Neste domingo (17), Flamengo e São Paulo disputam o jogo de ida da final da Copa do Brasil, no Maracanã. E como não poderia deixar de ser, a venda clandestina de ingressos rola livre, leve e solta nos arredores do estádio, como presenciou a reportagem do Lance!.
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Cambistas não se importam com qualquer fiscalização e agem livremente próximos aos pontos de controle de entrada no palco da decisão. O público-alvo maior é, obviamente, o torcedor flamenguista, que é o mandante e tem uma carga maior à disposição.
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O ingresso para o setor Norte do Maracanã é o que mais está disponível nas mãos dos cambistas. O preço negociado é R$ 300. Na venda oficial, esse valor variou entre R$ 100 e R$ 200 para os sócios-torcedores dependendo do nível de cada um. Já o público geral pagou R$ 400 (inteira) ou R$ 200 (meia).
Há também disponibilidade para o setor Sul do estádio, com bilhetes variando entre R$ 250 e R$ 300. Na comercialização oficial das entradas, esse ingresso variou entre R$ 175 e R$ 350 para os sócios-torcedores, enquanto o público geral pagou R$ 700 (inteira) ou R$ 350 (meia).
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Na sexta-feira (15), a Secretaria Nacional do Consumidor (Senacon) notificou a CBF, o Flamengo e o São Paulo sobre os preços dos ingressos para os jogos da final da Copa do Brasil. A pasta ligada ao Ministério da Justiça entende que os “valores excessivo dos ingressos” inviabilizam participação de alguns consumidores.
Antes, o Flamengo já havia sido notificado pelo Procon-RJ por causa dos preços dos ingressos para a decisão e justificou os valores pela “oferta e demanda”.
Leicestershire Foxes bounced back from defeats to Yorkshire and Derbyshire on the road with a comfortable home victory over Worcestershire Rapids to keep themselves among the North Group contenders at the halfway point of the Vitality Blast campaign.Chasing a modest target of 151, the home side were victorious by six wickets with 17 balls to spare. Sol Budinger made 30 with three of his team-mates contributing 26, captain Louis Kimber’s coming off just 12 balls and including the winning runs.Allrounder Ben Mike, making a belated start to his Blast campaign after suffering an injury in April, was impressive in taking 3 for 14, with left-arm spinner Liam Trevaskis picking up 2 for 25 after Gareth Roderick had top-scored with a career-best 49 off 29 balls in a below-par effort by Worcestershire, who have two wins and four defeats so far.Rapids’ disappointing show with the bat followed a curious opening powerplay that included a wicket-maiden from Mike but nonetheless rewarded the visitors – missing captain Brett D’Oliveira with a foot injury – with a score of 54 for 2 after opting to bat first on a green-tinged pitch.Jake Libby was caught at midwicket off Mike after Ed Pollock, having struck Matt Salisbury for two towering leg-side sixes, had ran himself out, stranded by such a distance as Libby wisely chose not to chance a single to backward point that there was time for the ball to reach the bowler via the wicketkeeper and still beat his dive, but Roderick found some momentum.Having supplemented an early scooped six off Logan van Beek with seven fours, he was one short of a first fifty of the season when leg before in the 10th to Trevaskis, ending a 53-run stand with Adam Hose.Roderick thus looked to have given the Rapids innings a decent platform, yet they spiralled from 87 for 2 to 118 for 7.Hose miscued Trevaskis to extra cover, Mike dropped Matthew Waite at deep backward square on 1 but then dismissed Ethan Brookes and Ben Dwarshuis with consecutive balls, the former brilliantly caught by Rishi Patel on the fine leg boundary, the latter straightforwardly at mid-off, before Tom Hinley was bowled by Rehan Ahmed. Tom Taylor’s unbeaten 20 dragged the total to 150.Australian left-arm quick Dwarshuis was lifted effortlessly over the leg-side boundary by Patel and powerfully over long-on by Budinger but had the latter caught behind off a slower ball as Leicestershire emerged from the opening six at 50 for 1, substitute wicketkeeper Henry Cullen wearing the gloves after Roderick suffered an injury batting.Patel, Shan Masood and Rehan found fielders, at long-off, mid-on and deep extra cover, respectively, after matching Budinger in making starts but failing to go on, yet the Foxes were always comfortably ahead of the game, with just 26 needed from 29 balls after Rehan’s demise.Kimber and Ben Cox required only 12 of them to get the job done, the captain hitting the winning boundary.
Revised schedule for President’s Trophy Grade II tournament, the Regional Intra-District Challenge Cup, and the Inter-District U19 One-Day tournament to be announced soon
ESPNcricinfo staff11-May-2025
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The PCB has postponed with immediate effect the ongoing President’s Trophy Grade II tournament, the Regional Intra-District Challenge Cup, and the Inter-District U19 One-Day tournament “due to prevailing security condition in the country”. In a statement on Saturday, the PCB said “the tournaments will resume from the same stage later and a revised schedule will be shared closer to the resumption”.The update came just over a day after PSL 2025 – with eight games left in the season – was postponed indefinitely on Friday because of what the PCB called a “worsening of the situation” at the Pakistan-India border. The PCB had said at the time that the decision had been taken following advice from the Pakistan prime minister Shahbaz Sharif.That had come less than 24 hours after the PCB had announced that the remaining games of the PSL would be played in the UAE. That, however, changed soon, and the teams began disbanding with overseas players leaving for their respective destinations.There is no word yet on the resumption of the PSL. The postponement was announced hours after IPL 2025 was temporarily suspended. As reported on ESPNcricinfo, plans to resume the IPL began on Saturday evening following the announcement of a ceasefire between India and Pakistan that came into effect at 1130 GMT (1700 IST and 1630 PKT).The fate of Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan for a series of five T20Is is also unclear at the moment, with the BCB saying it has been involved in “active and ongoing discussions” with the PCB about it. Bangladesh are scheduled to reach Pakistan on May 21 to play in Lahore and Faisalabad, but the political situation in the region has raised concerns.The three-day President’s Trophy Grade II tournament started in mid-April and was scheduled to run till the fourth week of May, with the final scheduled to start on May 22, while the other two tournaments were scheduled to run through May.
Assistant coach praised ‘driven captain’ Shreyas Iyer for bringing ‘ultra-impressive’ side together ahead of IPL 2025
Shashank Kishore24-Mar-2025Ricky Ponting wants to make this one of the “greatest Punjab Kings team of all time.” Ahead of their IPL 2025 opener against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad, assistant coach Brad Haddin echoed similar sentiments.”That’s exciting to the players,” Haddin said, when asked if Ponting’s statement put pressure on them. “In this day and age, you want to challenge the player group to touch greatness. That’s what we want to see everyday. We want to see them get better than they were yesterday, better than what they were the previous week.”You have to set high expectations and high goals. The reason is we’re happy with the group we’ve put together. We’ve been ultra impressed with what they’ve done at training camps. Now all they want to do is play cricket. They’ve had enough cricket in camps, they want to get out there and express themselves.”Related
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Kings bought Shreyas Iyer for INR 26.75 crores to captain a new-look side that features the experience of Yuzvendra Chahal and Arshdeep Singh along with young talents like Priyansh Arya and Suryansh Shedge. They also multiple allrounders in Marco Jansen, Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis.Asked if the Australian flavour to the Kings support staff group was a “good thing” in driving culture towards team success, Haddin heaped praise on Shreyas, who he termed as a “driven captain” who would lead the way in establishing “standards” and “habits.””We’ve got a driven captain who has had a lot of success, not just for India but in the competition and in this form of the game,” Haddin said. “From the captain down, he has brought everyone together, the staff are on the same page as the players. From that point of view, what we’re seeing is a high[-quality] group being led by the standards and habits of the captain.”Haddin was also clear of the Kings’ brand of cricket, without divulging much about their choice of personnel.”If you have a look at the way IPL has developed, especially with impact player, it allows players up top to play with a lot more freedom,” he said. “Last year, we saw an increase in powerplay numbers. This year, it’ll increase again. From our point of view, it’s giving guys an opportunity to express themselves, make sure they play brave and play what’s in front of them, and not worry too much about what’s happening.”This is a new group, we’ve had a brand new auction, we’ve got every player that we want to play different roles. One of those is a couple of guys to play in those six overs, you’ll be quite excited to see when it comes. Whoever we put up there will be exciting, they’ll play a brave brand of cricket, dynamic at the top. That’s what we want them to do.”
It has been an alarming start to the brand new Premier League season for Aston Villa.
Unai Emery’s men remain without a win after their first three drab contests in the tough division, with zero goals tallied up, as their latest defeat at the hands of Crystal Palace sounded the alarm bells even more, considering the Eagles wiped the floor with the Villans on their own patch 3-0.
Still, Emery will know he can turn it around at the Villa Park helm, with a bumper 76 wins under his belt, managing the West Midlands outfit.
He will also be helped by some flashy new additions that entered the building on deadline day, as both Harvey Elliott and Jadon Sancho now try to boost a forlorn Villa side on loan.
Aston Villa's exciting deadline day additions
After all, Villa have won very recently when it comes to getting the very best out of a loanee from a Premier League rival, with Marcus Rashford linking up with Emery and Co. last season from Manchester United to pick up a hefty ten goal contributions from 17 appearances.
Sancho will be hoping he can have a similar positive impact on proceedings, donning his new claret and blue, having just come off a promising campaign at Chelsea when loaned away from Old Trafford, where he mustered up his own impressive tally of five strikes and ten assists from 42 clashes.
For a star that was once worth £73m when entering the Theatre of Dreams, it will all centre on him trying to salvage his faltering playing days even more under Emery’s wing, with his estimated valuation now sitting at a far lower £27m, as per Football Transfers.
For £8m more, Villa could well welcome Elliott permanently after his initial loan stint is up from Liverpool, with a £35m obligation to buy having been included as part of the deal. That is in line with his current market valuation of around £34m.
This doesn’t feel like an extortionate amount to fork out either, considering the two-time Premier League winner can boast 15 goal contributions in the challenging league, despite only making just 35 starts for the Reds in the division.
Away from the plethora of new buys arriving in the West Midlands, Emery will also know he has some individuals in his side already that can deliver on the big stage, irrespective of his team’s limp opening to the campaign.
The Aston Villa star worth more than Sancho & Elliott
The former Arsenal boss has been a transformative presence for many a Villans star since he arrived at the club in 2022.
Indeed, Morgan Rogers has been turned into a Premier League superstar under the Spaniard’s expertise, with a bumper 17 goals and 17 assists next to his name for the claret and blue half of Birmingham.
Subsequently, the recent PFA Young Player of the Year recipient has been touted to step away from Villa Park for a whopping £100m, amid interest from the likes of Arsenal, despite only joining at the start of 2024 for a meagre £8m.
Amazingly, Ollie Watkins also joined the Villans back in 2020 for a reasonable £28m, with the experienced attacker now a feared Premier League goal machine for Emery’s men when performing to the peak of his powers.
Watkins has never looked back since deserting Brentford, having now amassed a mammoth 75 Premier League strikes for Villa, which has led to the 5-foot-11 marksman being dubbed as “unbelievable” by ex-Villa player Stephen Warnock, on top of being heralded as a “machine” Brentford’s programme editor, Chris Deacon.
24/25
17 +14
£55m
23/24
27 + 15
£44m
22/23
16 + 6
£43m
21/22
11 + 2
£29m
20/21
16 + 5
£29m
Off the back of being consistently red-hot in front of goal, as seen glancing at his blistering numbers above, Watkins’ own estimated valuation now comes in at a mammoth £55m, as per Football Transfers, making him a more pricey asset than his compatriots, Elliott and Sancho, despite their esteemed reputations.
The 29-year-old has fired some uncharacteristic blanks so far this season, but there is hope he can turn it around.
With both Elliott and Sancho through the door, Emery has some fresh, exciting attacking personnel to experiment with, alongside his attempts to get the very best out of the Villa old guard again.
Rogers 2.0: Aston Villa close in on another exciting signing after Sancho
Aston Villa are hunting for deadline day reinforcements
Human Rights Watch has called on the ICC to suspend Afghanistan’s membership and ban the Taliban-run nation from competing in international cricket.The request came via an email addressed to ICC chair Jay Shah, dated February 3 and made public on March 7, with the subject line: “Suspending the Afghanistan Cricket Board and Implementing a Human Rights Policy”.Human Rights Watch describes itself as an independent, international, non-governmental organisation that conducts research and advocacy on human rights abuses by states and non-state actors around the world.”We are writing at this time to urge the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend Taliban-run Afghanistan from ICC membership, and from participating in international cricket, until women and girls can once again participate in education and sport in the country,” the email said.Related
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“We also urge the ICC to implement a human rights policy based on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”We note that you have pledged ‘to allocate more resources to women’s cricket’ during your tenure at the helm of global cricket and ‘champion the ICC’s mission further by allocating more resources and attention to women’s cricket’.”However, since retaking power in August 2021, the Taliban have imposed a long and growing list of rules and policies that bars women and girls from exercising their fundamental rights, including to freedom of expression and movement, many forms of employment, and education beyond sixth grade. These affect virtually all their rights, including to life, livelihood, shelter, health care, food, and water.”The email went on to say that the ICC’s anti-discrimination policy for international cricket states that it is committed to ensuring that wherever cricket is played, it can be enjoyed by all participants regardless of their respective backgrounds. It pointed out that the policy also strives to ensure all participants can enjoy sport without being subjected to intimidating conduct on the basis of – among other factors – sex, gender, marital status and/or maternity status.The email also argued that while payments to Afghanistan’s Women’s team were suspended in 2021, the country’s men’s team continues to receive financial and logistical support, apparently in contravention of the ICC’s own anti-discrimination rules.Nahida Sapan and Firooza Amiri speak to the media ahead of the Cricket Without Borders match in Melbourne in January•Getty Images
“By not allowing women and girls to play cricket, and not allowing a national team for women and girls to compete internationally, the Afghanistan Cricket Board is failing to abide by this Anti-Discrimination Policy,” Human Rights Watch said.”We note that cricket has been included as a sport in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and yet the Taliban’s ban on women and girls participating in the sport is a severe violation of the Olympic Charter’s guarantee that ‘the practice of sport is a human right’.”Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, women have been forced to adhere to an increasingly restrictive range of laws barring them from most areas of public life, including sport. Shortly before that, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) had agreed to contract 25 women’s players, most of whom now live in exile in Australia.In July last year, former members of the Afghanistan women’s national team, no longer recognised as such by the country’s Taliban rulers, wrote to the ICC asking to be recognised as a refugee team.Several of those players united in an Afghanistan Women’s XI for an exhibition match against a Cricket Without Borders XI at Melbourne’s Junction Oval in January.A protest outside Lord’s on the eve of the Afghanistan-England Champions Trophy match in Lahore in February•PA Photos/Getty Images
Around that time, the ECB came under pressure from a group of British MPs to boycott their recent Champions Trophy fixture against Afghanistan – who knocked England out of the competition – while UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the ICC to “deliver on their own rules”.England and Australia have opted not to play Afghanistan in bilateral games, while agreeing to face them at ICC events, with ECB chief executive Richard Gould calling for a “co-ordinated, ICC-led, response” rather than unilateral action from individual countries.The issues of banning or boycotting the men’s team is complex, with some of the formerly contracted Afghanistan women’s players telling ESPNcricinfo’s Powerplay podcast that they didn’t want to see their male counterparts prevented from playing because they offered hope, but they did want them to do more for the women and girls who were being denied the same rights.Afghanistan fans settle down to watch their team play England in Lahore•Getty Images
Human Rights Watch asked for a timely response from the ICC to a number of questions, including what steps the governing body is taking towards developing a human rights policy, why it hasn’t suspended the ACB from playing international cricket until women and girls have access to education and sport and, would it be prepared to recognise the Afghanistan women’s national team in exile, allowing it to train, compete and receive ICC financial support.It also asks what steps the ICC has taken or plans to take to “pressure the Afghanistan Cricket Board to include women and girl players in their competitions” and what funding or other support has been or will be provided to the Afghanistan Cricket Board.”The International Cricket Council should follow in the steps of other sport governing bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee, by calling on the Taliban to include Afghan women and girls in sport, and committing to a human rights frame work,” the email concluded.The ICC has been contacted for comment.
He broke Rishabh Pant’s record from 2018 with a 28-ball hundred against Tripura in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
ESPNcricinfo staff27-Nov-2024
File photo: Urvil Patel had hammered the second fastest List A ton by an Indian last year•GCA
Exactly a year after smashing the second-fastest 50-over century by an Indian, Gujarat opener Urvil Patel clattered a 28-ball century in the shortest format, which is the second-fastest overall in T20s and the fastest by an Indian. Urvil’s feat came against Tripura in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, India’s domestic T20 tournament, in Indore.The record for the fastest T20 hundred belongs to Sahil Chauhan of Estonia, who got there in 27 balls against Cyprus in Episkopi, Cyprus, in June this year. The record for the fastest century by an Indian belonged to Rishabh Pant, who had reached three figures off 32 balls for Delhi against Himachal Pradesh, also in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, in January 2018.Chasing 156 against Tripura on Wednesday, Gujarat romped home in just 10.2 overs thanks to Urvil’s unbeaten 113 off 35 balls that was studded with seven fours and 12 sixes. Three of those sixes went over the covers, three in the ‘V’ down the ground, four over the midwicket region and one sailed over square leg. Four of those 12 sixes were struck against Tripura captain Mandeep Singh, who had moved from Punjab before the start of the ongoing season. Urvil clattered Mandeep for 24 runs off just five balls, Abhijit Sarkar for 26 off nine balls (four fours and a six), Sankar Paul for 17 off four and Manisankar Murasingh for 28 runs off 10 balls, with the help of one four and three sixes.On November 27 last year, Urvil had smashed a 41-ball century in the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy, just a day after being released by Gujarat Titans (GT) ahead of the 2024 auction. That had placed him second in the list of the fastest List-A hundreds by Indians, behind Yusuf Pathan’s achievement of 40 balls. Urvil had been released after not getting any games with GT in IPL 2023.Urvil’s name was in the list of the uncapped wicketkeepers for the IPL 2025 mega auction recently but he did not find any takers.
نجح الفريق الأول لكرة اليد بنادي الزمالك، في تحقيق الفوز على نظيره توباتي البرازيلي بنتيجة 26-24، في مستهل مشواره ببطولة كأس العالم للأندية لكرة اليد.
وتقام البطولة في مصر خلال الفترة من 26 سبتمبر وحتى 2 أكتوبر 2025، بمشاركة 9 أندية من مختلف القارات.
والتقى الزمالك مع الفريق البرازيلي ضمن منافسات الجولة الأولى من بطولة كأس العالم للأندية على صالة نادي النادي بالعاصمة الإدارية الجديدة.
طالع أيضًا.. الزمالك يستهل مشواره في كأس العالم لأندية اليد بالفوز على توباتي البرازيلي
وشهدت تلك الجولة فوز برشلونة على توباتي بنتيجة كبيرة 41-22، في المباراة التي أقيمت بينهما اليوم.
ويلعب فريق كرة اليد بنادي الزمالك في المجموعة الثالثة، رفقة برشلونة الإسباني وتوباتي البرازيلي.
ومن المقرر أن يتأهل متصدر كل مجموعة إلى نصف النهائي، رفقة أفضل فريق يحتل المركز الثاني، فيما تتنافس الفرق الأخرى على المراكز الشرفية. ترتيب مجموعة الزمالك في كأس العالم للأندية لكرة اليد
With talents such as Max Dowman and Ethan Nwaneri breaking onto the scene, Arsenal are primed for many years of success and excitement at the forefront of domestic and European football.
But, for now, Mikel Arteta is thinking in the present, and he knows that these prodigious youngsters must be eased onto the senior stage. That’s why he has been so focused on signing superstars to improve his Gunners squad this summer.
Arsenal have finished second across the past three Premier League terms, but there’s no question that this team has made considerable gains since the Spaniard took to the dugout five years ago.
Now, the likes of Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard need to spearhead this project toward silverware, crowning a golden era with something tangible.
The £63m acquisition of Sporting Lisbon’s Viktor Gyokeres, one of the most feared centre-forwards in Europe, has certainly inched the club that step closer, but a creative winger is sought-after too.
Arsenal lining up new winger
Arsenal are pushing to sign Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze, who has a £68m release clause.
A principal agreement for the base layer of that clause has been agreed, but details remain before technical director Andrea Berta steers the deal across the finish line.
Eze operates across multiple attacking berths. His high-speed, fleet-footed dribbling makes him apt to star out on the left, although he has typically been played as a central midfielder with a license to roam while with the Eagles.
Eberechi Eze – Crystal Palace Career by Position
Position
Apps
Goals
Assists
Attacking midfield
74
25
11
Left winger
52
9
7
Central midfield
25
6
3
Right winger
3
0
0
Data via Transfermarkt
The 27-year-old might not be the out-and-out winger that Arsenal need, perhaps even bearing a skill set that could see such a player join the crew alongside him in the coming weeks.
Well, The Athletic have reported that both Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard, who came under fire at times last term for their performances, may be sold before the summer is up.
As such, it might be wise for Berta to consider signing another left-sided forward, who could sign in Eze’s stead or indeed cohabit with the Three Lions star in the Arsenal squad.
Arsenal lining up Eze alternative
According to transfer reporter Ben Jacobs, Arsenal are still monitoring the situation of Xavi Simons, with the RB Leipzig player expected to sign for a new club this summer.
Simons, 22, is one of the best young playmakers in Europe, and he’s versatile besides. Chelsea are engaged in talks with the Bundesliga side, but Arsenal and Bayern Munich remain interested. He is expected to cost around £56m.
It won’t be an easy one to pull off. Chelsea are indeed the frontrunners to sign the Netherlands international, so the Gunners will need to get a move on if they hope to steal ahead.
Why Arsenal should sign Xavi Simons
Formerly a prospect at Paris Saint-Germain, Simons arrived in Leipzig as a loanee at the start of the 2023/24 season before signing permanently in a €50m (£42m) deal.
Across 76 appearances for the Germans, he has scored 21 goals and has supplied 23 assists, operating, like Eze, across central and wide attacking midfield roles. Last season, he was most often found out on the left flank, where he notched nine goal involvements across only 17 outings.
Hailed as a “superstar” by analyst Ben Mattinson, this diminutive Dutchman has the remarkable blend of balance, technical skill and confidence to hit the ground running in the Premier League, sure to thrive where Eze would have at the Emirates Stadium, and sure to impress ahead of the aforementioned strugglers on the left flank in north London.
League Stats 24/25 – Xavi Simons vs Ebere Eze
Stats (* per game)
Simons
Eze
Matches (starts)
25 (25)
34 (31)
Goals
10
8
Assists
7
8
Shots (on target)*
2.0 (0.9)
3.0 (0.9)
Touches*
68.0
46.6
Pass completion
83%
82%
Big chances created
12
11
Key passes
2.0
1.7
Dribbles*
1.3
2.0
Ball recoveries*
5.1
4.3
Tackles + interceptions*
1.6
1.4
Duels won*
5.4
4.8
Data via Sofascore
Eze is a little quicker, a tad more active in carrying the ball up and tracking back down. The Englishman likes to get shots off with greater consistency; however, a conversion rate of just 8% in the Premier League leaves plenty to be desired in that department.
In Simons, who has been described as a “special player” by coach Harry Brooks, Arsenal would be signing a potent and dynamic threat who would be the perfect Eze alternative, for he is both positionally and tactically similar.
Moreover, he would prove an upgrade on Arteta’s existing left wingers, who have both struggled to assert themselves thus far during Arsenal’s pre-season and will have undoubtedly provided him food for thought.
Martinelli is a talented winger, but he’s struggled to reach elite levels over the past couple of seasons, hitherto renowned as one of the most exciting up-and-coming forwards.
Across the past two Premier League seasons, he’s bagged himself 14 goals and eight assists across 68 matches. Hardly an awe-inspiring return, having drifted in and out of games and indeed the starting line-up too.
Then, with the 30-year-old Trossard, the boss might be seeking a more talented and complete winger, a fine goalscorer though Trossard may be. Last term, in fact, the Belgian missed more big chances (9) than he scored (8), as per Sofascore, which is the first time that has happened in five top-flight seasons.
It’s clear that Simons, a rising star with a point to prove, could be the perfect addition to an Arsenal side in need of some more creativity to complement Gyokeres up top.
Simons could be the perfect signing, should efforts to reel Eze over prove fruitless.
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انتهت مباراة غزل المحلة مع المقاولون العرب، بالتعادل الإيجابي بهدف لكل فريق، في لقاء مثير بين الفريقين، أقيم اليوم السبت، ضمن منافسات بطولة الدوري المصري الممتاز.
واستضاف ملعب غزل المحلة، لقاء الفريقين، في إطار مواجهات الجولة السادسة من عمر مباريات بطولة الدوري المصري للموسم الحالي 2025-2026.
وسجل هدف غزل المحلة الأول، لاعبه أحمد شوشة من ركلة جزاء في الدقيقة 60، وضعها بنجاح على يمين حارس المقاولون العرب محمود أبو السعود. هدف غزل المحلة الأول أمام المقاولون العرب في الدوري المصري
طالع | غزل المحلة: الأهلي طلب ضم لاعب الفريق.. ولا نمانع رحيله الآن
وفي الدقائق الأخيرة، وتحديدًا الدقيقة 90+6، تعادل فريق المقاولون العرب، عن طريق مصطفى جمال من ركلة جزاء أيضًا. هدف تعادل المقاولون العرب أمام غزل المحلة في الدوري
اللقاء كان قد شهد سيطرة كبيرة من جانب فريق المقاولون العرب على مجريات اللعب، وأتيح له أكثر من فرصة خلال شوطي اللقاء، لكن اصطدم بدفاعات صلبة من غزل المحلة.
وبتلك النتيجة، يحتل فريق غزل المحلة المركز السادس في جدول ترتيب الدوري المصري، برصيد 8 نقاط، بينما على الجانب الآخر، فريق المقاولون العرب يتواجد في المركز التاسع عشر، برصيد 3 نقاط.