Sports Streamlines for VAM Sunday Afternoon 18th August 2019

SP⚽RTS UPD🅰TE📢

By BENSON OSADEME

📅 ON THIS DAY In 2005, Lionel Messi made his Argentina debut 🇦🇷

He was sent off for an elbow after just 43 seconds 🔴

📆ON THIS DAY 2009/2010⚫⚪

Fulham signed Damien Duff & the original Mousa Dembélé. Both turned out to be fan favourites & fantastic players for the club

FOOTBALL FIXTURES FOR TODAY

▫Premier League

2pm Sheffield Utd 🆚 Crystal Palace (Sheffield Utd XI: Henderson; Basham, Egan, O'Connell; Baldock, Lundstram, Norwood, Fleck, Stevens; McGoldrick, Robinson

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita; Ward, Kelly, Dann, Van Aanholt; Townsend, McArthur, Milivojevic, Meyer; Benteke, Zaha)

4:30pm Chelsea 🆚 Leicester(Chelsea’s provisional squad:

Arrizabalaga, Caballero, Azpilicueta, Zappacosta, Rudiger, Tomori, Christensen, Zouma, Alonso, Palmieri, Jorginho, Kante, Barkley, Kovacic, Mount, Kenedy, Pedro, Willian, Pulisic, Giroud, Abraham, Batshuayi).

▫Spanish La Liga

4pm Alaves 🆚 Levante

6pm Espanyol 🆚 Sevilla

8pm Real Betis 🆚 Valladolid

9pm A Madrid 🆚 Getafe

▫German Bundesliga

2:30pm Frankfurt 🆚 Hoffenheim

5pm . FC Union🆚 RB Leipzig

▫French Ligue 1

2pm St Etienne 🆚 Brest

4pm Reims 🆚 Strasbourg

8pm Rennes 🆚 PSG.

Afrobasket Women Championship

🔥 D-DAY 🔥

Nigeria 🇳🇬 vs 🇸🇳 Senegal

⌚️ 7pm

🏟 Dakar Arena.

🛑AFROBASKET

2nd straight AFROBASKET final meeting with

2nd straight defeat of Mali in the Afrobasket semifinal

2nd straight Afrobasket to have still remained unbeaten.

Congratulations to D’Tigress

We look forward to an amazing final

HOT 🔥 UPDATES

♨BREAKING NEWS: Philippe Coutinho has arrived in Munich to complete his medical at Bayern ahead of his proposed move from Barcelona

♨Former Manchester City and Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is on the verge of joining Brescia. (La Gazzetta)

♨OFFICIAL: Bayern Munich have signed midfielder Mickaël Cuisance from Borussia Monchengladbach for €10m on a five-year contract

♨Inter Milan are hoping to sign forward Alexis Sanchez on a season-long loan deal and are confident of agreeing a deal with Manchester United. United have allowed the 30-year-old Chile forward to talk to Inter, where he would be willing to take a pay cut . (Mail on Sunday)

♨Sanchez turned down a move to Roma , even after United agreed to pay a large portion of his £560k-a-week wages. (Sunday Mirror)

♨Real Madrid will make a late £60m bid for

Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen. The 27-year-old Dane could leave before Spain's transfer window shuts on 2 September. (Sun on Sunday)

♨Tottenham have had no bids for Eriksen and have offered him in excess of £200,000 a week, which would put him among the highest earners at the club. (Sunday Mirror)

♨Real are preparing to test Paul Pogba's relationship with Manchester United by furthering a long-standing attempt to sign the 26-year-old French midfielder. (Sunday Times)

♨Liverpool could gain £18m if their former Brazil forward Philippe Coutinho, 27, moves from

Barcelona to Bayern Munich in a loan switch.

(Mail on Sunday)

♨Daniel Sturridge is at the centre of a tug of war between Trabzonspor of Turkey and French side Monaco. The English striker, 29, is a free agent after being released by Liverpool in June. (Sunday Express)

♨Everton have been offered the chance to sign former France winger Franck Ribery, 36, who is a free agent after leaving Bayern Munich following a 12-year association with the Bundesliga champions. (90Min)

♨Ndidi: Chelsea game will be difficult

♨ PSquare gets Villarreal jersey from Chukwueze after La Liga clash.