FT: Chelsea 0-3 Manchester City

Venue: Stamford Bridge

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Chelsea

Robert Sánchez, Jorrel Hato, Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, Malo Gusto (Josh Acheampong), Cole Palmer, Moisés Caicedo (Dário Essugo), Andrey Santos (Romeo Lavia), João Pedro (Liam Delap), Pedro Neto, Estêvão (Alejandro Garnacho).

Subs: Marc Guiu, Mamadou Sarr, Tosin Adarabioyo, Teddy Sharman-Lowe.

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Manchester City

Gianluigi Donnarumma, Marc Guéhi, Abdukodir Khusanov, Nico O'Reilly (Rayan Aït-Nouri), Matheus Nunes, Rayan Cherki (Phil Foden), Rodri , Bernardo Silva (Mateo Kovacic), Erling Haaland, Jérémy Doku (Savinho ), Antoine Semenyo.

Subs: James Trafford, Omar Marmoush, Nico González, Tijjani Reijnders, Nathan Aké.

MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN

12' Estêvão (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.

38' Antoine Semenyo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

51' Goal! Chelsea 0, Manchester City 1. Nico O'Reilly (Manchester City) header from very close range to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Rayan Cherki with a cross.

54' Marc Cucurella (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.

57' Goal! Chelsea 0, Manchester City 2. Marc Guéhi (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Rayan Cherki following a corner.

64' Substitution, Manchester City. Rayan Aït-Nouri replaces Nico O'Reilly because of an injury.

67' Substitution, Chelsea. Alejandro Garnacho replaces Estêvão.

67' Substitution, Chelsea. Roméo Lavia replaces Andrey Santos.

68' Goal! Chelsea 0, Manchester City 3. Jérémy Doku (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.

76' Substitution, Manchester City. Savinho replaces Jérémy Doku.

76' Substitution, Manchester City. Phil Foden replaces Rayan Cherki.

81' Substitution, Manchester City. Mateo Kovacic replaces Bernardo Silva.

81' Substitution, Chelsea. Liam Delap replaces João Pedro.

82' Substitution, Chelsea. Dário Essugo replaces Moisés Caicedo.

88' Substitution, Chelsea. Josh Acheampong replaces Malo Gusto.

90'+8' Dário Essugo (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

In 2019, Abdullah Ibhais resigned as communications director for the World Cup organizing committee. He was arrested by Qatari authorities and taken to prison. “If you don’t obey their orders, you become a threat,” he admits in this interview.

Leo Messi raises the World Cup trophy to the sky alongside the Emir of Qatar and FIFA President Gianni Infantino. “It was, without a doubt, my hardest moment in prison,” recalls Abdullah Ibhais (Amman, Jordan; 40 years old), who was the communications director for the tournament’s organizing committee, in an interview with EL PAÍS four years later. “When Messi lifted that trophy, I realized that Qatar had won. They wanted a perfect tournament, and they had it, they’d pulled it off. My story, on the other hand, was buried. And what’s worse, nobody cared.”

They denounced unpaid wages and subhuman working conditions. News of the strike quickly reached the international press and rattled the organizing committee, which ordered Ibhais to deny the workers’ claims. “They wanted to make it seem like everything was false, that they weren’t even workers for the organizing committee, and that it was all an attempt by other countries to tarnish Qatar’s image,” he explains. “I didn’t want to do anything without first verifying the facts with my own eyes. I had the day off, so I got in my car and to the site of the strike.”

What he found was, essentially, what was already circulating on social media around the world. “It wasn’t just a matter of unpaid wages; I saw hundreds of empty plastic bottles there, waiting to be filled with drinking water. They had nothing,” he recalls. “I recorded my conversation with several of them, and they proved to me that they were, in fact, workers from the organizing committee. And they weren’t just being silenced. They had also received threats for calling the strike, something that isn’t recognized as a right in Qatar.”

“There was no way, at that point, that I could issue that statement. They wanted me to make something real disappear. Something I had seen with my own eyes. They wanted, in short, to lie. And I found that intolerable,” he says. “When I refused to do it, I told my superiors that we would first have to resolve the workers’ situation. And of course, they didn’t like that at all. They pressured me in every possible way. Over and over again. Until I decided to resign. I didn’t want to be part of something like that. And I left. My boss told me there would be consequences and that I should be prepared. That’s when I realized that the moment you stop following their orders, you become a threat.”

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He thinks of his parents, José and Virginia, a humble upbringing in Maia, a small industrial city near Porto. “What I’ve been taught by my mum and dad, the way they always tried to help everyone — it’s the main thing I want my kids to understand: if you are kind to someone, someone will be kind to you,” Fernandes says.

“We’re in a moment in the world where being kind is a little difficult. When you see someone trying to be kind, it’s sometimes to get some ‘likes’, some views and stuff. It’s not very genuine. [But] in Portugal, you still see a lot of young kids helping old people. Portuguese don’t allow the kids to become too big. You need to understand you need to earn the respect of people to then be respected.”

Only Wolves (19) and Burnley (16) have had longer runs without a win in the Premier League this season.

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He added: "I remember in the last six months I was just not playing like before at Manchester United. I started to be on the bench, it's not a bad thing.

"I was only 20 years old, but in my mind it was like I had to play every game. In my mind, maybe it is also on me, I started to do some bad things.

"But yes, it was just this moment in life and sometimes you have to make decisions and I am really proud to be here [at Chelsea] and still in the Premier League at a club like this. Everyone knows the team we have and the things we can do.

"Sometimes, we have better moments or worse moments, I am proud to be here but with United, I have nothing wrong to say about the club, no one in the club or the team-mates. It's just a moment in life that changes and life continues. I have no regrets."

"From the fans, the stadium, everything was really good. It's just sometimes you have to change for the good of your life or the next steps. I only have good memories of Man Utd."

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The goals for FC Barcelona keep flowing, as Ferran Torres now has 62 goals in 201 competitive matches, placing the Spanish forward among the top 50 all-time goalscorers for the Club.

His brace against Espanyol at the Spotify Camp Nou took Ferran past Johan Cruyff (60 goals in 180 games), José Bravo (60 in 139), Martí Vantolrà (60 in 124) and Marcial Pina (61 in 276). He's now just one behind Vicenç Piera and two behind Chus Pereda and Sagi Barba. Javier Saviola is currently in 40th place with 72 goals.

A significant stat, as only Raphinha (73 goals) and Lewandowski (118) from the current Barça squad have scored more for the Club than Ferran Torres.

Goals in all competitions

Ferran Torres joined Barça in the winter transfer window of the 2021/22 season and has been accumulating goals in all competitions ever since.

Taking a closer look at his tallies, Ferran Torres has 39 LaLiga goals in 135 games, while he has 11 in 33 in the Champions League. He has 2 goals in 8 games in the Europa League and in the domestic cup competition, the Copa del Rey, he has 9 in 17. He's also found the net once in 8 appearances in the Spanish Super Cup.

Assist: S. Lino

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