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After bagging a hat trick for Chelsea this past Saturday in a resounding 4-1 win over Cardiff City, Eden Hazard drew heavy praise from his manager Maurizio Sarri, who said the Belgian could score 40 goals this season.
Hazard, who is clearly much better suited to the Sarri system than to the tactics of predecessors Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho, is playing at an all world form right now, which has social media users in awe.
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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho met the media in Switzerland minutes ago to preview his side’s UEFA Champions League opener at Young Boys tomorrow night. The group stage clash in Bern will kick off United’s European campaign for 2018-19.
A whole host of topics were covered in this one, including the team’s form, previewing the match and player selection. Audio of the session is below with a press conference photo of Mourinho as the place holder:
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The team with the best record in baseball, by a substantial margin, is the Boston Red Sox at 103-47. Naturally, they’re a very good bet to represent the American League in the World Series next month. As of this writing, the team with the best record in the National League is the Chicago Cubs, so maybe we could see a Cubs-Sox Series in October?
It happened once before, and it was exactly 100 years ago, so what an amazing story it would be to see a centennial rematch; especially so given how both teams were just five outs away from reaching the fall classic in 2003. That autumn, both sides came remarkably close, but neither was able to get over the line.
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Manchester United begin their 2018-19 Euro campaign with a trip to Bern, Switzerland to face Young Boys, the Swiss champions. It’s a match that could see summer signing Diogo Dalot make his long awaited senior team debut in a Red Devils shirt. Dalot has previously played twice for the club’s U23s.
Meanwhile, defender Marcos Rojo and back-up goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who has seen some playing time in United’s European competitions the past couple years, won’t be fit in time to participate in this one.
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Some early team news for Manchester United’s UEFA Champions League opener, in the group stages at Swiss side Young Boys, emerged from Jose Mourinho’s post Watford press conference (the video of which is below).
Left back Luke Shaw, who suffered a concussion while on international duty with England and missed the win at Watford, will be back in action and he’s in line to start.
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The Northern Illinois Huskies have arguably the nation’s toughest non-conference schedule this season, and next up is a trip to Tallahassee to face the Florida State Seminoles. The voyage to Doak Campbell Stadium is one that has been highly anticipated ever since it was announced a couple of years ago, replacing a home date with Idaho on the schedule.
The players and coaching staff will be really amped, as evidenced by the sound bites they gave at NIU Media Day. Most importantly, this game goes above and beyond football, as it’s a money game that saved jobs at NIU.
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Manchester United commence their European campaign tomorrow night with a trip to Bern, Switzerland where they’ll face Young Boys. United are heavily favored in this one, but as we learned in the knockout round last season, don’t ever take anybody in the UEFA Champions League for granted.
The Red Devils have a unique opportunity here to rotate their squad at a couple positions, given a pair of players that are suspended by the FA for Premier League play, but eligible to participate in this one.
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Roberto Firmino remains a doubt for tomorrow night’s UEFA Champions League group stage clash versus Paris Saint-Germain due to the frightening eye injury he suffered this past weekend. After an incident with Tottenham Hostpur defender Jan Vertonghen on Saturday, we later learned that Firmino suffered “an abrasion of the eye,” but that fortunately “there will be no lasting damage.”
The Spurs defender’s finger accidentally got lodged in the Brazilian’s eye socket. Yes, it was just as gruesome as it sounds.
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Tottenham Hotspur will be without several key players and stars when they take on Inter Milan in their UEFA Champions League group stage clash tomorrow night. Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino has announced that backs Kieran Trippier and Toby Alderweireld were left behind in London, and won’t be participating in this one.
During his news conference today, he was evasive when it came to giving an explanation. It sounds like the duo are fatigued, and this managerial move is simply a squad rotation, but you never know.
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Tottenham Hotspur versus Inter Milan is certainly one of the more exciting and interesting match-ups created by the UEFA Champions League group stage draw. At least in terms of brand names, on paper, this should be one to keep an eye on tomorrow night when the new UCL competition commences in earnest.
Let’s take a look at who is injured and who is in doubt for this epic clash at the San Siro, starting with Inter.
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Tottenham Hotspur head to the San Siro tomorrow night to commence their European campaign with a Champions League group stage clash against Inter Milan. It’s going to be rocking atmosphere in Italy as this will be Inter’s first UCL appearance in six years.
For a club that’s won the competition three times in their illustrious history, being out of Europe for so long is simply unacceptable, so you can be certain that everybody connected to Inter will be especially fired up for this one.
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Today is NIU Media Day (Chicago edition), which means it’s just talking season, and in talking season all topics are on the table. With that in mind, week four, Sept 22nd at Florida State, is the very definition of “circle the date” for the NIU Huskies.
Given the traditional power that Florida State is, and how high they will be ranked in the polls, the Seminoles will be favored. If you fancy a bet on college football, you can still find free bets available on huge games like these before the season starts up next month.
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