The German soccer player Antonio Rüdiger wanted to leave FC Chelsea in his time under coach Frank Lampard towards Paris Saint-Germain.
“I was no longer in the squad. It was said that I should go, which I was never said directly,” said the 29-year-old in an interview with the “DAZN” streaming service for his difficult season 2020/21 at Stamford Bridge. “I was ready to go,” said Rüdiger. His goal: coach Thomas Tuchel and the French series master PSG.
“When it ended up under Lampard, he had relied on me again,” said the defender. At the beginning of 2021 Tuchel took over Lampard’s job. Rüdiger stayed and became a fixed size – and Chelsea won the Champions League under Tuchel in 2021.
At that time he hadn’t really believed in this triumph. “I couldn’t imagine that, I honestly say that. The last thing we dreamed of was this final,” said Rüdiger.
After five years at the Stamford Bridge, the Berlin native is now moving to Real Madrid. According to a report by the magazine “The Athletic”, the defender signed a four -year contract with the Spanish champion.
His contract with Chelsea expires at the end of the season, he can leave the club free of charge. Tuchel had already confirmed that Rüdiger was going.
This Saturday (5:45 p.m.) Rüdiger meets Chelsea in the FA Cup final in Wembley on FC Liverpool with Jürgen Klopp.
Iga Swiatek continues to play in her own league a week before the French Open begins. The Tennis World Ranking Lister secured the title at the WTA tournament in Rome with its 28th victory in series. In the final, the Polish defeated the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, successful in Madrid a week ago, after 82 minutes with 6: 2, 6: 2. For Swiatek it was the fifth title in series.
The 20-year-old, who took over the top in the ranking after the resignation of the Australian Ashleigh Barty, has been on the tour for weeks.
After the triumphs in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami and Stuttgart, she treated herself a break in Madrid – and now triumphed in Rome without losing a set. For the second Grand Slam tournament of the year in Paris (from May 22nd), Swiatek is the great favorite, in Roland Garros she won her only major title to date in 2020.
It is still a long way for Swiatek to the best brand for women: In 1984 Martina Navratilova remained unbeaten in a row. In 1989 and 1990 Steffi Graf lined up 66 victories before it was stopped by Monica Seles in Berlin.
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The Madrider SportblattASsummed up the misery. “Xavi writes history,” it said, but “against his will”. Three home defeats in the time -honored Camp Nou in one season like now under coach Xavi, that had never been done before. The 0: 1 (0: 1) against outsider Rayo Vallecano was nothing less than a “disaster”, as the Catalan sheet Sport is called.
“We ended up on the ground of the facts,” said Xavi crumpled, “I’m angry and disappointed because we had a golden opportunity.” With his bankruptcy, archrival Real Madrid, of all places, put on a point against Espanyol Barcelona on Saturday (4:15 p.m.) to bring his 35th championship under roof and subject.
And Barca? “We have complicated the situation,” said Xavi, and “Five finals” in the fight for the Champions League. The head start of the second in the table on cup winner Betis Sevilla in fifth place is supposedly calming six points. But nothing seems a matter of course in this (home) form – especially since three of the five “finals” take place in Camp Nou.
“We have to motivate ourselves and improve a lot,” said Xavi. The interim euphoria surrounding the clutor seems to be g1. His balance sheet after 32 games is even worse than that of predecessor Ronald Koeman, who was chased from the farm with swear and shame: 17 victories (Koeman 21) face seven defeats (Koeman six).
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“If you win everything is wonderful,” said Xavi, “but it is these moments when personality is shown.”
Setback for the Phoenix Suns: The NBA top team must do without the Playoffs of the North AmericanBasketball Profiliga for the time being on Superstar Devin Booker.
On Tuesday, the Guard at the 114: 125 defeat against the New Orleans Pelicans in the Second Playoff game suffered injury in the thigh and will be two to three weeks after information from “ESPN”.
Booker, which will miss at least the next two games of the best-of-Seven series, is with an average of 26.8 points per game Topscorer of the Suns.
The team from Arizona has completed its best regular season with 64 Siegen and pages the first NBA title of the history.
Last year, Phoenix had come to the final, but then the Milwaukee Bucks sat down.
Through the 2-0 on Sunday against the Grizzlys Wolfsburg, the team of coach Don Jackson decided the best of-Five series clearly with 3: 0 for themselves. The opponent is not fixed yet. Because the Eagle Mannheim won with 5: 3 at the Eisbären Berlin and shortened in the series to 1: 2.
With a double impact within 14 seconds in the sixth minute’s minutes ago, the Munich led to 5,371 spectators by matches of national player Yasin Ehliz and Austin Ortega with 2: 0. Wolfsburg tried to come back to the game, but failed in the defensively embossed game with all 17 shots at Munich Keeper Henrik Haukeland. In the final minutes, the guests also missed with two actors more on the ice several times the connection hit.
Dawes’ Hattrick makes the eagle cheer
In the series between the polar bears Berlin and the Adler Mannheim, the decision has been postponed. The away victory will take place on Tuesday (19.30 clock) game four in Mannheim.
A three-pack of Nigel Dawes (31st, 51st, 60th) as well as gates of Markus Hännikäinen (4th) and Nicolas cramps (47th) made for the first Eagle success of the series. Frans Nielsen (7.), Blaine Byron (58.) and Johan Södergran (60th) were successful for the defending champion.
With “compactness” and with “organization” Union Berlin’s coach Urs Fischer RB Leipzig wanted to make life difficult in the Cup semi-final. This plan was excellent in the initial phase. The Köpenicker compressed the center and forced so RB to long, inaccurate balls.
Union itself was looking for the outside, where after the 2-0 success against Eintracht Frankfurt Trimmel and OCCIPKA instead of Ryerson and castle man raided up and down, the way forward. However, there was a first approach after a corner when Prömel Gulacsis Reflexe tested twice (15.).
Trimms flank to measure
The first good Berlin attack from the game saw the same: Awoniyi fit from the center to the right to Trimmel, which enabled a dimensional edge of Becker on the long post the leadership goal (25th).
In the atmospheric and rapid Red Bull Arena, Leipzig did not shock himself from the opposite direction and became active, however, hard towards stable guests. RB-Coach Domenico Tedesco had changed its first eleven compared to the 1-0 away win in Leverkusen on equal six positions: Simakan, Angelino, Laimer, Henrichs, Dani Olmo and Nkunku played instead of Klostermann (as a contact person in isolation), Halstenberg, Adams, Mukiele, Forsberg and Poulsen.
André Silva are missing centimeters
Only after over half an hour, the Saxons with the Köpenicker DefenseBollower were better clear and joined it after 37 minutes almost, but Silva missed after a nice combination the compensation of breach (37.).
Union showed more active after the restart than in the last 15 minutes before the break, RB now remained the game-determining team. The ball ran through their own ranks, but mostly was the penalty area of the guests. Defensive the Saxons had always had to be viastical, because Union lurked on counterattack, but he played by Becker and Awoniyi unclean (57.).
André Silva equals from the point
When it started for RB in the sixteen, it became the same. Jaeckel brought Nkunku from the legs and referee Dr. Felix Brych decided according to VaR reference for penalty, the Silva safely turned to compensate (61.).
After the compensation on the scoreboard, the events on the lawn was subsequently more balanced. Until in the detention time, but certainly no team played a really thick possibility.
Forsberg heads Leipzig to Berlin
In the three extra minutes but Angelino could then put the Lucky Punch, but Baumgartl prevented it shortly before the line (90. + 2). Seconds later, the leather was behind the goal line: RB remained in front of the front and Henrichs again flanked into the penalty area, where the substitute forsberg jumped the highest and the ball put the ball in the mesh (90. + 2).
Thus, RB Leipzig stands for the third time within four years in the cup finals and meets there on 21 May (8 pm) on the SC Freiburg (3: 1 against Hamburg).
Union, on the other hand, misses the final in its own city, but has already on Saturday (15.30 clock) the chance of revenge, when the round game in the Bundesliga is rising again in Leipzig.
“We need an optimal game to care for a surprise,” said Fischer before the game on Wednesday (20:45 clock). A progress against the extremely dimensional Saxony would be “a small sensation” according to Fischer.
Union waves the first cup final since 2001 and the second of club history. For the dream of the final in the Olympic Stadium on May 21, Fischer makes his players even “train a few penalties”. As a punishment, “pizza or clean up are very popular” for the loser, “said the Swiss laughing.
But the Ironanes also want to take the momentum from the league with three wins in series and the 2-0 home success against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.
“The first half gives us upswing, so a performance we need against Leipzig over 90 minutes,” emphasized Fischer, who certified RB a “enormous individual quality”.
Both teams are still waiting for a triumph in the DFB Cup. As the only one of the four semi-finalists so far only second division Hamburger SV has already won the Cup (1963, 1976 and 1987).
The VfL Wolfsburg threatens in the season final spurt of the Football Bundesliga the failure of Maxence Lacroix.
The defender had to be replaced at the 1: 6 in Dortmund shortly before the break.
“He felt a stitch in the thigh. It does not look good,” said coach Florian Kohfeldt.
In the also replaced Xaver Schlager he gave all the design.
“With him everyone sometimes twitch, if he has something at the knee, but it was just a blow, so I’m reasonably calmed,” said the coach.
The Football National Team of Ukraine denies the World Cup qualifier in Scotland on 1 June, shifted World Cup qualification game in Scotland, shared FIFA’s World Association and the European Football Union UEFA.
The winner of the playoff semi-final plays on June 5 against Wales for a ticket for the World Cup final in late autumn in Qatar.
Then all World Cup participants are fixed from Europe.
Actually, Ukraine would have been to play against Scotland on March 24th in Glasgow.
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Due to the current scheduling, several games in the Nations League were postponed after discussions with a total of eight national associations involved in the beginning of June.
According to UEFA, in addition to Ukraine, Scotland and Wales, Armenia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Ireland are also affected.
The FCS coach has not hoped for the climb yet. “We need a victory,” Koschinat knows about the prerequisites, the “very big” yet. That’s why the derby “is not a game like any other. We do not go to Kaiserslautern, just to play the honor. We have tabular goals,” Koschinat emphasized on the press conference on Friday.
FCK on the Bayenberg a power
With 51 points in a game less are the currently six-placed Saarlanders in lurking, Lautern goes with 60 counters and a very good starting position in the rest program – and together with Magdeburg best home team (11/4/1) can be a counterparty with a threesome Final remedy.
Defense Man Steven Zellner, who answered questions with his coach on the press conference, wasted questions: “We still have a residual chance on the first three places. That’s why we want to win.” In order to put this undertaking into action, you need a “good entry into the game,” Koschinat said. “The atmosphere will be special, but there are eleven players in the square. We can not turn over. “
You get little goals and front make you made of shit gold.
Manuel Zeitz
Of course, the eleven boobs also counts Captain Manuel Zeitz, who had fueled the mood with bustling words during the week: “Do not play superflowers and do not make anything special. But they get little goals and front of shit gold.” Surely just too likes to help the Middle Field Man actively help to prevent this louder “quality” – whether the 32-year-old can involve at all, is questionable due to inguinal problems.
