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Arsenal are in dire need of improvements in the summer, regardless of whether Arsene Wenger stays or not, and one particularly area of focus is likely to be the left-side of defence.

Nacho Monreal, now the wrong side of 30, has looked shaky for large stages of the season and seems to be the weak link in the Gunners defence- as the left-side has regularly been exploited this season.

As such, a new long-term left-back should be pursued by Arsenal and Europe 1 Sports has revealed the Gunners are keeping tabs on Paris Saint-Germain left-back Layvin Kurzawa. The 24-year-old may cost a pretty figure but the stats show he’d be a worthwhile recruit.

Making 24 Ligue 1 appearances this season, Kurzawa has created 12 opportunities from his left-back position and boasts an 89% passing accuracy- which is higher than Monreal’s passing accuracy of 84% and more than the nine openings the Spaniard has provided for his team-mates.

Defensively, Kurzawa has committed 12 fouls, made 11 tackles and 29 interceptions, whilst making two defensive errors- none of which have led to a goal. In comparison, Monreal has committed 17 fouls and has also made two defensive errors.

However, the Spaniard does boast more tackles (34) and interceptions (64) but Kurzawa’s numbers could definitely be improved in the Premier League.

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The race for promotion is entering its final stretch and the competitions are intensifying by the weekend. Fixtures this week look to provide a lot of excitement and hopefully goals as well, especially for all you pizza fans out there.

If you’re not familiar with the contest, we’ll give you a rundown. If you can correctly back a team to score two or more goals this weekend, Papa Johns will give you a pizza of your choice for 50% off. All you have to do is sign up, pick your team and wait for goals.

Not every team in the Championship will find the net twice, so we’ll give you some choices on who we think will earn you some discounted pizza from Papa Johns.

Burnley

A popular choice, look for them to continue to build on their lead in the table by getting at least two against Wolves, who have conceded two or more goals in seven matches on the road this year so far. Burnley should pass the two goal mark at home as they’ve been able to in ten Championship matches this season so far.

Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town take on a weak Rotherham side who are in relegation territory. Rotherham have been poor in defence and have allowed two or more goals on 20 separate occasions in Championship matches this year, 11 of those matches were played on the road. Ispwich Town are poised for a flurry of goals this weekend.

Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday still have much to play for as they are not out of the promotion race just yet. In nine of their home matches this year they’ve been able to find the net at least twice, and face a relegation zoned Charlton who can’t keep their away opponents from scoring, conceding two or more on the road on ten different occasions this campaign.

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Mikel Arteta's star boy has come in for some mild criticism of late but he responded in fine fashion on Wednesday evening

Bukayo Saka is back, baby! After a quiet spell by his own impeccable standards – he failed to score or assist in each of Arsenal's last three games – the winger led the Gunners to a comfortable 2-0 Champions League victory over a terrible Sevilla side on Wednesday night.

The Spanish strugglers were physical from the outset, bombarding their opposing forwards with a string of niggly fouls, but that did not prevent Jorginho carving them open in the first half. The midfielder's sumptuous pass found the marauding Saka, who played it back into the path of Leandro Trossard to tap home.

The 22-year-old then went into business for himself just after the hour, sending Adria Pedrosa for a hot dog in the box before rolling the ball into the far corner. After that, the result was never in doubt, with the bad news of the evening coming when Saka limped off just before the end after landing awkwardly. Thankfully for Arteta, it did not look too bad.

Such was the Gunners' dominance, Sevilla did not even muster a shot on goal until second-half stoppage time. Thanks to PSV beating Lens, the Gunners' progression to the knockout stages is not quite confirmed – but it would take a series of unmitigated disasters for them to slip up from here.

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David Raya (6/10):

Managed to avoid any further controversy, though that had a lot to do with Sevilla failing to muster a shot on goal.

Ben White (7/10):

Very easy night defensively. Bent one effort over the bar in the opening period.

William Saliba (8/10):

So solid. Made one outstanding tackle in the first half that earned him a stadium-wide rendition of his tequila-inspired terrace chant.

Gabriel (7/10):

Not as impressive as his centre-back partner in his defending and distribution, but still eminently comfortable.

Takehiro Tomiyasu (6/10):

Played the inverted full-back role pretty effectively before being hooked at the break.

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Kai Havertz (5/10):

Missed a sitter inside the first minute which set the tone for a pretty terrible first half. Improved after the break somewhat, but performance will have done little to silence his critics.

Jorginho (7/10):

His line-splitting through ball helped create Trossard's opener. Generally very tidy performance.

Declan Rice (6/10):

Asked to play in a more-advanced position again in the absence of Martin Odegaard. He did okay, though lacked guile – so don't expect the role change to be permanent.

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Bukayo Saka (8/10):

Sevilla tried to kick him out of the game but he responded with a pinpoint assist and a goal. Limped off at the end, but he should be okay.

Leandro Trossard (7/10):

Took his chance well and helped knit things together in the final third. Likely ahead of Eddie Nketiah in the pecking order now.

Gabriel Martinelli (8/10):

Sevilla couldn't live with him in the first half. Got his reward after the break when he assisted Saka's goal.

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Oleksandr Zinchenko (7/10):

Did a bit more than Tomiyasu on the ball and nearly scored a fine volley.

Reiss Nelson (6/10):

A lively cameo.

Fabio Vieira (6/10):

Only got 10 minutes, which was a bit odd considering Havertz wasn't exactly impressing.

Jakub Kiwior (N/A):

Helped see out the game.

Mohamed Elneny (N/A):

Nice for him to get some rare minutes.

Mikel Arteta (7/10):

Sevilla came to disrupt and frustrate, and opting to continue with Jorginho proved to be an inspired choice as the Italian unlocked the stubborn away defence. From there, it was plain sailing. Arteta perhaps could've saved some legs by making earlier subs, but the bench was rather weak due to injury.

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O Palmeiras perdeu por 1 a 0 para o Corinthians, mas, ainda assim, um dos titulares em Itaquera recebeu intensos elogios. Patrick de Paula “dominou o meio-campo no segundo tempo”, nas palavras do técnico Vanderlei Luxemburgo. E o volante de 20 anos de idade mira o título paulista no clube.

– Nosso objetivo era a vitória, jogar nesse clube sempre vem com grandes objetivos. Infelizmente, não conseguimos o resultado que queríamos, mas atingimos um dos objetivos, que era a classificação. Queremos muito dar esse título para nossa torcida e dar alegrias para eles neste ano, que tem sido tão pesado para todos. Sempre estarei aqui para ajudar e somar nesse clube maravilhoso – afirmou o meio-campista.

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De acordo comdados do Sofascore, Patrick de Paula teve 86,2% de aproveitamento nos passes – de 74, acertou 50. O volante ainda teve sucesso em oito das suas 13 tentativas de desarmes e conseguiu aplicar dois dribles nos três que tentou ao longo do clássico.

Luxemburgo planeja fazer duas ou três mudanças na escalação para enfrentar o Água Santa, no domingo, no Allianz Parque. Mas é praticamente certo que Patrick de Paula voltará a ser titular, diante dos elogios que recebeu e da vontade do técnico de dar ritmo de jogo ao time depois de mais de quatro meses sem partidas oficiais, por conta da pandemia do coronavírus.

O Palmeiras volta a treinar às 15h30 desta sexta-feira. O time está classificado para enfrentar o Santo André nas quartas de final do Paulista. Porém, o time está em segundo lugar e, para ser líder, no domingo, às 16h, pela última rodada da primeira fase, recebe o Água Santa, no Allianz Parque, precisando vencer e torcendo para o Santo André tropeçar contra o Ituano, no Canindé.

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A goleada por 4 a 0 sobre o Oeste, no último sábado, foi um jeito de coroar a boa fase do São Paulo, que não estava sendo premiada nas últimas partidas por certos fatores como, por exemplo, falta de pontaria e arbitragem. Além disso estava ocultando força internas que parecem cada vez mais consolidadas: a união e amizade do grupo, que têm sido refletidas dentro de campo.

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Após a vitória pela sétima rodada do Paulistão, alguns jogadores se manifestaram em relação ao assunto, inclusive mostrando a torcida que todos estavam para que os homens de frente, mais especificamente Alexandre Pato, desencantassem e colocassem as bolas na rede. O pensamento positivo e o trabalho do grupo deram certo, 4 a 0 e um alívio para todos.

– Fico feliz (pela bola entrar), a gente é uma equipe e torce pelo sucesso de todos. Fico mais feliz ainda por terem sido os caras da frente. O Pato fez dois gols e deu uma assistência, o Daniel também fez dois. Se pudesse o Antony e o Pablo fazer gol também…. O bom é que tira essa pressão. A gente estava criando bastante e faltava concluir em gol. Isso dá mais confiança para a sequência do trabalho – declarou Bruno Alves após o jogo em Barueri.

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Reinaldo, um dos líderes do elenco e com muito tempo de casa, foi o outro a comemorar o sucesso dos companheiros ,e falar do bom clima e da união do grupo desde o seu retorno, em 2018. Além disso, fez questão de demonstrar um carinho especial por um dos personagens da goleada: o “Patinho”.

-Desde que eu cheguei aqui, em 2018, o ambiente é saudável, um gosta do outro, e a gente vem mostrando isso dentro de campo também, um ajudando o outro, um contagiando o outro. A gente conseguiu o resultado, essa vitória que vai ser muito importante para a sequência do campeonato, e o Patinho merece, é um cara que vem trabalhando muito forte, vem se dedicando. A gente sabe que a marcação começa lá na frente, e ele está marcando bem, está correndo, está nos ajudando, ele merece, estava merecendo fazia tempo – disse o lateral.

Há algum tempo o elenco “abraçou” Alexandre Pato e sua motivação para fazer com que essa passagem renda frutos ao São Paulo. Não foram poucas as vezes em que um atleta elogiou o empenho do atacante nos treinos, além da vontade de vencer demonstrada. Na partida do último sábado, lhe foi concedida a permissão para cobrar o pênalti que ele mesmo sofreu. O camisa 7 sabe desse “abraço” e também dá o mérito da união ao trabalho de Fernando Diniz.

-Todo mundo sabe que se você coloca essa vontade de ganhar dentro de você, o grupo abraça, acho que cada um está fazendo, eu fiz, o Daniel fez o gol, na hora em que o Reinaldo deu a assistência para o Daniel todo mundo foi comemorar. Então essa união do grupo vai poder nos dar muitas alegrias, mas isso se deve muito ao treinador, ele tem muito mérito nisso e a gente tem que escutar cada vez mais ele, que ele tenha uma luz para nos ajudar e tenho certeza que nós jogadores compramos a ideia dele e vamos fazer por merecer até o final do ano – disse Pato na zona mista após vencer o Oeste.

Em sua entrevista coletiva, Fernando Diniz falou sobre seu jeito de trabalhar com os atletas e a preocupação com o bem estar deles além do gramado. Para ele, por isso há essa empatia entre técnico e jogadores, o que permite que todos estejam na mesma sintonia e apresentem resultados dentro de campo.

– Amaneira de trabalhar é gostar dos jogadores, ter preocupação com eles. É meu pilar central de trabalho. Eles terminam a carreira aos 35 anos e a maioria ainda termina mal. Eu trabalho com isso o tempo todo e o jogador vê que é algo verdadeiro meu. O caminho se abre para prender a atenção deles, o futebol é coletivo e depende de todos. Jogamos nossas vidas a cada jogo e o mais legal é quando essa união atinge resultado e alegra o torcedor. A simbiose entre torcida e elenco é o mais importante, e o tipo de futebol que praticamos ajuda – explicou o comandante após a goleada sobre o Oeste.

A torcida são-paulino fica na expectativa para que esses resultados continuem sendo colhidos nos jogos seguintes do time. O próximo será no domingo, diante da Ponte Preta, às 16h, no Morumbi, pela oitava rodada do Paulistão-2020. No momento, o Tricolor ocupa a liderança do Grupo C da competição.

Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers scored half-centuries once again as Royal Challengers Bangalore defended 185 against Rising Pune Supergiants for a 13-run win

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Prior to this match, 14 of 15 games in IPL 2016 had been won by the team chasing. Royal Challengers Bangalore bucked the trend again by defending 185 against Rising Pune Supergiants and securing a 13-run victory. They had earlier defended 227 against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.Virat Kohli played an un-Virat Kohli innings of 80 and struggled for timing, particularly in the middle overs. AB de Villiers, though, was his usual self, swatting and even reverse-swatting his way to 83 off 46. The pair produced their third 100-plus stand in four matches, adding 155 runs to take the side to 185, a total that Supergiants captain MS Dhoni described as “par-plus”. Thisara Perera blitzed 34 off 13 to give Royal Challengers a late scare, after claiming three wickets with the ball, but Shane Watson dismissed the Sri Lanka allrounder and R Ashwin in the space of three balls to snuff out the chase.Supergiants lost Faf du Plessis in the second over when he stepped out and chipped a catch to mid-off. A ball later, they suffered a bigger jolt. Kevin Pietersen set off for a quick single and seemed to have hurt his calf while turning back. Moments later, he limped off the field. In the next over, Steven Smith slipped near the middle of the pitch and was run out for 4. Ajinkya Rahane went on to make 60 off 46 balls, but his knock was offset by Dhoni’s patchy 41 off 38 balls. This meant that Supergiants limped through a large part of their chase before Perera gave it a leg-up.When Perera came out to bat at 109 for 3, the asking rate was close to 15 an over. He survived a close lbw shout off his first ball and then mowed South African chinaman bowler Tabraiz Shamsi over midwicket for a six. He hit full tilt when he bashed four successive boundaries off Harshal Patel in the 18th over. Perera’s blows reduced the equation from 50 off 18 balls to 25 off 12, but Watson and Kane Richardson combined to seal the deal for their side.Royal Challengers’ batting was once again led by Kohli and de Villiers, after KL Rahul skied a catch to third man in the fourth over. De Villiers marked his arrival with a crunching cut off left-arm spinner Ankit Sharma that pierced the gap between cover and cover point. Kohli, too, began positively, thanks to a steady supply of leg-stump balls from Ishant Sharma. Rajat Bhatia’s assortment of cutters and Ankit’s darters, however, squeezed Royal Challengers. R Ashwin was also economical, though he did not complete his quota again. He could have dismissed Kohli on 50 had Ankit hung on to a catch at mid-off.De Villiers tucked into M Ashwin, hitting the rookie legspinner for two sixes in his first over. He followed it with swept and reverse-swept fours in the bowler’s second over. The South Africa batsman continued to showcase his gallery of shots even as Kohli was tied down. Kohli’s frustration was evident when he whacked himself on the pad with the bat after mistiming a slower ball from Bhatia to deep midwicket and then jammed his bat onto the helmet when he holed out in the last over of the innings. A ball later, De Villiers was undone by Perera’s legcutter. Kohli had played out 17 of Royal Challengers’ 28 dots, which incidentally was the joint-third least in an IPL innings.

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This was more like it from Yorkshire, who had looked out of sorts as they escaped with a draw in Somerset a couple of weeks ago. They bowled superbly, with control and discipline, as the Division One leaders, Middlesex, were restricted to only one batting point after James Franklin, on winning the toss, had been content to invite Yorkshire to field.Jack Brooks, wicketless in Taunton, advertised the restorative benefits of a 10-day break by taking 5 for 44. Brooks is in his third season at Headingley after his move from Northamptonshire but he still celebrates every wicket as if it is his first, wheeling away to his left, fists pumping, crossing at least half a dozen neighbouring strips before coming to a halt.He came up with some terrific deliveries, dismissing Joe Burns, the Australian opener, with the ninth ball of his opening five-over new ball spell at the Football Stand End before returning for the final half hour of the morning at the Kirkstall Lane End, removing Sam Robson with his fifth ball, one that nipped back and beat the erstwhile England opener’s defence to clip the top of middle and off stumps.Robson was probably a key wicket, given that he was striking the ball nicely and taking his scoring chances well, better certainly than the more cautious Nick Compton, and had he survived until lunch the day might have unfolded differently. As it was, the fillip of his dismissal put a spring in Yorkshire’s step as they emerged for the afternoon session, by the end of which Middlesex were all out for 212.Yet as Middlesex reduced Yorkshire to 52 for 4 in reply, before Jonny Bairstow and Jack Leaning laid the foundations of a recovery, the value of Compton’s three-and-a-half hour 70 was emphasised. The 31-year-old, batting at No. 3, relishes the responsibility of holding his team together in difficult situations and this was a pitch on which there was always likely to be incident.During the morning session, with Brooks at the top of his game and Steve Patterson bowling his consistently testing line from the other end, Compton went 40 minutes without scoring a run, with 25 dot balls between his seventh and eighth scoring shots. “It doesn’t bother me at all to do that,” he said. “As long as I’m still in, I’ve got a chance. You want to be scoring but I’m happy to be patient. If you go searching for it on a wicket like that you’re going to give yourself a bit of trouble.”Where he feels less patient is in relation to his England career, which was so abruptly nipped in the bud on the eve of the last Ashes series and which has yet to resume. “Patience is one of my qualities as a batsman but as a person it is not my greatest asset,” he said.”I’m desperate to get back in the England side again and I feel I have the ability and the credentials to be a thorn in the side of the Australians in this Ashes if I was picked. But I have had to reset my goals a bit, concentrate on contributing for Middlesex and whatever will be, will be.”Yorkshire had to change their plans at the last minute when Ryan Sidebottom, who was to have made his comeback here after suffering a calf injury in the opening fixture, pulled up in the warm-ups, feeling all was not well. It meant Will Rhodes kept his place. Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance came back from Test duty, neatly filling the places vacated by Adil Rashid and Liam Plunkett’s secondment to the England one-day squad.Yorkshire’s spin gamble paid off. It had been supposed that James Middlebrook, who took nine wickets in the match when he stood in for Rashid earlier in the season, would take that duty again but Yorkshire chanced that Glenn Maxwell, an allrounder but primarily a batsman, could fill in and how well they were rewarded.Introduced at 108 for 4 after 45 overs, Maxwell’s off-breaks claimed two key wickets in the space of three deliveries when Franklin inside-edged to short leg and John Simpson was trapped leg before, his ball keeping a touch low, at which point the Middlesex innings was collapsing at 119 for 6. Ollie Rayner went after him, hitting five of his next eight deliveries to the fence and surviving a dropped catch at short leg, but Maxwell came back with a ball that somehow squeezed through between his legs and bowled him.Compton ultimately fell to Brooks. Required to be bolder as wickets fell around him he gave Brooks his fourth wicket when he drove at one that found the edge and was taken at third slip by Leaning at the second attempt. Patterson, reliably consistent as ever, picked up his second wicket before James Harris, whose last-wicket show of defiance with Tim Murtagh at least meant Middlesex’s effort was not pointless, hooked to long leg to give Brooks his second five-wicket haul of the season.Murtagh was back in the Middlesex side for Steven Finn, called up by England, and took two wickets as Yorkshire’s day ended with something of a backs-to the-wall effort needed. Ballance, who needs some county runs more than most, struggled again, dismissed by Murtagh for 1 and Lees’ run of low scores continued when he edged the same bowler to second slip.Lyth looked in better shape, but the ball after he had hit one delicious drive past mid-off for four he followed a ball from Toby Roland-Jones that left him late and was caught, also at second slip. Andrew Gale’s dismissal left Yorkshire in difficulties and much will depend on Bairstow and Leaning staying out of trouble in the first hour on the second day.

حافظ النجم الإنجليزي جود بيلينجهام على صدارته لجدول ترتيب هدافي الدوري الإسباني لموسم 2023-2024، رغم غيابه عن المشاركة مع فريقه ريال مدريد في الجولة الثالثة عشر لليجا.

ويغيب بيلينجهام للإصابة ولم يتواجد في مباراة ريال مدريد وفالنسيا التي حسمها فريقه بخمسة أهداف مقابل هدف.

أنطوان جريزمان رفع رصيده، حيث سجل هدفًا في فوز أتلتيكو مدريد بثلاثية لهدف أمام فياريال.

وعاد روبرت ليفاندوفسكي للتسجيل ورفع رصيد أهدافه، بعدما قاد برشلونة للفوز على ألافيس بهدفين لهدف. ترتيب هدافي الدوري الإسباني بعد نهاية الجولة الثالثة عشر

جود بيلينجهام، ريال مدريد، 10 أهداف.

أنطوان جريزمان، أتلتيكو مدريد، 8 أهداف.

جيرارد مورينو، فياريال، 8 أهداف.

روبرت ليفاندوفسكي، برشلونة، 7 أهداف.

ألفارو موراتا، أتلتيكو مدريد، 7 أهداف.

أرتيم دوفبيك، جيرونا، 7 أهداف.

أنتي بوديمير، أوساسونا، 7 أهداف.

ميكيل أويارزابال، ريال سوسيداد، 7 أهداف.

بورخا مايورال، خيتافي، 7 أهداف.

هوجو دورو، فالنسيا، 6 أهداف.

ألكسندر سورلوث، فياريال، 6 أهداف.

ويمكن متابعة ترتيب هدافي الدوري الإسباني، موسم 2023/24، محدث بشكل مستمر من هنا.

The Supreme Court has asked the BCCI to make information available on which “administrators”, as defined by their rules, would be affected should the clause permitting board officials to have a commercial interest in the IPL and the CLT20 be struck down

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Dec-2014The Supreme Court has asked the BCCI to make information available on which “administrators”, as defined by their rules, would be affected should the clause permitting board officials to have a commercial interest in the IPL and the CLT20 be struck down.The hearings regarding the IPL 2013 corruption case have moved from the findings of the Mudgal committee to the BCCI’s internal functioning, as well as the constitutional amendments that led to the ownership of a franchise being awarded to India Cements, owned by N Srinivasan, currently the BCCI’s sidelined president. Srinivasan was the board treasurer when the Chennai Super Kings franchise was purchased by India Cements.The BCCI’s counsel CA Sundaram had originally divided the BCCI’s functioning into two parts: one pertaining to first-class and international cricket, and the IPL which “was in a different class of its own” and served a distinct commercial function. The two-man bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Justice TS Thakur and Justice FM Kalifullah asked Sundaram about whether any BCCI administrator, apart from Srinivasan, owned an IPL team. The response was no and the bench went on to say that the format of the IPL did not “depend” on an administrator owning a team and would not “collapse” should the clause 6.2.4 go back to its original form. Sundaram was also asked whether the board could not have found an eighth buyer outside the BCCI if seven other buyers “could be found” for the IPL franchises in 2007.The bench was also direct in its response to the BCCI’s argument of falling under the “legislation and powers” of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, in which all two-party disputes could be internally settled and did not require any external intervention. The external intervention was a reference to the involvement of the litigants’ Cricket Association of Bihar in the IPL corruption case.The bench did not accept this and told the BCCI: “Your rules may be sacrosanct for you but not for us. You should take that off your mind that the court is powerless.”The bench went on to advise BCCI counsel that any attempt to “limit” the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction “doesn’t take you anywhere.” Justice Thakur said the court was exercising its authority in the case “not to promote your or any other person’s cause, it is to promote the purity if the game.” The BCCI was told: “If you want clause 6.2.4 to be saved, please satisfy us.”The board assured the court that “some” of its functions could be defined as public ones. When asked to list those functions, Sundaram said, “Sending out a team, selecting a team, calling it team India, offering players opportunities to play, barring players from discharging these opportunities because of a rule violation.” Going by that definition, the bench said, “millions” of people believed in the assumption that a game they were viewing was fair. The bench said, “If you falter in that, you are answerable to us.” Justice Thakur then asked, “How fair is it to have somebody as an administrator of the BCCI and to have a team?”Earlier in the hearing, Rajeev Dhawan, counsel for IS Bindra whose intervention concluded on Tuesday, said the ongoing case was “not the case of a Masonic lodge or a co-operative society.” He said that the BCCI’s argument of autonomy should “not stand in the way of the public interest” and if it happened the work of the Court-appointed Mudgal Committee would come to naught.There will be hearings on Wednesday morning and Thursday afternoon during which all concerned parties are expected to conclude their arguments. The court will then break for vacation for the next two weeks, leading to the possibility that final orders from the court in the IPL 2013 corruption case are likely to emerge only in the new year.

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Mesmo há cinco jogos sem vencer – desde a parada para a Copa América -, o Palmeiras segue na luta pelo título do Campeonato Brasileiro. Duas situações colaboram para isso. Primeiramente pelo número de pontos conquistados nas nove primeiras rodadas da competição. E também pelo tradicional equilíbrio do Brasileirão. Graças ao tropeço do Santos na última rodada, no clássico com o São Paulo, e à gordura acumulada pelo time ao longo da competição, o Verdão está a apenas três pontos da liderança. Tanto que tem chances de retomar a ponta no próximo sábado, no duelo contra o Grêmio, fora de casa.

Depois do empate com o Bahia em 2 a 2, o atacante Dudu acredita que todas as equipes do torneio passaram pela mesma queda de rendimento. Mas, segundo ele, o momento é de o Palmeiras recuperar o caminho da vitória.

– Perdemos a chance de encostar. Acho que todos os times passam por essa má fase no Campeonato Brasileiro. Nós temos de procurar passar o mais rápido possível por ela. As outras equipes já encostaram também, nós deixamos passar a chance de encostar no Santos, mas continuamos a três pontos agora, ou seja, uma vitória. Nós temos de nos preparar mais para voltar a vencer no Brasileiro.

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Além do camisa 7, o técnico Luiz Felipe Scolari fez um diagnóstico do campeonato e reconheceu rendimento similar ao que havia planejado.

– Temos, no mínimo, oito equipes disputando o título. Diferentemente de outros países. Tivemos uma arrancada boa, depois vieram problemas pós-Copa América. Estamos jogando bem, mas (hoje) tivemos esse problema (expulsão) do Felipe, que prejudicou. Hoje (ontem) é o 14º jogo, se ganhássemos, estaríamos um ponto acima do que planejamos. Como empatamos, estamos um abaixo do que planejamos.

– Vai ser um campeonato disputado até o final. Quem estava em quinto ou sexto vem subindo. Será bem equilibrado até final – completou.

Com os tropeços recentes, o Palmeiras tem 69% de aproveitamento no Brasileirão, com oito vitórias, cinco empates e uma derrota.