Key occasions
53 min: Portsmouth 1-1 Oxford
This is the underside of the Championship desk as issues stand. Or, to place it one other method, there’s a giant 40 minutes developing at Fratton Park.
11 min: Chelsea 0-0 Tottenham In the Women’s FA Cup quarter-final at Kingsmeadow, a cross from Lauren James virtually sneaks into the far nook of the online. Lize Kop dives to her proper to push it behind.
GOAL! Portsmouth 1-1 Oxford (Spencer 48) Nicolas Schmid doesn’t cope with Will Lankshear’s long-range shot and Brodie Spencer follows as much as rating a significant equaliser for Oxford, his first objective for the membership.
Philipp Lahm
In Germany, coaches used to say: “Follow your opponent right into the loo!” That was the decision to man-mark. So defenders weren’t meant to suppose too deeply. This retro tactical strategy has been making an sudden comeback since Atalanta won the Europa League in 2024 utilizing this technique.
Against a crew with a considerably superior particular person high quality, you naturally don’t stand an opportunity with man-marking. Atalanta needed to study that the arduous method in the Champions League final 16. Bayern loved absurdly huge areas and scored 10 targets. Rarely has a knockout-stage match been so one-sided.
I hope that the appropriate conclusions are drawn from this in Germany, as a result of I’m now seeing man-marking extra regularly in the Bundesliga once more. Yet it may well solely be a short-term measure if you wish to shock the opponent and put them underneath strain, as in handball simply earlier than the ultimate whistle. It is just not,
36 min: Millwall 0-0 Norwich The away aspect are enjoying rather well on the Den and might simply be in entrance. They are ninth in the desk however their latest type is pretty much as good as anyone in the Championship.
23 min: Millwall 0-0 Norwich No targets and few possibilities on the Den, the place promotion-chasing Millwall are taking over an in-form Norwich aspect.
Daniel Harris
When the time comes for our most joyous expression – one for which many people are nonetheless ready – we are able to solely take out the Tardelli, its acme, epitome, zenith, pinnacle, quintessence, apex, apogee and apotheosis. No one has skilled or communicated the sensation at larger depth, the ecstasy of 56.7 million Italians and centuries of historical past channelled via one man, and to conclude this piece in another method can be improper, for it’s pleasure incarnate.
Half time: Portsmouth 1-0 Oxford
Loud boos at half-time, presumably due to the choice to offer Connor Ogilvie a straight purple card. Portsmouth are a person down however a objective up because of a nice objective from Keshi Anderson.
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Red card: Portsmouth 1-0 Oxford (Ogilvie) Portsmouth are a objective up and a person down: Connor Ogilvie has acquired a straight purple card for a sort out on Stanley Mills.
Women’s FA Cup: Chelsea v Tottenham crew information
Chelsea (4-3-3) Hampton, Carpenter, Buchanan, Girma, Charles; Nusken, Cuthbert, Walsh; Thomson, Kerr, James.
Subs: Spencer, Peng, Buurman, Baltimore, Kaptein, Bronze, Potter, Sarwie
Tottenham Hotspur (4-4-2) Kop; Wijk, Bartrip, A Nilden, Koga; Vinberg, Summanen, Spence, Gaupset; Tandberg, England.
Subs: Heeps, Grant, Morris, Bartrip, Holdt, Rybrink, M. Nilden, Gunning-Williams, Ahtinen.
GOAL! Portsmouth 1-0 Oxford (Anderson 9) Keshi Anderson, 31 right now and beginning his first sport for Pompey, has given them an early lead in the massive relegation battle at Fratton Park. It was a neatly taken objective: a dummy to lose the defender and an early shot via the hand of the diving Jamie Cumming.
Rice trains forward of Sporting quarter-final
A bit of excellent information for Arsenal: Declan Rice is again in coaching forward of their Champions League quarter-final first leg in Lisbon tomorrow night time.
Rice skilled this morning, as did Leandro Trossard, however Bukayo Saka remained absent. Gabriel Magalhães, who got here off injured throughout Saturday’s shock FA Cup defeat at Southampton, additionally skilled.
Nicky Bandini
Italy have been too afraid to play a World Cup qualifying playoff at San Siro, internet hosting their semi-final against Northern Ireland in Bergamo as a substitute. Gennaro Gattuso defined it as a selection to guard his gamers, noting that the nation’s greatest football stadium was dwelling to 2 rival golf equipment – Milan and Internazionale – and suggesting this dynamic may lead followers there to show extra rapidly on gamers who struggled.
Instead, on Sunday, it was San Siro that supplied consolation to at least one who has develop into the scapegoat for one more collective failure. Italy made it previous Northern Ireland solely to lose to Bosnia on penalties in Zenica. Alessandro Bastoni’s first-half purple card, at a time when his nation have been profitable 1-0, was a pivotal second in the sport and maybe his complete profession.
Championship: Millwall v Norwich crew information
Millwall Patterson; Crama, Cooper, Taylor, Sturge; Cundle, De Norre Bannan; Azeez, Coburn, Neghli.
Subs: Crocombe, McNamara, Ballo, Ivanovic, Langstaff, Leonard, Watson, Bryan, Mazou-Sacko.
Norwich Kovacevic; Stacey, Darling, Cordoba, Fisher; McLean, Mattsson; Field, Ben Slimane, Ahmed; Kvistgaarden.
Subs: Grimshaw, Medic, Gibbs, Chrisene, Wright, Forson, Maghoma, Schwartau, Toure.
Referee Sam Allison (Somerset)
