Usain Bolt, Olympic legend has just had an open invitation to train with German Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund for a year, and he is willingly ready to take up the offer. Bolt revealed this weekend that he will participate in a trial with the club as he plans to pursue a career in preofessional football, even at the age of 32. Although his goal isn’t to play alongside Christian Pulisic at Dortmund. Bolt revealed that his favourite football club thathe would have loved to play with is actually Manchester Uniteed. But nevertheless, his trials with Borussia Dortmund will kick off in March. “In March we’re going to do trials with Dortmund and that will determine what I do with that career, which way it goes. If they say I’m good, and that I need a bit of training, I’ll do it” Bolt says He went further to say “It makes me nervous. I don’t get nervous but this is different, this is football now. It’ll take time to adjust but once I play a few times I’ll get used to it. It was the same when I started track and field. “I was nervous for a while until I started getting used to the crowd, people and everyone around and it falls into place, “One of my biggest dreams is to sign for Manchester United. If Dortmund say I’m good enough, I’ll crack on and train hard. “I’ve spoken to Alex Ferguson and I told him he needs to put in a good word. He told me if I get fit and ready, he will see what he can do.” The entire world cannot wait to see the fastest man in the world on a football field. Defenders better start brushing up their running skills.
Liverpool’s Sadio Mane was dismissed for a challenge that saw goalkeeper Ederson stretchered off as Manchester City destroyed their Premier League title rivals 5-0 on Saturday.
Brazilian Ederson was carried off in a neck brace after being caught in the face by Mane’s foot as he raced out to head the ball away late in the first half and the Liverpool forward was shown a straight red card.
City already led 1-0 through Sergio Aguero’s opener at that point and braces from Gabriel Jesus and substitute Leroy Sane completed City’s biggest win over Liverpool since March 1937.
“After 10 v 11 it was a little bit easier for us and we played the second half the way we wanted to,” said City manager Pep Guardola.
“The game was open until the sending-off. I don’t know if it was a red card.”
With Liverpool having avoided defeat against their top-six rivals last season, it was the first time Jurgen Klopp’s side had lost to one of their principal adversaries since a 1-0 loss at home to Manchester United in January 2016.
It meant Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain had a deja vu debut after coming on at half-time for Liverpool, having succumbed to a 4-0 defeat against his new club on his last appearance for Arsenal before the international break.
“We had all we needed at 11 v 11,” Liverpool manager Klopp told Sky Sports.
“But the decisive decision in the whole game was the red card. I don’t think it was a red card. Sadio didn’t see the goalkeeper.
“I hope people see it for what it is.”
While Mane’s dismissal was a key factor in the game’s outcome, the emphatic nature of City’s win suggests Guardiola’s second season as manager will yield a serious title challenge.
City are unbeaten in 12 league games, their best run under Guardiola, while Argentina striker Aguero is now the outright leading non-European goal-scorer in English top-flight history with 124 goals.
– Unintentional but reckless –
It took City 24 minutes to unpick the visitors’ back four as Kevin De Bruyne’s delicately weighted through-ball freed Aguero to skip past Simon Mignolet and score for the sixth successive home game against Liverpool.
Guardiola had reverted to a 3-5-2 system and left-sided centre-back Nicolas Otamendi immediately looked vulnerable against Liverpool’s speedy right-winger Mohamed Salah.
Otamendi was booked for clattering Salah in the sixth minute and after City’s opener, the Argentinian’s poor positioning allowed Mane to release Salah, only for Ederson to come to the rescue with a smart save.
City continued to carry the greater threat and tested Mignolet twice in quick succession, the Belgian blocking a shot from Jesus, who had robbed Ragnar Klavan, and jutting out a foot to thwart John Stones from the ensuing corner.
Two minutes later the game’s pivotal moment occurred.
Joel Matip’s lofted pass sent Mane scampering clear and as Ederson rushed from his line to head the ball clear, the Senegal forward leapt and caught him in the face with his outstretched right boot.
It was unintentional but reckless and referee Jon Moss immediately flashed a red card.
Flattened by the collision with Mane, Ederson spent eight minutes receiving treatment on the pitch before Claudio Bravo came on in his place.
Ederson underwent tests for a suspected fractured jaw and cheekbone, but City’s medical team found no serious damage.
The added time enabled City to swell their lead, De Bruyne crossing from the left for Jesus to head home moments after a goal issuing from the same combination had been ruled out for offside.
Any Liverpool hopes of a second-half fightback evaporated within eight minutes of the restart as Fernandinho freed Aguero, who unselfishly teed up Jesus to tuck away his second goal.
Sane added a fourth with 13 minutes to go, brilliantly sweeping home debutant Benjamin Mendy’s left-wing cross, before putting the cherry on the cake in stoppage time with a sublime curler into the top-left corner.