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Fabrice Muamba remains in a critical condition in intensive care after suffering a cardiac arrest during Bolton's FA Cup sixth-round tie against Tottenham on Saturday. Don't Miss Fabrice cheap soccer Jerseys Muamba's extraordinary journeyHow Tottenham stood silent for MuambaJuve dedicate Fiorentina win to MuambaMuamba 'critically ill' in intensive careWorld of sport reacts to Muamba collapseWorld of sport reacts to Muamba collapseThe club also confirmed the 23-year-old's heart had started working at the London Chest Hospital following prolonged resuscitation after he collapsed in the 41st minute at White Hart Lane.A statement issued jointly by Bolton and the London Chest Hospital read: "Fabrice Muamba remains in a critical condition in intensive care in the Heart Attack Centre at The London Chest Hospital."Fabrice was admitted to the hospital yesterday evening after collapsing at White Hart Lane, where he sustained a cardiac arrest during the FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham Hotspur."Fabrice received prolonged resuscitation at the Cassano jersey ground and on route to The London Chest Hospital, where his heart eventually started working. "As is normal medical practice, Fabrice remains anaesthetised in intensive care and will be for at least 24 hours. "His condition continues to be closely monitored by the cardiac specialists at the hospital. No further updates are planned at this time."Bolton manager Owen Coyle, who accompanied the midfielder to hospital alongside striker david villa jersey Kevin Davies and club chairman Phil Gartside, thanked the wave of support for Muamba."Fabrice's family have asked me to pass on their thanks for the many, many kind messages of support from not only Bolton fans but also fans from clubs across the country and abroad," he said."All our thoughts and prayers are for Fabrice and his family. The family would also like to thank the media for respecting their privacy at this time."Earlier on Sunday morning, Coyle had given an di Maria jersey update on Muamba's condition."Fabrice is critically ill. The next 24 hours are going to be absolutely crucial," he said."We've obviously been inundated with people wishing him well and we hope that if everybody can pray strongly tonight that Fabrice is able to recover."It's very serious. There's not getting away from that Marcelo jersey. He's critically ill and God willing he makes it through." |
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PROBABLE LINEUPS BAYERN MUNICH NeuerLahm, Boateng, Badstuber, AlabaLuiz Gustavo, KroosRobben, Muller, RiberyGomez OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE MandandaAzpilicueta, Fanni, N'Koulou, Morel Cheyrou, M'Bia, AmalfitanoValbuena, Remy, A. AyewBayern Munich will have to do without vice-captain Bastian Schweinsteiger, who is serving a one-game suspension after picking up a yellow card in the first leg. Daniel Van S.S. Lazio Soccer Jersey Buyten is also sidelined after picking an injury against Borussia Monchengladbach in January.Toni Kroos, Jerome Boateng, Luiz Gustavo and Thomas Muller will incur a suspension if they are booked on Tuesday.For Olympique de Marseille, Steve Mandanda is set to return to the first team after serving his one-match ban for the first leg, but Souleymane Diawara will not be able to recover in time for the game against Bayern Munich.Alou Diarra is suspended for the second leg, while Andre Ayew will Queens Park Rangers FC Soccer Jersey have to once again play through the pain barrier as he is postponing surgery on his shoulder until the end of the season.The Ghanaian will have to be careful not to pick a booking on Tuesday, together with Stephane M'Bia, Jeremy Morel and Morgan Amalfitano, as it will result in a ban for Olympique de Marseille's next game in the Champions League. DID Chelsea FC Long Sleeve Soccer Jersey YOU KNOW?Bayern Munich have won their last nine home games in Liverpool FC Third Soccer Jersey all competitions, scoring 32 and conceding four goals.The Bavarians have committed 140 fouls in this season's edition of the Champions League; the most of any other team in the quarter-finals.Mario Gomez has scored 38 goals in his last 41 games Palmeiras FC Soccer Jersey for club and country.Olympique de Marseille won in Germany this season, beating Borussia Dortmund 3-2.Les Phoceens have lost three out of four European ties, in which they have suffered defeat in the first leg.Didier Deschamps was part of the Juventus team that lost the 1998 Champions League final to Jupp Heynckes' Real Madrid. |
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Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill has admitted that he could not have planned a better start to his reign as manager at the Stadium of Light.The 60-year-old has sparked a revival on Wearside since his appointment back in December, lifting the Mackems from the heart of a relegation battle into ninth place in the Premier League table. Don't Miss Mignolet praises O'Neill impactPreview: Blackburn Rovers - SunderlandMatch Report: Everton 1-1 SunderlandO'Neill suggests Toon used dirty tricksO'Neill: Gordon can put injury woes behind him'O'Neill didn't force me out of Villa' - GardnerThe Black Cats also face an FA Cup replay at home to Everton which could see them seal a semi-final trip to Wembley against Liverpool.Under his stewardship, Sunderland have in Palermo FC Home Team Soccer Jersey fact lost just four of 19 matches, and O'Neill believes that things could hardly have gone better.Asked if he could have envisaged the current situation when taking the job, he told reporters: "No, I could not. I wouldn't have envisaged us being even in the semi-final draw, for what it's worth."We still obviously haven't passed the quarter-final stage, but to be actually in a Corinthians Third Away Team Soccer Jersey semi-final draw and at least to know who you might play if there was a possibility of getting through."But more importantly than that, the number of points we have been able to accumulate, I wouldn't have envisaged that at all."Sunderland are 22/1 with Bet365 to defeat struggling Blackburn 3-1 on Tuesday night.O'Neill took over from Steve Bruce with the Black Cats having collected a Manchester United FC Home Team Long Sleeve Soccer Jersey mere 11 points from their first 14 league games.They will take on Blackburn at Ewood Park on Tuesday evening having added a further 26 from their subsequent 14 fixtures. As such, they are a single win away from the 40-point mark often quoted as a safety target and O'Neill believes that the milestone will be comfortably enough to see teams through this term."I think now that 40 points this season will definitely secure survival in the Premier Borussia Dortmund 23 KAGAWA Third Away Team Soccer Jersey League," the coach continued."With the sides now in the positions that they are in, I think it would take a lot now for those sides to achieve 40 points."The truth is this year, if you were to give any of the bottom five 40 points, obviously they would take that in a trice." Santos FC Away Team Soccer Jersey |
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Newcastle United playmaker Hatem Ben Arfa has revealed his recent eye-catching form is down to a new-found maturity drilled into him by manager Alan Pardew. Don't Real Madrid FC Away Team Soccer Jersey Miss Ben Arfa targets starring role for NewcastleBen Arfa: 'I can win the Ballon d'Or'Ben Arfa: PSG will struggle to attract starsI have matured at Newcastle - Ben ArfaBen Arfa has been labelled as a trouble maker since his teenage years in France, where he lived out his rebellious streak which involved brushes with the French police. However, since recovering from his broken leg, he has been helped by Pardew to change his attitude.And the manager now describes the 25-year-old's attitude as ‘exemplary’.The former Marseille man has undoubted talent but has not always been trusted to play in games from the start. But the Toon boss now believes he has the correct discipline to warrant a place in the starting line-up. Ben Arfa told The Sunday Mirror: “I am happy that I’ve not got that bad-boy tag any more.“I have gained maturity. We all Celtic FC Third Away Team Soccer Jersey ­improve in life and I feel that I did. We all do bad things in life but then we have to rectify them and get better.“There was big pressure on me in France. But it is part of life and I take ­responsibilities for that status.“It was good to come to England. I feel less of the pressure that there was in France.”Ben Arfa missed almost all of last season because of his horrendous leg break and then missed the majority of pre-season with an ankle injury. Now he has praised Pardew for getting him through that difficult period.He added: “When you’re a ­football player, you want to be on the pitch. But I ­carried on with Palermo FC Home Team Soccer Jersey training, getting fitter and trying to get better.“Alan Pardew told me to keep training hard. He ­insisted that I was here for training all the time – the more you train and the better you train, the more likely I was to be on the pitch.“I have been waiting for an ­opportunity to play games. Now it is here, I want to make the most of it.“It is a 90-minute energy that you need in England. The coach and the staff put that philosophy into us all the time and it helps. But the coach lets me play my game. I feel good here.”The talented midfielder has set his sights on two targets for the rest of the campaign, to fire Newcastle into FC Porto Home Team Soccer Jersey Europe and claim a place in France's squad for Euro 2012 this summer.The Frenchman said: “Of course I have to be playing for ­Newcastle and doing well to make the French team.“If my performances are good enough, I can be part of the French team. I think the next 10 matches are important for ­Newcastle as far as a ­European place goes.“The character and personality of the team will be very important in these 10 games. I really hope we can make it into ­Europe.”Meanwhile Pardew has nothing but praise for the way the player has matured during his time at Newcastle, saying: “Hatem has shed his bad-boy image.“He has been ­exemplary AS Roma Away Team Soccer Jersey here. He is low maintenance, trying to learn, trying to understand the way we play.“It hasn’t been that much of a ­challenge for me. Last year, when he was injured and frustrated, we had a few problems trying to get his mind ­focused.“He is now in a place where he knows it is a very important part of his ­career and he knows he has good people around him.“Maybe being out of France has helped him because he is a ­high-profile player there. When you have the ­talent that he has, ­everyone expects you to produce it all the time and you can’t.“But if he keeps putting the work-rate in, he will produce the ­moment like he did at Arsenal – and hopefully he can do it again against ­Norwich.”How do you stay up to date with football when on the move? With m.goal – your best source for mobile coverage of the beautiful game. |
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Ghana are already in the market for a replacement for sacked Black Stars coach Goran Stevanovic, with ex-Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly the early favourite to take over.Goal is receiving strong signals from sources in the Ghana FA sources that the four-time African champions have approached 1998 World Cup winner to become the boss of the senior national team. The former France international - who was born in Ghana and operates a state-of-the-art sporting facility in the west African country - is reportedly interested in the job but he will only be on the Black Stars bench if the GFA could guarantee to him a long spell in his contract.Ghana FA officials are tight-lipped over possible names that they are considering, but the hunt for a new coach began last week in a bid to avoid crisis as the 2014 World Cup qualifying games approaches. Stevanovic was officially given his marching orders on Monday after an unsatisfactory performance with the national team at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. His side finished fourth, contrary to his promise that they would return with the title. We are looking for his replacement and we don't have time, a GFA source revealed. Desailly was expected to take up the offer when Stevanovic's predecessor Milovan Rajevac resigned, but he opted out of the race due to procedural issues with the FA.Despite having no coachng experience, he has twice turned down an opportunity to coach the national team when it was offered to him by the FA in the past. Ghana are 80/1 with William Hill to win the 2014 World Cup |
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Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola does not believe that his side have any chance of retaining their La Liga title, insisting that catching Real Madrid is "impossible". Don't Miss Barca's Villa receives Soccer Jerseys 1,000 paper cranesHierro: Barca-Madrid could decide La LigaPreview: Barcelona - GranadaAbidal trains for Barcelona as Afellay returnsThe Blaugrana have managed to close to within eight points of league leaders Real Madrid after a weekend in which the Catalans cruised to a 2-0 win at Sevilla before Los Blancos conceded a last-gasp equaliser to Santi Cazorla in a 1-1 draw with Malaga at the Santiago Bernabeu.There are those that believe that the title race is now very much back on, particularly those affiliated with the Camp Nou club, but Guardiola is adamant that Barca are already out of the running."It is difficult to see them losing more games," the former Spain international told reporters at a press conference on Monday evening. "I still don't think we will win the league. Mathematically it is Uruguay soccer jersey possible but I do not think we will make it."If I did a press conference every month I would change my opinion. But not now. I said what I said three days ago. "It's Balottelli soccer jersey impossible. It has not changed. Mathematically possible but will cost and will not make it."Still, Guardiola is desperate to see his side maintain their winning run against Granada on Tuesday night.The former Blaugrana B team coach is calling for a 90-minute performance at Camp Nou after seeing his troops ease off a tad after moving England soccer uniforms two goals up inside 30 minutes at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on Saturday night."The reality is that we have to compete well tomorrow [Tuesday]," Guardiola declared. "We have to play like we did in the first half hour against Sevilla."Guardiola has led Barca to 13 titles since succeeding Frank Rijkaard as coach in the summer of 2008.Between November and February, Goal published 10 exclusive extracts from Graham Hunter's highly anticipated new book, 'Barca: The Making of the Soldado soccer jersey Greatest Team in the World'. Click here to read all 10 extracts. Don't miss it! |
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Despite an impressive second-half comeback from Granada, Barcelona emerged 5-3 victors in the two side's La Liga clash at Camp Nou, thanks to a well-taken hat-trick from the record-breaking Lionel Messi, and further goals from Xavi and Cristian Tello. Xavi gave Barcelona the lead after just four minutes following good build-up play from Isaac Cuenca and Messi. Cuenca did well to evade Mario Gomez soccer jersey his marker on the left before lifting a cross to the back post that Messi carefully nodded back into Xavi's path, and he made no mistake in finding the back of the net with his strike from eight yards. Cuenca was again the provider as Barcelona increased their lead fifteen minutes later, the attacker jynxing his way past Guilherme Siqueira on the left once more before sending an inviting cross into the area. Granada's Borja Gomez looked to have nodded the ball away to safety, but Messi had other ideas, immediately sending a sublime side-footed volley back across goal and in off the post. Barca ended the opening 45 minutes lahm soccer jersey comfortably on top in this game, with Granada rarely venturing out of their own half. They started the second half just how they ended the first, in complete control, and Messi should have increased their lead on 52 minutes after more fantastic wing play from Cuenca, but the Argentine could only scuff his shot wide in a crowded penalty area.Granada pulled a goal back against the run of play to make it 2-1 on 55 minutes courtesy of their captain Diego Mainz. The Granada skipper did well to rise highest inside the Barcelona penalty area to head home Martins' whipped free-kick from the left-hand side. The away side then remarkably levelled the scores after the referee awarded them a Ireland soccer jersey penalty when Daniel Benitez went down inside the area after tussling with Dani Alves. The left-back Siqueira stepped up and confidently dispatched the penalty into the back of the net, sending Victor Valdes the wrong way in the process. Despite Granada's spirited comeback, normality resumed midway through the second half, with Barcelona Soccer Jerseys retaking the lead through their talismanic Argentine, Lionel Messi. History was made in the 72nd minute as Messi provided a trademark lobbed finish to give Barcelona a 3-2 lead, running through one-on-one against Julio Cesar after a fine ball from Alves had found the attacker in space behind the Granada back four. That goal takes Messi's tally in official competitions to 233, making him Barcelona's leading goalscorer of all time, one ahead of the club legend Cesar Rodriguez, who had previously held the record with 232. Barcelona's substitute Tello added a fourth for the home side after a well-worked move between Xavi and Messi found the youngster unmarked six yards out. Messi still had time to complete his hat-trick late on, running on to a perfectly-weighted Alves through ball before dribbling round Cesar and firing the ball into the back of the net.The home side then had Alves sent off for a second bookable offence, and again Granada were awarded a penalty. Siqueira bagged his second of the game with a nonchalant chip over Victor Valdes.Messi will grab the headlines following his record-breaking goals in this match, but the victory is also important in the title chase, as Barcelona's three points tonight mean they are provisionally just five points behind Real Madrid at the top of La Liga, with the capital side set to play Paraguay soccer jersey Villarreal tomorrow evening. |
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