Sterling’s future at the club looked to be in doubt as he lost his place in the team at the end of last season and remained on the fringes to start this campaign.
On the prospect of brushing shoulders with Messi and Co, Holland added: “If we get to meet them tonight it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
The visitors pressed for an equaliser, but this only left the door open at the back for Real Madrid to score a second through Marco Asensio.
And even though Atletico as a whole are looking decidedly shaky, United cannot afford to overlook the no-longer-quite-so-underrated Correa.
When Ferguson left, a lot needed to change. Ferguson and Gill were the glue that held the club together. They were the duo that got everything done, so both leaving at the same time rocked Old Trafford to its core.
Charlie Mulgrew was also called into action when Charles-Cook threatened to create an opening for himself, eventually conceding a corner kick from the County player's shot across the face of goal.
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The 29-year-old joins the club after most recently playing with Valerenga, where she won the Norwegian Women's Cup in October.
Two predictions, then, for Sunday's final. The first is that it will be another tight, tactical, intriguing encounter, as each side waits for the other to leave a space big enough for a brilliant Liverpool forward to do something brilliant. The second is that, if the game stretches on into extra time, Egypt will be absolutely fine with that. Gabal looks about ten feet tall at the moment. Love football, hate goals.
Those two clubs, along with Leicester, Liverpool and Manchester United, have all won the title after a takeover, but others have struggled even to break into the European places on a regular basis, including Everton, Aston Villa and West Ham United.
Ralph Hasenhuttl says he can't imagine having a better job than at Southampton amid fresh speculation linking him with Manchester United.
At the time the women's game was growing in popularity and attracting crowds of up to 53,000. The decision changed the course of female football forever.
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Being expected to deliver time and time again is a test both physically and mentally. Could Klopp or Tuchel have done anything differently?
Chelsea 2-2 Liverpool - Match report and highlightsHow the table standsMan City are pulling away, with a 10-point gap between them and second-placed Chelsea.
The hosts doubled their lead eight minutes later when defender Thiago Silva headed in from Mason Mount's excellent free-kick delivery.
Of those three they did not win when he was in the line-up, one was the defeat away to Paris Saint-Germain and another the draw at Liverpool - two games that City dominated for long periods. The only major blip, then, came in the 2-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace in October.
To the people around me, the team-mates, the doctors first on the pitch, the team doctors and paramedics and then at the hospital, to do everything and check everything.
Overrun by an Arsenal side with conspicuously more endeavour and enterprise, Spurs looked so passive at the Emirates Stadium.
That was a really important thing for us, we didn't want to bring anyone in that destabilised the group or disrupted the excellent spirit we're building internally.
West Ham take on their fierce rivals this weekend sitting just a point behind Nuno Espirito Santo's team in the table and with it all to play for at the London Stadium.
Carpenter has plenty of experience in winning trophies already, despite being just 21 years old. The full-back was part of the Melbourne City team that won the Premiership and Championship titles in Australia in 2020, before joining a very successful Lyon side.
I didn't know him that well, but he turned up for a reserve game and asked for a word. I took him into the office at Forfar and he just asked: How would you like to be my assistant at Aberdeen? I said: That would be great, I'm up for it. He asked when I could start and I just said tomorrow.
The England international posted a message on social media apologising for the tackle, but said it was unacceptable that she had received abuse.
With Flick's predecessor Joachim Low, who received an official farewell before the game, watching from the stands, Germany struck again four minutes after the restart with Sane before late goals from Mueller and Ridle Baku.
That's very encouraging. Hopefully that's the case and whoever that preferred bidder is, I can obviously then have dialogue and start planning to see what I can do in January.
Sunday's football offering also included live matches from the Scottish Premiership with St Mirren vs Rangers and Bundesliga with FC Köln vs Bayer Leverkusen, as well as a selection of EFL highlights.
The 26-year-old was a handful when Venezia finally got in to their attacking groove in the second half and Aramu was at the centre of everything.
These young kids have got the chance to play at Wembley in a cup final, there's going to be nerves, he said.
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After half-time, though, Arsenal turned it up, and ought to have scored in the 10-minute period between the 60th and 70th minutes. But Alexandre Lacazette spurned their best opportunity and Burnley steadied themselves thereafter, holding on for a point they both needed and earned.
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Is there a concern there could be fan trouble between Frankfurt and West Ham following the clashes in Seville?
The money around the club is unlikely to bring instant results, given the Magpies' precarious position in the Premier League and the reluctance of clubs to do significant business in January.
Instead, it was Leander Dendoncker who had the best chance of the half, an unmarked header from Podence's cross that was easily saved by Edouard Mendy in the Chelsea goal.
Moments later, Mount got down the left and fed Marcos Alonso in the box with a cutback, but the Spaniard mishit his shot and it bounced wide.
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I've watched Burnley the last couple of games against Man Utd and Liverpool and I'm thinking they're not out of it either.
Sometimes I am more comfortable in that than when I am handling the success. There are those he leans on in such moments.
Everton still boasts several exciting prospects. This is at the heart of the ongoing strategic review and is central to more longer-term thinking.
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How much, for example, would Liverpool miss Gini Wijnaldum’s skills and durability? Are Takumi Minamino and Divock Origi viable understudies for Salah and Mane? Could James Milner continue to defy Father Time, and was it really wise to bank on the likes of Keita, Thiago Alcantara and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain staying fit?
After a loose pass from Raheem Sterling on the edge of the box, Southampton counter-attacked and Oriol Romeu picked out Walker-Peters on the right with a trademark cross-field ball. Walker-Peters moved it onto Nathan Redmond ahead of him then sprinted into the box to receive the return pass, lashing a shot into the top corner with the outside of his boot.
Welsh football bosses are to explore the idea of playing games at the Principality Stadium again. But we'll actually speak to the Welsh Rugby Union late next week.
However, their €55m deal for Ferran Torres proves that they are alive in this window. They might yet pull off more surprises.
It wasn't the plan - the situation was that Sadio [Mane] goes for a clean heading challenge, no one makes a foul and they get up and for me it's a bit too obvious that there was nothing, he said to BBC Match of the Day.
Trevor Chalobah, Reece James and Callum Hudson-Odoi put Chelsea in the clear before Timo Werner came off the bench to round off the scoring at Stamford Bridge.
