The 32-year-old admitted it has been tough for him to even focus on football given what is happening in his country, but his goal served as a welcome morale booster for West Ham, with the afternoon threatening to be a damaging one following second-half injuries to Michail Antonio and Aaron Cresswell.
He signalled his intent in his first season, the 32 goals he netted was the most in a 38-game season, while also showing his creativity with 10 assists.
The game played out at the Al-Nahyan Stadium, in Abu Dhabi, where the tournament is being hosted as a mid-season event.
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Emiliano Buendía created five chances for Aston Villa in this game, his most in the Premier League for his current club so far, while only once has he created more in a single game in the competition (9 for Norwich v Wolves in December 2019).
All the pre-match narrative had been about how this was Sessegnon's chance to stake his claim under Conte, but he had a night to forget as he picked up a second yellow card for a clumsy challenge on Ziga Kous and was sent off.
Keita, Saiss among players caught up in Guinea coupSalah double helps Liverpool cruise to Derby winLive football on Sky Sports this weekBrazilian health officials said the four - Aston Villa's Emiliano Martinez and Emiliano Buendia and Tottenham's Giovani Lo Celso and Cristian Romero - had breached local rules on quarantine, with the UK on Brazil's red list.
Chelsea briefly thought they had won it at the death when Jesse Fleming netted three minutes into added time, but the close-range effort was chalked off due to offside.
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But he went down the other route and sanctioned the striker's exit, leaving himself with Lacazette and Nketiah as his only central striking options.
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Ronaldo wasted the best opportunity of the game midway through the second half, heading Andre Silva's cross wide before Portugal's challenge faded with the sending off of Pepe for two second-half bookings.
Ashby United Community Football Club, based in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, will take on LGBTQ+-inclusive club Leicester Wildecats at their Hood Park ground on Saturday (kick-off 1pm).
The hapless Duro's unwitting part in denying his own Getafe team a place in the final was celebrated with great mirth, and fans particularly latched onto a line in the live TV commentary: Toco en Hugo Duro! It hit Hugo Duro!
Question marks lie over several members of United's first-team squad - with Mata, Matic, Edinson Cavani and Jesse Lingard seeing their contracts run out at the end of next month.
Indeed Umtiti is arguably the club's sixth-choice centre-back behind Eric Garcia, Clement Lenglet, Gerard Pique, Ronald Araujo and Oscar Mingueza, and he hasn't played more than 14 La Liga matches in any of the past three seasons.
January recruit Beesley, 25, was thrown into the Blackpool side by Critchley, while Richard Keogh also returned at the heart of defence.
So much has changed for Moyes personally, so much has changed at Everton, West Ham, and football in general, but those Goodison days remain as vivid as ever and continue to steer the managerial path he treads.
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The players have to have the right mentality. Go above and beyond. They need to strive to be elite.
Before attempting to answer those questions, it's worth pointing out that football fans in Germany, France and Italy might take issue with the jibe, believing teams have had to fight harder for title glory than English fans believe.
The 4-4-2 gave them a proper challenge to deal with. All of a sudden we had better positions and were a proper threat. Our reaction was just brilliant.
Dundee Utd frustrate Rangers at TannadiceTam Courts expressed his pride after his side stood firm to earn a point with a Rangers side who won at Borussia Dortmund just three days earlier.
Napoli’s captain and one-club man Lorenzo Insigne is set to move to MLS club Toronto FC in the summer which may suggest he no longer feels he is at a club who will challenge for trophies and would rather take the money and the adulation of the Toronto FC support over another turgid scrap for a European spot before being part of a team who get knocked out at an uninspiring point of a continental competition.
Years ago, I think Arsene Wenger changed the context of the north London derby because Arsenal were too successful, and Spurs weren't a big fish at all.
Klopp said: “Diogo [Jota] felt something after the last Premier League game and he didn’t train yet. We will see, maybe he can train today and then he is an option and if not, then not.
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“I think it was a few years ago when I saw him in the Champions League with Schalke, and I seem to remember talking to people saying 'I played with him!' and they were like, 'no!', but there can't be two Ralf Rangnicks.”
But those missed opportunities left the door open for Aberdeen, who pushed for an equaliser and had a Ferguson header cleared off the line by Juranovic.
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Our end goal for the academy is to one day see a player putting on the jersey and you can associate him with being a Valencia player from the style of play and values he is transmitting, says Bai.
Jack Grealish has opened up on his tough first season at Manchester City, declaring it has been even more of a culture shock than he expected it would be.
Moments later Han-Noah Massengo brought the first save of the game from Coventry goalkeeper Simon Moore with a low drive from outside the box.
Newcastle are extremely close to completing a £40m move for Bruno Guimaraes. Newcastle head of recruitment Steve Nickson is in Brazil to seal the signing of Guimaraes.
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It is obviously only the first game but to get the four goals and create so much was very encouraging. Maddison forced off after falling unopposed Sky Sports' Ben Grounds: This may have looked like a worthless fixture but it could well prove to be a very significant moment and a launchpad for Leicester heading into the rest of the season.
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If they struggle a bit with self-confidence, to find the space and to get involved against a good defensive side, it can be like this.
After Inter had the better of the early stages, Kroos opened the scoring after 17 minutes crashing an unstoppable left-footed drive home from 20 yards.
Atalanta 2-2 Man Utd - Match reportHow the teams lined up | Match statsChampions League group tablesHow to watch Manchester derby: Free highlights straight after FTIt's got to be one of the best finishes of all-time; it's just out of absolutely nothing, Merson said of his late leveller on Soccer Special.
But in the 33rd minute, Romeu squandered another glorious chance to equalise from a corner, nodding his free header wide again.
This NYCFC team is no longer one built on shining stars like Villa, Pirlo or Lampard, but it is built on heroes like Callens and Johnson, the team's captain. Over the last few years, NYCFC has been a team that has evolved and, ultimately, grown into one that can call itself a champion built from the ground right on up.
Chelsea did manage to muster many more chances in extra-time, with Hakim Ziyech stinging the palms of Courtois at his near post along with spurned chances from Havertz and Jorginho, but the tired Blues legs could not muster another goal to keep themselves at Europe's top table this season.
The medical process Eriksen will have to go through will be more complicated than for a typical new signing, given he suffered a cardiac arrest just seven months ago while playing for Denmark at Euro 2020, and has an ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) fitted to his heart.
After suffering Champions League heartbreak in Madrid on Tuesday, Chelsea appeared to carry that disappointment into their second domestic semi-final of the season as they started lethargically and without any real conviction.
He smiled back: Do you know what the hardest punishment would be for me? When I am told to keep quiet.
Brentford limited City to a single shot in the first half hour, which was testament to their work-rate.