Новости за 06.02.2020

Ross County defender Tom Grivosti has confirmed he is out for the season following surgery.The 20-year-old has been sidelined since October after picking up a toe injury against Rangers.He sought further advice in recent weeks and has undergone an operation.Grivosti wrote on Twitter: Gutted to be missing the rest of this season after my op today. Been a tough few months with this injury but Ill be back.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new... Читать дальше...

Watford have been handed a fresh boost in their battle for Premier League survival with the return of Tom Cleverley from injury.The former Manchester United and Everton midfielder, 30, has been sidelined for more than 100 days after limping out of Watfords goalless draw against Bournemouth in October.But Cleverley is in line to make his comeback in the Hornets crunch clash at Brighton on Saturday evening. Danny Welbeck returned from injury in Watfords 3-2 defeat at Everton last weekend.Manager Nigel Pearson... Читать дальше...

Leeds director of football Victor Orta and head of media and communications James Mooney have been handed one-match stadium bans, and also been fined, after accepting charges laid against them by the Football Association.The pair were involved in separate incidents in the Elland Road tunnel at half-time of Leeds 3-2 Sky Bet Championship victory over Millwall on January 28.Leeds had been 2-0 down at half-time before mounting a second-half recovery.A statement from the FA read: Leeds United FCs director of football... Читать дальше...

Sam Allardyce says Premier League leaders Liverpool play "long ball very well indeed".The Reds hold a 22-point advantage over second-placed Manchester City and are on the verge of winning the title for the first time since 1990.City have scored five more goals than the table-toppers, who possess the best defensive record in the division.And Allardyce has pointed out neither Liverpool nor City are afraid to play direct football."Liverpool play long ball very well indeed from right to left, and very... Читать дальше...

Bernd Leno has not ruled out Arsenal winning a trophy before the end of the season.The Gunners are currently 10th in the Premier League table, 10 points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea and just seven above the relegation zone.However, Mikel Arteta's side are still in the FA Cup - they will face Portsmouth in the fifth round - and the Europa League.Arsenal reached the final of Europe's junior competition last term, and will lock horns with Olympiacosin the round of 32 this time around.And despite their mid-table occupancy in the Premier League... Читать дальше...

Livingston manager Gary Holt has urged his team to go out and enjoy their free hit in the William Hill Scottish Cup.Holts side face a tough trip to Inverness in the fifth round with their hosts sitting second in the Ladbrokes Championship.Livi saw a five-game winning run end against Ross County in their first trip to the Highlands this week and Holt wants his players to relish their encounter away from the pressures of the league campaign.Holt said: They are a good side, play good football, have... Читать дальше...

Seven minutes are on the clock and there are 30 clubs to guess.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends too!THEN TRY:Quiz! Can you name the home stadium of every club in the Premier League and Football League? Back in the day, any team could win the old First Division of English football. Nowadays, it's the usual suspects - except for that one year that Jamie Vardy had a party.Despite the old myth, the same clubs have tended to be towards the topthroughout history - and we're not just talking about England... Читать дальше...

Graham Potter believes Brightons comeback draw against West Ham was a demonstration of the character that they will require to secure Premier League survival.Pascal Gross and Glenn Murray struck late as Brighton battled back from 3-1 down to snatch a 3-3 draw last weekend.The Seagulls are without a win this year, but Potter was encouraged by what he saw from his side at the London Stadium ahead of their clash with fellow strugglers Watford.Potter said: It (the West Ham game) was a good point for... Читать дальше...

George Edmundson admits he breathed a sigh of relief after firing his first Rangers goal because it was his mistake that handed the lead to Hibernian at Ibrox.Steven Gerrards team clung on to their title hopes with a 2-1 win over Jack Ross team on Wednesday night but had to fight back from a goal down.And Edmundson admits he has to carry the can for the Hibs opening goal.The former Oldham centre-back gave away a free-kick when he dived in on former Rangers defender Steven Whittaker and looked on... Читать дальше...

Ryan Sessegnon admits he has been battling with himself as he tries to make an impact at Tottenham.The 19-year-old has had to endure a difficult start to his Spurs career following his 25million summer move from Fulham, where he became a teenage sensation known for his left-wing displays.He first had to overcome a serious hamstring injury, then was sparingly used by former boss Mauricio Pochettino before being deployed at left-back by Jose Mourinho.Sessegnon says life under the Portuguese has been... Читать дальше...

Life moves slowly in Burton upon Trent. The headlines in the Burton News last week, when FourFourTwo went to see Kieran O’Hara, were about the passing of a popular newsagent and two trees being cut down in the town centre. Yet the town famous for breweries is home to one of football’s most successful clubs of the last decade.There’s no way Burton, for so long a non-league club, should have risen as high as the Championship but they did, they stayed up for two seasons until 2018 and they’re now comfortable in League One. Читать дальше...

Rio Ferdinand has warned Manchester United not to over-play teenage striker Mason Greenwood.The Reds academy product has appeared in 20 of the club's 25 Premier League games this season, playing for 493 minutes in total.Greenwood has also featured in 12 gamesin the FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League, scoring 10 goals across all competitions.But Ferdinand has told his former club that they should be wary about burning the youngster out.The former United centre-back used the example of Michael Owen... Читать дальше...

Odion Ighalo has hailed new Manchester United team-mate Marcus Rashford as one of the best players in Europe.United pulled off the surprise loan signing of Ighalo from Shanghai Shenhua last week.The Red Devils have landed the Nigeria international until the end of the season, with Ighalo set to provide cover for the injured Rashford.The United academy product is currently sidelined with a back problem and could miss the rest of the season.Ighalo will battle with Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood for a place in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's attack... Читать дальше...

Dele Alli believes Tottenham have been one of the best teams on the planet in recent years.Jose Mourinho's side progressed to the fifth round of the FA Cup with a 3-2 victory over Southampton on Wednesday.Spurs were a little fortunate to triumph over their Premier League rivals, who performed well throughout the contest in north London.But Alli believes his team deserved a bit of luck having fallen short in the pursuit of silverware in the last few seasons."It says a lot about the character we have,"... Читать дальше...

Fifteen minutes are on the clock and there are 91 grounds to get - there are two clubs currently ground-sharing in the Football League.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwo, and challenge some friends while you're at it.THEN TRY:Quiz! Can you name every player to play for both Inter and AC Milan since 1995? 2,520,495 - that's how many people you can fit in every stadium in the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two, all at once. Think of the traffic.Home is where the heart is for all of us. Читать дальше...

BSC Glasgow do not have a ground to call their own but assistant boss Frazer Wright believes Sundays William Hill Scottish Cup clash with Hibernian could help put the club back on the map.The Lowland League side host Jack Ross Ladbrokes Premiership outfit this weekend but will stage the fifth-round tie at Alloas Indodrill Stadium.Ground-sharing with a side based 35 miles from their traditional base in Glasgows west end has hardly been a money-spinner, with crowds seldom reaching three figures.But... Читать дальше...

Celtic manager Neil Lennon claims Odsonne Edouard looks like he is playing street football at times with his mastery of the ball.Edouard took his seasons tally to 24 on Wednesday night with a double in Celtics 4-0 win at Motherwell.The France Under-21 international finished off a counter-attack to put the champions in front and curled home his second free-kick in four days to round off a win that keeps Celtic seven points clear in the Ladbrokes Premiership.He is an outstanding footballer, Lennon said. Читать дальше...

Former West Ham captain Kevin Nolan has returned to the club as a first-team coach.Ex-England coach Paul Nevin has also joined the coaching staff of boss David Moyes, with both agreeing initial deals until the end of the season.Nolan, who spent four years as a Hammers player between 2011 and 2015, started work at his old club on Thursday morning alongside Nevin and fellow coaches Alan Irvine and Xavi Valero.West Ham manager Moyes told whufc.com: We welcome Kevin and Paul to the club and look forward... Читать дальше...

Arsenal striker Vivianne Miedema believes it may take an elite mens player to come out as gay for football to accept homosexuality.While several current top female players are openly gay, there has still yet to be a high-profile equivalent among their male counterparts.Megan Rapinoe, a World Cup winner with the United States who was named Ballon DOr Feminin winner in 2019, is an LGBTQ activist and Miedema the current PFA Womens Player of the Year is in a relationship with Arsenal team-mate Lisa... Читать дальше...

Vivianne Miedema has praised Arsenal for breaking down barriers separating mens and womens football.Ever since the Holland international moved to England in May 2017, players from both senior teams have had equal access to the clubs London Colney training base.Such a move has allowed the womens team now defined by the club under the same first-team umbrella as Mikel Artetas Premier League side to make use of all the facilities previously installed for their male equivalents.Miedema, right, celebrates... Читать дальше...

Today is February 6, the 62nd anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster.How supporters choose to remember or memorialise it is their own business. For many, though, the photograph above is the one to get lost in. It’s the most famous. It shows Manchester United’s 1958 side deep in Tito’s Yugoslavia, pictured together for the very last time.There they are, young, alive and brilliant, with those specks of snow and ice around them on the pitch, harbingers of tomorrow's doom.The day before, the United squad... Читать дальше...

Historic clubs acquired a new prefix last season.Mentions of ‘Frank Lampard’s Derby’ quickly proceeded from witticism to unfunny witticism. The more enduring, potentially more transformative tag is ‘Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds’. Perhaps no manager – not even the title winner Howard Wilkinson or the Champions League semi-finalist David O’Leary – since Don Revie has imposed his identity on Leeds as much as Bielsa.Eighteen months after his Leeds bow, their strengths are his strengths, their weaknesses are his idiosyncratic shortcomings. Читать дальше...

Mateo Kovacic joined Chelseain 2018 on an initial season long loan move when Maurizio Sarri was manager at Stamford Bridge.The Croatian made 32 appearances under the Blues’ former manager as the west London club finished 3rd in the Premier League and won the Europa League.The 25-year-old then made a permanent switch to Chelsea a few days before Lampard was introduced as the club’s new manager, but Kovacic is full of praise for the former England international’s managerial competences so far.FourFourTwo spoke to Kovacic for the March 2020 issue... Читать дальше...

Mané played half a season for Metz in 2012, scoring twice in 22 appearances for the Ligue 2 side but could not prevent his team from being relegated to the French third tier.The Liverpool forward earned a move to Red Bull Salzburg in the summer of 2012 but Bussman reveals that Mané had a strong impact on the French team when he first arrived.In the March 2020 issue of FourFourTwo, out Friday February 7 and available to pre-order now, Bussman says: “Olivier Perrin had told us that a phenomenon was coming to Metz... Читать дальше...

Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho complained of being checkmated by selection problems in his sides 3-2 FA Cup replay win over Southampton.Spurs overcame a lengthy absentee list to book a fifth-round tie at home to Norwich thanks to late goals from Lucas Moura and Son Heung-min.Mourinho lost five players to injury, had a half-fit Dele Alli, was unable to pick Steven Bergwijn and thought his side were going out after Southampton goals by Shane Long and Danny Ings had overturned an early Jack Stephens... Читать дальше...