CONCACAF Champions League Live Table, Top Scorers & Fixtures

#	Player	Team	Goals Total	Assists	Appearances	Minutes	Rating
1	Paulinho	Toluca TOL	8	1	7	622	7.59
2	Gabriel Pec	Los Angeles Galaxy ANG	6	0	6	540	7.52
3	D. Bouanga	Los Angeles FC	5	0	7	577	7.23

#	Player	Team	Goals Total	Assists	Appearances	Minutes	Rating
1	Son Heung-Min	Los Angeles FC	2	6	8	646	7.04
2	O. Nwobodo	FC Cincinnati	0	5	4	265	7.33
3	Cavan Sullivan	Philadelphia Union PHI	2	3	4	223	7.53

Not so black and white: how Eddie Howe lost control at Newcastle in one summer | Louise Taylor

theguardian.com · 2 days ago

Everything was looking rosy for Howe at St James’ Park until Alexander Isak’s departure led to rushed signings and a messy seasonLast September, David Hopkinson, just installed as Newcastle’s chief executive, perched on a stool at a downstairs corner table in Shearer’s Bar at St James’ Park and between sips of zero alcohol lager, likened Eddie Howe to Bruce Springsteen. According to Hopkinson, Newcastle’s manager was “the Boss” and “the talent”. He conjured up an imaginary scene involving Springsteen asking for M&M’s before a concert and being duly supplied with a dressing room overflowing with the brightly coloured confectionery. The same principle, he said, would apply to “Eddie”, who would e furnished with “whatever he wants”.Six months later, things had changed. In late March, Hopkinson sat around a heavy wooden table in a St James’ Park boardroom and, between sips of coffee, said he did not “have a stance on the manager’s future”. What he could tell assembled reporters was that a recent home defeat by Sunderland “hurt”. It “resonated” and was being taken “seriously”. Given that Newcastle had just lost a Champions League tie 8-3 to Barcelona on aggregate and were en route to finishing 12th in the Premier League, Howe admitted to “sleepless nights” before a summit with the club’s majority Saudi Arabian ownership at Matfen Hall hotel in Northumberland the following month. Continue reading...

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