Jota ended up stealing the headlines on a night that saw Liverpool's £37.5 million ($51m) January signing Luis Diaz make his highly anticipated first start for the club.
He will get used to that, one suspects, and privately Liverpool were delighted with how willing he was to get involved in the physical side of things against Cardiff. It may only have been a 33-minute cameo, but it was an encouraging one nonetheless.
The visitors were in front moments later when Tom Pett lost possession just inside the Brentford half, allowing Bidstrup to carry the ball to the edge of the box before teeing up Forss, who slammed a fierce right-footed shot into the far corner.
On hand to twice punish the Stallions from the spot was Vincent Aboubakar, who has had a storming tournament, leading the scoring charts with six goals. No player had netted more than five times at Afcon since 1998 where Egypt’s Hossam Hassan and South Africa’s Benni McCarthy racked up seven strikes, a tally Aboubakar could reach if he scores against Egypt.
He said it was a blatant shove to push the player down. To me the ball was waist height, the player tried to head it and Jamie was behind him.
Transphobia creating barriers to people taking part in football is an issue acknowledged by Jason Webber, equality, diversity, inclusion & integrity manager for the Football Association of Wales (FAW), who says they are working on ways to make victims feel they can be more comfortable reporting abuse, whether on the pitch, in the stands or online.
But I believe, in my career I've always told my players that you must continue to fight in the right way till the end and I want to continue to fight because my players can improve more. And if the Hornets can answer their manager's call to turn Vicarage Road into a cauldron for opposing teams - they have won just once at home so far under the Italian - then that may just see them finish the right side of the relegation line come May.
It is just over a week since Antonio Conte said it would be a miracle if his Tottenham team finished in the Premier League's top four and qualified for the Champions League.
Salah wasn't discovered until he was 14 but then he joined the Cairo-based club Arab Contractors – now known as Al Mokawloon. That meant a three-hour trip from his hometown of Nagrig but the switch paid off because it was while playing in the capital that he was spotted by Sascha Empacher, the founder and an agent at the SPOCS football agency.
Nobody who likes to sit deep, like Rafael Benitez or Sean Dyche, manage pressing teams. They don’t press; they apply pressure.
You could potentially even call them favourites at this point. That brings a different kind of pressure. It's something else they've got to now learn to deal with.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned to the Sweden side after a knee injury that kept him out of Euro 2020, but not even the presence of their record goalscorer could not save them from an embarrassing defeat.
When Paul Merson recalls him drinking wine on the train up to Middlesbrough for training, he was still widely expected to be named in the squad for the 1998 World Cup.
Mendy is appearing alongside his co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie of Eccles, Greater Manchester, who is also accused of serious sex offences against young women.
Since moving to LA, the Rams have made numerous win-now moves, sacrificing money and future assets for a chance at glory. They've traded away draft picks and used up every cent of the salary cap to bring in star players whenever the opportunity has arisen.
Much will depend on how their squad is able to shape up over the next six months but while finding the cash for a transfer and wages looks problematic right now, they have found a way around the Ferran situation and a lot can change between now and the summer.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has lost the Arsenal captaincy after the disciplinary breach which saw him omitted from Saturday's 3-0 win over Southampton.
I am very hurt - when you play in the Premier League you have got to turn up against good players and good opposition like this.
Furious Sunderland supporters feel they have been misled after chairman Kyril Louis-Dreyfus revealed the club's former owners still hold a majority share.
Maybe after Christmas there will be a time to speak about possible transfers in the winter. In my experience, it is not the time for sustainable transfers.
When Ralph Hasenhuttl does something similar at Southampton, it works (some of the time) because he sits his team deeper for long periods, allowing short distances between the bodies, and only engaging the hard press on specific triggers.
Thomas Tuchel has found it hard to stop Villa in their three meetings since he took charge, winning just one of the three games, including suffering a defeat on the last day of last season.
Everybody expected the Arsenal players to give the ball back to us. We put the ball out because there was an injury to our player.
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There were already reports earlier in the week regarding whether Erik ten Hag was going to be offered a contract and I suspect what we'll see after that performance today is a PR spike this week whereby the next manager might be named and it wouldn't surprise me.
Neville, Keane: 'Bright light' Ronaldo can have role under Ten HagThis is a question you need to ask Erik ten Hag, he said, after Ronaldo rescued United again on Thursday night by scoring the equaliser in their 1-1 with Chelsea.
Having already hit the bar, the woodwork denied Switzerland for a second time when Shaqiri's direct corner struck the base of the England post, and Pickford soon atoned for his momentary lapse with a fine save to deny Ricardo Rodriguez's follow-up effort.
We were probably fortunate to get an extra two points last week and we were probably unfortunate that we probably lost a couple of points this week.
I'm 100 per cent sure to create a football environment, that's where I'm good at and at some point, I'll probably be back [working in football].
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Chelsea 2-0 Lille - Match reportHow the teams lined up | Match statsImpressive Havertz points the way for LukakuChampions League fixtures | Video | Get Sky SportsBoth Morocco forward Ziyech and Croatia midfielder Kovacic hobbled out of the clash with the glum expressions of those harbouring more than just knocks.
The Bees are currently 14th in the Premier League in what is their first top-flight campaign since 1946-47.
Arsenal are in talks with Major League Soccer side New England Revolution over signing USA goalkeeper Matt Turner.
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Southampton are a difficult team to predict and they haven't won for a while either - six games to be exact - but if West Ham don't play well again and this gets scrappy, then I can see Saints nicking it.
Had scarcely any service to work off prior to being replaced and only came vaguely close to scoring when he hit a second-half snap-shot over the bar before the offside flag was belatedly raised.
Rangnick did a similar job well on two different occasions for RB Leipzig and would be a shrewd hire that suggests United are willing to change their ways after years of being criticised for their lack of sporting structure.
Newcastle looking elsewhere after Carlos talks stallMeanwhile, Newcastle are looking elsewhere for defensive reinforcements after becoming increasingly frustrated by Sevilla in their attempts to sign centre-back Diego Carlos.
I think he would have a great time just seeing the environment he can create around him when he is around this place,” Arteta explained. Things take time and I think he has to dictate those timings.
That, of course, is despite heavy investment in the squad. Performances have largely been even worse than their standing suggests.
