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Internazionale v Sampdoria one of the matches to be postponed Games across all tiers in Italy cancelled Serie A matches in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto will not be played on Sunday because of an outbreak of the coronavirus, the government said in a statement. The three impacted fixtures are clashes between Internazionale and Sampdoria, Atalanta against Sassuolo and Hellas Verona against Cagliari. There was no indication of when the games might be rescheduled. Related: European roundup: Lionel Messi hits four goals to ease Barcelona past Eibar Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/23/three-serie-a-matches-coronavirus-outbreak-inter-milan

• Attempt to break attendance record in England’s first match • Phil Neville says his former home is one of the iconic grounds The Football Association and Uefa are making an ambitious attempt to break the women’s European Championship attendance record in next year’s opening game by holding England’s first match at Old Trafford. The Lionesses will step out in the 76,000-capacity venue on 7 July, in 500 days’ time, before completing their Group A fixtures at Brighton and Southampton. The tournament record was set when 41,301 attended the 2013 final in Sweden. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/23/old-trafford-stage-grand-opening-2021-women-euros-england-phil-neville

• Argentinian scores hat-trick in just 26 minutes • Erling Braut Haaland scores again for Borussia Dortmund Lionel Messi scored four goals as Barcelona thrashed Eibar 5-0 at the Camp Nou. The Argentinian had not scored in his previous four games but put the Spanish champions ahead in the 14th minute by dancing and barging his way past three players to slot home the opener. He doubled the lead in the 37th with an equally impressive strike before completing his treble moments later with a tap-in. Messi then tormented the Eibar defence and walked the ball into the net for his fourth goal with just three minutes remaining before Arthur Melo scored the home side’s fifth in the 89th minute as he netted a rebound following a shot by new signing Martin Braithwaite. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/22/european-roundup-la-liga-serie-a-bundesliga

Championship leaders West Brom cruised to a comprehensive 3-0 win at play-off hopefuls Bristol City despite a late red card for Romaine Sawyers. Slaven Bilic’s team took the lead in the 32nd minute when Callum Robinson was left unmarked into City’s box and, although the advancing Daniel Bentley saved his initial shot, the ball rebounded off his face to beat the goalkeeper. Four minutes later Bentley was at fault when he spilled a shot from Jake Livermore that he should have held and Hal Robson-Kanu was on hand to prod home from close range. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/22/bristol-city-west-brom-championship-match-report

The weather did its best to spoil this game, though the two sides put on a decent show in difficult conditions. It was VAR that ruined the afternoon, especially for Eddie Howe and his players, who saw an opening goal harshly chalked off in the first half then what looked like an equaliser converted into a Burnley penalty. This is what VAR can do at the moment. Bournemouth players were celebrating at one end after Harry Wilson had taken Callum Wilson’s pass and slipped the ball under Nick Pope, when the game was halted because VAR was inspecting an incident a few seconds earlier, when a Dwight McNeil cross had struck Adam Smith on the shoulder in the opposite penalty area. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/22/burnley-bournemouth-premier-league-match-report

If Aston Villa play like this against Manchester City at Wembley next time out, an occasion to celebrate threatens to be a chastening experience. Eventually, in second-half stoppage-time, Southampton put Villa out of their misery as Stuart Armstorng swept the ball into an empty goal to build on Shane Long’s early strike. Dean Smith’s side remain embroiled in a relegation fight while Southampton can finally feel better about themselves after moving 10 points clear of the bottom three. This represented Villa’s ninth defeat in their past 12 matches and they were fortunate the scoreline was not bigger. It took only eight minutes for Southampton to breach the worst defence in the division, with Moussa Djenepo beating Ezri Konsa to the byline before cleverly hooking a cross towards the front post with the outside of his right foot. Long was lurking and managed to steady himself to instinctively divert the ball beyond Pepe Reina with the top of his thigh. That was the start of things to come...