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A peculiar concern has surfaced ahead of the Red Bull derby in the Europa League, with some Bhoys fans worried about a conspiracy

One of the central tenets of competitive football – and sport in general – is that games will be played in good faith, with both teams doing their best to win.

Interestingly, there have been some murmurs of concern from cynical Celtic fans, that this might not necessarily be the case when Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig face off in the Europa League.

After four games in Group B, Salzburg and Leipzig lead the way and are well placed to qualify, but they still need to pick up the right results in order to do so.

Celtic, who defeated Leipzig 2-1 in their last Europa League outing, are level on points with the German side, but find themselves in third place.

The Glasgow outfit face Rosenborg and Salzburg in their remaining games, but their fate could potentially be decided by the outcome of the game between Salzburg and Leipzig.

The suggestion that the teams might conspire to arrive at a result which favours both parties has naturally been roundly rejected by figures at both clubs. 

Of course, a denial will never be enough to convince some of the more sceptical conspiracy theorists out there.

Ahead of Thursday’s Europa League action, Goal takes a look at why the concerns have surfaced, as well as a look at the permutations for the group.



While Red Bull Salzburg and RB Leipzig are undoubtedly different clubs, they are connected in the sense that they are both funded by Austrian company Red Bull.

RB Leipzig are known as Rasenballsport Leipzig, but they play in the Red Bull Arena and the company’s symbols adorn their shirt.

There were worries that the influence of Red Bull would see the clubs fall foul of UEFA regulations, which do not permit teams who share a common owner to compete in the same competition. 

However, the governing body ruled in 2017 that it was not strictly the case and granted both clubs admission to the Champions League. That ruling can be read in full here.

The idea that the teams might work together to achieve a desirable outcome for both of them is fuelled by this obvious connection they each have with Red Bull.

However, RB Leipzig chairman Oliver Mintzlaff has robustly denied that will have any bearing on his side’s game against Salzburg, pointing to September’s game between the teams, which Salzburg won 3-2.

“It’s nonsense to even suggest the outcome of this game has been decided,” Mintzlaff told Bild. “Leipzig and Salzburg have been independent clubs for a few years now.

“In the first leg, it was obvious that both teams wanted to win. This will also be the case in the second leg.”

Salzburg striker Munas Dabbur also dismissed the notion as “crazy”.

“To think we could arrange a result is totally crazy. We wouldn’t do something like that,” said Dabbur.

“Of course, both clubs have good relations but nothing like that. Both clubs will try to win the game. The link with Leipzig is special for the clubs. We make a little joke about it sometimes.”



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Pos Team GP W D L GD Pts
1 Red Bull Salzburg 4 4 0 0 +9 12
2 RB Leipzig 4 2 0 2 +2 6
3 Celtic 4 2 0 2 -2 6
4 Rosenborg 4 0 0 4 -9 0

Matchday five of Europa League Group B sees Salzburg play Leipzig, while Celtic take on Rosenborg in the other fixture and, depending on results, some of the qualification places may be secured.

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Salzburg are six points clear at the top of the table with two games left and are on course to qualify, needing only a draw against Leipzig to go through.

That means Celtic are effectively in a fight with Leipzig for the second qualification place.

As well as winning their own remaining games against Rosenborg and Salzburg, Celtic will be praying for Salzburg to beat Leipzig on Thursday.

The Arsenal boss outwitted Mauricio Pochettino with several mid-game tactical switches as the Gunners saw off their north London rivals

By Monday morning we know all about the brightest stars of the weekend action – who scored the goals, who made the glaring errors – but often the most important tactical plots have failed to cut through.

Here, Goal looks beyond the obvious headliners and takes a look at five tactical things you might have missed from the Premier League.



A fascinating tactical battle at the Emirates Stadium was eventually won by Unai Emery thanks to two important second-half switches.

Throughout the first half of the North London Derby, the Alex Iwobi-Sead Kolasinac partnership down the left-hand side worked well to get around the defence ( as highlighted last week ), but as Tottenham grew into the game, their front three found it too easy to run at Arsenal’s back three, gradually gaining control of midfield as a consequence.

Emery responded by introducing Aaron Ramsey and Alexandre Lacazette at half-time, switching from a wide 3-4-3 to a narrow 3-4-1-2 with Ramsey just behind two pacey strikers, with the Welshman instructed to get ahead of those two whenever possible.

Suddenly the pattern was flipped and it was Arsenal pummeling the Spurs defence with runners, leading directly to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s equaliser, assisted by Ramsey after making a clever run into the Spurs half.

Mauricio Pochettino responded by dropping Eric Dier back to form a 3-4-1-2 (mirroring Arsenal’s formation), and within four minutes Emery reacted by switching to a diamond 4-4-2 as Matteo Guendouzi replaced Shkodran Mustafi. This second change completed the role reversal; now it was Arsenal’s turn to charge at a confused back three.

Ramsey’s movement, and some poor defending from Dier, led to the third goal, before Lucas Torreira was easily slipped in behind Dier for the fourth.

Pochettino had been forced into a clumsy tactical switch that led to Spurs’ capitulation, made evident by Dele Alli’s anonymous second half; he completed six passes, and four of them were kick-offs. Emery might just be one of the best reactive tacticians the Premier League has ever seen.

PIC: Arsenal’s attacking areas vs Tottenham



One of the most bizarre goals in recent memory prevented what would have been a well-deserved point for Everton at Anfield on a day in which Marco Silva’s long-term vision for the club finally came into view.

Andre Gomes dominated central midfield, sitting close to Idrissa Gueye in order to complement the Senegal international’s outstanding defensive contributions. As persistent long balls over the top from both sides stretched the game lengthways, it was Gomes and Gueye who swept up the second balls ahead of Liverpool counterparts Fabinho and Georginio Wijnaldum.

The Everton pair completed 15 ‘ball recoveries’, per Opta, three times more than the Liverpool duo’s five.  

But more impressive was Everton’s organised high press; they would squeeze the pitch when the ball was lost, but quickly drop into formation during sustained periods of Liverpool possession, their two forwards sitting on top of Fabinho and Wijnaldum to slow the hosts’ tempo. The way in which they read the rhythms of the game showed Silva’s positional coaching has started to pay dividends.

On the attack, Everton notably looked for overlapping full-backs, another hallmark of a well-drilled Silva team.

Seamus Coleman (70) and Lucas Digne (65) had more touches of the ball than any other Everton players, largely because Silva instructs his wingers to cut inside and wait for the overlapping runner, who in turn crosses into the box.

It was an important play when the Portuguese was in charge of Watford and Hull City, and Everton fans should be pleased to see their manager’s coaching transferring neatly onto the field, even if results are not always positive.



Even by Jose Mourinho’s standards, Manchester United were bizarrely negative for a visit to one of the Premier League’s most out-of-form teams in Southampton.

He deployed a back three and started both Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera in midfield, meaning United had seven defensive players on the pitch from kick-off.

Unsurprisingly, this caused a disconnect between the two forwards – Marcus Rashford and Romelu Lukaku – and the rest, which explains why Paul Pogba spent most of the game dallying on the ball, frustrated with the lack of options in front of him.

Mourinho’s negative line-up allowed Southampton to get an early foothold, build confidence, and race into a 2-0 lead – with the first goal a direct consequence of United’s nervy defensive approach.

Nathan Redmond, Stuart Armstrong, and Michael Obafemi – who were able to stay close to one another thanks to Mark Hughes’s switch to a 3-4-2-1 – danced through a defence that looked scared to make a tackle and desperate to keep its shape.

What’s more, as the second half laboured on at 2-2, Mourinho refused to add attacking players, instead reacting late (in the 77th and 86th minutes) to bring on Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard for the two forwards already on the pitch, Rashford and Lukaku.

PIC: Man Utd’s failed passes vs Southampton



It was not their best performance of the season by a long shot, but as West Ham battled to a 3-0 victory at Newcastle it was notable how much better Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez looked with a strike partner.

The Mexico international has always preferred playing alongside a target man, spending most of his career looking like a man born 20 years too late.

Hernandez’s movement in the final third helped him grab two goals, and it could have been a couple more thanks to Felipe Anderson’s crossing and the neat through-balls of Marko Arnautovic.

Austria international Arnautovic tends to draw defenders towards him, freeing Hernandez to move unseen into the penalty area, and so Manuel Pellegrini’s new 4-4-2 formation could be a useful option for future away matches against the lower ranking clubs.

However, West Ham were somewhat porous through the middle, and higher quality opposition would have exposed the slowness of Mark Noble and Declan Rice as a partnership. The visitors struggled to control Newcastle for long periods, with the hosts holding 59 per cent possession and taking 16 shots during the 90 minutes.



Although they gradually found their feet at Stamford Bridge, Fulham never really recovered from Pedro’s fourth minute opener and Chelsea should have put the West London Derby to bed by half-time.

Fulham’s openness and inability to track the home side’s midfielders showed that Claudio Ranieri still has lots of work to do on the training ground.

After a couple of quiet matches Jorginho managed 87 passes on Sunday as Tom Cairney failed to stick with him, which allowed the Italian to play simple one-twos with Mateo Kovacic that opened up the Fulham midfield.

It was alarming to see how often N’Golo Kante found space to run with the ball to the right, a direct consequence of Fulham’s midfield pair trying to control Kovacic and Jorginho in deeper areas. Calum Chambers and Jean-Michael Seri made 11 tackles between them, reflecting how overworked they were in the middle of the park.

The opening goal was a hangover from the days of Slavisa Jokanovic. Fulham should not have tried to pass out from the back so early in the game, but more importantly Seri should have been given more passing options when he was tackled by Kante.

Seri took a heavy touch because the full-backs and his fellow midfielders were already in the Chelsea half; such an attack-minded approach is never suitable in the opening five minutes at Stamford Bridge.

PIC: Jorginho passes vs Fulham

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The 25-year-old has struggled to make an impact at Old Trafford, with his place in the Brazil squad for the 2019 Copa America now in doubt

Manchester United star Fred has admitted that life at Old Trafford has begun in a frustrating manner – especially as it has cost him his place in the Brazil national team.

The midfielder joined Jose Mourinho’s side from Shakhtar Donetsk in the summer for £52 million ($68m) but has failed to hold down a regular spot.

Indeed, he has appeared only 10 times in the red of United and has totalled a mere 645 minutes of pitch time.

A consequence of this has been the 25-year-old losing his place in Tite’s Brazil squad just six months out from Copa America 2019.

“I’ve played very little at United, so it’s normal for Professor Tite not to be able to evaluate me, even though I’ve worked hard with him before,” he told reporters.

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“Of course, I was annoyed, but I have to know how to deal with the sadness to be able to help me take a step forward.

“The coach has chosen not to put me in the team. That’s his choice. I still do my job and I can’t let it affect my mindset, I cannot let that shake me. I have to be patient.”

Indeed, he has found the settling process in the Premier League somewhat complicated.

“It’s been a bit of a difficult start for me at United because I have not been playing so much. I had a lot of games in Shakhtar, but it’s a little bit different here. It’s normal, of course, a process of adaptation to a different league.

“Although I’ve been to Europe before, now I am in a different country and I have to go through a new process of settling in. But today I see myself much better and I hope that my football will be 100 per cent soon.

“I think I had a great performance against Young Boys in the Champions League. We had the opportunity to score a few times before we scored the goal at the end, but I was very happy to have returned to the field and I hope to continue playing more.”

United struggled to a 2-2 draw against Southampton on Saturday – a match in which Fred remained on the bench – and will attempt to bounce back at home against Arsenal on Wednesday.

A legendary shot-stopper now on the books at Paris Saint-Germain believes the Reds landed themselves the perfect No. 1 in a £65 million summer deal

Alisson is “everything a modern goalkeeper needs to be”, says Gianluigi Buffon, with a legendary figure at Paris Saint-Germain suggesting that Liverpool have landed themselves quite the player.

The Reds moved to address their issues between the sticks over the summer during a window of big spending.

Jurgen Klopp invested £65 million ($83m) in a new No. 1, with the transfer record for a goalkeeper briefly broken before Premier League rivals at Chelsea went and topped that deal when signing Kepa Arrizabalaga.

Alisson may not top that chart, but Juventus icon and World Cup winner Buffon believes the Brazilian ticks all of the boxes when it comes to the art of keeping in 2018.

The Italian, who is set to face Liverpool in Champions League competition on Wednesday, told The Mirror: “Alisson is everything a modern goalkeeper needs to be.

“Liverpool have conceded very few goals this season – and he might be a new name for those in England but for me it is no surprise.

“I have been watching him for some years now and am a big admirer.

“He is comfortable with the ball, he is an excellent shot stopper and I see that he gives confidence to his defence.

“He is one of the top three goalkeepers in the world right now and has everything to go on and be a great of his position.”

Buffon added on the qualities Alisson and his ilk boast: “When I started playing the question you asked about goalkeepers was: How good are they with their hands? Now the question is how good are they with their feet?

“There is no doubt that goalkeeping has evolved throughout my career, but for me a goalkeeper must concentrate on the fundamentals. At the same time you have to accept the role has changed and that more things are expected of the modern goalkeeper.”

Buffon has been able to mould his game down the years to meet the ever-changing demands placed on those in his position, with a veteran performer still turning out at the age of 40.

Part of the reason for that is that he is chasing European glory, with there one notable omission on his CV.

“I thought my last chance of winning the Champions League went last season… but PSG want to win the trophy this time and now I have another chance,” he added.

“This is a project at PSG and we need time, but also the ambition is to be successful this season. The dream is to win it.”

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Marouane Fellaini saved the Red Devils embarrassment against Young Boys and his manager let his passion flow in the aftermath

Jose Mourinho did not hold back showing his emotions after Marouane Fellaini saved Manchester United blushes Tuesday night.

The Red Devils seemed set to suffer a humiliating scoreless draw at home to Swiss side Young Boys, which would have put the club’s qualification for the last 16 on hold until the final matchday of the group stage.

Mourinho’s side would muster 21 shots in the contest, but only got four on target, and may have been fortunate Young Boys could not get any of their 11 shots on the United goal.

The result would have heaped even more pressure on Mourinho following a scoreless draw at home to Crystal Palace in the Premier League and a loss to Manchester City in the club’s last game prior to the international break.

But Fellaini delivered a stoppage time winner in the 91st minute, giving Manchester United three points to the relief of the crowd at Old Trafford. 

In the process, Fellaini snapped a club record drought of 275 minutes without a home goal in European competition and narrowly prevented his side from being kept off the scoreboard at home in Europe for the third consecutive match.

And Mourinho did not hold back in showing what the goal against the current leaders of Switzerland’s top flight meant to him, kicking over a set of Manchester United water bottles.

If that wasn’t enough, the manager immediately grabbed another set of bottles and triumphantly slammed them to the turf in celebration.

Speaking after the match, Mourinho explained his reaction. “Relief,” the Man Utd boss said. “Frustration before that, then relief. We didn’t play for that, we didn’t play for 0-0 or to be in trouble until the last minute.

“Frustration, I was not unhappy with the players, not at all. Frustrated we couldn’t score, yes, but my players were very tired in the end and that’s what I love, it means they gave everything, they had moments of good football, hypothetical beautiful goals, but then also moments of pressure, a lack of confidence that frustrated us.

“In the end we scored, I united the goal with David’s save. Without that save there’s no winning goal. In the end we qualify with one game in hand. We suffered a lot, but we did it.”

While it wasn’t a game for the highlight reel for the Red Devils, Mourinho will no doubt be thrilled to see his team among the eight sides that have already qualified for the knockout round.

The Red Devils join local rivals Manchester City, along with Barcelona, Ajax, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Roma in the last 16.

Mourinho’s squad are next in action Saturday as they travel to meet Southampton in Premier League action.

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The ex-Blues and Juventus star has told of his struggle with the illness, and says he is in the process of recovering

Former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli has revealed that he has overcome a battle with cancer.

The 54-year-old is still revered as a Blues legend, having played for the club between 1996 and 1999 – winning the FA Cup, the League Cup, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup – and also managed at Stamford Bridge between1998 and 2000, again lifting the FA Cup, and the two European trophies.

Villa won over 50 caps for Italy but has been out of football since 2002, when he left a managerial role with Watford.

The ex-Juventus star has subsequently worked as a pundit, and was employed by the BBC during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and has now revealed that, during his time out of the limelight, he has struggled with, and beaten, cancer.

Speaking to Corriere della Sera, he was typically understated when revealing his illness.

“I would have gladly done without it. But it was not possible,” he said. “And then I considered it simply a phase of my life that had to be lived with courage and from which to learn something. I knew it was hard and hard to have to tell others, to my family.

“You would never want to hurt the people who love you: my parents, my sister and brothers, my wife Cathryn, our little girls Olivia and Sofia. And it takes you as a sense of shame, as if what happened to you was your fault.

“I walked around with a sweater under my shirt, because the others did not notice anything, to be still the Vialli they knew.”

Vialli says he is now in the process of returning to the shape he was in before his diagnosis, though he is wary of a recurrence.

“It’s been a year and I’m back to having a very good physical condition,” he added.

“But I still have no certainty of how the match will end. I hope my story can serve to inspire people at the crucial intersection of life.

“And I hope that mine is a book to keep on the nightstand, to read one or two stories before falling asleep or in the morning as soon as you wake up.”

Everton’s manager isn’t concerned about his counterpart’s wild celebrations following Liverpool’s last-gasp win at Anfield

Jurgen Klopp may have been fined for his on-pitch celebrations in the aftermath of Liverpool’s dramatic Merseyside derby triumph on Sunday, but Everton boss Marco Silva has defended his opposite number. 

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The Reds sealed a valuable 1-0 triumph at Anfield after Jordan Pickford’s howler allowed substitute Divock Origi to head in a stoppage-time winner that kept his side firmly in the Premier League title hunt. 

It prompted Klopp to run onto the field and rejoice with goalkeeper Alisson, who had been kept busy by a determined and somewhat unfortunate Toffees outfit.

The German admitted a misconduct charge and was subsequently fined £8,000 by the Football Association, but Silva – speaking before that sanction was confirmed – saw no wrong in what Klopp had done.

“In that moment, the manager cannot think about fines or not. It is a moment to celebrate,” said Silva. 

“I know in the last two days everyone is talking about the situation, but to me it doesn’t really matter.

“If you try to stop all these teams and players celebrating with the fans, some of them taking their shirts off, it is part of the game and something you cannot stop. It is something important, even if sometimes you get fined.

“I didn’t see what Jurgen did, like I told you at the end of the match. It’s a happiness moment for him. For me not, of course.

“Now I have seen it. For me, the emotion of the game is a normal situation. To celebrate in that way is emotion – it’s not something he has to explain for sure.

“I don’t know if we score in that moment what my reaction would be. It’s something I cannot tell you.

“It’s a special game, a derby. For sure you don’t expect a goal in that moment after the shot from Van Dijk.”

The Portuguese full-back has been absent through injury but is in line to return at St Mary’s on Saturday

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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed Diogo Dalot could feature against Southampton on Saturday.

Dalot, 19, has not featured for the Red Devils since their Carabao Cup defeat against Derby County on September 25.

The Portuguese impressed against Young Boys in the Champions League on September 19 and then against Derby before a series of injuries hampered his progress.

However, Mourinho has revealed that the youngster is in line to feature against Southampton in the Premier League this weekend.

Speaking in a press conference on Friday, Mourinho said: “The opportunities will always come.

“Phil Jones was not playing. Lindelof got injured and Jones had the opportunity to play against Young Boys. It will happen all over the place I believe.

“For the other game Luke Shaw was suspended and now we have Ashley Young with four yellow cards. Who knows when the fifth is arriving? Players must be ready.

“In this case some are going away to the medical room and some are coming back. For example, this weekend will be the first call for Dalot. He is ready now.

“He had an important injury, surgery, then a second injury in the national team when he was coming up, when he was already playing against Young Boys and Derby County, when he was almost here.

“But now he has been training for two weeks and we think he is ready now.”

Dalot joined United from Portuguese giants Porto last summer with the defender brought in with the intention of being the club’s right-back for a number of years.

Antonio Valencia and Ashley Young have filled in at right-back during Mourinho’s United reign but the duo are both 33 and coming to the end of their careers.

United travel to Southampton looking to extend their unbeaten run with a performance to raise the mood around the club.

Mourinho’s men drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace in their last league outing before unconvincingly beating Young Boys 1-0 on Tuesday.

Southampton, meanwhile, are similarly struggling for form under Mark Hughes with the Saints sitting 18th in the table, having won just one of their opening 13 games.

The Costa Rican recently signed a deal to return to Herediano, where he feels a stiff test awaits him in the Concacaf Champions League

Hernan Medford is expecting an enormous challenge from Atlanta United in the round of 16 of the Concacaf Champions League next year, even with Tata Martino leaving the club.

Medford recently retook the reins of Herediano, which remains alive in the fight for this year’s Costa Rican championship. On Monday, he saw “The Team” drawn against MLS Cup finalist Atlanta United for its first-round matchup in the region’s club championship. 

Martino is set to leave the club after this weekend’s MLS championship match, which has some wondering if the momentum in Atlanta can be sustained. Despite Martino’s sterling reputation, though, Medford said he puts more stock into which players are on which team.

“I was part of 2005 with Saprissa when we were champion and got third place in the world, which is something historic for a Concacaf team. I want to repeat that feat with Herediano,” he said. “We start with a difficult team in Atlanta who has done things really well and is still evolving. The atmosphere there is really good. 

“They won’t have the same coach, Tata, but I’ve always said between the manager and the football player makes up 80 percent. So, I think Atlanta is going to have almost their same team and we’re expecting a really complicated side.”

Herediano is becoming accustomed to difficult CCL draws. The past three years have seen the club play Liga MX giant Tigres, either in group play or last year in the round of 16 after Concacaf unveiled a new format that consisted only of a knockout round. Before the draw, the former striker said he was hoping for anyone but the now-familiar rival, which eliminated Herediano in each of the last three tournaments.

“It already was the third time! I’m not trying to say that Atlanta isn’t going to be difficult but we wanted something different now,” he said. It’s going to be complicated, and we have to prepare for the game really well, get motivated to win because every game is a final and they have a team that can win.”

While this will be Herediano’s ninth time taking part in international competition, Atlanta will be playing an international match for the first time. The Five Stripes began play in 2017 but have become one of MLS’s most formidable sides right out of the gate. Medford pointed to Atlanta players’ experience in the CCL with other teams or some of the club’s South American stars’ participation in the Copa Libertadores as a reason why that lack of international experience might not matter.

“Maybe as a team they haven’t done it but when you look at the individual players, a lot of them have played this type of tournament. So, I don’t think it makes a difference,” he said. “I think it’ll be a level match and we’ll see who is better.”

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Costa Rican teams have found it difficult to be better than their North American counterparts, especially in recent years with teams from those leagues extensively scouting Costa Rica and bringing in some of the top prospects from Heredino, Saprissa, Alajuelense and other big clubs there. Even so, the 50-year-old believes he can cut the difference with the right mentality.

“We can’t deny that teams from Mexico, in MLS, can bring in great players from abroad,” Medford said. “The economic aspect really comes into play, which is too bad, but we have to believe that on the field everyone is equal.”

The freestyler takes on the wonderkid that played for Celtic’s U20s at the age of just 13!

Freestyle footballer Soufiane Touzani has tested his skills against some of the best players in world football, but how does he fare against one of the most talked about young footballers in Europe?

Fifteen-year-old Karamoko Dembele came upon the scene two years ago when he made a number of appearances for the Hoops’ U20 side at the age of just 13.

He’s a regular for the club’s U17 side and many are expecting him to have a huge future in the game, so how do his skills compare to Touzani’s?

The freestyler has taken on the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos and flashed his skills against the youth sides of Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Feyenoord.

Watch the clip below!

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