Ex-Reds striker Michael Owen added: I've never seen a guy come in and hit the ground running like him. To pick up the way Liverpool play straight away like he has is incredible. And now there is no question about it, he's a starter.
Ali McCann's first Preston goal stunned Scott Parker's leaders by sentencing Bournemouth to their first Championship defeat of the season.
They have won six of the last eight matches against Honduras, last losing to the Central Americans in 2013 when they met in the World Cup qualifiers.
Following on from his wasteful performance in front of goal against Leeds, where he spurned chance after chance, his confidence looked rock bottom at the London Stadium.
The Arsenal game will be his final fixture at the helm before returning to an assistant's role; Rangnick is also believed to be keen to bring in one or two assistant coaches.
At the end of the day, this is a terrible position for Chelsea to find themselves in, as it is notoriously difficult to sign quality players during the January transfer window.
As things stand, all teams in both groups can theoretically still qualify and with fixtures running all the way until March, it will be some time before the picture becomes clearer.
With Peterborough losing at home to Nottingham Forest, Paul Ince's side are now guaranteed second-tier football for another campaign.
Early season hopes of promotion out of League Two have since been washed away by consistent poor form, ultimately resulting in Derek Adams' departure last week.
Joe Gelhardt highlighting quality of Wigan academyGet Sky Sports | Get a NOW pass for £9.98Live football on Sky SportsPremier League fixtures | Table | ResultsGelhardt - or Joffy as he is nicknamed - played with great confidence and spoke of his pride despite Leeds slipping to a narrow 2-1 defeat.
This was a sickening collision that clearly left both players in enough distress for a concussion to have surely been considered a possibility at the very least. At that point, the principle of 'if in doubt, sit it out!' should have resulted in Mane being substituted without another ball being kicked.
But Brendan Rodgers' side tamely fell at this hurdle as Leicester followed Arsenal out of the competition after the Gunners had lost 1-0 at Forest in the third round.
Championship reports and resultsChampionship tableChampionship highlightsAndreas Weimann scored a hat-trick as Bristol City came from behind to win 3-2 against Millwall at Ashton Gate.
No European football after last season meant they could firmly concentrate on domestic cup competitions and the fight for a top four place in the Premier League.
The 28-year-old midfielder was not expected to return to training until the end of the month but posted a picture of himself alongside Ronaldo and Rashford on Monday.
For Manchester City it was a third home defeat of the season and another heavy loss. They were beaten 5-0 by Arsenal earlier in the campaign.
Despite all of that, Arsenal are at home on Saturday, where their record is a lot better, and I still think they will beat Southampton, who should have beaten Brighton easily last week but would probably take a draw here, if they can get one.
My first year at Bournemouth was also a relegation battle, so I've been in the position many, many times.
The France midfielder ripped Leeds apart at Old Trafford earlier in the campaign, grabbing four assists as their man-to-man style failed miserably to contain him.
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It helps to explain why Liverpool have one trophy already won and three more in their sights. That is too early to say and given Manchester City's quality, there can be no guarantees.
Stopping Manchester City though will be Gerrard's toughest managerial challenge of his career so far.
This is for the first time that the statue of Cristiano Ronaldo has come up in India. This is nothing but to inspire our youth, Goa minister Michael Lobo told ANI.
Roberts nudged Morton to the floor and Oliver Langford gave a controversial penalty to Posh, much to the disgust of the Blues faithful.
The elements of Beattie's story that resonated with Cavallo will strike a chord with many other gay and bisexual men in sport.
They put Scotland under a lot of pressure, and they managed to take that pressure, absorb it and use it to fire us forward.
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We can improve. This performance and the last few performances have given us great confidence but in England this league is difficult.
Guardiola had to take a PCR test after a lateral flow test showed an inconclusive result upon his arrival at City's training ground on Friday.
I was going into the U21s and I got a phone call the day before from Gareth to say I am in the first team.
The visitors were second best for long periods of the game but gained a point through Matty James in stoppage time.
“Who says he has to run 12 kilometres in every game?” Leonardo asked. “He’s been playing the same way for 20 years.
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And it was Canada international Hoilett who caused numerous problems for the Stoke defence on the right flank early on.
Northern Ireland's hopes of reaching next year's World Cup were dealt a heavy blow with a controversial first-half red card playing its part in a 2-0 loss to Switzerland.
As the Reds tried, in vain, to complete the signing of Fabio Carvalho from Fulham on deadline day, Diaz was in action again for Colombia, who suffered a defeat against Argentina which left their World Cup qualification hopes in tatters.
Kevin also scored with a great header from Connor Shields' superb cross, so you can see why the fans love him.
They go around the pitch, they touch the ball many times, they make us run. It's hard to play against them.
Too often the understandable desire not to misuse a position of authority can lead to a blanket refusal to say anything much of anything, as if football could be depoliticised and decontextualised by the magical power of keeping quiet. Refreshing, then, to see Klopp take his lines of communication and use them. More of this, please.
For Ivory Coast, their failure to reach Qatar is being viewed back home as a disaster given their wealth of talent.
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To be out of the top four would be unthinkable. Unthinkable. They would've budgeted everything, everything about it - season tickets, everything.
Full-back Cresswell picked up a back problem during Sunday's defeat at Manchester City which saw him substituted during the second half, but has been able to resume training.
Benitez has not decided whether to reinstate the Frenchman, 28, for Sunday's trip to Crystal Palace.
The FA Cup's alive and kicking, especially in Middlesbrough tonight, he said. The scenes at the end.
Hibs midfielder Jake Doyle-Hayes is a fitness doubt for the trip to Tannadice. The Irishman went off injured against Aberdeen on Wednesday.
Rangers are understood to be very pleased with developments after a thorough process led by sporting director Ross Wilson, with a host of strong candidates on their shortlist.
Bernardo Silva then set up a tense finale when he slid home from close range in the 90th minute. That was the feeling I had when I saw the first half because of the quality of the opponent.
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