Lyon, sting on Paulo Fonseca

Lyon coach Paulo Fonseca è was suspended from his technical role until next November 30 by the disciplinary commission of the French League for threatening the referee in a ‘head-to-head’ during the Ligue 1 match between his team and Brest (2-1) after being sent off.

In addition to that, until Sept. 15 he will not have access to his locker room. The suspension does not è apply for now in European competitions and the Portuguese will sit on the bench in the Europa League match tomorrow against Steaua Bucharest.

Truly a terrible season for the Portuguese coach, who had been signed by AC Milan last summer but è was put through the door on December 30 before landing a month later in Ligue 1 at Lyon. From 2019 to 2021 he had instead coached Roma, picking up a fifth and a seventh place finish.

Feyenoord-Inter, Simone Inzaghi puts his hands up, Robin Van Persie doesn’t give up

These are the words of Inter coach Simone Inzaghi, interviewed by Amazon Prime Video after the 2-0 win against Feyenoord.

“We are judged every two and a half days and that is fine. We are not qualified, we are missing the second half of this game. But tonight è it was really a very good match”.

” We knew we would have to suffer but then we did not suffer so much. I am very satisfied with the boys,” he continued, “The team follows me, there’è great willingness’”.

“Bastoni played an excellent game, he è made himself available to the team, he è alternated with Acerbi. È a very strong, world-class defender but he è made himself available and played the fifth without any problems”.

Instead, here are the words to Sky Sport of Feyenoord coach Robin Van Persie: “The players gave everything on the pitch and thanks to a good save on a penalty that for me was not there, we are still in the game. And we think we can make it next week in Milan”.

” We will have to run more, but in the second half we really tried: è it was difficult to keep up the pace of the pressure. Inter players have great quality with the ball, we are still in the game fortunately: today we wanted to achieve more, but we are still in the game”.

WTA 1000 Indian Wells, Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the second round

Elisabetta Cocciaretto, world number 72, advances to the second round of the Indian Wells WTA 1000 by beating Mexican Renata Zarazua, number 69, who è withdrew after just under an hour when the Marche woman was ahead 6-4 1-0.

Cocciaretto immediately made the break in the second game and going ahead then 3-0 and 4-1, she missed a 5-1 ball and on 4-2 was countered on the third chance after having two balls for 5-2. From 4-4 però Elisabetta won 8 out of 9 points and won the first set.

In the first game of the second set Cocciaretto holds serve at zero but Zarazua, who had already called medical timeout on 5-4, does not move anymore and raises the white flag. In the second round Cocciaretto will find a very difficult obstacle, and that is the Czech Karolina Muchova.