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So far, Maxwell has scores of 18, 5, 6, and two 0 not outs in the World Cup but he is “not fazed by lack of time in the middle”

Alex Malcolm09-Nov-2021

Glenn Maxwell is happy to be a bit-part player in the World Cup semi-final if it means Australia goes on to claim their maiden T20 title.The allrounder entered the tournament as one of the form players on the planet and was expected to carry the nation’s title hopes on his shoulders throughout the tournament. But he has been reduced a role player and a spectator at times as Australia has marched to the semi-finals with only one blemish against England. He has scores of 18, 5, 6, and two 0 not outs having not faced a ball in either of the last two games.”I’m certainly not fazed by lack of time in the middle because it’s actually been a really nice change and it means the top order is going really well if I’m not spending that much time out there,” Maxwell said. “I’ve been in a really good headspace, so hopefully [I’m] not required again or hopefully required for another 0 not out and just stay at the other end.”Maxwell is confident if he is needed in the semi-final against Pakistan that he can find the form he had during the IPL.Related

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“I feel like I’ve done so much work at training and I’ve been here for two-and-a-bit months,” Maxwell said. “I know the conditions really well. It doesn’t matter if I haven’t batted for a few days or whatnot, I feel like I’m still in that headspace where I was during the IPL, where I was hitting the ball really cleanly and feel ready to play whatever role I need to when I get out there.”Maxwell has also had an unusual role with the ball in Australia’s bowling formation. With the decision to play just four specialist bowlers and only one specialist spinner most of the time in Adam Zampa, Maxwell was expected to play a huge role in the spin-friendly conditions. He proved more than capable with an outstanding four-over spell against South Africa in Australia’s opening game, but he has bowled just four overs since.He has only been required to bowl specific overs in the powerplay for specific match-ups to left-handers. Whether that will continue against Pakistan remains to be seen given their openers Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan are right-handers, and Fakhar Zaman is the only left-hander in the top six.Maxwell registered figures of 1 for 24 from four overs against South Africa•ICC via Getty

Australia would like to squeeze one over out of their fifth bowler in the powerplay as they have done all tournament but Maxwell believes the pacemen will do the bulk of the work upfront given their success.”The way that our quicks have bowled with the new ball has been outstanding,” Maxwell said. “They’ve still been able to get some movement out of these pitches. I think it’s been two-and-a-half months’ worth of cricket on these pitches, but they’re still able to find something in there and get key wickets for us upfront and that’s going to be key for us going forward.”I think anytime you can take wickets in that powerplay by using your best bowlers and using your right match-ups at the right time, it certainly puts the opposition on the back foot.”Playing the seventh batter has been important for Australia in four winning chases so far. Maxwell believes Australia need to be bold and trust their batting depth if they are asked to bat first in the semi-final.”I think for us, it’s just to play with freedom,” Maxwell said. “To back the fact that we’ve got a really strong top order.”We’re playing the extra batter. We’ve got a fair bit of batting there. To know that we probably barely used our five, six and seven throughout the tournament probably shows how good our top few have been. Mitch Marsh has been on fire the last couple of games. Finch and Warner, obviously, peaking at the right time as well. So we’re in a really good space, I think.”I’ve also seen teams go the other way and try and hold wickets back to make sure they could go at the backend and give themselves the opportunity to play with freedom in the backend. But I suppose for us, it’s probably playing with freedom at the start and really trying to make the most of the powerplay and putting the opposition on the back foot.”

Two days ago in Dubai, we all thought we had seen the very best of Jos Buttler, as he mashed a demoralised Australia with jaw-dropping disdain. But in very different circumstances in Sharjah, the respect that he was obliged to show Sri Lanka was his defining feature this time out, as he completed the set of Test, ODI and T20I hundreds with quite possibly his finest, most versatile innings of the lot.

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On an uncompromising Sharjah surface – slow, low and nigh on impossible to force the pace – Buttler somehow conjured a masterful 101 not out from 67 balls, riding out one of the most fallow passages of play in England’s T20I history to batter 51 runs from his final 22, including the last of his six sixes, a flick off the hips high over square leg to reach his landmark on the final ball of the innings.In doing so, Buttler converted a 45-ball fifty, his slowest in the format, into a team total of 163 for 4, which England defended with outstanding tenacity on a dew-drenched night. Their challenge was made all the more complex when Tymal Mills limped out of the attack midway through his second over with a worrying quad strain. But Eoin Morgan shuffled his resources magnificently, backed by superb fielding, to close out only the fourth victory in this tournament by a team bowling last after losing the toss.England’s innings stuck on red
At the halfway mark of England’s innings, the team’s faces were threatening to look as red as their new-look trousers – a switch from their usual navy-blue due to an ICC kit-clash regulation. After losing their first toss in four games and being obliged to set the tempo rather than chase in the dew, they had dribbled along to 47 for 3, their lowest ten-over total since tournament nadir against the Netherlands in Chittagong in 2014.Sri Lanka’s spinners had applied the handbrake after a misleadingly rambunctious first over, with Wanindu Hasaranga’s second ball pegging back Jason Roy’s off stump to serve England a collective reminder of the dangers of cross-batted strokes. Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow succumbed in the powerplay too, and for one agonisingly dour 33-ball period, right up until the drinks break, England dealt exclusively in dots and ones – 13 of them in fact – as Buttler and Morgan, desperately out of form after a grim run in the IPL, swallowed their pride and focused on batting deep from an awkward 35 for 3.There really wasn’t much that England dared to do to break the shackles. Maheesh Theekshana, flicking the ball out of the front of his hand, offered no width and oodles of stump-threatening skid, backed up by an excellent pitch-battering length from the seamers, which was too short for England to rush down to meet, and bouncing low enough to keep the stumps permanently in play.Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler put on 112 in 13 overs for the third wicket•Getty Images

Post-drinks flourish
A glug of Gatorade, and a thumping drive through the covers, brought Buttler only his third boundary in 31 balls. But it also signalled a fateful shift in Sri Lanka’s approach. As if pre-programmed to go to their pre-set death plans, the seamers began searching for a fuller length, right up to the toes, which suited Buttler’s spring-loaded wrists down to the ground. A brace of half-volleys from Lahiru Kumara were smoked into the stands, before Dasun Shanaka suffered similar treatment in the 18th over, as Buttler laced him for six, six, four, to wrench the contest England’s way.Morgan too joined the party, eventually holding his own in a 112-run partnership with 40 from 36 balls despite at one stage seeming stranded on 10 from 21. A freebie from Hasaranga got him going, a full-toss on the legs flicked through backward square, while Kumara was also in his sights with a classical inside-out bosh over long-off. Hasaranga got his revenge with another googly but not before England’s captain had confirmed his game-brain was still ticking.The search for that century wasn’t Buttler’s overriding concern as he faced up to Dushmantha Chameera’s final over. But after surviving a sprawling chance in the deep and missing out on an attempted reverse scoop, Buttler received the gimme he’d been angling for from the final ball of the innings, a full toss on the legs that he launched into the stands to vault from 95 to 101.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Dew diligence
The fact that England were able to turn on their after-burners may have been linked to the sightings of a few towels for Sri Lanka’s fielders as the evening moisture began to make itself known. It obliged Morgan to get imaginative from the outset of Sri Lanka’s chase. Moeen Ali served up the first over, in which Pathum Nissanka was run out third-ball, but after some rare tap for Chris Woakes from Charith Asalanka, Adil Rashid was swiftly called into action. The change did the trick, two googlies to the left-handers Asalanka and Kusal Perera resulted in a pair of hacks into the covers, as for the first time in their T20I history, England bowled four overs of spin in the powerplay.Still, Sri Lanka kept pressing, with more zip off the bat in the altered conditions, not least for Bhanuka Rajapaksa, who greeted Liam Livingstone with a clout over the sightscreen and then made Woakes regret a bad miss at square leg by slamming him for a six and a four in consecutive balls. But Woakes responded with an offcutter which Roy swallowed in the deep, and at 76 for 5 in the 11th over, England were chipping away at their opponent’s resources.Their own resources, however, received a body blow when Mills limped from the field. Despite their wealth of options, Rashid was already bowled out, and when Woakes surprisingly finished off the final three balls of the incomplete over, he too only had one more up his sleeve. It was time once again for Livingstone to show his mettle, and sure enough, he delivered the killer blow in the 17th over, drawing a rampant Hasaranga into a swipe to wide long-off, where Roy pounced brilliantly with a dive inside the rope, before offloading for the substitute Sam Billings to complete the take.Three balls later, however, there was no longer any doubt which direction the match was headed. That man Buttler pounced from behind the stumps and pinged down the wicket to run out Sri Lanka’s last remaining hope Dasun Shanaka. England had come through their toughest assignment of the tournament with a statement victory and proven that while the conditions are still a massive factor, excellence can yet seize the day.

The January transfer window is still a number of months away from opening for business but Celtic have already been linked with a potential swoop for one of their former players.

It was recently reported that Arsenal left-back Kieran Tierney has made securing a return to Parkhead a priority ahead of the second half of the season.

The outlet revealed that the Hoops are considering a move for the Scotland international, whilst the Gunners are prepared to allow him to leave on loan to secure a switch back to Glasgow.

Tierney left Celtic to sign for the Premier League giants for a fee of £25m in the summer of 2019 having enjoyed a wonderful career at the club.

Across a whopping 170 appearances, he won everything Scotland had to offer, including an impressive five Scottish Premiership titles.

The Bhoys had already signed Boli Bolingoli as his replacement, but as we all know by now, it didn’t go quite according to plan…

How much Celtic spent on Boli Bolingoli

The Scottish giants swooped to sign the Belgian defender for a reported fee of £3m on a £780k-per-season salary from Austrian side Rapid Vienna to take over from the academy graduate in the 2019/20 campaign.

He had produced two goals and two assists in 25 matches in the Bundesliga during the previous season, but had also lost 53% of his duels in the division.

Despite his struggles on the physical side of the game, Celtic decided to splash out a fee of £3m on the full-back, who stated that he wanted to “emulate” Tierney’s success at left-back for the Scottish Premiership side.

He made 28 appearances in all competitions during his first season at Parkhead and only played 14 times in the Premiership, providing two assists in the top flight, as a knee injury limited his involvement.

Unfortunately, Bolingoli was never able to kick on after his first season with the Scottish giants, after falling behind Greg Taylor in the pecking order, and that was thanks in no small part to a major error he made in 2020.

What happened to Boli Bolingoli

The £3m flop travelled to Spain prior to a clash with Kilmarnock at the start of the 2020/21 campaign and, due to quarantine rules at the time, should have resulted in him spending 14 days in isolation.

Instead, he kept his trip quiet and played in the game, after training with his teammates throughout the week, and Celtic had their subsequent two matches suspended after the truth came out.

Neil Lennon, the manager at the time, stated that he and the club were “bitterly” let down by the “selfish” full-back and that the Hoops were left “livid” by the situation.

July 2019

£2.9m

April 2020

£2m

May 2021

£1.8m

December 2021

£1.2m

November 2022

£752k

December 2023 – present

£418k

The dud was then sent out on loan to Basaksehir in Turkey a month later, where he played 18 games, and later returned to play two matches under Ange Postecoglou in the 2021/22 campaign, before joining UFA on loan.

Bolingoli then signed for KV Mechelen for an undisclosed fee in the summer of 2022, after his Transfermarkt value had already dropped by more than £2m, and he currently plays for Standard Liege at the age of 29 – valued at just £418k.

He was, ultimately, unable to emulate Tierney’s success at Celtic and let the team down with his behaviour in the summer of 2020, which is why the £3m fee and the £780k he earned in wages during his first year in Scotland was wasted.

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Looking to hand out rewards for their excellent start to the Premier League campaign, Nottingham Forest are reportedly set to open contract talks with one of Nuno Espirito Santo’s mainstays.

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Forest couldn’t have asked for a much better start, with their first defeat of the Premier League campaign not coming until last time out against Fulham. Already, Espirito Santo’s side have secured a moment to remember, becoming the first and so far only side to defeat Arne Slot’s Liverpool side, whilst completing the achievement at Anfield, of all places.

Sitting as high as 10th in the Premier League and just two points adrift of the European places as a result, Nottingham Forest will be looking to ensure their Fulham defeat was a mere blip rather than the end of their good form. To do that, they’ll have the task of shocking an in-form Chelsea side at Stamford Bridge on Sunday to make it three victories in two seasons over the Blues.

Ahead of that game, it looks as though those at the City Ground are keen to recognise the form of one star, in particular. According to John Percy of The Telegraph, Nottingham Forest are now set to open contract talks with Ola Aina, who has started every Premier League game so far this season to become a mainstay in Nuno’s ranks.

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Given that the right-back’s current deal is set to expire next summer, allowing him to leave the club as a free agent, Forest’s reported negotiations come at a key time in an attempt to secure Aina’s future. Now 27 years old, the Nigerian has finally established himself in the Premier League after taking the long way around European football following his Chelsea exit in 2019.

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One of many Chelsea academy graduates forced to head out on loan on several occasions, it may have taken spells at both Torino and Fulham, but it looks as though Aina has finally settled in the Premier League at the City Ground. It’s quickly become clear just how important his role under Nuno is these days too, with six straight starts highlighting the Nigerian’s quality for all to see.

Praised for his “reliable athletic overlapping” by analyst Ben Mattinson, Aina looks set to be handed a well-earned reward by Nottingham Forest, which should secure his future in the Midlands.

Currently earning a reported £40,000-a-week, Aina may even hope to receive a pay rise to match his important role at Nottingham Forest these days.

Kylian Mbappe has become a victim of the "greatest enemy in football" since seeing Real Madrid make him another 'Galactico' at Santiago Bernabeu.

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The World Cup winner finally completed a move to Spain in the summer of 2024 after several windows of intense speculation regarding his future. Mbappe joined Los Blancos as a free agent after reaching the end of his contract at Paris Saint-Germain.

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Adapting to life outside of his homeland was always going to be challenging, and Mbappe faced plenty of uncomfortable questions early on in Madrid before finding a spark that has delivered six goals and another trophy through his last eight appearances in all competitions.

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Former Real player and coach Jorge Valdano has told of the challenges that the France international has had to overcome in the Spanish capital: "It’s a question of adaptation. Mbappe left his country, France, for the first time and that took him sociologically out of his comfort zone. This may have led to a process of anxiety, and anxiety is the great enemy of the footballer."

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Mbappe knew what he was letting himself in for when agreeing to join Real, but the intensity of performing under the brightest of spotlights may have come as some surprise. Valdano added on the differences between superstar status in Paris and Madrid: "In France, football is not as culturally important as it is here in Spain. This can be seen simply on the television channel DAZN, which has perhaps 100,000 to 200,000 subscribers in France. Real Madrid, on the other hand, is not only the news leader on Sundays but also on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays."

أعلن نادي غزل المحلة رسميًا عن تعيين الكابتن محمد عبد المنصف مدربًا لحراس مرمى الفريق الأول، في خطوة تهدف إلى تعزيز الجهاز الفني بخبرات كبيرة في هذا المركز الحيوي.

وتسعى إدارة غزل المحلة إلى تعزيز صفوف الفريق والجهاز الفني استعدادًا للاستحقاقات المقبلة، وسط طموحات لتحقيق نتائج إيجابية تعيد الفريق إلى المنافسة على البقاء في الدوري الممتاز في المسابقات المحلية.

إيقاف 14 لاعبًا لمدة عام وإلغاء النتائج.. عقوبات مباراة غزل المحلة والترسانة لكرة اليد

وجاء التوقيع على العقود بحضور المهندس وليد خليل، رئيس مجلس إدارة شركة غزل المحلة لكرة القدم، والمهندس تامر خليل، نائب رئيس مجلس الإدارة والمنسق العام، بالإضافة إلى الكابتن وائل شكر، نائب المدير التنفيذي للنادي.

ويعد محمد عبد المنصف، الحارس السابق لعدة أندية مصرية بارزة، من الأسماء التي تمتلك خبرة واسعة في الكرة المصرية، حيث خاض مسيرة طويلة امتدت لعقود في الملاعب، ويأمل النادي في أن تسهم خبراته الكبيرة في تطوير مستوى حراس مرمى الفريق.

ويحتل غزل المحلة المركز الخامس عشر في سلم ترتيب بطولة الدوري المصري برصيد 11 نقطة حصدهم من 12 مباراة، فاز في ثلاث مواجهات وتعادل في 2 وخسر 7 مباريات.

علق الإنجليزي أرسين فينجر، رئيس قسم تطوير كرة القدم العالمية بـ الاتحاد الدولي “فيفا”، على مشاركة النادي الأهلي في بطولة كأس العالم للأندية 2025، التي ستقام في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، ومواجهة إنتر ميامي في مباراة الافتتاح بالبطولة.

ويشارك النادي الأهلي بطل دوري أبطال إفريقيا، في البطولة بنظامها الحديث، وأوقعته القرعة في المجموعة الأولى بجانب أندية بالميراس البرازيلي وبورتو البرتغالي وإنتر ميامي الأمريكي.

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ويتواجد أرسين فينجر، في القاهرة، اليوم الجمعة، يعقد مؤتمر صحفي في مقر الاتحاد المصري لكرة القدم، من أجل إطلاق شارة البدء لـ إطلاق مشروع المواهب في مصر تحت إشراف (فيفا)، وذلك بعد دعوة من رئيس الاتحاد المصري هاني أبو ريدة.

وقال فينجر خلال المؤتمر الصحفي: “مواجهة الأهلي وإنتر ميامي في افتتاح مونديال الأندية؟، بطولة كأس العالم قوية وتجمع أفضل فرق العالم”.

وأضاف: “البطولة تضم كبار فرق أوروبا، طالما أنت كفريق بطل قارتك وتحصد البطولات فمن حقك المشاركة”.

وأتم: “الأهلي وإنتر ميامي وبورتو وبالميراس فرق لها شعبية كبيرة”.

وتستضيف الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية منافسات كأس العالم للأندية بمشاركة 32 فريقًا، خلال الفترة ما بين 15 يونيو حتى 13 يوليو 2025.

ويلعب الأهلي ضد إنتر ميامي بقيادة “ليونيل ميسي”، في المباراة الأولى له بالمجموعة، والافتتاحية لبطولة كأس العالم للأندية.

The Kolkata Knight Riders managed the first successful defence in the 2021 IPL despite a blip towards the end of their innings. They managed just 42 in their last five overs, but the 145 for 1 in the first 15 proved to be good enough on a dry pitch, which their bowlers exploited.Eighty-or-nothing Nitish Rana had that eighty night on a track that didn’t support his weakness: short and fast bowling. The selfless Rahul Tripathi scored an attacking fifty despite not batting at the position suited to him, opening the batting.Defending about 20 fewer than what they looked good for, the Knight Riders’ fast bowlers produced the big wickets and their spinners stifled the Sunrisers Hyderabad batsmen to seal the game. After Prasidh Krishna got David Warner early, Jonny Bairstow revived the Sunrisers chase with a 40-ball 55, but Pat Cummins got him out in the 13th over to leave Manish Pandey with a tall ask of getting 86 off the last seven. Pandey couldn’t despite an Abdul Samad cameo at the end.Sunrisers err, Rana cashes in
Dry pitches are what Sunrisers have built their successful model on. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Sandeep Sharma remain accurate before Rashid Khan drives home the advantage, but on this occasion both Kumar and Sharma got off to an error-filled start. While Shubhman Gill’s struggle to bat at T20 pace continued from 2020, Rana made full use of the width provided by both the new-ball bowlers. By the time Gill was out despite seemingly having picked a Khan wrong’un, the Knight Riders still had 53 on the board in seven overs.Rahul Tripathi congratulates Nitish Rana after the latter reached his fifty•BCCI/IPL

Tripathi, Rana punish Sunrisers
As often, Tripathi came out oozing intent. The second ball he faced, he went against the turn to hit Mohammad Nabi for a six over long-off. While Khan kept things quiet at his end, Rana and Tripathi kept attacking the others. They batted together for eight overs; only one of them didn’t feature a boundary, and two of them went for more than one. At 145 for 1 in 15 overs, with Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik and Eoin Morgan still in the shed, the Knight Riders looked set to bat the Sunrisers out of the game.Sunrisers fight back
In the 16th over, Tripathi fell trying to hit his third six of the night, but it seemed like the perfect time for Russell to walk in. He announced himself with a four first ball, but Khan got him out in his customary one over at the death. The slowness of the pitch proved difficult for the batsmen coming in, with both Rana and Morgan falling to the offspin of Nabi in the 18th over. Karthik, though, arrested the slide with a nine-ball 22 to give the Knight Riders 28 more than what Mumbai Indians came close to defending in the first match in Chennai.Prasidh dents the chase
Harbhajan Singh, playing his first IPL match since the 2019 final, almost had Warner the first ball he bowled to him but Cummins dropped him at point. However, in the next over, Krishna produced a beauty angling across Warner, getting the edge through to Karthik. With the left-hand batsman gone, the Knight Riders switched immediately to the left-arm spin of Shakib Al Hasan with immediate results, getting rid of Wriddhiman Saha first ball of the third over. The Sunrisers were 10 for 2 in the third over.Bairstow keeps Sunrisers alive
With Pandey playing more of an anchor role in the chase, it was down to Bairstow to prevent being choked out by the Knight Riders’ spinners; Singh, Shakib and Varun Chakravarthy. He brought up his 50 in 32 balls, taking the Sunrisers to 100 for 2 at the end of the 12th over. Pandey was 34 off 27 at the other end.Cummins starts the final slide
Morgan went to his strike bowler in the 13th, and while the ball to get Bairstow wasn’t flash, sometimes the short and wide ball does it just fine in T20s. Three metres either side of the man at backward point, and Bairstow would have got four more, but he found the man to perfection. The squeeze was on after that, and in Cummins, Chakravarthy, Shakib and Krishna, the Knight Riders had too much quality at the end for a suspect Sunrisers middle order.

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O Corinthians acabou sendo derrotado por 1 a 0, pelo São Paulo, em clássico no Morumbi, nesta segunda-feira e novamente apresentou dificuldades para construir ofensivamente. Diante disso, Sylvinho afirmou que o início do duelo acabou determinando o desenrolar dos 90 minutos e precisou explicar o que deu errado na estratégia para o Majestoso, mas fez questão de citar a atuação do rival, que dificultou as tentativas corintianas de buscar a vitória fora de casa.

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-Todo mau momento durante uma partida de futebol se paga caro. Nós tivemos os primeiros dez minutos de dificuldade, da qual todos nós entendemos. Rotação não, uma questão de duas ou três jogadas mais agudas do São Paulo. Nós tivemos muito claro isso de estratégia de jogo, que nós sabíamos que o Reinaldo tinha um passagem muito forte, nós chegamos a treinar algumas situações como essa, mas ocorre. Dez minutos que o adversário esteve melhor do que nós e realmente isso custa bastante. A gente fica chateado, faz parte, mas não só nos primeiros dez minutos, em qualquer momento da parte em que você esteja um pouco abaixo, isso pode acontecer no fim do primeiro tempo, começo do segundo ou nos minutos finais, acaba se pagando caro, em um campeonato equilibrado, as forças se equivalem.

Em entrevista após a partida, o técnico do Timão admitiu que a equipe enfrentou dificuldades para construir suas jogadas ofensivas, mas rechaçou a possibilidade de ser time previsível para seus adversários e citou as mudanças que ocorreram recentemente. Além de, claro, falar dos méritos do Tricolor.

-Sobre a construção, foi uma dificuldade maior. O adversário vai tirando suas possibilidades, ele vai cortando linhas de passe, ele vai tirando um jogador que fez a primeira parte da partida, mas longe de o time ser previsível. Nós estamos tentando buscar esse time, está aberto esse cenário e trocas de atletas tem ocorrido, com características diferentes, era o Jô na frente, o Róger foi para frente, depois para o lado, Jô voltou… Esse tripé de meio-campo, Giuliano e Renato têm dado bastante para nós em nível técnico, a presença do Cantillo também, em outro momento foi Gabriel, enfim nós estamos buscando.

-Nós ainda não temos um período longo no qual a gente olha e diz “esse jogo já não dá mais certo”, pelo contrário, nós estamos buscando esse jogo e é o período que nós estamos trabalhando a troca constante de alguns atletas e é isso que estamos buscando fazer e melhorar nossa performance em termos de construção. Nosso adversário do outro lado tem a leitura e ele vai buscar fazer com que você não desenvolva. Parte hoje daquilo que nós não conseguimos desenvolver, e que o próprio Fluminense nos criou bastante dificuldade, é o rival que está do outro lado que obviamente vai tentar te tirar – completou.

Sylvinho também destacou que não dá para esperar que o Corinthians irá entrar em campo para golear em todas as partidas, mas sim que a cada jogo o time vai buscar enfrentar as dificuldades e as melhores soluções para elas.

– Então nós não esperamos o Corinthians entrar em campo e ter uma performance neste exato momento de fazer quatro ou cinco gols por jogo. Não, nós estamos buscando a cada jogo as nossas dificuldades, são enfrentadas e estamos buscando performances, jogo, time e tática, a cada momento, a cada fim de semana, a cada jogo que estamos fazendo.

-Melhorar, buscar solução, esse é o nosso papel, não estamos contentes, nós queremos melhorar, buscar melhores performances, buscar o momento correto do atleta e para isso que nós estamos, e vamos buscar sim soluções para os próximos jogos já – complementou o comandante.

O Corinthians volta a campo no próximo domingo, às 16h, para enfrentar o Internacional, no Beira-Rio, pela 28ª rodada do Brasileirão-2021. Com 40 pontos, o Timão segue na sexta posição na tabela, uma à frente dos gaúchos.

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Chelsea are reportedly considering making a January move for Barcelona's Jules Kounde, which could help the Catalan side register Dani Olmo.

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• Chelsea interested in Barcelona's Kounde
• Sale could help Barcelona register Olmo in January
• Chelsea also showing interest in Araujo

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  Chelsea had already been interested in signing Kounde in the summer of 2022 from Sevilla and had come very close to completing the signing for a reported fee of €65 million (£55m/$66m) before Barcelona swooped in to sign the highly-rated Frenchman. The Blues have had a decent start to life under Enzo Maresca and the top brass is ready to help the Italian succeed by backing him in the January transfer window. As such, TBR Football have reported that Chelsea are now considering making a move for Kounde in January.

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  While Barcelona have almost eradicated their financial troubles after completing their new multi-billion deal with Nike, they still have issues adhering to La Liga's fair play rules due to their previous issues. As such, there have been doubts over being able to register Olmo for the second half of the season after already having struggled with the same in the summer, however, both the club and player have remained positive about being able to achieve the registration. If Barcelona were to sell Kounde to Chelsea in January, it would open up a load of space in their wage bill to easily fit Olmo's contract for the rest of the season.

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  The TBR Football report also suggested that Chelsea are monitoring Ronald Araujo's situation at Barcelona amid reports about a breakdown between the two sides over the last few months. However, over the last few weeks talks have begun again between the Uruguayan defender's camp and Barcelona, and an extension is now more likely than not.

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• WHAT NEXT FOR CHELSEA?

  The Blues have been looking to sign a centre-back in January and also a right-back amid Reece James' never-ending injury issues. With Kounde, Maresca will get a player who can comfortably fill in at both positions.