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Depois de sair na frente no jogo de ida da semifinal da Copa do Nordeste, o Vitória se concentra para a partida de volta neste domingo, novamente diante do Bahia, às 16h (de Brasília), na Fonte Nova. O primeiro clássico Ba-Vi na competição terminou com a vitória rubro-negra pelo placar de 2 a 1.

Na manhã deste sábado, sem o acesso da imprensa, o Leão realizou o último treino antes do confronto. O técnico Argel Fucks comandou um trabalho tático, focado nas bolas paradas e com todos os jogadores batendo pênaltis no fim das atividades.

Para o duelo, o comandante do Vitória não contará com Dátolo, Jhemersone André Lima, vetados pelo departamento médico. Dátolo segue com dores na panturrilha direita, enquanto Jhemerson sente dores na parte posterior da coxa. André Lima, por sua vez, fica de fora por conta de uma fascite plantar. No entanto, Argel pode comemorar os retornos de Kieza, Gabriel Xavier e Pisculichi.

Por outro lado, o Bahia, que precisa do resultado positivo para avançar na Copa do Nordeste, se preocupa também com a segurança do jogo. A primeira partida foi marcada por violência dentro e fora de campo e, por conta disso, o lateral Eduardo fez um apelo para que a postura dos envolvidos no primeiro clássico seja diferente.

– Violência não leva a lugar nenhum. Se cair em provocação, quiser dar cotovelada, não vai chegar a lugar nenhum – afirmou, complementando:

– Esquecer provocação, esquecer clima de briga. Tem que focar no futebol. Fazer nosso melhor. Somos jogadores de futebol, não somos lutadores. Desde que cheguei aqui, presto atenção nisso. Às vezes, a torcida troca uma jogada bonita por uma pancada no adversário. A gente prova que, com nosso futebol, podemos conseguir nossos objetivos. A gente tem capacidade para isso. Vamos em busca do melhor resultado. Um gol já nos classifica. Não vai ser fácil, mas capacidade para isso nós temos – declarou Eduardo.

Por conta do placar no primeiro jogo, o Vitória tem a vantagem do empate para o clássico de domingo.Um triunfo simples basta ao Bahia para garantir vaga na final da competição. Caso o Vitória marque mais de dois gols, o Tricolor precisa vencer por dois gols de diferença. Em caso de um novo 2 a 1, mas com vantagem do Bahia, a decisão vai para as penalidades.

BAHIA X VITÓRIA
SEMIFINAL DA COPA DO NORDESTE
Data: Domingo, 30 de abril
Horário: 16h (de Brasília)
Local: Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador (BA)
Árbitro: Rafhael Claus (Fifa/SP)
Assistentes: Marcelo Carvalho Van Gasse (Fifa/SP) e Danilo Ricardo Simon Manis (Fifa/SP)

VITÓRIA: Fernando Miguel; Patric, Kanu, Fred e Geferson; Willian Farias, Bruno Ramires, Cleiton Xavier, Euller e David; Kieza. Técnico: Argel Fucks.

BAHIA: Jean; Éder, Tiago, Lucas Fonseca e Armero; Renê Junior e Edson; Régis, Allione e Edigar Junio e Hernane. Técnico: Guto Ferreira.

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Trying to sign Arsenal’s Emile Smith Rowe is something Aston Villa may revisit in the future, says Express & Star journalist Luke Hatfield.

The Midlands club attempted to bring the 21-year-old attacking midfielder in this summer but were unsuccessful.

As per The Athletic, Villa had two bids, one worth around £30m, rejected in a blow to manager Dean Smith.

Smith Rowe proved to be an important player for Arsenal last season, making just over 30 appearances in the Premier League and Europa League.

With that in mind, it makes it no surprise that Mikel Arteta was desperate to keep hold of the English youngster. Should his circumstances at the Emirates change, though, Hatfield would not be shocked to see Villa launch another move to sign him.

“It might be one they revisit in the future,” the Aston Villa journalist told FFC. “This new deal essentially ends any interest from them this year, but they might see how things go further down the line.

“If in a year’s time Smith Rowe is maybe unhappy with the amount of playing time he’s got or if Arsenal somehow need to raise funds for another transfer, it could be one they revisit.”

While they have missed out on Smith Rowe, Villa have been able to bring in Emiliano Buendia from Norwich City.

The Villans have also signed Leon Bailey from Bayer Leverkusen, so improvements are being made to the team’s attack.

Kent County Cricket Club today announced changes to its playing staff for the 2003 season

Kent CCC Press Release23-Sep-2002Kent County Cricket Club today announced changes to its playing staff for the 2003 season.Further to the announcement last week of Paul Nixon’s departure, the club today confirmed that Matthew Banes has not been offered a contract for next season.This year’s beneficiary, Martin McCague, will be concluding his long and successful career with the club at the end of this season and is looking to continue his playing career with either a First Class or Minor County.The club will be looking to strengthen its playing staff in the coming weeks and has yet to offer James Hockley and James Golding contracts for the 2003 season. Both players are being allowed by the club to discuss opportunities with other counties if they wish to do so.

Steve Waugh’s career with the Kent Spitfires took off in style at Canterbury, as Leicestershire Foxes’ 168, which looked competitive when Kent were 52 for four, was passed with two balls to spare

Stephen Lamb21-Aug-2002Steve Waugh’s career with the Kent Spitfires took off in style at Canterbury, as Leicestershire Foxes’ 168, which looked competitive when Kent were 52 for four, was passed with two balls to spare. Waugh kept the Spitfires’ title hopes alive with an unbeaten 59 towards a five-wicket win in the last over, which takes them into undisputed third place behind the leaders, Worcestershire Royals, and Glamorgan Dragons. Waugh added 72 for the sixth wicket with Paul Nixon (33*) to secure the victory. Martin Saggers was Kent’s top bowler, with three for 22 off his nine overs, while Min Patel (two for 34), Mark Ealham and Matthew Fleming all gave good support. Neil Burns (35) was the top scorer in an off-colour performance by the Foxes.In Division Two, Surrey Lions kept a grip on their promotion hopes with a 70-run win over Hampshire Hawks. Adam Hollioake was hunter-in-chief under a moonlit night at the AMP Oval, with 32 and five for 43 as the Hawks were unable to clear the lower plains of the division. The Lions’ healthy 262 was built around Ian Ward (38), Ali Brown (49), Mark Ramprakash (50) and Scott Newman (37). Dimitri Mascarenhas (four for 45) and Neil Johnson (three for 42) were the main wicket-takers for the Hawks, whose reply never got much above ground level after Tim Murtagh bowled Johnson for 44. Mushtaq Ahmed was particularly predatory for the Lions, with one for 19 off nine overs as the Hawks were picked off like sitting ducks.

Football finance expert Kieran Maguire has said fans should expect Glasgow Rangers to sell players this summer after news of a £14m funding hole emerged.

The Lowdown: Gers have £14m funding gap

It was recently revealed by The Athletic that the Gers have a £14m funding gap after £40m was invested into the playing squad in recent years.

As such, the Ibrox outfit must quickly find out how to fill that hole.

The Latest: Maguire makes transfer claim

Speaking to Football Insider, Maguire believes fans should expect players to be sold. He said:

“Over the next 12 months, you’d expect to see sales take place. But that should be the case for a big club such as Rangers.

“They have been building up their asset base and if you’ve got a big asset base then sometimes you have surplus assets which you can sell.

“That’s fairly standard in business. If we take a look at the Premier League, the club with the biggest sales in the past five or six seasons has been Chelsea, and you don’t think of Chelsea as being a selling club.

“Rangers have spent money under Steven Gerrard, no doubt about that. But the value of that £40m has generated assets that could generate cash.”

The Verdict: Sales will come

In recent years, the Gers have not made any major sales – they have sold just one player for over £1m in the past three campaigns (Transfermarkt). As such, they have been investing heavily in improving the squad rather than thinking of running a profitable and successful business.

At some point, they will have to change their strategy, as Maguire has here suggested. With the likes of Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent valued over £10m and plenty of others said to be worth more than £5m, there is plenty of scope to attract funds. It remains to be seen whether any important players do leave Ibrox this summer, but we won’t be surprised.

In other news, Rangers fans are livid at this Club 1872 news.

Despite their disappointing one day form in other competitions this season, Somerset are expecting a big crowd for their Cheltenham and Gloucester quarter final match against Worcestershire at the County Ground on Wednesday.Tickets are still available, but judging by the large number of personal callers, and the volume of telephone calls that were being dealt with by the office staff early this morning the game looks like it could even be a sell out.Out on the pitch, fast bowlers Andrew Caddick and Richard Johnson were being put through their paces by Kevin Shine and his team, and it is expected that the pair will be back to spearhead the attack for the Cidermen against a Worcestershire team who are riding high at the moment.Chief executive Peter Anderson told me: "We are hoping for a full ground on Wednesday to support the team. We are the holders and even though we haven’t been performing well in one day matches, now is the time for the players to dig deep and deliver the goods."He continued: "Johnson and Caddick are having fitness tests today and tomorrow, and all the signs are looking good. Both want to play and the coaches are very optimistic, and of course we will have Jamie Cox back and Marcus Trescothick back so we should be at full strength.The match will not be on television, so if people want to see what promises to be a fascinating game they will have to come along to watch for themselves."

Lancashire Lightning will be fielding a changed side for the Norwich Union League floodlit match against Sussex Sharks at Hove on Tuesday 20th August

Lancashire CCC Press Release19-Aug-2002Lancashire Lightning will be fielding a changed side for the Norwich Union League floodlit match against Sussex Sharks at Hove on Tuesday 20th August.Warren Hegg is out of the side after suffering from a dislocated finger onhis right hand during the recent Roses fixture at Old Trafford and JamieHaynes will be keeping wicket until Warren is fit again. Stuart Law stepsin to take the Captains reins with Neil Fairbrother being rested for thematch, Neil will travel down to Hove for the Frizzell County Championshipmatch starting on Thursday. Peter Martin also returns after incurring aside injury.The side in full: Chilton Swann Byas Law (acting Cpt.) Schofield Chapple Haynes Hogg Martin Wood Keedy Anderson

The cricket careers of Damien Fleming and Colin Miller could be over after they were today overlooked by Victoria for contracts for next season.Fleming and Miller, who both toured England with the Australian Test team last year, were the apparent victims of Victoria’s youth policy under new coach andselector David Hookes.Fleming, 32, was “absolutely stunned” by the decision, which comes just three weeks after he and Miller were axed from the list of Australian CricketBoard-contracted players.”They just didn’t rank me in the top 20 players in Victoria, they didn’t rank me in the top seven in the bowlers and here I was (with) the thought that there was a real role for an experienced bowler in the state,” Fleming told Channel Ten.”They’ve lost Paul Reiffel to retirement and my performances were pretty good last year.”I had a pretty good Ashes series with Australia less than this time last year, so I was looking forward to a big season so yeah, (I’m) absolutely stunned.”Miller, 38, the Australian Test cricketer of the year 15 months ago, could not be contacted.The snub comes two months after the Bushrangers wound up their disappointing summer, in which they finished second-last in both the Pura Cup and limited-overs ING Cup competitions.While Victorian officials are reluctant to confirm the Bushrangers are pursuing a youth policy, Hookes stood by the selectors’ call.”At the end of the day we made the call, we thought that there were players better than them qualified to play for Victoria at the beginning of the next season and that’s the way that we went,” he told Channel Ten.Hookes said overlooking the pair was a difficult decision, but would not explain the reasons behind their omissions.”Age had no factor at all in either of their considerations of both the blokes,” he said.”They are two quality players, they have been very good servants of domestic cricket in this country and indeed for Australia, even though Colin started very late.”He was a teammate of mine in South Australia for a number of years so that made it very difficult, and Damien Fleming being the type of personality that he is also made it very difficult.”Hookes said Victoria was not in a position to poach players from interstate under salary cap restrictions.Only Shane Warne and Ian Harvey have ACB contracts, meaning Victoria has to pay all but two of its squad.Fleming and Miller have played 20 and 18 Tests respectively, with almost 150 wickets between them, but injury and poor form last summer meant they couldn’tbreak back into the Australian side.Fleming took 13 wickets from five Pura Cup matches in 2001-02 at 30.07 runs apiece, while Miller snared just six wickets at 72.50 from six matches.Victorian Cricket Association chief executive officer Ken Jacobs said he, Hookes and selectors Ray Bright and Mick O’Sullivan met with Miller and Fleming today.Jacobs also refused to divulge exactly why the pair was overlooked.The selectors also cut four players from the 2001-02 contract list: batsmen Shawn Craig and Peter Harper, off-spinner John Davison and wicketkeeper PeterRoach.

Australian spin bowler and coach Peter Philpott was unwittingly in on the ground floor of the revival that has been behind New Zealand’s advance in cricket

Lynn McConnell02-Jul-2002Australian spin bowler and coach Peter Philpott was unwittingly in on the ground floor of the revival that has been behind New Zealand’s advance in cricket.Apart from all the coaching contribution he has made over the years, it was as a player in Les Favell’s Australian team of 1966/67 that he witnessed the emergence of a core of players who would build up the level of expectation of New Zealand cricket.Playing in a team that included: Norm O’Neill, Peter Burge, Brian Booth, Favell, Alan Connolly, John Gleeson, Barry Jarman, Paul Sheahan, Bob Bitmead and others, Philpott came up against the New Zealand side captained by Barry Sinclair that included, Graham Dowling, Terry Jarvis, Bevan Congdon, Vic Pollard, Keith Thomson, Bryan Yuile, Bruce Taylor, Dick Motz, Bob Cunis, Richard Collinge and Roy Harford.The Australians lost an early game on the tour to Canterbury, and then lost the first ‘Test’ of the tour at New Plymouth.Philpott, in Christchurch for a week of coaching at the High Performance Centre at Lincoln University, recalled the tour today.”The cricket was grand. The biggest problem was the first-class wickets were not conducive to good cricket.”But the talent was there and the New Zealand side was a very professional unit, and well balanced.”The pitch at New Plymouth was a slow turner and that suited Vic Polllard to a T. He was a quick off-spinner who bowled very, very well. And he was very difficult to face on it. We had a good side, many of the guys were just finishing international play.”Dick Motz was a good bowler, and Bryan Yuile while Bevan Congdon also batted well.”It was ridiculous the tour wasn’t regarded as an official Test tour,” he said.New Zealand won the ‘series’ which was rain-affected with the last three ‘Tests’ being drawn.Philpott also recalled the introduction the players had to fast bowler Gary Bartlett in Palmerston North against Central Districts.”We were just back from the West Indies and had been playing Wes Hall and Charlie Griffith, who was a chucker, and a couple of blokes had made a pledge that if they came across a true chucker they would not play in the interests of their families.”Gary was very quick and with the best will in the world his action was doubtful, but Gary that day was very fast.”There was a southerly gale blowing and we had 40 minutes or so to bat before stumps on the first day.”Favelli was a great hooker, a fierce hooker but Gary undid him that day. He was just too quick. It opened everybody’s eyes,” Philpott said.When fast bowlers are compared the difference between them was so minor it didn’t matter and Bartlett was up there with them on that occasion, Philpott said.”We always expected it would be a very competitive series with New Zealand. We were very impressed by their side,” he said.

Honours were just about even after the first day of the Youth Test between Australia and England Under-17’s at Adelaide on Monday

Sean Beynon09-Apr-2001Honours were just about even after the first day of the Youth Test between Australia and England Under-17’s at Adelaide on Monday.Batting first after winning the toss, Australia declared their innings closed on 277-7 before leaving England a tricky 45 minutes to bat in which they lost one wicket, adding 33 runs.The day was one for team contributions, rather than one player dominating the card. No less than six Australians passed 25, with the highest scorer being Kenneth Skewes. Skewes, who made 51, came in with the innings threatening to falter somewhat on 121-4. The right-hander sensibly added 59 with Simon Hill (45), then another 49 with Tim Paine before becoming Gary Scott’s only wicket. Keeper Tim Paine made a grafting 37 before the Aussies decided to declare. David Stiff was the pick of the bowlers, taking 2-20 in 17 overs.In reply, England lost Andrew Gale, cutting Grant Sullivan to point. They should have picked up a second wicket before the close, as skipper Joe Sayers glanced a ball from Sullivan into the hands of Tim Paine behind the stumps. The celebrations were premature however, as the umpire had signalled a no-ball. It was one of eight no-balls from Sullivan.The game is only scheduled for three days, and England will need to pick up the scoring rate if they are to have a chance of forcing a result.