Christian Eriksen says Tottenham will take a humble approach to the rest of the Premier League campaign, despite moving into second place with victory over Watford on Saturday.
Kieran Trippier s second-half goal was enough to propel Spurs above Manchester City in the standings, following the 2013-14 champions home defeat to leaders Leicester, who are five points clear with 13 games of the season left.
While Tottenham are now legitimate contenders for the title, Eriksen is not allowing himself to get carried away.
We just want to stay as close as possible and our thing is to be humble and keep playing and keep winning games, the Dane told Sky Sports.
Everyone is feeling really happy and really satisfied with what we re doing so far.
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La Gazzetta dello Sport has suggested that Barcelona have all but reached an agreement to sign Ezequiel Lavezzi from Paris Saint-Germain.
With his contract at Parc des Princes due to expire at the end of the season and the forward struggling for playing time, the Argentina international has been widely tipped to leave the Saints at the earliest opportunity.
And the latest reports suggest that he has already found a new club, with Barcelona reportedly having agreed a €4 million deal for his services.
The same source claims that Lavezzi s international teammates Leo Messi and Javier Mascherano persuaded Barcelona coach Luis Enrique to recruit the 30-year-old forward.
Ezequiel Lavezzi joined PSG from Napoli in July 2012 and has since scored 21 goals in ex…
England s Raheem Sterling has hailed Jadon Sancho s work ethic and is not surprised the 18-year-old has eased seamlessly into international football.
The Borussia Dortmund winger replaced Sterling with 12 minutes remaining in England s goalless draw with Croatia on Friday to become the first player born this millennium to represent the Three Lions.
Sancho impressed during his short cameo and Sterling – who trained alongside him at Manchester City before the former s move to the Bundesliga in August 2017 – always knew he had what it takes to succeed at the highest level.
He is a really good talent and someone I ve thought highly of since the first time I saw him at Manchester City when he was training with us in pre-season, Sterling told reporters.
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AC Milan suffered their first defeat in 10 Serie A games as Sassuolo picked up a richly deserved 2-0 win at Stadio Mapei on Sunday.
The Rossoneri could have closed to within six points of the third and final Champions League spot with victory, but they fell to a third defeat in as many trips to Sassuolo since the latter s promotion to Serie A in 2013.
Sinisa Mihajlovic made good on a promise to start Mario Balotelli, despite criticising the Italy striker s desire, although the Liverpool loanee looked out of sorts on the right wing and lasted just 55 minutes.
Sassuolo goalkeeper Andrea Consigli was nevertheless kept busy in the first half, as Milan spurned a host of clear-cut chances before Alfred Duncan s screamer put the home side ahead against the run of play.…
Emma Hayes insists Chelsea are fully standing behind Sam Kerr after it was revealed the striker had pleaded not guilty to racially aggravated harassment of a police officer.
The Australia captain was charged with causing a police officer harassment, alarm or distress during an incident in Twickenham, south-west London, on January 30 last year, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Kerr, of Richmond, denied the charge at a plea and trial preparation hearing at Kingston upon Thames Crown Court on Monday.
Blues boss Hayes said: “Sam has our full support. She knows that. It’s a difficult time for her.
“Of course I can’t comment, you know that. I can say I know she’s pleaded not guilty and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardise anything fo…
Brentford have condemned despicable racist abuse of Ivan Toney and called for support from the police and Instagram after their star striker revealed a private message he was sent on Friday.
Toney scored twice in Brentford s 2-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion, taking the England World Cup hopeful s tally to an impressive eight goals for the season.
But Toney posted on Twitter on Saturday to report an abusive message he had received on Instagram in the closing stages of the game.
The former Newcastle United forward uploaded images of both the message and the account from which it was sent.
I wasn t even going to post this, but I woke up angry, Toney said.
Last night, Ivan Toney was subjected to disgusting, racist abuse via a direct message rece…
A second-half equaliser by French international Mathieu Valbuena saw champions Marseille draw 1-1 with Lyon and deny the visitors top spot in the league table on Sunday.
Valbuena s third league goal of the season got Marseille back on level terms after Argentinian Lisandro had given Lyon the lead in the 34th minute for his eighth of the season which saw the game end with a heated argument between Marseille s veteran Argentinian fullback Gabriel Heinze and Lyon s Jimmy Briand.
The result sees Lyon in fourth place a point behind leaders Lille, who have a game in hand, while Marseille are another two points adrift.
Lyon took the lead as Lisandro s crisply struck shot, after being well found by Brazilian Michel Bastos, beat Steve Mandanda, though the goalkeeper cou…
Napoli edged closer to securing a UEFA Champions League place with a 0-0 draw at Inter in Rafael Benitez’s first return to his former club.
Benitez endured a troublesome six-month spell in charge of the Milan giants in 2010, which ended when he was unceremoniously sacked despite winning the FIFA Club World Cup, but could easily have enjoyed a victory against his former employers in the Serie A clash at San Siro on Saturday.
An even first half saw both sides create numerous chances, but Napoli forward Jose Callejon was wasteful at one end, while goalkeeper Jose Reina was rarely troubled and the Spaniard was alert when he was called into action.
Napoli went close again at the start of the second half, as Jorginho was denied in the 50th minute.
Gonzalo Higuain had…
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special takes viewers on an adventure that takes Drax and Mantis to Earth in order to get Peter a very special Christmas gift. However, the wildest moment of the entire special is that it introduces GoBots to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That’s right. Let me repeat that. The GoBots exist in the MCU–and not just as toys.
During a moment when Mantis and Drax find themselves outside of the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, where there are a bunch of people dressed up in costumes, Drax sees someone dressed up as Cy-Kill–the leader of the GoBots. This enrages him, and Mantis says, “GoBots killed his cousin.”
What?
That quick line of dialogue introduces a whole species of robot aliens to the MCU-…
Toni Kroos, Thomas Muller and Mesut Ozil are among the big names to be left out of Germany s squad for next month s Confederations Cup in Russia.
The world champions head coach, Joachim Low, has opted to rest his top regular stars as he bids to keep the squad fresh for next season, which will culminate with the World Cup.
Jerome Boateng, Mario Gomez, Mats Hummels, Sami Khedira, Kroos, Muller and Ozil are all given an end-of-season break having been omitted from Low s squad.
After his potential selection was subject to much debate, Borussia Dortmund winger Marco Reus is also left out after he suggested he wanted to be rested after suffering several injuries in recent seasons.
Other top stars Benedikt Howedes, Mario Gotze, Manuel Neuer and Julian Weigl…