The Liverpool manager admitted that his decision to start the 26-year-old on the wing against Chelsea was a mistake

Jurgen Klopp praised Roberto Firmino’s unique qualities as he admitted starting Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the UEFA Super Cup win over Chelsea was a mistake.

Oxlade-Chamberlain started on the left of a front three in Istanbul, but was replaced by Brazil international Firmino at half-time on Wednesday.

The former Arsenal midfielder only made his return from a serious knee injury in April and is still working his way back after an impressive start to life at Liverpool, who claimed a 5-4 penalty shoot-out victory following a 2-2 draw with Chelsea.

Klopp admitted his decision to start Oxlade-Chamberlain was an error, however backed the 32-time England international to find his best form once more.

“I didn’t say a lot to Ox, I don’t think it was necessary. For Ox it was very important to have these minutes, it’s a position he can play,” he told a news conference.

“He can play much better than he did but that’s how it is and after a long injury you have to find back the rhythm. In training it’s already there and now in the game he had good moments but of course not enough for his quality.

“It was not about that. I knew it was a very, very intense game so it was clear that we have to make that decision because we didn’t want to push him through, we want to give him the opportunity to perform, to shine if you want.

“In that position and the circumstances it was obviously not as possible as we would have wished, but that’s then my mistake and not his mistake because I made the decision.”

Firmino had a huge impact after being introduced, setting up Sadio Mane’s equaliser and the attacker’s extra-time goal, which was cancelled out by a Jorginho penalty.

Klopp hailed the Brazil forward and while he insisted there was depth in the central attacking position, the German admitted Firmino played the role like no-one else.

“Bobby Firmino is pretty vital, but Sadio Mane can play that position as well. Divock Origi played in that position really well,” he said.

“They are all different, they all have different strengths, but I think for tonight when the opponent kind of learns from the game and gets used to what you do, then it’s important that you can make a change and it was a big change because Bobby is different to all other players in the world, probably, in that position and it helped us a lot.

“For him, it was really, really intense. It was not the plan that he plays around 80 minutes, now he had to play it. You saw it was hard for him, he had pretty much no pre-season and played after one week. That was the problem for us a little bit, it’s our third competitive game where we had to throw in everything to be on top of it after the pre-season we had.

“We know that we have to improve a lot of things, but a lot of things were good … we can play and we will play better football but for tonight it was only about winning and we did that. We found again a way to win the game – and that’s big, really big, it feels incredibly big and I’m really happy about that.”

The Spaniard tasted glory with the Reds in only his second game, and came out on top between the posts when he saved Tammy Abraham’s effort

Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian has admitted that would have gladly slept with the Super Cup after Liverpool’s penalty shoot-out success against Chelsea in Istanbul.

The Spaniard, making only his second appearance for the club since arriving on a free transfer, proved to be the hero between the posts when he blocked Tammy Abraham’s effort to hand the Reds victory.

Drafted into action following an injury to regular shot-stopper Alisson, the 32-year-old had the distinct honour of helping Jurgen Klopp’s side claim their second piece of silverware in three months in his first start for the club.

Speaking to Liverpool’s official website, the former West Ham man expressed his joy at picking up his first ever winners’ medal and said that James Milner joked that the ‘keeper should take the trophy home.

“After just one week, I played in the Super Cup and got this great feeling,” he stated. “I felt full of happiness in myself.

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“I was having dinner with the guys after the game and I spoke with Millie and he said, ‘OK, do you want to take the trophy with you?’.

“I said, ‘I will sleep with her, I’m more than happy to sleep with her!’.”

“We are playing football to live these kind of moments, great moments. Obviously, like life, you can have good and bad moments in your career.

“But we need to enjoy these kind of games and these kinds of moments. You need to enjoy it with your family, best friends, with fans, with the team-mates. And also change the mentality like, ‘Nothing is done, we need to keep playing’.”

The ex-Betis man also made reference to manager Klopp’s euphoric exclamation of his name in his post-match interview, where the German bellowed his keeper’s name in the style of character Rocky Balboa, who memorably shouted the same phrase to his wife Adrian at the end of the 1976 film Rocky.

“In my time at West Ham many people called me like this,” he added. “My name is funny to do this joke.

“The manager was great in that moment. Everyone was happy, smiling in that situation and the manager had a great moment. 

Following incidents in a trio of recent Liverpool games, Goal takes a look at what the perpetrators of such incidents can expect

Following an injury to Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian caused by a pitch invader following the UEFA Super Cup final, there has been a great deal of publicity on the subject. 

With spectators having also entered the pitch during the Champions League final and the Community Shield match between the Reds and Manchester City at Wembley, it is a topic that has particularly piqued Jurgen Klopp.

“You see a man with his d*** swinging around. Who wants to see that?!” he said during a press conference in the aftermath of the incident.

“What can I say? There is no doubt about how much we love our fans, but if they could all stop doing that because that’s the worst example I have heard about.

“It’s not funny. I like that we don’t have fences in stadiums but that means a lot of responsibility for supporters as well. 

“If one supporter cannot hesitate or stop himself, then supporters around him should do it. It’s not funny. It’s crazy. How can something like this happen?”

Is invading a football pitch against the law?

In the United Kingdom, it very definitely is.

The Football (Offences) Act 1991 states: “It is an offence for a person at a designated football match to go onto the playing area, or any area adjacent to the playing area to which spectators are not generally admitted, without lawful authority or lawful excuse (which shall be for him to prove).”

What is the punishment for invading the pitch?

In England and Wales, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has advised that persons in breach of the above law be charged with more general legislation if possible. This allows the court more flexibility in terms of its sentencing power, potentially even allowing them to put unruly fans into prison.

Football-related offences, such as invading the pitch, being drunk at a designated sporting event and having a flare or firework while trying to enter a ground, are non-imprisonable.

Meanwhile, courts will very likely give convicted offenders a football banning order (FBO).

On the Sentencing Council’s website, it details: “The court must make a football banning order where an offender has been convicted of a relevant offence and it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that making a banning order would help to prevent violence or disorder (Football Spectators Act 1989, s.14A).

“The order requires the offender to report to a police station within five days, may require the offender to surrender his or her passport, and may impose requirements on the offender in relation to any regulated football matches.”

Such offences do not need to have taken place at the ground, with fans who are drunk and disorderly on route to the stadium, for example, also being subject to FBOs.

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FBOs, which can even be granted in the case of an acquittal after trial, can last for between two and 10 years, although the length of the ban will reflect the seriousness of the event.

What does having a Football Banning Order (FBO) mean?

Offenders are banned from every football ground in the UK and are not eligible to go to the national team’s matches – even those played abroad. Indeed, it may be that fans are forced to hand their passports into the police station for such occasions or told to report to a police station on the day of the game.

Furthermore, they can be banned from using public transport on matchdays and prevented from going to certain places like town and city centres, railways stations and pubs and bars during certain hours.

Specific conditions can be imposed on a case-by-case basis.

Breaching the terms of an FBO means that offenders can be fined and sentenced to prison for up to six months.

The Argentine star will miss another La Liga clash after he was unable to take part in the team’s final session before the match

Lionel Messi has been ruled out of Barcelona’s match with Real Betis on Sunday after missing their final training session. 

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Messi has been working his way back from a calf injury sustained after returning late to the Barca pre-season following his efforts with Argentina in the Copa America.

He was not ready in time for Barca’s opener against Athletic Club, which saw a late goal from Aritz Aduriz deliver a surprise 1-0 defeat to the Liga champions.

With Barca looking to bounce back from that defeat, and with Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele nursing injuries, there was hope Messi would be ready to return to the lineup against Betis.

However, the Barca talisman will be missing again after he did not take part in full training Saturday and was not include in the squad list for the game. 

While he took part in some sessions during the week, Messi was not among the squad on the eve of the clash at Camp Nou. He was also not training with the injured players during the public session available to media.

In his earlier news conference, Barca head coach Ernesto Valverde had reiterated the club’s stance they would not take any risks with their talisman and pointed to training as key to seeing if he would feature against Betis.

“We won’t take any risk with Messi,” Valverde said. “We must wait to see him in the training session to check if he is ready.”

The star man has not featured in any match since Argentina’s third-place contest against Chile in the Copa America, which featured Messi picking up a red card. 

The Argentine’s absence leaves a massive gap in their attack, which has also been hampered by other injuries to key players. 

Messi scored 36 Liga goals last season and added 13 assists as he helped guide the club to yet another league title.

They also be without Dembele, who is sidelined five weeks with a hamstring problem, and Suarez, who came off in the first half of the defeat against Athletic with a calf injury. 

The Reds went back to the top of the Premier League on Saturday but one of their star forwards wasn’t happy…

Jordan Henderson insisted there was no issue between Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah after Liverpool’s victory at Burnley.

The Reds returned to the top of the Premier League with a convincing 3-0 win at Turf Moor on Saturday, recording a club-record 13th straight league success in the process.

All looks rosy at Anfield, though it was surprising to see an angry reaction from Mane when he was substituted for Divock Origi late in the game.

The Senegal star had been incensed by Salah’s refusal to pass the ball to him moments earlier, with the Egyptian instead looking to get on the scoresheet himself. 

Mane berated first-team fitness coach Andreas Kornmayer after being withdrawn, and was seen in heated conversation with his team-mates, including Henderson and vice-captain James Milner.

Klopp played down the row in his post-match press conference, saying the situation was “completely fine.”

Mane himself opted not to speak to the waiting media, emerging from the Turf Moor dressing room with headphones in. But later Henderson, his club captain, sought to draw a line under the affair.

“Sadio is fine, he’s a great lad,” Henderson told reporters. “That’s just us pushing each other all the time. I think that’s important. 

“We all want to do better, we all want to improve, but we’re really close and I think we can deal with that.

“I’m not sure [what caused it] to be honest. I couldn’t really understand at first, but then when he came in, he was laughing and joking.”

Asked if there had been any further issue in the dressing room, Henderson said: “Nah, the most important thing was we got the result, Sadio knows that. 

“He performed really well again. Him and Bobby were really big [at winning] second balls. He had a fantastic game. Like I said, we want to push each other. 

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“We want to improve all the time, I quite like that now and again. I think we need it.”

Reflecting on yet another victory, and a performance of some authority at a tough away ground, Henderson was upbeat as expected.

He did, though, sound a note of caution when it was suggested his team were “setting the standards” for the rest of the Premier League.

“We’re not setting them for anyone else, we’re setting them for ourselves,” he said. “That’s what we want to do. We want to win every week, we want to perform every week and that’s difficult because there are so many good sides in the Premier League and in Europe. It’s really hard.

“For us, it’s game by game. We come up against different tests each week and it’s about giving everything every time we go onto the football pitch and we’ll see where we are at the end of the season.

“For me it’s just about concentrating on what we need to do. We have been very mature in our performances, especially away from home. We want to continue that form, keep doing the right things, keep working hard as a team. If we do that, we can put on performances like that.”

Of the Burnley performance, he added: “I thought we did the dirty bits really well. We worked extremely hard defensively to win second balls, which is important against Burnley.

“The two strikers are really physical, but I thought we coped with them really well. Going forward we looked good at times and scored some brilliant goals. It was a really good performance.”

Henderson also paid tribute to striker Roberto Firmino, whose goal at Turf Moor saw him become the first Brazilian to reach 50 in the Premier League.

“He’s a massive player for us,” he said. “It’s extraordinary what he does for the team, defensively, goals, assists, everything, his link-up play. What a player he is. He’s on fire at the minute, so hopefully he can keep going.

“He’s the first Brazilian to 50 and hopefully there are many more to come from him.”

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Pep Guardiola watched his first-choice centre-back stretchered off in the Premier League win over Brighton, with the Brazilian coming on in his place

Fernandinho says he is ready to step up and fill in for Aymeric Laporte at centre-back for Manchester City, after the Frenchman was stretchered off in Saturday’s 4-0 win over Brighton.

After the exit of Vincent Kompany over the summer, City have been left looking short-staffed at the hearth of defence with John Stones and Nicolas Otamendi the only specialist centre-backs left in the first-team picture.

Making his first appearance of the season, Fernandinho came on against the Seagulls at centre-back – a role he has occupied before. With Rodri adapting quickly to life in the Premier League, the Brazilian find himself slotting into defence for an extended spell – but his first thought was for his injured team-mate.

“Of course it’s not good,” he told City’s website. “We’ll see the news about him, we wish him a speedy recovery and to get well soon because he’s an important player for us. It wasn’t the way I wanted to come in, but in football these things can happen.

“Whatever the manager needs, I’m ready. It’s a different position, a different role now, and we’ll see. Getting ready for the next games, I’ll try to do my best as always.

“We’re going to try and fix it, not to concede the chances we conceded today. For the next games, for the rest of the season. It was good, it was ok.”

Fernandinho is used to being moved around by Pep Guardiola, having filled in as a more than capable centre-half in the past. He played there in a home fixture against Arsenal last season, which City won 3-1, and has trained in the position since returning from his summer break.

While Fernandinho might not be the tallest player, his replacement in midfield, Rodri, helpfully provides the added height in the team that the Brazilian lacks.

Regardless, the injury to Laporte has come at an awkward time for the side. After starting in all but three of City’s league and Champions League games last season, the Frenchman – who had been set to make his France debut over the international break – will be sorely missed.

City return to Premier League action against Norwich City after the break, before the fixtures start to pile up with games in Europe and the Carabao Cup.

Guardiola will be looking for a way to keep his squad fresh as they face six games in 18 games, including Champions League group stage fixtures with Shakhtar Donetsk and Dinamo Zagreb.

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The forward’s sending-off against the New York Red Bulls will cost him two full matches, with one game having been served already

Wayne Rooney’s MLS regular season schedule has just four matches remaining in it, with the English forward set to miss a second-straight game following a red card against the New York Red Bulls. 

Rooney was caught delivering a forearm shiver to the face of Cristian Casseres Jr following a VAR review in a 2-1 loss to the Red Bulls on August 21. 

He was absent from the club’s next game, a 3-1 loss at the hands of the Philadelphia Union last Saturday, and the MLS Disciplinary Committee​ took the decision to suspend for a second match on Tuesday due to violent conduct. 

The 33-year-old, who is set to return to England to join up with Derby County after the MLS season, will now miss out on the club’s match Saturday against the Montreal Impact. 

Saturday’s showdown could prove critical for both clubs, with United holding a five-point lead over the eighth-placed Impact, who currently sit as the first team out of the MLS playoff race. 

Rooney and company also face a daunting closing run to the season as they look to hang onto their place in the post-season. 

With away matches against the Portland Timber and Red Bulls still on tap, along with a home clash against the Seattle Sounders, a place in the MLS playoffs is anything but sure. 

Following the announcement that he would be leaving the club after the season, Rooney made it clear that he wanted to end his time with United by lifting an MLS trophy. 

“I think it’d be disrespectful to them if I didn’t finish the season and try to help get us into a playoff spot and try to win a trophy,” Rooney said at the time. 

That job is looking tougher now, and United will need their star man to return in fine form to help keep their hopes of challenging for a title alive. 

Rooney has scored 11 goals and added seven assists across 25 appearances for United so far this season, just one goal shy of the 12 he posted in 20 games during his first season for the club. 

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Fashion Scout has named London-based eponymous brand Wen Pan as the
winner of its spring/summer 2020 Merit Award, which will see the womenswear
label presenting its collection during London Fashion Week.

Created in 2009 and now in its tenth year, the Merit Award supports the
winning designer across two seasons and has been created to support and
develop new designer businesses on a global level. Wen Pen will receive a
fully sponsored catwalk show with Fashion Scout with space to host press
and buyers.

The Merit Award acts as a springboard for emerging designers, with many
going on to become established labels within the international fashion
industry, including past winners Eudon Choi, Phoebe English, David Koma,
Roberts|Wood, Han Wen, Xiao Li, Katie Ann McGuigan, Edda, I-Am-Chen and
most recently, autumn/winter 2019 winner Tolu Coker.

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Wen Pan wins Fashion Scout’s Merit Award for spring/summer 2020

Wen Pan is a London-based womenswear label launched in 2018 and now in
its third season. The brand fuses the “spirit of oriental recluses with
romantic grunge aesthetics”. By using raw fluidity and layers of textures,
Wen Pan, who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2015, aims to “evoke
characters in a balance of subtlety and freedom,” explains Fashion Scout.

In previous seasons, the brand has explored the beauty of brokenness,
traces of human presence, Chinese ancient recluses and the 1990 grunge. For
spring/summer 2020, Wen Pan will return with contrasting floral prints and
textures, mixing fragile linen layers and sheer silk fabrics with rough
cotton drapery and asymmetric cutting. As well as a continuation of using
utility wear with workwear detailing in a palette of muted greens and faded
sandy cream.

Having shown previously in Shanghai and Paris, Wen Pan boasts a global
stockist list including Opening Ceremony, YoungBritishDesigners, and
Selfridges, where her autumn/winter 2019 work is currently part of the
Design Gallery Installation.

Before launching her namesake label, Pan work at numerous fashion houses
including Christopher Kane, Alexander McQueen, and Uma Wang.

Wen Pan to showcase during London Fashion Week

On hearing she had won the Merit Award, Wen Pan said in a statement: “It
is such an honour to receive the Fashion Scout Merit Award. I feel very
grateful to have this great opportunity, which provides a wonderful
platform to share my point of view about beauty and femininity: a delicate
balance between prettiness and roughness.”

Wen Pan’s “relaxed layered aesthetic” is what impressed the Fashion
Scout judging panel, which included the talent platform’s founder and
creative director Martyn Roberts, Contanza Lombardi, Next Gen Buyer at
Browns, Niamph Tuft from Fashion Revolution and Hannah Craggs, trends at
WGSN.

Fashion Scout’s Martyn Roberts added: “We are extremely excited to award
Wen Pan the SS20 Merit Award following the exceptional AW19 collection
presented at the Selection Panel. Her brand was an easy decision for the
judging panel to award Merit to, due to her originality and beautiful
draping and pattern cutting skills. Fashion Scout are excited to give Wen
Pan the opportunity to continue building the brand and profile on a global
scale.”

Wen Pan will showcase at Fashion Scout on September 14 in its new London
Fashion Week home, Victoria House, after the platform relaunched after
spending eight years at Freemasons’ Hall. Fashion Scout SS20 will run from
September 13-15.

Images: courtesy of Fashion Scout / Wen Pan

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As per a Buckingham Palace spokesman, the monarch “is feeling under the weather” and has bowed out of a Thursday morning event at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

The queen’s cousin, the Duke of Kent, will stand in her place, attending morning service to celebrate “the 200th Anniversary of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.”

According to Daily Mail royal correspondent Rebecca English, there is “no cause for alarm” concerning the queen’s health and the rest of her schedule this week is expected to continue as planned.

We recently learned that the queen underwent cataract surgery at some point in May, a fact she expertly hid with the aid of some trendy tiny sunglasses.

We’re wishing Her Majesty a speedy recovery. Everyone needs a breather sometimes—even the Queen of England.

Kelly Ripa won’t be letting trolls ruin her vacation.

The Live with Kelly and Ryan co-host jetted off to Greece for a tropical getaway with husband Mark Consuelos, sharing a sweet selfie to Instagram on Wednesday in which she smiled at the camera as her longtime love gazed at her.

“Something about these Grecian sunsets,” she captioned the shot.

Ripa also added, “oh and viva Mexico,” referencing Team Mexico’s advancement in the World Cup thanks to South Korea’s upset victory over Germany. In her story, Consuelos explained how the soccer team can move on despite losing to Sweden on Wednesday to his confused wife while hanging out on a boat.

The TV personality also shared a spectacular shot of the coastline.

However, the 47-year-old mother of three took some time out from enjoying her vacation to respond to a person who questioned her work ethic in the comment section.

“She’s the only anchor with the whole summer off,” the commenter wrote under the selfie in response to another fan, as captured in a screenshot by Instagram account CommentsByCelebs. “She doesn’t work that hard to begin with.”

Ripa shot back, “I’m not an anchor, Idon’t have the whole summer off, and I work extremely hard. Anything else?”

Ripa and Consuelos are no strangers to online criticism. After the Riverdale actor, 46, shared a photo of his wife in a gold bikini while on a romantic getaway back in March, followers suggested that Ripa should not be wearing a two-piece bathing suit. However, Consuelos swooped in to defend her.

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“I wanted to take a couple of days to weigh in. Probably should’ve earlier arguably. But I wanted to be above it. Well, now I’m not. I posted this pic of the woman I most admire. As a playful tribute to my wife who I’m proud of in endless ways,” he wrote in the comments section. “She works extremely hard in her professional life and her commitment to exercise, healthy diet is admirable and the benefits show. Yes she’s wearing a bikini at age 47 and will no doubt wear one for many years to come.”

He also added, “I love you @kellyripa… keep killing it.”

The couple reiterated their surprise when a viewer called in to ask about the incident on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

“It was bizarre, it was like, ‘What else are you supposed to wear at the beach?’ ” Cohen said.

“I don’t know what I’m supposed to wear at the beach,” Ripa added. “I mean I wasn’t in synagogue, I was at the beach, I mean…if you come up with an option let me know.”

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