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The British top-tier was lit up with some more talismanic goalscoring exploits, while the race for the Golden Boot was extremely closely contested. This was also the season where two players touched the 30-goal mark, a Premier League first, and overall, 4 players finished with a haul of 20 or more goals - just one less than last year. Also, the season registered a total of 1,018 goals - the second lowest in the last 8 seasons, and witnessed as many as 249 different scorers!...

Courtesy of that, Liverpool moved to the top of the league after their 4-0 trouncing of Bournemouth. Mohamed Salah scored a hattrick in that game, as the Reds claimed an easy three points. London clubs Arsenal and Tottenham also claimed wins, as they defeated Huddersfield and Leicester City respectively. Manchester United gave their home fans something to cheer about when the defeated Fulham 4-1. The result meant that Claudio Ranieri’s side is rooted to the bottom....

Red Devils have had a horrendous start to their season with just 3 wins out of the 7 matches they have played in the Premier League. United have also lost the Carabao Cup 3rd round to Derby County after a tense Penalty Shootout. The team is yet to decide on its 2 proper centre-backs even after 2 months into the league. The poor form of Alexis Sanchez and Romelu Lukaku has made life difficult for the team....

One of those clubs is Liverpool, and the Merseyside team would have lofty ambitions of returning to the zenith of English football, having spent a total of €182.2m on new arrivals, including a £67m previously record fee for goalkeepers to bring Alisson Becker to Anfield from AS Roma. The Reds were once the dominant force in England, dominating domestic and continental competitions in the 1970s and 1980s, as legendary players like Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish and Bruce Grobbelaar led them to unprecedented success on the field....

Aaron Ramsey had an early effort disallowed as Sokratis committed a foul in the penalty area. But Ramsey did go on to finally score a goal in the 30th minute, as his shot deflected off the post and went in. Arsenal had the chance to extend their lead to more than two goals but were repeatedly stopped by the tenacious Newcastle United players. Arsenal’s duo of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang linked up to finally secure the win in the 83rd minute; Aubameyang headed the ball forward to Lacazette who chipped it over the keeper to make it 2-0....

The Reds moved 16 points clear at the top thanks to Leicester City’s defeat to Southampton – as Danny Ings kept up his superb form – though the gap was reduced slightly when City thrashed Villa on Sunday. Meanwhile, Manchester United ended a three-match winless streak with a resounding 4-0 triumph over lowly Norwich City. We review the key top-flight matches with the help of Opta data. CHAMPIONS-ELECT SET NEW BENCHMARKS AS TITLE TILT CONTINUES AT PACE...

The total net spending by English clubs accounted for $1.06 billion (£840 Million) in transfer fees for players from other associations. In case you didn’t know The footballing world has experienced a meteoric rise in transfer spending over the last decade with clubs going to great, often exorbitant extent to acquire the players they deem worthy of donning their respective jerseys with English football, in particular, leading the charge. The most notable transfers by English clubs have been the capture of Paul Pogba from Juventus and Leroy Sane from Schalke, fuelling spending by English clubs for players previously associated with other associations....

He was on talkSPORT when he said, “My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.” “I want to play in the Champions League and I want to win trophies. There’s no reason why we can’t win trophies at Stoke, we’ll try and win some cups and do as well as we can, but I obviously have ambitions," added Butland....

#5 Gary Cahill to Arsenal Former Arsenal academy graduate Rhys Weston is of the opinion that Gary Cahill would be a good signing for the Gunners. The Chelsea defender is currently out of favour at the Stamford Bridge and could move in order to get more playing time. And according to Weston, Cahill would be the perfect signing for the North Londoners simply because he won’t be needing any time to adjust to the surroundings at the Emirates....

AMERICAN LEAGUE C-Joe Mauer, Twins 2013 highlights: Second in American League with .324 batting average and third in AL with .494 on-base percentage; 35 doubles, 11 homers, 47 RBIs. 1B-Chris Davis, Orioles 2013 highlights: Led MLB with 53 home runs, 138 RBIs and 370 total bases. Set Oriole single-season homer record; 42 doubles, 103 runs. 2B-Robinson Cano, Yankees 2013 highlights: Third in AL in Baseball Reference WAR (7.6); top seven in AL in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging, hits, total bases and runs scored; 27 home runs and 41 doubles....

A Thursday report by The Wall Street Journal said the idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland is a consideration for the former real-estate developer, according to people familiar with the discussions. Those sources also said Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in buying the icy Danish territory that spans 811,000 square miles across the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland. He has also asked his White House counsel to look into the idea, The Journal wrote....

RELATED: 10 Best Powerpuff Girls Episodes, Ranked According To IMDb The original American cartoon series The Powerpuff Girls — which won an Emmy — came out in 1998 and was even rebooted in 2016. Besides the fact that one is a Japanese animated work and the other American, Powerpuff Girls Z is not the same as The Powerpuff Girls that 90’s kids remember. 8 Hyper Blossom & Her Yo-Yo Blossom is no more....

RELATED: Powerwash Simulator: How to Roll the Football up the Stegoslide (StegoScore Achievement) Fortunately, players get power over how their character looks in PowerWash Simulator. The gloves themselves are the most important cosmetic selection. By following just two steps, it’s possible to wear some personally selected gloves in just a few seconds. Buy A Pair Of Gloves From the Shop Main Menu > Shop > Clothing There will not be any gloves to equip besides the default yellow rubber gloves....

NASCAR eliminated practice and qualifying in the Cup Series, and the other two touring series, to limit the amount of time drivers, teams, officials, and support staff spent at the track in order to avoid the spread of COVID-19. It will continue those protocols for much of the upcoming schedule. Despite the rollout of vaccines, cases are still on the rise. The first Cup Series event where fans will see cars and drivers on the track in practice and qualifying trim with be for the Daytona 500 on Feb....

At the moment, Pragmata is extremely difficult to describe. Capcom says that it’s a game about a dystopian sci-fi world on the moon, which sounds compelling, but Pragmata’s highly abstract trailers have shed little light on its broader story. In other words, Pragmata is a total mystery. To a certain extent, that air of mystery is working in the game’s favor, but the drawbacks can’t be underestimated either. Pragmata belongs to an entire generation of games announced well before their release that may have been better off continuing their development process behind closed doors....

On Thursday, Nashville general manager David Polie announced that defenseman Ryan Ellis will miss 4-6 months recovering from offseason surgery for a “lower-body ailment.” The Tennessean reported that Ellis underwent knee surgery. The 26-year-old right-shot defenseman helped round out one of the NHL’s best blue lines in 2016-17. He recorded a career-high 16 goals and 38 points. Averaging just under 24 minutes per-game, Ellis spent the majority of his five-on-five minutes with Roman Josi, while the newly acquired P....

Back in June, the convienence store Twice Daily held a promotion where it would give away free tickets to the Stanley Cup Final. The rules, per the website, are as follows: “Visit a Twice Daily location and show your Twice Daily Preds Pride by taking a picture in your Preds Gold. Post on Twitter with #TDPreds to be entered to win tickets into Smashville.” Fudge saw this promotion, decided he’d give it a shot, and posted his photo on Twitter....

What of the other six competitors? Who else would be likely to qualify for the match? #1 Asuka There’s already two former NXT Women’s Champions in the women’s match, so why not a third? Asuka may not have a high-flying arsenal like Charlotte Flair and Ember Moon, but she has a longer list of hardcore credentials than anyone else that could be in this match, going back to her work in Japan....

With the rise of the Expected Goals metric in conversation around the game, we’re starting to see more clubs rely on it to make key decisions. The media has also adopted it for analysis and perhaps allowing them to make more informed predictions. The Telegraph used Opta’s ‘Expected Goals’ metric to make some such observations as inferred in detail here. West Ham (8th) and Norwich (19th) will have similar seasons The reality is that apart from the most important metric, that is goals, the two clubs are already having largely similar seasons....

While traditional BI tools primarily monitor historical data and current data, predictive analytics utilizes data, statistical algorithms, data mining methodologies, analytical techniques and machine learning algorithms to determine the likely outcomes based on historical data to provide insights into the future. In addition to being able to determine what has happened in the past and why it happened, predictive analytics also helps you understand what could happen in the future....