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Com grande atuação e golaço de bicicleta de Sassá, que entrou na segunda etapa, o Botafogo venceu o Resende por 3 a 2 no Estádio Nilton Santos e se garantiu nas semifinais da Taça Rio e do Campeonato Carioca. Lindoso também marcou e Guilherme também se destacou. O Resende vendeu caro a derrota, com boa atuação de Pingo, que fez um dos gols da equipe. Confira as notas da partida:

BOTAFOGO
6,0
Gatito Fernández
Não teve culpa nos gols do Resende. Foi pouco exigido durante a partida, mas demonstrou segurança quando foi preciso.

6,0
Marcinho
Auxiliou o ataque em algumas oportunidades, dando bons cruzamentos. No setor defensivo, não comprometeu.

5,5
Renan Fonseca
Participou ativamente do primeiro gol alvinegro, mas cometeu algumas falhas, assim como no lance do segundo gol do Resende.

5,5
Emerson Silva
Não foi muito bem. Setor defensivo mostrou algumas falhas e isso teve peso na atuação do zagueiro. Cometeu faltas desnecessárias.

6,5
Victor Luis
Após a saída de Marcinho, teve mais liberdade para subir ao ataque e conseguiu bons passes e cruzamentos – um deles, na cabeça de Roger.

7,0
Rodrigo Lindoso
Foi o autor do gol que abriu o placar para o Botafogo, mas não acompanhou Pingo no lance que acabou em gol do Resende.

6,5
Bruno Silva
Foi importante na saída de bola e deu chutes perigosos de longa distância, obrigando Arthur a fazer a boas defesas. No restante, atuação razoável.

6,5
Montillo
O meia apareceu bastante no primeiro tempo, distribuindo o jogo, principalmente, pela direita, mas caiu de rendimento na etapa final.

6,5
Camilo
Arriscou algumas finalizações e levou perigo ao gol adversário no primeiro tempo, mas também deu uma sumida no segundo tempo.

7,0
Rodrigo Pimpão
Foi um dos melhores do Botafogo em campo. Criou bastante oportunidade e deu movimentação ao setor ofensivo.

5,0
Roger
Esforçou-se pela bola, mas não foi bem. Teve duas oportunidades claras de gol, uma em cada tempo, mas desperdiçou as duas.

6,0
Fernandes
Atuou improvisado na lateral direita e ficou mais preso no auxílio à marcação. Ajudou como pôde.

7,5
Guilherme
Entrou bem. Deu mais velocidade ao ataque e por pouco não marcou um belo gol. Sofreu o pênalti que gerou o segundo gol do Botafogo.

8,0
Sassá
Entrou, fez dois gols e decidiu! Teve tranquilidade ao bater o pênalti e marcou um golaço com uma finalização de bicicleta.

7,0
Jair Ventura
Acertou nas alterações no decorrer do jogo e, apesar de o time ter errado algumas coisas, saiu de campo com a vitória e classificação.

RESENDE

6,0
Arthur
Fez defesas importantes. Sem culpa nos gols.

5,5
Muriel
Apareceu bastante, principalmente no primeiro tempo.

5,0
Marcelo Costa
Não foi muito bem.

6,0
Thiago Sales
​Fez um gol, mas teve alguns erros de posicionamento

6,0
Dieyson
Deu um certo trabalho à parte direita da defesa do Botafogo.

5,5
Vitinho
Teve algumas falhas de posicionamento à frente da zaga.

5,0
Chacal
Abusou das faltas para parar os adversários alvinegros.

5,5
Léo Silva
Um desarme e um chute no primeiro tempo, sem muito mais.

5,0
Marcel
Foi um dos mais ativos do no primeiro tempo, mas não foi bem.

6,5
Pingo
Foi o melhor do Resende em campo. Fez um bonito gol.

5,5
Jhulliam
Arriscou alguns chutes, mas não levou o perigo que se imaginava.

5,0
Lohan
Tentou uma cabeçada, mas teve atuação apagada

4,5
Robinho
Fez o pênalti que gerou o segundo gol do Botafogo

5,0
Wandinho
Entrou, mas pouco apareceu em campo

5,0
Ademir Fonseca
Time criou pouco e não soube aproveitar as falhas apresentadas pelo Botafogo.

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MELBOURNE, Dec 15 AAP – Shane Warne’s dislocated shoulder has put Australia’s World Cup plans in a spin, with fears his latest injury could be a career-threatening one.

Adam Cooper15-Dec-2002MELBOURNE, Dec 15 AAP – Shane Warne’s dislocated shoulder has put Australia’s World Cup plans in a spin, with fears his latest injury could be a career-threatening one.Warne dislocated his right bowling shoulder when he dived to try to cut off a drive from England’s Craig White during Australia’s 89-run win at the MCG.Warne was taken off the ground on a stretcher and will undergo arthroscopy surgery tomorrow to allow specialists to determine the extent of the damage.Australian physiotherapist Errol Alcott said a best-case scenario would see Warne miss four to six weeks of cricket.That means he will miss the remainder of the Australian summer but aim to return in time for World Cup starting in February in South Africa.But Alcott hinted the injury could be career-threatening given Warne has previously undergone shoulder reconstruction.”It’s a good question,” Alcott said when asked if the injury could end Warne’s brilliant career.”I think it’s one of those situations where we need to wait and see what damage has been done and assess it from there.”Also we haven’t seen a dislocation in a legspinner. In fact, we haven’t seen a dislocation in any of the Australian team that I can remember so it is new territory.”But Shane Warne, in particular, given his pre-history, some of these questions we’ll have to wait and see to be answered.”Warne’s shoulder was popped back into place by team doctors before he was taken to hospital.Alcott said while the dislocation was a typical one, Warne’s previous surgery could complicate his recovery.”It’s a little bit difficult because we don’t know the extent of the damage,” he said.”So best-case it just stretched the capsule and the joint popped forward and it’s four to six weeks and you can only add time on if there’s something further been injured.”Alcott said it was vital Warne did everything he could to return to full fitness regardless of the World Cup.”I think it’s just a question of Shane Warne’s shoulder getting better as soon as possible and with as little chance of re-injury,” he said.”We can’t use the World Cup as a milestone for his rehab.”Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Warne’s injury – which came when the home side was well on its way to victory – had taken the gloss of the team’s win.”It was just a disappointing and sad thing to happen,” he said.”The way he’s trained and put in in the last 12 months and the way he’s been bowling, it’s sad that something like that happens to someone who’s worked so hard.”Ponting said Warne was “squealing” in pain and said the legspinner knew he had suffered a serious injury immediately.”He knew straight away, he was saying to all of us that he thought it was out and he could feel it was out of joint so he had a pretty good idea straight away,” he said.Warne who’ll also miss the remaining two Ashes Tests, missed much of the 1998-99 season after needing a reconstruction of the shoulder.He also was out of action for several months during the 2000-01 season when he broke the spinning finger in his right hand in a fielding accident.England captain Nasser Hussain, who was bowled by Warne for 19 today, said the injury was a blow to world cricket.”Let’s hope it’s not serious because he got himself really fit, he had a shoulder problem a few years ago which he’s just now coming back from and bowling exactly how Shane Warne wants to bowl,” Hussain said.”There must have been a lot of hard work and effort put in to be where he is now and let’s hope it’s not too serious because world cricket needs Warnie bowling the way he has done in the last few months.””Let’s hope he’s out for a couple of weeks and then is back to his best.”

Craig White told how he gave what encouragement he could to England fast bowler Steve Harmison, after he was England’s last man out in the Trent Bridge Test, leaving White stranded six runs short of his second Test century.”Firstly he apologised to me but I told him not to worry about it because Ithought he had batted very well in his first Test match,” said White. “It would have been nice to get a hundred but it’s a team game and I backed Harmy to get runs as well – it just wasn’t meant to be.”Asked why he took the run which allowed India to target Harmison, he replied:”My initial instinct was to go for the run and then I thought `should I, shouldn’t I?’ But I decided to go because they are Test runs, they don’t come that easy so you can’t turn them down. Looking back on it I probably would do it again.”White believes he has lost some of the ‘nip’ which had returned to his bowling at the Lord’s Test.”It takes me a while to loosen up and unfortunately if you go for a few runsin those first two overs it’s not good enough, you get taken off and that’sunderstandable. I am a little bit stiff at the moment whereas at Lord’s I was as loose as a goose. See what happens tomorrow, it could be a long day.”White admitted the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar, who is 56 not out, is the crucialone. “He’s the start, we have to target him and Rahul Dravid in the morning andtry and get a new batsman in. It could take a while but we just have to keep chipping away with the aim to make early inroads.”

Speaking to Football Insider, pundit and BBC Radio Leeds regular Noel Whelan has been left in awe of Tottenham Hotspur after their approach to sign Miralem Pjanic on loan from Barcelona.

The Lowdown: Spurs make Pjanic approach…

As per Spanish publication Sport, Tottenham’s managing director Fabio Paratici asked the La Liga giants about loaning Pjanic in a recent transfer approach.

The Bosnia international is being linked with a move away from the Camp Nou this summer after featuring only sporadically last season in La Liga. Pjanic was handed just six starts by Catalans boss Ronald Koeman, with Tottenham now making an approach to take him to north London.

The Latest: Whelan in awe of Pjanic call…

Speaking to Football Insider, BBC pundit Whelan has praised Tottenham and Pjanic after this development, calling the midfield maestro a signing fans want to see.

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He also hailed the former Juventus star as an ‘amazing player’, saying: “Fans will want to see players like that coming to Tottenham.

“Despite them not being in the Champions League, they’ve got to find quality somewhere.

“Players that are going to accept not playing in those sort of competitions. Someone who is looking to the future to put themselves back in contention to play there.

“It’s vital as a manager that you don’t just go out there looking for 21-year-olds. There’s been a lot of criticism of how they’ve dealt with picking the manager.

“He’s a Bosnia international. He’s been at Barcelona, he’s an amazing player, he’s competitive. That’s what’s Tottenham need to be again. They need to find that nice balance.”

The Verdict: Avoid…

Over the league games in which he did feature, Pjanic averaged an excellent 91.4% passing accuracy in the middle of the park, highlighting his quality as a ball-distributor. However, his wage demands – reported to be around £210,000 per week – far exceed anything he can bring to the table for Tottenham.

It seems unlikely that chairman Daniel Levy would be willing to pay this hefty salary as Barcelona seek to trim their enormous wage bill. With Gareth Bale going back to Real Madrid, Pjanic’s current paycheque would make him the highest-paid player at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The Bosnian would come as a man with proven quality, but this move could be too detrimental financially to Spurs, especially with Pjanic now 31 years old.

In other news: ‘Understand’…Alasdair Gold backs big news coming out of Tottenham, find out more here.

Alan Hutton has played down any concerns about Leeds United transfer target Noa Lang struggling with the step-up to the Premier League.

The former Rangers, Tottenham and Aston Villa defender was discussing the Club Brugge ace with Football Insider.

The lowdown

Leeds are said to be in talks with the Belgian champions over the signing of the 22-year-old winger, who is open to joining Marcelo Bielsa’s side.

He spent the 2020/21 season as an Ajax loanee before Club Brugge’s obligation to buy for €6m (£5.14m) was activated at the start of July.

The Dutchman finished in the top 10 in the Jupiler Pro League scoring charts last season, although former Premier League manager Alex McLeish warned on Friday that Lang could be in for a ‘shock’ if he moves to the English top flight given the enhanced ‘speed’ and ‘quality’.

The latest

Hutton stressed that Lang’s impressive numbers shouldn’t be discounted purely because of the league in which he plays. The Scot feels that Leeds adopt a risk-averse approach to transfers, evaluating players thoroughly to ensure they have what it takes to thrive under Bielsa.

The 36-year-old told Football Insider: “He’s playing in a strong Belgian league. It doesn’t matter who you come up against, you still have to go out there and do it.

“To score 17 goals and get 11 assists, I’m pretty sure there will be quite a few people looking at him.

“It will be more difficult but if he can replicate that in the Premier League or even do half of that, you would be more than happy.

“Leeds don’t just buy a player on a whim, they don’t take a chance. They don’t have that mentality.

“They cover all the bases with these players. If I see Leeds looking at a player, I always think he must be decent.”

The verdict

Hutton makes a good point. Sometimes we’re too quick to question players who arrive from outside the top five leagues in Europe. On the one hand, they face tougher opponents, but on the other they should receive better coaching and be surrounded by higher quality team-mates.

Lang may also have the luxury of patience. Raphinha and Jack Harrison are Leeds’ first-choice options on the wings, so he’d probably be given time to adapt to his new surroundings and to Bielsa’s demands without coming under immediate pressure to produce the goods.

That gradual bedding-in period may be invaluable to him and, once completed, he could begin to genuinely compete with the current mainstays in the Whites’ starting XI.

In other news, Leeds are close to signing this teenager.

According to a report by GiveMeSport, West Ham United have now made an approach to sign Rangers midfielder Glen Kamara as they get in touch with the player’s camp.

The Lowdown: West Ham eyeing midfield reinforcements?

Despite the general consensus being West Ham are prioritising a new striker, centre-back and permanent deal for Jesse Lingard (Claret & Hugh), that still hasn’t stopped the club from being linked to bolstering other positions.

One of these areas is central midfield and the Irons were even thought to be in advanced talks for Czech Republic international Alex Kral at one stage.

The Latest: West Ham make contact for Kamara…

As per GMS, West Ham are now one of the clubs interested in signing Gers ace Kamara after an impressive season in the SPFL.

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It is said that the Irons have even ‘touched base’ with the player’s camp to find out about the kind of deal he’d be looking for this summer.

They are not the only club, with Everton, Brentford and numerous teams from the Russian Premier League all believed to have done the same thing.

The Verdict: Good option…

The 25-year-old hugely impressed at Ibrox over their 2020/2021 title-winning season, with the 34-cap Finland international averaging a 90.5% pass accuracy in the middle of the park (WhoScored).

Gers boss Steven Gerrard also waxed lyrical over his contribution for the Glasgow giants, calling him a ‘magnificent player’ and a ‘big piece’ of their jigsaw (The Scotsman).

He also impressed at Euro 2020, with no Finnish player making more interceptions than Kamara (3.3 per game) over their three group games (WhoScored).

We believe he could be a fruitful option if West Ham decide to pursue a move further.

In other news: West Ham fans flock to club announcement, find out more here.

In one of my earlier columns, I had opined that the Indians had agood chance of giving their fans an encore of the glorious WestIndies tour of 1971

Erapalli Prasanna23-May-2002In one of my earlier columns, I had opined that the Indians had agood chance of giving their fans an encore of the glorious WestIndies tour of 1971. When they won the Test at Port of Spain, theteam looked good to fulfill my prediction, raising hopes of anaway series win. But India surrendered the early advantage bylosing the Barbados Test and allowing the West Indies to levelthe series.Both teams had everything to play for in Jamaica, but if I had toput my money on one of them, it would have been the West Indies,simply because of the home advantage.The toss was very crucial; it was important that the team winningthe toss bowled first to make use of an unusually grassy Kingstonwicket. India failed to make use of that advantage and thusallowed the hosts to wrest control of the match right from thefirst day. I am sure that the West Indian bowlers would haveextracted more bounce and pace than the Indians managed on thefirst day. The Caribbean pace battery is physically strong, afacet that sets them apart from the Indian seamers and allowsthem to generate more speed off the pitch.
© CricInfoHarbhajan Singh, however, brought India back into the game afterthe West Indies looked to dominate the first two days. I mustcongratulate the off-spinner for picking up his 100th Testwicket. The spongy nature of the track helped Harbhajan extractconsiderable bounce and turn, but that did not stop the WestIndies from racking up a first-innings total of 422 – one thatdid not show the Indian fast bowlers in good light.Their Caribbean counterparts, however, made the most of thepitch. The unpredictable bounce also helped to no uncertainextent, playing on the minds of the Indian batsmen and causingthem to play with uncertainty. Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxmanalone looked comfortable. Ganguly was very confident and battedbeautifully, while Laxman seems to have finally come to termswith the reputation of being a class player. The Hyderabadi hasbeen much more watchful in this series, selling his wicketdearly.After having conceded a 210-run first-innings lead, JavagalSrinath & Co. bowled well to restrict the West Indies batsmen to197 in their second innings. The subsequent target of 408 was astiff one, but with a strong batting line-up, India were alwaysin with a chance of pulling off a record win. Those chances onlygot better when Sachin Tendulkar, after the early exit of theopeners, began to play with a determination unseen in hisprevious innings in the series.Tendulkar had been playing mostly off his front foot for theseries up to that point; in Jamaica, though, he was conscious ofthat fact and appeared keen to get onto his back foot. It wasthis pre-determined approach that Pedro Collins exploited,sneaking one through to shatter the stumps. I think thatTendulkar picked neither the line nor the movement off thewicket.Collins, incidentally, should be proud of his achievements inthis series. Not often do you find one bowler, especially aninexperienced one, having so much success against the world’sbest batsman.
© CricInfoAt Sabina Park, the West Indies seemed a much more committed sidethan India. Two outstanding pieces of work in the field by MervDillon and Cameron Cuffy stand out; mind you, both of thesebowlers must have been tired after bowling long spells. Thewonderful catch that Dillon took, running backwards, to dismissLaxman, and Cuffy’s brilliant work to dismiss Harbhajan Singh saya lot about the attitude and approach that the West Indiesbrought with them into the decider.India were also hindered by going into the final Test with justone spinner, a miscalculation in the bowling department thatallowed the West Indies to score 287 runs on the first day afterasking them to have a bat.The Indian pace attack looks good to bowl only the first 15 oversand, given this fact, the team management’s decision to bowlfirst must be seen as a defensive one. Even if it was made toallow the track to slow down and help the batsmen, the eventsnarrate a different story. The Indian batting was sub-standard ona track that had already been used for a day and a half.Not that India did not have their chances. In the second innings,the West Indies were on the mat at 120 for six, but they werethen allowed to go on to make 197 and set a target of 408. Thatwas the final nail to be hammered into the coffin.What sets apart a great team from a good team is how they convertthe half-chances and slender opportunities into gloriousvictories. For the Indians, this was not to be; they surrenderedmeekly, exposing the limitations of both their batting and theirbowling resources.There cannot be any doubt regarding the talent and stature of afew individuals in the Indian team. But then again, the overallstrength of the Indian team does not pose a threat to theopponents, and that, I think, is the biggest drawback of thisIndian side.

Football Insider pundit Paul Robinson thinks Sunderland striker Charlie Wyke would be a good signing for Celtic, amid recent links.

The Lowdown: Celtic’s interest

The Hoops were credited with an interest in the 28-year-old last month, while former Celtic man Mark Wilson claimed the club were keen on bringing the forward to Parkhead.

Sunderland have since been knocked out of the League One playoffs by Lincoln City, with the Black Cats set for a fourth consecutive season in the third tier.

Wyke, whose contract actually expires next month, was a shining light at the Stadium of Light, scoring 30 goals in 53 appearances.

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The Latest: Sunderland’s talks, Robinson reacts

Sunderland revealed on their official website on Tuesday that they are in talks with Wyke over his future at the club.

Following that development, Robinson, 41, was asked by Football Insider if Wyke would be a good addition at Celtic Park:

“Charlie Wyke would definitely be a risk-free signing.

“I think he would be (a) great addition to the squad but he is certainly not the man to replace Edouard. He is not on that level.

“Celtic need to have a big summer this season and replacing Edouard will be one of the biggest challenges.”

The Verdict: A smart signing?

In our opinion, bringing Wyke to Celtic Park on a potential free transfer could be a shrewd piece of business by the Hoops.

Odsonne Edouard wants to leave the club this summer, so he’ll need replacing. Meanwhile, Leigh Griffiths’ future is up in the air and winger Mohamed Elyounoussi will return to Southampton, so Celtic may lose a lot of their firepower in front of goal.

Wyke has shown, albeit in League One, that he can find the back of the net with ease, so he could be a handy player to have around for the 2021/22 season.

Of course, the Hoops will need more attacking additions, but starting with the arrival of Wyke could be a solid starting point in a cut-price deal.

In other news: Alan Nixon provides 6-word update on Celtic’s Eddie Howe move, find out more here. 

If finals are deigned to be more exciting, more tense and more competitive affairs than most of the games which precede them, then today’s opening bout of theCarlton Series deciders between Australia and West Indies didn’t necessarily fail the test

John Polack07-Feb-2001If finals are deigned to be more exciting, more tense and more competitive affairs than most of the games which precede them, then today’s opening bout of theCarlton Series deciders between Australia and West Indies didn’t necessarily fail the test. At least not initially. By the end, though, Australia’s 134 run victory waslooking far from the stuff of which a cricket enthusiast’s dreams are made.In short, this match rapidly tailed away into another comprehensive drubbing. Initiated by a respectable performance from the Australians with the bat that allowedthem to reach 9/253, it was sealed with a bowling effort that ensured that only Brian Lara (35) and Marlon Samuels (24) were able to mount any sort of defiance amida wreckage-ridden reply of 119. Which all leaves the tourists now requiring the rather improbable matter of two wins in succession over the course of the next fourdays if they are to claim this series.But, while the result ultimately still managed to fall within the realms of the eminently predictable, there was a good deal to recommend this game through its earlystages. For all of about sixty-five overs, in fact.West Indies’ captain Jimmy Adams had taken what looked like a gamble at the beginning of the afternoon when he invited the Australians to bat first. It has been justunder thirteen months since a team batting second last won a one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and as many as seven of the last nine one-dayinternationals at the venue have been claimed by the team which batted first. Also potentially looming as a significant factor was the memory of Australia’s compilationof the record score of 7/337 in the corresponding match last season.It soon proved to be a heady decision, nonetheless. Sydney has been affected by poor weather for much of the last fortnight and the pitch responded accordingly.There was zip, there was bounce, there was pace, and a hint of sideways movement on offer too. Strokemaking was difficult enough in the conditions, but the touristsaccentuated the fact with a disciplined, accurate display with the ball.New ball bowlers Nixon McLean (1/47 from ten overs) and Cameron Cuffy (2/45 off ten) set the tone well and, for once this summer – against Australia at least – thefielders and the remainder of the attack chimed in. Mark Waugh (10) fell to an edge to slip in just the tenth over to ensure that the home team produced only itssecond sub-fifty opening stand of the series and there was nothing earth-shattering to follow in the way of the conception of sizeable partnerships. Australia’s final totalassumed healthy rather than imposing proportions.Only Adam Gilchrist (44), Steve Waugh (38), Ricky Ponting (33) and – in the dying stages – Ian Harvey (47*) looked genuinely capable of producing an authoritativeindividual hand. As things transpired, it was a measure of the extent of pressure applied by the West Indians that, of those four, only the freewheeling Harvey was ableto see things through to a satisfying conclusion.In an explosive cameo from Lara, the West Indians continued to find a method of fighting the Australians’ fire with some of their own. With their enigmatic left handerin scintillating touch and with their score at 2/58 in the fifteenth over, the assumption that the West Indians might have been able to conjure an exciting struggle did not lookunreasonable. Lara even gave the impression that he was in the mood to make the Australians pay a high price for a stream of invective that appeared to befired by Michael Bevan from mid on after the second delivery that he faced smashed into his helmet.But it all unravelled rapidly from the moment that Lara sent a thick outside edge flying hard to Gilchrist’s right as he drove at Damien Fleming (2/34 off seven overs).Gilchrist’s spectacular diving, one-handed interception – an absolute stunner – ushered in a horror period for the tourists, from which they were simply unable torecover.Yet another procession ensued. Adams (9) looked like a man with his mind elsewhere as he wafted at a Harvey (2/5 from six overs) delivery without moving his feet. Samuels (24)was needlessly run out as Bevan pounced athletically from square leg to effect a direct hit that ensured that the youngster’s mix-up with Ricardo Powell (3) was fatal.Powell himself fell after wildly playing across the line at a straight ball from man of the match Harvey. All-rounder Laurie Williams (1) hookedambitiously at McGrath; Mahendra Nagamootoo (8) tried to swing an Andrew Symonds (2/18 from five overs) off break out of the ground; and McLean (0) failed toclear mid off with another slog at Symonds. A patient Sylvester Joseph (18) was the last man to go, holing out when he lofted a Shane Warne (1/28 off 9.2) leg breakhigh into the air to allow the Australian to compensate for a mistake he had made in trying to complete a similar caught and bowled in his previous over.The West Indians had genuine cause to be annoyed about Umpire Simon Taufel’s highly dubious lbw decision to which opener Daren Ganga (0) lost his wicket.Television replays clearly suggested that the offending Glenn McGrath (2/25 off ten overs) delivery had also traversed a thick inside edge en route to Ganga’s frontpad. Of the complete collapse of their middle and lower order, no such misfortune could be proclaimed.The tourists had made it through to this phase of the series by combining a mixture of instinct and knowhow in three crucial encounters with Zimbabwe. But tonight’sresult continued to underline the inescapable truth that has haunted them all summer – that they fail to produce anywhere near acceptable results against Australia inpressure situations. They need to find a way of upsetting home team’s applecart, its rhythm and its suffocating aura of superiority. They have precisely one match left inwhich to do it.

England legend Ashley Cole has suggested that Leeds’ Kalvin Phillips is a limited player in terms of his creativity in the middle of the park.

The Lowdown: Phillips shines for Leeds

Few players, if any, have been more influential for Leeds during the Marcelo Bielsa era, with the 25-year-old playing exceptionally in a deep-lying role.

Phillips’ form has seen him called into England’s squad for Euro 2020 this summer, with manager Gareth Southgate hailing him as ‘fabulous’ in the past. The Whites ace could even start the Three Lions’ opener against Croatia on Sunday, especially if Jordan Henderson isn’t deemed fit enough.

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The Latest: Cole casts doubt over Whites hero

Speaking on ITV [via MOT Leeds News] after England’s 1-0 win over Romania on Sunday, in which Phillips started, Cole claimed that he and Declan Rice lacked the vision of Henderson, saying: “That’s his strength [Henderson], that ability to play a bit longer which I don’t think the other two have in their locker.”

The 2012 Champions League winner later took to Twitter to defend his comments after a Leeds fan page, vexed by the criticism of Phillips, sent the 40-year-old a video of the Whites player executing an inch-perfect long pass.

Cole retorted: “Now show me where he’s doing that in and around the halfway line to put someone in or create a goal-scoring opportunity? Another question, does Kalvin Phillips play the same or similar role when playing for Leeds as he does for England?”

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The Verdict: Hugely unfair criticism

This is hugely unjust criticism from Cole, even if Phillips doesn’t always spray the amount of long-range passes Henderson does.

One pinpoint ball found Jadon Sancho in the first half against Romania, prior to the Borussia Dortmund winger firing over the bar, and he has shown numerous times for Leeds how good he is in possession.

As a comparison, Henderson played an average of 0.7 key passes per game in the Premier League last season, whereas Phillips averaged 1.2, suggesting he is actually the more inventive of the two on the ball.

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