بدأ منتخب السعودية للناشئين مشواره في كأس العالم تحت 17 عاما، والمقام في قطر، بالخسارة على يد منتخب النمسا بهدف دون رد.
والتقى منتخب السعودية نظيره النمسا في افتتاح المجموعة الثانية عشرة من الدور الأول لبطولة كأس العالم للناشئين في قطر.
ولم يستغل منتخب السعودية التفوق العددي بعد طرد مدافع النمسا، لينهاندل، في الدقيقة 40 من الشوط الأول.
طالع|فيديو | منتخب مصر يسحق هايتي برباعية في افتتاح مشواره بكأس العالم تحت 17 عامًا
وخطف النمسا الهدف في الشوط الثاني عن طريق المهاجم موزير من ركلة جزاء في الدقيقة 55، ليخطف ثلاث نقاط مهمة.
ولعب المنتخب السعودي بعشرة لاعبين بعد طرد لاعبه الفيهاني بعد الهدف بدقيقتين فقط، في الدقيقة 57، ثم تم طرد سعيد الدوسري قبل نهاية اللقاء بدقائق.
وأهدر المنتخب النمساوي ركلة جزاء في الدقيقة الرابعة من الوقت بدل الضائع سددها ماركوفيتش وتصدى لها الحارس عبد الرحمن العتيبي.
ويحتل المنتخب السعودي المركز الثالث في المجموعة 12 دون رصيد من النقاط، بينما يتصدر منتخب النمسا بثلاث نقاط في كأس العالم للناشئين. أهداف مباراة السعودية والنمسا
هدف | النمسا تتقدم 1-0 على السعودية … عن طريق جوهانز مارسيل عند الدقيقة 55 #U17WC #كأس_العالم_تحت_17_سنة #قنوات_الكاس || #منصة_شوف pic.twitter.com/nkGzNl0a63 — قنوات الكاس (@AlkassTVSports) November 5, 2025
da esoccer bet： After five and a bit years in the Arsenal dugout, Mikel Arteta undoubtedly has the squad to challenge for everything this season.
da dobrowin： The defensive unit is arguably the best in the world, and the frontline has been bolstered by Viktor Gyokeres, Noni Madueke and the emergence of Max Dowman.
Last but not least, the midfield looks as strong as ever, with Mikel Merino grabbing the headlines on international duty over the weekend.
Yet, as impressive as the Spaniard was for his national team and the impact he had last season, Arteta may eventually overlook him for another super talent in the squad.
Why Merino should have more of a role at Arsenal
Following something of a protracted transfer saga, Merino finally made his way to Arsenal from Real Sociedad last summer, only to fracture his shoulder in his first training session and miss the first two months of the season.
Following this setback, it would be fair to say that he didn’t exactly set the world alight during his first few months playing for the club, but that all changed in the new year.
With Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus ruled out for the season and Bukayo Saka recovering from hamstring surgery, the Gunners’ frontline was looking perilously thin, so Arteta gambled and decided to start the Spaniard up top.
His hand may have been forced somewhat, but it was still a tactical masterstroke, as the 6 foot 2 titan went on to score another seven goals, taking his tally for the season to nine, with five assists for good measure.
With only 77 minutes of club action this season, 70 of which were away to Liverpool, the Pamplona-born monster hasn’t really had the opportunity to remind the English fans how effective he can be in the final third.
However, that has not been the case on international duty, as he scored the third goal in a 3-0 win over Bulgaria on Thursday and then blew everyone away on Sunday by scoring a hat-trick against Turkey.
What is even more impressive is that the former Sociedad star was playing in midfield for both games, suggesting that with a run of games for Arsenal, he could be a major source of goals from the middle of the park.
However, timing is everything in football, and Merino could see his long-term Arsenal career stifled by one of the club’s most exciting emerging talents.
Why Merino's role may shrink at Arsenal
Unfortunately for Merino, despite looking utterly unplayable on international duty, his place in this Arsenal team is far from a sure thing.
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There are the obvious challengers, like Rice and Zubimendi, but even if he plays in a more offensive role, as he does with Spain, he could see himself usurped by a certain Ethan Nwaneri.
Yes, even though the Hale Ender hasn’t seen any gametime this season, we can see a world in which Arteta continues to look to him as the first midfield change from the bench and as someone to start some of the less important games.
It would be easy to understand the manager’s thought process as well, as when he got minutes last season, the teenage sensation was often able to have a tangible impact on games.
For example, the versatile gem, whom Arteta claimed is a “bit like Wilshere,” played 1378 minutes of senior first team football, in which he managed to rack up a tally of nine goals and two assists.
In other words, despite being just 17 years old for most of the campaign, the academy superstar was able to average a goal involvement every 125.27 minutes.
Moreover, he isn’t just getting lucky either, as his underlying numbers help to show he is as good, if not better than, the hype around him suggests.
According to FBref, he sits in the top 2% of attacking midfielders and wingers in Europe’s top five leagues for successful take-ons, the top 5% for total carrying distance, the top 7% for crosses into the penalty area and more, all per 90.
On top of having the output and the underlying numbers, the Enfield-born gem also has the narrative as being an academy product; fans view him as one of their own and will therefore always want to see more of him.
Nwaneri’s Scout Report
Statistics
Per 90
Percentile
Goals – xG
+0.31
Top 1%
Non-Penalty Goals – npxG
+0.31
Top 1%
Successful Take-On %
59.0%
Top 1%
Successful Take-Ons
3.53
Top 2%
Pass Completion % (Short)
91.8%
Top 4%
Total Carrying Distance
284.28
Top 5%
Crosses into Penalty Area
0.69
Top 7%
Non-Penalty Goals
0.46
Top 10%
Touches (Att 3rd)
32.41
Top 12%
Goals
0.46
Top 14%
Crosses
5.30
Top 14%
Progressive Carrying Distance
134.54
Top 15%
All Stats via FBref
Ultimately, Merino once again showed us all that he has the potential to be an attacking force from the middle of the park for Arsenal.
However, following his performances last season and the desire from fans to see him play, the Spaniard may eventually lose out to Nwaneri.
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da doce： West Ham United have now held talks over signing a £15m “animal” as a replacement for Nayef Aguerd, who is heading to Marseille.
West Ham eyeing defender to replace Aguerd
da supremo： Despite Graham Potter’s desire to keep hold of the centre-back, Aguerd now looks set to complete a move to Ligue 1, having refused to take part in Sunday’s 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest.
In fairness, West Ham didn’t look like they missed the Moroccan defender at all, keeping a clean sheet for the first time this season, with Max Kilman and Konstantinos Mavropanos being given the nod at centre-back.
However, Potter will be a little short on options when Aguerd departs, meaning work has now started on bringing in a replacement, with Toulouse’s Charlie Cresswell on the radar.
However, another transfer target from much closer to home is now emerging, with Fabrizio Romano taking to X to reveal the Hammers are now “exploring a move” for Brighton & Hove Albion centre-back Igor Julio.
There is no agreement in place just yet, but talks over a deal for the Brazilian have already taken place, with Romano also confirming Aguerd is set to sign for Marseille.
It is unclear what sort of fee Brighton would be looking for, but the Seagulls are known to have forked out £15m to sign the 27-year-old from Fiorentina back in 2023, while Crystal Palace are also heavily linked with a deal which could drive the price up.
The Eagles are searching for a replacement for captain Marc Guehi, who is strongly linked with a deadline day move to Liverpool, and it now appears like a two-way race between the London teams for Julio’s signature.
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While he has struggled to do so, Potter has attempted to implement a possession-based style of football since his arrival at the London Stadium, and the Brighton defender could be an ideal fit for the West Ham boss.
Over the past year, the former Fiorentina man has vastly outperformed Kilman in terms of passes attempted, progressive passes and pass-completion rate per 90.
Average per 90
Max Kilman
Igor Julio
Passes attempted
52.26
68.37
Progressive passes
2.96
4.59
Pass completion %
87.1%
91.9%
Former Brighton and Hove Albion coach Inigo Calderón has also praised the Brighton ace for his passing ability, saying:
“The first thing that comes to mind is that Igor is an animal, a centre back I really like for many reasons. He wins duels and has a good footwork for releasing the ball, both passing and dribbling.”
There may be some concerns over the fact Igor is a bit-part player at Brighton, having made just 13 appearances in the Premier League last season, but he could be a good fit in a Potter system, so it is worth taking a chance on the defender.
da luck： Histórico. O Botafogo está de volta a fase de grupos da Libertadores após sete anos. Júnior Santos, um dos heróis do Alvinegro, dedicou a classificação à torcida.
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Realmente não imaginava. Tô muito feliz, ainda mais com a nossa classificação, o que conseguimos mostrar hoje. Feliz por mais um gol também, continuar trabalhando para dar sequência no restante da temporada. Com certeza a gente já esqueceu o que ficou em 2023, a gente não tem como voltar atrás ou fazer diferente. A torcida fez com que a gente voltasse a ter confiança, nos apoiou. A gente vê o que a torcida está fazendo. Eles empurram a gente durante o jogo
afirmou Júnior Santos na beira do campo
Com mais um gol sobre o Bragantino, Júnior Santos disparou como o maior artilheiro do Botafogo na Libertadores. Esta foi a oitava vez que o atacante balançou a rede.
Além disso, esta é a segunda temporada mais artilheira na carreira de Júnior Santos. Em 2020, o atacante marcou 13 gols pelo Yokohama Marinos, do Japão.
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Agora, o Botafogo aguarda o sorteio da Libertadores, que será na segunda-feira (18). O Alvinegro está no Pote 4 e pode ser sorteado em chaves de outros clubes brasileiros.
Gambhir had flown back home because of his mother’s poor health, but will be back with the squad three days out from the first England vs India Test
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Gautam Gambhir has a lot of decisions to make once he rejoins the squad•Associated Press
Gautam Gambhir, India’s head coach, will rejoin the rest of the squad in Leeds on Tuesday ahead of the first England vs India Test match that starts on Friday.Gambhir had flown back home, to Delhi, on June 11 after his mother was hospitalised, and wasn’t around when the senior India team and the touring India A side took part in a three-day game in Beckenham. It is understood that her health has improved since.In Gambhir’s absence, Ryan ten Doeschate and Sitanshu Kotak, the assistant coaches, and Morne Morkel, the bowling coach, oversaw the team’s prep, with Hrishikesh Kanitkar, the India A coach, with them. The game in Beckenham was played behind closed doors.Related
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Speaking about the game itself and the preparations in general, Morkel mentioned in an interview to bcci.tv, “There’s some quality energy in this group and, you know, that’s what you need. You need to go into a Test series confident, you need to have that team spirit in the group and I think so far they have done a great job.”Later, after the game was over on Sunday, Kuldeep Yadav stressed on the importance of “volume” of overs for the bowlers in the group, who had only played T20 cricket – for over two months, at the IPL – in the lead up to the five-Test series.”We’ve played a lot of T20 in the last four-five months, so volume is very important,” Kuldeep told bcci.tv. “All the bowlers are instructed to bowl as many overs [in practice as they would in a match]: the fast bowlers will bowl at least 15 to 20 overs so they can build up fully for the Test match, and it’s the same for the spinners – the more they bowl, the better it will be.”0:28
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With Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli now retired from Test cricket, Shubman Gill has been made the new Test captain, and he got Kuldeep’s vote of confidence after the tour game: “I have seen over the last three-four sessions that Shubman has the same qualities that I’ve seen in our previous leadership groups. He’s fully ready to lead us.”Once back, from the point of view of the first Test, Gambhir will have to take some quick decisions along with the rest of the team management on the make-up of the playing XI. It has been known for a while that Jasprit Bumrah will play only three of the five Tests to manage his workload, though it’s not known which three those will be.That aside, B Sai Sudharsan, uncapped at this level, and the returning Karun Nair are among the contenders to fill the Rohit and Kohli vacancies. Nair scored a double-century for India A against England Lions earlier on the tour, while the likes of Dhruv Jurel and Abhimanyu Easwaran have also been among the runs.There is also likely to be a toss-up between the two seam-bowling allrounders, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Shardul Thakur, with neither showing great form in their India A appearances.
علق وليد صلاح الدين، لاعب النادي الأهلي سابقاً ومدير الكرة بنادي زد حاليًا، على مباراة الأهلي وبيراميدز، التي جمعت بينهما اليوم ببطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز.
الأهلي تعادل مع بيراميدز بنتيجة 2-2، على أرضية استاد القاهرة الدولي، في إطار مواجهات الجولة العاشرة من عمر بطولة الدوري المصري.
وقال وليد صلاح الدين في تصريحات عبر قناة “أون تايم سبورتس”: “مباراة قوية ومثيرة وأعطتنا ما نريده، على أرضية الملعب مجموعة من اللاعبين الدوليين في الفريقين”.
طالع أيضاً.. رجل مباراة الأهلي وبيراميدز في الدوري المصري
وتابع: “كنا متأكدين أن الأهلي سيعود وهو متأخر في النتيجة، لأن صعب أن تواجه الأهلي وأنت منقوص العدد في استاد القاهرة، (ممكن يحدث في ملعب آخر مخنوق شوية)”.
وأضاف: “كلنا اتفقنا على عودة الأهلي في المباراة، لكن ما يؤخذ على الأهلي إن هدفي الفريق من كرتين عرضيتين، لماذا لم يستمر على ذلك؟، اللاعبون عندهم عصبية، كثيرًا ما كانوا يسددون من خارج المنطقة ويهدرون الفرصة ويعتذرون لبعض، بدلًا من لعب عرضيات”.
وأوضح: “صراحة تعادل عادل، لاعبو بيراميدز كانوا متفوقين في الشوط الأول، والأهلي عاد في الشوط الثاني، إمام عاشور لعب ركلة الجزاء بشكل جيد جدًا لكن كان بها عصبية، لو كان هادئًا لوضعها في المرمى”.
وأفاد: “المباراة كانت تحتاج أفشة منذ وقت مُبكر، لكن أن يشارك في آخر ربع ساعة هذا وقت قليل جدًا أن يلعب ربع ساعة فقط، لاعب يجيد صناعة التمريرات”.
وأكمل: “إمام كان أحد نجوم المباراة لا يؤخذ عليه إلا ضياع ركلة الجزاء فقط وهي مسألة توفيق”.
واستكمل: “لو سألت أي أهلاوي قبل المباراة سيقول التعادل مُرضيًا بالنسبة لنا، لكن بعد طرد أحمد توفيق سيقول (لا أكسب)”.
وواصل: “مكاسب الأهلي اليوم أنه لم يخسر، كان مهم أن يخرج بنتيجة إيجابية، ثانيًا مشاركة الصفقات الجديدة، عودة محمد هاني وعمر كمال”.
واختتم: “رامي ربيعة لاعب كبير والدليل الثبات الانفعالي، وشاهدنا أمس مباراة مانشستر سيتي وما حدث لـ للاعب الأوزبكستاني بعد دخول هدف في مرمى فريقه بخطأ منه”.
da betano casino： Revelado pelo Grêmio e pedido por Jorge Jesus no Fernerbahce, Lincoln é o novo reforço do RB Bragantino. O meia assinou um contrato por empréstimo até o fim de 2024 com opção de compra.
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da dobrowin： Em entrevista ao Lance!, atleta comemorou seu retorno ao Brasil e revelou os motivos que o fizeram decidir defender a camisa do Massa Bruta na temporada. O meia afirmou estar feliz com a decisão e espera corresponder em campo o esforço do clube feito para o contratar.
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– A expectativa é muito boa, muito alta. Espero que possa corresponder ao máximo dentro de campo com meus companheiros e conquistarmos nossos objetivos. O que me fez voltar ao Brasil foi a confiança que o Bragantino depositou no meu trabalho e voltar para casa. Uma nova oportunidade, uma nova jornada e estou feliz com essa decisão.
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Lincoln também comentou sobre a chance de disputar a Libertadores, onde o RB Bragantino inicia a competição na segunda fase diante do Rionegro Águilas. Na sequência, o Massa Bruta pode encarar o Botafogo, mas o atleta afirmou que não escolherá adversário.
– A Libertadores é uma competição muito importante, muito tradicional, mas não cabe a nós decidir sobre os confrontos. Queremos jogar e vamos entrar para buscar a vitória independentemente do adversário.
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Neste sábado (10), o RB Bragantino entra em campo pelo Campeonato Paulista, onde enfrenta o São Bernardo. A equipe dirigida por Pedro Caixinha faz sua estreia na Libertadores apenas no dia 21 de fevereiro.
da dobrowin： Fabrizio Romano has confirmed some intriguing transfer news out of Chelsea, with BlueCo agreeing a unique summer deal.
da fezbet： Enzo Maresca is poised for a hectic end to this summer window, and the BBC’s Nizaar Kinsella reports that they could orchestrate as many as 13 incomings and outgoings in the space of just 12 days.
Kepa Arrizabalaga, Basir Humphreys, Noni Madueke, Marcus Bettinelli, Mathis Amougou, Djordje Petrovic, João Félix, Ishe Samuels-Smith, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Armando Broja, Lesley Ugochukwu and, most recently, Renato Veiga, have all left Stamford Bridge on permanent deals, with many more expected to follow.
Chelsea, despite spending nearly £280 million in the transfer market, have registered a net spend of just £25 million as a result of their fire sale, with Christopher Nkunku, Nicolas Jackson, Axel Disasi, Carney Chukwuemeka, Ben Chilwell, Raheem Sterling, Alfie Gilchrist and even Tyrique George all potentially on the chopping block too.
Exits will be crucial in determining just how many incomings Chelsea can manage before deadline day on September 1, amid the club’s ongoing talks to sign both Man United winger Alejandro Garnacho and RB Leipzig sensation Xavi Simons.
UEFA are pressuring Chelsea to register a positive transfer balance by next month, or risk an inability to register new signings in their A-list Champions League squad, coming after they reached a settlement over broken FFP rules with the governing body last month.
However, for their most recent incoming, Chelsea won’t have to worry about that.
Crystal Palace's AdamWhartonin action with Ipswich Town's Julio Enciso
BlueCo have used Chelsea’s sister club strategically this window, selling Ishe Samuels-Smith to the Ligue 1 side for a small profit, and they’re now utilising Liam Rosenior’s team as a vehicle to sign Brighton starlet Julio Enciso.
BlueCo agree deal for Julio Enciso in boost for Chelsea
According to Romano, writing via X, Chelsea are set to complete the signing of Enciso from Brighton next year.
First, the Paraguayan forward will spend the 2025/26 campaign on loan at Strasbourg before moving permanently to London next summer, with BlueCo striking a bargain £17 million deal.
Strasbourg can offer him regular first-team football at a competitive level in the meantime, and Enciso has already shown glimpses of his serious potential in the Premier League.
The versatile 27-cap international even bagged a goal and an assist against Chelsea during their 2-2 draw with Ipswich in April, adding to his tally of seven goal contributions in 29 total appearances last campaign across his appearances for both Brighton and the Tractor Boys on loan.
Enciso has been tipped to become a “Paraguayan football legend in the making” (Jacek Kulig), and securing the 21-year-old’s signature for significantly below £20m can be seen as a major coup for Chelsea, even if they face a year-long wait to welcome him into Maresca’s squad.
England rookie proves his time at IPL was well spent as he dominates first ODI with 82 from 53 balls
Vithushan Ehantharajah30-May-2025
Jacob Bethell salutes the dressing-room after his half-century•Getty Images
“He’s definitely got that… whatever they say nowadays… ‘aura’.”The “they” Jacob Bethell refers to when searching for the term used to describe someone who commands attention and keeps it, is “kids”. The “he” is Virat Kohli, of course, his recent Royal Challengers Bengaluru teammate.Mentions of Kohli are always good for business, but in this case it is a little less transactional. Bethell, only 21 but not with modern online slang, was speaking after a devastating innings of 82 off 53 deliveries that killed Thursday’s first ODI against West Indies as a contest, even if it was not the sole difference in the eventual 238-run margin.A player-of-the-match turn – he also took 1 for 18 with the ball – had come after close to two months of bench-warming at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In that period, he had played just twice, though that included a maiden IPL half-century in the last of those against Chennai Super Kings. It added up to a very small part in RCB’s qualification for their fourth IPL final, and their quest for that elusive maiden title.Yet there were evidently no splinters or rust to shake off, just a bit of strain from hotel-hopping which – even for someone with a nomadic upbringing that involved swapping Barbados for Birmingham at the age of 12 – still takes some getting used to.”The only thing I struggle with is the beds,” Bethell said. “A lot of these hotel beds are way too soft. I’ve got a bad back and I’m only 21, so we need to sort that out!”Not that there were any signs of a creaking body as he blammed all but 20 of his runs in boundaries. Five of them were crisp sixes – as many as the five ahead of him in the top six – with four of them coming in a final 10-over blitz that carried England, eventually, to 400 for 8.Bethell and Virat Kohli opened the batting together at RCB•Getty Images
“I feel like I’m a better player now than I was a couple of months ago,” Bethell said, lauding the practice facilities and the quality of net bowlers he had encountered on a day-to-day basis at the IPL. It’s a sentiment that is now commonplace among Engish players who need to justify getting paid decent money not to play cricket in India, rather than play County Cricket in April and May.His innings against West Indies, however, adds an important undertone of sincerity, particularly when Bethell elaborates on his learnings against spin in particular, a usual sticking point for England’s 50-over team. Gudakesh Motie emerged from England’s onslaught broadly unscathed, with 0 for 39 from 7 overs. However, Bethell was able to strike 10 off four balls from the left-arm spinner, including the only boundary off Motie – a slog-sweep into the stands at midwicket.”I don’t want to give away everything,” Bethell said. “It’s just the way those batters go about playing spin, they’re clinical in how they pick length and the deliveries they try to hit for four and six.”That was nice, to have more of a power-game input into my game, rather than a bit of touch around spin as well. So then, just trying to mesh the two together would help a lot.”As for his interactions with Kohli and that exposure to the “aura”: that included invaluable time spent with the cricketer and the man. They opened together during Bethell’s twin appearances, sharing a 97-run stand on the second occasion as they pocketed half-centuries in an RCB win.Bethell may have re-opened the No.3 Test debate with his exploits at Edgbaston•AFP/Getty Images
“I think he quite enjoys the overseas boys because we’re just pretty chill around him,” Bethell said. “He’s definitely got that feeling. And when he walks out to bat, it’s pretty electrifying to walk out with him.”It (advice) was just like an accumulation over the couple of months of just chatting to him. You get information that keeps coming in ways that you don’t really know, and it’s kind of just drip-fed.”It was just nice to speak to him off and on the field, away from cricket, so yeah, it was just cool to experience someone of his calibre and how he goes about doing things.”He’s got a certain intensity with him that just kind of… he flips that switch on, as soon as he crosses that line, which is pretty cool to see.”As far as mimicking Kohli’s career path, Bethell’s already playing catch-up. He may only turn 22 in October, but he’s trailing on a number of fronts, not least the century count. By 21, Kohli had eight of the 101 he currently possesses across formats, including four in first-class cricket. Bethell is still without one in 119 innings, with Thursday’s knock his fourth-highest score as a professional.Squint, however, and you could make out the merest hint of Kohli in the shifting of gears and manner in which Bethell was imposing himself on an admittedly wayward West Indian attack. Even in these early stages, it is clear Bethell’s approach to batting focuses on heaping pressure on others rather than feeling it himself.That may even include his own teammates. Just as the dust had settled from Ben Stokes’ double-speak at last week’s Zimbabwe Test – when he was quizzed on what Bethell’s eventual reintroduction might mean for Ollie Pope’s spot in the XI – the left-hander’s firm-wristed flourishes have stirred the pot once more, even after Pope had seemingly secured his India starting berth with 171.Related
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Brook calls on England to forget the past after crushing opening victory
With Brendon McCullum wowed in Birmingham, as he was on last year’s Test tour of New Zealand when he said Pope versus Bethell was something they would have to work out, the No.3 for next month’s Headingley opener is not set in stone.Bethell, as the disruptor, is not worried. He remains the chaser rather than the chased, pre-occupied by the day-to-day establishing of himself in the white-ball sides to focus squarely on what Test cricket might hold for him this year. Nevertheless, this season’s highest-profile challenge is next month’s five-Test series against India, which leads into the winter’s Ashes. As for any awkwardness that his precocity may have caused his Test captain and vice last week, the IPL gave him the perfect alibi.”I was pretty far away to be honest,” he said. “I tried to stay pretty clear of social media anyway, so me not even being in England, I didn’t really hear a lot of it until I think one of my friends messaged me and said the whole thing was going on. But I haven’t really followed it.”I obviously played in New Zealand as a replacement for a replacement (replacing Jordan Cox in the XI, who was covering for Jamie Smith on paternity leave). So whatever happens, it’ll be, and when the time comes, it’ll be fine.”
تقدم فريق بيراميدز بالهدف الأول أمام منافسه زد في المباراة التي تجمع بينهما الآن ضمن منافسات الدوري المصري.
ويحل بيراميدز ضيفًا على زد على استاد القاهرة الدولي في الجولة التاسعة من الدوري المصري الممتاز.
طالع | ترتيب الدوري المصري بعد تعادل الأهلي مع فاركو
ويحتل بيراميدز قبل مباراة زد المركز الثالث في جدول ترتيب الدوري المصري ولديه 17 نقطة، جمعها من الفوز في 5 لقاءات والتعادل بمباراتين وتلقى هزيمة واحدة.
وجاء هدف بيراميدز الأول في الدقيقة 80، عن طريق فيستون مايلي بعدما سدد الكرة داخل الشباك مستغلاً ارتباك دفاعي في صفوف زد داخل منطقة الـ6 ياردة. هدف بيراميدز الأول أمام زد في الدوري المصري