DENNIS SALANOVIC
After Liechtenstein had conceded 46 goals
without scoring in their previous 19 qualifiers
for either the World Cup or the Euros, the 23-
year-old netted a late equaliser to give his
country an unlikely 1-1 draw away to Greece.ANGEL DI MARIA
Scored twice against his old club as Paris
Saint-Germain beat Real Madrid for the first
time in 25 years, to secure a 3-0 home win in
the Champions League.REZA GHOOCHANNEJHAD
Became the first player in Eredivisie history
to score four goals as a substitute. The Iranian
came on in the 56th minute with his club PEC
Zwolle trailing RKC Waalwijk 2-1 and helped
them to a 6-2 victory.SERGIO RAMOS
With Spain comfortably ahead in an eventual
4-0 victory over Faroe Islands, their captain- who was winning his 167th cap – asked to
be substituted in order to let Unai Nunez make
his international debut.
SLOVENIA
UEFA confirm
third competition
European football’s governing body says its new
club competition will be called the Europa
Conference League and will start in 2021.
The 32-team competition will feature cup
winners and league runners-up from Europe’s
lowest-ranked countries, as well as the third,
fourth, fifth and sixth-placed finishers from
higher ranked countries.
Teams that finish in third in the Europa League
group stage will enter the new competition at the
knockout stage. As a result, the Europa League
group stage will be reduced to 32 teams.
UEFA’s executive committee, meeting in
Ljubljana in Slovenia, also announced that the
top three tiers of the Nations League will be
expanded to four-team groups. Leagues A, B
and C will each contain 16 teams, while League
D will feature seven teams.
As a result, Germany, Croatia, Iceland and
Poland, who finished bottom of their respective
League A groups last year, will no longer be
relegated to the second tier.
It was also confirmed that the Final of the
2021 Champions League will be held in Saint
Petersburg, with the 2022 and 2023 Finals in
Munich and Wembley respectively.
The 2021 Europa League Final will be held at
Sevilla’s Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium.
SEBASTIAN COATES
The Sporting defender conceded three
penalties and was also sent off in the Lisbon
club’s 3-2 defeat to Rio Ave. Two Portuguese
Primeira Liga games later he scored an own
goal that handed victory to the surprise
league leaders, Famalicao, in a top-of-
the-table clash.ARDA TURAN
Barcelona’s midfielder, who is currently on loan
at Turkish club Istanbul Basaksehir, was given
a suspended sentence of two years and eight
months for firing a gun
to cause fear and panic,
for the illegal possession
of weapons and of
intentional injury. The
32-year-old was involved
in a fight in an Istanbul
nightclub last year that
left singer Berkay Sahin
with a broken nose. Turan
later arrived at hospital
with a gun which he fired
at the ground.JUAN ANGEL NAPOUT
The 61-year-old Paraguayan, who is a former
CONMEBOL president, was sentenced to nine
years in jail for corruption and banned for life
by FIFA.CHRISTOPH METZELDER
The former German international defender
was investigated by police over allegations
of distributing child pornography. Capped
47 times by his country and a league
champion in both Germany and Spain –
with Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid
respectively – the 38-year-old is accused
by the Hamburg attorney general’s office of
sending the images to a recipient in Hamburg
via WhatsApp.HEROES VILLAINS
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Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness threatens drastic action if Germany
replace keeper Manuel Neuer with Marc-Andre Ter Stegen“If that takes place, we won’t be sending
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