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Argentina melts down, South Africa reclaims throne

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South Africa Rugby Championship 2024 champion

In just under two hours, South Africa put behind it the surprising defeat seven days ago in Santiago del Estero and, demolishing Argentina with a clear 48-7 in Mbombela, won the Rugby Championship for the fifth time in its history, returning to success in the Southern Hemisphere&#39s premier tournament for the first time since 2019 and reaffirming its global superiority in rugby following its success in the 2023 World Cup.

The match è without history from the start: Aphelele Fassi goes in goal after 8′, Pieter-Steph du Toit crosses the line at 14′ (Jaden Hendrikse transforms in both cases) for 14-0. Argentina deludes itself into thinking it can come back by going in goal with Tomas Albornoz on 19′ (the same Benetton Rugby opener transforms), but unlike at home to the Pumas, South Africa does not flinch and scores virtually every time it crosses the halfway line.

Hendrikse makes it 17-7 with a free kick on 22′, then come two more goals before halftime, with Fassi on 33′ and Cheslin Kolbe on 38′, who take advantage of the ten minutes in which Mateo Carreras è was forced to the bench because of a yellow card to allow South Africa to close the first half on 27-7.

That of Mateo Carreras è the first card in the entire tournament for Argentina but it won&#39t be the only one, becauseé Pablo Matera gets himself sent off with yellow turned red after the review at the ‘bunker’ in minute 55 and Santiago Carreras gets another yellow in 68′ exactly one minute before Malcolm Marx&#39s goal for 34-7 (after Handré Pollard&#39s transformation).

Even final è all in favor of the Springboks: du Toit scores again at 73′ Jesse Kriel marks in turn at 77′. Pollard converted on both occasions and put his signature from the penalty spot on the 48-7 final.South Africa closes the tournament with 24 points, finishing ahead of New Zealand (16 points after a 31-13 success over Australia in the Italian morning), Argentina itself (14 points) and the Australian Wallabies, last with just 5 points collected in the six matches played.

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MotoGp, Jorge Martin: comes the'latest green light from doctors

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Jorge Martin can finally make his debut on’Aprilia and in the MotoGP World Championship after missing the first races due to injury. Doctors have given the go-ahead for his return to the track, ruling him fit to compete in practice and the Qatar Grand Prix.

The reigning world champion will take to the track Friday on the No. 1 Aprilia for the first time in an official test since the disastrous crashes that caused him some fractures in winter testing and in training.

Martin’s goal is to adapt as soon as possible to the new bike in order to have his say over the course of the season, although the train for the World Championship seems to have now departed, given the current pace and superiority of the Ducatis and in particular Marc Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia and Alex Marquez.

Martin won the 2024 World Championship with the Ducati’s satellite Pramac team bike, bending Bagnaia.

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Conference League 2024-2025, Legia Warsaw-Chelsea: the likely lineups

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Legia Warsaw-Chelsea, a match valid for the Europa League quarterfinal first leg, is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. in Poland. The Blues, first in the league stage, come to the challenge after a win against Copenhagen, while Legia in the round of 16 eliminated Molde in a comeback. The London team is scoring very little in its last few games played (just 3 goals in five matches), but is still unbeaten in the competition.

Legia relies on Luqinhas, Chodyna and Pekhart in attack. In midfield Kapustka with Elitim and Morishita.

For Maresca Neto is the central striker, with the trio of trequartists Sancho-Enzo Fernandez-Nkunku behind him.

Legia-Chelsea, the likely lineups
Legia Warsaw (4-3-3): Tobiasz; Wszolek, Pankov, Kapuadi, Vinagre; Kapustka, Elitim, Morishita; Chodyna, Pekhart, Luquinhas. All: Feio.
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Sanchez; Fofana, Badiashile, Colwill, Cucurella; Reece James, Caicedo; Sancho, Enzo Fernandez, Nkunku; Neto. All: Maresca.

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Scaroni irritates Milan fans: “Season not so bad”

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A.C. Milan president Paolo Scaroni has angered Rossoneri fans on social media for words spoken during an event at San Siro organized by the newspaper Il Foglio: “I do not feel I can say that the season is just totally negative, I remember that we won the Italian Super Cup”.

“The fans are the focus of our attention, it is so important to have them by our side even in such a difficult season like this. They are showing resilience, putting up with the team even when performances are not brilliant”.

The market moves: “Being active in the market is one thing, then being successful is another. Some of the signings we have made have been great successes, becoming long-term Milan players with very good performances. Whereas other signings have been less successful, certainly Morata was not a great operation for so many reasons. Reijnders and Pulisic in particular have had consistently very good returns, then Leao excites everyone”.

“We intend to continue this policy of ours of being active especially on young people, so we will continue to strengthen the team. Furlani is in charge of that first of all, then there&#8217s also Ibrahimovic along with our whole team. We would like to have a great season next year. Zlatan is an added value for Milan and for RedBird, he is a RedBird consultant loaned to Milan”.

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