Mousa Dembele is likely to miss the rest of the year due to ankle ligament damage, Spurs confirmed on Thursday. “Unfortunately, Mousa Dembele’s scans have confirmed ligament damage to his right ankle and he is unlikely to be available until the New Year,” Spurs said in a statement. The 31-year-old will also miss Belgium’s Nations League matches against Iceland and Switzerland later this month. Dembele is just one of many of Spurs’ World Cup stars to have suffered injury in the early part of the season. Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, Danny Rose, Jan Vertonghen and Eric Dier have also been…
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With his 30th birthday looming, youthful Borussia Dortmund’s elder statesman Axel Witsel wants to lead the Bundesliga pace-setters to a rare home win over defending champions Bayern Munich in Saturday’s top-of-the-table showdown. The midfielder has been a revelation at Dortmund since joining for 20 million euros ($22.8m) from Chinese side Tianjin Quanjian after his impressive performances at the World Cup helped Belgium finish third. Witsel is relishing his first appearance in ‘Der Klassiker’, with third-placed Munich trailing Dortmund by four points. “Yes, I am a leader,” Witsel, who turns 30 in January, told reporters on Thursday. The Dortmund team is…
Mikel Obi has been ruled out of action until the end of the season with a muscle injury. Mikel has been a key component for his Tianjin TEDA side in the Chinese Super League (CSL) but is set to face a lengthy spell on the sidelines due to a reoccurring injury. Super Eagles head coach said Mikel is not yet ready to return to the team after the 2018 FIFA World Cup and has been excluded from the last three 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The midfielder has however now suffered an injury that is expected to keep…
Gareth Southgate defended the decision to honour Wayne Rooney by fielding England’s top international goalscorer in a friendly against the USA at Wembley next week. The Football Association announced on Sunday that Rooney would be awarded his 120th cap as a tribute to his England career which appeared to have come to an end when he retired from international football in August 2017. That decision has been criticised in the English media with a number of exciting young prospects needing more game time to be tested at the international level and the USA game seen as preparation for what could…
Borussia Dortmund will not get “an extra goal” for being named as the favourites in the upcoming clash against Bayern Munich, sporting director Michael Zorc has said. Bundesliga leaders Dortmund would open up a seven point gap between themselves and Bayern with victory in Saturday’s Klassiker at Signal Iduna Park. Bayern president Uli Hoeness said this week that Dortmund were favourites going into the clash, but Zorc said his side will not fall for their rivals’ mind games. “It’s totally irrelevant what is said or not said,” Zorc said. “It [will] all be decided on the pitch. And it’s not…
Andre Gomes has returned to the national team as one of five changes made to the squad by Portugal coach Fernando Santos for the UEFA Nations League games against Italy and Poland. Gomes has not featured for A Selecao since a World Cup qualifier in March but has started in Everton’s last three league games since recovering from a muscular injury. Portugal travel to Milan to face Italy on Nov. 17 before facing Poland in Guimaraes three days later, still without Cristiano Ronaldo. The captain and national team’s all-time leading scorer is absent by mutual consent and is expected to…
Anthony Martial has been recalled by France coach Didier Deschamps, after scoring five goals in his last four Premier League appearances. Martial, 22, has not featured for France regularly since the European Championship on home soil in 2016, although he did start the 3-1 friendly win away at 2018 World Cup hosts Russia in Saint Petersburg in March. “Anthony has had good times in blue but also some difficult, particularly at club level,” Deschamps told a news conference after he unveiled his latest squad. “What he does with Manchester United is close to what he is capable of, both in…
Barcelona have confirmed that Philippe Coutinho will be out for two to three weeks with a thigh injury. The Brazil international is set to miss the international break, as well as Barca’s game against Real Betis this Sunday. He could also miss their matches with Atletico Madrid and PSV Eindhoven later this month. “The tests carried out this morning have confirmed that the first team player Coutinho has a small break in the femoral biceps of the left leg,” Barcelona’s statement said. “The approximate time of loss will be between two and three weeks.” Coutinho has been a key player…
Bayern Munich face the biggest threat to their Bundesliga dominance in recent years, president Uli Hoeness has said, ahead of a crucial top-of-the-table clash with Borussia Dortmund. Dortmund, unbeaten domestically this season, could open a seven-point gap at the top of the Bundesliga if they beat Bayern at the Westfalenstadion on Saturday. “We kept Dortmund at bay for six years now. It’s OK they are now on top,” Hoeness told reporters following the Champions League victory against AEK Athens on Wednesday. “I’ve said that we’ll pit ourselves against our decisions at the end of the season. “We are not as…
Getting a high-profile celebrity to help market a new up and coming release isn’t uncommon in video games. In the past few years, whether it’s Community stars Donald Glover and Dani Pudi doing a TV spot for 2014’s Far Cry 4, Michael B. Jordan helping to promote Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, or the “Clueless Gamer” series with Conan O’Brien, games have found ways to expand their promotional strategies. With a couple weeks remaining until the launch of Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Activision is dipping their toes into the same pool with an intriguing partnership. Reports of the marketing campaign…
Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie have been at the center of false tabloid stories ever since it was announced earlier this year that they’d be co-starring in a movie together. Reports claimed that Pitt was ready to settle down with Robbie amid the two-year anniversary of his split from Angelina Jolie. The magazine said the actor wanted to get his life “back on track” by getting into a relationship with his co-star. Only, the actress is happily married to assistant director Tom Ackerley, so the premise was very unlikely. Meanwhile, reliable outlets such as “Entertainment Tonight” reported that Pitt “has…
She may have five albums, 15 Grammys, and a seriously cute family, but in this heartbreaking post Alicia Keys discusses her struggles with demons and crippling insecurities. Keys opens up about her journey toward self-acceptance, detailing her struggle to embrace her femininity and to be the person she wanted to be. “For as long as I can remember, I’ve hidden myself. It might have started in school when I realised that I caught on to things a little quicker, and teachers started to show slight favour to me, or use me as an example. I remember feeling like my friends…
Brie Larson has given fans a sneak peek at Captain Marvel ahead of the upcoming film, with one very specific purpose – she wants you to vote in the midterm elections. Turns out superheroes are just as interested in democracy as they are in saving the galaxy. Who knew? The image shows Captain Marvel hanging out in a phone booth surrounded by posters reading: ‘Rock The Vote’. Sharing the image on Instagram, Brie wrote: ‘CAPTAIN MARVOTE IS A BAD PUN BUT NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE VOTE TOMORROW.’ We can’t be 100% sure, but we think she might…
With the success of Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, A Star is Born, it’s hard to imagine any other actors portraying the roles of Jack and Ally other than Cooper and Lady Gaga. But at one point in time, Beyonce and Clint Eastwood were the stars of the show. “There was a moment where that was the best version of the movie and then all of a sudden, Beyonce got pregnant. Do we wait?” Bill Gerber, the film’s producer told The Hollywood Reporter. “She was amazing about all this stuff. She always understood if we were going to take a different…
Rapper Naeto C and his wife Nicole have welcomed a baby girl. He made this known on his Instagram page. The rapper also mentioned that the name of the baby, who is their second daughter, is Naeso. Nicole, on her Instagram page, said “Twelve Days of Walking on Air (more like stumbling around in a daze of tiredness ) with this precious little girl. Thanking God for a safe delivery and my beautiful and amazing daughter Naesochukwu. Soso, I didn’t know how much I needed you until you got here Thank you God. Thank you, Mother Mary, for your intercession.…
Idris Elba has been named as the sexiest man alive by People’s magazine for the year 2018. The selection was made during a satellite interview between Idris Elba and the host of ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ host Jimmy Fallon. “I was like, ‘Come on, no way. Really?, looked in the mirror, I checked myself out. I was like, ‘Yeah, you are kind of sexy today.’ But to be honest, it was just a nice feeling. It was a nice surprise – an ego boost for sure.” he told People’s magazine. Fallon had Elba perform poses to match the magazine’s cover description…
Today is Cee-C’s birthday and Leo took her on a romantic birthday date by the beach which is just very adorable. A very happy Leo took to his Instagram page on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, where he shared a video from the outing. It didn’t just end there, the ex-housemate of BBNaija went on to caption the video with quite an emotional birthday message to the former reality tv star. “Nkem temi! @ceec_official you are one amazing woman. One thing I love most about you is how unconventional you are. I lost my mother and you were ready to listen…
Liz Anjorin has released her sixth movie as a producer, ‘Owo Naira Bet,’ one year after its premiere in Lagos. The movie, Pulse reliably gathered, was released on Monday, November 5, 2018, by films and music marketing company, Okiki films & music production. Written and produced by the actress and entrepreneur, ‘Owo Naira Bet’ features Saidi Balogun, Olaiya Ige, Jumoke George. The movie, which delves into how people spend lavishly without making any investment for the future, is directed by Seun Olaiya. ‘Owo Naira Bet’ was premiered last year in a carnival-like-event at Ruby’s Event Centre, and had several dignitaries…
Davido and Peruzzi pair up with 2Sec on their latest single, ‘My Head.’ The DMW duo who have collaborated on a number of records of late continue in that vein by teaming up with singing duo, 2Sec on their new release. ‘My Head’ was produced by Fiokee.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed the names of at least 300,000 people from the voter register in preparation for the 2019 general elections. This was disclosed by the commission’s chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, while addressing a delegation of ECOWAS Pre-Election Fact Finding Mission in Abuja on Monday, November 5, 2018. He revealed that the names were removed after Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) was carried out on the biometric data of registered voters in a bid to clean up the register. He said, “For the registered voters, we have been cleaning up on our own, using the…