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The fleet-footed 25-year-old
‘Sanchez
is affecting
Pogba at
Man Utd’
MANCHESTER
UNITED new
boy Alexis
Sanchez is
affecting Paul
Pogba’s
performances.
According to former player
turned pundit Danny
Higginbotham who says the
Chilean is getting in his teammate’s
way.
Pogba and Sanchez have both
struggled in recent weeks and
faced criticism for a series of
underwhelming displays.
The high-profile duo both
looked ineffective last night as
United defeated Crystal Palace 3-
2 at Selhurst Park.
Sanchez would often drop
deep to collect the ball during the
clash in south London and
Higginbotham reckons he
prevented Pogba from expressing
himself.
“What I would say is, if
you’ve got Pogba playing on the
left side of the three, the amount
Salah donates nearly £500,000
to an Egyptian hospital
ENGLISH-SPEAKING Egyptian
news website King Fut are reporting
that Salah has donated the money to
help children suffering with bone
marrow cancer at the hospital.
forward is stealing hearts off the
pitch with some commendable
humanitarian work. On Saturday, it
was revealed that he partially paid for
an Egyptian child's bone marrow
transplant surgery.
Earlier this year, Salah sent a new
Liverpool shirt to fan Mohamed
• Sanchez (L)
and Pogba
Abdel-Karim after a photo of a torn
jumper with ‘SALAH 10’ handwritten
on the back went viral. He also
donated €30,000 to the Association
of Veteran Egyptian Players to help
120 families who were struggling
financially.
On the pitch, the Egypt
international has scored 24 goals in
28 appearances for Liverpool this
season and is among the favourites
for this season's PFA Player of the
Year prize. Fourfourtwo
of times yesterday Sanchez was
looking to drop into that position
- that’s where Pogba wants to get
into,” he told talkSPORT.
“So at times they were
looking to get into each other’s
way.
“I think the problem for
Pogba yesterday was because
Crystal Palace did something
they’ve done all season; defence
is not Crystal Palace’s biggest
problem - it has been scoring
goals.
“What they do every time the
opposition get the ball is send
them inside into bodies.
“They did it really well in the
first half against Manchester
United and Pogba was getting
frustrated.
“The top players, when they
get frustrated, want more of the
ball, so their way of getting more
of the ball is coming closer to
the ball.
Dailystar
• Mohammed
Salah
• Paulo
Dybala
Dybala accepts
£120,000
-a-week contract
PAULO DYBALA has
reportedly agreed to sign a
new five-year contract at
Juventus.
Dybala, who hit his 15th
Serie A goal this season in
Saturday's 1-0 win at Lazio,
had been the subject of
interest from Manchester
United, Real Madrid and
Barcelona.
But the 24-year-old will
commit his future to Juve by
penning a £120,000-a-week
deal which does not include a
buy-out clause, according to
The Sun.
Dybala is in his third
season as a Juve player,
having joined from Palermo
in 2015.
He has scored 45 goals in
his first 86 Serie A
appearances for the Turin
outfit.
Dybala trained with his
Juve team-mates in Vinovo on
Tuesday before they flew to
London for the second leg of
their Champions League last-
16 tie with Tottenham.
He missed the first leg
with a hamstring injury but
has played in three matches
since.
Juventus go into
Wednesday's game at
Wembley as
underdogs
to progress
to the
quarter-finals,
having been held
to a 2-2 first-leg
draw in Dybala's absence.
Spurs boss Mauricio
Pochettino has all but two of
his first-team players to
choose from, with the injured
Toby Alderweireld and the
suspended Serge Aurier the
only absentees for the hosts.
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