Olivier Giroud comes off the bench to break Saints hearts after Marcos Alonso escapes red card for wild lunge

Olivier Giroud comes off the bench to break Saints hearts after Marcos Alonso escapes the red card for a wild lunge

*The question: Will Chelsea defeat be terminated for Southampton's survival chances?

It is not always just the most overwhelming and ominous result, but the form and circumstances that support it. This was Mark Hughes' first home game as manager of Southampton and, for 69 minutes, his team seemed to be winning 2-0 after perhaps offering their best performance of the season.

Eight minutes later, a Chelsea team completely inspired by the presentation of Olivier Giroud had a 3-2 record and was on the way to victory.

Giroud had scored twice in the rescue of what was another otherwise insipid Chelsea performance and it was difficult to leave St Mary fearing at least the worst for Southampton.

They have won just one occasion within the Premier League since Gregorian calendar month and therefore the impact of that record on their fragile confidence was dreadfully evident even as short as Giroud created it 2-1.

They forthwith began tantalizing pressure by defensive deeply and there was somehow already a grim, sure thing regarding the end result.

It all leaves Southampton still cut adrift in eighteenth place and, for all their graspable sense of injustice over a first-half Marcos professional dancer challenge that ought to result during a straight red card, it's arduous currently to visualize wherever the points can come back.

Alonso can sure enough currently face a three-match retrospective ban for a dreadfully dangerous high tackle on Shane Long that apparently went forgotten by referee's microphone Dean, however, that's very little use currently to Southampton. Their anger can be combined with however professional dancer helped spark Chelsea’s late comeback along with his cross for Giroud’s 1st.

After a positive performance, if not end in additionally losing 3-2 last week against Arsenal, Southampton cursed with an equivalent formation to incorporate 3 centers-backs. With Jack Stephens suspended, it meant a Premier League debut for Jan Bednarek aboard Maya Yoshida and Wesley Hoedt.

Although Southampton was shortly once more, for the most part, fiddling with 5 at the rear, the system was permitting 2 of their best players in Cedric and Ryan Bertrand rather a lot of protection after their poor forward on the counter-attack.

Chelsea were quickly dominant in possession, however, with Alvaro Morata troubled to noticeably threaten, they were making precious few probabilities. Southampton was way more productive with their crisp passing and took a due lead when twenty-one minutes. Morata lost possession and Davide Zappacosta had allowed himself to urge sucked forward. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg known the possibility and discharged Ryan Bertrand World Health Organization, with Cesar Azpilicueta exposed, used his pace to sprint to the sting of the penalty space before teeing up Dusan Tadic for an easy finish. It absolutely was Tadic’s 1st Premier League goal of the year.

The pattern continues, with Chelsea still sees lots of the ball, however to marginal inventive profit. James Ward-Prowse, World Health Organization had been wonderful, then tested Thibaut Courtois with a strong shot {and the|and therefore the|and additionally the} Belgique goalkeeper then had additionally to be conscious of also smother Tadic’s follow up. The professional dancer then all over what had been an urgently poor first-half for Chelsea along with his reckless studs-up challenge on Long.

Chelsea had not had one shot on goal, however, re-emerged many minutes before the re-start and did at the start show marginally a lot of purposes.

Eden Hazard and Willian then joined up, however, Morata’s lack of kindness and confidence was evident

In, however, he tried and sailed high and wide.

Southampton additionally remained a lot of threatening after they did get forward, with Long sprinting clear and virtually extending the lead with a most fortuitous scooped effort that went onto his standing foot and virtually over Courtois. A second goal did appear to be coming back and punctually arrived once Ward-Prowse’s precise free-kick was dead directed deadly between a professional dancer and Gary Cahill and into the trail of Bednarek.

Southampton was ostensibly cruising, however, the match suddenly turned within the seventieth minute. Alonso’s cross had eluded Maya Yoshida and, from around ten yards out, Giroud bright headed past Alex McCarthy. The boldness visibly seeped from Southampton and, has been passing the ball a lot of fluently that for any purpose of the season, they suddenly people. Willian’s cross, then found Hazard in so much an excessive amount of house within the penalty space, with Bertrand unable to stop the Chelsea winger’s equalizer.

The comeback was then fittingly completed by Giroud once associate tried to head clearance fell at his feet and he half-volleyed his end past McCarthy.

Cristiano Ronaldo's sublime overhead kick lights up Real Madrid win over Juventus(video)

Cristiano Ronaldo's sublime overhead kick lights up Real Madrid win over Juventus

    Indeed, even by his own measures, this was indecent from Cristiano Ronaldo.

The considerable Portuguese shocked the Juventus Stadium into quiet on Tuesday night as he scored an overhead kick of superb power, effortlessness and brave.

The Real Madrid man had effectively opened the scoring following three minutes with a perfectly complete, yet the accomplished Italian side aroused well to have the better of the main half.

Following 64 minutes, be that as it may, Ronaldo delivered a standout amongst the most delightful objectives this opposition has seen.

A mistake between Giorgio Chiellini and Gianluigi Buffon saw a Ronaldo jump on the ball. He slipped it to Lucas Vazquez, who struck a fresh drive. A fine spare from Buffon hoped to reestablish arrange, yet the ball dropped conveniently for Dani Carvajal on the right.

He crossed the ball, high, and Ronaldo jumped like a faultlessly coiffured salmon to bike kick the ball into the corner.

It was an ideal mix of magnificence and timing. The strong Buffon was weak.

What's more, there was no chance to get back for a gutted Juventus.

Not long after that, Paulo Dybala was sent off for a moment yellow card, his first half, reserving for plunging exacerbated by a kung-fu kick to the chest of Carvajal.

Tireless Madrid looked for the third, and it, in the end, came when Ronaldo cut through a go for Marcelo to cut over the manager.

Ronaldo's administrator, who himself had his minutes with the football, summed up the sentiments of everybody viewing.

The arrival leg will most likely be a custom and the main genuine inquiry is by all accounts, whether Ronaldo can add to his dash of having scored in his last ten Champions League matches.

Zizou: "We did some awesome things out there tonight. That is the thing that Cristiano can do, that is the reason he emerges from the others, we are so upbeat to have him in our group."

Read our live blog on how the considerable man scored this world beneath.

Jose Mourinho launches astonishing attack on his Man Utd players as he warns he will not walk away from job

Jose Mourinho launches astonishing attack on his Man Utd players as he warns he will not walk away from job  

Jose Mourinho has advised his Manchester United players to "grow up" as he took fire at his failure to meet expectations squad and guaranteed they confront a genuine test to prevent Manchester City from ruling if their opponents continue spending.

Perusing from a page of arranging notes in an uncommon tirade that drew correlations with Rafael Benitez's notorious "certainties" question and answer session as Liverpool chief in 2009, Mourinho propelled an ardent barrier of his reign in the wake of Tuesday's embarrassing Champions League exit to Sevilla and demanded he would not leave.

Over the course of one remarkable 12½-minute answer, Mourinho catalogued United’s failures – or what he termed “football heritage” – in Europe since their last appearance in the Champions League final in 2011 and also listed their struggles domestically, compared to the City, since the club’s last Premier League title success in 2013 before declaring:

-Midfielder Nemanja Matic and striker Romelu Lukaku were the only players who had delivered consistently all season and that “many Sevilla players” would walk into his United side.

-The challenge of trying to topple City was similar to the task he faced overhauling Barcelona with Real Madrid, but warned at the Bernabeu he possessed “a nucleus of players of a really high level”.

-His squad must “grow up” and match the “high expectations” of fans.

-United could remain “side by side” with the City if their rivals stop spending, but otherwise, City will be “difficult” to catch.

-Ed Woodward, United’s executive vice-chairman, was “on exactly the same page” and recognized the huge job at hand and need to spend.

“In seven years with four different managers, once not qualifying for Europe, twice out in the group phase and the best was the quarterfinals, this is football heritage (of the United),” the United manager said ahead of Saturday night's FA Cup quarter-final against Brighton & Hove Albion, which has assumed even greater importance in the week of the Sevilla debacle.

"What's more, on the off chance that you need to go to the Premier League, the last triumph was 12/13 and in the four back to back seasons (since) United completed seventh, fourth, fifth and 6th. So over the most recent four years, the best was fourth. This is football legacy.

"I told [before Sevilla] we are not one of the best groups, not one of the top choices to win [the Champions League].

"I can't let you know with various words while I am still in the rivalry. I can't be in the rivalry, go there and say, 'We have zero chance'. I couldn't reveal to you that.

"We went out to a side that is more effective than Manchester United in [the] most recent seven years in Europe. Do you figure they didn't have any players who could play in my group? In Sevilla, there are numerous players who might play in my group.

"So the fans, they read what individuals compose, they tune in to what individuals say. The general population with a considerable measure of thoughts I used to call them ideologists or dolts – they can be both.

“You cannot expect me to say, ‘This and that player, they have to do better’. I prefer to say that Matic and Lukaku have been performing at a high level since day one until the last match. I cannot tell you the ones that are not performing.

“The fans have to be said about being out and the players have to learn how to cope with that level of expectation and that level of pressure.

“They have to survive and when they survive, they become stronger. An easy life, and the fans not upset, and no critics, that’s not good.

“If you want to make a real top team with the top mentality, you need to grow up and the best way is to have this kind of feeling.

“I don’t want the fans to have low expectations, I want the fans to have high expectations because I want the players to have expectations, too.”

Inquired as to whether the test to pull back City, whom they trail by 16 focuses in the Premier League, was greater than the one he looked with Real – whom he prompted beat Barcelona to the Spanish title in his second season – Mourinho stated: "Likely comparable, however, clearly Real Madrid had the core of players of an extremely abnormal state, and on the grounds that it is difficult for me to talk about my players [at United], it's anything but difficult to talk about the players who are not mine any longer.

"For instance, where are the players that don't play in Real Madrid now and left the club to play, or in light of the fact that the club would not like to keep them? [Raul] Albiol, [Jose] Callejon, they are top players for Napoli.

"The United players that left the club last season? See where they play, how they play, on the off chance that they play.

"On the off chance that the clubs who are in a superior circumstance than we quit contributing and we contribute, we are one next to the other. On the off chance that they continue contributing the same or more than us, it's troublesome. It's as basic as that. It's troublesome."

Buveur d'Air digs deep to win second Champion Hurdle on day one of Cheltenham Festival"

       "Buveur d'Air digs deep to win second Champion Hurdle on day one of Cheltenham Festival"

   History may not rate the type of Tuesday's Unibet Champion Hurdle as the best at any point run, however in terms of a horse race it was the substance of what Cheltenham's yearly Festival is about; Buveur d'Air, the 4-6 most loved yet a Champion made to battle, at long last redesigning Melon in the last 50 yards in as throbbing a complete as you are probably going to see all week.

It was Buveur d'Air's second win in Britain's head obstacle and his mentor Nicky Henderson's seventh and keeping in mind that the individuals who sponsored the victor to win short of what they bet may have favored the advantage of a more agreeable achievement, the resolution of the current year's Champion will have tried feeble hearts.

“There was not a lot of them today,” said winning owner JP McManus sagacious, “but enough – which counts.”

What might step up and make a race of it with the red-hot favorite was the big question beforehand and it was the once much-vaunted Melon, a Willie Mullins, second, third or fourth string – it is not quite clear – who came out of the woodwork.

Melon lost some of his gloss when sent off 3-1 for last year’s Supreme only to be beaten by the recalcitrant Labaik. Here though he was finally fulfilling that latent potential.

With his stablemate, Faugheen beaten and Paul Townend on Melon, no doubt screaming at Ruby Walsh for a room on the inside as he cruised off the hill, Buveur door was briefly pushed wide as his jockey Barry Geraghty sought to have Walsh, momentarily relegated from leading Festival jockey to doorman, bar Townend’s entry.

Be that as it may, in any case, Melon snuck past within and he turned for home a neck up on Buveur dear, favorable position he kept up until seventy-five percent of the path up the slope. Be that as it may, Geraghty had something up his sleeve and opposed tossing the kitchen sink at Buveur dark until the last 100 yards.

In that last push, however, he drove the authoritative Champion past the heroic second with Mick Jazz, who had quickly debilitated setting off for the last to grasp a turn in the complete, three lengths back in third.

"That was a decent race, an appropriate race," said Henderson, eased to chalk up his first victory of the week and conceivably the primary leg of a memorable enormous race treble of Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and Gold Cup. "That is a major help, he was required to gather. Also, he did.

“They went some gallop and, ok, we set it (with Charli Parcs) but you wouldn’t believe they’d keep it up, even once they’d passed the first two. I must say Melon looked very strong at the last but Barry said he was always happy. The second must be a good horse.

“Beaver there’s been won by huge distances, but this is the first time he’s had a race this season and that was worrying me. I was going to say he’d come on for the run, but he didn’t blow up, he just had a good blow afterwards. He hasn’t had to knuckle down like that for some time. He got a neck down, but when Barry said it’s time to go he put his head down.”

Geraghty expelled the scrimmaging down the slope. "That is dashing," he said. "Ruby was endeavoring to prepare for Paul. I was on edge handing over to Paul voyaging so well, however he wasn't making tracks in an opposite direction from me and I was completing out better. I was cheerful popping the last and there was no surge from that point. He's a genuine Champion."

Mullins was pleased with Melon. "In any event, it vindicated what we thought of him," he said. "He didn't confront his hood last time and I believe he's steed who will move forward. Fagin (sixth) needs an outing now in this phase of his profession."