Mohamed Salah rose to outright third on Liverpool’s all-time European Cup appearances checklist on Wednesday evening.
In beginning the Champions League recreation at RB Leipzig, the No.11 introduced up his 69th match for the Reds within the competitors – which he and the membership received collectively in 2019.
Solely two gamers have ever made extra appearances within the match for Liverpool: Istanbul 2005 winners Jamie Carragher (91) and Steven Gerrard (87).
Salah moved away from John Arne Riise, who totalled 68 outings and was one other member of the squad that lifted the fifth of the Reds’ six European Cup titles.
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The Apertura 2024 Liga MX common season is reaching its twilight. With midweek motion happening together with the standard weekend slate of video games, there’ll solely be three matchweeks left by this time subsequent week.
There’s nonetheless so much to be determined within the remaining common season video games; nevertheless, the playoff image is slowly starting to take form.
By way of matchweek 12, just one group has confirmed its place on this season’s playoffs: Cruz Azul. Martin Anselmi’s group has dominated Apertura 2024 from the beginning. It has each one of the best attacking and defensive statistics within the league and has bagged 31 factors out of a potential 36.
Cruz Azul is in competition to interrupt the all-time factors document in Liga MX that is at present set at 41
Toluca, Tigres and Monterrey might punch a ticket to the playoffs midweek with a win and a mixture of outcomes. Pumas and Tijuana spherical up the highest six spots that grant direct playoff entry with 23 factors every—a 3 level lead over Atletico San Luis in seventh.
The groups that end from seventh to tenth compete within the play-in video games—the identical format because the NBA. Behind San Luis, the 2 Guadalajara groups, Chivas and Atlas, observe with 18 factors. Defending back-to-back champions Membership América is at present tenth with 17 factors holding the final playoff spot accessible.
Though there’s nonetheless so much to play for, it would not be stunning if these are the groups that make up the Apertura 2024 playoffs. América has a 4 level lead on Necaxa who nonetheless have a puncher’s likelihood in eleventh, however Eduardo Fentanes’s males have not received in over a month. No group is mathematically eradicated but, however it might take a major turnaround for any of the underside seven groups to make the large dance.
No matter how the playoff image finally ends up materializing, the drama and depth of “La Liguilla” will undoubtedly as soon as once more have Liga MX followers on the sting of their seats.
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Celtic needed to face up to numerous strain in Bergamo, however they got here away with a degree following a 0-0 draw towards Atalanta on Tuesday night. Look again on the UEFA Champions League match with our Atalanta vs Celtic stats centre, plus the important thing post-match Opta information.
Celtic battled to a vital level at Atalanta, drawing 0-0 regardless of the Serie A facet having the lion’s share of possession and making an attempt 22 pictures in comparison with the Scottish crew’s tally of 4.
This goalless draw takes Celtic to 4 factors after three video games within the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League league section. That’s just one fewer than unbeaten Atalanta (5), and comes after a 5-1 victory of their opening match versus Slovan Bratislava adopted by a good heavier 7-1 loss to Borussia Dortmund on Matchday 2. The truth that they recovered from such a demoralising defeat final day trip, and replicated Arsenal’s UCL lead to Bergamo earlier this season, deserves some credit score.
Kasper Schmeichel put in a positive show within the Celtic aim, making six saves on the best way to preserving a clear sheet – Celtic’s first in a Champions League sport in simply over seven years.
The Danish goalkeeper’s efficiency helped his facet finish a run of seven successive Champions League defeats towards Italian golf equipment. Actually, away from house, it was the primary time in eight makes an attempt that Celtic had prevented defeat at a Serie A facet.
A degree isn’t a catastrophe for Atalanta, who will nonetheless be assured of progressing via the league section of the competitors, whereas it was additionally a fifth successive clear sheet in a serious European match.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all of the Atalanta vs Celtic stats from their UEFA Champions League assembly at Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy.
The match centre beneath contains crew and participant stats, anticipated targets information, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and extra. It provides you all the pieces you have to do your personal post-match evaluation.
Beneath the match centre yow will discover the official Opta stats on the sport as effectively.
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Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel has made six saves in every of his final two UEFA Champions League appearances. Tonight he grew to become the primary Celtic goalkeeper to make as many as six saves and preserve a clear sheet in a Champions League sport on file since 2003-04.
Atalanta tonight grew to become simply the second crew on file within the UEFA Champions League (2008-09 onwards) to have 20+ pictures and 50+ touches within the opposition field and never rating a aim, together with Paris Saint-Germain towards Borussia Dortmund in final season’s semi-final second leg.
Tonight’s goalless draw has ended a run of 85 consecutive video games in main European matches and not using a 0-0 for Celtic, with their final 0-0 draw coming towards Benfica again in September 2012 in a UEFA Champions League match.
Celtic have saved a UEFA Champions League clear sheet for the primary time since September 2017 in a 3-0 win over Anderlecht, ending a run of 18 video games with out one wherein they shipped 51 targets.
Mario Pasalic had six pictures with out scoring for Atalanta tonight, the joint most by an Atalanta participant in a UEFA Champions League match with out discovering the online, together with Duván Zapata towards FC Midtjylland in December 2020.
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Birmingham airport is “returning to regular” after flights had been grounded and the location evacuated whereas police responded to experiences of a suspicious automobile.
In an announcement, the airport stated: “Following a police investigation, operations at the moment are returning to regular. While we apologise for any inconvenience and disruption, the protection and safety of everybody on the airport was our No 1 precedence as we labored by this incident with police companions.”
West Midlands police stated the airport was “partially evacuated” so a automobile might be searched and assessed. “Following a search by the explosive ordnance disposal staff the automobile was deemed to be secure. The automobile is now not being handled as suspicious. The security of all was our main concern and there’s no wider danger to the general public,” the pressure stated.
“The airport has resumed regular enterprise with minimal disruption. We want to thank the general public for his or her endurance and help whereas we handled this incident.”
Earlier on Wednesday the airport had stated its operations had been affected and suggested all passengers to remain away. Passengers reported being escorted outdoors the airport constructing to the close by Nationwide Exhibition Centre (NEC).
Crowds of individuals, many with suitcases, discovered themselves behind police tape as they had been moved away from the scene.
West Midlands hearth service stated it had crews on standby on the airport, whereas groups from West Midlands ambulance service had been additionally in attendance “as a precautionary measure as police take care of experiences of a suspicious automobile”.
The airport later stated passengers may return to the airport, advising them to examine the most recent flight data earlier than travelling.
The departures board confirmed plenty of flights scheduled to take off on Wednesday had been delayed by greater than two hours whereas the airport was evacuated. Different passengers reported being caught on planes on the airport runway after touchdown.
After the most recent announcement, passengers stated they had been being slowly allowed again into the airport constructing, however additional disruption was anticipated for plenty of hours.
Arsenal wanted an personal purpose to seal a scrappy 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday as they made it two wins out of three within the Champions League to melt the blow of their first home league defeat of the season on the weekend.
The hosts missed a penalty within the second half and squandered plenty of first rate possibilities, however the actuality was they by no means discovered prime gear and needed to stand up to some late strain from their Ukrainian opponents.
Arsenal, who had been overwhelmed 2-0 by Bournemouth within the Premier League on Saturday, made a quick begin with Brazilians Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus each having good alternatives earlier than a lucky opener within the twenty ninth minute.
Dmytro Riznyk of Shaktar Donetsk scored an own-goal towards Arsenal within the Champions League.
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A low shot from Martinelli rebounded off the submit and off the again of Shakhtar keeper Dmytro Riznyk for what turned out to be the one purpose of the sport.
Arsenal would have doubled their benefit earlier than halftime had been it not for Shakhtar captain Mykola Matviyenko who hooked the ball off the road to forestall a diving Kai Havertz nodding in.
Leandro Trossard additionally missed a second-half penalty awarded by VAR following a handball within the field.
Shakhtar, who’re but to win within the Champions League this season, put extra strain on Arsenal after that and went near equalising when substitute Pedrinho had a long-range effort beautifully saved by Arsenal keeper David Raya in stoppage time.
Victory lifts Arsenal provisionally into the highest 4 of the brand new 36-team league part earlier than Wednesday’s fixtures with their subsequent match away at Inter Milan. Shakhtar will search to bounce again of their subsequent match at house to Swiss facet Younger Boys.
Arsenal shall be relieved to have sealed the win however with out key playmakers Bukayo Saka and captain Martin Odegaard who had been lacking by damage, had been nicely off their fluent greatest.
Arsenal defender Ben White was substituted at halftime, adopted with 20 minutes to go by Riccardo Calafiori after the Italian had landed awkwardly following a problem.
Police stated the evacuation was “a precautionary measure to make sure the protection of passengers and workers”
Passengers utilizing Birmingham Airport are being suggested to examine their newest flight data after its terminal was evacuated over a suspicious car.
Many flights have been grounded on Wednesday and other people needed to depart the airport constructing whereas a police operation bought below manner at about 12:20 BST.
An Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) group searched the car which was “deemed to be secure”, West Midlands Police stated.
An airport spokesperson apologised for the inconvenience and disruption, however stated “the protection and safety of everybody on the airport was our primary precedence”.
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Ian Pugh stated he noticed lots of of individuals exiting the airport
The evacuation affected passengers who have been checking in for the flights, with a police cordon arrange across the airport and other people suggested to not journey to the airport.
The BBC understands passengers who had cleared safety have been permitted to undergo to departures as they have been deemed secure.
The airport stated it was “working intently with its airline companions to minimise any potential disruption to prospects”.
Flights have been held on the bottom however have been later in a position to depart with just one cancelled, a spokesperson stated.
“We once more apologise for the inconvenience to our passengers however their security and safety is our precedence.”
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The airport stated there could be ongoing disruption whereas providers return to regular
Travellers posted their frustration on social media at being left on planes that had simply arrived on the airport.
One person on X, @harmancheeta, stated they have been “caught on a airplane, claustrophobic, pleading to get off,” and requested: “How lengthy is this example going to take?”.
One other, @SpandleRandle, stated his mum and pop have been additionally on a airplane at Birmingham Airport after getting back from Spain and had “no thought what’s happening”.
Some weren’t proud of the best way the disruption was dealt with.
Passenger Samia Khan stated there have been “no updates, no person telling us what was happening, it is simply completely ridiculous”.
“I may have simply simply caught the prepare to Amsterdam and I am in all probability going to go for that subsequent time, as a result of flying’s simply been made so troublesome with all of the delays,” she stated.
“Birmingham Airport may have simply handled the entire scenario significantly better.”
Samia Khan stated she would think about using the prepare for future journeys
Ian Pugh posted a photograph of crowds outdoors the constructing.
“It appeared very busy and the numbers of individuals simply began rising,” he stated.
“At first I simply thought it was folks going to the prepare station and perhaps the monorail had failed however the numbers simply bought bigger.”
Some passengers have been requested to assemble on the close by Nationwide Exhibition Centre (NEC).
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Many passengers have been left ready outdoors whereas emergency providers handled the scenario
West Midlands Hearth Service and West Midlands Ambulance Service each had crews on web site whereas the investigation befell.
Passengers have been allowed again into the airport from 15:30 BST.
Birmingham Airport was additionally evacuated in September, when travellers have been quickly requested to depart a small space within the arrivals zone.
Within the goalfest that’s Erling Haaland’s exceptional profession, the reverse-flick whereas airborne that beat Peter Vindahl whereas dealing with away from Sparta Prague’s goalkeeper is definitely a glittering standout. It was Manchester Metropolis’s second, approaching 58 minutes, and Haaland’s nonchalant, whadda-you-expect grin illustrated simply how impressed he was along with his personal work.
Requested if the 24-year-old’s strike was regular, Pep Guardiola stated: “For a human being I might say not. It’s unbelievable. He made an unimaginable purpose, just like [against Borussia] Dortmund a couple of years in the past. I don’t know which one is tougher however I might say each [are equal].”
Metropolis now have seven factors and – as Opta’s “supercomputer” calculates 9 ought to safe progress to the playoff spherical, and 15 to the final 16 – Guardiola’s relentless staff are in cruise management.
On Tuesday Guardiola stated Phil Foden “might be again quickly” – which means to his most interesting – and he began right here by gliding previous three Sparta gamers and sweeping the opener into the left nook, his wand of a left foot beating Vindahl from 18 yards or so.
John Stones and Manuel Akanji knitted the play for the midfielder’s strike. Quickly after they have been backpedalling as Sparta broke alongside the proper the place Veljko Birmancevic had a shot blocked. Lars Friis’s males hoped to prosper on the breakaway, however needed to be ruthless to take action.
Haaland is the grasp relating to ruthlessness and, on leaping to satisfy a cross from the left and heading right down to Vindahl’s proper, thought he had doubled the rating. The trouble drew a puff adopted by a louder exhortation because the goalkeeper, Gordon Banks-like, dived to his proper to scoop the ball to security from underneath the bar.
Sparta’s packed away finish pogoed regardless of how Metropolis appeared to eviscerate their facet by way of 81% possession and the travelling devoted’s get together almost ratcheted up when Victor Olatunji raced into enemy territory. The ahead despatched a chip over Stefan Ortega but it surely was too excessive.
Lille‘s Jonathan David scored twice because the French facet shocked Atlético Madrid with a 3-1 comeback win in Spain.
Julián Álvarez gave the hosts an early however Edon Zhegrova grabbed the equaliser earlier than David got here off the bench. He had scored the winner towards Actual Madrid within the earlier match and was quickly at it once more, changing a 74th-minute penalty earlier than sealing victory from inside the realm. David is now the all-time high Canadian scorer in Champions League historical past with six objectives, yet another than Tomasz Radzinski. Atlético raised consciousness about inclusion with actions for followers with disabilities on the Metropolitano, together with an exhibition of wheelchair soccer.
Marcus Thuram scored in stoppage time as Inter snatched a dramatic 1-0 win at Younger Boys. The Italian champions appeared set to be held to a irritating draw on the Wankdorf Stadium earlier than Thuram steered house Federico Dimarco’s cross within the third minute of added time.
Pierre Lees-Melou marked his Champions League debut in type with the equaliser in Brest‘s 1-1 draw towards Bayer Leverkusen at Stade de Roudourou. It was the guests who struck first within the twenty fourth minute via Florian Wirtz earlier than Lees-Melou’s sensible volley levelled proceedings.
Elsewhere, 19-year-old Antoni Milambo bagged two objectives in Feyenoord‘s spectacular 3-1 overcome Benfica in Lisbon. And Dinamo Zagreb recorded a 2-0 win at 10-man RB Salzburg. Guardian sport and companies
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Lille‘s Jonathan David scored twice because the French facet shocked Atlético Madrid with a 3-1 comeback win in Spain.
Julián Álvarez gave the hosts an early however Edon Zhegrova grabbed the equaliser earlier than David got here off the bench. He had scored the winner towards Actual Madrid within the earlier match and was quickly at it once more, changing a 74th-minute penalty earlier than sealing victory from inside the realm. David is now the all-time high Canadian scorer in Champions League historical past with six objectives, yet another than Tomasz Radzinski. Atlético raised consciousness about inclusion with actions for followers with disabilities on the Metropolitano, together with an exhibition of wheelchair soccer.
Marcus Thuram scored in stoppage time as Inter snatched a dramatic 1-0 win at Younger Boys. The Italian champions appeared set to be held to a irritating draw on the Wankdorf Stadium earlier than Thuram steered house Federico Dimarco’s cross within the third minute of added time.
Pierre Lees-Melou marked his Champions League debut in type with the equaliser in Brest‘s 1-1 draw towards Bayer Leverkusen at Stade de Roudourou. It was the guests who struck first within the twenty fourth minute via Florian Wirtz earlier than Lees-Melou’s sensible volley levelled proceedings.
Elsewhere, 19-year-old Antoni Milambo bagged two objectives in Feyenoord‘s spectacular 3-1 overcome Benfica in Lisbon. And Dinamo Zagreb recorded a 2-0 win at 10-man RB Salzburg. Guardian sport and companies
Guardiola, resplendent in a natty woollen turtleneck, was at his common technical space station. He needed extra objectives – as all the time – and a second dipping Haaland header in a crowded Sparta space went shut.
It was repelled and, after a fleeting little bit of pinball across the six-yard field, Metropolis went near being sucker-punched as, once more, Birmancevic skated from his half towards purpose. With Matheus Nunes and Rico Lewis puffing behind, he aimed throughout Ortega, from the proper, however the keeper tipped away.
The highlights of what was left of the primary half have been a Foden try Vindahl beat out, and a Savinho twist-and-unload. Because the interval arrived, the Czech champions of the final two seasons had stored the deficit to 1.
Nunes punches the air after netting Metropolis’s fifth from the spot. {Photograph}: Molly Darlington/Reuters
As with Wolves on Sunday, Sparta have been a low-block proposition. Metropolis needed to discover a well past once more to make themselves comfy. The order was to go extra direct: Foden dropped a nook in from the proper, Olatunji inadvertently flicked on, Haaland tipped the ball again from the far publish and Nathan Aké transformed. Besides he was culpable of handball, so the end was chalked off. It appeared harsh – his hand had nowhere to go – and Guardiola’s chuntering within the ear of Andrea Colombo, the fourth official, underlined the purpose.
Guardiola is fast to level out when sides defend in a financial institution and fast to observe up with a line about not judging them. A second Foden nook – from the identical proper quadrant – once more prompted disarray and, realizing how shrewd the 53-year-old is, it appeared a ploy to assault the flanks within the hope of breaching the opposition defence aerially.
Savinho skipped alongside the proper, scooped the ball excessive and Haaland jumped and noticed Vindahl save once more. Not so, the Norwegian phenom’s subsequent act. As soon as extra Savinho jogged down his hall, pivoted and floated the ball over. What adopted was supreme: Haaland, again to purpose, let go the flying backheel that went into the turf and bounced over and past Vindahl.
Stones was the match winner at Wolves and he hopped to satisfy a intelligent dink from Nunes and head in Metropolis’s third. Guardiola’s expenses, rampant, collected a fourth, as Haaland ran in, took Nunes’s supply and struck an emphatic – and uncommon – right-foot end. The fifth was added by way of Nunes’s late spot kick. Even earlier than the clocks return, Metropolis are in imperious type. As Guardiola stated: “I get pleasure from so much the best way we’re taking part in recently.”
It wasn’t massively spectacular, however Mikel Arteta’s males bought the job carried out within the Champions League on Tuesday. Re-live the motion with one of the best details and Opta knowledge in our Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk stats web page.
Arsenal’s curious kind from the spot within the Champions League continued however they nonetheless did nearly sufficient to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 on the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday.
Mikel Arteta’s aspect have been under no circumstances at their fluent finest in opposition to their Ukrainian guests and have been fortunate to take the lead simply earlier than the half-hour mark with a objective that proved decisive.
Gabriel Martinelli noticed a deflected effort hit the publish after which rebound again into the online off Shakhtar goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk – that was the third personal objective by a goalkeeper within the competitors this season, already the joint most in a single marketing campaign.
Riznyk was on the centre of issues once more within the second half when Valerii Bondar was penalised for dealing with within the field; Shakhtar’s stopper saved the ensuing spot kick from Leandro Trossard.
That was Arsenal’s fourth penalty failure from their final eight taken within the Champions League, a regarding file contemplating they’d netted 11 of the earlier 12.
Arsenal then needed to depend on David Raya to make a few obligatory saves within the latter levels because the Gunners held on to a slender and largely unimpressive victory.
It was their first 1-0 win in a Champions League group/league section sport since November 2013 (vs Borussia Dortmund), whereas it additionally noticed them file three successive clear sheets within the competitors for the primary time since November 2007.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all of the Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk stats from their UEFA Champions League assembly at Emirates Stadium.
The match centre beneath contains group and participant stats, anticipated objectives knowledge, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and extra. It provides you every part you could do your individual post-match evaluation.
Beneath the match centre you could find the official Opta stats on the sport as nicely.
Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk: Key Put up-Match Info
Shakhtar Donetsk’s Dmytro Riznyk scored the third personal objective by a goalkeeper within the UEFA Champions League this season, already the joint-most in a single marketing campaign (after 2002-03 and 2015-16) and as many as within the earlier 4 seasons mixed.
Arsenal have missed 4 of their final eight penalties within the UEFA Champions League, having scored 11 of their earlier 12 from the spot beforehand.
Shakhtar Donetsk have failed to attain in three consecutive UEFA Champions League video games for the primary time since October 2021 (a run of 4).
Shakhtar Donetsk’s Dmytro Riznyk grew to become the third participant to each rating an personal objective and save a penalty in a UEFA Champions League match, the primary since Benfica’s Mile Svilar in October 2017 in opposition to Manchester United.
This was Arsenal’s first 1-0 victory in a UEFA Champions League group stage match in 29 such matches since a win in opposition to Borussia Dortmund in November 2013, whereas they final gained 1-0 due to an personal objective in a European match in opposition to PSV in September 2004.
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Based on the Geoff Capes Basis web site, Capes was 6ft 5.5in tall and weighed 170kg in his bodily prime.
Following his retirement from competitors Capes took up teaching and helped many aspiring athletes, in addition to showing on two actuality tv reveals.
Britain’s Carl Myerscough threw longer than Capes’ shot put document with a distance of 21.92m in Sacramento, United States, however that 2003 consequence was not ratified.
In later life, Capes lived within the Lincolnshire village of Stoke Rochford. He had two kids in addition to grandchildren.
Capes served as a policeman for 10 years in Cambridgeshire, incomes £9.50 every week.
He resigned earlier than the 1980 Olympics in Moscow after “political stress” to boycott the Video games following Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan.
“Russia invaded Afghanistan, and Margaret Thatcher banned all of the providers from going – military and police – as a result of they paid their wages,” Capes advised the advised the Telegraph, exterior final 12 months.
“So I resigned from the police simply earlier than the Olympics. I misplaced my profession, misplaced my pension, misplaced my earnings. They’d complete management over you.”
Capes was famously a budgerigar fanatic and in 2008 he served a 12 months as president of the Budgerigar Society.
In an announcement following information of his demise, British Athletics mentioned: “British Athletics are saddened to listen to the information of former British shot putter, Geoff Capes’ passing.
“Our condolences exit to his household and mates presently.”
Staff GB mentioned it’s “deeply saddened” by Capes’ passing.
Tessa Sanderson, the Olympic javelin champion in 1984, mentioned Capes was a “nice individual and a large of an athlete”, whereas reigning British shot put champion Scott Lincoln mentioned he was the person who put the game “on the map within the UK”.
He added on Instagram: “An icon, hero, legend, function mannequin, good friend and all spherical good man. Will probably be sorely missed by not solely me however so many across the athletics neighborhood.”
World Athletics president Lord Coe mentioned: “Geoff’s passing is a tragic second for therefore many people in each British and international athletics.
“He was an enormous determine in British athletics and introduced the crowds again to our sport. Fiercely impartial, aggressive, however all the time protecting of the groups that he captained with distinction.”
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