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The 20 most popular football boots for professional players: What are the best?
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- Nike Mercurial Vapor X (as worn by Southampton’s Cedric Soares) - 0.5% of 3,000 sample
FOOTBALL boots are one of the biggest marketing tools in the game these days, with lucrative sponsorship deals available for top players. So which are most popular?
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FA Cup third round results: Who’s in the fourth round, who’s out and who needs replays?
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Who will win the FA Cup this season?
Liverpool were held to a goalless draw with Plymouth, Chelsea swept aside Peterborough and Tottenham secured their spot in the next round.
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Saints suffer another late collapse as Norwich fight back for FA Cup draw
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Southampton’s hopes of a morale-boosting win were dashed by a last-minute Steven Naismith equaliser as they were held to a 2-2 draw at Championship Norwich in the FA Cup on Saturday. Goals from defensive duo Virgil van Dijk and Maya Yoshida looked to have set Saints on course for their first victory of 2017, but the disappointing draw did little to ease the pressure on manager Claude Puel following a run of three straight Premier League defeats.
Van Dijk showed he is ready to step into the shoes of want-away captain Jose Fonte – omitted from the 18-man squad after handing in a transfer request – with a commanding performance, crowned by the opening goal. With Southampton’s misfiring strikers struggling for form, Van Dijk and Yoshida proved they know where the net is. At least Southampton did not suffer the humiliation of losing to a second-tier side and should get the job done by booking their place in round four in the replay at St Mary’s.
The extra game leaves Southampton facing a chaotic fixture schedule for the rest of January. If they win the replay they will have played nine games by the end of the month.
Saints have been haunted by late collapses in recent games, and Norwich’s late leveller follows the second-half capitulations against Tottenham, Everton and West Brom. This was a match they should have won easily.
5 – Puel’s decision to throw in rookie goalkeeper Harry Lewis backfired as he made a costly error by conceding the penalty for Norwich’s opening goal. The Frenchman had no choice but to rotate his squad to save his top stars for Wednesday’s League Cup semifinal with Liverpool, but there should have been enough experience in the lineup to secure progression without the headache of an extra game.
Player ratings (1-10; 10 = best. Players introduced after 70 minutes get no rating)
GK Harry Lewis, 5 – The 19-year-old made a couple of useful saves, but his debut will ultimately be remembered for the moment he miscontrolled a back-pass and then hauled down Cameron Jerome.
DF Jack Stephens, 6 – Had a tough baptism on his Premier League debut against Everton, but produced a mature performance here.
DF Maya Yoshida, 6 – Thought he had won the game with a header to put Southampton 2-1 up. Not in the same class as the soon-to-be departed Fonte.
DF Virgil van Dijk, 7 – In-demand defender opened the scoring with a fabulous volley. How Saints will miss him when he is inevitably sold.
DF Ryan Bertrand, 5 – Is still coming to terms with the rigours of first-team football so was a tall order to play two games in three days.
MF Pierre Emile-Hojbjerg, 7 – Set up Yoshida with an excellent delivery. One of his better performances since his summer move from Bayern Munich.
MF Harrison Reed, 6 – Did not look out of place against Championship opposition, but in truth that is probably his true level.
MF James Ward-Prowse, 6 – Posed questions of the Norwich defence with his dead-ball deliveries, but did not step up as Puel would have hoped from an experienced campaigner.
MF Dusan Tadic, 7 – Best game since returning from a broken nose. Whipped in some dangerous deliveries and came close to picking out the top corner with a delicious 20-yard free kick.
FW Shane Long, 5 – Lack of confidence summed up by a first-half miss when be blazed over the bar when clean through on goal.
FW Josh Sims, 7 – Another lively display from the exciting 21-year-old. May have played his way into contention for the Liverpool cup tie.
MF Oriol Romeu, 6 – Has become Saints’ Mr Reliable. Solid as ever.
FW Nathan Redmond, N/A – Would have wanted to get more playing time against the club he left in the summer.
Alex Crook is ESPN FC’s Southampton blogger. Follow him on Twitter @alex_crook
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Steven Whittaker pleased to take Norwich chance after frustrating Southampton
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The former Glasgow Rangers and Scotland teammates both grabbed goals as Saints were forced to settle for a replay. Right back Whittaker scored from the penalty spot and then crossed for striker Naismith to head a shock stoppage time equaliser. Whittaker, making only his fourth start of the season and first since September, said: “I think I did myself justice. “My first team chances have been few and far between this season but I’ve just kept working and kept myself in good nick.
“The manager knows exactly what I am capable of and now hopefully I will get more chances” “The manager knows exactly what I am capable of and now hopefully I will get more chances to play in the second half of the season. “Scoring and setting up the equaliser were nice moments for me. So if the manager wants to use me again then he knows I will be ready.” Whittaker, 32, took the penalty when no other Norwich player seemed to want it but he insisted: “It’s a situation I enjoy. “We hadn’t decided before the game who would take a penalty. Usually one of the strikers does but nobody was forthcoming. So I grabbed the ball and stepped up.” Central defenders Virgil van Dijk and Maya Yoshida both scored as Premier League Southampton bossed the game and took the lead twice.
But both went missing for Naismith’s goal while debut making keeper Harry Lewis, 19, made a howler to concede the penalty. No wonder Yoshida slammed his side’s sloppy defending, saying: “We are all frustrated. We are conceding too many goals and we need to stop it. We were in control so it’s unacceptable. “We need to concentrate more and communicate more so we can avoid these sort of situations and we need to get back to winning ways.” New dad Yoshida celebrated his goal with the baby rocking routine and joked: “The baby brought me luck. It had to be a header because I’ve been getting up so much lately! “I’ve been waiting to score for a long time so I’m happy. But we didn’t win so there’s more disappointment than happiness for me.”
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Sofiane Boufal out of Morocco’s Africa Cup of Nations squad
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Key midfielder Sofiane Boufal was forced to pull out of Morocco’s squad for the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday because of injury, joining influential playmaker Younes Belhanda on the sidelines.
Southampton star Boufal, 23, had been at the team’s training camp in the United Arab Emirates, where Morocco were preparing for a friendly on Monday against Finland.
‘Sofiane left the camp in Al-Ain this morning after the confirmation of his injury and his inability to take part in the African Cup,’ said a statement from the Moroccan football federation, which did not provide details of the injury.
‘He will be replaced by another player whose name will be announced later.’
Boufal, who joined Southampton from Lille in France last summer, was seen as a crucial part of the Moroccan squad after Belhanda suffered a fractured toe just before Christmas ruling him out for up to six weeks.
Morocco, whose only triumph in the Cup of Nations came in 1976, are in Group C for the tournament that begins in Gabon on January 14.
They will open their campaign against DR Congo on January 16 before facing Togo and the Ivory Coast.
Morocco are also without Watford’s Noureddine Amrabat and Oussama Tannane of Saint-Etienne due to injury.
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Maya Yoshida pinpoints Saints’ weaknesses to rectify ahead of crunch week
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MAYA Yoshida insists Saints must learn how to concentrate until the final whistle after conceding an “unacceptable” last-gasp goal against Norwich in the FA Cup third-round 2-2 draw at Carrow Road.
Yoshida netted his sixth goal of his Saints career against the Canaries to give them a 2-1 lead on 67 minutes – and seemingly passage to the fourth-round.
However, a 92nd-minute Steven Naismith goal set-up an unwanted replay at St Mary’s next Wednesday.
“We’re totally disappointed,” Yoshida said. “We shouldn’t have conceded in the last minute because we controlled the game well, and maybe the first goal shouldn’t have happened for Harry (Lewis) on his debut game.”
Steven Whittaker had cancelled out Virgil van Dijk’s opener from the penalty spot, following an error by rookie goalkeeper Harry Lewis on his debut soon after the interval.
“We shouldn’t have conceded that second goal,” added Yoshida.
"It’s the same as West Brom, we controlled the game but conceded two goals. It’s very unacceptable.
"Fortunately we haven’t lost, so we just need to go for the next game against Norwich.
"There are also important things.
“We have a massive game in the next game against Liverpool in the semi-final, so just go for it.”
The Japanese defender believes Saints need to raise their concentration levels if they are to rediscover their solidarity at the back.
Saints had kept 12 cleansheets in 25 games in all competitions before conceding 12 goals in just five games in their recent run of matches.
“We need to manage the game until the end, and concentrate until the end," he said.
"It’s important you finish the game and kill the game as well.
"We need to put more concentration in. We can communicate with each-other and we can avoid that situation.”
Yoshida was keen, however, to remind people that Saints are still battling on three fronts.
Claude Puel’s side have the first of their League Cup semi-final legs on Wednesday at St Mary’s against Liverpool, before returning to Premier League action at Burnley on Saturday.
He said: "There’s nothing lost. Still, we have three competitions. We have the semi-final for the League Cup.
"Why don’t we take the opportunity to get to the final?
“Of course, Premier League is the most important, but the FA Cup just started and we have more opportunity to win against them at home.”
With so many other games already to think about, the central defender accepts that a replay is far from ideal.
“Everyone wanted to avoid the replay," he said. "I think so did the Norwich players. But this is now the fixture and we can’t change anything.
"We need to come back after we draw against them. The supporters expect us to.”
The 28-year-old headed home Saints’ second to restore their lead at Carrow Road.
“I’ve been waiting to score for a long time, so I’m very happy,” he said.
“But it doesn’t matter if I score when we couldn’t win. There’s more disappointment than happiness.”
Yoshida celebrated with the ‘rock the baby’ celebration as a nod to his new daughter, who was born in November.
“May be the baby brought some luck for me and that’s good,” he said, with a smile.
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THE VERDICT: Norwich draw sums up Saints’ frustrations
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Steven Naismith’s injury time equaliser for Norwich just about summed up Saints’ plight at the moment.
Even when they look like they are about to give themselves a bit of a break they contrive not to.
A free header in the penalty area when you are seeing out the dying seconds of an FA Cup tie is about as frustrating as it gets in terms of throwing away a win.
It also produced a result which has implications beyond just the annoyances of the day.
Not only was it a missed chance to bounce back from three straight defeats with a victory, but also plunged Saints deep into the mire of another fixture pile-up.
We have already seen a few hectic periods this season but should Saints get past Norwich in the replay, as it is most likely they will, then they face nine games in the month of January.
All the talk around Saints has been of the need for some recovery between games, and the chance for Claude Puel to work with his side on the training ground.
Literally the only chance for that to happen this month was next week when Saints had a clear schedule for a few days. Had being the operative word there as they now have an FA Cup replay to squeeze in.
So, no recovery time and no time to work on things in what is a testing period for the manager and his squad.
That Saints got themselves into this situation was pretty careless.
They were better than Norwich for most of the game at a sparsely populated Carrow Road, with the empty seats rather encapsulating their approach to the competition.
They were happy to rotate a bit and, to be blunt, it didn’t sound much like they would have been too fussed with a creditable defeat to a Premier League side.
However, Saints gave away two poor goals and, as Puel rightly pointed out, only have themselves to blame for the mess it causes.
The season is just in that kind of rut at the moment where it feels like these thing will happen, rather than they might.
Next up is a massive game, the priority without doubt, with Liverpool visiting St Mary’s for the semi-final of the EFL Cup.
It is the prospect of Wembley that has helped keep a sense of unity and Saints need a big performance to set themselves up for a real crack at it in the second leg at Anfield.
They need a night where they play well and get a result, a combination that is proving rather elusive at the moment.
Puel did play some youngsters at Norwich, but also put in some experienced heads too.
It was perhaps a nod to the situation Saints are in. He wouldn’t have wanted to risk elimination after the recent defeats, whereas if the team were on a better run, and with Liverpool around the corner, he may have taken a more cavalier attitude.
In the end it didn’t prove enough, even though it should have done.
Shane Long had the first meaningful chance but half volleyed over after Josh Sims had played him in but there was no stopping Virgil van Dijk from giving Saints the lead before the break.
Dusan Tadic put in a cross and van Dijk was on hand on the far edge of the six yard box to produce a stunning volley on the swivel into the opposite bottom corner.
Young keeper Harry Lewis had a horrible moment on his debut seven minutes after the restart to allow Norwich to equalise.
The 19-year-old, who had been otherwise solid, making two saves in the process, mistcontrolled a routine back pass.
Rather than retreat to his line as Cameron Jerome chased it, seemingly out of the box, he tried to atone for the error by tracking him and launching into an ill-judged challenge from behind.
Lewis felled Jerome and there was no argument about the award of a penalty, which was duly dispatched by Steven Whittaker.
In fairness to Saints, they rallied and after Michael McGovern had made a good save from Tadic they restored their lead.
They ruthlessly took advantage of some Norwich naivety as centre half Timm Klose voluntarily left the pitch for treatment following a kick rather than waiting for play to be stopped.
With Norwich down to ten men Saints attacked, and Maya Yoshida arrived in the area right where Klose should have been to arrow a header from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg’s right wing cross straight in from seven yards out.
That really should have been it but when Saints switched off in stoppage time they were made to pay the price.
Whittaker was given too much space to measure a cross and Naismith found himself totally unmarked in the area and glanced a header into the top corner to ensure the tie went to a replay.
It is pretty much the last thing Saints and Puel need on so many levels, but rather typical of the current frustrations.
However, Saints must put this behind them and steel themselves for a huge night at St Mary’s on Wednesday. This really would be the perfect time to get right back on track.
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Southampton’s Sofiane Boufal out of Africa Cup of Nations
Southampton’s Sofiane Boufal is out of the Africa Cup of Nations with an injury, according to the Morocco Football Federation.
Saints’ record signing left for the tournament after his side’s Premier League defeat at Everton last week having been named in his country’s 23-man squad.
But a statement from the Morocco Football Federation confirmed he will play no part in Gabon this month.
“Sofiane Boufal has left the camp after examination of his injury showed he would not be capable of playing at the Nations Cup,” the statement read.
Boufal is the latest Morocco player to be ruled out after Younes Belhanda, Oussama Tannane and Nordin Amrabat.
The Morocco statement gave no details on the injury.
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