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Tag: Defensive

  • Australia has to bear the brunt of taking Ashwin lightly: Potting

    Former Australia captain Ricky Potting has said that the Australian team has had to bear the brunt of taking Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on the second day of the Adelaide Test.

    Many people raised questions on Ravichandran Ashwin’s inclusion in the playing XI. But this off-spinner, showing his ability, put the Australian batsmen in trouble on the second day of the Adelaide Test match. He made Australia’s star batsman Steven Smith walk on a single. After that Ashwin broke the back of Australian batting by sending Travis Head and Cameron Green to the pavilion.

    Ricky Pontig told Channel 7, “The Australian batsmen appeared to be trying to attack Ashwin strongly. I think he took Ashwin lightly. The batsmen tried to keep the scoreboard in motion and their stakes backfired. “

    Ashwin had taken three wickets till the end. Former Australian veteran bowler Glenn McGrath was not impressed with his team’s batting. He told Sony Sports, “Today, the batsmen should be very defensive. He was waiting for a bad ball to play pressure on the bowlers. He should have put a little more pressure on the bowlers. Indian bowlers managed to bowl at the places they wanted and kept getting wickets. “

  • 9 December 2020; Barça lose to Juventus, Darwin Núñez latest

    A Cristiano Ronaldo double on his return to the Camp Nou, and a Weston McKennie volley saw Juventus end the group stage ahead of Barça
    The French centre back, out injured with a knee problem since 27 June when he made his last appearance in a Barça shirt in a 2-2 draw against Celta in Vigo, came on in the second half of the game against Juventus to replace his country man Clément Lenglet who was making his 100th appearance in a Barça shirt.


    Juventus won 3-0 courtesy of a brace from Cristiano Ronaldo and a goal from Winston McKennie. The Italians had to better Barcelona’s 2-0 victory over them in Turin in October to steal top spot, and they did.

    “I think we lost the game in the first half-hour, as we got off to a bad start, didn’t play well defensively, were lacking aggression in midfield, and Juventus played well,” Ronald Koeman told Sky Sport Italia after the game.


    The Frenchman said: “We didn’t turn up. In the first half, they were all over us. We lacked everything: desire, attitude, wanting to run, to defend… everything was bad.”