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There are around 55.68 million for which Leicester City and Manchester United will win their season-closing match at King Power Stadium on Sunday.
That sum is the difference for a club winning the Champions League (£75.13 million) versus winning the Europa League (£19.45 million). The winners of this match will finish no worse than fourth in the table and potentially third depending on the result of Chelsea’s match against Wolverhampton – regardless of finish, both spots award passage through to the group stage of Champions League.
The losers of this contest would finish fifth and enter the European second division tournament. On the occasion of a draw, Leicester City (18-8-11) would like retirements to lose to the Wolves, giving Brendan Rodgers look fourth with an incredible difference in purpose. The only time the Foxes finished against Manchester United (17-12-8) in the more than 46 years was their magical season winning the name in 2015-16.
“If we had been introduced to this in the pre-season, we would have taken it 100%,” Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel told the club’s official website. “These are the games you need to play.” When you look at our form all season, we’re a young team, there will be inconsistencies, but we’re in a situation.
“We can’t use form from previously to dictate what one game’s going to be. It’s basically a cup final for us. Look at the possibilities for us. That’s all we could possibly ask for. We don’t have the size and the finances to compete, on paper, with the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea.
“But we are, so it’s a big positive.”
The asymmetrical form to which Schmeichel was referring was evident in the Restart project, in which Leicester City has a 2-3-3 record. Injuries played an important role: they will return without left-back Ben Chilwell, right-back Ricardo Pereira and midfielder James Maddison, as well as suspensions when central Caglar Soyuncu completed his three-match suspension for his red haze moment behind Bourne.
The Foxes, however, also ranked outright last Sunday in their 3-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur. Hary Kane shredded them in the first half, scoring a double after an opposite purpose alongside James Justin, and the part of the moment was little more than a practice floor training with the Spurs satisfied to give up the property and remain in a disciplined shell.
Rodgers noted that Marc Albrighton could be online for the variety after an absence of two games due to injury. Given Maddison’s absence, any type of midfielder would be a welcome serve for Jamie Vardy, who has a two-goal lead in the Premier League Golden Boot race with 23 in the season.
Vardy had some luck against United with five goals in 11 games in his life, adding up to three out of five at home.
United placed in pole position for one of two Champions League passes with a 1–1 home draw against West Ham United on Wednesday. A moment of madness from Paul Pogba, who inexplicably raised his hands in self-defense in a shot through Declan Rice and created a hand, gave the Irons the lead before half-time, but Mason Greenwood continued his brilliant form to the tie and led Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team to third.
“We are ahead of the game; We gave the smart chance to be in the Champions League next year,” Solskjaer told reporters via a video call on Friday. “We can’t move on to a game thinking about what the outcome might be. We just have to go through and carry it out, and carry it out at a high enough point for us to get a result.
“We want to pass and dominate the game – we seek to get to that position, we have to move on to Leicester to wish to beat them. We’re not going to go through to replace our approach. We want to stop there and check to win the game. Array “
Greenwood’s appearance, 18, was a turning point for United to finish in the four most sensitive. He is third in the team with 17 goals in all competitions, but the great ending, a fan of both feet, which is remarkable and a key detail of United who enters this undefeation contest in his last thirteen (8-5-0) in the league. Game.
“I think Cardiff City, last season’s game, was his first start and he was our most productive player in this game and simply grew up and grew up in confidence and conviction and has self-confidence. His talents, his qualities, his attributes, were at the highest level, ” said Solskjaer.
Although Greenwood has five goals as a home away in 21 away games in total, two have been scored in his last three games outside Of Old Trafford.
United won 1-0 in the opposing game at Old Trafford, on a penalty in the 8th minute via Marcus Rashford until victory. He is unbeathed in his last 11 (8-3-0) against Leicester City in all competitions since a 5–3 loss in the Midlands in September 2014 in which Vardy scored a goal.
It is just one of Leicester City’s two wins in 28 games (2-7-19) in all Premier League-era competitions, and the other a 1-0 win at Old Trafford in 1998 with a Tony Cottee goal.
Whatever else Rory McIlroy gets to take away from the 102nd USPGA Championship there is no doubt that his reputation will only be enhanced among the golfing purists. You can say what you like about the Northern Irishman’s competitive attitude — and many do and will — but there surely cannot be any questioning his approach to what he regards as proper sportsmanship in the game he adores. McIlroy is in the Bobby Jones school of thought when it comes to the rulebook. The greatest amateur of all time famously declared at the 1925 US Open “you may as well praise me for not robbing a bank” after he was hailed for calling a penalty on himself that only he knew about. It cost Jones the title to Scotland’s Willie Macfarlane. Round two report: Fleetwood’s 64 takes him to touching distance of lead When quizzed about his own moment of honour during Friday’s second round at Harding Park, San Francisco, McIlroy seemed similarly nonplussed. Except, his actions could even be classed as more principled than those of Jones. Because here was a golfer who deliberately gave himself a worse lie to the one chosen by a referee. The incident occurred on the par-three third, after the world No 3 had sliced his tee shot into the thick rough. A search ensued, during which an on-course ESPN reporter unwittingly stepped on McIlroy’s ball. Under the recently introduced Rule 7.4, McIlroy was allowed to re-place it, without penalty, based on an “estimate” of where it was initially. The rules official pointed to an appropriate area where McIlroy duly placed his ball. McIlroy was free to go and try to save par. Except he was not comfortable and said to the referee: “It would not have been as visible as that.” So he bent down and buried it a little further in the cabbage. The best he could manage from that lie was a pitch to within 22 feet, from where he two-putted for a bogey. Suddenly, the clapping emoji appeared all over social media and four hours later, when he could eventually explain his thought process, he was still being congratulated. “I just wouldn’t have felt comfortable,” McIlroy said after signing for a 69. “I placed it, and the rule is try to replicate the lie. No one really knew what the lie was, but if everyone is going around looking for it, it obviously wasn’t too good. So I placed it, I was like, that just doesn’t look right to me. So I just placed it down a little bit. “You know, at the end of the day, golf is a game of integrity and I never try to get away with anything out there. I’d rather be on the wrong end of the rules rather than on the right end.” The proceedings were reminiscent of Darren Clarke at the 2006 Irish Open. Leading by two when play was called for bad weather on the Sunday evening, Clarke returned the next morning to the spot on the ninth where his ball had finished after a wayward drive moments before the hooter had sounded. Lo and behold, the leprechauns had been at work overnight and what was a poor lie was now so decent that the crowd favourite could reach the green. But Clarke refused to accept his good fortune electing to chip it out into the fairway instead. “That’s part and parcel of the game,” he later said after finishing third being his great friend Thomas Bjorn. “It was a much better lie than when I left it. I had the opportunity to hit it on to the green, but my conscience wouldn’t allow that.” Of course, Clarke was something of a mentor to McIlroy and the protege will certainly recall the episode. Like now, the sanctity of the rulebook was under the spotlight at the time with a few high-profile affairs, including Colin Montgomerie’s notorious drop in Jakarta the previous year. McIlroy’s rectitude occurred a week after Bryson DeChambeau shamelessly tried to bend the rulebook in his favour by claiming that his ball was near an anthill and as they were red ants, it was a “dangerous situation” and he was entitled to relief under Rule 16: “Relief from Abnormal Course Conditions (Including Immovable Obstructions), Dangerous Animal Condition, Embedded Ball.” Two weeks before that, at The Memorial, DeChambeau was heard criticising “another garbage ruling” when insisting to a referee — who, as, fate would have it was the same official as in the fire-ant farce — that he was entitled to play a shot that was resting against an out-of-bounds fence. He obviously was not and annoyed the locker room, by calling for a second ruling. The next referee summarily dismissed DeChambeau’s argument. There have also been mutterings on the range concerning DeChambeau’s dropping “technique” on his way to that almost comical 10 at Muirfield Village. In the new rules, designed in part to quicken up the pace of play, golfers are required to come as close as possible to the original spot within a club length. That can be up to four feet and advantages can inevitably be found in such an area, if the player is willing to exploit this loophole. Was all this on McIlroy’s mind? We might never know, for sure, but we can hazard an accurate guess. As it was, McIlroy goes out in the third round on Saturday on one-under, seven behind the leader China’s Haotong Li, with England’s Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose in a group in second, two off the pace. DeChambeau was on two-under.
Joe Staley looks like a new guy months after retiring from the 49ers.
The Washington Capitals perfectly trolled David Pastrnak with a funny tweet after Tom Wilson’s purpose in Sunday’s game opposite the Boston Bruins.
The league decided to add the play-in series option in an abundance of fairness, since about 14% of the regular season schedule was eliminated because of the coronavirus pandemic. To advance and face the top-seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the first round, the eighth-place team will have to win one of the two games and the ninth-place finisher would have to go 2-0. There will be no play-in series in the Eastern Conference; Brooklyn and Orlando have secured what were the last two available spots on that bracket, with Washington – the only other team that came to Disney with a chance of qualifying in the East – already eliminated.
Los Angeles Angels’ right fielder Jo Adell returned to a deep ball in the fifth inning on Sunday. Adell loaded with a rare four-goal error when the ball came out of the rookie’s glove and flew over the remaining few feet over the fence in the Texas Rangers 7-3 victory. Nick Solak expected the initial resolution of a home run to remain, but he knew immediately that was not the case when he saw a Texas hit replaced by a Los Angeles error on the scoreboard two innings later.
The Lakers, the wisest seed in the West, lost 116-111 to the Pacers as other groups tried to prepare Los Angeles for a playoff game opposed to Portland.
Cueto’s first shot, a ball stuck literally 99% of the time, according to Statcast.
Phil Mickelson left the field on Saturday and entered the broadcast booth with CBS Sports to call for action alongside Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo.
Danielle Kang finished back-to-back LPGA Tour triumphs with a one-hit victory at the Marathon Classic on Sunday after former world number one Lydia Ko suffered a dramatic collapse. Ko, who started the last circular with four shots on the loose, gave the impression of being on the way to victory after opening a five-hole six-hole lead to play at Highland Meadows in Sylvania, Ohio. Ko allowed Kang to sneak in and win only a week after winning last week’s Drive On Championship in Toledo, the LPGA’s first chance after a five-month hiatus of COVID-19.
Orioles enthusiasts and announcers laughed at the Nationals’ canvas situation.
The likelihood of school football being played this fall is minimal.
On Sunday, the Suns laughed on social media at Draymond Green’s expense.
“I was waiting to hit him, one of the batters said, ‘Dude, you know he throws like 100, right?’ Do I like that?’ “
The qualifying round is over and the quest for the Stanley Cup continues in the Toronto and Edmonton hubs with the first round of the playoffs.
The Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros apparently were tired of playing nice. Things got so angry the benches cleared – and the stands emptied, too, during Oakland’s 7-2 victory over the AL West rival Astros. The skirmish came less than two weeks after the Astros tangled with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team they beat in the 2017 World Series.
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Derrick Lewis took his next step toward another heavyweight title shot with a record-setting knockout of Aleksei Oleinik at UFC Vegas 6 (aka UFC on ESPN+ 32) on Saturday night at the Apex in Las Vegas.Lewis came out firing, landing a few big punches before clinching and pressing Oleinik against the cage. He then powered Oleinik to the ground and unloaded with several hard left hands.Oleinik tried to clinch form the bottom, but Lewis spun into half guard.Oleinik again held tight, trying to force a stalemate and a stand-up. He eventually slipped out and regained his footing, immediately taking Lewis to the canvas and landing in side control with a scarf hold.Lewis scrambled back to top position, but Oleinik easily reversed him and again took side control with a scarf hold. Lewis remained calm and kept pressing on Oleinik’s face, eventually forcing the Ukrainian fighter to give up on the scarf hold and move to side control, where he applied an Americana lock, but it wasn’t enough to finish the fight before the horn.The former UFC heavyweight title contender Lewis opened the second round with a jumping knee to the chest and floored Oleinik with a right hand. He then dropped to the canvas, unloading with a brutal onslaught of right hands that put Oleinik in another time zone, forcing referee Herb Dean to call the fight just 21 seconds into the round.The finish earned Lewis the record, at 11, for most heavyweight knockouts in UFC history. By knocking out Oleinik, Lewis surpassed Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos.“It feels good. He had that British Bulldog, whatever the hell submission he had on me, I couldn’t breathe at all,” Lewis said after the fight.Coming into the fight, Lewis marveled at how much better he felt after really focusing on his conditioning. He took things a step further on Saturday, declaring he didn’t want to return to the cage until he could shed a few more pounds.“I’m not gonna take any more fights until I can get down into that 250, 245 (pound) range,” said Lewis, who weighed 265 pounds for UFC Vegas 6.“Hopefully (I will return) in December. Some time in December. Right now, that’s all I’m focused on, trying to get my weight down.” Chris Weidman victorious in return to middleweightFormer middleweight champion Chris Weidman likely staved off the demise of his UFC tenure with a dominant decision victory over Omari Akhmedov in the UFC Vegas 6 co-main event.Having gone 1-5 in his last six fights, Weidman desperately needed to win this fight, his return to middleweight following a losing effort at light heavyweight.It wasn’t the most exciting performance of Weidman’s career, but he out-wrestled Akhmedov to get a much need victory after going the full three rounds. “It was huge,” said Weidman. “(There was) a lot of pressure on (me) and I’m happy to get my hand raised. I’m not too happy with that performance but I needed a win.“I’m back, All the top tier guys, I’m coming for you.”* * *TRENDING > Michael Chandler knocks out Benson Henderson in Bellator 243 main event* * * UFC Vegas 6: Lewis vs. Oleinik resultsMain Card * Derrick Lewis def. Aleksei Oleinik by TKO (punches) at 0:21, R2 * Chris Weidman def. Omari Akhmedov by unanimous decision (29-27, 29-27, 29-28) * Darren Stewart def. Maki Pitolo by submission at 3:41, R1 * Yana Kunitskaya def. Julija Stoliarenko by unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27) * Beneil Dariush def. Scott Holtzman by TKO (spinning backfist) at 4:38, R1Prelims * Tim Means def. Laureano Staropoli by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28) * Kevin Holland def. Joaquin Buckley by TKO (punch) at 0:32, R3 * Nasrat Haqparast def. Alex Munoz by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27) * Andrew Sanchez def. Wellington Turman by KO (punch) at 4:14, R1 * Gavin Tucker def. Justin Jaynes by submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:43, R3 * Youssef Zalal def. Peter Barrett by unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-27) * Irwin Rivera def. Ali Al Qaisi by split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)
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