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Chile beat Portugal on penalties to qualify Confederation Cup final Chile progressed to the Confederations Cup last with a 3-0 penalty shootout thrashing of Portugal in Kazan, Russia yesterday. The ruling Copa America champions saw Claudio Bravo save three back to back penalties for La Roja beat the previous summer's Euro champs to book their first-ever final in the competition, where they will confront the victor of the present second semi-final amongst Germany and Mexico. Cristiano Ronaldo at that point flashed a header wide in the fifth minute, before Eduardo Vargas was denied by Rui Patricio a minute later and Andre Silva missed a brilliant possibility after Ronaldo's cross abandoned him with just an on-surging Bravo to beat in the seventh. What's more, Chile were unfortunate not to win one minute before the whistle - Vidal's first-time shot from fresh striking the post and once more into play, just for substitute Martín Rodriguez's wo...

Gunners forward Alexis Sanchez not occupied by Manchester City and Bayern Munich transfer speculation Juan Antonio Pizzi, Sanchez's national coach, believes the 28-year-old is coping well with the uncertainty over his future Alexis Sanchez has not been occupied by the vulnerability encompassing his Arsenal future, as indicated by Chile mentor Juan Antonio Pizzi. Sanchez, who is as of now on worldwide obligation with his national group at the Confederations Cup in Russia, has one year staying on his agreement with the north London club and is yet to show whether he will sign an augmentation The 28-year-old has been reliably connected with European football's world class, and any semblance of Manchester City and Bayern Munich are believed to be observing his situation, however Pizzi accepts such hypothesis is not alarming Chile's talisman.

Manchester United have to resolve Wayne Rooney future to avoid disrupting club's pre-season _says Gary Neville. Manchester United must resolve Wayne Rooney's future to stop speculation encompassing the 31-year-old from disturbing the club's pre-season plan, said by Gary Neville. You don't want that speculation to hang over a pre-season because every single press conference and media session will be clogged up with the issue of whether he is staying or going. The club are yet to affirm whether Rooney will see out the last year of his agreement, notwithstanding the player's confirmation in the wake of United's Europa League triumph win that he had "pretty much" chose his future. Rooney repeated his stance last month that he would not play for another Premier League club apart from United and former club Everton

Aubameyang ready for new adventures amid speculation of CSL move The Chinese Super League is now being touted as a destination for the forward after being linked to Liverpool The Gabon international had been linked with a move to Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain after admitting midway through the season that he needs to leave Dortmund if he’s to reach THE NEXT LEVEL. And Aubameyang appears to have confirmed his imminent departure after posting a cryptic message on social media earlier this week. Taking to Instagram, the 28-year-old posted a photo of himself with the caption: “Ready For New Adventures”. The German’s remarks prompted further speculation that Liverpool were in for the striker but it seems Jurgen Klopp is set to lose out on his former player.

United close in on £35m deal for Chelsea's Matic Manchester united are set to offer north of £150,000 every week to a player Chelsea have neglected to broaden the agreement of for about a year and half to this point It will probably be the minimum energizing £35m marking of the summer, however should, obviously, Manchester United finish their arrangement for Nemanja Matic then Jose Mourinho will have another key bit of his transfer business done. The Portuguese disclosed to United's official bad habit executive Ed Woodward in March the positions that he needed to fortify this late spring and gave him various names for every part. In protective midfield, any semblance of Radja Nainggolan and Eric Dier were considered yet Matic, a solid administrator who Mourinho has as of now worked with twice, is something of a known amount - regardless of the possibility that he wasn't first decision. Chelsea will be viewed as the champs in this deal, promptly reinvesting t...

Furious Ronaldo: Perez accept ronaldo is angry The Portuguese genius is supposed to want out of Madrid, yet the club's leader feels that he will stay put this summer Genuine Madrid president Florentino Perez trusts Cristiano Ronaldo will remain at the club, despite the fact that he concedes the Portuguese is furious. Perez didn't deny that Ronaldo is disturbed and upset, apparently with the club for neglecting to more strongly back him, however says he supposes the superstar won't leave. Ronaldo is now with Portugal at the competition in Russia, where the Euro 2016 champions will confront Chile in a semi-last on Wednesday.

Eagles must be careful about 'injured lions', Cameroon . Former Nigeria international, Etim Esin, has played down the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon’s poor outing at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia, positing that they still remain a formidable side. African champions Cameroon, were ousted from 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup after losing 3-1 to world champions Germany in their last Group B game on Sunday. Despite their lacklustre performance in Russia, Esin who was a member of the Super Eagles team that lost 1-0 to Cameroon in Yaounde in their last group game during the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, advised that the Super Eagles must present their best players for August’s 2018 World Cup qualifier in Uyo.  “For me, Cameroon are still a side to reckon with despite their poor outing at the Confederations Cup, I think the Confederations Cup has  served as a platform for them to prepare for the game against the Super Eagles,” said Esin. “From what I saw of C...