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46 — Vanguard, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2019<br />
Ole Gunnar’s<br />
relationship<br />
with Pogba<br />
‘breaks down’<br />
Manchester United midfielder<br />
Paul Pogba’s relationship<br />
with head coach Ole Gunnar<br />
Solskjaer is ‘slowly fading’, with the<br />
Frenchman said to be determined to<br />
leave Old Trafford this summer.<br />
Pogba has been one of United’s star<br />
performers since Solskjaer replaced<br />
Jose Mourinho as head coach in<br />
December. Indeed, the 26-year-old<br />
has now contributed 14 goals and 11<br />
assists in 40 appearances for the Red<br />
Devils this term.<br />
Talk of a potential summer switch<br />
to Real Madrid or Barcelona is<br />
refusing to go away, though, with<br />
Pogba believed to be determined to<br />
force a move to Spain.<br />
Solskjaer recently insisted that<br />
United would keep hold of the<br />
midfielder this summer, but<br />
according to Le Parisien, the<br />
relationship between the two has<br />
deteriorated, which could lead to an<br />
exit. Pogba - who played the full 90<br />
minutes as United lost 1-0 to<br />
Barcelona in the Champions League<br />
on Wednesday night - has a contract<br />
at Old Trafford until the summer of<br />
2021, with the option of a further year.<br />
Ronaldo tops<br />
Champions League<br />
goal-scorer chart<br />
CRISTIANO Ronaldo was on the<br />
scoresheet again in the<br />
Champions League Wednesday<br />
evening, netting Juventus’ opener<br />
against Ajax in their quarter-final<br />
first leg in Amsterdam. Ajax<br />
levelled through Neres to take a 1-1<br />
draw back to Turin.<br />
That goal was Cristiano Ronaldo’s<br />
125th in the Champions League<br />
and his 41st in the final stages of<br />
the tournament (quarter-finals,<br />
semi-finals and finals). The<br />
Portuguese striker is of course the<br />
overall top scorer in the<br />
tournament (his closest<br />
challenger is Messi on 108), but<br />
in terms of final stage goals<br />
nobody even comes close to his<br />
tally. Next on the list is Messi,<br />
who has less than half Ronaldo’s<br />
haul at this stage of the Champions League<br />
with just 16 goals.<br />
Following Messi are :<br />
Raúl González, Filippo<br />
Inzaghi and Andriy<br />
Schevchenko all on<br />
13 goals in the<br />
latter stages of<br />
Europe’s elite<br />
competition.<br />
Man City goalkeeper adds<br />
to his incredible tattoo<br />
Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson has<br />
added to his extensive tattoo collection<br />
with a lion, eagle and gloved hands inked onto<br />
his back. After the work was completed, the<br />
artist Adao Rosa posted a picture of the end<br />
product on Instagram.<br />
At the top of the back is some Biblical<br />
imagery with a Christ-like figure and angel<br />
wings.<br />
Below is an eagle to the left, dragon on the<br />
right and then some goalkeeper hands catching<br />
a football above a very detailed image of a lion’s<br />
head. Inch by inch, the 25-year-old seems to<br />
be covering his whole body.<br />
He already has a skull around his<br />
Adam’s apple and a rose beneath<br />
his ear. There are three female<br />
faces on his right arm above<br />
a sleeve.<br />
On the left arm there is a<br />
name on his bicep and a<br />
crown on top. On his chest<br />
is another nod to his<br />
religious beliefs with the<br />
words: ‘I belong to Jesus’,<br />
inked onto him.’<br />
Messi will never<br />
reach Maradona’s<br />
level — Enrique<br />
Former Argentina midfielder Hector<br />
Enrique has claimed that Lionel<br />
Messi will never be as good as Diego<br />
Maradona.<br />
The 1986 World Cup winner picked<br />
a side on the debate concerning<br />
which of the two superstars<br />
should be regarded as the<br />
best Argentine player of all<br />
time.<br />
“Messi, unfortunately,<br />
has had a hard time in<br />
the national team,” he<br />
told ‘Ataque Futbolero’.<br />
“I hope that in the<br />
next World Cup he<br />
will have the luck we<br />
had, but Messi will<br />
never reach Maradona’s<br />
level.<br />
“What I want is for Messi to<br />
play.”If he is not having a good<br />
time [in the team], it’s better<br />
not to come.”<br />
•Serena<br />
Lewandowski , Coman<br />
come to blows in training<br />
Bayern Munich strikers Robert Lewandowski and<br />
Kingsley Coman came to blows during a closed door<br />
training session yesterday, according to German media<br />
sources.<br />
German daily Bild reports that during the training<br />
session, Polish striker Lewandowski and France<br />
international Coman got into a heated argument after<br />
Lewandowski had criticized his 21-year-old strike<br />
partner. The argument quickly escalated to a<br />
physical confrontation with the pair exchanging<br />
several punches.<br />
According to the same media source, team<br />
mates Niclas Süle and Jerome Boateng were the<br />
first on the scene to try to separate Lewandowski<br />
and Coman. But the fight had grown so intense<br />
that the two players could not separate them<br />
alone, with practically the whole team needing<br />
to intervene in order to break up the pair.<br />
Costa banned for eight matches<br />
Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa has been<br />
banned for eight matches by the Spanish Football<br />
Federation after verbally abusing the referee during<br />
Saturday’s defeat to Barcelona. The suspension means<br />
the Spaniard will miss the rest of the season, as Atletico<br />
Madrid have just seven games left to play. Costa was<br />
shown the red card for for insulting referee Gil Manzano<br />
after 28 minutes of Atletico’s trip to Barcelona.<br />
The former Chelsea forward repeatedly insulted the<br />
official’s mother, for which he was given a four-match<br />
ban. A further four matches were added to the ban<br />
because Costa grabbed the official’s hand to prevent<br />
him from showing yellow cards to his team-mates<br />
Europa League: Olayinka risks<br />
missing trip to Chelsea<br />
Former Dream Team invitee Peter<br />
Olayinka risks missing Slavia<br />
Prague’s trip to London next week for<br />
the return leg of their Europa League<br />
quarterfinal clash with Chelsea.<br />
The striker is walking a tightrope<br />
in order to avoid picking up his third<br />
yellow card of the competition which<br />
would trigger a suspension.<br />
Olayinka received his first yellow<br />
card in the Europa League against<br />
Samuel Kalu’s Bordeaux on game<br />
week five and was shown a yellow<br />
card eleven minutes after his<br />
introduction in the seven-goal<br />
thriller against Sevilla last month.<br />
•Olayinka<br />
Serena flashes her<br />
underwear on the street<br />
Just when you thought woman had found all possible<br />
variations on the shirtdress and heels combo, Serena<br />
Williams revolutionized the game (it’s kind of her thing).<br />
The tennis superstar, businesswoman, designer, and new<br />
mom confidently stepped out in N.Y.C. on Wednesday in a<br />
belted patterned shirtdress from her Serena line and a pair<br />
of metallic red pumps — but not all was biz as usual with<br />
the athlete’s spring-y look … In a photograph taken in front<br />
of Buzzfeed’s office, the 37-year-old is staring directly at<br />
the camera, the skirt of her dress parted at the bottom to<br />
reveal a flash of white underwear or a possible swath of a<br />
bodysuit.<br />
Far be it from a wardrobe malfunction, Williams appears<br />
to have styled her dress to reveal the undergarment on<br />
purpose — in fact, it looks like she’s pulling the hem of her<br />
skirt away from her leg.
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