Atletico Madrid winger Yannick Carrasco said it will be strange playing behind closed doors when LaLiga restarts following the COVID-19 crisis.
Suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, LaLiga will get back underway with a derby clash between Sevilla and Real Betis on June 11.
Diego Simeone s Atletico – sixth in the standings and a point adrift of the Champions League places – will travel to Athletic Bilbao on June 14.
It is a bit strange behind closed doors, but we are professions and we will do things in the best way so that the fans can watch a beautiful game on TV, Carrasco, who is back on loan at Atletico from Chinese side Dalian Professional, said.
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Diego Simeone admitted there was no guarantee Joao Felix would be fit to face Sevilla in LaLiga on Sunday as he waited for news from the Atletico Madrid club doctor.
The 21-year-old forward came off injured before half-time during Portugal s 3-1 win against Luxembourg in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday, returning to Atletico with the problem.
According to reports, Joao Felix trained separately from the Atletico squad on Saturday, with head coach Simeone essentially powerless to influence the situation.
For Joao, we are still waiting for him, Simeone said in a news conference.
The doctor is looking for a way to see if he is in a position to help us and we will wait until tonight to decide whether or not he travels to Seville.
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Nice have confirmed the signing of Mathieu Bodmer after the midfielder was released by Paris Saint-Germain.
Bodmer, who spent the second half of last season on loan at Saint-Etienne, moves to the Allianz Riviera after falling down the pecking order at the PSG due to the number of arrivals at the French capital club.
The 30-year-old joined PSG from Lyon in 2010 following tensions with then manager Claude Puel.
However, the acquisitions of central midfielders Thiago Motta, Blaise Matuidi and Marco Verratti pushed Bodmer out of the first team, however he did enjoy success last season, winning the Coupe de la Ligue with Saint-Etienne in April.
Bodmer will now reunite with Puel, who guided Nice to a fourth-place finish last season after taking over from Rene Marsiglia…
AC Milan coach Leonardo on Saturday denied claims in the Italian media that he had left his post at the seven-time European champions.
Mediaset, the company owned by Milan president Silvio Berlusconi, also the Italian Prime Minister, claimed on Friday that Leonardo s contract had been rescinded.
But the Brazilian is adamant that he will see out his contract, which has another year to run.
I don t need to clarify anything, nothing has been rescinded, he said ahead of Sunday s trip to fifth-placed Sampdoria.
Yesterday, when I heard the news, I thought: what do I have to deny? My situation has not changed since July 1, 2009 (when he signed a two-year deal).
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Manchester United have announced they will play five pre-season matches in the United States ahead of the 2017-18 campaign.
Jose Mourinho s side will embark on a busy two-week tour that will see them play in five different cities in the USA, with matches taking place in the east and west.
Matches in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Santa Clara and Washington DC have been confirmed, with opponents yet to be revealed.
A fifth location is still to be announced, but United are expected to play rivals Manchester City as part of the International Champions Cup.
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Antoine Griezmann is to take his first foray into movie stardom by voicing Superman in The Lego Batman Movie.
The Atletico Madrid forward announced via his Facebook page that he will provide the overdubs for the French release of the new film a spin-off of the highly successful The Lego Movie of 2014 which is due out in February.
Griezmann said he was happy to lend his voice to a character voiced by Magic Mike star Channing Tatum in the original release.
The France international could be in familiar company, too, with reports claiming that international team-mate Blaise Matuidi has been lined up to provide the voice of The Flash.
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Frank Lampard is obsessed with succeeding at Chelsea as he tries to make sure the Blues do not go trophyless for the first time in four seasons.
Chelsea face Arsenal in Saturday s FA Cup final at Wembley, with Lampard aiming to win his first medal as a head coach in a competition he won four times as a Blues player.
Given Chelsea trail Bayern Munich 3-0 after the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie, the domestic showpiece against the Gunners represents their only realistic hope of ending Lampard s first campaign in charge with silverware.
Across the three seasons prior to 2019-20, Chelsea won the Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League, though expectations were lowered for this term due to a transfer ban and the departure of Eden Hazard.
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European club competitions of the 2019/20 season resume this week after a five-month break, and Wolverhampton Wanderers are set to welcome Olympiacos to the Molineux stadium on Thursday in the second leg of their Europa League round of 16 tie. The first leg, played on March 12th in Athens, ended in a 1-1 draw with Youssef El Arabi giving the Greek side the lead in the 54th minute only to see it cancelled out by Pedro Neto s equalizer 13 minutes later.
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The Premier League campaign ended in a disappointing fashion for Wolves. They lost 2-0 away to Chelsea in the final round and finished in seventh place, which meant they had to hope for a Chelsea triumph in the final of the FA Cup last week to be able to play in …
(GSM) After more than a week of speculation, La Liga side Villarreal have secured the signing of Spanish midfielder Borja Valero on a season-long loan deal from West Bromwich Albion.
According to Villarreal s official club Web site, the midfielder will be announced as a member of the Yellow Submarine in a news conference on Tuesday.
Valero, 25, played the whole of last season on loan at Mallorca where he scored five league goals in 33 games en route to a fifth-place finish for the islanders.
The player signed with West Brom from Mallorca in 2008 for €7 million, a club-record transfer fee. He played the 2008-09 season without scoring a goal in 31 appearances and was loaned to Mallorca for last season.
According to West Brom s Web site, the loan deal is …
German Bundesliga side Schalke 04 have completed the signing of young left back Sergio Escudero from Real Murcia. The 20 year old has signed a four year contract with the Royal Blues and will wear the No.3 shirt at the Veltins Arena.
The Spanish U-21 international s transfer comes days after Real Madrid legend Raul signed for Schalke.
Escudero began his career with Betis Valladolid and joined Murcia in 2008.
Escudero is Schalke s fourth defensive signing of the summer transfer window after Tim Hoogland ( from Mainz), Kyriakos Papadopoulos ( from Olympiakos) and Atsuto Uchida ( from Kashima Antlers)
Escudero said that he was eager to play for Schalke in the Bundesliga.
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