Renshaw hammered 156 from 109 balls after Gurinder Sandhu’s hat-trick had restricted the home side

AAP28-Nov-2021Ashes hopeful Alex Carey blasted a century for South Australia in a timely return to batting form but it wasn’t enough to prevent a six-wicket loss to Queensland in their one-day clash at Adelaide Oval.Carey top-scored for his side with 101 from 93 balls and combined with Henry Hunt (61) for a record-breaking 159-run opening stand before Gurinder Sandhu’s second career hat-trick helped Queensland bowl out the hosts for 274.Matt Renshaw, who is part of the Australia A squad, anchored the Bulls’ run chase with a career-best unbeaten 156 from 109 balls and received good support from Max Bryant (68), with the pair putting on 177 for the fourth wicket.It was Queensland’s second win from four matches in the one-day competition this season, while South Australia are struggling with a 1-3 record.In the mix to replace former captain Tim Paine as Australia’s Test gloveman at the Gabba next month, Carey had failed to reach double figures in any of his previous six innings for the Redbacks this season.He made a patient start to his innings before blasting his second 50 in just 30 balls, charging to his second one-day century of the season. He smashed a huge slog-sweep six off Marnus Labuschagne but was eventually bowled by the part-time legspinner when attempting to cut a delivery that wasn’t quite as short as he had expected.Queensland quick Sandhu finished with 4 for 44 from his nine overs, with Matt Kuhnemann also impressing as the final six South Australia wickets fell in the space of just 15 balls.Like Carey, Travis Head was hoping to impress national selectors, but he was dropped twice before his luck ran out on 29, caught by Mark Steketee off Kuhnemann.Queensland’s run chase began slowly and they were in trouble early when Test squad members Usman Khawaja and Labuschagne fell cheaply. Labuschagne departed in stunning fashion when he was run out by Hunt’s direct hit from a tough angle.But Renshaw’s composed knock steered the Bulls home. Featuring 15 fours and five sixes, his century came from 91 balls with his third fifty taking just 16 deliveries as he plundered Wes Agar.

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GOAL's key takeaways from Americans players in Europe, including Sargent's scoring and a match to forget for Pulisic

Christian Pulisic felt compelled to issue an apology. It had been a difficult week for Milan, leading the USMNT star to post on social media Sunday, "Really tough week. Hate letting down this amazing fan base."

Tough week was an understatement. First Milan lost to Feyenoord in the Champions League round of 16 playoff, comprehensively beaten by the Eredivisie side in a miserable performance at San Siro. Pulisic, for his part, was anonymous in that game – and was removed well before full time amidst reports that he is playing through a knock.

Saturday brought an opportunity for redemption, especially against middling Torino in Serie A. The result was quite the opposite, with Pulisic missing from the spot and Milan losing in a game that will surely hurt their chances of qualifying for next year's Champions League.

It wasn't much better elsewhere. Gio Reyna – who really should have left Dortmund 18 months ago – fell flat in a rare start. And Antonee Robinson's Fulham were beaten comprehensively by Chris Richards' Crystal Palace.

But there is good news to be found in the form of Josh Sargent, who scored twice for Norwich, including a truly lovely goal. Fellow American Brenden Aaronson will feature in perhaps the biggest game of Leeds' season when the Whites face off against Sheffield in a top-of-the-table match Monday night.

GOAL looks at the major takeaways from this weekend's Americans Abroad.

Getty Images SportSargent remains inevitable

It's getting harder to describe Josh Sargent scoring a goal every week. He did make it a little easier this time around because this week was different. This time, he didn't score a goal – he scored two.

Another week, another match-winning performance from the USMNT striker, whos is very much playing like a guy that wants to be the USMNT striker. He's now scored seven goals in his last six games, taking his total to 10 on the season. This campaign could have easily been derailed by his injury absence. Instead, we might actually look back at it as the one where Sargent took his career forward.

USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino will surely be watching. With no Folarin Balogun or Ricardo Pepi in March for CONCACAF Nation's League, the striker spot will almost certainly go to Sargent. There's no reason to worry about that. As long as he's fit, Sargent will head to March's camp ready to score.

Other clubs will be watching, too. Strikers who score this many goals in the Championship don't tend to stay in the Championship for too long. The USMNT standout seems ready for a big leap. Norwich still have slim promotion hopes, but Sargent looks like he might just be ready to move up with or without them.

That's for another day. For now, Sargent is in form and scoring goals, sometimes plural, every week. Long may it continue.

AdvertisementGetty Images SportPulisic's bad day caps AC Milan's bad week

It was bound to happen, but Pulisic will be extremely frustrated that it happened this week, of all weeks.

Just days after AC Milan were knocked out of the Champions League, and after Pulisic had to deny rumors of an alleged rift with coach Sergio Conceicao, the American missed a penalty for the first time in his career. He had previously been 12-for-12. He's now 12-for-13, and it cost Milan dearly.

The Italian giants fell 2-1 to Torino on Saturday, capping a miserable week with more misery. They now sit back in seventh in Serie A. Their top-four hopes are hanging by a thread.

Pulisic wasn't solely responsible. It was a bad day all around for Milan, who have had far too many this season. They deserve to be where they are and, given the mistakes they made against Torino, they deserved the loss, too.

There's still time to fix this, but that time is running shorter and shorter. It led Pulisic to add in his social post, "Will give everything to finish this season on a positive note."

GettyReyna fails to take his chance

When chances are few and far between, you have to capitalize when they arrive. Gio Reyna didn't.

Handed a rare start for Borussia Dortmund, Reyna was just about the only guy on the field not to contribute to a goal in a 6-0 blowout of Union Berlin. There were goals and assists aplenty, but Reyna wasn't particularly close to providing any of them.

He completed 20 of his 23 passes, had just 33 touches and didn't have a single touch in the opposition box. Reyna wasn't bad – he just floated on the peripherryin a game in which he needed to seize by the neck.

If he was starting every week, that would be fine. When you don't have that luxury, every start just means more. For Reyna, Saturday's start was meaningful, and he didn't use it to convince to club's brass to stick with him – or commit to more chances.

Who knows where this Reyna saga is headed next? It's taken plenty of twists and turns over the years,. Unfortunately, Saturday's performance had none of those twists and turns. Reyna's performance can be defined by a word that hasn't often been used to describe him: boring.

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Well, it wasn't pretty. It rarely is for Juve. Even when they play well, Thiago Motta's side are a sturdy, defensive outfit. This is not the place to come if you're looking for scintillating attacking football. But on Sunday, it worked a charm. Juve grinded out the kind of ugly 1-0 win needed to get back to winning ways after a pretty miserable week.

They were bounced from the Champions League by PSV on Wednesday – a game in which they were never truly competitive. Here, Motta's response was to make sure they were as solid as possible. And so it proved, with an opportunistic 1-0 win over Cagliari. Dusan Vlahovic provided the only goal.

The American duo of Tim Weah and Weston McKennie played their parts. Weah was once again charged with showing some versatility and put in a solid shift at right-back. It is largely to his credit that the home side had very little down the Juve right.

McKennie, meanwhile, was less involved. He struggled to find pockets of space against a disciplined Cagliari low block, but he did have his moments, and his off-ball work was crucial in supporting Vlahovic – while also preventing any attacks down the middle. It stands as an important result.

Tottenham Hotspur insiders theorise that they may be forced into a decision over letting a “superb” player leave in January, following a message from intermediaries behind-the-scenes at N17.

Spurs take on Man City in Carabao Cup clash this evening

The Lilywhites face off against Premier League champions Man City in the Carabao Cup this evening, with manager Ange Postecoglou aiming to put their disappointing 1-0 loss to Crystal Palace on Sunday firmly behind them.

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Jean-Philippe Mateta’s only goal of the game cemented Oliver Glasner’s first win of the new season and another damning loss for Postecoglou, who also watched his side suffer a 3-2 capitulation at Brighton just before the international break.

This comes after Postecoglou appeared to make a promise to end Tottenham’s 16-year wait for a major trophy, doubling down on comments he made in the summer by stating he “always” wins trophies in his second season.

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“I’ll correct myself – I don’t usually win things, I always win things in my second year. Nothing’s changed,” said Postecoglou on his interview with Sky Sports, which caused a stir.

“It’s amazing, isn’t it? I just stated a fact. Am I supposed to just lie or just say it never happened? But do you really think it’s me sort of boasting?

“It’s just confusing to me that people are making a big deal out of something. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to answer something that is true. I’ve just said something that’s true, and it seems like it’s upset a lot of people for some reason.”

The EFL Cup represents a golden opportunity for Postecoglou to make good on his pledge, but he must first pass one of Europe’s toughest tests with a face-off against Man City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The Australian will be without both Son Heung-min and Wilson Odobert for the tie, with right-back Djed Spence also just returning to training. Meanwhile, reports claim Postecoglou is likely to drop Mikey Moore in favour of Timo Werner for their bout against City, despite the pair’s contrasting form.

It is unclear whether summer signing Archie Gray, who has struggled for consistent game time under Postecoglou since arriving from Leeds in the summer, will start or remain on the bench.

Key Tottenham chiefs think they'll be forced into Gray transfer decision

Speaking of Gray, outlet GiveMeSport have shared an update on the teenager and his immediate future at Hotspur Way.

The English sensation’s fight for minutes has amounted to three starts in the Europa League, one start in the League Cup and zero starts in the top flight – with all of his appearances in the latter contest coming from the substitute’s bench.

Intermediaries have apparently warned Spurs that Gray will be subject to many enquiries before the January transfer window, as clubs in the Premier League and Championship weigh up approaches to take him on a temporary deal.

That is according to GMS, who also claim that key Tottenham figures think they’ll be forced into deciding whether to loan Gray out in the winter, amid this growing clamor of interest for his services.

The “superb” 18-year-old joined Spurs with a very exciting reputation, and perhaps a loan move away could help to further his development, instead of remaining a bit-part cup player in north London this season.

The South Africa fast bowler has partnered with a United Nations initiative for the cause

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Ngidi: “Will do best I can to effect change”

On average, a woman is murdered in South Africa in the time it takes for a T20 match to be played. Over the course of an ODI, two women die. Those are numbers Lungi Ngidi finds hard to ignore.”A woman is killed every four hours in South Africa. That is unbelievable. Mentally, I can’t grasp it,” Ngidi said to ESPNcricinfo. “Just hearing things like that and knowing I have my own mother, cousins, sisters and female friends, it shocks me. It’s not something that you want to be sitting worrying about every day, so something needs to be done about it.”Ngidi’s remarks have come during the annual international campaign against gender-based violence, instituted by the United Nations, that takes place between November 25 and December 10, but he has been thinking about the impact of gender-based violence for months.”This is something that really took off during the lockdown period for me. We are always so busy, we don’t really get time to read up on the stuff that’s happening in the country, but during that period this was something that was highlighted and it stuck out like a sore thumb,” he said.Related

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Many countries reported an increase in domestic abuse during the hard lockdowns of 2020. South Africa confirmed more than 120,000 cases in the first 21-day shutdown. Police figures say 53,293 sexual offences were reported in 2019-20 in the country, an average of 146 per day, up from 52,420 in 2018-19 (143 per day). Most of these were cases of rape: the police recorded 42,289 rapes in 2019-20, nearly 116 per day, up from 41,583 in 2018-19.”I felt that in some way I could contribute and I could make some sort of difference,” Ngidi said. “The main thing is trying to make sure it’s no longer just lip service and that there’s actually something being done. And those who have the power to actually make sure are being held accountable.”Ngidi will be partnering with the United Nations Women for Change programme and the Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation, set up in memory of the 19-year-old student of that name who was sexually assaulted and murdered in Cape Town in August 2019, sparking nation-wide protests against the abuse of women.Mrwetyana was also honoured by Springbok rugby player Makazole Mapimpi, who wore a wristband with her name on it at the 2019 rugby World Cup. “With Mapimpi, the tribute to Uyinene was a massive statement because it happened on a stage like that,” Ngidi said. “This is why I believe sport has the ability to effect change. Just that little gesture brought a lot of attention and some people who didn’t know [now] know what happened.”Protest in sport against social discrimination has become common over the last 18 months, since the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the antiracism movement. In South Africa it was Ngidi who sparked a dialogue with the Black Lives Matter movement when he answered a question at a press engagement last July, shortly after England and West Indies became the first international teams to take a knee.”As a nation, we have a past that is very difficult, with racial discrimination, so it’s definitely something we will be addressing as a team, and if we are not, it’s something I will bring up. It’s something that we need to take very seriously, and like the rest of the world is doing, make the stand,” he said at the time.It has taken the South African men’s team 15 months and a board-mandated instruction to reach the point where they are collectively making the gesture. Through that period, Ngidi has been one of the players who has been steadfast in taking the knee on every occasion he could, and in speaking out about injustice.”The way I was raised is to speak about something if it’s not right,” he said. “I believe I have the responsibility as someone who plays for the national team. As someone who can influence change, I feel it’s one of my responsibilities to say something.”It’s not like I am out here looking for attention or trying to rally other people to do what I believe in, but this is what I believe in and I can see there’s other people affected by this as well. I will do as best as I can to try and effect some change.”Ngidi’s work against gender-based violence will focus on education and support for those who are abused, and for the perpetrators of that abuse, he said. “Fundraising is important but the main objective is to start seeing a difference in terms of what is actually being done instead of just financial donations. To actually physically do stuff is the most important.”South Africa’s statistics of violence against women are a consequence perhaps of the overarching environment of toxic masculinity in the country. Ngidi said he “could never explain” why crimes against women take place but that he wants to understand and prevent them from happening as frequently.

Stokes took three wickets after a spirited display marked by long periods of short-pitched bowling

Andrew Miller17-Dec-2021Ben Stokes says that if England don’t believe they can save the Adelaide Test and turn around their fortunes in the Ashes, then “we’re beaten already”, after another chastening day with bat and ball in the second Test.Stokes finished with figures of 3 for 113 after a spirited display with the ball, marked by lengthy periods of short-pitched bowling, most notably against Australia’s centurion Marnus Labuschagne. However, his main role may yet be to come with the bat, after England limped to 17 for 2 under the floodlights, in reply to Australia’s 473 for 9 declared, before a lightning strike behind the bowler’s arm forced an early close to the second day’s play.”It’s been a tough two days,” Stokes said afterwards. “We spent a lot of time out in the field, put some overs into our legs, but it was nice to get off the field at the end and watch the guys go out and bat.”Obviously we came off in pretty strange circumstances – I’m not sure I’ve been involved in the game being called off early because of lightning – but we get to turn up tomorrow in the natural light, which has looked the easiest and best time to be around the middle.Despite the hard grind that England have endured across 150.4 overs of bowling, Stokes insisted that he had relished the scrap as he continues his return to Test cricket after a lengthy absence from the game last summer, during which time he feared he might never play at the highest level again.Related

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“You’ve just got to look for dirt when you get that deep, and understand what you’re playing for,” he said. “I’ve loved every minute of it. Walking out onto the field and wearing the three lions is one of the great feelings as a cricketer.”If you don’t feel sore coming off the field, and if you don’t feel sore waking up in the morning, then you’ve probably not done what’s required of you.”If we don’t believe, we’re beaten already.”Stokes has more right to feel sore than most after his tireless efforts with the ball. At Brisbane last week, he got through just 12 overs after jarring his knee while fielding. But having been reassured of no lasting damage, he’s pushed himself through the pain in this Test, serving up 25 overs all told to finish as England’s most successful wicket-taker in an arduous innings.In the absence of Mark Wood, England’s one genuine 90mph option within their squad, Stokes was employed as the attack’s point of difference, with a sustained spell of short-pitched bowling designed to discomfort Australia’s batters. The policy paid off on the first day, when David Warner carved a short ball to cover to fall for 95, while Stokes suggested it might also have played a part in the dismissal of Cameron Green, who failed to get fully forward to the full-length delivery that bowled him for 2 on the second afternoon.”It was about trying to create a different type of environment out there for the batters,” Stokes said. “It does look odd when you run and bowl 11 overs of short stuff, but in my first couple of spells I felt like I was creating quite a lot of chances and they weren’t really going anywhere. It wasn’t until the third spell today that we started to leak a few runs. But you can create chances and leak a few runs by trying to hit the top off as well.”Ben Stokes glares at Marnus Labuschagne•AFP/Getty ImagesIf England are to claw their way back into the contest, then a lot will rest on their incumbent pairing of Joe Root and Dawid Malan, whose century stand at Brisbane was their batting high point of the tour so far. But Stokes knows he will have a key role too at No.5, after scores of 5 and 14 in the first Test, his first competitive outing for six months after he missed England’s summer Test series against New Zealand and India with his broken finger.”I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of runs I would have wanted to in the first game,” Stokes said, “but how I look at batting, it’s not always about the runs that I score but how I felt out in the middle.”I’ve felt good in the nets and I felt really good out in the middle both times, I just wasn’t able to go on and get that big score. So I will be going out with the same mindset like I did in Brisbane.”Stokes added that he and his team-mates were conscious of the need to put up a stronger showing for the benefit of England’s fans – those staying up through the night at home as well as those in Australia. However, he also insisted that the tragic events in Tasmania on Thursday, where five children died after a bouncy castle broke its moorings in strong winds and for which Australia’s players had worn black armbands, “puts a lot of things into perspective”.”Obviously the first Test didn’t go well and Australia are ahead at the moment, but we know that back home we will be getting as much support as we always do,” he said. “We really appreciate it and it doesn’t go unnoticed.”

كشفت تقارير صحفية، عن استمرار غياب إيميريك لابورت مدافع فريق النصر السعودي، عن صفوف فريقه بعد خضوعه لـ عملية جراحية.

ويستعد النصر لمواجهة الهلال في المباراة التي تجمع بينهما مساء الجمعة 4 أبريل المقبل، ضمن منافسات بطولة الدوري السعودي.

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وأفادت صحيفة الرياضية السعودية، أن لابورت سيواصل الغياب عن تدريبات النصر بسبب خضوعه لعملية جراحية في باطن القدم أمس الأربعاء.

وأوضحت الصحيفة، أن مدافع النصر ترتبط عودته بعد التئام الجرح الخاص به، وتعافيه من الإصابة.

وكان إيميريك لابورت قد تعرض للإصابة في العضلة الخلفية خلال مشاركته مع النصر أمام الوحدة ضمن منافسات الجولة الـ25 من الدوري السعودي.

ويتواجد فريق النصر بالمركز الثالث في الدوري السعودي برصيد 51 نقطة، حصدهم من 15 انتصارًا وست تعادلات فيما نال أربعة هزائم.

Kagiso Rabada is already a super athlete. But, when his captain went and fired him up, he became the kind of hero littered all over Greek Mythology. So imagine being a mere mortal and running into him on a cricket field. Fortunately for India, they had a modern-day great of their own operating in much the same way. Virat Kohli produced a masterclass of defensive batting, his 79 off 201 balls the only reason the Test match is still in the balance.Cape Town had to be the setting for one of the most compelling one-on-one battles. Dark clouds had obscured Table mountain. A bad omen for all batters. And if that wasn’t enough, once they made it to the crease and looked up, they saw the grim reaper. Only he was holding a red ball instead of a black scythe. Rabada refused to succumb to human error. Every ball was on a good length. Everything was targeting the stumps. Nothing short. Nothing down leg. Nothing easy. All of it at 140 kph.Ajinkya Rahane was consumed by this onslaught.He came in with his career hanging by a thread and Rabada snapped it with a ruthlessness that has always drawn the whole world to the art of fast bowling. Pitched up. Angling in. Moving late. Edged. Gone. The moment was almost a physical manifestation of the kind of luck that has dogged the former India vice-captain. Like, if he were to look under his couch cushions for some change, he’d probably find a moldy old half-eaten tuna sandwich instead.Newlands offered help to the seamers all through the day but it was only slight. Ironically, that meant the ball took the edges instead of whooshing past them. And Rabada made the most of it by going wobble-seam. The thing with this variation is that nobody really knows how it behaves until it hits the deck and comes up. If the seam is upright, it jags about. If it isn’t, it goes straight. Rabada made this uncertainty feel even more pronounced by going full and straight. This produced two-fold problems for the batters – they couldn’t leave the ball and they had very time to adjust to how it moved off the surface.Now every unstoppable force needs an immovable object. Joker has Batman. Global warming has Greta Thunberg. And Rabada had Kohli. There was a period between the 47th and the 49th overs when this showdown hit fever pitch. There were plays and misses. There was an edge that fell short. There were oohs. There were aaahs. There were wry smiles. But there was no wicket.Related

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And that’s the genius of Kohli.He walked out at a time when South Africa’s bowlers were producing one false shot every four balls. India were 33 for 2 and under siege. To survive a situation like that, you need clarity of thought and conviction of method. Kohli displayed both. He left 64.7%, of his first 100 deliveries, outside the off stump. In the last five years, over 1100 innings, only four batters have ever been more restrained.It took him 15 balls to get off the mark but he didn’t mind. He waited for his chance – a long half-volley from Marco Jansen – and he cashed in. That’s how he got all the 13 boundaries that studded his innings, including a big booming drive past mid-off to get to his half-century.This was a sharp change in mindset from the way he played (and got out) in Centurion, one that was enabled by a subtle change in technique. Sunil Gavaskar was quick to spot it on the broadcast. The former India captain said of the current India captain that his front foot was now moving down the pitch in a straighter line. In the first Test, because he was looking to play at , his front foot kept moving too far across, taking him towards stuff that he had no business getting close to.Here, Kohli was determined to make South Africa’s bowlers come at him. And it worked. He played only 16 false shots in 201 deliveries. That count for the rest of the team: 48 in 271.Amid two outstanding individual displays, there was Cheteshwar Pujara’s 43 and Jansen’s three-for, both competent efforts, highlighting the strengths that each of them have. Jasprit Bumrah chimed in as well, picking up the wicket of Dean Elgar late in the day, and at the end of it all, we have a Test match – a series decider – poised in the most tantalising fashion.

Arsenal are convinced an “absolutely underrated” star will also miss their blockbuster Premier League clash against Liverpool this weekend, as manager Mikel Arteta continues dealing with an injury crisis at N5.

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Arteta is certain to be without a host of players as his Gunners side prepare for one of their toughest games of the season against Arne Slot’s high-flying Liverpool side, who have won seven of their opening eight top-flight matches so far.

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Versatile defender Takehiro Tomiyasu could be out for another month following a recurrence of his knee injury, according to some reports, having briefly returned to the side in a six-minute cameo against Southampton only to be ruled out of action again.

Kieran Tierney remains out with a hamstring injury he sustained at Euro 2024 representing Scotland, while club captain and chief creator Martin Odegaard is still recovering from ankle ligament damage he suffered during an international tour of duty with Norway last month.

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Arteta has said that Odegaard is in the latter stages of rehab, though, so it may not be long before we see the 25-year-old back on the pitch. Jurrien Timber is a doubt for Liverpool as well, having missed Arsenal’s last few games with a muscle problem, but the biggest concerns revolve around summer signing Riccardo Calafiori and star winger Bukayo Saka.

Saka missed Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Tuesday evening, and their loss to Bournemouth, despite some optimism he could’ve been available for the latter encounter.

It remains to be seen whether Arteta can call upon the 23-year-old for their Emirates Stadium clash, and Arsenal supporters are also anxiously waiting for a definitive Calafiori update after the Italian was substituted with 20 minutes remaining against Shakhtar.

There are fears Calafiori has damaged his ligaments, which would come as quite a blow for Arsenal before Liverpool, especially considering William Saliba will be missing through suspension.

While Arteta’s pre-match press conference will reveal the current conditions of Arsenal’s injured stars, Football Insider have provided an update on Saka, and whether the £195,000-per-week forward could be available this weekend.

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The outlet reports that Arsenal expect Saka to miss their clash against Liverpool on Sunday, in what was another real blow for Arteta when taking into account all the other absentees.

The Hale End academy graduate is an absolutely crucial player for Arsenal, scoring 20 goals in all competitions last season and already racking up 10 goal contributions in total this campaign.

Called “absolutely underrated” by some sections of the press like journalist Charles Watts, Saka is pivotal to the way Arsenal play, so not being able to call upon the England international this weekend is a very sore one to take for Arteta.

Having failed to get close to Celtic on the pitch so far this season, Rangers are now reportedly expected to battle their Old Firm rivals in a bid to sign one of Scotland’s most exciting prospects in January.

Rangers transfer news

Even after turning their form around before the international break, it’s clear that Rangers need reinforcements when the January transfer window arrives. As many as nine points adrift of Aberdeen and Celtic level on points at the top of the Scottish Premiership, the Gers will be desperate to ensure that their season avoids becoming a write-off so early into the campaign.

When the winter window arrives, Rangers’ financial situation will also be an interesting one to watch. Those at Ibrox recently reported an operating loss of £17.2m in their latest accounts which is likely to limit Philippe Clement in pursuit of reinforcements.

Despite that concern, however, the Scottish giants continue to be linked with reinforcements such as Wrexham’s Ryan Barnett. The right-back could replace Gers captain James Tavernier and could yet be joined by a Scottish sensation in Glasgow.

According to the Daily Mail, Rangers are now expected to rival Celtic in pursuit of signing Lennon Miller in the January transfer window. The 18-year-old midfielder is one of the hottest prospects in Scotland and now seemingly has the chance to decide between both Old Firm clubs at the beginning of next year.

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Reportedly valued a £4m by Motherwell though, it remains to be seen whether or not Rangers can even find the funds to sign the talented prospect. If that is the case and they lose out to Celtic away from the action all whilst the Bhoys compete for another league title, then it would be the ultimate blow for those at Ibrox.

"Exciting" Miller would hand Rangers instant boost

Whilst he may be just 18 years old, the numbers suggest that Miller would be more than ready to step into Clement’s side and hand the Belgian an instant boost when January arrives. The young midfielder has managed four goals and three assists from the middle of the park in just 18 games in all competitions to become a Motherwell hero and a man in demand.

Motherwell manager Stuart Kettlewell is one of many to have waxed lyrical about Miller, saying via The National last season: “I have not shied away from it, because of the nature of the person and the lad that he is, he is unquestionably one of the best, if not the best, talent that I have worked with.

“But not just from how you kick a football, how you behave and everything that you do. I just think he is a really exciting talent. If he was playing at one of the other clubs I would be waxing lyrical about him as well because I do get excited when you see really good footballers in Scotland.”

If Rangers can get their finances in order then they should do everything to beat Celtic to Miller’s signature in January.