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Hamilton, loving Muguruza life, seeks last advances hurrah in Malaysia to quarter-finals 12 at Wuhan14 Open THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 Knights ready to battle as latest expansion team Page 13 MOSCOW: CSKA Moscow’s defender from Russia Sergey Ignashevich (L) and Manchester United’s midfielder from Spain Ander Herrera vie for the ball during the UEFA Champions League Group A football match between PFC CSKA Moscow and Manchester United FC in Moscow yesterday. — AFP Lukaku, Martial lead Man Utd in CSKA rout MOSCOW: Romelu Lukaku and Anthony Martial put channel released Martial on the left and he checked CSKA Moscow to the sword as Manchester United took inside before crossing to the back post, where Lukaku control of Champions League Group A with a ruthless 4-1 leapt to direct a strong header past Igor Akinfeev. win yesterday. Lukaku scored twice at Moscow’s VEB After Akinfeev thwarted Mkhitaryan with his legs, Cavani, Neymar on target Arena, taking his United tally to 10 goals in nine games, Martial made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 18th with Martial setting him up twice and netting a penalty minute following a foul on Mkhitaryan by Georgi before Henrikh Mkhitaryan completed victory. Schennikov. Nine minutes later it was 3-0 as Vasili as PSG outclass Bayern It was United’s first away win in the competition since Berezutksi made a hash of clearing Martial’s low cross and November 2013 and with Basel thrashing Benfica in the Lukaku turned the ball home. PARIS: Edinson Cavani and Neymar both scored as Paris Mbappe and those two combined for the second goal in other group game, it left Jose Mourinho’s side three The frustration for CSKA coach Viktor Goncharenko Saint-Germain claimed a convincing 3-0 victory over a dis- the 31st minute, Mbappe again teeing up Cavani for a points clear at the top of the pool. -
GROUP B National Anthem Did You Know?
GROUP B England National Anthem God Save the Queen God save our gracious Queen! Long live our noble Queen! God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen. Thy choicest gifts in store On her be pleased to pour, Long may she reign. May she defend our laws, And ever give us cause, Capital: London To sing with heart and voice, God save the Queen. Population: 53,010,000 There is only a 34 Currency: British Pound Sterling kilometre (21 mile) gap Area: 130,279km2 between England and Highest Peak: Scafell Pike (978 metres) France and the countries are connected by the Longest River: River Severn (350km) Channel Tunnel which opened in 1994. The city of London has a population of approximately Did you 12 million people, making it the largest city in all of Europe. know? English computer London is home scientist Tim There have been a to several UNESCO World Berners-Lee number of influential English Heritage Sites: The Tower of is credited with authors but perhaps the London, Royal Botanical Kew inventing the World Wide Web. most well-known is William Gardens, Westminster Palace, Shakespeare, who wrote Westminster Abbey, classics such as Romeo and St. Margaret’s Church, and Juliet, Macbeth Maritime Greenwich. and Hamlet. 14 English GROUP B football crest CURRENT SQUAD Joe Hart Manchester City FC English Jack Butland Stoke City FC Fraser Forster Southampton FC football Nathaniel Clyne Liverpool FC Leighton Baines Everton FC English Gary Cahill Chelsea FC football John Stones Everton FC team facts -
2016 Panini Euro Francia
Euro 2016 Francia Panini, 2016 Formato clásico X x X cms. UEFA EURO 2016™ France 040ab Patrice Evra – Blaise 001 Official Logo (arriba) 017 Hugo Lloris Matuidi 002 Official Logo (abajo) 018 Steve Mandanda 041ab Lassana Diarra – 003 Official Mascot 019 Bacary Sagna Mathieu Valbuena 004 Panini Sticker 020 Raphaël Varane 042ab Olivier Giroud – 005 Trophy (arriba) 021 Laurent Koscielny Antoine Griezmann 006 Trophy (abajo) 022 Patrice Evra 007 Official Match Ball 023 Lucas Digne România 008 Póster 024 Mamadou Sakho 043 Răzvan Raț (en acción) 025 Eliaquim Mangala 044ab Ciprian Tătărușanu – Grupo A 026 Lassana Diarra Paul Papp 009 France – Team (brillante) 027 Paul Pogba 045ab Dragoș Grigore – Vlad 010 France – Logo (brillante) 028 Blaise Matuidi Chiricheș 011 România – Team 029 Yohan Cabaye 046ab Mihai Pintilii – Ovidiu (brillante) 030 Morgan Schneiderlin Hoban 012 România – Logo 031 Moussa Sissoko 047ab Gabriel Torje – (brillante) 032 Antoine Griezmann Constantin Budescu 013 Shqipëria – Team 033 Olivier Giroud 048ab Bogdan Stancu – (brillante) 034 Mathieu Valbuena Claudiu Keșerü 014 Shqipëria – Logo 035 Alexandre Lacazette 049 Ciprian Tătărușanu (brillante) 036 Anthony Martial 050 Costel Pantilimon 015 Switzerland – Team 037 Paul Pogba (en acción) 051 Răzvan Raț (brillante) 038ab Hugo Lloris – Bacary 052 Vlad Chiricheș 016 Switzerland – Logo Sagna 053 Dragoș Grigore (brillante) 039ab Raphaël Varane – 054 Florin Gardoș Laurent Koscielny 055 Paul Papp 056 Cristian Săpunaru Djourou 135 Luke Shaw 057 Mihai Pintilii 098ab Ricardo Rodríguez – 136 -
Who Can Replace Xavi? a Passing Motif Analysis of Football Players
Who can replace Xavi? A passing motif analysis of football players. Javier Lopez´ Pena˜ ∗ Raul´ Sanchez´ Navarro y Abstract level of passing sequences distributions (cf [6,9,13]), by studying passing networks [3, 4, 8], or from a dy- Traditionally, most of football statistical and media namic perspective studying game flow [2], or pass- coverage has been focused almost exclusively on goals ing flow motifs at the team level [5], where passing and (ocassionally) shots. However, most of the dura- flow motifs (developed following [10]) were satis- tion of a football game is spent away from the boxes, factorily proven by Gyarmati, Kwak and Rodr´ıguez passing the ball around. The way teams pass the to set appart passing style from football teams from ball around is the most characteristic measurement of randomized networks. what a team’s “unique style” is. In the present work In the present work we ellaborate on [5] by ex- we analyse passing sequences at the player level, us- tending the flow motif analysis to a player level. We ing the different passing frequencies as a “digital fin- start by breaking down all possible 3-passes motifs gerprint” of a player’s style. The resulting numbers into all the different variations resulting from labelling provide an adequate feature set which can be used a distinguished node in the motif, resulting on a to- in order to construct a measure of similarity between tal of 15 different 3-passes motifs at the player level players. Armed with such a similarity tool, one can (stemming from the 5 motifs for teams). -
Uefa Euro 2020 Final Tournament Draw Press Kit
UEFA EURO 2020 FINAL TOURNAMENT DRAW PRESS KIT Romexpo, Bucharest, Romania Saturday 30 November 2019 | 19:00 local (18:00 CET) #EURO2020 UEFA EURO 2020 Final Tournament Draw | Press Kit 1 CONTENTS HOW THE DRAW WILL WORK ................................................ 3 - 9 HOW TO FOLLOW THE DRAW ................................................ 10 EURO 2020 AMBASSADORS .................................................. 11 - 17 EURO 2020 CITIES AND VENUES .......................................... 18 - 26 MATCH SCHEDULE ................................................................. 27 TEAM PROFILES ..................................................................... 28 - 107 POT 1 POT 2 POT 3 POT 4 BELGIUM FRANCE PORTUGAL WALES ITALY POLAND TURKEY FINLAND ENGLAND SWITZERLAND DENMARK GERMANY CROATIA AUSTRIA SPAIN NETHERLANDS SWEDEN UKRAINE RUSSIA CZECH REPUBLIC EUROPEAN QUALIFIERS 2018-20 - PLAY-OFFS ................... 108 EURO 2020 QUALIFYING RESULTS ....................................... 109 - 128 UEFA EURO 2016 RESULTS ................................................... 129 - 135 ALL UEFA EURO FINALS ........................................................ 136 - 142 2 UEFA EURO 2020 Final Tournament Draw | Press Kit HOW THE DRAW WILL WORK How will the draw work? The draw will involve the two-top finishers in the ten qualifying groups (completed in November) and the eventual four play-off winners (decided in March 2020, and identified as play-off winners 1 to 4 for the purposes of the draw). The draw will spilt the 24 qualifiers -
Football and the Dark Side of Cluster Analysis Christian Hennig And
Football and the dark side of cluster analysis (and of exploratory multivariate analysis in general, really) Christian Hennig and Serhat Akhanli Department of Statistical Science, UCL email: [email protected],[email protected] 1 A principle for data preprocessing 4 Football players dataset 7 Standardisation \The dark side of cluster analysis": clustering and mapping mul- Football players characterised by 125 variables taken from Percentage variables, player age, goals, passes per 90 minutes tivariate data are strongly affected by preprocessing decisions whoscored.com (have > 2000 players but use only 75 prominent don't have compatible variation. Standardisation is needed. such as variable transformations (\data cleaning"belongs to pre- ones for illustration). But different percentages at same level (shots left, right, processing but is not treated here). The variety of options is Variables: header) should be standardised by pooled variance, be- huge and guidance is scant. 12 position variables (binary) - indicating where a player can cause variations are compatible and relative sizes should be The framework here is the design of a dissimilarity measure, play. preserved. Bigger variation should have bigger implicit weight. used for multidimensional scaling and dissimilarity-based clus- Age, height, weight (ratio scale numbers) tering. Standardisation should not destroy implicit weighting Clustering and mapping are unsupervised; decisions cannot be Subjective data: Man of the match, media ratings by variance, where appropriate. made by optimising cross-validated prediction quality. Neither Appearance data of player and team, number of appear- is it a convincing rationale to transform data to standard ances, minutes played 8 Weighting distributional shapes such as the Gaussian. -
Uefa Champions League
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS National Arena - Bucharest Tuesday 23 February 2021 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Club Atlético de Madrid Round of 16, First leg Chelsea FC Last updated 14/05/2021 21:30CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 8 Squad list 12 Match officials 15 Fixtures and results 19 Match-by-match lineups 23 Competition facts 25 Team facts 27 Legend 29 1 Club Atlético de Madrid - Chelsea FC Tuesday 23 February 2021 - 21.00CET (22.00 local time) Match press kit National Arena, Bucharest Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Chelsea FC - Club Atlético de Savić 75 (og); Saúl 05/12/2017 GS 1-1 London Madrid Ñíguez 56 Griezmann 40 (P); Club Atlético de Madrid - Chelsea 27/09/2017 GS 1-2 Madrid Morata 60, Batshuayi FC 90+3 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Torres 36; Adrián Chelsea FC - Club Atlético de 1-3 López 44, Diego 30/04/2014 SF London Madrid agg: 1-3 Costa 60 (P), Arda Turan 72 Club Atlético de Madrid - Chelsea 22/04/2014 SF 0-0 Madrid FC UEFA Super Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Chelsea FC - Club Atlético de Cahill 75; Falcao 6, 31/08/2012 F 1-4 Monaco Madrid 19, 45, Miranda 60 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Club Atlético de Madrid - Chelsea Agüero 66, 90+1; 03/11/2009 GS 2-2 Madrid FC Drogba 82, 88 Kalou 41, 52, Chelsea FC - Club Atlético de 21/10/2009 GS 4-0 London Lampard 69, Perea Madrid 90+1 (og) Home Away Final Total -
Russia Sweden
MATCH REPORT Qualifying round - Group G Thursday, 09 October 2014 - 20:45 CET (20:45 local time) Friends Arena, Solna Sweden Russia 1 (0) (1) 1 (C) 1Andreas Isaksson (GK) 1 Igor Akinfeev (GK) 3 Mikael Antonsson 2 Igor Smolnikov 4 Andreas Granqvist 4 Sergei Ignashevich 5 Martin Olsson 8 Denis Glushakov 6 Nabil Bahoui 9 Aleksandr Kokorin 7 Sebastian Larsson (C) 14 Vasili Berezutski 9 Kim Källström 17 Oleg Shatov 17 Pierre Bengtsson 19 Aleksandr Samedov 20 Ola Toivonen 20 Viktor Fayzulin 21 Jimmy Durmaz 22 Artem Dzyuba 22 Erkan Zengin 23 Dmitri Kombarov 12 Kristoffer Nordfeldt (GK) 12 Yuri Lodygin (GK) 23 Johan Dahlin (GK) 16 Artem Rebrov (GK) 2 Mikael Lustig 3 Sergei Parshivlyuk 8 Niklas Hult 5 Andrei Semenov 10 Zlatan Ibrahimović 6 Georgi Schennikov 11 Johan Elmander 7 Yuri Gazinski 13 Erik Johansson 10 Alan Dzagoev 14 Branimir Hrgota 11 Aleksandr Kerzhakov 15 Jonas Olsson 13 Vladimir Granat 16 Pontus Wernbloom 15 Maksim Grigoryev 18 Emil Forsberg 18 Denis Cheryshev 19 Alexander Kacaniklic 21 Aleksei Ionov Coach Coach Erik Hamrén Fabio Capello Referee Fourth official Nicola Rizzoli (ITA) Andrea Padovan (ITA) Assistant referee UEFA Delegate Renato Faverani (ITA) Pat Quigley (IRL) Andrea Stefani (ITA) Additional assistant referee Paolo Valeri (ITA) Andrea Gervasoni (ITA) (C) Captain (GK) Goalkeeper Last updated 10/10/2014 22:05:39CET Sweden v Russia Thursday 9 October 2014 - 20:45CET (20:45 local time) MATCH REPORT Friends Arena, Solna Sweden Russia 1 (0) (1) 1 10' 9 Aleksandr Kokorin 13' 2 Igor Smolnikov 22 Erkan Zengin 32' 20 Ola Toivonen 49' 51' 8 Denis Glushakov 11 Johan Elmander (in) 57' 20 Ola Toivonen (out) 73' 15 Maksim Grigoryev (in) 19 Aleksandr Samedov (out) 19 Alexander Kacaniklic (in) 79' 6 Nabil Bahoui (out) 11 Johan Elmander 80' 16 Pontus Wernbloom (in) 86' 9 Kim Källström (out) 87' 10 Alan Dzagoev (in) 20 Viktor Fayzulin (out) 88' 13 Vladimir Granat (in) 23 Dmitri Kombarov (out) 16 Pontus Wernbloom 90' + 5' Goal Penalty Own goal Substitution Missed penalty Yellow card(s) Red card(s) Yellow/red card (C) Captain (GK) Goalkeeper. -
Topps - UEFA Champions League Match Attax 2015/16 (08) - Checklist
Topps - UEFA Champions League Match Attax 2015/16 (08) - Checklist 2015-16 UEFA Champions League Match Attax 2015/16 Topps 562 cards Here is the complete checklist. The total of 562 cards includes the 32 Pro11 cards and the 32 Match Attax Live code cards. So thats 498 cards plus 32 Pro11, plus 32 MA Live and the 24 Limited Edition cards. 1. Petr Ĉech (Arsenal) 2. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) 3. Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal) 4. Per Mertesacker (Arsenal) 5. Mathieu Debuchy (Arsenal) 6. Nacho Monreal (Arsenal) 7. Héctor Bellerín (Arsenal) 8. Gabriel (Arsenal) 9. Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) 10. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) 11. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal) 12. Mesut Özil (Arsenal) 13. Santi Cazorla (Arsenal) 14. Mikel Arteta (Arsenal) - Captain 15. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) 15. Theo Walcott (Arsenal) 17. Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) - Star Player 18. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal) - Defensive Duo 18. Per Mertesacker (Arsenal) - Defensive Duo 19. Iker Casillas (Porto) 20. Iván Marcano (Porto) 21. Maicon (Porto) - Captain 22. Bruno Martins Indi (Porto) 23. Aly Cissokho (Porto) 24. José Ángel (Porto) 25. Maxi Pereira (Porto) 26. Evandro (Porto) 27. Héctor Herrera (Porto) 28. Danilo (Porto) 29. Rúben Neves (Porto) 30. Gilbert Imbula (Porto) 31. Yacine Brahimi (Porto) - Star Player 32. Pablo Osvaldo (Porto) 33. Cristian Tello (Porto) 34. Alberto Bueno (Porto) 35. Vincent Aboubakar (Porto) 36. Héctor Herrera (Porto) - Midfield Duo 36. Gilbert Imbula (Porto) - Midfield Duo 37. Joe Hart (Manchester City) 38. Bacary Sagna (Manchester City) 39. Martín Demichelis (Manchester City) 40. Vincent Kompany (Manchester City) - Captain 41. Gaël Clichy (Manchester City) 42. Elaquim Mangala (Manchester City) 43. Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City) 44. -
2016 Panini Prizm Soccer Euro UEFA;
2016 Panini Prizm Soccer Euro Cup Country Checklist (Condensed) 24 Countries; 19 Countries with Autos Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, France, Ukraine = No Autos ALBANIA Player Card Set Card # Team Albania Country Logos + Prizm Parallels 22 Albania Albania Team Photos + Prizm Parallels 22 Albania Amir Abrashi Base Set + Prizm Parallels 197 Albania Bekim Balaj Base Set + Prizm Parallels 194 Albania Elseid Hysaj Base Set + Prizm Parallels 193 Albania Ermir Lenjani Base Set + Prizm Parallels 195 Albania Ermir Lenjani Country Combinations Duals + Prizm Parallels 49 Albania Ermir Lenjani Scoring Leaders + Prizm Parallels 19 Albania Etrit Berisha Base Set + Prizm Parallels 191 Albania Etrit Berisha Country Combinations Triples + Prizm Parallels 19 Albania Etrit Berisha Keepers + Prizm Parallels 19 Albania Lorik Cana Base Set + Prizm Parallels 190 Albania Lorik Cana Country Combinations Duals + Prizm Parallels 49 Albania Lorik Cana Country Combinations Triples + Prizm Parallels 19 Albania Lorik Cana Signatures + Prizm Parallels 36 Albania Odise Roshi Base Set + Prizm Parallels 198 Albania Shkelzen Gashi Base Set + Prizm Parallels 196 Albania Shkelzen Gashi Country Combinations Duals + Prizm Parallels 50 Albania Sokol Cikalleshi Base Set + Prizm Parallels 199 Albania Taulant Xhaka Base Set + Prizm Parallels 192 Albania Taulant Xhaka Country Combinations Duals + Prizm Parallels 50 Albania Taulant Xhaka Country Combinations Triples + Prizm Parallels 19 Albania GroupBreakChecklists.com 2016 Panini Prizm Soccer UEFA Euro AUSTRIA Player Card Set Card # -
Manchester City Fc
MANCHESTER CITY FC • MANCHESTER, ENGLAND • THE ACADEMY eSoccer offers the opportunity for young players of all ages and levels to experience the youth development approach of one of the biggest clubs in Europe, Manchester City F.C. The club is deeply passionate about developing its young players and sustainability. Come experience the incredible Etihad Campus built on 80 acres of regenerated land. The Campus dedicates two-thirds of its 16.5 pitches to the youth Academy along with tailored coaching and education facilities, top of the line medical and sports science services, sleeping accommodation and facilities for parents. THE CLUB Manchester City has seen an explosion of success both in the Premier League and in international competition, winning six titles in the last six years. The Etihad Stadium is where world renowned coach Pep Guardiola calls home and manages some of the world’s most talented soccer players like Kevin de Bruyne (Belgium), David Silva (Spain), and Sergio Aguero (Argentina). The Citizens or Blues, as referred to by fans, have consistently contended for League titles and reached the late rounds of elimination in the Champions League. Team Travel Program Components Train with professional Challenge your game Take your game to the Get a behind the Experience a European Academy coaches at by playing against top next level by seeing scenes glimpse of your capital, including its state of the art quality local the greats play in favorite stadiums! See local culture, facilities. Experience opponents, putting person. Imagine the trophies won, see language, and food! the life of a European your new skills into seeing Messi, Bale or the field from the team Visit important youth Academy practice. -
15 Football's Biggest Show Begins
TWITTER CELEBS @newsofbahrain BUSINESS 09 Oil prices steady ahead of key OPEC meeting INSTAGRAM Michael Jackson street /nobmedia 15 naming scrapped LINKDIN FRIDAY newsofbahrain JUNE 2018 An honorary street naming WHATSAPP in Detroit for the King 38444680 200 FILS of Pop was cancelled ISSUE NO. 7778 Wednesday. FACEBOOK /nobmedia P16 MAIL [email protected] WEBSITE newsofbahrain.com Cheryshev stars as Russia rout Saudi in WC opener 20 SPORTS WORLD 12 ISIS calls for lone-wolf World Cup attacks Football’s biggest show begins Reuters| Moscow He was joined in a duet by Garifullina, a soloist from the ussia declared the soccer Vienna State Opera, who en- RWorld Cup open yesterday tered the pitch on a firebird, at a glitzy ceremony in Moscow singing Williams’ hit song “An- headlined by British pop star gels”. Robbie Williams and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina. Russia throttle Saudi The 15-minute show pro - The opening ceremony was duced by Russia’s state Chan- followed by a match between nel One broke from World Cup the host team and Saudi Ara- tradition, focusing on musical bia. Russia comprehensively The Daily Tribune wishes acts including a performance thrashed Saudi Arabia, 5-0, in of Pyotr Tchaikovsky in front of the opening game of its home all its readers, citizens and full stands at the capital’s main World Cup. Yuri Gazinsky Luzhniki stadium. scored on a header 12 minutes residents of our beloved Iker Casillas and Russian su- in, and afterward Saudi Arabia Bahrain a very permodel and philanthropist could offer little resistance. Rus- Natalia Vodianova brought the sia’s second, third and fourth World Cup trophy onto the goals were all by substitutes: pitch in a Louis Vuitton travel one by Artem Dzyuba and two Happy Eid Al Fitr case.