دسته: اخبار ورزشی

38 دقیقه در اینجا تساوی ماتیاس جنسن است.

دقیقه 36: فرصت برای بتو! فرصت دیگر گدایی برای اورتون است. اونانا 30 یارد می دود (فکر می کنم) و یک پاس خوب از خط دفاعی برنتفورد می زند. بتو به سمت دروازه می دود اما پس از آن یک شوت کمی ناخوشایند از کنار فلکن و بالای تیرک دورتر شلیک می کند. فکر کنم ضربه اش را از دست داد.

35 دقیقه بتو موفق می شود یک بار دیگر کالینز را کنار بزند و یک توپ نیستی را به جلو جمع کند، اما او کاملاً تنها است و حمله از بین می رود.

34 دقیقه الان همه چیز در برنتفورد است. اورتون در سومین بازی غافلگیر شد و به نیمه خود اهمیتی نمی دهد.

33 دقیقه ریچارد هرست می‌گوید: «به نظر بی‌طرف من، اورتون امروز تیم قوی‌تری نسبت به برنتفورد دارد، حداقل روی کاغذ، که به نظر می‌رسد برخلاف عقل مرسوم است.» “چه چیزی را از دست داده ام؟”

هیچ چی. روی کاغذ، تیم آنها قوی‌تر است، اما فوتبال میلیون‌ها بازیکن قابل کنترل دارد و برنتفورد در سال‌های اخیر خیلی بهتر آنها را کنترل کرده است.

31 دقیقه گل ها بازی ها و در واقع جو را تغییر می دهند. برنتفورد ناگهان پر از شادی شد.

گل داده شد! برنتفورد در همین سطح است.

بررسی VAR! یک دقیقه صبر کنید، ویسا ممکن است در زمان آماده سازی آفساید بوده باشد.

جانلت یک توپ سرگردان را در 30 یارد دورتر جمع کرد و یک پاس منظم و مبدل به جنسن در سمت راست محوطه زد. او ضربه ای زد و یک شوت پایین شلیک کرد که پیکفورد شیرجه فقط می توانست به سمت تیرک دوردست و دروازه را فشار دهد. اولین برداشت من این بود که اگر پیکفورد به توپ می رسید می توانست بهتر عمل کند.

هدف! برنتفورد 1-1 اورتون (جنسن 28)

دقیقه 27: دوکور وارد دروازه شد! اورتون باید این بازی را قبل از پایان نیمه تمام کند زیرا برنتفورد برای انجام آن آماده است. تارکوفسکی یک پاس بلند و زاویه دار به سمت Doucoure در منطقه بازی می کند. او به سمت رورسلو باز می گردد، توپ را روی سینه خود کنترل می کند و به سمت دروازه شوت می کند. او فلکن را شکست می دهد اما از بالای نوار عبور می کند.

26 دقیقه ضربه گارنر از راه دور توسط نورگارد به خوبی مهار شد. گارنر موقعیت های بسیار جالبی گرفت و بله، می دانم که او را در دقیقه 17 وارد دروازه خودی کردم. بعد از من شکایت کن!

26 دقیقه استفن کار می‌گوید: «من نمی‌توانم فکر نکنم که هم تیم برنتفورد و هم هواداران امروز انتظار یک برد معمولی را داشتند، زیرا هر دو بسیار پایین‌تر از حد استاندارد بودند.

25 دقیقه پاس میانی پینوک توسط اورتون از بازی خارج شد. برنتفورد با استانداردهای خود بسیار ضعیف بود، به خصوص از نظر مالکیت.

24 دقیقه آدام رابرتس می نویسد: «برنتفورد آخرین جایی بود که قبل از مهاجرت در بریتانیا زندگی می کردیم، و من گاهی به پارک گریفین می رفتم. “یک روز صبح همسر عزیزم، خدا رحمتش کند، در حال خواندن برنتفورد و چیسویک تایمز بود و گفت: “آیا دکلن مک مانوس نام اصلی الویس کاستلو نیست؟” “بله” و او جعبه کوچکی را در طبقه بندی ها به من نشان می دهد: دکلن مک مانوس، مرکز هنرهای واترفورد، تاریخ و قیمت. بنابراین من به سمت واترمن رفتم و یک مجموعه کوچک صمیمی از یکی از قهرمانان موسیقی من را دیدیم. دمون رکوردز در برنتفورد مستقر شد و نیک لو در The Butts زندگی می کرد.

23 دقیقه اورتون به طرز خطرناکی پنج بر پنج می شکند اما پاس مک نیل پشت سر گارنر و دوکور قرار می گیرد.

22 دقیقه اگر به همه اینها علاقه دارید، در اینجا هدف Doucoure است.

دقیقه 21: فرصت عالی برای میکولنکو! ارسال مک نیل از سمت چپ مستقیماً به پینوک روی D می رود. او سعی می‌کند توپ را دفع کند، اما در عوض موفق می‌شود یک توپ را برای میکولنکو ارسال کند، او با پای راست مستقیم به فلکن شوت می‌کند. این یک شانس واقعا خوب بود.

21 دقیقه اورتون خیلی خوب بازی می‌کند، اما ممکن است ترفندی را از دست بدهد که به دنبال کشتن نرود. من شک دارم که برنتفورد در کل بازی اینطور بد بازی کند.

19 دقیقه برنتفورد به مسابقات نمی رود.

17 دقیقه سانتر زاویه دار گارنر توسط اونانا به سمت بالا ارسال می شود. سپس یک فرصت وجود دارد.

16 دقیقه بتو بازیکن خوبی به نظر می رسد. او ممکن است ظاهری نامرتب داشته باشد، اما لمسی ماهرانه و هوشیاری عالی از فرار بازیکنان از او دارد. او همچنین پیوند سخت را دوست دارد.

دقیقه 14: فرصت برای مک نیل! یک توپ بلند کاملاً توسط بتو به سمت مک نیل فرستاده می شود که بین رورسلو و پینوک قرار می گیرد و شوت های پایینی می زند. فقط عرض پست دور این یک تلاش بسیار خوب از یک زاویه باریک بود.

14 دقیقه پاس هیچ یک از طرفین خیلی خوب نبود. آخرین باری که دقت پاس را بررسی کردم حدود 70 درصد بود، تقریباً مانند بازی انگلیس و ایرلند در منطقه 90 ایتالیا.

12 دقیقه وقتی پاس هیکی به جانلت قطع شد، چند ناله از طرف هواداران شنیده شد. این اتفاق هنوز برای برنتفورد رخ نداده است.

10 دقیقه به نظر می رسد هواداران میزبان از این گل کمی شگفت زده شده اند. این شروع عالی از سوی برنتفورد نبود، حتی اگر آنها بیشتر توپ را در اختیار داشتند.

ضربه کرنر توسط فلکن. اما یانگ توپ شل را برداشت و به گارنر در سمت چپ پاس داد. سانتر او توسط تارکوفسکی به دوکور منحرف شد و او از کنار فلکن گذشت. این یک نتیجه خوب است.

هدف! برنتفورد 0-1 اورتون (دوکور 6)

5 دقیقه مک نیل اولین کرنر اورتون را از سمت چپ برد. اونی که…

4 دقیقه جدای از کراکل برقی لوئیس پاتر، شروعی آرام و آرام برای بازی بود.

2 دقیقه ضربه آزاد را امبیمو به خوبی پاک کرد.

1 دقیقه یک حرکت عالی از لوئیس پاتر، که در آخرین لحظه وارد ترکیب برنتفورد شد. او اطراف محوطه را زیپ می زند و یانگ در فاصله 25 یاردی از دروازه پایین می آورد و کارت زرد دریافت می کند.

1 دقیقه چشمک بزن! همانطور که ما تماشا می کنیم اورتون از راست به چپ شروع می کند.

تغییر دیرهنگام در برنتفورد کوین شید در حین گرم کردن کشاله ران خود آسیب دید و کین لوئیس پاتر جایگزین او شد.

برنتفورد (احتمال 4-3-3) فلکن; رورسلو، کالینز، پینوک، هیکی؛ جنسن، نورگارد، جانلت؛ امبیمو، ویسا، لوئیس پاتر.
ذخیره ها: استراکوشا، بالکامب، یورگنسن، آجر، قدوس، اونیکا، یارمولوک، اولاکیگبه، بریرلی.

اورتون (احتمالا 4-4-1-1) پیکفورد؛ یانگ، تارکوفسکی، برانتویت، میکولنکو؛ گارنر، گی، اونانا، مک نیل. دوکور; بتو.
نفرات: ژائو ویرجینیا، پترسون، کین، گادفری، هانت، کالورت-لوین، دانجوما، چرمیتی، دابین.

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اورتون بازی را در رده هجدهم آغاز کرد. آنها امیدوارند از مینی لیگی که با باشگاه های ارتقا یافته تاسیس کرده اند فرار کنند. برنتفورد شروع خوبی برای فصل داشت و در جایگاه یازدهم قرار گرفت. برد امشب آنها را به رده هفتم می رساند.

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اخبار تیم

پیشگفتار

برخی مکاتبات دردناک مبتنی بر جناس از پیتر اوه…

من فکر می کنم که بازدیدکنندگان لیگ 1 اتحادیه SG کاملاً می دانند که این بازی مال آنهاست. تولوز.

خجالت میکشم بگم از این بابت کمی غر زدم.

اخبار گرانیت ژاکا… او در بازی دوم لورکوزن مقابل هاکن در دقیقه 16 نقش کلیدی ایفا می کند. امین عدلی بازیکن سابق آرسنال را با والی به سمت دروازه ارسال کرد. 2-0 لورکوزن

شلاق در LASK! تیم میزبان به سمت لبه محوطه جریمه کرنر می زند، فلوریان فلکر ضربه ای را انجام می دهد و سپس شوت کائویمهین کلهر را با فاصله از کنار دروازه لیورپول به بیرون می فرستد. البته جدا از مخفی شدن در کرنر، دروازه بان ایرلندی همچنان شانسی نداشت. آنها اولین بوی واقعی خود را از یک فرصت دریافت کردند و از آن کاملاً تماشایی استفاده کردند. لسک 1-0 لیورپول

دواک تقریباً بلافاصله مهارت های دریبل خود را در انتهای دیگر نشان می دهد، اما هیچ کس در موقعیتی نیست که توپ را وارد محوطه کند.

افتتاحیه خبر… بازی رویال یونیون اس جی – تولوز به دلیل مسدود شدن جاده در خارج از ورزشگاه جوزف مارین 10 دقیقه به تعویق افتاد اما اکنون ادامه دارد. امیدواریم این تاخیر به هوادارانی که سر خود را به فرمان می‌کوبند اجازه دهد تا با خیال راحت وارد شوند.

اخبار گل … ضربه درخشان فلوریان ویرتس، بایر لورکوزن را مقابل هاکن در خانه از هدف خارج کرد.

در گوشه ای از لیگ کنفرانساستون ویلا می تواند شبی پر حادثه داشته باشد. آنها با ضربه پاول وزولک در دقیقه سوم 1-0 عقب افتادند، اما با ضربه سر جان دوران در دقیقه ششم بازی را به تساوی کشاندند.

لیورپول، با پوشیدن پیراهن سوم بنفش خیره کننده خود، به طور قابل پیش بینی، LASK را به نیمه خود بازگرداند، اما تا کنون تاثیر چندانی نداشته است.

رن شوخی نیست. در حالی که تیم لیگ 1 در برابر ماکابی هایفی 1-0 پیش بود، لودویک بلاس از ریباند لذت می برد و توپ را به خانه می برد.

پییییییییپ… به نظر می رسد بازی رویال یونیون اس جی – تولوز کمی دیر شروع می شود، اما دیگر دیدارهای اولیه لیگ اروپا ادامه دارد.

برای یکی از رویدادهای ساعت 8 بعد از ظهر (BST) کمی دلچسب است. یک برایتون بسیار هیجان انگیز به جدال اروپا مقابل AEK می پیوندد. من امیدوارم که شما به من یک تلنگر سریع به استف فینچام، همکار گاردین بدهید، کسی که اخیراً کمی سرخورده بوده و امیدوارم از اولین ماجراجویی قاره‌ای باشگاهش لذت ببرد.

جو پی نگاهی به فرم ها و نامه های تیم می اندازد:

اینم ترکیب لیورپول وای. آیا یورگن فکر می‌کند که این یک تساوی جام کارابائو است؟

در اینجا باید انگشتم را به سبک “وا، وای، وای” تکان دهم. در واقع، امشب برای تیم لیورپول بسیار هیجان زده هستم.

اگر ترکیب منتشر شده درست باشد، استفان بایچتیچ که فصل گذشته در خط میانی یک افشاگر واقعی به نظر می رسید، بسیار جالب است. صادقانه بگویم، بسیاری امشب چشمانشان به جناح راست خواهد بود، اگرچه دیدن “دو نفر دیگر” (واتورو اندو و رایان گراونبرچ) که کلوپ با آنها مناطق مرکزی را بازسازی کرده است، بسیار جالب خواهد بود.

بن دواک (اندرو بارتلت غلط املایی من را در ترکیب اصلی به درستی شناسایی کرد – اکنون اصلاح شده است) مانند بازیکنی به نظر می رسد که می تواند دم را بالا نگه دارد و تکان دهد. او که هنوز 17 سال دارد و هنوز یک گل مهم برای باشگاه به ثمر نرسانده است، اوایل این ماه زمین زیر 21 ساله‌های اسکاتلند را مقابل اسپانیا روشن کرد، به گونه‌ای که نه تنها مدیرش، اسکات جمل، غرغر کرد. آن را محکم قاب کنید تا جایی در چیدمان رده بالا داشته باشید.

فهرست تیم ها: گروه H

لیست تیم ها: گروه G

فهرست تیم ها: گروه F

لیست تیم ها: گروه E

گزارش گرملینز از نیک گلدسپینک…

من فقط برای دیدن لینک Guardian Europe را دنبال کردم و با تعجب متوجه شدم که تنظیمات پیش فرض آب و هوا برای Bootle است. آیا چیزی هست که باید بدانیم؟ آیا هنگام پیاده شدن از M62 باید پاسپورت خود را آماده داشته باشم؟ من در بوتل زندگی نمی کنم.

متأسفانه او پیش‌بینی آب‌وهوای بوتل را درج نکرده بود، بنابراین در حال حاضر یک نسیم خفیف در بیرون می‌وزد و برای هر کسی که در منطقه سفتون و اطراف آن در حال حاضر از یک اتاق بدون پنجره می‌خواند، وقفه‌های آفتابی می‌وزد.

پیشگفتار

18 دقیقه: میلان بازی را با یک پاس صبورانه تحمل کرد… سپس ناگهان به جلو ترکید. Chukwueze به سمت راست دریبل می زند اما نمی تواند لیائو را با سانتر خود پیدا کند. توپ به کرونیچ ارسال می شود و او از فاصله 25 یاردی یک ضربه را به سمت دروازه ارسال می کند. پاپ کف دستش را به گوشه ای هل می دهد، از آنجا…

16 دقیقه: مورفی هرناندز را در سمت راست کرنر می کند. سپس تونالی دوباره در سمت چپ کالابریا را به دردسر انداخت. برش او به شخص خاصی نمی رسد. نیوکاسل هر وقت جلو می آید به اندازه کافی سرزنده به نظر می رسد.

14 دقیقه: … و اکنون پوپ سه توقف کوتاه انجام می دهد زیرا ژیرو از گوشه سمت راست محوطه شش قدم می چرخد ​​و سعی می کند توپ را به سمت دروازه ببرد. گوشه به دست آمده، لئو را در سمت دیگر محوطه شش قدم پیدا می کند. او به عقب خم می شود و نمی تواند یک عکس معنی دار بزند. میلان ناگهان جان گرفت و چگونه!

13 دقیقه: پوبگا یک گرما یاب را به گوشه سمت چپ پایین دروازه نیوکاسل می فرستد. پاپ نجات می دهد. لائو ریباند را از جناح چپ می گیرد. او به سمت Chukwueze حرکت می کند که با قدرت به سمت پایین هل می دهد. پاپ با بیل دور می شود. ذخیره دو برابر عالی!

11 دقیقه: حمله نیوکاسل شکست خورد. میلان تلاش می کند تا به عقب برگردد و لانگستاف هرناندز را از هواپیما بیرون می اندازد. او بسیار خوش شانس است که به کتاب راه پیدا نکرد.

9 دقیقه: ژیرو Chukwueze را در سمت راست به فضا می لغزد. وینگر خیلی زود حرکت می کند و پرچم آفساید را بالا می برد. روی خط تماس، استفانو پیولی عصبانی دستانش را به سبک سنتی ایتالیایی تکان می‌دهد.

8 دقیقه: نیوکاسل به نقطه خوبی رسیده است. شار یک شوت از راه دور به سمت مورفی شلیک می کند که با هرناندز مبارزه می کند و نمی تواند به داخل محوطه شیرجه بزند. او مدعی است که پیراهنش کشیده شده است و ممکن است حق با او باشد، اما بازی ادامه دارد.

6 دقیقه: … اما نیوکاسل دوباره از طریق پسر میلان، تونالی وارد شد، که در سمت چپ شناور شد، کالابریا را شکست داد و توپ را برای یک ضربه گل به بیرون فرستاد. چند لحظه پر جنب و جوش برای تشویق بازدیدکنندگان.

5 دقیقه: مورفی از وسط می دود تا نیوکاسل را در حمله قرار دهد. گوردون تریپیه را در سمت راست پیدا می کند. تریپییر وارد می شود و به دنبال ایسک می گردد. ذهن توموری روشن است.

4 دقیقه: لئو از سمت چپ وارد دروازه می شود و با عصبانیت اولین شوت را شلیک می کند. مستقیم به پاپ و آسان برای دروازه بان.

3 دقیقه: Loftus-Cheek سمت راست را کاوش می کند و برنده یک پرتاب به عمق قلمرو نیوکاسل می شود. بعد از تحقیر 5-1 اینتر، قدم های کوچکی برای میلان برداشته شد.

2 دقیقه: میلان لحظات ابتدایی را با نوازش به پشت او به سبک قوانین خانه ما سپری می کند.

نیوکاسل در حال گرفتن توپ است. “روز بخیر اسکات، امیدوارم حال شما خوب باشد!” کریس پاراسکواس شاد شروع می شود. “اگر چند سال دیگر به من می گفتید که جیکوب مورفی در یک بازی لیگ قهرمانان در سن سیرو بازی می کند، از شما می پرسیدم که در چه نسخه ای از Football Manager بازی می کنید. پس از یک عمر بیدار شدن در شرایط غیر طبیعی. ساعت‌ها برای تماشای خروج ما از جام اتحادیه، دیدن ̶̶̶h̶̶̶̶e̶̶̶ ̶S̶̶̶a̶̶̶n̶̶̶ ̶S̶̶̶i̶̶̶ r̶̶̶̶i̶̶̶ r̶̶̶̶i̶̶̶̶̶̶̶i̶i̶̶̶r̶̶̶̶i̶̶̶̶̶ ̶S̶̶̶i̶̶̶̶r̶̶̶̶i̶̶̶̶ ̶̶̶̶ ̶ 2 شب بیدار ماندن در اروپا، فوق العاده است. چه زمانی برای زنده بودن.

به یاد جان باختگان فجایع اخیر مراکش و لیبی یک دقیقه سکوت کرد. روی بنر یوفا نوشته «ما با شما هستیم».

تیم ها در راه هستند! میلان نامیده نمی شود: روسونری در حال حاضر، نیوکاسل دارای خطوط سیاه و سفید به همان اندازه معروف است. پس از دست دادن و پخش سریع ریمیکس 12 اینچی Priest Zadok مورد تایید یوفا، ما در راه هستیم. در همین حال، جو پیرسون تعجب می کند که ادی هاو چقدر هوشمندانه به بچه های با تجربه ای مانند لوریس کاریوس اشاره می کند.

ادی هاو با TNT Sport صحبت می کند. ما مشتاقانه منتظر آن هستیم… ورزشگاه در حال حاضر بسیار پر سر و صدا است و حتی نیمه پر نیست، بنابراین می دانیم که چالش بزرگی خواهد بود و امیدواریم بتوانیم به سمت بالا حرکت کنیم… بازیکنان باتجربه برای ما حیاتی خواهند بود… وقتی این همه سخت کار کرده اید. برای رسیدن به این هدف، نمی‌خواهیم آن را هدر دهیم… این مایه خوشحالی ماست. “این با ما همراه خواهد بود که بهترین بازی خود را انجام دهیم… هواداران ما شایسته آن هستند و ما می‌خواهیم آنها را افتخار کنیم.”

مدت زیادی از این کار گذشته است، اما نیوکاسل قبلاً چنین کاری را انجام داده است. در اینجا شواهدی تصویری وجود دارد که نشان می دهد تون در صحنه اروپا متوقف شده است. از جمله عکس رعد و برق در بطری اسکات پارکر در حال جشن گرفتن برنده جام اینترتوتو در سال 2006.

پس از پیروزی 5-1 اینترناسیونال در سری آ، میلان سه تغییر ایجاد کرد. تیجانی رایندرز، سیمون کیار و کریستین پولیشیچ که از روی نیمکت کنار گذاشته شده بودند، جای خود را به سامو چوکوئزه، فیکایو توموری و توماسو پوبگا دادند.

نیوکاسل نیز پس از شکست 1-0 برنتفورد، سه تغییر را در ترکیب اصلی یازدهم ایجاد کرد. ساندرو تونالی، جیکوب مورفی و الکساندر ایساک برجسته هستند، در حالی که کالوم ویلسون، الیوت اندرسون و هاروی بارنز نشسته اند. تونالی به صورت قراردادی در حال ساخت چیزی است که ما آن را “بازگشت رویایی به باشگاه سابقش” توصیف می کنیم.

تیم ها

پیشگفتار

59 min Arsenal appeal unsuccessfully for a penalty when Zinchenko’s fierce long-range shot hits the charging Tarkowski on the arm and ricochets wide. He was outside the area, although it probably was a handball under the current laws.

58 min Rice picks Doucoure’s pocket in a dangerous area and pokes the ball forward to Odegaard. He slides it through to Nketiah, whose shot from a tight angle hits Tarkowski and goes behind for a corner. That was very good from Rice, who read the play superbly.

58 min Doucoure floors Saka, who winces as he gets to his feet. He’s nowhere near his best at the moment, and looks a bit worn down by the treatment he is getting from opposition defenders.

56 min Zinchenko again releases somebody on the left of the area with a lofted pass, Trossard this time. His low cross beats Pickford and is kicked away by Mykolenko as far as Vieira, whose shot is blocked. And then play is pulled back for an offside against Trossard.

55 min Eddie Nketiah had only had eight touches in the game, the fewest on either side. Arnaut Danjuma, whose presence on the field I’d sincerely forgotten, has had 12.

54 min Arsenal continue to probe, press and other five-letter words beginning with pr-. Saka’s deep cross is headed dangerously back across goal by Trossard, and Tarkowski stretches in front of Nketiah to intercept. Good defending.

52 min The longer this stays 0-0, the more empowered Arsenal will be if they do win it. It’s football’s eternal dilemma: would you prefer a stress-free 4-0 win or a stressful 97th-minute winner? The latter, clearly, but only if you know it’s going to happen, which you don’t.

50 min Zinchenko’s long-range stinger is blocked by Tarkowski. The VAR team check for handball but are thwarted when replays show Tarkowski’s arms were tucked into his body.

49 min “Losing Martinelli for any length of time would be a pretty big blow to Arsenal,” says Joe Pearson. “He’s played nearly every minute of every match so far this season (excluding this one, of course).”

It would, though Trossard is a very good replacement. The odd short-term injury might not be a bad thing, as it might help Arteta trust his back-up players more. He’ll have to rotate more in the Premier League this season.

48 min Gabriel is booked for a foul on Beto. Young’s free-kick isn’t the best and Saliba clears.

46 min: Good save from Pickford! A flying start from Arsenal. Rice slides a careful pass into Odegaard, on ther right side of the area. He cuts inside Branthwaite and hammers a shot that is pushed away to his right by Pickford. On reflection Odegaard should have done better; it was too close to the keeper.

46 min Peep peep! Abdoulaye Doucoure begins the second half.

Half-time reading

Half time: Everton 0-0 Arsenal

45+4 min Arsenal have used one of their substitution windows, so I wonder if we might see Gabriel Jesus replace Eddie Nketiah as early as half-time.

45+3 min Saliba goes down holding his face after a challenge with Beto. The referee tells him to get up, so Arsenal kick the ball out of play. Beto caught him with a flailing arm, no more or less, and VAR doesn’t get involved.

45+3 min “Gary Neville’s increasingly tenuous reasoning as to why that was not offside reminded me of how I try to keep face when my kids find out that I’m completely wrong on something,” writes Niall Mullen. “No, I did smash a glass but only because you and your sister were making too much noise.”

45+2 min Young takes a shortcut through the back of Trossard and is booked.

45+2 min Gueye’s cross is chested down by McNeil, whose half-volley on the turn hits Saliba. Some of the home crowd appeal for a penalty but there was nothing in it.

45+1 min Four minutes of added time.

45 min Arsenal must be starting to experience deja vu, though there is an upside to that as well: by winning the game they can change the narrative, the record or whatever we’re calling it these days, thus telling their subconscious that this season is different.

It’s a really important second half for them. If they don’t win today it’ll be a big blow, even this early in the season, and another failure the wrong side of Watford Gap.

44 min Zinchenko’s brilliant lofted pass releases Vieira on the left side of the area. He tries to cut it back to Nketiah but Branthwaite deflects the ball to safety. Vieira might have been offside anyway.

42 min “Another VAR LOL,” says David Bowen. “Would anyone in the ground or watching on the old telebox really be overcome with righteousness injustice if that goal stood? Or put it another way, if there was a cricket style DRS would any Everton player referred that? Actually they were appealing so they might have done. Oh I don’t know any more Rob. Do you? Does anyone?”

No. One of the most miserable things about VAR is watching grown men – on the pitch and in the crowd – trying it on the moment the ball hits a defender’s hand, even if that defender is on all fours, unconscious, 0.0001 millimetres away from the ball, and two yards outside the penalty area. The hell with it.

40 min McNeil’s long-range shot is kicked away on the edge of the area. Arsenal break but Everton’s back nine get into position very quickly. Eventually White cuts inside, plays a one-two with Odegaard and hits a rising drive from 20 yards that is comfortably saved by Pickford. I think that’s the first shot on target at either end.

39 min Sean Dyche will be thrilled with this first half, which is a slightly odd thing to say given that Everton have barely had a kick. I suppose the same was true of Arsenal at Anfield in 1989; all that mattered was having a clean sheet at half-time.

38 min “Not that hard,” says Rick McGahey of the disallowed goal. “In an offside position. Yes. Was ball played “deliberately” by opponent? No, a deflection and not off an attempt to play the ball (an attempt would be ‘deliberate’ even if it didn’t go where it was meant to). So, attacker in offside position, didn’t get ball from a deliberate play by opponent, offside.”

Isn’t that exactly what I said? I agree with you, though I’m not sure about the need for a touch to be deliberate. Gabriel was playing the ball nowhere near Nketiah, so shouldn’t the deflection just be part of football’s natural variables? Not sure, I’d need to think about it. It’s befuddled me since that Karim Benzema goal was disallowed in the Champions League final.

37 min Mykolenko is very late on Saka, who goes down in pain. There’s a VAR check for a red card but it wasn’t that bad. He should have been booked though. In fact the referee didn’t give a free-kick so he must have followed the ball.

34 min The disallowed goal was the only time Arsenal have really opened Everton up. It’s a slightly odd game – the atmosphere is really flat, like a library, and Everton aren’t getting after Arsenal at all. But they are defending very well.

32 min “Ramsdale will always be a fan favourite and he is a top-class goalkeeper,” says Chris Lambert. “Whatever Arteta sees in the background he could never publicly discuss replacement – he’d catch far too much flak. If that is his plan, it’ll be executed by the inch not the mile.”

Surely it’s better to rip the plaster off like Guardiola did with Joe Hart? Then again, I suppose Alex Ferguson was a master of getting rid of players in stages. My instinct is it’s a bad idea, if that is what Arteta is doing. Maybe he does just want two high-class goalkeepers and thinks he can keep them both happy.

31 min Doucoure charges away from Rice, into the area, but then initiates contact with Saliba and falls over. No penalty. Moments later, Gueye’s low shot from distance is comfortably saved by Raya.

30 min Possession so far: Everton 21-79 Arsenal. Of far greater interest to Sean Dyche is the shots on target: 0-0.

30 min A slightly better attack from Everton, but Young’s cross is held comfortably by Raya. That’s the first vaguely signification thing he’s had to do.

28 min Beto is far too isolated for Everton. Gary Neville is still suggesting the offside decision was wrong; it looked fine to me, though I certainly don’t trust the technology 100 per cent. I thought John Stones’ goal against Arsenal last season, for example, looked pretty iffy. “Offside is offside” should be banned from football punditry until we see how the whole process works.

26 min White’s cross is half cleared to Rice, who neatly makes room for a low shot that is kicked away by Branthwaite. It’s still all Arsenal.

24 min: Arsenal substitution Leandro Trossard replaces Gabriel Martinelli, who went down with an injury almost as soon as play resumed after the disallowed goal. Not sure what it is, though it appears muscular.

23 min Nketiah looks well offside to me; the issue is more with the confusing law regarding a deliberate attempt to play the ball.

A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent.

NO GOAL! Everton 0-0 Arsenal

Nketiah collected a loose ball and touched it off to Vieira. Everton stopped, thinking Nketiah was offside (he was, but I think the touch was off an Everton player; it’s being checked by VAR). Vieira slid a fine pass through to Martinelli, who opened his body to shape an emphatic finish into the far corner.

GOAL! Everton 0-1 Arsenal (Martinelli 19)

18 min White’s teasing cross is sliced away from goal by Vieira, who was stretching to volley from a tight angle. The Arsenal pressure is pretty incessant; Everton can’t get out.

17 min “As a Villa fan, I’m happy with this season so far,” writes Tony Hughes. “However, growing up in Scotland, this season feel like the SPL for most of the 1990s, with Man City playing the Rangers role, and Arsenal or Liverpool as Celtic. In other words, how far behind City will Arsenal or Liverpool finish and who will finish third? Even as a Rangers fan back then, it got sort of dull.”

Yeah, this feels like the period between 1999-2001 when Man Utd won the league by 18 points (in 1999-2000) and by New Year’s Day (2000-01). But you never know what’s round the corner – that summer they bought two of the world’s best players, and everyone assumed they’d win the league by October. Everyone except Scott Murray. We all know what happened next.

15 min The pattern of the game is as expected, almost to the point of cliche. Everton’s midfield structure is interesting: Gueye on Zinchenko, Doucoure on Rice and Onana putting out as man of Vieira and Odegaard’s fires as possible.

14 min “So, Moshiri leaving?” says Bill Hargreaves. “The tribulations of the unfortunately owned fans. Wasn’t long ago that many Gooners were hoping Usmanov would take over. Now we seem like sheep in clover. The Kroenkes seem to know what they’re doing, and the son at least seems genuinely attached. Was Everton no more than an ill-advised plaything? Man Utf no more than a greed-inspired trinket? Do the pre-match burgers taste better under the right ownership?”

12 min Nketiah leaves a bit on Pickford, who just beat him to Branthwaite’s iffy backpass. There wasn’t much in it, in truth, though it has stirred the home crowd.

11 min “One of the things sometimes given in defence of Moshiri is that he’s spent a lot of money on the team,” writes David Wall. “But ill-directed spending is no help at all, and in fact can work against the manager (see also Manchester United in the past decade, and Chelsea in the past year). All it does is create an unbalanced squad filled with big names, that supporters expect to see play and perhaps managers feel pressure to play, whether they fit the team or not. And on top of that it creates expectations, that having spent all that money the club should be successful. Perhaps we’d be better off when making predictions and forming expectations looking at the quality of the player signed and how they fit into a squad rather than just looking at the overall outlay.”

There’s more chance of me hitting my head on the ceiling of St Peter’s Basilica.

9 min One corner begets another when Branthwaite’s attempted clearance hits a teammate and ricochets behind. Arsenal work the corner short, back to Zinchenko. He guides the ball into Vieira, who wafts over from 17 yards. Half a chance.

8 min Odegaard’s sliderule pass towards Saka is put behind for a corner by Branthwaite. I forgot to say that McNeil is on the left, Danjuma on the right for the time being.

7 min Nothing much to report. Arsenal are dominating, though Beto has held the ball up well on a couple of occasions.

5 min “I sort of feel like Arteta’s ‘power’ comes from a Napoleon complex,” writes Eagle Brosi. “He feels he was a better player than anyone gave him credit for. This is why he slips up against Everton. He was their captain, he was loved; he doesn’t have that motivation to stay up till 2am studying their weaknesses. It’s also why every time Arteta’s been awarded manager of the month – he loses the next match. At least that’s my theory.”

As somebody who is a long way short of 6ft, I got nuthin to say.

3 min Some nice, rhythmic passing from Arsenal, who win the first corner on the right. Saka takes, Tarkowski heads away.

2 min Onana, not Idrissa Gueye, has started as the deepest Everton midfielder. That’s interesting. In fact, Gueye is basically following Zinchenko when Arsenal have the ball. Has a left-back ever been man-marked before? I think Phil Neville was brought on to mark Inter’s Javier Zanetti in 1998-99, though that was when Zanetti was at right-back.

1 min Peep peep! Bukayo Saka gets the game under way, with Arsenal kicking from left to right as we watch.

Match report: Bournemouth 0-0 Chelsea

“Good morning from Pittsburgh!” says Eric Peterson. “I would urge those considering Arsenal’s title chances to nip all such thoughts in the bud until they show they can actually play like it. Arsenal have, in order: stumbled to underwhelming one-goal wins over Forest and Palace, dropped points by yielding an equaliser to 10-man Fulham, and waited until stoppage time to finally get the winning goal against Manchester United (which may be the most shameful performance of all, come to think of it). The Arsenal I see so far this year is a clear level below the one that looked like the class of the division for three-fourths of last season.”

Yeah, I think only Liverpool might challenge City, though I said the same this time last year.

“So!” says Charles Antaki. “Here we go then with the Raya/Ramsdale face/off. With luck, Arteta will defuse it all with a judicious announcement of a temporary injury of some sort to Ramsdale, otherwise the whispers will begin in earnest. A 5-0 win over Everton will be the happier distraction, but recalling what happened last time, that’s not a given.”

Rotation is hard enough for young managers to master without adding an unnecessary layer. I suspect he’s trying to replace Ramsdale in stages, but that has risks of its own.

Bournemouth 0-0 Chelsea was the score in the early game.

Pre-match reading

Team news

Preamble

12th over: New Zealand 53-3 (Nicholls 8, Latham 1) In other news, Australia are heading for a huge defeat at Centurion – and they have an injury scare over Travis Head, who has been in violent form since his recall last year.

WICKET! New Zealand 52-3 (Mitchell b Carse 4)

11th over: New Zealand 51-2 (Nicholls 7, Mitchell 4) Willey beats Mitchell with a jaffa, almost identical to the delivery that dismissed Young. He does it again later in the over, and Mitchell screws his face up to acknowledge that sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you.

A maiden from Willey, who has again bowled well with the new ball.

10th over: New Zealand 51-2 (Nicholls 7, Mitchell 4) A poor ball from Topley, short and wide, is larruped through the covers for four by Nicholls. It has felt like hard going for New Zealand in the Powerplay, but a run-rate of 5.1 is decent enough.

9th over: New Zealand 46-2 (Nicholls 3, Mitchell 3) An inswinger from Willey flicks the pad of Mitchell and flies away for four, though it’s given as wides rather than leg byes.

WICKET! New Zealand 38-2 (Young c Buttler b Willey 24)

8th over: New Zealand 35-1 (Young 24, Nicholls 0) Young times Topley through midwicket, with Willey sliding round the boundary to save two runs. He has no chance later in the over with Young nails a pull stroke.

That’s Young’s third boundary, and Root denies him a fourth with a cracking diving stop at backward point.

7th over: New Zealand 27-1 (Young 16, Nicholls 0) Young is beaten by a bit of extra bounce from Willey, then steals a single to Brook at mid-off. Willey wasn’t impressed with that and gave Brook a teapot.

“Why is more credit not given to Buttler’s ability to throw down the stumps at both ends?” wonders Brendan Large. “The guy has an amazing highlight reel. My particular favourite is the 2019 World Cup when he got it through the legs of Steve Smith at the non-striker’s end. The guy is unreal.”

That’s an interesting question. Maybe it’s such a niche skill that people don’t really dwell on it. Like throwing a kettle over a pub.

6th over: New Zealand 26-1 (Young 15, Nicholls 0) Nicholls chases a very wide delivery from Topley and under-edges it just short of slip. Good stuff so far from Topley: 3-1-9-0.

Talking of Freddie Flintoff, here’s some background on his welcome return to the England dressing-room.

WICKET! New Zealand 24-1 (Conway run out 7)

5th over: New Zealand 23-0 (Young 14, Conway 7) Jos Buttler moves third man up inside the circle, so Young thick edges the next ball for four.

4th over: New Zealand 19-0 (Young 9, Conway 7) Conway drives Topley stylishly through the covers for four, then survives an LBW appeal that had the square root of bugger all going for it. There’s a slightly better appeal against Young off the next ball, but it probably pitched outside leg and there might have been an inside edge.

“Re: the picture and the 300+ chase at Lord’s, was it India?” says Simon McMahon. “That looks like a shirtless Sourav Ganguly to me.”

I’m very confused now. Yep it was India, in Nasser’s match, and Ganguly’s toplessness was partly in response to Freddie Flintoff doing something similar at the of an ODI series between the teams earlier in the year.

3rd over: New Zealand 11-0 (Young 8, Conway 2) Willey has taken almost half of his ODI wickets in the first 10 overs, so this is his time. Young tries to drive on the walk and is beaten by a superb delivery; the rest of the over is quiet enough, with a slight misfield from Moeen allowing a couple of extra runs.

2nd over: New Zealand 4-0 (Young 4, Conway 0) Reece Topley, the second of three left-armers in England’s attack tonight, starts with a maiden. Devon Conway is beaten by a ball that seams and bounces grotesquely outside off stump, and a couple of other deliveries move off the seam. A very encouraging start for Topley.

1st over: New Zealand 4-0 (Young 4, Conway 0) No surprise to see David Willey take the new ball; he’s done so in 64 of his 66 ODI innings. Will Young cuts the fourth ball for four; Willey replies with a good delivery that beats the outside edge. That’s all, folks.

New Zealand have confirmed that Tim Southee has dislocated and fractured his right thumb. That’s dreadful news; he must be a major doubt for the World Cup.

The players are back out on the field. It’s a gorgeous evening at Lord’s, the kind of weather you’d expect in – I don’t know – the penultimate weekend in July.

Thanks Tim, afternoon everyone. Only one team has ever chased 300+ in an ODI at Lord’s, so it looks like New Zealand are up against it. Here’s a clue as to the identity of the aforementioned chasers.

You have to feel for New Zealand. Lord’s, which treated them harshly enough four years ago, decided to take out their players, one by one, as in an Agatha Christie, except with finger injuries rather than gunshots or doses of arsenic. Tim Southee couldn’t bowl more than four overs and Daryl Mitchell, a fellow sufferer, had to be pressed into service. He did very well but couldn’t stop England getting past 300, because Dawid Malan knows how to make big runs in this format and the rest of them can give you a few cameos any time you like – albeit, in Joe Root’s case, a cameo unfolding with agonising slowness.

That’s me done for the day. The great Rob Smyth will be with you to see how the New Zealanders’ fingers fare in their own innings. Thanks for your company, correspondence and forthright views on England’s World Cup selection.

England finish on 311!

Wicket! Willey c sub (Boult) b Mitchell 19 (England 304-9)

49th over: England 301-8 (Willey 19, Carse 6) Willey knows exactly how to play this situation. Facing Henry, he hits a slog for six and a scoop for four. The scoop brings up the 300 and draws cheers from a crowd who have been like the cricket – sleepy at times.

48th over: England 288-8 (Willey 8, Carse 4) Jamieson’s last over goes for five, so he finishes with figures (10-1-53-1) that do not flatter him. He was his old self for at least the first five of those overs.

47th over: England 283-8 (Willey 7, Carse 1) Before the wicket, Willey got going with a leg glance for four. England should still reach 300, but they’ve again failed to cash in on a hundred. First-world problems.

Here’s John Starbuck. “Moeen Ali, because he’s a spinner, should have a last tournament in the World Cup,” he reckons. “He’d probably accept that he’s had a good run and a pretty good record, even if he’s not been firing properly of late. But he deserves one more go.” Yes, and will get it, no doubt. But Liam Dawson has been robbed. With Adil Rashid becoming less dependable, surely Dawson should take the place of one of the six seamers.

Wicket! Curran b Henry 20 (England 282-8)

46th over: England 275-7 (Curran 19, Willey 1) David Willey, often a fast starter, begins with two dots as Jamieson dishes up slower balls and cutters. When he nudges a single, Curran shows how it’s done by meeting another slower ball with a surgical incision, driving to the left of extra-cover and the right of long-off.

WICKET! Livingstone LBW b Jamieson 28 (England 270-7)

45th over: England 269-6 (Livingstone 28, Curran 14) Curran is threatening to take charge here. He gets a wide full toss from Ravindra and shows some strength and skill to loft it for four.

44th over: England 260-6 (Livingstone 26, Curran 6) England badly need a boundary, preferably off Mitchell. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: Sam Curran, playing a cut with fast hands to make sure it reaches the sponge.

“Much as we all love him,” says Brian Withington, “would it be too churlish to suggest that the Mo cameo innings is becoming an almost subliminal performance? Repeated often but fleetingly so.” It’s a fair point. He also has an awful habit, seen on Wednesday but not today, of being dropped and then caught in the same position. For a vice-captain, and such a likeable character, he can be quite flaky.

43rd over: England 251-6 (Livingstone 23, Curran 1) Not content with snaffling Moeen, Ravibdra then keeps Livingstone quiet. Only two singles off the over, so he has 9-0-49-4.

WICKET! Moeen c sub (Boult) b Ravindra 3 (England 250-6

42nd over: England 250-5 (Livingstone 22, Moeen 3) That last factoid was harsh on Daryl Mitchell, who, barring his expansive wides, has been quietly superb. After five overs he still hasn’t gone for a four, let alone a six, so I’d better edit that stat. He and Ravindra have 4-71 off their 13 overs; the rest of the bowlers have 1-177.

England send for Tom Hartley

41st over: England 245-5 (Livingstone 21, Moeen 1) Ravindra, much like Malan, has been a mixed bag. But he now has 3-48 while the rest of the bowlers have 2-195 between them.

WICKET! Malan c Latham b Ravindra 127 (England 243-5)

40th over: England 243-4 (Malan 127, Livingstone 20) Mitchell is still bowling, and still not getting clattered: in fact, he hasn’t gone for a single four yet. And he draws a nick from Livingstone, albeit with a slower ball that doesn’t have the legs to reach the keeper. Mitchell does deliver a couple of wides, including one that, if it had been mentioned in the film of The English Patient, would have been declared – in Ralph Fiennes’s fruitiest tones – a very wide wide.

39th over: England 238-4 (Malan 125, Livingstone 19) Livingstone gets the connection he was looking for just now, lofting Matt Henry for a straight six. Malan sees that and thinks he’ll have a six too, with a swing to leg. England’s run rate reaches six and they are dawdling no more.

“It strikes me,” says Kim Thonger, “expanding on your comment that ODIs can be quite long, that if cricket is compared to food, 50-over games are like KFC. Worth getting a knife and fork and condiments out for, even if you do eat it on a tray. Test-match cricket is a proper sit-down meal, with starter, main course roast with all the trimmings, sherry trifle, cheese and port, but T20s are mere snacks grabbed on the hoof, at best a bag of chicken nuggets and a Diet Coke. Sometimes, if you’re starving, essential.

“The Hundred is to me worth no more than a packet of Quavers, insubstantial and tasteless, not worth bothering with. Am I wrong?” Yes! I went to the Hundred final, not in a professional capacity (thank you Laura de Lisle), and saw Tom Curran paint a masterpiece of a match-winning innings. Cricket is still cricket, even if you play it on the beach. Also, Kim, love your emails but I’m a bit worried about your diet. KFC and sherry trifle… call yourself a Guardian reader?

38th over: England 222-4 (Malan 117, Livingstone 11) Livingstone is cranking up the engine, but Mitchell sees him coming and fires it in at his feet, so he ends up playing a push into the covers. Eoin Morgan pops up on commentary to remind us that Lord’s often smiles on medium-pacers, from Tim Murtagh in a million games for Middlesex to Colin Grandhomme in the 2019 World Cup final.

37th over: England 217-4 (Malan 116, Livingstone 7) England need to go up a gear here. Malan, recognising this, slog-sweeps Ravindra up the slope for six.

36th over: England 206-4 (Malan 106, Livingstone 6) Mitchell follows up his triumph with some tidiness, allowing just four singles. He has the figures of a proper bowler: 2-0-8-1. And Liam Livingstone is playing like a proper batter: six off 11.

“So,” says James Walsh, “Stokes, Buttler, Malan and Livingstone in good form. Moeen is Moeen. Root, Bairstow and Brook look like they’ll never middle it again. Roy has a dodgy back. Bowlers are building up nicely, apart from Rash and Wood who one assumes are in chambers made from cotton wool. Class being permanent and so forth, I’d have Brook in for Roy as the spare batter, and cross my fingers that the Yorkists rediscover their collective mojo.”

35th over: England 202-4 (Malan 104, Livingstone 4) Malan, facing Jamieson, flicks a single to long leg to bring up England’s 200. It also brings up a 200 of Malan’s own: since the birth of his son, Dawid Malan Jr, he has now made 200 for once out, at an average of 200. And he may well be eyeing a Daddy hundred.

34th over: England 196-4 (Malan 103, Livingstone 1) What a competitor Daryl Mitchell is. He was last seen sitting in the crowd, nursing a dislocated finger. Now he’s having to bowl, because of a similar injury to Southee, and it’s taken him three balls to remove England’s most dangerous batter.

WICKET! Buttler c sub (Boult) b Mitchell 36 (England 195-4)

33rd over: England 192-3 (Malan 102, Buttler 35) Jamieson returns, after bowling better than his figures in his first two spells. Buttler pulls out the scoop and gets two for it. Somewhere in the dressing-room, Joe Root emits a rueful chuckle.

32nd over: England 187-3 (Malan 101, Buttler 31) And that is drinks, with England on top.

Hundred to Malan!

31st over: England 181-3 (Malan 95, Buttler 31) Facing Lister, Malan almost gives it away with an uppish cover drive, but it skims over the ring. There must have been seven or eight of those moments today. Buttler, whose touch is very deft at the moment, adds a tickle for four. ODIs can be quite long, can’t they?

30th over: England 173-3 (Malan 93, Buttler 25) Latham takes Phillips off after that battering and recalls Matt Henry, who was so exacting with the new ball. He is less so now, letting Buttler tuck him for an easy two and then offering Malan a full wide freebie that is just asking to be caressed for four.

Malan is into the 90s for the second time in a row: can he go four better than his 96 at The Oval? My suspicion is that he can.

29th over: England 164-3 (Malan 88, Buttler 21) Lister again, keeping it tidy again and beating Malan with a wide one. Curiously, Malan has made only five off the last five overs, though he hasn’t had much of the strike – only eight balls.

28th over: England 162-3 (Malan 87, Buttler 20) Tim Southee is off the field and not expected to bowl again today. So Phillips is filling in and, as Naser Hussain observes, Buttler needs to take advantage. He plays an inside-out drive for six, a late dab for four, a flick for two and another lofted drive for four. Sixteen off the over! Buttler has cruised to 20 off 14 balls, in a different league from Root (seven off his first 21).

27th over: England 146-3 (Malan 87, Buttler 4) Back to seam, in the form of Ben Lister, who bowls a tight over for just two. England are dawdling a bit.

Of all the serious batters in this series (top seven, minimum ten runs), the slowest scorer, with a strike rate of 54 per hundred balls, is Harry Brook.

26th over: England 144-3 (Malan 86, Buttler 3) Buttler, unlike Root and Brook, has been in good form. Facing Phillips, he gets the scoreboard moving right away, although, like Brook’s, his first attempt at a big shot is mistimed – a lofted off drive that goes for two.

25th over: England 139-3 (Malan 84, Buttler 0) So at the halfway stage, honours are about even. The pitch seems to be sticking a bit, the pundits are saying, which means that five-and-a-half an over may be a better effort than it looks. A lot will depend on whether Jos Buttler gets going.

WICKET! Brook c Phillips b Ravindra 10 (England 139-3)

24th over: England 135-2 (Malan 83, Brook 7) Latham gives Jamieson a breather and summons Glenn Phillips, so it’s spin at both ends. Brook tries to go large but succeeds only in chipping into the no-man’s-land between long-off and long-on.

23rd over: England 132-2 (Malan 83, Brook 4) Buoyed by the wicket of Root, Ravindra bowls an over for only three. He has a very respectable 5-0-32-1.

12th over: New Zealand 46-4 (Mitchell 10, Phillips 4) A boundary, a blessed boundary for New Zealand: Mitchell hoiks a lofted straight drive back over Topley’s head and gets just about enough on it to take it over the rope. New Zealand needed that and they need a few more. And they get more a couple of balls later, Phillips upper-edging over the slips for four.

11th over: New Zealand 37-4 (Mitchell 5, Phillips 0) Woakes welcomes Phillips to the middle with (yet) another fine ball that shapes away and beats the edge. 6-0-21-3 for an opening spell defending 369 – you’d take that.

WICKET! Latham b Woakes 3 (New Zealand 37-4)

10th over: New Zealand 36-3 (Mitchell 4, Latham 3) Latham stays watchful as Topley probes outside off but finally is tempted to prod at one and again is relieved to see the ball miss the outside edge. Another fine over from the left-armer – just two from it.

9th over: New Zealand 34-3 (Mitchell 3, Latham 3) Woakes begins his fifth over with another cracking delivery to add to the collection, swinging gloriously away from Latham and across the outside edge. The New Zealand captain does well to miss it but he does get off the mark with a single from the next. This pair are just trying to steady the ship, which is necessary but suboptimal in the grand scheme of things given the required rate is already well over eight.

8th over: New Zealand 30-3 (Mitchell 2, Latham 0) Topley continues and continues to find prodigious movement, jagging one viciously back into the dangerous Mitchell. Mitchell can’t find the gaps and the dots mount up – five of them – before a back-foot punch through the covers gets him off the mark and gives the scorers something to do.

7th over: New Zealand 28-3 (Mitchell 0, Latham 0) Woakes finishes another fine over by cutting Latham in half with a beautiful inswinger. The England man has figures of 4-0-16-2.

WICKET! Nicholls c Curran b Woakes 4 (New Zealand 28-3)

6th over: New Zealand 24-2 (Nicholls 2, Mitchell 0) That was the last ball of the over and was about as plumb as you can get. New Zealand in big trouble early doors.

WICKET! Conway lbw b Topley 9 (New Zealand 24-2)

5th over: New Zealand 19-1 (Conway 4, Nicholls 1) Nicholls gets off the mark immediately, running the ball towards third man for a single. And from the last Conway plays-and-misses again. It’s been a very good start from England’s bowlers.

WICKET! Young c Buttler b Woakes 12 (New Zealand 18-1)

4th over: New Zealand 16-0 (Conway 4, Young 11) Conway also tries to get himself ticking, having a big heave at the first ball of Topley’s next and connecting only with south London air. It’s not settled him down though – another thick edge squirts away but lands safely and Conway moves to a hessian-sack-scratchy four from 14 balls.

3rd over: New Zealand 14-0 (Conway 3, Young 10) Young dances a couple of yards down the track at Woakes, just to get himself going a little bit as much as anything. And it does the trick – next ball he’s served up a half-tracker that he puts away for four through midwicket, and an attempted slower ball from the last is overpitched and punched through the covers for four more.

2nd over: New Zealand 5-0 (Conway 3, Young 2) Reece Topley at the other end, and he has Young playing and missing outside off. Conway is beaten all ends up too with one that hoops away – the New Zealand openers are struggling to find the bat at all, never mind the middle, early on. To emphasise the point, Conway is a foot away from clipping straight into the hands of Bairstow at midwicket, but he picks up two from the last, carving slightly awkwardly through point.

1st over: New Zealand 2-0 (Conway 1, Young 1) Woakes begins with a couple of dots to the left-handed Conway, then tempts him the batter into a groping prod at a wide one that zips through to Buttler. Conway gets off the mark with an inside edge for one, amd Young does likewise with an outside edge to backward point. Solid start from Woakes, who roars an lbw appeal from the last, though it looks to have pitched outside leg.

Out stride Will Young and Devon Conway. Chris Woakes will open the bowling for England …

Hello all. Well, that was fun. Another quite magical Ben Stokes innings, some ultra-high-quality pace bowling from Trent Boult, and a limp England collapse in the final eight overs that means we still have a game on. New Zealand will have to come out with their collective foot to the floor, but at one point they would’ve expected to be chasing 400.

Yeah, we need a dull enough game for us to meander away about good cricket pubs (the Prince of Wales, in that posh square off Kennington Road being another fave near the Oval). All of which can be chewed over through the evening.

But not with me. My work here is done, and John Ashdown will be your friend through New Zealand’s reply. Thanks for reading and for your emails. Bye.

“A breathtaking innings by an astonishing player,” gushes Colum Fordham. “You run out of superlatives with Stokes. He almost seems more dangerous as a batsman when hobbling. He clearly justifies his position in the ODI team as a batter but even the mighty Stokes will have to field in the World Cup (bowling being out of the question, I’d imagine) and his mobility is in doubt. Surely he needs a bit of a break before the tournament starts?”

Yeah that should be him back in the easy-chair for a bit. He’s amply demonstrated that his recall, and rescinded retirement, was justified and for all the earlier chat about whether he’d have been better off getting his knee sorted first, it’s understandable that he should make ODI cricket the priority. He has always been a greater asset in the 50-over than the 20-over game, and today’s innings was mighty and majestic. He should fix the knee pronto after the World Cup mind.

New Zealand need 369 to win

Wicket! Atkinson b Boult 2, England 368 all out

Wicket! Woakes c Mitchell b Lister 3

Wicket! Curran c Conway b Boult 3

46th over: England 360-7 (Curran 2, Woakes 0). Ferguson juts a short ball into Curran that he has to fend awkwardly downwards. This is a better approach, if you get the line right. But if you give Moeen a smidgeon of room he can pull you towards the crowd, and this one is fumbled into it by a sprawling Phillips for four. He falls next ball though, pulling one from outside off to a diving Phillips at deep square leg. This time he takes the catch.

Wicket! Mooen c Phillips b Ferguson 12

45th over: England 355-6 (Moeen 8, Curran 1). Another full toss is met by Stokes attempting to find the Beehive pub beer garden but has to settle for halfway up the stands for a SIX that gives him England’s highest ever individual ODI score. Alas though, he swiftly then perishes, miscuing a slog to deep square leg. Curran is off the mark with a single before Moeen punishes a wide lister delivery with a lovely cut behind square for four. Lister just beginning to look a bit tired.

Wicket! Stokes c Young b Lister 182

44th over: England 341-5 (Stokes 176, Moeen 2). Moeen is almost run out scampering through to get off the mark with a single, Nicholls had time to hit the stumps but doesn’t take it and a rash throw misses with Moeen out of his ground. Stokes also gets away with one in this over, a mistimed pull dobbing up towards midwicket but no fielder can get there in time. A better over from Ferguson.

Wicket! Livingstone c Nicholls b Lister 11

42nd over: England 328-4 (Stokes 166, Livingstone 10). Phillips continues, as a few ominous clouds hover to the north of the ground. He’s been New Zealand’s frontline spinner today with Ravindra expensive and little-used. But Stokes gives him the treatment too, with a glorious straight drive for SIX into the old pavilion. The next one is slogged-and-missed, and hits Stokes on the pad. NZ review, and it’s umpire’s call, nipping into Stokes more than it initially looked to have done, but not enough to change the not-out decision. Stokes responds to the reprieve with a hoick on the legside for SIX more. The onslaught resumes.

41st over: England 314-4 (Stokes 153, Livingstone 9). Ferguson had been meaner in this spell but he sounds a howling wide down legside that Latham can only parry, adding an extra bye to the wide. Other than that, they deal in ones and twos.

40th over: England 307-4 (Stokes 152, Livingstone 5). I was about to type, “It’s a little more subdued in Kennington now, this pair milking Phillips for singles.” Then I’m forced to put a line through it as Stokes larrups a slog into the posh seats behind wide long-on for SIX. He goes past 150, an extraordinary effort.

39th over: England 296-4 (Stokes 143, Livingstone 3). Lockie Ferguson, expensive today, returns from the Vauxhall End, and keeps things tighter with a fuller more stringent line and restricting the batters to singles.

38th over: England 290-4 (Stokes 140, Livingstone 0). Phillips returns, as England must be wondering whether their highest ODI score v New Zealand (408) is in reach. The chances of such are jolted when Buttler is dismissed, but not before a detailed check for a back foot no-ball which just about falls in the bowler’s favour. In comes Livingstone, in very different circumstances to those to which he arrived at the crease on Sunday. His first ball is a dot.

Wicket! Buttler c Young b Phillips 38

37th over: England 287-3 (Stokes 138, Buttler 37). Buttler doesn’t quite get hold of a legside slog but it doesn’t carry to Conway at deep midwicket. Then Stokes does get hold of one, smacking another SIX over wide long-on; it’s well held by the fan in the crowd too – good cricket all round. Jamieson responds with an old-school bouncer that’s not given as a wide. File under: Small mercies.

36th over: England 276-3 (Stokes 128, Buttler 36). Buttler is motoring now, rocking back and thwacking Lister away on the onside for four. He looks less comfortable when Lister sends a lifter into his ribcage as the batter advances. Stokes lofts/slogs a cover drive aerially for two, and Buttler completes the over by leaning into a pull to square leg for four. These two are having fun, even while racking up bruises.

35th over: England 264-3 (Stokes 125, Buttler 28). Jamieson comes back on at the Vauxhall End as Latham holds Boult’s final two overs back. Buttler sends a deft scoop over the keeper’s head for four, drawing applause in the crowd from, among others, badger-advocacy’s Brian May in the crowd. More lax fielding on the boundary hands Buttler another four when Conway slide-tackles his pull shot over the ropes. Buttler has 28 from 17 balls as the Barmy Army trumpeter sparks up a rendition of Radio Ga Ga, one of Queen’s more bearable songs IMO.

Joining the 50-over Defence League is John Starbuck: “The ODI format is really the only properly viable method of running a world championship, so far as demonstrating cricketing skills is concerned. T20 is too much of a lottery and Test cricket, enjoyable for its own sake, doesn’t really grip because of the interminable timescale. Stokes is right to want to play his part in it.”

34th over: England 253-3 (Stokes 124, Buttler 18). Lister comes back for what I think is his fourth separate spell. He’s not taken a wicket but has perhaps been the pick of the Black Caps’ attack, but neither he nor the man at mid-off can do anything about a Buttler cover drive with the force of a traction engine that zips away for four. A few more singles ensue

33rd over: England 244-3 (Stokes 122, Buttler 12). Boult bowls his eighth over – bowling him through at this early stage is a risk for New Zealand – and is belted down the ground by Stokes for another four. Buttler sees that and raises it, thumping an insufficiently disguised slower ball over long off for SIX

“Is this game reinforcing how good a batter Ben Stokes is (who knew?) or demonstrating the folly of him going to the World Cup rather than getting his knee fixed?” wonders Brian Withington. Stokes himself should be best placed to know that, but if England want to defend their World crown properly – and give the 50-over game the respect it deserves but often doesn’t get – then it’s worth the risk I guess.

32nd over: England 232-3 (Stokes 117, Buttler 5). A slightly hobbling Stokes, who now has his highest ODI score, marks the achievement by playing a cover drive reminiscent of Malan to cream Jamieson away for four. A more forceful pull on the onside brings two more, and a more forceful one still sails between two fielders on the legside boundary for SIX. He rounds off the over by hoicking another four to long-on. His physical discomfort the only concern arising from this joyous knock.

31st over: England 218-3 (Stokes 103, Buttler 5). Boult appeals for a catch behind against, the umpire responds with outstretched arms for a wide, but New Zealand send it upstairs. And Malan did get the nick. He deserved a hundred but it was a smart review. Buttler is off the mark with a single, having come to the crease with the luxury of options over his approach with such a big score on the board already. He can’t resist a short ball at the end of the over and pulls it to the square leg boundary for four, aided by a misfield.

Wicket! Malan c Latham b Boult 96

Hundred for Ben Stokes!

29th over: England 206-2 (Malan 93, Stokes 99). Boult is brought back into the attack, perhaps earlier than he’d have wanted, but needs must, and it’s a leaner, meaner over. Stoke toe-ends a single to edge closer to a hundred (and his top ODI score of 102), and Malan adds a single behind square on the off. Stokes ends the over on 99.

28th over: England 202-2 (Malan 91, Stokes 97). Phillips returns at the Pavilion End and induces a poor reverse-sweep attempt from Stokes, which canons off gloves and deflects over Latham for a single. New Zealand’s tightest over for a while but they haven’t looked like taking a wicket, if I may say that.

27th over: England 200-2 (Malan 90, Stokes 96). Bowling wide on-length outside off to Dawid Malan is a mug’s game and he creams another two when Daryl Mitchell does just that. An over of singles – one hurriedly run and risking a run-out – ensues as England ease to 200.

This is all bringing back memories of these teams’ ODI series of 2015, when all this New Brand Of Cricket malarkey began.

26th over: England 194-2 (Malan 85, Stokes 95). A rare bit of Poor Cricket All-Round starts the Jamieson over: full toss, mistimed bunt, fumble from the fielder at mid-on, and a single. And Jamieson can do nothing when Stokes greets a back of a length ball outside off with a belligerent straight whack for four. He’s in brilliant touch, but wincing at his innings’ physical exertions too. A couple more well-run singles complete the over.

25th over: England 185-2 (Malan 84, Stokes 88). More chopping and changing, Mitchell replacing Ravindra. He’s starred with the bat in this series, can he with the ball? Not particularly but he at least stops feeding the legside areas through which Stokes has been so prolific, denying him any boundaries this over. A decent start from Mitchell.

24th over: England 181-2 (Malan 83, Stokes 85). Latham keeps chopping and changing his bowlers, bringing back Jamieson for his fifth over. He’s round the wicket at the left-handers and suffers again when Malan creams yet another wonderful drive through mid-on for four. He then decides it’s time he hit a SIX of his own, swinging effortlessly over long-on.

23rd over: England 169-2 (Malan 72, Stokes 85). England absolutely motoring now. Four more for Malan, off Ravindra, then Stokes gives that same section of the crowd behind deep midwicket some catching practice with another SIX, punishing a short delivery. The next is pitched up … and walloped high over long-on for SIX more. This time the bowler changes angle and manages to cramp Stokes up and squeeze a couple of dot balls from another expensive over.

And it’s all happening in the County Championship too – hat-tricks, collapses, run-chases. Why not open another window on your browser?

22nd over: England 152-2 (Malan 67, Stokes 73). Stokes is in bludgeoning mode today, Malan’s all about the timing – this over features another delicious cover drive – and the approach of both is working like a dream at the moment. They look untroubled whether nudging singles or reeling off boundaries, though Lister is bowling with more guile and nous than his more seasoned contemporaries. The runs keep coming, mind.

استرالیا 21-3 جورجیا (قلم دونالدسون) با ادامه جدول امتیازات استرالیا، بن دونالدسون سه امتیاز را به راحتی تبدیل کرد و تعداد امتیازات شخصی خود را به 11 رساند.

دقیقه 29: وقتی استرالیا تلاش می کند تا زمین را بالا ببرد، لوبژانیدزه بازوی خود را دور شانه تیت مک درموت قرار می دهد تا نیمه هجومی را تکل کند. کنترل برای تکل بالا وجود دارد، اما این فقط یک پنالتی است…

دقیقه 27: استرالیا امیدوار است که با یک ضربه هافبک پنالتی دریافت کند، اما لوک پیرس علاقه ای به این موضوع ندارد و در عوض این بازی را دوباره تنظیم می کند. در ضمن بیرون 35 درجه هست و یه باد هم نمیاد. مرد ما در پاریس، راب کیتسون، ورزشگاه دو فرانس را «شبیه یک مایکروویو بتنی غول‌پیکر به نظر می‌رسد»، اگر این ایده به شما می‌دهد.

25 دقیقه: زمانی که ناواقانیتاواس نتواند ضربه بلند چرخشی لوبژانیدزه را بالا ببرد، نگاهی اجمالی به آنچه که آنها می توانند در اینجا انجام دهند، می بینیم. گرجستان توپ را به سمت نینیاشویلی می زند، او تابوتسادزه را پیدا می کند و از جناحین شوت می کند و کاملاً به پایین زمین می رود. خوشبختانه برای استرالیا، دونالدسون پیش از رسیدن به آنجا، پشت خط را جارو می کند.

22 دقیقه: گرجستان از نظر دفاعی سوال برانگیز بود. آیا آنها می توانند چیزی تهاجمی داشته باشند؟ واقعاً نه – یک لمس عمیق منجر به تیم استرالیا می شود که والابی ها به راحتی برنده می شوند. در حرکت بعدی خود به جلو، جورجیا توپ را برگرداند و آنها هرگز بهبود نیافتند.

استرالیا 18-3 جورجیا (توسط دونالدسون): والابی ها از امتیاز پنالتی برای آفساید برخوردار بودند و پس از بررسی یک بازی دیگر، آنها تصمیم گرفتند که سه امتیاز را به قانون اساسی ببرند – و فاصله همچنان رو به افزایش است.

19 دقیقه: آیا استرالیا می تواند راهی متفاوت برای عبور از رقبای خود پیدا کند؟ آنها قدرت تیم گرجستان را در حمله آزمایش می‌کنند، زیرا اسکلتون آنها را به سمت خط می‌کشد – اما تانیلیا توپو اعتراف می‌کند که هنگام پایین آوردن توپ ضربه‌ای زده است.

17 دقیقه: این تیم جوان استرالیایی در حال کسب اعتماد به نفس است که نواکانیتاواسه و پتایا توپ را بین خود می چرخانند و دست گرجستان را روی خط خالی می کنند. حمله استرالیا در پنج متری…

15 دقیقه: شوت مورب ناشیانه ناواکانیتاواز باعث شد که ماتکاوا به طرز ناشیانه ای تلاش کند تا توپ را پشت خط تلاش بکشد. برخلاف انتظار، شروعی تند از گرجستان.

استرالیا 15-3 جورجیا (پنالتی دونالدسون) حتی از آن فاصله هم جای هیچ تردیدی نیست. دونالدسون توسط جونز به جای اندرو کلاوی به خدمت گرفته شد، تا حدی برای ایجاد یک گل پنالتی ثابت، و او شروع خوبی در آنجا داشت.

12 دقیقه: این یک شروع سریع از استرالیا و یک ناامیدی برای گرجستان بود، که واقعاً نیاز به غلبه بر حریفان خود داشت. در عوض، شروعی پر از خطا بود. اولین پنالتی دریافت شده باعث شد تا دونالدسون از فاصله 46 یاردی گلزنی کند.

برای امتحان! استرالیا 12-3 جورجیا (Nawaqanitawase 9′)

8 دقیقه: پس از اولین حمله از جمله حملات تنبیهی فراوان، Koroibete با یک شوت ضعیف از جورجیا حرکت فوق العاده ای در زمین انجام می دهد. اما گزینه های آنها محدود است و گرجستان تلاش می کند تا حمله را متوقف کند …

استرالیا 5-3 گرجستان: ماتکاوا از فاصله 25 متری پنالتی را به ثمر رساند و اختلاف امتیاز از احتمالاً هفت امتیاز به دو امتیاز کاهش یافت.

4 دقیقه: حتی خبرهای خوب بیشتری برای جورجیا وجود دارد زیرا بن دونالدسون تبدیل از بیرون را از دست داد و ضربه گوردون به سمت پایین برگشت. سپس نیمه پرنده در هوا با لوبژانیدزه تماس می گیرد که سعی می کند توپ را پس بگیرد. پنالتی به گرجستان!

برای امتحان! استرالیا 5-0 گرجستان (پتایا 2′)

در اینجا ما می رویم!

زمان سرودها فرا رسیده است، در حالی که هر دو تیم در ورزشگاه پرآشوب استاددو فرانس صف آرایی کرده اند. “Advance Australia Fair” با یک ارائه کامل دنبال می شود “تاویسوپلبا” (“آزادی”) – سرود در سال 2004 پس از انقلاب بدون خون گرجستان به تصویب رسید.

17 نفر از تیم 23 نفره ادی جونز قبلاً در جام جهانی بازی نکرده بودند. یک تیم جوان و با استعداد بدون تجربه بازی بزرگ. جونز آماده سازی خود را تا سال 2027، زمانی که میزبان مسابقات خواهد بود، ادامه می دهد.

برعکس، گرجستان تجربه جام جهانی را در تیم خود متشکل از 14 بازیکن از لیگ برتر 14 فرانسه، قوی ترین لیگ نیمکره شمالی، دارد. آنها همچنین جو ورسلی برنده جام جهانی 2003 را در تیم پشتیبان خود قرار دادند.

این اولین بار نیست که ادی جونز به عنوان هیجان انگیزترین مرد تیمش به جام جهانی می رود. جاناتان لیو می نویسد، اما اگر بازیکنان نیز به آن اعتقاد داشته باشند، می تواند کارساز باشد.

در اینجا آنگوس فونتین در مورد امیدهای استرالیا در جام جهانی است:

ورود ما روی Wallabies متمرکز بود، اما تیمی که امروز تلاش می‌کند شوک ایجاد کند چطور؟ گرجستان برای ششمین سال متوالی در جام جهانی حضور دارد و اگرچه هرگز از مرحله استخر فراتر نرفته است، اما موفقیت خود را با دو برد در سال 2015 و قهرمانی انفرادی در سال های 2007، 2011 و 2019 حفظ کرده است.

خبر بد این است که للو در آخرین بازی ژاپن در بازی های استخر خود مقابل استرالیا، ولز و فیجی شکست خورده بود. آنها مطمئناً این بار قوی‌تر هستند و ادعای شش ملت خود را با یک پیروزی تاریخی در سال گذشته در کاردیف تقویت کردند. قدرت سنتی گروه آنها با استعدادهای بک فیلد مانند داویت نینیاشویلی، مدافع کناری 21 ساله، که می تواند این مسابقات را روشن کند، تکمیل می شود.

این دو که در رتبه یازدهم جهان و نهمین در استرالیا قرار دارند، با وجود پیشرفت در فرم و مبارزات مداوم والابی ها، هنوز هم همچنان در بین بازیکنان خارجی هستند. اما آنها احتمالاً هرگز فرصتی بهتر از امروز نداشته اند که قهرمانان سابق جهان را شوکه کنند و این شانس ها در این ورزش زیاد اتفاق نمی افتد.

در گروه A یک مسابقه بی طرف دیگر وجود داشت: ایتالیا آنها در هفت تلاش می دوند در حالی که می زنند نامیبیا 52-8. فکر کردن به تیمی منزوی تر از آتزوری از نظر کیفیت در این جام جهانی سخت است. آنها قطعا اروگوئه را شکست خواهند داد، اما بعید است مقابل فرانسه یا نیوزلند پیروز شوند.

ایرلند اولین تلاش خود را مقابل رومانی در بوردو واگذار کرد، اما از آن زمان ترافیک یک طرفه بوده است. تیم شماره 1 جهان اکنون رهبری می کند 61-8 68-8 در 10 دقیقه مانده به پایان بازی.

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