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Stats highlights from day four of the first Test in Brisbane

Madhusudhan Ramakrishnan12-Nov-2012 Clarke became only the third batsman after Don Bradman and Ricky Ponting to register three 200-plus scores in a calendar year. Clarke had scored 329* and 210 in the Sydney and Adelaide Tests against India earlier in the year. Clarke’s double-century is only the fifth one scored in Brisbane. Four of the five double-centuries in Brisbane have been scored by Australian batsmen. The last one, however, was scored by Greg Chappell in 1981. Among captains who have scored at least 800 runs in a calendar year, Clarke has the second-highest average (111.11). Don Bradman is on top with an average of 113.88 in 1948. Clarke’s aggregate of 1000 runs in seven Tests is by far the highest in 2012. Hashim Amla is second with 791 runs in eight Tests. Clarke’s century is his fourth in Brisbane and takes him joint-second with Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting on the list of batsmen with the most centuries at the Gabba. Greg Chappell is on top with five centuries. Clarke’s average of 109.37 is second only to Chappell’s 111.77 among batsmen who have scored 500-plus runs in Brisbane. Clarke is now joint-sixth on the list of Australian batsmen with the most 150-plus scores in Tests (7). Bradman is on top with 18 150-plus scores followed by Ricky Ponting (15). Clarke’s 218 is his highest score against South Africa surpassing his previous best of 151 in the first Test in Cape Town last year. The 259-run stand between Ed Cowan and Clarke is the fifth-highest partnership for Australia against South Africa and the third-highest since South Africa’s readmission. The partnership is also seventh on the list of highest fourth-wicket stands for Australia and the sixth-highest in Brisbane. Cowan’s century is his first in Tests. His previous best was 74 against India in Perth in January 2012. Cowan’s hundred is also the first by an Australian opening batsman in Brisbane since Simon Katich’s 131 in 2008. Cowan scored 71 of his 136 runs from backfoot shots hitting nine fours in the process. In contrast, Clarke scored 72 of his 218 runs from backfoot shots. For the first time ever in Australia-South Africa Tests, four centuries were scored in the team first innings (1st and 2nd innings of the match). There have been nine other occasions when there have been three centuries scored in the team first innings. The only wicket South Africa managed in the day was that of Cowan, who was run out. The last two occasions when South Africa had gone without a single wicket in a day’s play came against Sri Lanka (2006 at the SSC) and against Australia (1997 in Johannesburg). It is the fourth time overall and the second time this year (after the Sydney Test against India) that Australia have had two 150-plus stands for the fourth and fifth wickets. The partnership run-rate of 5.17 is the second-highest for Australia in Tests against South Africa since 1992. The highest is 5.46 during the 182-run stand between Hayden and Ponting in Sydney in 2006 (150-plus stands only).

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the day from the Twenty20 between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings in Durban

Sriram Veera in Durban24-Sep-2010Catch of the day
It might have cost Bangalore the game. Dale Steyn backpedalled to take a skier from Michael Hussey, but the ball was going further away from him. He increased his pace and continued to backpedal, in the end arching his back and sticking his hands behind his head to take the catch. He fell on his back, his head hit the ground and he wound up with a concussion. He couldn’t bowl and it opened up a Pandora’s Box for Bangalore.Slog(s) of the day
Suresh Raina is usually a good batsman to watch. On occasions tonight, he was an ugly batsman to watch. Aesthetics doesn’t feature in scorecards, though. Time and again tonight, he cleared his front foot and muscled back-of-length deliveries over the midwicket boundary. His front shoulder almost jarred out of its socket. The bat almost flew out of his hands. The ball almost flew out of the stadium.Misjudgement of the day
M Vijay had heaved towards deep midwicket but B Akhil, usually a safe fielder, stuttered right from the start. He took couple of steps and paused for a brief while before he moved forward hesitantly. Then he spilled the catch.Costly mistake of the day
It came from Manish Pandey. He wasn’t standing at the edge of the boundary line and judging by Kumble’s reaction later, he wasn’t supposed to be standing so far inside. Suresh Raina mowed Kumble to deep midwicket and it went over Pandey, who did well to jump and stop it. But if he had stood near the rope to start with, he would have taken the catch comfortably. Needless to say Kumble wasn’t happy; Raina was on 18 then.

The fourth wicket stand produced 24 runs in 15 overs, to which Tendulkar
contributed 9 in 45 balls. It was worse than tentative and diffident, it
was supine and unbecoming.

Sambit Bal05-Jan-2007

Watching Sachin Tendulkar bat today was depressing. The bowling was good – Shaun Pollock was on the mark, Paul Harris was turning it from the
rough. The fielding was sharp. Perhaps Tendulkar had a bad back. Perhaps his
elbow was hurting. But none of this quite explained the crawl that
he subjected himself to.He looked like a man weighed down by his own doubts; a man who didn’t
believe he could take runs off a debutant spin bowler. He ended up making the
pitch look more unplayable than it perhaps was, and plunged his team into
despair. It would perhaps be harsh to put the onus of India’s collapse on
one man, but without doubt, it was during those 15 overs when
Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid convinced themselves run-scoring was beyond
their means that South Africa took a stranglehold on the match.India started the day with the right intent by sending Virender Sehwag to
open. Some might argue that Sehwag, who knows only one way to play
spinners – either I dismiss them out of my sight, or they dismiss me –
would have been more useful in the middle order to counter Harris, but the
motive was positive. It sent a message to opposition: we are here to win.True, India were set back by the loss of two early wickets and the
confusion over whether Tendulkar could come out to bat at No 4, mustn’t
have been easy on the nerves, but Dravid and Ganguly had batted fluently
enough to bring India to a position from where a 300-plus target for South
Africa looked quite achievable. In the context of the match, the 84
they put up came at a fair clip. Ganguly, after a streaky first-ball four,
had batted with composure and panache to score 47 off 89 balls before he
was suckered into a jab outside the off stump by Jaques Kallis.What followed was inexplicable. Tendulkar pottered and scratched, padded
and swiveled, nudged and groped and the Indian innings came to a
standstill. Harris was bowling over the wicket, and landing a lot of balls
on the rough outside the leg stump, but from Tendulkar, there was simply no
intent.And he seemed to have infected Dravid with his approach, because runs dried
up from the other side too. Dravid had scored 36 from 88 balls when
Tendulkar came in. He made only 11 from the next 46 and hit no more fours.
The fourth wicket stand produced 24 runs in 15 overs, to which Tendulkar
contributed 9 in 45 balls. It was worse than tentative and diffident, it
was supine and unbecoming.

An hour later Dinesh Karthik, all of 21 years old and only in his
10th Test, showed what intent and confidence, combined with skill, can
achieve. He swept Harris from the rough, cut him when he shortened his
length, and reverse swept him from outside the leg stump. Kallis was cut and flicked off the pads,
Steyn was cover-driven and suddenly the demons seemed to have vanished
from a wearing pitch. Had the tail-enders stayed with him a bit longer, he
looked likely to stretch the Indian lead beyond 250.In Tendulkar’s case, it was the opposite. He arrived at the crease at a
juncture when the match was on the line, and instead of imposing himself
on the proceedings as you would expect of a player of such skill and stature,
he let the occasion wear him down. Soon the bowlers acquired such a grip
that every run felt like a struggle. Watching it was embarrassing.India might still go on to the win the match. But if they don’t we know
where they let it slip.

The former players criticized the USMNT Gold Cup roster, suggest Pochettino's hands were 'tied'

• Howard says Pochettino should have taken stronger stance
• Donovan suggests there was a viable compromise
• Both place blame on federation leadership

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  WHAT HAPPENED

  This USMNT’s pre-Gold Cup roster was announced last week, with Christian Pulisic and Antonee Robinson among the major stars not on the squad.

  Pulisic requested to take the summer off, with U.S. Soccer saying, “Christian and his team approached the Federation and the coaching staff about the possibility of stepping back this summer, given the amount of matches he has played in the past two years at both the club and international level with very little break."

  Former USMNT stars Tim Howard and Landon Donovan voiced concerns about U.S. Soccer and Mauricio Pochettino's approach to roster selection for the summer tournament.

  “Mauricio Pochettino was forced into a decision, OK?” Donovan said on his Unfiltered Soccer podcast with Howard. “When your best player calls you and says ‘I don’t want to come in this summer’ what are you supposed to do? So, your options are; ‘I don’t care, I don’t care how your feeling, you’re coming in!’ – and now your best player is pissed off at you. And oh, by the way, what happens when your best player gets hurt?

  "Now he’s blaming you and we’re all blaming him or he has to do what he decided to do which is ‘Ok, I’m going to leave you off and risk our team not doing as well, and risk not having you here.’ And he had to do that with multiple players – so multiple players ended up tying his hands and it just makes it difficult for him, it makes it really difficult for him. What is he supposed to do?"

  Howard said the absences mean Pochettino won’t be able to fully evaluate his full squad ahead of the 2026 World Cup. The former Everton and Manchester United star said that there should have been a plan to prioritize the Gold Cup.

  “My hope would be that there was this plan in place that says, 'This is last chance saloon, to get all of my guys together to see what I have.' By the way, you talk about evaluating, when the Gold Cup ends, Mauricio Pochettino will not know – I’m going on record as fact – he will not know what his best team is made of in the most difficult moments. Think about that for a second. So my thing is, there had to have been a plan in place that says ‘We are prioritizing the Gold Cup, we’re going to win the Gold Cup’.

  "You and I, Landon, have been in rooms with managers on the USMNT that have said to us this exact thing, ‘Listen boys, we’re going to play this tournament exactly how we’re going to play next year’s World Cup.’ You and I have heard this, Landon: ‘We’re going to mimic what the World Cup’s going to look like so we have an idea of what that looks like next year.' Mauricio Pochettino does not have that, so I’m saying this needed to be a priority."

  Howard said the U.S. manager should have overruled absentee requests from players other than those who are injured or have Club World Cup commitments.

  “You ask what is he supposed to do because a player has tied his hands? [Pochettino) is bigger than U.S. Soccer – he makes it a priority and if the manager says ‘Look guys, this is how it’s going to be’ they’re not going to throw the toys out of the pram. And if they do, they’re going to miss the World Cup. And they’re not going to do that, so they’re going to fall into line."

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• WHAT LANDON DONOVAN SAID

  Donovan said a compromise could have been reached regarding games and playing time.

  “You could not even come in for the friendlies, and start by not playing your last two club games," he said. "So now you’ve had rest since mid-May all the way through first week of June, we’re going to get you moving, running and all a little bit on your own. You’re not even coming in with the group, and we’ll see you on June 10, four days ahead of the first game.

  “You’re not playing in the first two games, period. If, by some reason, we need you for the third game, which we shouldn’t, we might suit a few of you up, put you on the bench and get you going. Then you’re going to play in the knockout stages… That’s another compromise that could have been made.”

  Howard called out the federation for not talking to European clubs in advance, requesting that they make certain players available.

  “I’m not putting the blame necessarily on Mauricio Pochettino,” Howard said. “What I’m saying is all of these conversations needed to be had with the global sporting directors at these clubs. So I’m putting a ton of this on U.S. Soccer, as there needed to be people on planes and restaurants in Milan, restaurants in London, saying ‘Listen, I understand you have priorities, let me tell you about my priorities. The Gold Cup in 2025 is my priority.’

  “'I need to have my best team, I need to give the manager that I’m paying $6M dollars to – or rather I have an obligation – to get him his best team on the field. Now that may not mean anything to you, but it means the world to me, and that’s more important. So how do we figure this out?’ That’s dialogue, and I don’t necessarily know that that dialogue has been had with sporting directors.”

• THE BIGGER PICTURE

  The criticism from two former USMNT players comes at a key juncture for the USMNT program, with the 2026 World Cup on home soil now just one year away.

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  WHAT’S NEXT?

  Before the Gold Cup, the USMNT will play friendlies against Turkey and Switzerland on June 7 and 10, respectively.

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Após alto investimento (cerca de R$ 5 milhões) e ampla reforma, o Sport finalizou, nesta sexta-feira (17), a revitalização do setor das cadeiras centrais da Ilha do Retiro. O espaço, inclusive, será reinaugurado oficialmente em evento na noite da próxima quarta (22), quando o Leão recebe o Bahia, às 21h30, pela Copa do Nordeste.

A reabertura contará com um espaço lounge e música, com duas bandas, além de serviço de comida e bebida, cujo funcionamento ocorre três horas antes da partida. Inclusive, os primeiros 500 torcedores a acessarem as cadeiras centrais irão ganhar duas cervejas. A entrada no espaço se dará através da compra de ingresso para o setor.

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Paralelamente a isso, também será disponibilizado pelo clube uma estrutura da secretaria social para regularização dos planos de sócios e para os proprietários de cadeiras e camarotes.

– Ficamos muito felizes de poder reinaugurar esse espaço tão tradicional da Ilha, com conforto e modernidade para a nossa torcida. A requalificação das cadeiras centrais, que estava bastante deteriorada, era um dos grandes objetivos da nossa gestão – destacou o presidente Yuri Romão.

– Então, após um árduo esforço de várias vice-presidências, enfim, de todos, poder ofertar novamente ao rubro-negro esse setor é algo que nos deixa, realmente, muito contentes. Aproveito também para convidar o torcedor a marcar presença, prestigiar essa reabertura e torcer pelo Sport, estar junto ao time, ao clube. Nossa torcida é fundamental para os objetivos que temos nesta temporada – acrescentou o presidente.

A área das cadeiras centrais foi amplamente requalificado, com a troca dos cerca de 5.400 assentos para a versão que é utilizada nas principais arenas do Brasil. Além disso, o trânsito no setor foi melhorado, com a planificação do piso, redução do tamanho dos degraus e ampliação do espaço nos corredores.

– Com um empenho muito grande de todos que fazem o clube conseguimos finalizar a reforma desse espaço e aproveitamos agora para convocar o nosso torcedor a se regularizar e estar em dia com o patrimônio do Sport. Foi a maior obra desde a construção das ampliações do nosso estádio, como gosto de dizer, e que teve investimento muito alto. Então constatar o resultado final nos deixa muito orgulhosos – afirmou o vice-presidente de relacionamento social do clube, Fernando Soares.

Stuttgart striker Nick Woltemade wants clarity over his possible Bayern Munich transfer and has given the Bundesliga champions a deadline.

• Woltemade wants a final decision this week
• Stuttgart rejected Bayern’s two offers for 23-year-old
• VfB standing firm on their €65m valuation

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  According to , Woltemade has set a clear deadline for Bayern to make a move. The 23-year-old striker and his representatives are pushing hard for a move to Munich and want clarity over his future by the end of the week. If the Bundesliga giants do not act, Woltemade is prepared to stay at Stuttgart and reassess his options next summer.

  The German champions are interested but have hit a wall in negotiations. Stuttgart rejected their most recent bid of €50 million (£43m/$55m) plus €5m in add-ons. The Swabians have said it would take an "extraordinary" offer to convince them to sell.

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  THE BIGGER PICTURE

  Bayern recently completed a big-money move for Luis Diaz from Liverpool, paying up to €75m (£66m/$88m) for the Colombian winger. While Diaz will reinforce the flanks, Bayern still wants to bolster their central striking options, and Woltemade remains high on their list.

  Woltemade joined Stuttgart from Werder Bremen on a free transfer just last summer. But his value has skyrocketed after a stellar breakout season where he scored 17 goals across all competitions, including a goal in the DFB-Pokal final.

• DID YOU KNOW?

  Stuttgart forward Deniz Undav publicly supported his team-mate. He revealed he reached out to Woltemade personally ahead of preseason and advised him to “block out the noise and stay focused,” as transfer speculation continues to swirl.

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  WHAT NEXT FOR NICK WOLTEMADE?

  With the DFL-Supercup match on August 16 against Bayern looming, Woltemade wants his future sorted before stepping onto the pitch. The ball is now in Bayern Munich’s court. If they fail to meet Stuttgart’s asking price, they risk losing out on potentially one of Germany’s brightest attacking talents. 

أعلنت رابطة الأندية المحترفة المصرية، أفضل هدف في الجولة الأولي من بطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز، للموسم الجديد 2025-2026.

وتنافس على جائزة أفضل هدف في الجولة الأولي من الدوري المصري، هدف محمد شحاتة لاعب الزمالك أمام سيراميكا كليوباترا، وهدف عمر الساعي لاعب المصري أمام الاتحاد السكندري.

وهدف أحمد عاطف مهاجم زد إف سي أمام المقاولون العرب، هدف صابر الشيمى لاعب فريق الجونة أمام كهرباء الإسماعيلية.

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اختارت رابطة الأندية، عبر صفحتها الرسمية على “فيس بوك” هدف محمد شحاتة الأفضل في مباريات الجولة الأولي للدوري المصري.

وانطلقت النسخة 67 من عمر بطولة الدوري المصري، يوم الجمعة، بـ3 مواجهات، حيث تعادل بيراميدز مع وادي دجلة سلبيًا، وفي المباراة الثانية حقق فريق المصري الفوز على الاتحاد السكندري 3-1، وانتصر الزمالك في ختام مباريات الجمعة على سيراميكا كليوباترا 2-0.

وفي مباريات اليوم التالي، السبت، فاز زد على المقاولون العرب 2-0، وحسم التعادل الإيجابي 1-1 مباراة سموحة وطلائع الجيش، والأهلي بطل الموسم الماضي تعثر في بداية المسابقة بتعادل إيجابي 2-2 أمام مودرن سبورت، والإسماعيلي تعادل سلبيًا مع بتروجيت.

ومباريات اليوم الأخير، الأحد، الجونة فاز على الوافد الجديد كهرباء الإسماعيلية 1-0، والتعادل السلبي حسم مواجهتي البنك الأهلي ضد غزل المحلة وفاركو أمام إنبي.

Earlier, Scott Edwards dragged Netherlands out of trouble yet again with a half-century

Madushka Balasuriya28-Oct-20231:38

Pujara: Netherlands are a ‘unit’, Bangladesh are not

Scott Edwards once more dragged his team from the abyss, but it was the bowlers who led the victory charge as the Netherlands held firm in their defence of a middling total of 229 to record an emphatic 87-run win over Bangladesh. The result sees Bangladesh all but eliminated from the semi-final contention, while the Dutch have yet another famous victory to add to their collection – one that, aside from its impact on this tournament, in the grand scheme of cricket as a sport in the Netherlands will be yet another rung on an ever more impressive ladder of growth.The victory was arguably made sweeter by virtue of it coming in Kolkata, where Bangladesh had support as close to home backing as they are likely to get this World Cup, with the short flight in from Dhaka offering many fans easy access.But in the end, it would be a journey ending in frustration – many were seen leaving the stadium early – as a well-drilled Dutch outfit trumped their much more experienced counterparts in nearly all facets of the game.Related

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This was primarily a victory built on the now customary rearguard heroics of captain Edwards – his entire clan in attendance at the stadium to cheer him on – as he stitched together his second fifty of the tournament, an 89-ball 68.What will particularly hurt Bangladesh is that they could have seen the back of him before he even got going – twice dropped on zero – but that in a microcosm was the difference between the two sides. While both teams struggled with the bat, the Dutch persevered to get to a fighting total, and while both sets of bowlers kept things tight to create chances through pressure, it was the Dutch who capitalised on them with ferocity; Bangladesh, on the other hand, were left to rue their missed opportunities.Such fortune though would be for nought without proper backing and, like they had done so impressively against South Africa, the bowlers and fielders once more ensured that their skipper’s efforts did not go in vain.Scott Edwards brought up his second fifty in this World Cup•AFP/Getty ImagesPaul van Meekeren was excellent picking up figures of 4 for 23, including that of Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim; Bas de Leede, fresh off his World Cup record hounding at the hands of Australia, took out the only two Bangladesh batters who threatened the Dutch total – Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Mahmudullah, for 35 and 20, respectively; and then there was the ever reliable Aryan Dutt, who despite picking up just one wicket was wily as ever, starting off the Dutch defence by dismissing Litton Das, reeling of two consecutive maidens inside the first powerplay, and generally affording the batters with rarely a moment’s rest with his guile and variation.In the face of this Dutch exuberance, Bangladesh floundered in their chase, unable to match their opponents’ energy. They lost wickets at regular intervals, unable to string together partnerships of any reasonable length – 38 was their highest – as a middling chase fast became a daunting and, eventually, impossible one.That hardly seemed the case midway through the Dutch innings, though, when having won the toss and elected to bat, they suffered yet another top-order collapse. Only a late surge at the death where they scored 74 in the last ten overs, including 36 in the final three, got them to their eventually winning total.That Bangladesh were able to keep them to 229 even after that was a testament to the work put in by their bowlers. The early damage had been caused by Taskin Ahmed and Shoriful Islam, who picked up openers Vikramjit Singh and Max O’Dowd inside the first three overs to leave the Dutch reeling at 4 for 2.While there was a brief counter courtesy Wesley Barresi, his run-a-ball 41 was the only instance of a Netherlands batter showing any degree of dominance over a disciplined Bangladeshi attack. In fact, Netherlands would have to wait until the penultimate over of the innings to register their first six.Mustafizur Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan and Co had reduced Netherlands to 194 for 8 at one stage•Associated PressBut another pair of wickets once more set Netherlands back as the two set batters, Barresi and Colin Ackermann, fell in quick succession to Mustafizur Rahman and Shakib, respectively. It was at that point the spinners began their slow strangle, as none of Shakib, Mehidy or Mahedi Hasan conceded more than four an over across the middle overs. Indeed, it was only in the final over of the innings that Netherlands showed any sort of aggression against spin, taking Mahedi for 17.And so it was that Edwards was once more tasked to patch his side up, first with de Leede and then Sybrand Engelbrecht. With de Leede, he scrounged 44 off 74, and with Engelbrecht, a slightly quicker 78 off 105.Throughout those stands there was hardly a highlight that could be extracted or stroke played in anger, with the intent simply to knock it around and bat as deep as possible. An understandable endeavour considering Edwards had entered the fray with his side on a perilous 63 for 3, which soon became 63 for 4.But when he departed 30 overs later, he had dragged them to a slightly more respectable 185 for 6, before the late hitting took them to a fighting total.At the time that seemed below par, especially with many expecting the surface to favour the batters. However, with the ball starting to stick in the pitch and take some turn, it was Netherlands who adapted better and showed the wherewithal to come through victorious in the end.

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Se existiu um personagem essencial para a classificação do São Paulo na final da Copa Sul-Americana e a eliminação do Atlético-GO, este nome foi o de Patrick. O Pantera Negra foi responsável pelos dois gols no tempo regular que empataram o placar agregado e permitiram que a decisão fosse para os pênaltis.

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Porém, este não foi o único feito decisivo do atleta no continental. Nas quartas de final, contra o Ceará, foi o responsável pela conversão do pênalti que garantiu a classificação do elenco para a semifinal.

O meia destacou que foi ‘além dos seus limites’. De acordo com suas palavras, compreendeu a responsabilidade de reverter o placar do duelo de ida. No primeiro encontro válido pela decisão, a equipe de Rogério Ceni foi derrotada no estádio Serra Dourada por 3 a 1.

-Acho que essa noite vai ficar na memória de muitos tricolores. Muito tempo que o São Paulo não chegava em uma final internacional. Estamos de volta. Revertemos um placar adverso e tínhamos uma missão, uma responsabilidade muito grande aqui hoje, diante de mais de 50 mil pessoas. A gente tinha que fazer o nosso melhor. Graças a Deus eu fui coroado com dois gols, dei o meu máximo, fui além do meu limite e, graças a Deus, na disputa de pênaltis a gente conseguiu sair vencedores – disse.

Porém, mesmo que tenha sido essencial no tempo regular e decisivo nas quartas de final, nas cobranças de pênaltis desta quinta-feira (8) ficou de fora.

Galoppo, um dos reforços que chegou na última janela, foi o responsável por converter a penalidade que garantiu o São Paulo na final – que será disputada no dia primeiro de outubro, contra o Independiente Del Valle, em Córdoba.

-Eu até brinco com meus amigos que quando eu estou lesionado, quando eu estou suspenso, eu não gosto nem de vir no estádio porque não gosto de ficar de fora. Dá nervoso, eu quero ir embora para casa porque eu fico… a adrenalina sobe. Então, imagina assistir de fora uma disputa de pênaltis? Mas, graças a Deus, deu tudo certo. Fico muito feliz. Agora a gente tem um grande desafio que é ser campeão. A gente vai em busca desse objetivo e, se Deus quiser, eu espero que dê tudo certo – disse sobre não ter batido nenhum pênalti.

E sobre a decisão contra o Del Valle, Patrick destacou reconhecer a dificuldade e falou sobre a necessidade de focar no objetivo de garantir o título.

– Um adversário muito difícil. Com muita humildade, com muito trabalho, a gente vai traçar a melhor estratégia para poder tentar nosso objetivo – opinou.

Eleito como o craque da partida, participou da coletiva de imprensa junto a Rogério Ceni. Ao ser indagado sobre o apoio e reconhecimento dos torcedores, afirmou que ‘ainda falta muito para se tornar ídolo’.

Mesmo que em grande partes dos jogos, os nomes de Calleri e Luciano sejam os mais ovacionados, o atleta não tem ficado para trás. No começo da temporada, chegou a receber diversas críticas – que envolviam muitas vezes até seu porte físico. Ao que tudo indica, contornou com êxito.

-Para me tornar ídolo, preciso fazer grandes feitos. Fico feliz pelo reconhecimento da torcida, mas acho que ainda falta muito. Ficou feliz por esse reconhecimento, quem sabe se eu me tornar campeão, eu possa ficar marcado na história do São Paulo – completou.

Pundit Robbie Savage has criticised comments made by Chris Sutton on social media after Rangers beat Celtic 3-2 over the weekend, describing them as “absolutely pathetic”.

Rangers seal superb win at Celtic

The Gers may only have an extremely slim chance of going all the way in the Scottish Premiership this season, but they earned bragging rights over their rivals on Sunday afternoon.

Hamza Igamane’s superb late strike won it for Rangers to stun the Celtic supporters, with the visitors initially going 2-0 up before being pegged back in the second half.

For Barry Ferguson, it was a great moment, as he continues to impress in interim charge of the club he used to captain during his playing days, but his side still have a 13-point deficit to make up on the Hoops.

Writing on X after the game, former Celtic striker Sutton couldn’t help but have a dig at Rangers, saying: “Superb advert for the Scottish game. Igamane took his goal superbly and deserved of winning any game. Bottom line is the gap at the top is 13 points with 8 games left. I know who I’d rather be. Fair play to Rangers who play well when the pressure and expectation isn’t on them…”

Savage slams Sutton's comments as "pathetic" after Rangers win

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday [via Ibrox News], Savage slammed Sutton’s dig at Rangers after their victory at Parkhead:

“I’ve got to say, Chris, before you talk about anything else, I’ve seen your tweet earlier. Absolutely pathetic. Give Rangers a bit of credit, they’re the form team in Scotland right now.”

In truth, this is something that Rangers fans have simply come to expect from Sutton, given his time as a Celtic player during the 2000s.

The former striker can’t seem to give the Gers any genuine praise without having a dig at them at the same time, but supporters are unlikely to be too perturbed after a win away to the Hoops.

As for Savage’s comments, he makes a genuine point when saying that Ferguson’s side are the “form team” in the country currently, with Sunday’s victory further proof of that.

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Rangers secured their first win over Celtic at Parkhead since 2020 on Sunday.

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Rangers find themselves in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, following last week’s penalty shootout triumph over Fenerbahce, so there is still hope of them going all the way in the competition.

Granted, there have been many times when Celtic have been clearly superior this season – they beat the Gers in the Scottish League Cup final and Rangers were poor too often under Philippe Clement, for example – but their adversaries have found an extra gear in recent weeks, aided by the arrival of Ferguson.

Rangers supporters could be split when it comes to wanting the 47-year-old to get the job on a permanent basis at the end of the campaign, but on this current evidence, he is doing his chances no harm whatsoever.