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Morning everyone. The Emirates Cup game against Borussia Dortmund ended in defeat, with the Bundesliga side running out 3-2 winners. I’ve been around this block too many times to get worked up about pre-season games, and we have way too many very good players missing to use a day like yesterday as representative of who we’re going to be for the season ahead, but I do have one or two small takeaways that I think are worthy of discussion. – We saw 30 minutes of Martin Odegaard, like others before him eased back into post-World Cup action with half an…

Eddie Hearn knows how to build hype, but he is getting way out in front of himself with Teremoana Teremoana. Calling the Australian a potential long-reigning heavyweight world champion before he has faced a serious contender is pure promoter talk. DeAndre Savage’s trainer, former WBC junior middleweight champion Tony Harrison, had some fun with Hearn’s salesmanship at Monday’s press conference, joking that he should be selling cars. “I don’t think you guys have seen anything like this before in Australia,” Hearn said. “I think legitimately a chance for you to have a long-reigning heavyweight world champion. Got the size, got…

World number one Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from this week’s Cincinnati Open because of a knee injury, but still expects to be fit for the US Open later this month.The 24-year-old Italian won his fifth Grand Slam singles title by beating Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final last month, but has not played since.”After consulting with my doctors and my team, I have to announce that I need to withdraw from the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati,” Sinner said.”My right knee has been bothering me and even though we have been working hard with my medical team, I have to…

Many of Iraola’s attacking principles resemble those of one of his long-time managerial inspirations, the former Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa.The Argentine coached Iraola at Athletic Club between 2011 and 2013 and, speaking to Sky Sports in 2023, the Liverpool boss acknowledged this influence.”I use a lot of exercises from Marcelo that I learned from him, especially with the ball,” Iraola said.”Offensively, his teams are very dynamic, willing to make all the runs to the space, he is ready to accept this kind of disorder offensively.”Like Bielsa’s sides, Iraola already has the Reds playing in a busy manner. When attacking,…

Mikel Arteta believes the signing of Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes is the kind of player Arsenal need to help elevate them to the next level.  Guimaraes completed his reported £75m move to North London earlier this week, and was officially unveiled in front of the Arsenal supporters at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.  The 28-year-old watched his new team lose, with Borussia Dortmund coming out on top with a 3-2 win to lift the Emirates Cup.  But that did nothing to dampen the spirits of the Arsenal fans after seeing a glimpse of their new Brazilian midfielder, who could make…

Demi Vollering showed her prowess on the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes to become the race’s first two-time winner.The Dutch FDJ-Suez rider won the penultimate stage to snatch the leader’s yellow jersey from Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney and carry an eight-second lead into Sunday’s finale.The fifth edition of the race culminated with a 99.2km mountain stage, beginning and ending in Nice, which featured four ascents of the Col d’Eze and totalled 2,100m of climbing.Niewiadoma-Phinney’s British team-mate Zoe Backstedt pushed the pace in the early stages before former race leader Marlen Reusser crashed on the second descent of the Col…

Cutting that last bit of weight presents a test Benn hasn’t dealt with in years. “Conor has not boxed at 147 for four years,” Duke McKenzie said to talkSPORT Boxing. “When you’re trying to make weight, and you have to drag to make weight, it takes away your A-game.” McKenzie believes the problem won’t disappear simply because Benn can rehydrate after stepping on the scale. “I don’t think Conor Benn’s going to be physically strong enough because I think he’d be weight drained,” McKenzie said. “Even if you’re eating all night long, there’s still only so much weight you can…

PIF London Championship result-22 A Huang (Can); -20 C Hull (Eng); -17 S Tan (Sin); -15 P Tavatanakit (Tha), -14 K Bennett (Aus)Selected others: -12 A Hewson (Eng); -11 L Hall (Wal); -10 G Hall (Eng), A Donegan (Ire)Full leaderboardEngland’s Charley Hull let slip a one-shot lead with two holes to play at the PIF London Championship as 17-year-old Anna Huang won her fourth Ladies’ European Tour (LET) event.The 30-year-old Hull was on course for her 10th professional title and sixth LET success, but four-putted the penultimate hole for a double bogey, while Huang eagled the last to win by…

Aaron Anselmino has been taken off injured, another damaging mark for his reputation which is growing. If you enjoy Talk Chelsea coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content. You don’t want to see tears in friendlies under any circumstances, but sadly that’s what we’re getting in Malaysia this evening. A fully rotated team has been put out by Xabi Alonso after the Blues played another game 24 hours ago. Given our next friendly will probably see the strongest team played…

Moses Itauma has the opportunity to win the IBF heavyweight title against Filip Hrgovic on August 29, but simply collecting the belt isn’t the most interesting part. Stopping Hrgovic would give the 21-year-old a more impressive first championship win than Anthony Joshua managed against Charles Martin. Joshua dispatched Martin in two rounds in April 2016 to capture the IBF title. The result looked spectacular, but Martin was hardly an established champion. He had won the vacant belt less than three months earlier when Vyacheslav Glazkov suffered a knee injury and was unable to continue in the third round. Martin never…