It was a high octane, almost hectic start from both teams, with both goals threatened though not acutely. Individual battles that would prove important, such as Garnacho against Bradley and Acheampong against Isak, started shaping up. The game settled down after those first ten minutes, with Chelsea edging possession but Liverpool always looking to counter. We didn’t necessarily threaten too …
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Wanderlei Silva’s first boxing match ended in disaster Saturday night in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “The Axe Murderer” met Brazilian boxing legend Acelino Freitas in the main event of Spaten Fight Night 2 and was knocked out cold by a member of Freitas’ team when a post-fight brawl broke out seconds after Silva was disqualified for multiple fouls committed in the …
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Grey skies, pouring rain, and a maddening red card for Robert Sánchez inside of five minutes blew up any ideas we might have had about how this game might play out. In response, Enzo Maresca chose to take off not only Estêvão but Pedro Neto as well, switching to a toothless 5-3-1, which managed to hold out for less than …
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After a somewhat subdued start to the game, with the two teams probing without much quality for the opening 5 minutes, Lucas Paquetá brought the occasion to life with a piledriver from a long way out that looked impressive at first sight but brought the goalkeeping into question on subsequent replays. London Stadium was rocking, but Chelsea came a-knocking, and …
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Editor’s note: This story is a part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering leadership, personal development and success through the lens of sports. Follow Peak here. On Saturday at Wimbledon, it took 57 minutes for Amanda Anisimova to lose the women’s final, a painful 6-0, 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Iga Świątek. It took her just more than five minutes — and …
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