by Manchester City’s offer for the Champions League football next season was set up when she took the lead twice with 2-2 against Brighton.
Wolves took a big step towards the security of the Premier League after they won 2-1 in Southampton, which is now 17 points at the foot of the table and seems to be intended for an immediate return to the Sky Bet Championship.
Chelsea remains on the course for four times after she was 2-1 against Manchester City 2-1 in Pride Park.
We have nine cup of final – pep
Pep Guardiola admitted that he could feel the fear at the Etihad Stadium, but remains confident that Manchester City will qualify for the Champions League.
The champions missed the chance to return to the top 4 of the Premier League on Saturday when they were recorded by the European challengers with 2-2 draws in Brighton after they had lifted the lead twice.
Guardiola had no complaints about the result after Erling Haaland’s penalty and a strike by Omar Marmoush were canceled by Pervis Estupinan’s free kick and Abdukodir Khusanov’s own destination.
The Spaniard felt a nervousness in the crowd and said: “Yes, definitely. Everyone feels the pressure. But it is what it is. We have to play better and after that they will be back.
“They are there in the good moments, but of course they feel it when it is not good. I am always confident – in which I am a master. I have moments (when) I can doubt, but I find the right way, the positivity in everything.
“I know that it will be difficult for many reasons, but we have nine games, nine finals.”
Pereira takes the heart
Vitor Pereira said that he had the challenge of keeping the wolves in the Premier League “with my heart” after taking a significant step towards survival with a 2-1 win in the rock floor Southampton.
The bracket of Jorgen Strand Larsen moved hikers nine points ahead of Ipswich, and Paul Onuachu scored a goal for Southampton, who has been without profit since the beginning of February and 17 points.
Pereira said: “This club does not deserve a descent, the people of this club do not deserve it. I feel that with my heart and it is a project that I want to take with both hands.
“Nine points are better than six (the gap on the lower three). We can keep the nine points and try to be consistent. We cannot sleep in this league, we cannot go to games and think that we can wait for results, we have to fight, we have to earn the victory. “
Bombastor wants more silverware
The Chelsea boss Sonia Bombastor knows that there is still a lot of work to do because her team took the first step in their search for a historical four times by winning the Women’s League Cup.
The early opener of Mayra Ramirez and Yui Hasegawa’s own goal scored a 2-1 victory in the Pride Park and deserved bombastor’s first trophy.
Victory saw that her team in her four consecutive games against City corresponds to the first blood with a two-legged quarter-finals of the Champions League and the women’s Super League game in the next 12 days.
Bombastor said: “We just want to make sure that in the end we snap as many trophies as possible because we know that it will be really difficult.
“But before I said we haven’t won anything yet, so I can now start saying that we won a trophy, but only one of four. And yes, maybe I will celebrate the most when we can get more than one. “
Dele Red Sours comeback
The former England star Dele Alli had achieved a nightmare in his first competition appearance in over two years when he was sent out less than 10 minutes after his debut for Side A Side Como.
Dele, once a leading light in Tottenham and a semi-finalist of World Cup with Gareth Southgate’s England, tried to get his career back into the track after picking up Como boss CESC Fabregas before Christmas.
He was called by the bank in the 81st minute of the 2-1 defeat on Saturday in AC Milan and came out in San Siro to end a waiting that goes back in Besiktas in February 2023.
However, his comeback got angry when he made an awkward challenge for the former team-mate of England, Ruben Loftus-Cheek at the beginning of the additional time. He was shown a first yellow card by referee Matteo Marchetti, but a Var evaluation saw the caution in a red.
What’s going on today?
Liverpool will offer a record-proof victory of the 11th League Cup against Newcastle in Wembley against Newcastle, who hope to end her 56-year-old waiting time for a large trophy.
It also says in three Premier League games in which two London derbies are included.
Arsenal takes over the top-four rival Chelsea in the Emirates Stadium and Tottenham in Fulham, while Manchester United hope to pursue their success of the Europa League in the middle of the week with the victory at Leicester in the second bottom.
Three other local derbies will also develop as Celtic -Rangers in Parkhead and Dundee United in the Tannadice Park in William Hill Scottish Premiership, while Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield United in the Sky Bet Championship moderator on Wednesday.
In the Super League of women, the Bottom Club Crystal Palace is on the Aston Villa and Brighton on the mid-table rival Tottenham.
