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Apresentado em julho, Everton Cebolinha chegou ao Flamengo com status de grande contratação depois de defender as cores do Benfica. Sob o comando de Dorival Júnior, o atacante tem sido utilizado no time alternativo na disputa do Brasileirão e ainda busca deslanchar para voltar a ser o jogador de destaque da época de Grêmio e Seleção.

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Em sua estreia, o atleta entrou na etapa final do duelo contra o Juventude, no Mané Garrincha, e deu a assistência para o gol de Lázaro. Com poucos minutos em campo, mostrou credenciais para conquistar seu espaço em um elenco qualificado e numeroso – ainda mais em um calendário apertado.

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Todavia, o camisa 19 ainda não teve uma grande atuação e tem oscilado dentro das partidas, ainda longe de ser decisivo e dar o retorno do investimento feito. É preciso ponderar que ele ainda precisa de ritmo e entrosamento para engrenar. No entanto, tem muita qualidade para jogar pelo lado, em velocidade, e é forte nos duelos individuais.

Nos primeiros jogos, Cebolinha se mostrou fora de ritmo e, por vezes, não conseguia dar sequência às jogadas. Até o momento, foram 11 partidas com a camisa rubro-negra – em apenas uma delas, o atleta atuou os 90 minutos – contra o Atlético-GO. Ele tem uma assistência e marcou o seu primeiro gol na última quarta, contra o São Paulo, pela Copa do Brasil.

O jogador já estava incomodado, pois não conseguia balançar a rede pela primeira vez. Contra o Palmeiras, não fez um bom jogo na frente para incomodar a defesa adversária e deu espaços na recomposição. Pela Copa do Brasil, entrou aos 72 minutos, e teve tempo para, no fim, emendar um chute no canto de Jandrei e ampliar a vantagem.

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– Estava precisando. Um gol que traz confiança, um gol importante para ajudar nossa equipe em um momento difícil do jogo. Um gol que fico muito feliz por fazer com essa camisa, sei o peso que é representar a camisa do Flamengo – disse Cebolinha após o triunfo sobre o Tricolor paulista.

O gol traz confiança ao atacante que precisa deslanchar e tentar ser uma peça fundamental na engrenagem de Dorival Júnior. Ainda sem espaço no ‘time principal’, Cebolinha sabe que precisa resgatar não só a confiança, como mostrar que ainda pode ser aquele jogador campeão da Copa América com a amarelinha.

Nesta temporada, o sistema ofensivo parece consolidado com a dupla Pedro e Gabigol. Porém, nas Copas, o comandante rubro-negro também precisará da força do elenco para garantir os títulos – algo que foi evidenciado com a boa entrada de Cebolinha diante do São Paulo. Ao lado de Lázaro e Marinho, o atacante pode entrar na etapa final e também ser importante nos mata-matas.

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Além disso, conquistar cada vez mais espaço será importante pensando na próxima temporada. Cebolinha ainda tem 26 anos e pode almejar a Copa do Mudo em 2026. O Mundial deste ano ficou praticamente impossível e, apesar de ter se aventurado no futebol do Velho Continente, perdeu espaço. Em 2019, foi artilheiro e melhor da final contra o Peru, no Maracanã.

Fast bowler has reportedly applied for British citizenship but will join initially as an overseas player

ESPNcricinfo staff25-Jul-2023Derbyshire have signed former Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir as an overseas player for the first half of the 2024 season. He is expected to be available to play in the Championship and T20 Blast.Derbyshire had reportedly been exploring a move to bring in Amir as a local player, with the 31-year-old applying for British citizenship via his marriage. Amir worked with Derbyshire’s head of cricket, Mickey Arthur, when the South African was Pakistan coach, and has previous experience of playing county cricket with Essex and Gloucestershire.”Mohammad is a world-renowned fast bowler and someone who I am delighted to bring to Derbyshire,” Arthur said. “He will lead our attack in red ball and T20 for the first half of next season and I’m so excited to see what he will produce.”I know all about his quality, he has been a big-game player throughout his career and that’s something I’ve seen first-hand. I know the Derbyshire supporters are going to love seeing Mohammad charging in.”Amir retired from international cricket in 2020, having represented Pakistan almost 150 times across the formats. His most-recent first-class appearance was for Gloucestershire in May 2022, but he has an impressive record with 266 wickets at 22.63. He has spent much of the last two years playing on the T20 circuit, featuring in the PSL, BPL, CPL and LPL, as well as the inaugural edition of the Hundred.Amir said: “I’ve enjoyed my experiences of county cricket in the past and joining up with Mickey, who I’ve had so much success with internationally, is something I’m looking forward to.”The County Championship is so special and I’ve always enjoyed playing first-class cricket in England. I’ve spoken to Mickey about the quality in the squad and I want to put in the performances to help Derbyshire challenge in red and white ball cricket next summer.”

With Trent Alexander-Arnold injured, Liverpool’s focal England presence has been absent during the latest interminable international pause. However, Thomas Tuchel’s squad hasn’t been devoid of Merseyside representation.

Early days yet, but Curtis Jones has shown the first signs of being a mainstay through this new Three Lions era, starting Thursday evening’s win over Albania and featuring late on against Latvia on Monday.

He’s everything Slot and Tuchel wants in a midfielder, endowed with technical quality and an attacking outlook.

FBref’s data from the past year even suggests he bears a likeness to Manchester City’s Phil Foden, who may not be having the best of seasons but is certainly one of the most talented players this nation has produced in a generation.

Liverpool's answer to Foden

Jones, 23, will take delight in having chalked up 140 senior appearances for Liverpool already, directly involved in 39 goals and the lifter of five major honours – with a sixth said to be on the way.

Technically gifted, fit as a fiddle and wearing the tenacity of one playing for their club, Jones has gone from strength to strength since the managerial baton was passed, making his England debut and scoring back in November.

He’s now a fully-fledged member of the Three Lions set-up, given the nod by Tuchel this month and starting during last week’s 2-0 victory over Albania.

Given that Jones is somewhat similar to his countryman on the tactical front while also being a 24-year-old midfielder looking to make their name in the German’s new set-up, you might say that Jones is Liverpool’s own version.

Foden has received a share of flak in recent days after another uninspiring performance for his nation. The 23/24 Premier League Player of the Season is one of the most gifted footballers in the business, but he can’t seem to bring it together in white.

However, Lee Carsley and now Tuchel’s desire to unleash Jones in starting line-ups makes an interesting comment on the whole ordeal. As per FBref, Jones’ technical skill and eye for a goal make him one of Foden’s most tactically similar midfielders, corroborating the decision to feature him prominently for England.

Foden might have his struggles on the international stage, but he’s still been tipped to become “the best English player in history” by his Manchester City teammates Rodri and Erling Haaland, highlighting his abundant talent.

This all goes to show that Slot has quite the useful player on his hands in Jones, and that Liverpool will continue to benefit from his skill for many years.

However, Jones does play deeper than he was once touted – and that’s just fine – but with such glaring issues up top, such a player, one with a forward focus, would be relished given Liverpool’s current issues.

Well, Liverpool had such a player, but Klopp sold him a few years ago. Like Jones, this ace has a tactical likeness to Foden, but his more natural attacking game suggests he could have been the perfect tonic for the Anfield side’s problems in recent weeks.

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Dominik Szoboszlai is a terrific attacking midfielder and Harvey Elliott has that natural spark in the final third too, but Liverpool could have done with another part this term. Recent losses are cases in point.

The man in question, you might be surprised to read, is none other than Takumi Minamino – here’s why.

Now plying his trade at AS Monaco, Minamino joined Liverpool from RB Salzburg for a smart £7m fee in January 2020 and he went on to lift a number of trophies and play 55 times for Jurgen Klopp’s side, scoring 14 goals.

Only ever a bit-part player, Minamino, now 28, was sold to the Ligue 1 club for about £15m in June 2022 as Klopp repackaged his frontline.

Now, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Minamino was a good player but hardly on Foden’s level, hardly hitting the same heights as the illustrious Englishman.

But Minamino can be cut from the same tactical cloth, a lesser version. The Japan international’s role as an attacking midfielder is one reason behind the semblance, with both capable across the frontline and indeed being utilised as such at Monaco.

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But, moreover, it’s the way he plays the game that has drawn FBref to liken the two players. Minamino ranks among the top 2% of midfielders across Europe’s top five leagues over the past year for goals, the top 17% for assists, the top 17% for progressive carries and the top 1% for touches in the attacking penalty area per 90.

This is a marker of his prolific nature. Indeed, Minamino didn’t earn that many chances to impress at Anfield but he earned his keep. In 2021/22, for example, the nimble winger scored three times in the top flight despite only starting once. He also bagged seven goals across FA Cup and Carabao Cup campaigns – Liverpool went on to win both titles.

Turning back toward Liverpool’s present concerns: Minamino’s positional flexibility suggests he could have been an underrated part of the Slot machine, filling in across attacking midfield and wide positions with a potent style not dissimilar to Foden’s.

Most of Liverpool’s frontline stands at risk of exclusion this summer; Mohamed Salah is one of the greatest goalscorers in the club’s rich history but he’s overloaded with responsibility.

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Such a dynamic attacking option could have been welcome to be sure. Journalist Josh Bunting once commented that Minamino was “undervalued” during his time on Merseyside, and maybe that’s the case.

He’s enjoying life in France and certainly has enough about him to have given Liverpool a bit more oomph in the final third this season. Perhaps it could have made all the difference in sustaining an unflagging multi-title charge.

Alas, Slot will have to settle for ‘just’ the Premier League title.

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The U.S. were battered in Nashville, continuing the bad vibes in a fourth straight loss ahead of the 2025 Gold Cup

NASHVILLE – The boos began in the 36th minute. In truth, they had probably been earned long before that. It was at that point, though, that the fans in Nashville had seen enough. It was hard to blame them, too, as they'd just seen Switzerland put four past the U.S. men's national team in a 23-minute span.

What followed in the ensuing 67 minutes was a variety of emotions: frustration, disappointment and, at times from the crowd, apathy. Just days before the Gold Cup kicks off and one year on from the World Cup, a 4-0 loss on Tuesday night hammered home a point that has been apparent for quite a while now: there's still a massive amount of work to do.

This was a comedy of errors, to be honest, each seemingly worse than the last. Miscommunication, nutmegs, poor goalkeeping – this one had it all and, from a USMNT perspective, none of it was good. It was a game – coming off a 2-1 loss to Turkey on the weekend – that showed not just the gulf in quality between this team and Switzerland, but the gulf in quality between this team and a full-strength USMNT. The players on the field, in reality, were not up for this challenge, and Switzerland drove that point home with each and every goal.

The inexperience cannot be understated. Over the two pre-Gold Cup friendlies, 20 different players got starts, with 12 of those 24 and younger. Moreover, 11 starters over the two matches had five or fewer caps coming into camp, and six got their first – Sebastian Berhalter, Matt Freese, Alex Freeman, Nathan Harriel, Quinn Sullivan and Damion Downs.

Yet, that didn't seem to soothe the sting. In truth, that isn't a referendum on the player pool or this program, but rather those on the field. Maybe the roster isn't quite as deep as Mauricio Pochettino thought. Those are questions for the end of the summer, though, after this group gets a chance to dig their way out through the Gold Cup.

"It's one of those ones where you need to take your licks and try to put them right in the next five days before the Gold Cup," veteran Tim Ream said on TNT. "I think there's some individual errors that we made and you'll get punished for on this level. You see it all around the world, and that's a learning process for guys with very few and first caps. It's a learning experience.

"We have to be calm and we have to keep our head on right. Analyze the first half, especially, there's things in the second half we can do better. If we do that, we'll be around."

This was the worst shutout for the USMNT since they lost 4-0 to Costa Rica in World Cup qualifying on November 15, 2016. This is also the first time since 2007 the U.S. lost four straight, and dropped Pochettino's record since taking over the team last fall to a pedestrian 5-5.

For perspective, the USMNT haven't lost four straight home matches since 1988, and Pochettino is also the first USMNT coach to lose five of his first 10 since Lothar Osiander from 1986-88.

This just made the hole deeper. The turnaround is relatively short as this team look to avoid making it five straight, as they kick off the Gold Cup on Sunday night against Trinidad and Tobago. In the days until then, Pochettino will need to rebuild this group as best he can because, going forward, this all matters even more.

GOAL rates the USMNT's players from Geodis Park.

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  Goalkeeper & Defense

  Matt Turner (2/10):

  No excuses for turning the ball straight into the path of an onrushing Breel Embolo. Didn't help his case to start – in the slightest – as can be expected in a 4-0 defeat.

  Max Arfsten (3/10):

  Was bypassed far too easily on Switzerland's second and, to be fair, had a few other scary moments, too. Has generally been solid since arriving on the scene, but not on this night.

  Mark McKenzie (3/10):

  Had one bad giveaway go unpunished but then got blown by on the Swiss fourth. Was better in the second half, but the damage was done.

  Walker Zimmerman (4/10):

  Miscommunication with Harriel on the opener but otherwise did his best on a bad, bad day for everyone.

  Nathan Harriel (3/10):

  Was cooked multiple times by Dan Ndoye. A rough first start for the Philadelphia Union defender, who did look better in the second once he shifted from right-back to right-wingback due to the halftime changes.

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  Midfield

  Johnny Cardoso (5/10):

  Better than Saturday night, but it would be hard to be worse. Didn't offer too much defensively, but was at least smooth with his passing when he did get the ball.

  Sebastian Berhalter (5/10):

  Definitely tried some things in his USMNT debut. Again, there were some defensive deficiencies with this midfield as both Berhalter and Cardoso let veteran Granit Xhaka run the show for Switzerland.

  Paxten Aaronson (6/10):

  Was probably the best American player on the field in the first half, but that isn't saying much. Pressed hard and was fairly tidy on the ball, providing one of few reasons for optimism going forward.

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  Attack

  Brendan Aaronson (4/10):

  Ran plenty, but never really got a foothold in the game. Attempted just eight passes in his 45 minutes on the field.

  Brian White (4/10):

  Had absolutely no answer for Manuel Akanji, who continuously won everything that came his way. Was taken out at the half in favor of a more physical striker in Patrick Agyemang.

  Quinn Sullivan (5/10):

  Tried to do things, but just didn't really have the quality to make a difference. Picked up a yellow card just before the half in an attempt to set a tone, but was taken off at the half.

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  Subs & Manager

  John Tolkin (6/10):

  Was certainly much better than Arfsten, but also played in a different position as more of a wingback. Definitely earned another look.

  Tim Ream (6/10):

  No mystery why he was thrown in – the U.S. needed stability badly. Nothing flashy, but he helped close the floodgates.

  Malik Tillman (7/10):

  Pretty dynamic after coming on, building on what was a good performance against Turkey. Didn't quite have "the moment" in him but it seemed like, if anyone would, it would have been him.

  Diego Luna (6/10):

  Exactly what you would expect. Again, no mystery as to why Pochettino would turn to one of the attackers he trusts most in these circumstances.

  Patrick Agyemang (7/10):

  Certainly made an impact, getting through on goal a few times. One of the few Americans to even attempt a shot.

  Damion Downs (N/A):

  Came on late and hardly got a touch of the ball. A debut is a debut, though.

  Mauricio Pochettino (3/10):

  Learned a lot of ugly lessons this night. Some were about player selection, others were about tactics. The big lesson, though, is that this team has some very real issues in terms of quality, and that issue isn't particularly fixable this summer. With a limited roster, the Gold Cup could present a real challenge.

London Spirit undone by allround display with qualification already out of reach

ECB Reporters Network20-Aug-2023Welsh Fire 161 for 4 (Dunkley 68) beat London Spirit 138 for 7 (Ghosh 34, Knight 34, Dunkley 2-15) by 23 runsEngland star Sophia Dunkley led the way with 68 and 2 for 15 against London Spirit, as Welsh Fire qualified for the Hundred finals weekend for the first time.The team which did not win a single match last year, and only two the year before, is now guaranteed at least a place in the Kia Oval eliminator, while they have one game left to try and top the rankings and go straight through the Lord’s Final.It was also a record attendance for a Women’s Hundred game in Cardiff of 7,069, who enjoyed watching the home side reach 161, a total no team has topped in this year’s competition apart from Welsh Fire themselves.London Spirit came into the game knowing their own qualification hopes had gone, but a partnership of 68 between Heather Knight and Richa Ghosh, who both scored 34, gave them a flicker of hope before the final wickets tumbled under pressure. They finished 138 for 7.Welsh Fire head to Northern Superchargers next for a straight shootout for the chance to finish top, if Southern Brave do not win their last game at Manchester Originals.Beaumont was coming into the game on the back of her record-shattering 118 last time out, and seemed to pick up exactly where she left off taking 20 from the first 10 balls bowled by Danielle Gibson and Sarah Glenn, after Spirit opted to bowl first.Dunkley joined in the assault as the 25-ball powerplay yielded 53 runs for the home side.The first wicket came as a bit of a surprise as Spirit captain Heather Knight turned to her seventh bowler after 50 balls and Sophie Munro opened with a loopy, in-swinging slower ball which clean bowled Beaumont.Better was to follow next ball when Laura Harris went for a drive and edged behind to Richa Ghosh. She reviewed the decision, but ultra edge showed a faint touch and she had to go first ball leaving Munro on a hat-trick.Hayley Matthews hit that delivery through backward point for four, the West Indian back in the side after recovering from a shoulder injury.Dunkley and Matthew brought up the 100 in 64 balls. Dunkley also hit the personal landmark of a half century off 35 balls, finally dismissed for 68 off 48.Matthews hit a useful 36 in the closing stages. Bryce hit her first ball for six, tipped over the deep midwicket boundary by Danielle Gibson, the first six with just three balls of the innings remaining.Gibson wasted no time in clearing the boundary, hitting two sixes in her opening flurry before being trapped LBW to Shabnim Ismail for 18 off seven balls. Amelia Kerr soon followed, a sharp catch at extra cover by Beaumont off the bowling of Claire Nicholas.Grace Harris was LBW to Ismail before Ghosh and Knight put on 68 in 52 balls. Ghosh was caught by Matthews trying to reverse sweep Dunkley. The crucial wicket of Knight fell soon after, an inside edge onto the pad and then the stumps off Dunkley.