Coppa Italia semifinals arrive featuring Milan Derby; USWNT convene for pair for Brazilian friendlies

Hello there! It is a big cup week in Europe, while in the US the national team of women prepares for a new crucial international break, while the era of Emma Hayes of experiments continues. I am Pardeep Cattry with the newest.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 EPL: Arsenal vs. Fulham, 2.45 pm ➡️ Peacock
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🇪🇸 Copa del Rey: Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad, 3.30 pm ➡️ ESPN+
🌎 CCC: La Galaxy vs. TIGRES, 11:15 PM ➡️ FS2

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🇮🇹 Coppa Italia to Final Four

The first stage of the semi -finals of Coppa Italia starts this week as two of the heavyweights of Italy in a few surprise candidates in a search to end the season with at least one big trophy to their name.

Empoli starts things on Tuesday when they organize Bologna in a face-off between two unexpected semi-finalists, both of whom embrace the spirit of unpredictably deep runs that can only promote cup competitions. Bologna will serve as the favorites in this draw while continuing an impressive first season under manager Vincenzo Italiano, who she has in fourth place in the Serie A when things are standing. They are one of the best scoring parties in Italy with 50 goals in 30 league matches, with Riccardo Orsolini to 11 goals and Juan Miranda with eight assists. They will like their chances of Empoli, which are in the relegation zone and this season 47 goals have given in the competition game, but the hosts have made an impression during their cup run. They earned a place in the semi-final after beating reigning champion Juventus in the quarterfinals, so that they were brought to punishments after a 1-1 draw.

However, the headline act of the week is the latest edition of the Della Madonnina derby on Wednesday. Inter Face AC Milan at a crucial point in the season of both teams, although it is difficult not to claim that the scenario promotes the side of Simone Inzaghi. Everything is trending in the right direction for Inter, which are currently on top of Serie A and have also earned a place in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. Their impressive form could enable them to take revenge on their rivals after AC Milan took the Supercoppa Italiana title home in January, although Inter will be helped by the fact that Milan’s up and down season will simply not stop. AC Milan is currently ninth in Serie A after the loss of Sunday against Napoli, where Nigel REO-Coker claims that The game was another showcase for the persistent problems of the team And new signing sessions in the winter have done little to tackle the problems.

• REO-COER: ‘Milan is still not a team. They are individuals. Since [Sergio] Concuicao has been taken over, we have seen individual moments. We have not seen full team performance. … they don’t play for the team, they play for their own individual self. Joao Felix went there. We talked about Joao Felix. He didn’t do it for me [anything] Since being in Milan. He didn’t even show me a 15 -minute block to say this is this [his] Quality, everything is missing [are] pieces around him. “

This draw is demonstrably to lose inters, although Milan has just as much to play. This was supposed to be an ambitious season for Milan and although they have wasted opportunities to impress the Serie A and the Champions League, they are still very hunting for a meaningful trophy in an other forgetful season. Whether they can actually get them together or not, is the big question.

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🇺🇸 USWNT focuses on young people in preparation for Brazilian games

The national team of American women is gathering this week in the Los Angeles area prior to two friendly matches against Brazil that will prove to be crucial for a young and inexperienced group of players.

Head coach Emma Hayes has collected a selection with 17 players with 30 or fewer performances at international level in the hope of expanding the player pool as the long countdown to the World Cup 2027 continues. Hayes also still embraces a spirit of experiments by tuning the U-23 USWNT camp from April to the sessions of the Senior Team, using the youth national team as a sort of reserve team to develop the next generation of players. The U-23 group includes players such as Gisele Thompson and Eva Gaetino, who have caps for the senior team, and Hayes outlined her plans to fully explore the player pool in an interview with CBS Sports on Sunday.

• Hayes: “I want to reach at the end of June, where I have a very strong feeling of a core group of players who are part of the Build to the World Cup, but also know that we need some consistency in relationships, connections on the field and we have to refrain from evaluating players on an individual level and I think they are not ready for the world. [U-]23s, we give them opportunities to make progress without the lenses on them and the expectations that are through the roof and from there those versions, in combination with their club performance, will give us an indicator of which of that pool ready to claim until [the senior team]. “

Brazil offers a formidable test for an experimental USWNT, because they are in the middle of a period of exploration itself. Head coach Arthur Elias has 16 players with 30 or fewer caps in his selection while preparing for the World Cup in two years, although a handful of holdovers of the gold medal match at the Olympic Games of last summer – which won the USWNT – made the cut for both teams.

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🏆 Club Leon’s CWC -Replacement: FIFA is considering a play-off of one game between Lafc and Club America to decide which team enters the World Cup after Club Leon was kicked out of the competition earlier this month.

🇧🇷 Dorival Out: After their 4-1 loss against Argentina in the World Cup qualification, Brazil fired Dorival Junior, which opened the possibility that Carlo Ancelotti would join the team to the team and ideas that top managers fit well at the international level in the future.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FA Cup -Results: The FA Cup -and and a half finals in Wembley Stadium are set, with Manchester City in the eyes of Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace to be confronted with Aston Villa.

⚫⚪ Juventus Win: Kenan Yildiz scored on Saturday in the victory of Juventus at Genoa and marked a strong start for the new manager Igor Tudor.

🇪🇸 La Liga Title Race: Barcelona maintained a three -point lead over Real Madrid in the LA Liga title race after both teams had won victories during the weekend.

🔴 Arsenal Hire Berta: Arsenal hired ex-Atletico Madrid-Exec Andrea Berta as their new sports director and filled the vacancy that had been left by Edu after his departure in November.

🌴 Messi scores again: Lionel Messi noted his fifth goal of the season in the victory of Inter Miami at the Philadelphia Union, and only did this two minutes after the game.

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💵 Dear bets

• Premier League: Arsenal vs. Fulham, Tuesday, 2.45 pm
  💰 The Pick: Bukayo Saka to Score (+200) – Arsenal is back from the international break with a chance of a simple victory against Fulham and may have a lot to celebrate. After his return to the training of the first team, Bukayo Saka was able to play his first game in three months after the recovery of a hamstring injury and although expectations may not be high for the English international, the fact that he still has the second best goal scorer of the Gunners is this season that he has a reasonable chance of a reasonable chance of a reasonable opportunity on the scoreshet.
• Copa del Rey Half -finals: Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad, Tuesday, 3.30 p.m.
  💰 The Pick: Real Madrid to win 2-1 (+700) – Real Madrid are the favorites to win and they will most likely consider their Starpower, but the victory margin is under discussion about their track record this season. The side of Carlo Ancelotti did not held a clean slate in their last five games and did not win a match with more than a target margin in their last six, a run with the 1-0 victory they have chosen at Real Sociedad in the first stage of this draw in February. Another tightly driven game could be on the road in Madrid, although one that the hosts should for the most part should manage well.

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