The list of questions aimed at City in the aftermath of that last-gasp collapse focused on character, Guardiola's game management and the powers of recovery to maintain the excellence of their Premier League season with Liverpool on their shoulder.
“The view in Spain is that the two teams were both responsible and that Manchester City deliberately wasted a lot of time.”
Everything is so much easier now, when it really wasn't before. Coming out in later life is daunting in a different way to that faced by younger generations - more time has passed in which to internalise fears and anxieties, and there are often more threads of identity and relationships to untangle.
Manchester City have won the Premier League in three of the past four seasons, with Liverpool lifting the trophy on the other occasion
The Reds brought in the New Year with a cracker down at Chelsea. Sunday’s 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge was a wonderful advert for Premier League football, even if the result has likely ended both sides’ hopes of a title challenge.
Goals from Ronaldo - ending his longest drought for a decade - and Bruno Fernandes ensured Rangnick's men came out on top against the 10-man Seagulls.
The Real Madrid winger revealed that malicious stories like Marca's can impact footballers' mental health and he wants media organisations to be held accountable for what they write.
Newcastle reached the half-time interval by far the happier with the game goalless, but quickly saw their outlook turn bleak after the break.
Les Bleus' thrashing of Kazakhstan at the weekend was an outlier in their qualification campaign, the only one of their seven matches which has seen over 2.5 goals.
Romain Faivre notched his fifth goal this season with a curling shot from the edge of the box to make it 3-0 before half-time, and Le Douaron put the result beyond doubt shortly after the hour by holding off Kevin Danso to fire into the top corner.
And people still write to me .. all the fans who’ve sent thousands of letters and emails and flowers, or who’ve come up to me on the street, I thank them all for the support … that helped me through this.
He knows that if the results and the performances aren't there, at a club like Chelsea this is the outcome.
Everton's Boxing Day match at Burnley has been postponed due to Covid-19 cases and injuries at the Merseyside club.
It's about how it makes LGBTQ+ fans feel inside the ground. It's unequivocally homophobic - the whole Pride in Football fan movement is agreed on this.
We'll bring that energy when we come back in February because we're going to need it. Sergi Canos sliced wide inside two minutes under pressure from Rayan Ait-Nouri having been picked out by Vitaly Janelt, but the chance didn't set the tone for an eventful first 45 minutes - at least on the pitch.
In 1971 Brazil, most people would think long and hard before going anywhere near General Emilio Garrastazu Medici. The country's then-president was a fearsome figure whose brutally repressive military rule relied on systematic torture and the assassination of dissenters. But Lea Campos was about to go and see him.
But after what happened with Brice, we would always take that. Everyone makes mistakes and Brice is old enough to know that he has made a mistake today.
James faced plenty of tricky left-sided players in the Championship, including Ollie Watkins, Yannick Bolasie and Todd Cantwell, but Jacobs remembers barely any of them getting the better of him. When he did struggle, he made sure to come back stronger.
He may have only had one goal involvement, but the Brazilian starlet was at the heart of everything for Madrid.
The competition for the Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper award is also strong, with Alisson Becker, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Edouard Mendy, Manuel Neuer, Kasper Schmeichel all nominated.
Probably a little bit raw, so you're trying to keep the emotions inside, but the emotions came out in the dressing room after the game.
At Brighton, stewards have been trained to check and understand what to look for on an NHS Covid pass and also recognise a valid lateral flow test result.
Less than a week after scoring five without reply at Old Trafford, Jurgen Klopp's side were out of sorts as they dropped three points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea, despite racing into a two-goal lead inside the opening 25 minutes against Brighton through Jordan Henderson's early curler and Sadio Mane's diving header.
Cole has a special quality in front of the box, a talent that is difficult to find, said Guardiola in his post-match press conference.
What the managers said...Dundee Utd boss Tam Courts: You can see they are a very slick outfit, they have got a strong squad and a lot of top performers, and we probably allowed them to get too much control and too much rhythm in the early part of the game.
“After two weeks off, it is a mystery,” he said. “Very pleased to be in the next round. This round showed us there can be many surprises and we won against a very top team.”
Coventry (in 1996-97) and Southampton (in 2019-20) both gained 10 points at Christmas and rose from the bottom three to 12th in the table.
Burnley and Leeds United are other teams who are firmly in the mix when it comes to being relegation candidates. Sean Dyche's Burnley side are renowned battlers and will not give up their top-flight status without a fight, with the Clarets currently priced at evens to be relegated. Leeds, meanwhile, have been leaking goals all over the place and Marcelo Bielsa faces a huge challenge to turn the ship around, with the team 9/4 to be relegated.
Antonio Conte is available at the same price, with questions being asked of how long the fiery Italian will stick around at Tottenham if he starts to take issue with the ambition being shown from Spurs' board – much like he did at former club Inter.
His mum is a runner - I think I take my attributes from her - and his brother is a rally car driver.
Ben Osborn found Gibbs-White whose low shot failed to test Westwood with the keeper gathering the ball comfortably.
Ahead of the Scottish Cup quarter-final against Motherwell at Fir Park on Sunday, Maloney confirmed the length of Nisbet's absence but believes the possibility of a place in Steve Clarke's squad should Scotland reach the Qatar World Cup finals will act as motivation for recovery.
Benzema and Valbuena both lost their places in the national team in the wake of the scandal, dubbed the sex tape affair.
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Clinical and ruthless, the high press was outstanding, formation top, all these things you want to see as a coach.
Pep Guardiola said last week that Silva's form means he cannot leave the 27-year-old out of his team at the moment, and I can understand why he thinks that.
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“Preliminary tests carried out at INSA, strongly suggest that all 13 cases associated with players of Belenenses SAD are linked to the variant of concern Omicron,” the institute said in a statement sent to Portuguese media.
Part of the thinking in Madrid is that 2022 could open up a fantastic opportunity to strike for big players at a time when Barcelona can’t compete for all the same names.
It means the world's most expensive player will be back in time to feature in PSG's Champions League group-stage trip to Real Madrid.
But the way that we played, with bravery, courage and quality that we showed, we created chances off the quality we showed and we took them.
Spanish newspaper Marca reports that Barcelona are looking to sign a striker this summer, with five targets under consideration. Robert Lewandowski would cost 60 million euros and will soon be 34, Erling Haaland is wanted by plenty of other sides, and that has led to three other easier options to be put forward: AC Milan’s Rafael Leao, Benfica’s Darwin Nunez and Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus.
“From there I can start the rehab process. There’s going to be a lot of rehabilitation needed to get back to just a normal, quality active lifestyle.
The new law is expected to take the form of an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and will be brought forward early in the new year.
Goalkeeper Jose Sa has been an important addition but this improvement has not been achieved in the transfer market but on the training field and the regular video meetings that have become a feature of life under Bruno Lage.
Among those giving up their candidacy on Saturday morning were former Cameroon internationals Maboang Kesack and Jules Denis Onana.
