A 1-0 victory at Middlesbrough on Sunday - secured by Diego Costa’s 10th league goal of the season - was Chelsea’s sixth in succession without conceding a goal. Boro boss Aitor Karanka labelled the Blues as title favourites before the game, owing much to their lack of European commitments. And Conte says a pre-season of hard work is beginning to bear fruit for his ominously in-form side. “I think that we are ready,” Conte told a news conference....
The Italian tasted Premier League title success in his debut campaign at Stamford Bridge, with domestic dominance restored in some style. Conte was, however, to allow senior stars such as Diego Costa and Nemanja Matic to leave on the back of that triumph, with a summer refresh having the opposite impact to that desired by the Blues. The 2017-18 season has been a struggle at times, leading to reports that another change in the dugout could be on the cards....
The Italian coach has overcome a wave of criticism which swelled on the back of successive defeats in Premier League competition against Bournemouth and Watford. He has helped the Blues offer a positive response to that wobble, with a battling display put in during a 1-1 draw with La Liga giants Barcelona in the first leg of a heavyweight Champions League last-16 encounter. Conte hopes displays such as that will allow him to see out a deal due to run until 2019, but he is also aware of history at Stamford Bridge and the fact that talk of a possible exit has now rumbled on throughout the 2017-18 campaign....
Callum Hudson-Odoi, Jonathan Panzo, George McEachran and Marc Guehi were all part of the Three Lions squad that defeated Spain 5-2 in Saturday’s final, with former Blues academy graduate Rhian Brewster also starring. Chelsea 13/8 to beat Roma Conte, who captained Italy as a player and also managed the national side, is predicting big things in the future for England and has promised he will give Chelsea’s young players a chance, if he deems them good enough to warrant a place....
Control: Ultimate Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series X supports a ray tracing graphics mode and a 60 fps performance mode, giving players some options when it comes to playing the game on next-generation platforms. Regardless of which option they pick, though, Control: Ultimate Edition players on PS5 and Xbox Series X should notice a significant improvement in the game’s overall performance when compared to how it ran on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles....
In a Tuesday letter, a bipartisan group of 16 senior lawmakers requested that Biden reconsider his administration’s June decision not to sell four General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle armed combat drones after a number of Pentagon officials raised concerns that high-value radar and surveillance equipment on the drones could potentially end up in Russian hands. Ukrainian military officials, the lawmakers noted, have repeatedly requested the drones, which can carry four Hellfire missiles and are capable of flying long-range missions at high altitude....
Just two days before the Monday announcement by the county medical examiner’s office, Chicago police reported that there were more homicides in Chicago, 797, in 2021 than in any year since 1996. There were 772 killed in 2020, and a much lower total of 498 in the year before, the Chicago Tribune reported. The vast majority of Cook County’s homicides in 2021 were gun-related, with only 85 killings not having a connection to guns....
Almond Cookie’s event began on March 17th and will end on April 7th. Cookie Run: Kingdom players will only have until the end of the event to solve all of the case files and obtain the rewards offered by them. RELATED: All Rumored and Leaked Genshin Impact Characters In order to complete all of the case files, players will need a large variety of cookies from the game’s gacha system....
With how useful Charge cookies are but with thirteen options to choose from, it can be confusing to know which options are best. This guide seeks to help players figure out specifically which Charge cookies are the most reliable in Cookie Run: Kingdom and how these cookies can work depending on different teams and strategies. RELATED: Cookie Run Kingdom: How to Unlock Hall of Ancient Heroes 10 Werewolf Cookie Though Werewolf Cookie is a pretty good intro to Charge cookies in Kingdom, he isn’t one of the best the game offers....
The 10 CONMEBOL teams are spread across two groups of five nations each, with every team playing four matches. The top two teams in each group reach the four-team knockout stage, while the third-placed teams in each group will slot into the fifth-place match. Games began on Friday, July 8 and the final will be played on July 30 in Bucaramanga. The tournament serves as qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the 2023 Pan American Games, and the 2024 Summer Olympics....
Anger is a normal reaction to severe loss. A dying person stands to lose everything and everybody that is important to them. They may feel robbed by their illness. If they believe in a higher power, they may blame their God for causing their illness or not curing it. They might even resent their family and friends for continuing to live their lives while they slowly lose their own. They may feel that the doctor isn’t being straight with them, their nurses don’t respond to their demands quickly enough, and that the world has already started to forget them....
Clinton is plenty popular, and surveys show the country is more contented than at any time in 30 years. But the idea that he’s an Eisenhower without the medals–a coaster–has stung the president, who held the longest press conference of his presidency in mid-December to convince the public that he’s still an activist. It’s a familiar pitch these days. Clinton tries to explain how big 1997 really was. He brags that last summer’s budget deal gave the country a middle-class tax cut, the largest expansion of health care (by insuring children) since Medicare in 1965, free community college for anyone who needs it and, of course, a balanced budget....
And that wasn't the only record Kluber set. See a video of the record-setting whiff here .
While the Indians are still — at least at this point — the best team in the AL Central on paper, it’s difficult to see why trading either Corey Kluber or Trevor Bauer would help their case for contention in 2019. Money talks, winning sells tickets — and so do players. The persistence of the Kluber and Bauer trade rumors is easily summed up as the following: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire....
There will never be another Saturday night like it for the 39-year-old former amateur wrestler who stands on the pinnacle of the UFC. Make that two pinnacles. Cormier added the heavyweight championship to his light heavyweight title when he stopped Stipe Miocic in dramatic fashion during the first round of their superfight at UFC 226. Late in a lively opening round, Cormier (21-1, 1 no-contest) abruptly flattened the UFC’s long-reigning heavyweight kingpin with a right elbow out of a clinch....
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a host of possibilities around how England’s top flight could return are being debated as part of ‘Project Restart’. Purslow believes it will be difficult for clubs towards the bottom of the table to find consensus when relegation could be a “catastrophe” that costs teams around £200million. However, he added there had been no discussion about the prospect of scrapping relegation entirely, which was recently reported....
Cologne tested all their players and backroom staff on Thursday and three unspecified individuals were found to have contracted the virus. The trio – which reportedly consists of two players and a physio – were consequently told to undergo a 14-day quarantine procedure. Cologne will continue with their training programme, with a decision on the potential resumption of the Bundesliga set to be made on May 6. Managing director Horst Heldt said: “The health and private sphere of players and staff have priority above all else....
Coronavirus has decimated the 2020 cricket calendar, with the sport – like most around the world – on hold as countries fight against the spread of COVID-19. The ICC’s Cricket Committee convened via conference call and agreed on suggested changes to the governing body’s regulations to “mitigate the risks posed by the COVID-19 virus, and protect the safety of players and match officials”. The measures will be put before the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee next month for approval....
Hundreds of people in the United Kingdom continue to lose their lives each day from the effects of COVID-19, adding to a death toll that is higher than in any other European country. However, the UK government is keen to get professional sport up and running again, and English football authorities are determined to get through many of the fixtures that remained unplayed after competitions were suspended in March....
