The UEFA Nations League 2024-25 match between Romania and Kosovo took an unsightly flip when the match was interrupted within the second-half damage time on the Nationwide Enviornment in Romania on Friday.

Whereas the match remained goalless, Kosovo dominated the match, with 17 photographs in comparison with 4 from the hosts. Nonetheless, the disturbance reportedly rose from a number of the residence followers within the stands, who chanted “Serbia!”, directed on the visiting Kosovo facet.

The tensions between Serbia and Kosovo stem from the latter’s unilateral proclamation of independence from the previous in 2008 — one thing that the Serbs don’t recognise. This deadlock has maintained tensions between the 2 events, whereas Serbia claims Kosovo the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

Kosovo has recognition from greater than 100 nations, however not from Romania.

Owing to the friction, the chants at Kosovo gamers and workers incensed the visiting facet, which solely received worse after a heated argument between Denis Alibec (Romania) and Amir Rrahmani (Kosovo) resulting in the 2 holding one another’s collars.

The complete episode ended with Kosovo gamers and workers strolling off the pitch within the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time.

Romania waited for an hour for the gamers, who didn’t return, and in a weird flip of occasions, the referee resumed play with solely the Romanian gamers on the pitch and shortly blew the full-time whistle, deeming the fixture suspended.

Matches between the 2 groups have at all times had an air of disturbance, with the earlier occasion being a conflict at Fadil Vokrri Stadium in Pristina, Kosovo on September 6, 2024. That recreation, too, was interrupted a number of instances for causes which included chants like “Kosovo is Serbia!”

The match had ended 3-0 in favour of Romania whereas the Kosovo Soccer Federation was fined a complete of 61,000 euros (USD 67,502, INR 56.72 lakhs) for violence in that recreation.

Romania, with 4 wins in as many video games, leads its group standings whereas Kosovo is second, with 9 factors off 4 matches. If this recreation is forfeited, Romania is more likely to be declared the winner with a 3-0 win, as is the norm for deserted video games.

The embattled chief of Georgia’s Moscow-backed separatist area of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, was quoted as saying on November 16 that “authentic authorities” management all of Abkhazia besides the parliamentary complicated that opposition protesters wrested management of a day earlier to dam a controversial Russia-related vote.

The opposition has since demanded Bzhania’s and different senior officers’ resignations and new elections.

Bzhania’s press service mentioned he held an pressing assembly together with his cupboard at a faculty in his house village of Tamysh to debate “methods to stabilize the scenario that arose.”

Bzhania had beforehand mentioned he was “prepared” to step down if opposition supporters agreed to go away the parliament compound within the capital, Sukhumi.

There have been fears of escalating violence amid the storming of the parliament, which adopted weeks of tensions, in a area whose independence Moscow has backed since a five-day warfare in opposition to Georgian forces in 2008 over one other breakaway Georgian province, South Ossetia.

WATCH: The chief of the Moscow-backed Abkhazia area mentioned on November 16 that he would step down if protesters depart the parliament compound. A day earlier, demonstrators in opposition to an funding settlement with Moscow stormed the parliament in Sukhumi, the executive middle of the Georgian breakaway territory.

Opposition leaders have demanded not solely the everlasting abandonment of a proposed cope with Russia that opponents say would unfairly open the property market to rich Russians, but in addition Bzhania’s resignation and people of his vice chairman and the breakaway management’s prime minister.

“The scenario can be stabilized. We’ll return every thing to the authorized framework,” Bzhania’s press service quoted him as saying on November 16.

He reportedly added that “your complete nation” — which is overwhelmingly considered Georgian territory internationally — “is managed by the authentic authorities, aside from the complicated of buildings they’ve occupied.”

Tamysh is about 40 kilometers from the area’s capital.

The opposition known as for a contemporary rally on November 16 after protesters the day prior to this stormed the parliament grounds over an actual property cope with Moscow and demanded Bzhania’s ouster.

“Those that seized the buildings, those that tried to commit a coup d’etat, should vacate the compound, after which I’m able to name elections, able to resign, and run in contemporary elections,” Bzhania mentioned from Tamysh.

Nevertheless, the opposition appeared decided to disregard Bzhania’s calls for.

“Aslan Bzhania is resorting to determined makes an attempt to protect his authorities,” a so-called Coordination Council of the opposition mentioned in an announcement, including, “His reign is over.”

The assertion accused Bzhania of “enriching his kinfolk and a slender circle near him.”

Native media mentioned lawmakers had on November 15 did not ratify the deal, which opponents worry would permit rich Russians to amass property within the picturesque Black Sea area, pushing actual property costs greater and making it unaffordable for locals.

Bzhania, a former chief of Abkhazia’s state safety service, informed his supporters on November 16 that “huge strain is being exerted on members of parliament in order that the parliament makes an illegal determination to dismiss the president.” However he warned that the “2014 state of affairs is not going to be repeated,” an allusion to one in all two situations when Abkhaz leaders resigned as a consequence of opposition protests.

On June 1, 2014, Abkhaz chief Aleksander Ankvab resigned following opposition protests led by Raul Khajimba, who took his place, solely to resign, too, after the Supreme Courtroom overturned the outcomes of the 2019 presidential election. Bzhania then turned president after successful a March 2020 vote.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia’s rule after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Moscow acknowledged the independence of the 2 areas after Russian forces repelled a Georgian try and retake South Ossetia in a five-day warfare in 2008 that ended with Georgia’s defeat.

Most international locations nonetheless acknowledge Abkhazia as a part of Georgia, however its economic system is sort of solely depending on Moscow, which pays the salaries of public directors in addition to social funds to residents.

Georgian pro-European President Salome Zurabishvili responded to the tensions in what Tbilisi regards as its occupied area by accusing Russia of “taking accelerated steps towards annexation” of Abkhazia.

Tensions have been operating excessive within the area in current weeks, with opposition activists demanding an finish to Russia’s dominance over the area and its economic system, although opposition events on November 15 mentioned their protest will not be in opposition to Russia.

“The actions of the protesters should not directed in opposition to relations between Russia and Abkhazia,” they mentioned in a joint assertion. “In reality, we, the opposition, have at all times emphasised the significance of fraternal and strategic ties between our international locations.”

Russia’s International Ministry accused the Abkhaz opposition of exceeding authorized means and “scary an escalation.” It mentioned by a spokeswoman that Russia was not interfering and anticipated the scenario “can be resolved completely by peaceable political means.”

Moscow beneficial that any Russian residents in Abkhazia depart “if potential” and that others chorus from touring there.

Like many different world firms, Barcelona-based Roca Group has confronted provide chain and different challenges lately, together with the COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine, and risky power costs. Based in 1917, the corporate designs, produces, and distributes merchandise within the lavatory house and has a business community in 170 international locations, 21,000 staff, and 79 manufacturing websites – making it a very world firm.

The corporate has expanded its worldwide operations lately by natural progress and acquisitions, says Roca Group Digital Transformation Director Jacques Nieuwland. “We’ve had the challenges of most industries within the final years,” he says. “My job is to assist Roca leverage know-how to assist the totally different strategic aims of the corporate, that are progress, innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability.”

International Provide Chain

“We’ve a worldwide provide chain for a few of our elements, so we have to plan in a extra agile means,” Nieuwland says. “We have to replace our planning and we’d like to have the ability to put in some buffers to have a resilient provide chain.”

Nieuwland says know-how helps by giving Roca better visibility into its provide chain. “Everyone collaborates towards the identical processes with the identical information. We embody our personal worth chain and in addition the worth chain of our suppliers and prospects,” he says. “And this enhanced visibility permits us to optimize the entire worth chain and to take the fitting choices.”

SAP is the spine of the corporate’s utility panorama, he says: “We carry out our core processes, which embody order processing, reordering planning, and lots of others through SAP options. It helps us as a result of it provides us a construction of processes, of knowledge, and of stories that enable us to know our enterprise, to copy it, to scale it, and to repeatedly enhance it.”

Roca makes use of the SAP Built-in Enterprise Planning for Provide Chain answer to assist it anticipate the demand for particular merchandise and regulate manufacturing accordingly. That means, Nieuwland says, “we’re capable of give a wonderful service and to optimize shares.”

Lengthy-Time period Partnership

Nieuwland says Roca Group selected SAP to be its know-how associate due to its long-term relationship with SAP and since SAP is a frontrunner in most of the options Roca wanted. “We’ve an extended historical past of collaboration and have been profitable. […] We belief the know-how, the digital provide chain answer, [and] the enterprise community answer. We prefer to work with main options – we belief them.”

Earlier this 12 months Roca chosen RISE with SAP and is making ready to go stay with SAP S/4HANA Cloud at the start of 2025 for the following part of its digital transformation – a transfer that Nieuwland believes will allow much more innovation. “We’ve chosen the cloud-based answer as a result of SAP innovates first on the cloud-based answer and we need to leverage that innovation,” he says.

He provides that the combination of SAP’s generative AI copilot Joule into SAP’s cloud ERP may even gas innovation and productiveness. “We expect there’s large potential to extend our productiveness,” he says. Extra usually, he says SAP’s cutting-edge know-how will assist Roca enhance its service to prospects and work together higher with them, in addition to assist the corporate obtain operational excellence together with, for instance, decreasing waste and enhancing sustainability.

Sustainability

On sustainability, Nieuwland says Roca Group is learning scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions. It has already set yearly targets for the discount of CO2 and desires to be carbon impartial by 2045. Extra usually, he says Roca’s objective is to ship “the very best lavatory expertise for patrons worldwide.”

Requested what different producers can study from Roca’s expertise, he says: “It’s essential to begin with a enterprise downside, a enterprise problem, and put know-how on the service of producing enterprise worth. Then it’s essential to work in cross-functional groups. So, this isn’t about shopping for tons of of options to resolve remoted issues. We have to assume on an even bigger scale and to work collectively to seek out the very best answer to our challenges and use few options and have an enterprise structure that assist our objectives.”

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SPOILER ALERT: This text discusses plot particulars from the Season 6 Half 2 finale of “Cobra Kai,” now streaming on Netflix.

Cobra Kai by no means dies. Till its college students do.

The ultimate season of Netflix’s hit dramedy “Cobra Kai,” itself a by-product of the “Karate Child” franchise from the Nineteen Eighties, is break up into three installments. Half 1 was launched on July 18, with Half 2 now streaming. Half 3 will arrive in early 2025.

This second chapter of the ultimate season brings the Miyagi-Do dojo to Barcelona for an elite worldwide karate event often called the Sekai Taikai. The finale to Season 6 Half 2, an episode aptly titled “Eunjangdo” — and also you’ll see why — contains a title match between Miyagi-Do’s Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan) and the Iron Dragons dojo’s Axel Kovacevic (Patrick Luwis).

Axel, brooding and muscular in his 6’3″ body, towers over Robby because the struggle begins. Miyagi-Do’s captain rapidly tires himself out via a sequence of tried hits that show futile to Axel’s formidable protection. At that time, it takes one delicate look from the latter’s abusive sensei (Lewis Tan) to ship Axel on offense. The fighter repeatedly strikes Robby, drawing blood by a punch to the mouth. When Axel tosses him exterior the competitors mat, Robby comes nose to nose with Cobra Kai rival Kwon Jae-Sung (Brandon H. Lee). Kwon hits him with a fast jab and Robby’s Miyagi-Do teammate Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña) rapidly takes exception. Miguel crosses the mat to confront Kwon, when Axel knocks him to the bottom. Inside seconds, Robby and Miguel sq. up with their rivals.

Earlier than the Sekai Taikai host can put an finish to this confrontation, he’s knocked unconscious by a disgruntled sensei whose workforce was banned for drug use. From there, the momentum of the karate match coalesces into the form of drawn-out, adrenalized struggle sequence that has develop into a “Cobra Kai” staple.

As a result of the event qualifies as a world sporting occasion, this subsequent brawl is being dwell streamed for followers globally, together with Miyagi-Do’s family members again within the San Fernando Valley. The struggle involves a climax when Kwon and Axel are thrust right into a bodily altercation. The “Iron Dragons” fighter kicks Kwon into the event’s cameraman and the present shifts right into a vertical vantage level of Kwon’s bleeding face to replicate the digicam’s drop to the ground. Kwon lets out a pissed off scream. Then, he laughs. He’s noticed what he believes to be his key to victory: an Eunjangdo knife misplaced by his Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) amid the chaos.

Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) can see the scene unfold earlier than it occurs. He rushes over to cease Kwon and the digicam cuts to a karate battle between Kreese, Johnny Lawerence (William Zabka) and Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Because the three antagonists of the unique “Karate Child” franchise put together to face off, a harrowing scream is heard. And everybody stops preventing.

The feel of sound design molds from a dramatic, foreshadowing crescendo to one thing somber and ethereal, a number of seconds of layered music composition punctured by the dialogue “That’s plenty of blood,” after which, the reveal of an eunjangdo knife lodged into Kwon’s torso.

“We set Kwon as much as be the brand new massive, unhealthy antagonist going into this second block,” sequence co-creator Hayden Schlossberg tells Selection in a dialog alongside co-creators and showrunners Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald. “For him to get killed by one other opponent is a shock we had been trying ahead to.”

Hurwitz contextualizes Kwon’s demise as a very groundbreaking second, as a result of audiences haven’t beforehand seen a visceral on-screen demise within the sequence or in any of the “Karate Child” films. He provides that the “Cobra Kai” writers crafted a story set-up for Kwon’s demise in Half 1 via the storyline of Daniel discovering Mr. Miyagi killed his opponent on the Sekai Taikai a long time earlier.

“Kwon grew to become this powder keg of a personality that basically obtained us excited within the writers’ room,” Heald says.

Hurwitz provides that the “Strike Laborious, Strike Quick, No Mercy” philosophy imbued into Cobra Kai by Kreese injected a form of emotional venom into Kwon’s psyche.

Kwon, Hurwitz explains, is a damaged one that so desperately desires to show himself as the very best. After dropping to Robby in the course of the event, he struggles to deal with his inside anger. His sensei and mentor, in flip, give him the mistaken message: to indicate no mercy.

“Kreese is extra vengeful than ever, and utilizing Kwon as this final weapon,” Schlossberg says. “It ends with this Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla struggle all the scholars are concerned in. It created a possibility for us to have Kreese see the outcomes of a few of his actions. … Watching one in all his college students get killed with the knife he introduced there.”

Season 6 Half 1 chronicled the backstory of the eunjangdo knife, which a youthful Kreese acquired years earlier throughout a deadly journey to show himself to his former sensei, Grasp Kim (C.S. Lee). The weapon, Heald says, is about much more than a knife.

The co-creator particulars how the eunjangdo takes on the final remnants of affection for Johnny that Kreese nonetheless possesses. It’s this empathy, Heald explains, which stands in the best way of his changing into the ruthless creation he was as soon as able to molding into below the tutelage of Grasp Kim.

“The knife represents Kreese’s final vestige of humanity,” Heald says. “It’s an inflection level — does it ship him additional down the spiral or does it create a possibility for change? That’s a giant query we would like folks to be chewing on on the finish of those 5 episodes.”

One thing held me again from actually loving the primary two episodes of this batch of 5; Barcelona must be a enjoyable change of setting, and it’s, however there’s been one thing just a little workmanlike about these opening occasions within the Sekai Taikai and about these reversions to previous character patterns. The present has felt a tad much less joyful than it does at its greatest.

That modified for me with “Snakes on a Airplane,” the precise midpoint of this 15-episode sixth season. That’s form of a shock for the least Barcelona-centric episode of the group, and for one which encompasses a outstanding Anthony LaRusso subplot. However I felt plenty of real pleasure watching this one — each that large bombshell look on the finish and the stuff main as much as it.

That’s a powerful accomplishment contemplating a relative lack of karate and the temporary somber flip with Carmen’s well being. When Johnny calls Amanda from the airplane, she experiences that Carmen remains to be unconscious and that they’re monitoring her bleeding. In any other case, we aren’t aware of what’s occurring and if she’ll be okay. Now, I figured she’d make it out of this one, simply because killing Carmen off this deep into the present would actually solid a pall over the remaining episodes. However the story works as a result of whereas we know she’ll most likely be okay, and we comprehend it’s secure to benefit from the airplane experience for any comedic potentialities, Johnny and Miguel haven’t any such assurances.

Just about anytime Miguel feels harm or uncared for by Johnny, then the 2 come again collectively, it’s assured to work on me. They’re the core, authentic sensei-student relationship of the present, the brand new Mr. Miyagi and Daniel, and in some methods they’re an much more essential pairing than Johnny and Daniel. Typically the space between them builds simply because they’re every busy with their very own stuff — as Johnny explains to Miguel later within the episode, Robby wants extra help than him proper now, feeling directionless with none specific faculty prospects. As he movingly tells Miguel, although, “You’re my son, too.” He admits that he’s apprehensive about shedding Carmen, that he is aware of it’s false consolation to fake he is aware of the whole lot will likely be okay.

The wealthy asshole in top notch is a fairly cartoony villain for the episode, but it surely’s enjoyable to see Miguel be the one to punch him out somewhat than Johnny. And that’s the primary of a number of Ws for these two, the most important being the information that Carmen and the child are utterly tremendous! (That bloody bedspread was form of horrifying for a second, however I figured it was a misdirect.) She wanted an emergency cerclage, however now she’s again to bedrest for a number of weeks, so there’s nothing else to do. She even encourages them to fly again to Spain and win the Sekai Taikai.

I believe I might imagine I may win a world karate event if Carmen informed me I may, however her encouragement may intrude with the needs of the brand new fighter drafted to compete for Miyagi-Do: Kenny. Johnny requested Amanda to get Kenny on a airplane to Spain to interchange Miguel, not understanding they’d be headed again the identical day. It’s fairly sensible to fold Kenny again in at this level, and I’m relieved that it doesn’t imply Miguel will really be absent. There’s an fascinating alternative for battle going into the subsequent couple of episodes: With a restricted variety of slots, who really will be competing?

Getting Kenny to agree isn’t a simple process. He’s nonetheless satisfied Anthony was the one who drugged him with laxatives and led to the memeification of “Shit Butt,” a nickname that actually doesn’t roll off the tongue very nicely. (Then once more, Kenny famously known as Anthony “LaPusso.”) Amanda makes Anthony apologize to Kenny for the bullying, however he’s overly defensive in regards to the laxative allegations, and the 2 inevitably get right into a struggle. (Amanda: “Fucking karate.”) Ever the peacekeeper, Amanda will get them to close up by sharing the information about Carmen, a forceful reminder that their issues are small potatoes. It’s their responsibility to maneuver previous this so Kenny can really feel secure at Miyagi-Do and are available by means of for his associates in Barcelona.

That doesn’t cease the conflict immediately. However Anthony’s extra earnest apology does, alongside together with his over-the-top gesture of voluntarily night the rating relating to pants-shitting. Devon’s responsible name admitting to the entire thing seals the deal. Kenny and Anthony won’t be besties immediately, however there’s not any unhealthy blood.

However as one feud ends, the teenager drama in Barcelona is reaching a fever pitch. At Chozen’s encouragement (and towards Daniel’s), the youngsters are “hitting the city arduous” to decompress tonight, together with a tapas bar the place Robby, Tory, Kwon, and Zara get locked in a four-way thoughts sport. Robby isn’t usually a drinker, however the breakup and his latest karate performances have left him in a darkish place, ordering double rum-and-Cokes whereas jealously watching Kwon’s obnoxious flirting and eager about how little the breakup has affected Tory — both personally or in karate, which tends to have a direct correlation.

Robby finally ends up spending the evening with Zara, who appears intent on personally screwing with Tory, both out of some Kreese-esque try and get below her enemy’s pores and skin or some pathological must be the prettiest and hottest woman within the room. The subsequent morning, Tory occurs to see the 2 briefly kiss outdoors Zara’s door, which ought to additional up the stakes going into the subsequent occasion.

Everyone is getting cozy with individuals they shouldn’t be that evening, together with Demetri, who accepts a dance with a lady who’s not his girlfriend Yasmine. Eli’s FaceTime together with his personal girlfriend Moon certain appears supposed to rat Demetri out, even when he didn’t know Yasmine was within the room together with her on the time, but it surely places the 2 associates on even worse floor than earlier than.

And Sam spends a while with Axel, mentioning that she noticed Sensei Wolf hurting him. He’s firmly centered on preventing and appears timid about the whole lot else, although he tries to plant a kiss on her after an aborted struggle with Kwon and a few of his typical cronies. I can’t fairly inform the place this story goes; is Sam beginning to notice she may need one thing aside from the life she dreamed of for herself and Miguel?

All these items is stable, elevating some intriguing wrinkles for the remainder of the season. However I’ve to say, my absolute favourite a part of the episode is Chozen and Kim Da-Eun’s subplot, throughout which they hold working into one another whereas trying to find their college students. On the seashore district, they run into one another once more, ultimately monitoring the youngsters to the tapas bar the place they had been final seen. Each anticipated to search out the youngsters preventing, leaving a wrecked bar of their wake — in spite of everything, there’s historic precedent. But it surely seems they apprehensive for nothing, so far as they know.

Kim Da-Eun has at all times been a stable secondary antagonist, however I’ve additionally by no means considered her as advanced in the identical approach as Kreese or Silver. But it surely’s refreshing to begin to see her separate from Kreese, disapproving of his off-the-battlefield techniques. The episode units us as much as suppose Kreese kidnapped Daniel with out her data, however following Dennis to a lodge results in the “fuck yeah”-worthy ending reveal: It was Terry Silver behind the kidnapping this entire time, presumably working with Sensei Wolf to take out Miyagi-Do and elevate the Iron Dragons to victory.

It’s an excellent second, particularly as a result of it comes early sufficient that it’s really shocking (versus an episode-ten cliffhanger, which is what I anticipated). And but Chozen and Kim Da-Eun’s make-out session (and subsequent off-screen intercourse on the seashore) must be my favourite second. There’s an actual power to their sparring all through the episode; in a present like this, you’d count on at the least a pair fighting-turns-into-making-out moments, however I believe this should be the very first occasion, perhaps as a result of male characters not often struggle feminine characters (and there are subsequent to no queer characters).

Exterior the satisfaction of watching Chozen get his groove again after Towel Man ruined his mojo, I like seeing Kim Da-Eun on this new mode. Alicia Hannah-Kim has by no means gotten the prospect to play comedy on this present, so it’s a pleasant to see her flex these muscle groups right here. (The second she shakes sand out of her sleeves and hair the subsequent morning is a spotlight.) It’ll be tough for the character to redeem herself at this level, given the methods she has harm her college students, however her rising divide with the opposite baddies is one other variable to maintain our eyes on. I wasn’t anticipating a full-blown enemies-to-lovers arc in Cobra Kai, but when that’s the place this season goes, I’m right here for it.

• “Why is the airplane doing this flexible factor?” “You imply following the curvature of the Earth?”

• “Have to go inside. Searching for youngsters.” “I heard that one earlier than.”

Almost 1,400 prospects and companions got here collectively in Las Vegas, Nevada, to witness the ability of SAP’s spend administration and enterprise community options at SAP Spend Join Dwell. Better of all, attendees left with new methods to reinforce productiveness, strategically collaborate, guarantee easy compliance, and achieve crucial enterprise insights.

In case you missed out on the motion, we unveiled the next cutting-edge improvements in our market-leading options:

• SAP Ariba Consumption Administration is our latest answer that helps automate procurement request creation and orchestrate routing and assist throughout numerous procurement landscapes and sophisticated workflows. It may join totally different methods into one central location for procurement inquiries and standing updates, so workers can adhere to your group’s insurance policies and adjust to mandatory rules.
• SAP’s generative AI copilot Joule will likely be seamlessly built-in throughout SAP Ariba options, SAP Enterprise Community, and SAP Fieldglass options. Joule can allow customers to handle their most necessary duties shortly and precisely throughout all areas of SAP’s spend administration portfolio.  
• The promote subscription for SAP Enterprise Community can empower suppliers to seek out new enterprise, enhance match potential, and construct relationships with consumers utilizing the community catalog. Out there early subsequent 12 months, it consists of generative AI instruments to assist suppliers load their full suite of choices into the community catalog quicker and with enhanced product descriptions and summaries. 
• New analytics capabilities in SAP Fieldglass options can ship next-level insights into your exterior workforce for reporting, analytics, and market insights all inside SAP Fieldglass.

Learn this text from my colleague Manoj Swaminathan to study extra about our newest spend administration and enterprise community enhancements.

Main manufacturers akin to Goldman Sachs, Kraft-Heinz, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Uber, and Warner Music Group joined us on the occasion to share how they revolutionized their spend administration processes with our options. Try SAP Spend Join Digital to listen to these tales and think about breakout classes, technique talks, and answer deep dives. This free, digital occasion is your alternative to study from SAP specialists, prospects, and companions.

Thank You, IDC

As a pacesetter in spend administration software program, SAP is devoted to serving to our prospects improve management and enterprise resilience by comprehensively managing all sources of spend. Laborious work pays off, as SAP has retained the No.1 place for market share with 49.6% of 2023 market share for Journey and Expense Administration Software program, in line with the IDC Worldwide Journey and Expense Administration Software program Market Shares 2023 (doc #US51658524, August 2024) report. That is progress from our 2022 market share of 49.4%. 

Additionally thrilling, SAP has retained the No.1 place for market share for Procurement Functions in line with the IDC Worldwide Procurement Functions Market Shares 2023 (doc #US52580824, September 2024) report. IDC estimates that SAP holds a 27.3% market share for 2023, sustaining the highest spot forward of the following six distributors mixed.

Moreover, we’re honored to win two IDC SaaS CSAT awards for Accounts Payable and Contract Lifecycle Administration. These awards acknowledge the main software-as-a-service (SaaS) distributors in every utility market, throughout 23 markets, that obtain the very best buyer satisfaction scores based mostly on IDC’s SaaSPath Survey.

Our Buyer Awards Attain New Heights

Each quarter, G2 highlights the top-rated options within the business, chosen by the supply that issues most: our prospects. Q3 was our most profitable quarter but relating to G2 honors, with SAP Ariba, SAP Enterprise Community, SAP Concur, and SAP Fieldglass bringing in a whopping 93 awards throughout a number of classes on the Fall 2024 G2 awards!

SAP was named a Chief within the following classes:

• SAP Ariba is a G2 Fall 2024 Chief in Procure to Pay, Strategic Sourcing, and Provider Relationship Administration.
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What’s extra, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, and SAP Fieldglass have additionally gained Purchaser’s Selection awards from TrustRadius. Winners of a Purchaser’s Selection award are decided by 75% of reviewers deciding on an answer for finest capabilities, finest worth for value, and finest buyer relationship.

We couldn’t be extra grateful to our prospects for partnering with us on their spend administration transformation journeys, and we’re honored that the sensation is mutual!

Successful awards from our prospects is superior, however successful with prospects is further particular. Final month, buyer and SAP Spend Join Dwell in 2024 speaker Daniel Chapman of Warner Music gained a SIG Way forward for Sourcing award within the Innovation in Sourcing class: “Creating Concord in Music Procurement: Warner Music Group and SAP.” This award acknowledges organizations and people that present innovation, management, and transformation in classes crucial to the sourcing business, and we couldn’t be happier about this win.

Final however undoubtedly not least, I wish to congratulate our buyer Capgemini for successful a prestigious SuperNova2024 award from Constellation Analysis within the Way forward for Work: Human Capital Administration class. The award acknowledges Capgemini’s revolutionary use of SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Administration to optimize its international exterior workforce, leading to improved effectivity, price financial savings, and high quality requirements.

New Developments on the Horizon

With 2025 simply across the nook, I wish to thank our prospects for betting massive on themselves by investing in our cutting-edge spend administration and enterprise community options. In a time marked by provide chain disruptions and ongoing financial uncertainty, it’s all too simple for companies to stay with the established order. Nonetheless, SAP prospects are totally different. They deal with obstacles head-on, remodeling them into alternatives. And their foresight to plan for the longer term is why they may proceed to achieve success.

Thanks for selecting SAP to assist remedy your largest challenges. I loved seeing so a lot of you at SAP Spend Join Dwell and I can’t wait to meet up with the remainder of you on the street.

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Jeff Collier is chief income officer for SAP Clever Spend and Enterprise Community.

Kennedy mentioned in his NPR interview that vaccines had been “not going to be taken away from anyone”.

He says he desires to enhance the science on vaccine security which he believes has “large deficits” and that he desires good data so individuals “could make knowledgeable decisions“.

However his critique of the vaccine security regime has been roundly dismissed by consultants.

Whereas Kennedy has denied, exterior on a number of events that he’s anti-vaccination and mentioned he and his kids are vaccinated, he has repeatedly said extensively debunked claims about vaccine hurt.

Certainly one of his essential false claims – repeated in a 2023 interview with Fox Information, exterior, was that “autism comes from vaccines”.

This idea was popularised by discredited UK physician Andrew Wakefield.

However Wakefield’s 1998 research was later retracted by the Lancet medical journal. A number of research since, throughout many nations, have concluded there isn’t any hyperlink between vaccines and autism, exterior.

Dr David Elliman, a advisor in neighborhood youngster well being at Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital in London, mentioned RFK Jr has perpetuated myths round vaccination with “an utter disregard for the proof”.

“If he’s appointed and continues in the identical mode, I concern not only for the vaccination programme within the US, however comparable programmes around the globe, and for healthcare on the whole,” says Dr Elliman.

“Vaccination has in all probability saved extra lives and is healthier researched than most, if not all, features of healthcare. RFK Jr may set this again and be chargeable for the dying and incapacity of myriads of individuals, notably kids.”

President-elect Trump’s determination to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a divisive skeptic of vaccines and purveyor of misinformation, to guide the sprawling Division of Well being and Human Providers has raised alarm amongst lecturers. 

If the U.S. Senate confirms Kennedy, he’ll oversee quite a few federal businesses, together with the Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers, the Meals and Drug Administration and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being—the biggest supply of federal analysis funding for universities, which obtained greater than $30 billion from the HHS in 2022.

“Over the sting. Down the rabbit gap. Fully insane,” Jeffrey Flier, a professor and former dean of Harvard Medical College, posted on X in response to Kennedy’s nomination. “Wouldn’t have believed this potential till proper now. Fully unbiased of politics, this should be seen as unacceptable in 2024.”

Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown College College of Public Well being, posted on X that as a result of the HHS Secretary “shapes well being coverage in profound methods,” Kennedy is “an awfully dangerous selection for the well being of the American folks. 

“Our healthcare system is way from good,” wrote Jha, who additionally served as President Biden’s White Home COVID-19 response coordinator. “Nevertheless it has spurred a lot progress that has benefited the American folks. This appointment, if confirmed, places all of that in danger.” 

Among the many many businesses Kennedy will oversee, he might first flip his consideration to NIH, given his public feedback on his plans to downsize the company his first day in workplace.

At an occasion in Arizona simply days earlier than Trump picked him to guide the division, Kennedy mentioned that, on Jan. 21, 600 folks “are going to stroll into places of work at NIH and 600 individuals are going to go away,” NPR reported. (Practically 20,000 folks work at NIH.)

Apart from the layoffs, Kennedy has mentioned he needs to shift NIH’s focus away from infectious illnesses, comparable to COVID-19, towards power illnesses like weight problems. Final November, in response to NBC Information, Kennedy instructed an anti-vaccine group, “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists ‘God bless you all. Thanks for public service. We’re going to provide infectious illness a break for about eight years.’”

NBC Information additionally reported that Kennedy, who has unfold the discredited declare that vaccines trigger autism, mentioned he needed to pressure medical journals to publish retracted research. 

“It’s only a jumble of grievances, a few of which may have broad ideological help from a extra populist agenda,” together with issues that aren’t “well-grounded in analysis like his opposition to vaccines,” mentioned David Guston, a professor and founding director of the College for the Way forward for Innovation in Society at Arizona State College. “It provides a chance for probably unusual coalitions to happen round a wide range of reforms, some that could possibly be research-based [and] others that would not be.”

Even when the Senate confirms Kennedy, he and different division heads “solely have a lot latitude in making change,” Guston mentioned, noting that what actually issues is how they impart with the general public. 

“A extra probably damaging state of affairs is the rhetoric and focus RFK may present for a extra sturdy anti-vaccine motion to emerge even amongst extra accepted childhood vaccines,” he mentioned. “That’s going to be problematic vis-a-vis the general public as a result of the general public is following issues not by means of the peer-reviewed literature, however by means of the way in which they’re represented on X or different social media.”

Inside Increased Ed was unable to achieve Kennedy for touch upon Friday.

After Trump introduced him as his decide to guide the HHS, Kennedy mentioned on X: “Now we have a generational alternative to carry collectively the best minds in science, medication, trade and authorities to place an finish to the power illness epidemic. I stay up for working with the greater than 80,000 staff at HHS to free the businesses from the smothering cloud of company seize to allow them to pursue their mission to make People as soon as once more the healthiest folks on Earth.” 

Kennedy additionally wrote that he would work to “return our well being businesses to their wealthy custom of gold-standard, evidence-based science,” promising to supply People with “transparency and entry to all the info to allow them to make knowledgeable selections for themselves and their households.” 

Trump echoed Kennedy’s sentiments on Reality Social, his personal social media community, saying, “Mr. Kennedy will restore these Businesses to the traditions of Gold Commonplace Scientific Analysis, and beacons of Transparency, to finish the Continual Illness epidemic, and to Make America Nice and Wholesome Once more!” 

The president-elect has beforehand mentioned he would let Kennedy go “wild on well being.” 

Jim Olds, a neuroscience and public coverage professor at George Mason College who headed the Organic Sciences Directorate on the U.S. Nationwide Science Basis from 2014-18 and beforehand labored in NIH’s intramural analysis program, instructed Inside Increased Ed that Kennedy’s public skepticism of water fluoridation and vaccines has him involved.

“I’m hopeful that if RFK Jr. is confirmed,” Olds mentioned, “his uncommon views on vaccines received’t be the first driver of what the [HHS] primarily does.”

Though Kennedy’s public criticism of the division has been aimed toward NIH, Medicare and Medicaid Providers make up the vast majority of the HHS funds. It is also unlikely that he’ll be capable to affect NIH funding since ultimate selections should go by means of Congressional appropriations committees which, throughout Trump’s first time period, largely ignored the president’s calls to drastically lower analysis funding. 

And simply as the educational neighborhood’s deepest fears in regards to the first Trump administration’s calls to scale back science funding didn’t come to go, Olds mentioned he “feels very assured” in NIH’s management. Between that and the highly effective patient-interest foyer teams that again NIH, he predicted that the company doubtless received’t expertise the extent of disaster some are predicting in Kennedy’s appointment. 

He doesn’t, nonetheless, rule out the opportunity of Republicans making reforms to the company. Earlier this yr Republican lawmakers referred to as for a restructuring of NIH in response to claims that it allegedly allowed harmful experiments through the pandemic.

With Republicans answerable for Congress and the White Home, Olds mentioned such proposals might “have legs.”

“I wouldn’t be shocked if we see some adjustments,” he mentioned. “However change has by no means harm the NIH. It’s been round a very long time and undergone steady evolution.”

England took a giant step nearer to successful automated promotion to the highest tier of the Nations League with a powerful 3-0 victory over rivals Greece in Athens.

Interim supervisor Lee Carsley made it 4 wins out of 5 for his time in cost and made a daring name in leaving captain Harry Kane on the bench to begin the sport. His substitute was Ollie Watkins and the choice made off spectacularly. Noni Madueke sprinted down the fitting and slipped in a go that Watkins turned house with seven minutes on the clock.

The early breakthrough settled the nerves and England had been capable of climate a storm from the hosts with Jordan Pickford proving his price on a busy night time between the sticks. Within the second half, Carsley made attacking substitutions and changed the entire entrance line.

It labored a deal with as first Bellingham raced on the defence to attain a fortuitious deflected shot from vary earlier than Curtis Jones added a 3rd with a dainty flick having been equipped by substitute Morgan Rogers. Three targets and three factors places England high of Group B2 and so they want yet another win to realize promotion.

Relive the motion from the Nations League with our dwell weblog beneath as England tackle Greece:

Greece vs England LIVE

• REPORT: England’s Ollie Watkins gamble pays off to depart tough Harry Kane query

• RATINGS: Noni Madueke and Jude Bellingham shine in essential win over Greece

• 83’ GOAL! Jones scores on debut with nice flick (GRE 0-3 ENG)

• 78’ GOAL! Bellingham’s effort comes off the goalkeeper and into the online (GRE 0-2 ENG)

• 54’ POST! Bellingham’s header strikes the upright (GRE 0-1 ENG)

• 53’ SAVE! Vlachodimos retains out Lewis’ shot (GRE 0-1 ENG)

• 30’ SAVE! Pickford’s proper hand denies Tsimikas (GRE 0-1 ENG)

• 7’ GOAL! Watkins turns in Madueke’s go (GRE 0-1 ENG)

England’s Ollie Watkins gamble pays off to depart tough Harry Kane query

22:17 , Mike Jones

Within the story of the captain and the caretaker, Lee Carsley’s nice gamble paid off. England managers will be outlined by a call involving a talismanic striker. Graham Taylor ended Gary Lineker’s worldwide profession to convey on Alan Smith. Alf Ramsey most popular Geoff Hurst to Jimmy Greaves for a World Cup remaining. One obtained it incorrect, the opposite very proper.

Carsley’s reign shall be briefer, the stakes decrease. But when it risked being remembered for one choice, it was justified. Harry Kane, the skipper who criticised the teammates who didn’t appear to wish to play for England, was himself denied a begin.

Ollie Watkins started as an alternative, scored along with his first contact and set England heading in the right direction to a redemptive win. Wretched at Wembley final month, once they misplaced to Greece, they exacted revenge in in the end spectacular trend. The worst sport of Carsley’s tenure got here in opposition to Greece. So, now, did the most effective.

England’s Ollie Watkins gamble pays off to depart tough Harry Kane query

Lee Carsley reacts to England win

22:21 , Mike Jones

The England interim boss instructed ITV: “It represents that we’re transferring in the fitting course. We received’t get too carried away, now we have a giant sport on Sunday at Wembley.

“It’s simply necessary the gamers performed to their strengths. We now have a variety of excellent expertise. The gamers that weren’t right here, we targeting those who had been. They took their alternative in the present day.

“Curtis Jones is an excellent participant. He performed very well, even with out his aim. Along with his aim it was a wonderful efficiency.

“Folks had been talking final night time in regards to the inexperience within the squad however these gamers are taking part in for his or her golf equipment at a very excessive stage.”

England defeat Greece and high Group B2

22:11 , Mike Jones

Jones on scoring his first England aim

22:07 , Mike Jones

Liverpool’s Curtis Jones made his debut for England tonight and capped off efficiency along with his first worldwide aim. After the match he spoke to ITV saying:

“The lads round me helped me. I used to be taking part in free and had a smile on my face so I used to be having fun with it and I got here in with a aim as effectively.

“With a workforce like ours, I can come excessive or go low and there’s lads there to assist. Jude stayed again and I noticed I had an opportunity. Fortunately sufficient I scored.”

Extra from Bellingham:

22:05 , Mike Jones

“There would been one million and one excuses if we didn’t play effectively and didn’t recover from the road however lads went out and did their enterprise so professionally. We’re again to the highest of the group the place we belong.”

Bellingham reacts to England win

22:02 , Mike Jones

Jude Bellingham had a stellar night time for England and says he’s pleased with his teammates. He instructed ITV: “It was win.

“Rather a lot was product of the lads who weren’t right here however I feel those who confirmed up had been wonderful. Curtis [Jones] – making his debut, taking part in as he did and scoring – was wonderful. I’m actually pleased with the boys.”

England participant rankings as Noni Madueke and Jude Bellingham shine in essential win over Greece

21:58 , Mike Jones

England avenged their shock defeat to Greece at Wembley final month as Lee Carsley’s facet stored their probabilities of promotion again to Nations League A alive with a typically optimistic efficiency in a 3-0 win in Athens.

England flew out of the blocks on the Athens Olympic Stadium with Noni Madueke and Jude Bellingham notably impressing and so they each had a key hand in Ollie Watkins’s seventh-minute aim.

Nevertheless, Greece got here again into the sport as the primary half wore on, with Kostas Tsimikas forcing Jordan Pickford into save and the strain constructed even additional after the break, when it took one other very good Pickford cease to disclaim Fotis Ioannidis.

England participant rankings as Noni Madueke and Jude Bellingham shine in key win in Greece

What does England’s win imply?

21:55 , Mike Jones

Becuase they triumphed tonight, England will win promotion again to League A within the Nations League in the event that they beat the Republic of Eire at Wembley on Sunday.

It additionally means Thomas Tuchel will begin his job on January 1 with simply the World Cup qualifiers to give attention to as an alternative of a two-legged Nations League play-off.

England high the desk

21:51 , Mike Jones

Right here’s how Group B2 is shaping up with one sport left:

1) England – Performed 5, received 4, misplaced 1, factors 12, aim distinction +8

2) Greece – Performed 5, received 4, misplaced 1, factors 12, aim distinction +5

3) Republic of Eire – Performed 5, received 2, misplaced 3, factors 6, aim distinction -4

4) Finland – Performed 5, received 0, misplaced 5, factors 0, aim distinction -9

FT Greece 0-3 England

21:47 , Mike Jones

Full-time! Greece 0-3 England

21:39 , Mike Jones

90+4 minutes: A superb night time for England. They’d have felt a bit irked after dropping to Greece at Wembley. Three targets and a nice efficiency from Jordan Pickford was greater than sufficient for the Three Lions to get via this match with a clear sheet and extra importantly all three factors.

England now have a greater aim distinction than Greece as effectively and can simply have to defeat the Republic of Eire on the weekend to win promotion again to the highest tier of the Nations League.

Greece 0-3 England

21:35 , Mike Jones

90 minutes: 4 minutes of added time to play earlier than the tip of this sport.

Greece 0-3 England

21:30 , Mike Jones

86 minutes: Greece are nonetheless a menace however England have nullified them and the one voices to be heard within the stadium are coming from the English followers.

This victory will imply that the Three Lions have management of the group once more.

GOAL! Greece 0-3 England (Curtis Jones, 83 minutes)

21:28 , Mike Jones

One other one!

Morgan Gibbs-White comes off the bench and carries the ball up the pitch. He sends it out to Jarrod Bowen who slips a go into the field for Morgan Rogers.

Rogers finds Curtis Jones who flicks a fragile shot at aim and nestles it into the far botton nook!

Greece 0-2 England

21:25 , Mike Jones

81 minutes: Into the final 10 minutes now and England already appear extra confortable. The primary goal was to get three factors. Now they will attempt to add extra targets.

GOAL! Greece 0-2 England (Jude Bellingham, 78 minutes)

21:23 , Mike Jones

I’m unsure Jude Bellingham will find yourself with this aim however he ought to do. He receives the ball drives on the Greece defence earlier than smoking a low effort on the goal.

Odysseas Vlachodimos drops to the fitting and pushes the ball onto the submit. It rebounds, hits the goalkeeper on the again and bounces again over the road.

England have their second aim.

Greece 0-1 England

21:21 , Mike Jones

75 minutes: quarter-hour to play. Lee Carsley is gesturing for England to get additional up the pitch. They’re being penned in at current and have to get some management on the sport.

Greece 0-1 England

21:20 , Mike Jones

72 minutes: The Greek followers are in full voice now and totally consider that their workforce can get a aim again. Jordan Pickford is being made to work tonight.

Harry Kane takes a shot from vary however sends it straight on the goalkeeper.

Greece 0-1 England

21:17 , Richard Jolly

“Lee Carsley is as much as three debuts for the night time now with Lewis Corridor and Morgan Rogers becoming a member of Curtis Jones on the pitch.

“England’s most senior starter, Kyle Walker, has had a few shaky minutes at centre-back, nevertheless. And their captain is on: Harry Kane no less than will get a 102nd cap for his journey to Greece.”

Greece 0-1 England

21:12 , Mike Jones

69 minutes: Lee Carsley makes a triple change now. Ollie Watkins, Anthony Gordon and Noni Madueke are taken off with Harry Kane, Jarrod Bowen and Morgan Rogers – who makes his England debut – introduced on to see out this sport.

Will one among them get the aim England want to finish the night time on high of the desk?

Greece 0-1 England

21:11 , Mike Jones

66 minutes: Greece are having extra moments and Pickford is present in an ungainly place as Tzolis seems to get on the tip of a bouncing ball.

He can’t get there and England handle to win a free kick.

Greece 0-1 England

21:09 , Mike Jones

63 minutes: Save!

Greece substitute Fotis Ionnidis nearly places in an equaliser after the hosts flip the ball over in the course of the pitch. the ahead is performed into area and sweeps to the field earlier than curling a shot on the backside nook.

Pickford comes off his line and palms the shot simply huge of the aim.

Greece 0-1 England

21:05 , Mike Jones

60 minutes: Conor Gallagher wins a free kick out on the left wing after Manolis Siopis dangles out a leg. Anthony Gordon and Noni Madueke come over to take a look at the scenario.

Gordon lifts the ball over in direction of the far submit and Jude Bellingham nearly will get to it with an outstretched leg.

Greece 0-1 England

21:02 , Mike Jones

57 minutes: Christos Tzolis isn’t going to let this sport drift. He dances round Madueke after which decides to shoot from outdoors the field. The hassle is highly effective however there’s not sufficient accuracy and the ball sails excessive and huge.

Greece 0-1 England

21:01 , Richard Jolly

“A few moments involving the lesser noticed Odysseas Vlachidimos, the PSR goalkeeper transferred from Nottingham Forest to Newcastle for £20m in the summertime and seeming, at greatest, Eddie Howe’s third-choice keeper.

“He made a good save to disclaim Rico Lewis however seemed oddly gradual to react when Jude Bellingham’s header hit the submit.”

Greece 0-1 England

21:00 , Mike Jones

54 minutes: Publish!

England come at Greece once more and handle to flick the ball into the field from the fitting. Bellingham is readily available to whip a headed effort in direction of the far nook the place the ball bounces onto the woodwork and richochets to security.

Greece 0-1 England

20:58 , Mike Jones

53 minutes: Save! Gordon weaves and methods his means up the pitch earlier than switching the play out to Madueke. He drives into the field and offloads the ball to Lewis who blazes a shot in direction of the close to submit and forces a powerful save out of Odysseas Vlachodimos.

Greece 0-1 England

20:57 , Mike Jones

51 minutes: Greece’s press is harmful and this makeshift English defence will must be on the highest of the sport to keep away from a mistake. A second aim would settle them down.

Greece 0-1 England

20:54 , Mike Jones

48 minutes: Beautiful stuff from Curtis Jones to play England out of a excessive press. The ball is swept over to Rico Lewis on the fitting wing and he flies up the pitch earlier than giving it to Noni Madueke who places in a cross.

Not one of the white shirts can get on the tip of it however Anthony Gordon recovers the ball and retains the strain on.

Second half! Greece 0-1 England

20:50 , Mike Jones

Lee Carsley makes a change on the break and brings Lewis Corridor on to switch Ezri Konsa. Which means there’s a shift in England again line with Kyle Walker now taking part in as a centre-back and Rico Lewis converted to the fitting hand facet.

Corridor performs left-back. Greece restart the sport.

HT Greece 0-1 England

20:44 , Mike Jones

Ollie Watkins rewards Lee Carsley’s religion with a nice end. Have a look:

HT Greece 0-1 England

20:40 , Mike Jones

England appeared fairly snug in that first half. That they had 66.4% possession which is double that of their hosts and so they created probably the most probabilities (4 in comparison with three).

Ollie Watkins turned in his greatest probability and Lee Carsley nonetheless has Harry Kane to name on as this match goes on.

HT Greece 0-1 England

20:36 , Mike Jones

Half-time! Greece 0-1 England

20:32 , Mike Jones

45+2 minutes: England lead on the break. Ollie Watkins’ aim and an outstanding save from Jordan Pickford have made the distinction between these two groups.

England’s wingers have been the primary menace and Lee Carsley shall be happy with how his workforce have absorbed the strain from Greece.

All to play for within the second half.

Greece 0-1 England

20:30 , Mike Jones

45 minutes: Two minutes of added time to play within the first half.

Greece 0-1 England

20:28 , Mike Jones

42 minutes: England will wish to get to the break now. They scored the early aim which has given them the lead however Greece are coming after them.

The hosts know a draw shall be sufficient for them in order that they’ve been prepared to press and assault. England are sticking with it and are taking part in effectively.

Greece 0-1 England

20:24 , Richard Jolly

“Curtis Jones has had a formidable first half-hour of worldwide soccer, wanting assured on the base of the midfield.

“If Jones had not obtained injured, he most likely would have been capped by Gareth Southgate and gone to Euro 2024. However he has been constructing on his nice kind for Liverpool.

“Elsewhere, I can not assist feeling somebody shall be despatched off in the present day. All of which can decide the end result.”

Greece 0-1 England

20:23 , Mike Jones

39 minutes: Greece’s captain Tasos Bakasetas shoots from outdoors the field and attracts one other save out of Jordan Pickford. The England goalkeeper received’t be greatest happy on the quantity of motion he’s seeing.

Greece 0-1 England

20:20 , Mike Jones

36 minutes: Oh!

Jude Bellingham darts in behind and will get fed the ball. He carries it into the penalty space and appears for Ollie Watkins however the go isn’t on.

It looks as if a sure aim however Konstantinos Koulierakis sprints again and pokes the ball away from Bellingham earlier than he can shoot!

Greece 0-1 England

20:18 , Mike Jones

33 minutes: Tasos Bakasetas swings in a nook kick for Greece. Pickford comes out once more and punches the ball away. Greece are within the ascendancy now and England have to climate this storm.

It’s been a stable response because the hosts went behind.

Greece 0-1 England

20:16 , Mike Jones

30 minutes: What a save!

This can be a nice transfer from Greece. Kostas Tsimikas is performed into area on the left and drives at Kyle Walker. He slips a go into the ft of Vangelis Pavlidis who backheels it to Tsimikas who continues his run into the field.

Tsimikas shoots and Jordan Pickford stands proud a powerful proper hand to show the ball behind.

Greece 0-1 England

20:12 , Mike Jones

27 minutes: The Greek crowd are beginning to get animated. The hosts are seeing extra possession and handle to feed the ball to Lazaros Rota as he will get ahead on the fitting.

Rota dances inside from the wing after which shoots. It’s not shot and he pulls it huge of the goal.

From the aim kick Jordan Pickford takes his time getting the ball again in play and is booked for time losing. There’s solely been 27 minutes performed!

Greece 0-1 England

20:10 , Mike Jones

24 minutes: Giorgos Masouras drifts out huge on the fitting wing and waits for the ball to come back excessive. It does and the go makes Rico Lewis hesitant.

He decides to let the ball run via after which holds his floor lengthy sufficient to show the ball out for a throw in.

Greece 0-1 England

20:07 , Mike Jones

21 minutes: Greece have conceded their first aim at house since Youssouf Fofana scored in opposition to them for France in November 2023. It’s nearly a 12 months since they’ve trailed at house.

England wish to enhance their lead and banish the recollections of that defeat at Wembley final month.

Greece 0-1 England

20:05 , Mike Jones

18 minutes: Gordon actually fancies himself in opposition to Rota. He seems to go across the outdoors this time however simply overruns the ball as Rota holds his personal.

England threw males into the field and appear very hungry for targets tonight. A superb begin for the guests.

Greece 0-1 England

20:01 , Richard Jolly

“Ollie Watkins scored along with his first contact of the ball, which provided Lee Carsley some rapid vindication after benching Harry Kane, even when it was the kind of aim Kane may also have scored.

“It is not a very hostile environment in Athens however Conor Gallagher’s useless yellow card, for kicking the ball away, introduced the quantity and means two of England’s midfield trio are already booked.”

Greece 0-1 England

20:00 , Mike Jones

15 minutes: England want one other aim to maneuver forward of Greece within the desk as they need to enhance their aim distinction. Ought to they win this sport, the upper the margin of victory the higher for England.

Gallagher fouls Kostas Tsimikas because the left-back makes his means down the left wing. He must be cautious as he’s already on a yellow card.

The free kick for Greece is lifted into the field and Jordan Pickford sprints out to punch it clear.

Greece 0-1 England

19:57 , Mike Jones

12 minutes: Yellow card!

Bellingham and Christos Zafeiris had been to 2 males tussling and the Englishman isn’t pleased with the referee’s determination. He throws a couple of verbals in direction of the official and because of this will get proven a card.

Conor Gallagher joins him within the e book shortly after for apparantly limiting a fast free kick from being taken. The referee appears card completely happy tonight.

Greece 0-1 England

19:55 , Mike Jones

10 minutes: Gordon seems to weave round Rota as soon as once more however this time he loses possession. Rico Lewis, taking part in at left-back, drifts into the midfield for England and helps the press to get well the ball.

England win a throw in however a tussle involving Jude Bellingham finally ends up with the ball out of play.

GOAL! Greece 0-1 England (Ollie Watkins, 7 minutes)

19:53 , Mike Jones

Beautiful!

This can be a very good aim from England. Jude Bellingham makes it by receiving the ball and flicking it not far away for Noni Madueke’s run down the road.

The winger has a great deal of area to run into and he carries the ball into the field. He waits for the second then rolls it over to Ollie Watkins who turns it house with the only of touches.

England lead!

Greece 0-0 England

19:48 , Mike Jones

3 minutes: Probability! Anthony Gordon is fed the ball on the left wing and he decides to tackle Lazaros Rota. Gordon is faster and breezes previous the right-back earlier than pulling a go again into the field.

The ball shoots simply behind Ollie Watkins however involves Noni Madueke who turns a shot in direction of aim however sees it blocked by the closest defender.

Kick off! Greece 0-0 England

19:45 , Mike Jones

England get the ball rolling and ship it again to Jordan Pickford. The Three Lions look to play out from the again with Greece instantly setting the press and inflicting a couple of points.

Greece vs England

19:42 , Mike Jones

The gamers head out onto the pitch in Athens and the nationwide athems are performed and sung. England know they should win this sport, Greece will end high of the group in the event that they win or draw.

Let’s see the way it performs out. Kick off is up subsequent…

Kane vs Greece

19:40 , Mike Jones

Greece will develop into the forty sixth completely different nation Harry Kane has confronted with England, scoring in opposition to 31 of the earlier 45.

The Bayern Munich striker has been concerned in 33 targets throughout his 33 away video games for the Three Lions (23 targets, ten assists), nevertheless he’s failed to attain in any of his final three video games on the highway since netting in opposition to Scotland in September final 12 months.

England’s Nations League historical past

19:35 , Mike Jones

England have misplaced as many Nations League video games as they’ve received (P22 W8 D6 L8) scoring 26 targets and conceding 25 within the course of.

They’ve, nevertheless, received their final two away video games within the competitors and shall be trying to win three on the bounce for the primary time.

The Three Lions haven’t conceded greater than a single aim in any of their final 13 aggressive away fixtures (W8 D3 L2), conceding simply seven targets in complete throughout this era.

Harry Kane ‘pleasantly shocked’ by Thomas Tuchel appointment: ‘He brings a successful mentality’

19:30 , Mike Jones

Harry Kane has declared that Thomas Tuchel is the most effective man to win the World Cup for England – however admitted he was shocked when his former Bayern Munich supervisor was appointed.

Tuchel will start on 1 January and has an 18-month contract as England supervisor, taking within the 2026 World Cup.

And Kane, who captained them within the finals of Euro 2020 and Euro 2024, believes Tuchel has the tactical brilliance required in main tournaments.

Harry Kane ‘pleasantly shocked’ by Thomas Tuchel appointment

Greece’s dangerman

19:25 , Mike Jones

Greece’s Anastasios Bakasetas has had a hand in 13 targets throughout his final 14 appearances within the Nations League (six targets, seven assists) and because the inaugural version of the competitors in 2018-19 is the one participant to each rating (six) and help (seven) greater than 5 occasions.

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5 losses in 2024?

19:20 , Mike Jones

This shall be England’s sixteenth sport of 2024, solely ever taking part in extra video games in 1966 (17), 2018 (17) and 2021 (19) – the Three Lions have misplaced 4 occasions this calendar 12 months nevertheless, solely dropping extra occasions in 1981 (5).

Fortress Athens

19:15 , Mike Jones

Greece have gone 286 minutes with out conceding at house since Youssouf Fofana netted for France in November final 12 months, their longest run on house turf with out their opponents netting since going 617 minutes between February 2012 and October 2013.

Anthony Gordon eager to lastly work with Thomas Tuchel after failed Chelsea transfer

19:10 , Mike Jones

Anthony Gordon can not wait to lastly work with Thomas Tuchel having been determined to hitch England’s new boss when he was managing Chelsea.

The 23-year-old has established himself within the nationwide workforce set-up since making his debut in March, constructing on his spectacular performances for Newcastle.

Gordon made a big-money change to St James’ Park from Everton in January 2023 having gone near becoming a member of Chelsea the earlier summer time.

Anthony Gordon eager to lastly work with Thomas Tuchel after failed Chelsea transfer

England on the highway

19:05 , Mike Jones

England are unbeaten of their final seven away video games (W5 D2), their longest such run on the highway since 12 video games in a row between March 2013 and October 2015 beneath Roy Hodgson.

Three Lions have good recollections in Greece

19:00 , Mike Jones

England have received on all 4 of their earlier journeys to face Greece by an combination rating of 9-1, solely holding a greater win-rate away from house in opposition to Luxembourg (5/5).

Greece are on the longest energetic successful run of any European nation in all competitions (5 video games) and will win six consecutive matches for the primary time November 2013.

Can Greece win once more?

18:55 , Mike Jones

Greece went winless throughout their first 9 conferences with England in all competitions (D2 L7) earlier than successful 2-1 at Wembley final month.

The one groups to beat the Three Lions twice in the identical calendar 12 months are Wales in 1936, Italy in 1973, Belgium in 2018 and Hungary in 2022.

Carsley benches Kane once more

18:53 , Richard Jolly

“For the second time, Lee Carsley has fielded a workforce with out Harry Kane in opposition to Greece.

“This time by selection, nevertheless: whereas Kane criticised the gamers who stayed away, he has turned up and been rewarded with a spot on the bench.

“A penny for his ideas proper now.”

Anthony Gordon reveals all on failed Chelsea transfer: ‘It was fairly shut, to be trustworthy’

18:50 , Mike Jones

Anthony Gordon has revealed he was “determined” to play for Thomas Tuchel when the subsequent England supervisor tried to signal him in 2022 and may’t wait to hyperlink up with him on worldwide responsibility.

Tuchel’s Chelsea made a £40m bid for Gordon in the summertime of 2022 however the Merseyside membership refused to promote, with former supervisor Frank Lampard decided to maintain the winger.

Gordon finally joined Newcastle as an alternative in January 2023, 4 months after Chelsea had sacked Tuchel, and the 23-year-old has gone on to earn 10 England caps beneath Gareth Southgate and Lee Carsley.

Anthony Gordon reveals all on failed Chelsea transfer: ‘It was fairly shut’

England prepared for Greece

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England workforce modifications

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Lee Carsley makes eight modifications to the workforce that began in opposition to Finland in England final outing.

The gamers that stay are Kyle Walker, March Guehi and Jude Bellingham.

Jordan Pickford returns in aim whereas Ezri Konsa and Rico Lewis fill out the remainder of the defence. In midfield Curtis Jones begins alongside Conor Gallagher within the holding roles with Anthony Gordon and Noni Madueke on the wings.

Ollie Watkins begins up entrance in what is well the most important speaking level as Harry Kane begins the match on the bench.

Greece vs England line-ups

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Greece XI: Vlachodimos:Rota, Mavropanos, Koulierakis, Tsimikas; Siopis, Zafeiris; Masouras, Bakasetas, Tzolis; Pavlidis

England XI: Pickford; Walker, Guehi, Konsa, Lewis; Gallagher, Jones; Madueke, Bellingham, Gordon; Watkins

Gordon on nearly transferring to Chelsea

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“It was fairly shut, to be trustworthy,” Gordon stated abotu his attainable transfer to Chelsea from Everton. “I used to be determined to go on the time and work with him [Thomas Tuchel] particularly. I felt like my model would swimsuit his model of play, the best way he was taking part in at Chelsea which was very thrilling for me.

“It didn’t find yourself taking place. It was a giant alternative for me that didn’t find yourself taking place and I’m wanting ahead to attending to work with him a few years later.”

Gordon on Greece defeat

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Anthony Gordon says England need revenge on Greece after their defeat at Wembley.

Talking forward of the sport he stated: “I feel with the England nationwide workforce, we don’t really feel like we should always lose any sport so dropping a sport like that, we do need a little bit of revenge and to show we are able to beat them.

“With the gamers we’ve obtained, we felt like we should always have received at Wembley however we underperformed and didn’t take our probabilities and now now we have one other alternative to try this.”

Anthony Gordon on taking part in for membership and nation

18:25 , Mike Jones

Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon was an harm doubt forward of the England squad getting collectively however he has been handed match and desires to play in these two internationals.

He spoke about what it’s prefer to play for his membership and his nation saying: “It’s query! I’d say no matter is my present workforce is that I’m taking part in for, is most necessary. That’s what’s in entrance of me and that’s the problem forward, so it’s laborious to say one.

“I feel with England it’s a unique feeling since you’re chosen to be in a bunch the place it’s the most effective from each workforce, which is an efficient feeling however I’d say what’s proper forward of me.”

Why Lewis Corridor can see stars aligning for him to satisfy England’s largest want

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Of their final 13 matches, England have solely as soon as began with a specialist left-back. Now a specialist left-back has emerged who debuted beneath Thomas Tuchel and who, even earlier than the German takes cost, can profit from the teaching of England’s most-capped full-back. If the autumn of 2023 was decidedly troublesome for Lewis Corridor, a 12 months on, the celebs might appear to be aligning for him.

Of the six uncapped gamers in Lee Carsley’s squad this month, Corridor has the clearest path to a spot within the workforce. Luke Shaw started the Euro 2024 remaining, however his outings have develop into rarities amid his harm issues. Kieran Trippier was the right-back pressed into service on the other flank in Germany however he has opted for worldwide retirement.

Stars aligning for Lewis Corridor to satisfy England’s largest want

Corridor on taking part in in ‘huge video games’

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Lewis Corridor is more likely to begin for England at left-back tonight and will he do effectively he may nail down that place as his personal.

He spoke about taking part in in huge video games and arising in opposition to high gamers within the hopes of cementing a spot within the nationwide workforce.

“I’ve performed in some huge video games this 12 months and confronted some tough opponents, Saka being the primary one,” Corridor stated. “He’s a really, superb participant. Noni [Madueke] as effectively – he’s actually fast, sturdy, highly effective.

“These two are troublesome opponents, Bernardo Silva as effectively. He’s completely different to them; a bit extra technical, shut management with the ball, finds himself in good positions which make him troublesome to mark.”

Greece vs England

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The Three Lions have performed Greece at males’s senior stage on ten events, registering seven wins, drawing twice and dropping as soon as, at Wembley final month.

Carsley but to talk to Tuchel

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Thomas Tuchel shall be taking on his position as England supervisor in January however determined to not converse with Lee Carsley forward of this worldwide break.

The explanation why are unknown however the incoming boss could not wish to intervene with Carsley’s final two video games in cost.

Amid mass withdrawals and a must-win sport, Carsley’s children will decide his England legacy

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It’s an England soccer workforce, if not the England workforce that can take the sphere in Athens on Thursday night time. Aaron Ramsdale, Trent Alexander-Arnold, John Stones, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Declan Rice, Kobbie Mainoo, Bukayo Saka, Cole Palmer, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish is a line-up that will require a false 9. There could also be an irony there, provided that Lee Carsley’s striker-less formation was a significant factor in defeat to Greece final month.

However as an alternative of every taking part in, they’re all absent, both injured or recuperating. Six of them began the Euro 2024 remaining and a seventh, Palmer, scored in it, so it appears no exaggeration to name it a stronger facet than the workforce Carsley will truly choose.

Amid mass withdrawals, Carsley’s children will decide his England legacy

Earlier conferences this century

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England 4-0 Greece, August 2006

A gathering at Previous Trafford in opposition to Otto Rehhagel’s reigning European Champions resulted in a convincing win for brand spanking new boss Steve McClaren in his first sport in cost. Targets from John Terry, Frank Lampard and a brace from Peter Crouch proved the distinction on the day.

England 2-2 Greece, 6 October 2001

Who might neglect David Beckham’s unstoppable free-kick within the final minute to seal the end result and England’s place within the 2002 World Cup? Greece had taken the lead twice at Previous Trafford, both facet of Teddy Sheringham’s aim, but it surely was captain Beckham who took the plaudits after an all-action show to assist pull England over the road.

The final assembly

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England 1-2 Greece

The guests scored in added time to win all three factors at Wembley within the first 2024-25 Nations league fixture between these sides.

Jude Bellingham thought he’d earned the Three Lions some extent with an 87th-minute strike however Vangelis Pavlidis – who had earlier damaged the impasse – scored his second aim of the night to seal the win.

What did Carsley be taught from Wembley defeat?

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England had been crushed by Greece at Wembley over the last worldwide window and should now triumph away from house to have an opportunity at successful automated promotion.

Lee Carsley says the squad discovered so much from that defeat and can attempt to enhance tonight.

The interim boss stated: “At the beginning, the tempo now we have to play at and the probabilities we create now we have to take. Actual fundamentals, however reminder.

“We tried one thing completely different that night time so that you’ll most likely see one thing extra typical by way of the best way we play, however I count on us to play , attacking model and hopefully we are able to get end result.

“We’ve positively ready effectively for the sport, they’re very effectively organised and a powerful workforce with a terrific historical past. We positively didn’t underestimate them [in October] and we count on a tricky sport.

“We discovered they had been superb on the counter assault particularly so it’s going to be a troublesome sport.”

‘Southgate introduced again pleasure’

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Harry Kane says that Gareth Southgate introduced again the enjoyment in taking part in for England and hopes that the previous supervisor’s exit doesn’t lead to that feeling being misplaced.

Kane stated: “I feel the enjoyment to play for England. I feel he introduced that again. I feel each camp folks had been excited to come back, each camp folks needed to play for England and, yeah, that’s crucial factor.

“I feel England comes earlier than something. England comes earlier than membership. England is crucial factor you play as knowledgeable footballer and Gareth was scorching on that and he wasn’t afraid to make selections if, you understand, that began to float from sure gamers.”

Kane on squad members dropping out

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England captain Harry Kane isn’t greatest happy that so many senior gamers have dropped out of the squad for these two worldwide fixtures.

Talking to ITV he stated: “It’s a disgrace this week, clearly. I feel it’s a tricky interval of the season and, yeah, possibly that’s been taken benefit of that a bit bit.

“I don’t actually prefer it if I’m completely trustworthy. I feel, like I simply stated there, England comes earlier than something, any membership scenario.”

Harry Kane hits out at England teammates over withdrawals from squad: ‘I don’t actually prefer it’

17:30 , Mike Jones

Harry Kane has accused his England teammates of making the most of the shortage of a long-term supervisor by pulling out of the squad for this week’s must-win sport in opposition to Greece.

The England captain launched an assault on his fellow gamers after eight withdrew on Monday from interim supervisor Lee Carsley’s group.

Thomas Tuchel doesn’t begin as Gareth Southgate’s successor till January and Kane implied gamers wouldn’t have sat out the double header in opposition to Greece and Republic of Eire if the German was in cost.

Harry Kane hits out at England teammates over withdrawals from squad

Greece vs England prediction

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England to bounce again from disappointment final day out and report victory in additional pragmatic trend than they tried final time the edges met.

Greece 1-2 England.

Carsley expects ‘robust sport’ in opposition to Greece

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Lee Carsley says he’s anticipating the Three Lions to come back up in opposition to a contact facet in Greece once they conflict in a vital Nations League match tonight.

The interim boss stated: “We’re anticipating a tricky sport and it’s one now we have to win.“However we’re actually wanting ahead to it, we’ve had week’s coaching, the gamers are in good spirits and it’s going to be a promote out with a terrific environment.“We’ve needed to wait 4 or 5 weeks for this, however this subsequent window is so necessary to us, not simply tomorrow however Republic of Eire as effectively, so it’s a terrific problem for us.”

England have 9 gamers drop out

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England have had 9 gamers drop out of the squad attributable to harm or recuperation leaving Lee Carsley with a troublesome job in opposition to Greece.

The interim boss was adamant that the gamers who stay can get a win and that his focus has been on making ready for the sport not managing those who dropped out.

Carsley stated: “The main target all camp has been on the gamers which are right here and it’s necessary that we benefit from this example.

“With the quantity of gamers which have pulled out, it provides different gamers a chance to be right here. We’re actually wanting ahead to the sport and it’s going to be a tricky check for us and the main target has been purely on the gamers which are right here.

“With the quantity of pull-outs we’ve had within the window, traditionally it’s been like that previously – November has all the time been a difficult window – however the tradition that Gareth, Steve and the remainder of the lads created has made it a very optimistic setting and the gamers which are right here completely need to be right here and so they’re prepared for the sport.”

Carsley on Branthwaite’s health

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With so many England gamers lacking throughout this camp there is a chance for a few of the youthful members of the squad to make their mark.

One such participant was Everton’s Jarrod Branthwaite although an harm means he misses out in opposition to Greece and has returned to Everton for his restoration.

Lee Carsley stated: “We now have tried to provide Jarrad as lengthy we are able to however he’s most likely going to overlook out so Jarell [Quansah] will be a part of the travelling celebration and participate in the remainder of the camp.

“I feel it’s actually necessary that Jarrad hasn’t skilled. He’s been handled for the final two or three days and it’s a problem that Everton will now take over when he goes again.”

Lee Carsley disputes Pep Guardiola declare over Jack Grealish’s health

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Lee Carsley has disputed Pep Guardiola’s assertion that Jack Grealish was not match for a world call-up by saying there was common communication between Manchester Metropolis and England earlier than the midfielder was chosen final week.

Grealish, who has missed Metropolis’s final six matches, was included within the 26-man celebration Carsley named on Thursday, however was one among eight withdrawals from the squad on Monday.

The £100m signing has scored twice in Carsley’s transient reign and the interim supervisor admitted it was a danger to choose Grealish, however stated it was based mostly on medical recommendation.

Lee Carsley disputes Pep Guardiola declare over Jack Grealish’s health

What’s the newest England workforce information?

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Lee Carsley has already seen a number of accidents mount up, with right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, centre midfielder Declan Rice and winger Bukayo Saka being probably the most notable ones from the standard first-choice line-up.

Phil Foden, Levi Colwill, Cole Palmer, Jack Grealish and backup goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale are additionally all out, that means Jarrod Bowen and Jarrad Branthwaite had been referred to as up as cowl together with the uncapped Morgan Rogers and Tino Livramento.

The latter pair be a part of James Trafford, Lewis Corridor, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Curtis Jones in hoping to earn a primary cap.

Branthwaite missed coaching on Tuesday and has since returned to Everton with Liverpool’s Jarell Quansah offering cowl.

The place can I watch the match?

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Greece vs England shall be screened dwell on ITV1 and STV. It may be streamed through ITVX on suitable units, in addition to the STV Participant.

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When is Greece vs England?

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The conflict takes place on Thursday 14 November with kick-off set for 7:45pm GMT.

Greece vs England

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England head to Greece for an away conflict within the Nations League on Thursday night, with Lee Carsley hoping for a optimistic end result after struggling a Wembley defeat to the identical opponent final month.

There might effectively be new gamers handed a senior bow for the Three Lions this day out, with a complete of six now within the squad who’re to date uncapped, following a spate of harm withdrawals.

Curtis Jones, Lewis Corridor and Taylor Harwood-Bellis had been the trio initially included this time round with no cap to their title, however on the different finish of the dimensions the likes of Jordan Pickford, Kyle Walker and Harry Kane stay concerned – all three with over 70 caps now and the captain previous the century mark.

Even so it’ll be an unfamiliar lineup a technique or one other, with an additional 9 gamers on this squad having to date performed between as soon as and eight occasions for England at this stage.

Good night!

14:50 , Mike Jones

Welcome to The Unbiased’s protection of tonight’s Nations League motion as England tackle Greece in a match which can have penalties on Thomas Tuchel’s upcoming reign.

Interim boss Lee Carsley is in cost for 2 extra matches and is tasked with securing promotion to the highest tier of the Nations League. Which means the Three Lions should defeat Greece tonight to have any hopes of successful their group.

We’ll convey you all of the workforce information, line-ups and newest updates all through the night so follow us as we construct as much as kick off at 7.45pm.

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It has shallow waters with out tides, making it safer for youngsters to study to sail.

The membership is run by younger individuals aged below 16, who’ve invited all native faculties to participate within the fundraiser.

Members, former members referred to as Outdated Salts, and buddies of the crusing membership additionally joined.

Earlier than the occasion, Holly from the membership’s junior committee mentioned the occasion can be “a great deal of enjoyable as there may be loads of camaraderie among the many crew”.

Membership member Clodagh opted to tackle the evening shift, crusing within the early hours of Saturday morning.

“We intention to get by way of it by being in pairs and taking over half hour shifts every,” she mentioned.

“We may even take quite a lot of sweets and chocolate to get by way of it however hopefully we are going to keep heat and get sufficient sleep.”

Kids from close by faculties had been as a result of take over later within the morning, with Olympic sailor Hannah Snellgrove becoming a member of to help the occasion.