Jorginho scored a penalty last night against Leicester to become Chelsea’s top scorer in the Premier League this season, with just 7 goals – all penalties.
That tells you a little about the direction football is going overall – big squad with lots of players playing with heavy rotation through the team, and a hell of a lot of penalties.
But it also tells you one thing about Chelsea – they’ve not found a consistent goalscorer from their attacking options.
Timo Werner has had countless chances and won lots of those penalties that Jorginho scored – but he’s still got just 6 league goals from 28 starts.
Christian Pulisic, Hakim Ziyech and Kai Havertz have all chipped in with a couple each, but one is going to have to step up and hit double figures next season if we want to progress as a team.
Tammy Abraham has 6, just 1 behind our top scorer, despite starting just 12 games in the top flight.
I'm with the senate. If you pay randsoms to kidnappers, you're only giving them more funds to purchase more guns and vests. Once they've exhausted the money you paid, they'll proceed to capturing another victim with this time, improved and upgraded weapons and tools we shouldnt also forget the fact that it's gonna motivate more peeps into engaging in kidnapping, since most would see it as a lucrative something lol
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said the views of players have to be respected after Paul Pogba and Amad Diallo held up a Palestine flag following Tuesday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Fulham.
The Premier League match was played amid rising tensions and horrific violence in Gaza, and after thousands protested on the streets of Dublin and other major cities worldwide over the weekend in support of Palestine.
Leicester City’s Hamza Choudhury and Wesley Fofana had also held up a Palestine flag after the FA Cup final on Saturday and Solskjaer said his players had a right to their own views.
“I think we need to have players from different backgrounds, different cultures, different countries, and I think we need to respect their views if they differ from someone else’s,” Solskjaer told reporters.
Gaza medical officials say 217 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, including 63 children, and more than 1,400 wounded since the fighting began on May 10th. Israeli authorities say 12 people have been killed in Israel.
“If my players think about other things than football that’s a positive thing and I think we’ve seen that with some of the players before that they do care about.
“Say Marcus Rashford, for example, the difference he’s made. We respect their right to have a different view.”
Dutch side PSV Eindhoven’s Israeli forward Eran Zahavi responded to Pogba and Diallo by trolling them with an edited picture of the pair on Instagram, replacing the Palestine flag they were carrying with an Israel one.
“Thanks guys,” Zahavi wrote in a caption that included an Israel flag. “We appreciate your support all over the world.”
'This is bigger than you': Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger sends stern message to Leicester City player after huge disrespect
Antonio Rudiger said the “disrespectful” gesture from a certain Leicester City player gave Chelsea “motivation” in Tuesday’s 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge.
The 28-year-old was deservedly named the man of the match for his crucial role at both end of the pitch.
He scored the opening goal a couple of minutes into the second half but was also the busiest player in Chelsea’s defence. The centre-back made most tackles and interceptions (six in total) in the game.
Rudiger admitted that Chelsea did not show the same “power” in the FA Cup final defeat at Wembley, but it was not the case today.
Interestingly, Thomas Tuchel’s men might have derived that extra motivation from the Leicester City camp.
“Unfortunately some of them [Leicester City players] don’t know how to celebrate,” the Germany international told Chelsea TV after the game.
“We had to punish them for this — 100 per cent.
“Some of them gave us motivation. Congratulations to them, they won [the FA Cup]. Celebrate and everything, but don’t disrespect a club’s history.
“This is a bit bigger than you.”
Rudiger did not specifically mentioned it, but it was pretty obvious that he was referring to Leicester defender Daniel Amartey.
While the Foxes have already apologised, some Chelsea players were clearly still unhappy about the pennant incident.
Chelsea avenged their #FACup final defeat and moved above Leicester City into third spot in the Premier League with a 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge.
During the heated touchline brawl, several Chelsea players, including Thiago Silva and Mason Mount, were seen having a few words with Amartey. See video below
US President Joe Biden has voiced his support for a ceasefire after eight days of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Mr Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US was working with Egypt and other countries on halting hostilities.
But the US again blocked a UN Security Council statement calling for a cessation of violence.
The conflict is now in its second week, with little sign of ending.
Israel conducted further air strikes on Gaza early on Tuesday. Its army said dozens of rockets were fired into its territory overnight.
The Israel-Palestinian conflict explained The claims fact-checked Israel defends Gaza strategy as death toll mounts At least 212 people, including almost 100 women and children, have been killed in Gaza, according to its health ministry. In Israel 10 people, including two children, have been killed, its medical service says.
On Tuesday Israel said at least 150 militants were among those killed in Gaza. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the territory, does not give casualty figures for fighters.
According to a White House statement on Monday, Mr Biden "encouraged Israel to make every effort to ensure the protection of innocent civilians".
"The two leaders discussed progress in Israel's military operations against Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza," it added.
President Biden "expressed his support for a ceasefire and discussed US engagement with Egypt and other partners towards that end", it said.
The violence has prompted increasing concern internationally.
World leaders and humanitarian organisations have called for measures to prevent the deaths of residents and the chaos wrought by the destruction of buildings and infrastructure.
"Israel should try to protect innocent civilians", Mr Biden said
The US - which is one of Israel's strongest allies - has once again blocked efforts at the UN Security Council to issue a statement calling on Israel to stop its military offensive, stressing instead its own diplomatic efforts.
"Our calculation at this point is that having those conversations behind the scenes... is the most constructive approach we can take," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
The UN Security Council is due to hold its fourth emergency meeting on the violence on Tuesday.
Joe Biden is a traditional pro-Israel Democrat. That's different from Donald Trump who actually changed US policy to adopt Israel's positions in its conflict with the Arabs. Biden has quietly begun to reverse some, although not all, of that.
But when it comes to air wars with Palestinian militants, he is following a familiar pattern. All US administrations strongly support Israel's right to defend itself against rocket fire.
Analysts say in the initial phase they generally refrain from public criticism of Israeli air strikes, including at the United Nations, apparently allowing a window of time for Israel to take out militant leaders and infrastructure. However, if the conflict goes on and civilian deaths mount, sometimes they become more critical and start pressing Israel to wind down its military campaign.
In this case Hamas' firepower has been more sustained and intense than before. But President Biden has now publicly expressed support for a ceasefire in his call with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and discussed with him "progress in Israel's military operations against Hamas."
So perhaps this is the beginning of new phase.
The United Nations has also expressed concerns about the damage to infrastructure in the already impoverished Gaza Strip, home to two million people. It said that 40 schools and four hospitals had been "completely or partially destroyed" in recent days. It also warned that fuel supplies there were running out, threatening basic services.
The World Health Organization's emergencies chief, Dr Mike Ryan, said all attacks on healthcare needed to stop immediately.
The outbreak of violence began after weeks of rising Israeli-Palestinian tension in occupied East Jerusalem that culminated in clashes at a holy site revered by both Muslims and Jews. Hamas began firing rockets after warning Israel to withdraw from the site, triggering retaliatory air strikes.
What's happening on the ground? The Israeli military conducted further air strikes on Tuesday and, shortly after dawn, two buildings in Gaza City were destroyed.
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said another 15km (nine miles) of Hamas tunnels had been destroyed in the latest operation.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Buildings in Gaza were destroyed in Israeli air strikes early on Tuesday. Similar strikes before dawn on Monday also damaged roads, power lines and houses. At least seven Palestinians were killed in the bombing.
Mohammad Abu Rayya, a paediatrician in Gaza, told the BBC of the devastation on the ground there. "We don't have a morgue here big enough for the killed and the dead bodies," he said.
"We need at least 10 years more to build what has been damaged here in Gaza," he added.
How Israel's Iron Dome missile shield works 'We cannot sleep': Mothers fear for children. Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel later on Tuesday morning. It set off warning sirens in cities in the south, sending people running for shelters.
But the rocket fire from Gaza appeared to be less frequent that in previous nights, according to a Reuters correspondent in the region.
Rockets were also fired at Israel from Lebanon, but the army said they did not reach its territory. The Israeli Air Force said it had shot down what it described as a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that approached its border from Jordan.
Israel has vowed to continue its air strikes on Gaza. On Monday, it said more than 3,000 rockets had been fired into the country over the past week.
The country's Iron Dome defence system is said to have intercepted 90% of the rockets. Israeli emergency services have reported an overall total of 311 injuries, six of them severe.
An Israeli tech executive and father of three, Eitan Singer, told the BBC: "It is not easy - seven days in a row when we go to sleep and almost every evening, every night, we get the kids out of bed, run to shelters. We have 30 seconds to 60 seconds to find a shelter."
Timeline: How the violence escalated
The worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting.
13 April Israeli police officers detain a young Palestinian man at the Damascus Gate Image captionIsraeli police officers detain a young Palestinian man at the Damascus Clashes erupt in East Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police.
Palestinians are angry over barriers which had been placed outside the Damascus Gate entrance to the Jerusalem‘s Old City preventing them from gathering there after prayers at the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque on what is the first night of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Palestinian discontent had been stoked earlier in the day when President Mahmoud Abbas called off planned elections, implicitly blaming Israel over voting arrangements for Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
Hamas - Mr Abbas' Islamist rivals who control Gaza and were running in the elections - react angrily to the postponement.
Violence around Damascus Gate and elsewhere in East Jerusalem continues nightly.
15-16 April Rockets are fired from Gaza at Israel, which responds with air strikes after a relative period of calm between Israel and the Palestinian enclave.
19 April Clashes spread to the mixed Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv.
20 April In Jerusalem, Jewish youths, angry over a spate of filmed assaults by Palestinians on Orthodox Jews posted on the TikTok video-sharing app, attack Arabs and chant anti-Arab slogans.
23 April Israeli security forces clash with Palestinians outside the Damascus Gate Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews shouting “Death to Arabs” march towards Damascus Gate in protest at the Arab assaults on Jews. Clashes erupt at the site between Palestinians and police trying to separate the two groups, injuring dozens of people.
Violence between Arabs and Jews spreads to other parts of the city.
24 April Militants fire dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza, drawing retaliatory air strikes.
2 May President Abbas' Fatah faction and Hamas condemn the looming threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah district of East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers ahead of a planned court hearing. Hamas calls on Arabs to form “human shields of resistance” there.
In the days that follow, police and protesters repeatedly clash at the site as it becomes a focal point for Palestinian anger.
4 May Militants in Gaza begin sending incendiary balloons into Israel over successive days, causing dozens of fires.
7 May Two Palestinian gunmen are shot dead and a third is wounded after opening fire on Israeli security forces in the northern West Bank. Israeli authorities say the group planned to carry out a “major attack” in Israel.
The al-Aqsa mosque has been a frequent flashpoint for violence Later on after Friday prayers - the last of Ramadan - major clashes erupt at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring more than 200 people. Israel's police force says it used “riot dispersal means”, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades after officers came under a hail of stones and bottles.
8 May A second night of violence erupts in East Jerusalem after tens of thousands of worshippers prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque for Laylat al-Qadr, the holiest night of Ramadan.
Police and protesters clash at Damascus Gate, with police using water cannon, rubber bullets and tear gas against crowds of Palestinians, some throwing stones.
More than 120 Palestinians and some 17 police are injured.
9 May Israel's Supreme Court postpones the hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah case following calls to delay it because of the growing unrest. Tensions remain high though and more clashes take place between Israeli police and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and at Damascus Gate.
10 May Early morning clashes break out between police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where crowds throw stones and officers fire stun grenades.
Palestinian anger has been inflamed by an annual Jerusalem Day march planned for later in the day by hundreds of Israeli nationalists to celebrate Israel's capture of East Jerusalem in 1967.
The march is due to pass through predominantly Arab parts of the Old City in what is seen by Palestinians as a deliberate provocation. It is rerouted at the 11th hour, but the atmosphere remains volatile with more than 300 Palestinians and some 21 police injured in the violence at the holy site.
Hamas issues an ultimatum to Israel to “withdraw its soldiers... from the blessed al-Aqsa mosque and Sheikh Jarrah” by 18:00.
When the deadline passes without an Israeli response, rockets are fired towards Jerusalem for the first time in years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the group has “crossed a red line” and Israel retaliates with air strikes, killing three Hamas fighters.
A continuing exchange of rocket-fire and air strikes quickly escalates into the fiercest hostilities between the two sides since they fought a war in 2014.
N'Golo Kante "cheats a lot", according to Paul Pogba, who has described the Chelsea star as a "smart kid" and a "cunning" player.
Kante has established himself as one of the top midfielders in Europe since joining Leicester City from Caen in 2015, helping the Foxes win the Premier League title before also going on to lift the trophy with Chelsea.
The 30-year-old has a World Cup winners' medal to his name too, having been part of the triumphant 2018 France squad alongside Pogba, who has now revealed that his compatriot will do whatever it takes to win, even if it means bending the rules.
The Manchester United talisman told beIN Sports of his international colleague: "He cheats a lot. A lot. At card games, board games. Honestly, I'm telling the truth. He cheats.
"He says he doesn't cheat, but he does. He uses cunning. He's a smart kid, N'Golo. But it's okay. You have to love him.
"He's the most beloved soccer player in the history of football. You've got to love him, you cannot hate him, it is not possible.
"He is humble, kind, professional. He will never complain, he will work."
Pogba added on Kante's footballing ability: "He's got everything. He's good technically, with a good passing quality, and he's everywhere on the pitch.
"I even say he appears out of the ground! You don't see him, and - poof - he's out! He gets the ball, he has the finish. He's everywhere.
"To have a player like that by your side, what more can you ask for?"
baralatie: It was that barrage of attacks by Hamas that a tually escalated this tied to what we have now
I'm telling you. They really made a mistake by firing those rockets. Makes me wonder if their commander in chief still has anything upstairs. Even a heavyweight country like USA won't just start shooting rockets towards a country like that without trying to sort things out first. Firing rockets should be the very last thing one would result to except war has been declared
When you start what you cannot finish. Imagine if Isreal didn't have the iron dome. These Muslim terrorists were actually attacking Isreal with thousands of rockets to ANNIHILATE them, that why I won't pity them Finish them o yea isrealites.
Meanwhile, fulani almajiri terrorists in Nigeria keep crying and wailing for what doesn't concern their existence
You have some so-called Nigerian Christians supporting the Zionist State of Israel, forgetting that this same Zionist state has sold surveillance equipment that the present Fulani-controlled Nigerian government uses to track and hunt its enemies. This same Zionist state of Israel has collaborated with another Muslim country (Azerbaijan) to wage war against a historically Christian country (Armenia). This same Zionist state of Israel practices apartheid style of governance against the people of Palestine and even Arab Israelis. This same Zionist state of Israel that deported black Hebrews on account that their stay in Israel was illegal.
Stupid fools who do not read and cannot seem to fathom right from wrong come on here and spew half-truths in the name of Christian solidarity whilst failing to realise this same Zionist state of Israel practice Judaism, a religion that does not recognise modern day christians as children of God or inheritors of the kingdom of heaven.
People who do not read jump in here to claim Israel fought and won wars with 5 different countries, skipping the fact that the Israelis have always had a huge military advantage over all of its neighbours both in terms of personel and equipments, thanks to the USA.
I have nothing against Israel as a country but I am firmly against Israel systematically wiping away the Palestinians all in the name of history. People seem to forget Israel-Palestine story is quite similar to the one we are experiencing at home with the Fulanis vs the entire country.
We must remember that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. You can support Israel all you want but do not come here shouting for an independent state or for Nigeria to split. That is hypocrisy of the highest order.
Keyboard warrior Keep typing while Isreal keeps dropping bombs from fighters jets on your fellow terrorists. After all, crying is the only thing you can do
Terrorists crying all over the thread. YES, you can only cry, so cry me a river you f**king terrorists! Meanwhile, I hereby call upon the Israeli Military help wipe out the northern Nigeria out of existence
tito44: Oga, sometimes, Terrorists and insurgents invites jormalist to come cover their activities. Its part of the publicity they so crave for. Check for most of VICE Videos on youtube. Even ISIS, ALQAEDA, TALIBAN, AL-Shabaab has invited them severally for meetings and Op com sessions
Okay but POST THE NAME OF THE Community. That shouldn't be hard
LordPsalm: Tell her to hurry up. We don't want him anymore. He dare not disrespect us and our coach.
Go Sidon egbon Why would Klopp leave his key man on the bench in a very important match in the first place? He's out of form doesn't mean he deserves to be treated like shit. Firmino that normally goes 60 games without scoring plays every 90 minutes while mane gets dropped just because he lost form of recent. Mane is the reason why Liverpool won the league last season. If you didn't know that before. Talking shit like Salah is better. Salah that normally doesn't like passing and wanna have all the goals to himself. Salah that had a couple of clear cut chances to pass the ball to mane but selfishly decides to shoot a couple of times this season. Just Because he scores penalties and also selfishly score goals, u now think he's better than mane.
Pls and pls, tell your club to low his asking price so that we can take him
This is an opportunity for chelsea to table an offer since we're badly in need of a winger and striker. I trust that Mariana Gramovskaia would do the right thing
tito44: Oga u better keep mute if u have nothing to say. Boko Haram are not invincible. The villagers know them. In some places, they act as the govt. They collect taxes, have courts and even provide social services. Same system of govt ISIS put up in the middle east. They always wanted the people to see them as the govt and the authority. They do this where the real govt have little or no presence. Some of their police even go about reminding traders and villagers to leave whatever they re doing and go to mosque to pray whenever it is time for that.
That only happens in a community that they've captured. For you to think Sahara reporters entered a boko haram territory, took pics and left without being taken hostage is something else. If Sahara claims they really did, then they should mention the name of the community. That shouldn't be hard na
Rosskiiku: Illiterate, dumb and stupid fake professor.
When PDP were in power for 16 years, where was all this Fulani nonsense?
Why did the Fulani not disturb the southern based PDP power elite or power structure which controlled hundreds of billions of dollars for 16 years, if they are so powerful and think they ''own Nigeria''?
Rubbish.
Abeg fck off. Tribalist fake professor.
Southerners held power for 16 good years and fcked up the economy, looted the treasury, and now, all of a sudden, everything is Fulani peoples' fault?
BASTARDS.
Your dad is a fool, a very big one! When a southerner was in charge, southerners never went about killing and destroying properties like yall terrorists are doing now. No southern leader would sit and do nothing while southerners kill and maim like yall are doing now bcs you have a lifeless, břąîñless and idiotic fulani man as president. Don't worry, your days are numbered. Keep føøling yourself untill then, maybe someday youll become as foolish as that piece of shit that brought about your existence.....talking about your mom
Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar said he would like to play with Cristiano Ronaldo in the future.
Neymar recently extended his stay with the Parisians to 2025, but Ronaldo's future at Juventus looks less certain with Andrea Pirlo's side facing a battle to finish in the Serie A top four and reach the Champions League.
Having been with Barcelona for four seasons and then PSG since 2017, Neymar has played alongside some of the game's best players.
"I want to play with Cristiano Ronaldo," the Brazil international told GQ.
"I have already played with great players, like [Lionel] Messi and [Kylian] Mbappe, but I haven't played with Cristiano Ronaldo yet."
That #Zoo tag is something else. MNK should remove it since even some UK citizens and d world will see the tweet. Lol very soon people from other countries like SA would start trolling us with it that we live in zoo embarrassing
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Burnley Vs Liverpool (0 - 3) On 19th May 2021 by Luigi02(m): 9:05pm On May 19, 2021
is this the man city I know?
embarrassing 
