the only team with a chance of winning but a combination of complacency and incompetent fielding saw to it that they drew the game from a winning position.Resuming at 241/0 in their second innings, India Colts got down to the business of scoring quick runs. Vinayak Mane was in punishing mood, playing the horizontal bat shot with considerable style and substance. Early in the day, he played a rousing pull shot off Ian Pattison over the square leg fence for a huge six. Gautam Gambhir too kept up with the pace, driving and pulling with ease.The English bowlers, who bowled too short and wide of the stumps, fed the stylish batsmen. More often than not the ball was played through the gaps or over the field, leaving the fielders to watch the ball race to the fence. Monty Panesar, the only specialist spinner in the English side, proved to be ineffective. Mane danced down the track and lofted him straight over the sight screen for a huge six.Mane was the first to get to his double century, square driving Gordon Muchall for a couple. Two balls later, he went for his favourite pull off a short-of-a-length ball from Muchall and skied an easy catch to Ian Bell running in from mid-wicket. Mane’s 201 came off 239 balls and included 23 powerfully struck fours and four sixes. The first wicket partnership put on 391 runs in just 312 minutes and off only 75.4 overs.YG Rao, who replaced Mane, soon perished, hooking at a shorter one from Muchall and John Sadler took a good catch diving forward. Alind Naidu, facing the prospect of a pair, looked shaky to start with, surviving a close call for lbw before opening his account with a streaky single, the ball going off theedge past Panesar in the slips off Sadler.Gambhir got to his double hundred in the last over before lunch. Helived dangerously, flashing and chasing at balls outside the off stump.Soon after the interval, Gambhir ran himself out by going for a thirdrun off a mis-field. He could not make it to the crease, as ChrisTremlett ran him out with a good throw from the cover fence. Gambhirmade 212 runs off 241 balls, striking two sixes and 25 boundaries.Naidu who had a shaky start, looked good in parts but often flashed outsidethe off stump to be beaten a few times. The introduction of Panesar made adifference. Naidu going for a big shot was well caught by Muchall for35 runs made in 44 balls. Naidu struck five sweetly timed fours in hisinnings. Vidyut who came in, lofted Panesar clean and high into thestands for a huge six, and India colts declared their innings closed.With a draw on the cards, English colts started off slowly while thebowling was not penetrative enough. Nicky Peng flashed at one outsidethe off, got the edge and Ajay Ratra took a good catch. Peng who hadscored a hundred in the first innings, failed to get off the mark in the second.After tea, there was not much action as the players went through theformalities. Vidyut gave the ball a lot of air and spun it ever soslowly on the fourth-day track. He had the English batsmen tied upwith a good line and length. Captain Ian Bell succumbed to an arm ballfrom Vidyut and was bowled, shouldering arms. Bell made just sevenruns off 70 balls.The Management of the two teams have to do some serious soul-searchingabout the commitment they take to the field. Chris Tremlett, NickyPeng and Andrew McGarry have been revelations as far as the Englishcolts are concerned. India juniors could take heart from their secondinnings performance, mainly the fightback of Mane and Gambhir. Thefielding and catching by both sides have been appalling enough tochange the course of the match on so many occasions.

An update has emerged on Rangers centre-back Leon Balogun, regarding Steven Gerrard’s thoughts on the defender.

What’s the talk?

According to The Scottish Sun, the Gers boss is be keen to keep Leon Balogun at the club beyond the end of the season.

The report states that Balogun is out of contract at the end of the campaign, but he has won over Gerrard’s trust and could be handed an extension.

Gerrard loves him

Ibrox chief Ross Wilson must make a key decision by offering Balogun a contract to remain at Ibrox beyond the end of the 2021/22 campaign. He must now allow the central defender to depart on a free transfer as he still has plenty to offer and could be a valuable player for Gerrard moving forward.

Whilst there is speculation circling around Gerrard’s own future at Rangers, he is still contracted to the club and we can only assume that he will be the head coach heading into next season as it stands. This is why signing Balogun to a new deal could be a shrewd move, as he is a player the ex-Liverpool man loves.

Earlier this year, Gerrard lauded the defender as he admitted that he wanted Balogun to sign a contract extension, which he later did. The manager said:

“Leon is someone we want to keep hold of. He knows that and he is performing so well.

“He signed a contract with an option of an extension and we want him to be here beyond this season.

“Leon knows he is wanted here. I think he’s enjoying it, he’s playing with a smile on his face.

This, along with the aforementioned report stating Gerrard’s trust in the £14k-per-week defender, shows that Balogun is loved by the manager and that is why he must be handed another extension by Wilson.

He has shown on the pitch this season that he still has quality to offer.

Balogun has averaged a sublime SofaScore rating of 7.20 in the Premiership and 7.25 in the Europa League, with Rangers keeping three clean sheets in his six league appearances.

This shows that he can still perform to a high standard for the Gers and Wilson must please Gerrard by getting the Nigerian international to put pen to paper.

AND in other news, Rangers may be set for big boost after Gers news, Gerrard will be elated…

With Marco Silva’s Fulham side heading into Wednesday night’s Championship clash in rather poor form, as the Cottagers’ had picked up just seven points over their last five league fixtures, the 44-year-old manager would have undoubtedly been hoping for a positive result against Swansea City, in order to get the west London’s side promotion push back on track.

And that is exactly what Fulham did, with Aleksandar Mitrovic’s hat-trick securing a highly impressive 3-1 win over Russell Martin’s side, a result which fired the Cottagers up to third place in the Championship table, just two points behind both West Bromwich Albion and AFC Bournemouth in first and second respectively.

Aside from the victory, the performance of Mitrovic will have also been a major boost for Silva, as the 27-year-old once again demonstrated that he is a player who has the ability to fire Fulham up this season.

Two key passes

Indeed, over his 69 minutes on the pitch against Swansea, Mitrovic reinforced his position as one of the top centre-forwards in the Championship with an incredibly dominant display.

The £14.4m-rated man scored three goals, hit the target with all four of his shots at goal, completed his one attempted dribble, made two key passes and created one big chance for his teammates.

The player Silva claimed an “important” player in his side also completed 100% of his 12 attempted passes, his one attempted long ball, won three of his four duels and made one interception against the Swans.

These returns saw the striker earn a near-perfect SofaScore match rating of 9.8, with no player from either side coming anywhere close to receiving a comparable rating to the Serbia international on the night.

As such, if Mitrovic can keep up this show-stopping level of performance for the remainder of the Cottagers’ campaign, the club will undoubtedly be there or thereabouts concerning automatic promotion come the end of the season.

In other news: Big blow: Silva confirms Fulham injury setback, fans will be gutted

On-loan Leeds United winger Helder Costa’s performances for Valencia have been criticised, following his summer move to the La Liga side.

The Lowdown: Costa unwanted at Leeds

Costa was deemed surplus to requirements by Marcelo Bielsa during the summer, with the likes of Raphinha, Jack Harrison and Dan James all ahead of him in the pecking order.

The Portugal international opted to join Valencia on loan instead, in the hope of enjoying more regular playing time and kickstarting his career again.

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The Latest: Winger struggling in Spain

It hasn’t panned out that way so far, though, with Costa playing just 11 minutes of league action in Spain.

It has led to the 27-year-old receiving plenty of criticism, with Deporte Valenciano [via Sport Witness] claiming he ‘has to wake up, get his act together and start giving the performance all expect’.

The report also states that ‘he hasn’t done particularly well’ overall, as his struggles to catch the eye continue.

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The Verdict: No future at Elland Road

Costa is undoubtedly a talented footballer – he has been described as “immense” by his former Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo – but there is no future for him at Leeds.

The Whites have moved on without him, despite his contract not expiring until the summer of 2024, and the sooner they can receive a fee him, the better.

In other news, one Leeds player is expected to return to face Watford. Find out who it is here.

Jesse Lingard remains a priority for West Ham manager David Moyes ahead of the January transfer window, according to emerging reports…

What’s the word?

Football Insider claim that the Irons will ‘maintain dialogue’ over a potential move after failing to secure him during the summer following his successful loan spell at the London Stadium.

Talks are set to continue behind the scenes with the 28-year-old’s representatives but there are several hurdles to overcome, including Manchester United’s £30m asking price and convincing the player to move down south permanently.

The Old Trafford outfit recently tried to increase Lingard’s value by offering him an extension to his £100k-per-week contract but that was rejected due to concerns over his playing time this season.

Bring him back!

Lingard should hardly be surprised by his lack of game time at Old Trafford this season, with the likes of summer signing Jadon Sancho and Bruno Fernandes ahead of him in the pecking order, and now there’s the small matter of Cristiano Ronaldo, too.

After providing nine goals and five assists to rank as Moyes’ second-best player in 2020/21, he should’ve snatched at a potential return to east London and continued his cult hero status amongst the fanbase as a first-choice regular – something which would bolster his claims to make England’s squad for the World Cup in 2022.

Of course, as evident above, the chances of that happening aren’t completely dead in the water, even despite the arrival of attacking midfielder Nikola Vlasic in this transfer window.

Both Moyes and his assistant Stuart Pearce were very keen to see Lingard back at the club this summer, publicly expressing their interest on numerous occasions, so if the club’s new recruitment team can seal him in January, then you’d imagine that the pair will very much be delighted.

After their final day win over Southampton in May, the 58-year-old Scot told reporters, via the Evening Standard: “I hope Jesse’s here, we’d like to keep him, he’s done an exceptional job for us but there’s no guarantees, he’s not our player.”

This was then reiterated by Pearce during an interview on talkSPORT just a week before deadline day.

“We would like him to come and join us. That has been an open secret. He was wonderful last year,” the Hammers assistant boss said, before later adding: “He’s a special lad and was very good around the players – the players really like him.”

The £19.8m-rated dynamo certainly seems to still be a key target for Moyes, so it’s now on the club to deliver at the turn of the year when the transfer window reopens for business.

Many around the London Stadium would love to see Lingard back in the claret and blue.

AND in other news, Moyes could fix alarming West Ham problem by unleashing 19 y/o gem who’s “on fire”…

India showed that they are a team that is increasingly aware of its own strength but Sri Lanka were let down by men who are not sure of themselves.

Sriram Veera11-Feb-2009 – That was Muttiah Muralitharan on the series. Cricinfo looks at the issues that made the difference.
A tale of two captains: Mahendra Singh Dhoni pretty much made all the right calls and scored over 250 runs, while Mahela Jayawardene struggled, often looking hunted © AFP
Sri Lanka’s batting woes
The captain Mahela Jayawardene has been struggling to find runs and the lower middle order has not allowed him any breathing space. For much of the series, their top order chased big targets in the knowledge that if they failed, the team would collapse – leading to the inevitable. Thilina Kandamby had one good day, Chamara Kapugedera had none. By his own admission Kandamby is yet to feel that he belongs in international arena – “I will when I score more runs” – and Kapugedera hasn’t proved to the world that he belongs.However, Sri Lanka have persisted with him – the management and even a host of former players, whom you would expect to be hard-nosed critics, believe he will come good one day. Sri Lanka’s short-term future is a question of if and buts; by investing faith, they are trying to secure a long-term future.Till then, though, Sri Lanka continue to be dependent on the old pros. One significant change has already taken place, of course – Jayawardene has resigned as the captain and Sri Lanka will hope the transition yields Jayawardene the batsmen. Fitness issues
Their recent gruelling schedule hasn’t helped Sri Lanka, who looked jaded through the series. Jayawardene and Muralitharan have publicly acknowledged they were a tired unit and their fielding standards have suffered. Ajantha Mendis might have perhaps been rushed back too early from his ankle injury. The Indians played him well, treating him as a medium-pacer and taking care not to play across the line, but Mendis lacked the zip and menace of thelast series.India’s batting strength
Sri Lanka took on India on the back of good performances from their seamers in Pakistan. But the Indian batsmen completely overwhelmed them in this series. Three batsmen – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir – crossed 250 runs for the ODI series. Theydidn’t take any undue risks against Murali and Mendis but cashed in on the seamers.Clarity and versatility
Clarity of thought is the Dhoni mantra. It reflected in the use of slow bowlers during the middle overs between the Powerplays. At times, India were looking like the champion Sri Lanka team of old. “If you can rotate your arm, you should be ready to bowl,” Dhoni said. “We saw how even Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma can be effective in short bursts.”Dhoni has options everywhere – nine men can bowl in this team. Among the seamers, ZaheerKhan is the only one who is certain to bowl with the new ball. Ishant Sharma might share depending on who is the third seamer. If it’s Praveen Kumar, Ishant will come in first-change so Praveen can exploit his swing with the new ball and if it’s Munaf Patel, Ishant might start.Enough has been written about bowling in the Powerplays.The same thought percolates in the batting as well. Dhoni promoted himself to No. 3 in the fourth game and pushed Raina at that spot in the last match. “If a person is batting at the No. 3 all the time, he doesn’t know what a No. 5 to 7 player goes through,” said Dhoni. “He has to know how tough it is come in and immediately start scoring. When he bats at that position himself, he will know how vital it is to carry on batting and finish the game once you are set.” And vice versa. Awareness of what the other individual goes through increases your own responsibility.India showed that they are a team that is increasingly aware of its own strength but Sri Lanka were let down by men who are not sure of themselves. Jayawardene wore a hunted look at the press conferences, with the local press – even a national selector – training their guns on him. Kumar Sangakkara’s succession to the job, if it happens, will be a smooth transition and possibly the beginning of good times.India, meanwhile, are at that critical point where successful teams goon to build a collective aura. Time will tell whether they march on or fall away due to faulty thinking and overconfidence. The no 1 spot beckons and it appears Dhoni’s boys are listening.

Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out

About an hour and half into the opening session, Sri Lanka’s decision to bat first seemed to have backfired. On a slow-paced surface, batting was an ordeal and Sri Lanka limped to 65 for 3, with their two most experienced batsmen back in the pavilion. The next two sessions told a different story, thowever, thanks to Tillakaratne Dilshan’s counterattacking brilliance.His fast-paced 162, complemented by Chamara Kapugedera’s unbeaten 93 and a patient 63 by Malinda Warnapura, had such a demoralising effect on the home side that Sri Lanka added a further 306 in two sessions.Dilshan walked in shortly after lunch with his team wobbling at 75 for 4. Until then, the top order had struggled on a pitch which rendered shot-making difficult. Mashrafe Mortaza’s restrictive line didn’t allow the batsmen easy runs and even the introduction of spin – as early as the 10th over – didn’t offer much respite.With the ball turning and bouncing, the batsmen were caught in a shell and the spirited fielding by the home side suffocated the visitors. The best – and probably the only – way out, was to counter-attack and it was left to the trigger-happy Dilshan – already with the reputation of being a thrasher – to begin the rescue efforts and carry on.His intention was to get on top of the spinners and he started off by picking on Bangladesh’s best, Shakib Al Hasan. He charged down the pitch to him and crashed one through backward point in the same over to open his boundary account. In one particularly brutal spell, 53 runs came off six overs with Dilshan helping himself to 18 off a Shahadat Hossain over. He began by whipping him on the front foot over fine leg and then fetched two boundaries past backward point and pulled past midwicket. Shahadat had just had a lucky break, getting Thilan Samaraweera to chop one onto the stumps off a short ball. As if expecting lightning to strike twice, he persisted with the same length against Dilshan and was duly punished.After keeping Sri Lanka in check through the morning, Bangladesh were starting to lose the plot. Dilshan motored along at more than a run a ball and didn’t allow any bowler to get on top of him. Enamul Haque jnr, the left-arm-spinner who came in at the expense of the seamer Mahbubul Alam, was the one to eventually dismiss him, but his return to the Test side after nearly a year wasn’t one to cherish. The quicker deliveries were delicately dabbed and cut down to third man by Dilshan and the shorter ones were swatted away either wide of cover or in the region of midwicket.The low bounce was evident from the opening session and the spinners tried to skid the ball through and target the base of the stumps but to no avail. Warnapura played and missed on a few occasions but looked comfortable against the balls which sat up to be hit. He added 119 with Dilshan and Mohammad Ashraful decided to fix the situation by bringing himself on. Warnapura was squared up by a rather innocuous straighter one as Ashraful struck off his first ball and bellowed a war cry to rival his celebration after a fighting hundred in Mirpur.The wicket didn’t promise any respite for Bangladesh as Kapugedera scooped his first ball over mid-off and cut the next past backward point, as if to prove Ashraful’s strike was a fluke. The stand-out feature in his innings was the wristy flicks to the on side. A short delivery by Mehrab Hossain jnr was flicked past midwicket and he regularly swept against the turn. He gave Shakib the charge, deposited him inside-out over long-off and pulled him when he dropped it too short. He was strong against the new ball as well and the lack of pace on the surface allowed him time to rock back and cut past backward point.Dilshan’s brilliance notwithstanding, Bangladesh had themselves to blame for their display in the field, which went from promising to poor as the day progressed. Mushfiqur Rahim’s batting won many hearts in Mirpur but his wicketkeeping left a lot to be desired. He fumbled a stumping down the leg side when Warnapura was on 20, then dropped an edge off Mahela Jayawardene, which fortunately for him didn’t cost much. He could have had Dilshan stumped on 78 had he gathered a rising delivery cleanly. Kapugedera had a life on 37 when a tame chip to mid-on was spilled by Imrul Kayes. Fielders at the boundary were more content trying to boot the ball away, rather than trying to bend down and pick it up.The body language was a contrast to the morning session when Mortaza struck in the first over, dislodging makeshift opener Prasanna Jayawardene with one on the board. Prasanna walked back after being hit in front of leg stump, and Kumar Sangakkara followed after inside-edging the same bowler on to his stumps. Mahela was very circumspect and his punches failed to beat the infield. He fell to Shakib for 11, prodding forward.The were few smiles in the home camp after that but much to their relief, they got rid of Dilshan before stumps, bowled freakishly round his legs. With Kapugedera still around, a score of 450 looms.

Wolves are looking to make more signings before the transfer window closes next week, journalist Luke Hatfield has told Football FanCast.

It has been a pretty quiet window for Wolves so far, with the arrival of goalkeeper Jose Sa to replace Rui Patricio and permanent signing of Rayan Ait-Nouri probably their main pieces of business.

Most of the transfer talk at Wolves this summer has been dominated by current players Ruben Neves and Adama Traore, who both continue to be linked with moves away from Molineux.

According to Fabrizio Romano (via The Here We Go Podcast), Neves is one name on a list of midfielders Manchester United are looking at. Meanwhile, The Telegraph are reporting that Tottenham are hoping to sign Traore on a loan deal with a view to a permanent transfer.

And Hatfield has spoken to FFC about that potential loan deal and Wolves’ overall plans for the rest of the month.

“The deal with a loan with a view, I don’t think it would work for Wolves,” the Express & Star reporter said. “They’d be losing a very good player, or one of their best players, for essentially a very small fee right now.

“It would give them very little money to play with in terms of this window when they are looking to make signings before this window closes.”

It is shaping up to be an exciting deadline day at Wolves, with it certainly looking like they could get some last-minute deals done.