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Ex-Manchester City youngster Sancho has been in magnificent form for Dortmund this term, scoring four times and supplying six further assists in Gemany’s top flight. The 18-year-old winger’s performances earned a full international breakthrough with England, prompting reports that his former club and Barcelona head a growing list of admirers. Dortmund have seen star men such as Robert Lewandowski, Ilkay Gundogan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang leave the club over recent years but Zorc insists Sancho is not heading for the exit door any time soon....

Michael Carrick has overseen two positive results, and though the football has been uninspiring at times, there is no doubt that morale will have improved at Old Trafford. There has been no tactical revolution from Carrick, who admitted himself that his ideas are very similar to those of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s, but there is not doubt that Rangnick will come in with his own ideas for what will and will not work when it comes to fitting these United players into his system....

Hockey India (HI) picked the squad Wednesday on the basis of the performance of the players in the HIL sending a strong signal to Sandeep to reassess his international career. Sandeep, who was a marquee player of the league, was also struggling to get a team but Mumbai Magicians bought him for a base price of $27,800. Sandeep was also overlooked for the 18-member squad for the Hockey World League Round 2 that was picked Tuesday and was put as a stand-by....

City recovered from losing its opening game in Group F — 2-1 at home to Lyon — to finish top by five points, and advance to the round of 16 for the sixth straight year as it bids to become European champion for the first time. Despite being assured of a top-two finish, City manager Pep Guardiola fielded a strong team in a bid to clinch first place, but saw his side fall behind to Andrej Kramaric’s 16th-minute penalty....

The home team settled for a 1-1 draw in their previous outing against Avispa Fukuoka. They have just one win to their name in their last seven games across all competitions. The win was against Kashiwa Reysol on home turf in June. Vissel Kobe suffered a shock 2-1 loss to Kashiwa at home in their previous J1 League fixture as the visiting side scored the winning goal in the fifth minute of added time....

Mirza and Hingis broke their opponents twice but lost their serve on five occasions in the match, which also saw both pairs save 4 break points. The duo of Srebotnik and Garcia won 54 points as compared to 41 points for the pair of Mirza and Hingis. Mirza and Hingis had defeated the pair of Hao-Ching and Yung-Han in the quarterfinal in straight sets and were certinly looking to do an encore, but unfortunately for them that wasn’t the case and they had to bow out of the tournament in straight sets....

Ronaldo has been substituted in his past two appearances for Juventus and reportedly left the stadium before full-time against AC Milan last time out, as replacement Paulo Dybala struck the winner. The suggestion Ronaldo was unhappy dominated the agenda as Portugal faced the media on Wednesday, with Ruben Neves insisting his team-mate was “fine”. But Santos was not willing to similarly answer questions on the forward, believing the profile of the player meant too much was being read into the Juventus substitution....

After two defeats, this win against Odisha came as a breath of fresh air for the Goans. Speaking about his team’s performance, five-time I-League winning coach Armando Colaco said, “The boys really played. They have been playing well not just in this game. They played well throughout the tournament but unfortunately, we were not getting the results. The talent is there in this squad and I believed in them. Initially, it didn’t work but finally it is working now....

Barkley looked good during limited practice work this week, but the team are not ready to put him on the field this Sunday. Pat Shurmur told reporters earlier this week that Barkley “felt good” in his recovery from an ankle sprain as he worked with New York’s training staff. Head coach Shurmur initially held off ruling the RB out of contention to face the Vikings but the team did make that decision on Friday, announcing he would miss the home game....

The champions lost a home league match for the first in 16 months as their visitors capitalised upon a lacklustre display – substitute Boulaye Dia sealing the points in stoppage time after Hassane Kamara’s first-half opener. Head coach Thomas Tuchel made five changes to his starting XI and was without the likes of Julian Draxler, Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappe and Mauro Icardi, but former Sevilla winger Sarabia felt there was still ample quality to get the job done....

“They won’t be overcoached, I can tell you that,” Sarachan said. “We’re going to allow them to make a lot of decisions on the field, and that’s what this is all about.” Sarachan has called in a team heavy on youth, but one with enough veterans to give the squad some needed experience, with Bobby Wood, DeAndre Yedlin, Darlington Nagbe, Wil Trapp and Eric Lichaj anchoring the squad. Of course, fans aren’t nearly as interested in the older players as they are on youngsters like Weston McKennie and Tyler Adams, as well as newcomers like Timothy Weah, Andrija Novakovich, Antonee Robinson and Erik Palmer-Brown....

Arthur, who was the coach of the team from 2016 to 2019, termed Sarfaraz Ahmed as a popular leader inside the Pakistan dressing room. In an interview with Aamir Sohail on his YouTube channel, Arthur discussed Sarfaraz Ahmed’s personality traits and looked back at his association with Pakistan cricket. He said: He added: Sarfaraz Ahmed: The highs and lows In his very first ICC tournament as captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed led the team to glory as Pakistan hammered India by a mammoth margin of 180 runs in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy....

“I would like to thank all the member bodies of BAC for instilling their faith in me. It is an honour and responsibility that I would like to deliver to the best of my capacities. I shall contribute my best to strengthen in the region and bring in better coordination among Asian countries,” Sarma said after the AGM. Devender Singh, Senior Vice-President of Badmintion Association of India (BAI) and Omar Rashid, secretary (events) of BAI, also attended the AGM....

Programs set up satellite camps with their own interests at heart. Why else would Jim Harbaugh pick IMG Academy, with its 10 top-200 recruits in the class of 2017, as its location for Michigan’s Florida practices? But what the NCAA’s dismissal of this recruiting tactic does is limit exposure for recruits who can’t afford to travel all over the country. There are few who can. 2016 PREVIEWS: Michigan | Ohio State | Alabama...

At the end of the Football Coaches Association Of Malaysia press conference on Thursday, the media took the chance to ask outspoken head coach and association president Satiananthan Bhaskaran his thoughts on several competitions that will involve Malaysian teams in the coming months. The Felda United boss gamely obliged. On Malaysia Cup final between JDT and Kedah (November 4): “If you look at the players they have, I think JDT should be the champions because they have everything....

The Indian pair took just 32 minutes to get the better of Knudsen and Nielsen 21-12 21-18 in a second round clash. Satwiksairaj and Ashwini will now play Ireland’s Scott Evans and Amanda Hogstrom of Sweden in the last eight round. The Irish-Swede combination defeated German pair of Jones Ralfy Jansen and Eva Janssens 21-11 17-21 21-18 in another second round match 0 votes

The German injured his back in a crash at the Race of Champions in Miami in January and was replaced by Giovinazzi for the first winter test in Barcelona. Wehrlein returned for the second test and was cleared this week to drive in the season-opening race at Albert Park but withdrew before free practice on Saturday. “My fitness level is not as it should be for a full race distance because of my training deficit," Wehrlein said in a team statement....

Some Defense sources question whether the threat is as dire as State and CIA are portraying it, and note that the withdrawal of U.S. personnel with such fanfare could be seen by the Saudis as a vote of no confidence in their security forces. According to this view, potential terrorists might also view the pullout as evidence of Riyadh’s weakness. But intelligence and diplomatic sources said the evacuation would not have been ordered if the threat were not regarded as real, severe and imminent....

Resuming at overnight score 428 for four, Saurashtra added another 196 runs with the loss of three more wickets before declaring their innings. Both overnight batsmen Jadeja and Snell Patel added 51 and 53 runs respectively to their overnight score. Jadeja made 201 runs off 313 balls with the help of 23 fours and two sixes, while Patel faced 167 balls for his 94 that was studded with 14 hits to the fence....