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Conference League: Barak at last gasp, Fiorentina beats Maccabi Haifa in comeback

Conference League, first round of 16: Maccabi Haifa-Fiorentina 3-4
A Fiorentina team that was as effective in attack as it was inaccurate in defense emerged with a precious 4-3 victory, with a decisive goal by Barak in 95′, from the Conference League round of 16 played againstMaccabi Haifa on the neutral at the Bozsik Stadion in Budapest. In the return match, in Florence next Thursday, there will be two results for the Viola to advance to the quarters, a win and a draw.
First half: good start, then Maccabi emerges
The start looks decidedly promising for Vincenzo Italiano’s men: after 2′ in fact, the goal of the lead arrives and to score it è the revived M’Bala Nzola, who scores a header for a goal that, on a personal level, had been missing since last January 14 (Fiorentina-Udinese 2-2 league).
The rest of the first half è forò nightmarish for the Viola, this evening on the field in a white jersey: in fact, at 12′ came the 1-1 scored by Seck, good at beating Terracciano from close range, while at minute 29 there’è the 2-1 for the Israelis, scored by Kinda who took advantage of an uncertainty in marking by Kayode to diagonally beat the lily-white goalkeeper.
The resumption: everything happens in Budapest
In the resumption, Italiano trusted the same eleven sent on the field from 1′ and the players on the field responded positively: at 59′, in fact, Beltran signed the 2-2, making the most of Nzola’s assist and the lack of pressure from the players of the formally “host” team. Maccabi’s counter-response is worth forò the 3-2, at 67′: great play byKhalaili on the right, the young Israeli (class of 2004) unloads an impenetrable diagonal for Terracciano.
Fiorentina, however, did not give up and in minute 73 scored the equalizing goal: Biraghi’s low cross reached Mandragora, who right-footed guessed the right angle and beat the opponent’s goalkeeper. Only after this goal come the first moves of Italiano, who chooses Bonaventura and Belotti taking over Duncan and Nzola at 75′.
In the final, the match gets nervous: Show, Maccabi’s Angolan midfielder already cautioned on 3-2, intervenes late on Bonaventura and gets himself sent off at 81′ for double yellow, on the other side Kayode gets himself cautioned for a hold against Pierrot. A minute later Barak enters for Mandragora, and è the decisive change: at minute 95, when everything seems to suggest that the match will end in parity, the Czech unloads a left-footed shot from the limit that does not find Kaiuf ready and it goes into the box. The triple whistle came shortly afterwards: the Viola won 4-3 and could breathe a big sigh of relief given how the match seemed to have turned out before the final 20 minutes.
Conference League, the results of the other round of 16
These are the results of the other Conference League matches, all played on Thursday: Ajax-Aston Villa 0-0; Molde-Club Brugge 2-1 (Stenevik, Gulbrandsen; penalty. De Cuyper); Olympiacos-Maccabi Tel Aviv 1-4 (El Kaabi; Zahavi 2, Shahar, Peretz); Sturm Graz-Lille 0-3 (David 2, Zhegrova); Dinamo Zagreb-PAOK 2-0 (Petkovic 2); Royale Union Saint Gilloise-Fenerbahce 0-3 (Batshuayi, Oosterwolde, rig. Tadic); Servette-Viktoria Plzen 0-0.
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Milan, Tammy Abraham sheds light on her future

Tammy Abraham punished Inter again in the derby first leg of the Coppa Italia semifinal. After the decisive goal in Riyad with which he gave the Super Cup to the Rossoneri, the English striker found the goal of the momentary lead with the Nerazzurri, who tied the score with Calhanoglu.
“I am really happy for the goal for me and for the team– Abraham said in the press conference. “Then we didn’t win, so we are not happy and we have to fight for the next game, being positive, knowing that we are a good team”.
Then the’ex-Roma spoke about his future: “I do not know my future now. Milan is a great club, very passionate. I want to fight until the end for this club. Staying does not depend only on me”.
“It is a difficult season for everyone. We have other games though, every game is a final. There are always ups and downs. I would have liked to score more but the season is not over. There are 11 games to fight for. We want to play in Europe. We want to try to win the Italian Cup” Abraham concluded.
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Lewis Hamilton, disqualification behind: “Immediately looked ahead”

Lewis Hamilton spoke at a press conference on the eve of the Japanese Grand Prix, scheduled for the weekend. “I heard some people say some nonsense – he began – like I would be losing faith in the team. I can say I believe 100% in this team, obviously there was a huge hype at the beginning of the year, probably a lot of people expected us to win right away, starting from the first race, but that was not what I expected.”
“I’m coming into a new culture, a new team, and it’s going to take time – added the British driver. “I’ve spent the last couple of months just observing how the team works compared to the other two I’ve worked in before. During the past week I have been able to take notes and point out areas where I think we can improve, and this process will continue throughout the year as we learn more and more from each other”.
Then he came back to the disqualification in China: “In general during a race you always avoid areas of the asphalt where there are bumps, in Shanghai at the exit of turn 13 the bottom was not touching the asphalt, there was not even rebound or anything like that, so I had no warning. Regarding disqualifications, we all know that all these single-seaters are set to the limit in every parameter, personally I didn”t feel any frustration when I was made aware of it. It is what it is”.
“We immediately looked ahead, I was in Maranello on Wednesday and learned a lot. I would say the most impressive thing was seeing how the team worked, how they processed the data and how we worked ahead of this weekend, that is the most important thing” Hamilton concluded.
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Jannik Sinner, Riccardo Piatti name 4 names for post-Darren Cahill

Riccardo Piatti, former coach of Jannik Sinner, gave a lengthy interview to Corriere della Sera in which he spoke about his former pupil with whom he parted ways more than three years ago: “When I finished with Jannik I admit I had a few months of daze, then I went toward what I like: teaching tennis. The Piatti Center is not a supermarket: you go through a growth process here. I did that myself. It was a mental click, priorities changed but tennis remains at the top of my thoughts. Now I chase kids” dreams.
“Everyone remembers the match with Daniel, in Melbourne, in January 2022, when he said: ‘be calm, ca**o’ – continued the Italian coach -. He was mad at me for court stuff, it had happened before: it is normal dynamic between coach and player. That is not the problem. I always wanted Jannik to become independent, I knew he would leave one day. But with him I had to be the strict, sometimes rigid coach: that was my role. Ljubicic scolds me that I used to tell him: you decide, Ivan, but then you do as I say. For Jannik, this penalty, at one point, was too much to handle”.
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Then he mentioned a few names for the post-Darren Cahill, who will leave the’Alto Adige at the end of the season: “Carlos Moya, who I had already considered. He has been No. 1, he knows the circuit. Humanly he is a very good person, like Darren. Renzo Furlan, now that he stopped with Paolini, is free. Ljubicic is very good. Or Becker, whom we had contacted; however, working with Boris is more complicated. The names are these”.
Closing on the return of the world number one, expected at the Internazionali d’Italia: “He will be strong right away. I really believe he can make the Grand Slam this year. The suspension has extended his life: he will arrive at the end of the season fresh. You play too much, mentally you never stop. He will come back energized and motivated. He always has been. In the pandemic many took advantage of it by not training, Gasquet in the doping stop gained eight pounds, Jannik did not lose a day. He knows perfectly well where he wants to go”.
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