Roma Confirm De Rossi Out For A Month

It has been confirmed by Roma, that midfielder De Rossi will be out for four weeks due to calf injury. De Rossi could only play 13 minutes of the UCL clash against Real Madrid, due to the same injury that made him miss two previous encounters.

“Daniele De Rossi underwent tests that showed the presence of a lesion in the soleus of his left leg. For the Giallorossi midfielder, who has played 25 games and scored three goals, the prognosis is that he will miss around four weeks,” the club confirmed via a statement.

Prior to their midweek defeat, Roma had looked rejuvenated and had won four straight matches in Serie A, yet this is a fresh blow to their hopes of Champions League football next term given De Rossi’s absence is set to include a key fixture against Fiorentina and potentially another versus Inter.

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Enrique: Barcelona Can’t Start To Think La Liga Is Won

Barcelona head coach, Luis Enrique states that the club are more focused on winning the La Liga. Barcelona face Las Palmas at the weekend, but will play Arsenal in the UCL. But Enrique insists they’re more focused on the La liga game.

“We’re used to competing every three days. Regardless of the competition or the rival, we’ve demonstrated that,” the trainer told reporters.

“If things don’t turn out well on Saturday it won’t be because we were thinking of Arsenal, it will be because we didn’t do certain things or because the other team did things well.”

Barca are unbeaten in 31 games and are well on course to defend their La Liga, Champions League and Copa del Rey titles this term. Approaching the latter stages of their campaign, which will include a Copa final against Sevilla in May, Luis Enrique added: “We have to keep competing the same way that we have up to now.

“Neither the players nor the staff think the league is over. Surely ourselves and others at the top are going to drop points and we’re always cautious when talking about these things.

“Until the championship is mathematically decided nobody will consider it over. If there was too much euphoria in the dressing room I would be worried, but it doesn’t seem to be that way.

“I have a group of players who are very focused on clear objectives with things still to be decided. We’re all concerned about trying to win titles. To do that we have to be at a top level, but I don’t see any reason to be on alert or to worry.

“I want everyone to keep having fun, but be conscious of the reality that to keep on winning is not easy to do.”

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Pochettino Admits Alli Has A Lot To Learn

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino believes Dele Alli still has a lot to learn as a midfielder. The youngster reportedly tangled with Tomovic and kicked out at the fiorentina man, and was lucky enough to escape with a yellow.

Alli has been criticised for being a hothead previously by Alan Pardew, stating the England international stomped Yohan Cabaye in January. And Pochettino, who saw Nacer Chadli’s penalty cancelled out by Federico Bernardeschi in the second half at Stadio Artemio Franchi, insisted: “We need to look at the video and try to teach him.

“He is a young player and he has a lot to learn about elite football. It is his first season in the Premier League at Tottenham.

“He came from League One, he needs to learn a lot, still learn. But I didn’t see [the incident]. Some people say ‘yes’, some say ‘no’, so I don’t know.”

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Louis Van Gaal Blames Man Utd Loss On Murphy’s Law

Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal has blamed Murphy’s Law for the club’s defeat to FC Midtjylland.

 

The saying says that “anything that can go wrong will go wrong,” and the United gaffer felt that way after goalkeeper David De Gea got injured before the game started. United had scored first through Memphis Depay, but the Danish minnows had been able to score 2 back to consign United to their second loss in 5 days.

“It is the law of Murphy I think,” the Dutchman told BT Sport. “A lot of things are happening in the heads of the players and in the first 10 or 15 minutes we were not so good.”

“In the second half we didn’t win any duels, any second balls. You cannot afford a second goal, but we could have scored also. Jesse Lingard had two remarkable chances.”

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#NYFW2016: Oscar De La Renta Runway Fall 2016 Looks

Here are some Looks from Oscar De La Renta Fall 2016 Collection.

It was just one year ago that Peter Copping, who became artistic director of Oscar de la Renta shortly before the late designer’s passing, held his first runway show. He seems to be carrying on the Legacy just fine.

 

 

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