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LIVERPOOL, England: Liverpool center back Virgil van Dijk is on track to start at Newcastle on Saturday after sitting out for nearly six weeks with a hamstring injury. The Netherlands captain hasn’t played since early January though he was on the bench against Everton in a 2-0 win that Liverpool hopes will reboot its top-four hopes in the Premier League.
Frenkie de Jong has revealed that Wout Weghorst told him he’d try and scupper his game ahead of Manchester United’s Europa League clash with Barcelona on Thursday.
ROTTERDAM (Netherlands): Grigor Dimitrov saved two match points before edging past Alex De Minaur 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (8/6) on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the ATP 500 tournament in Rotterdam.The former world number three, now ranked at 28, will meet either defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime or Daniil Medvedev in Saturday's semi-final.De Minaur, ranked three places higher than the Bulgarian, had won the last two of their three previous meetings but he was on the back foot in the opening exchanges and gave up the first set.The Australian came back strongly, though, to take the second and push the game into a decisive third.
Josip Juranovic took the plaudits from the German media for his performance against Ajax that helped Union Berlin pick up a creditable draw in Amsterdam.
Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) says he is “fully built up” for the start of the road season for the first time in his career after a condensed cyclo-cross campaign. Pidcock missed out on defending his cyclo-cross world title earlier in February, instead choosing to bank a solid training block ahead of the spring Classics. In his absence, Mathieu van der Poel edged Wout van Aert in a thrilling duel in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Phil Foden isn't unfamiliar with the bench.
Monaco beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 in the first leg of their Europa League playoff thanks to a 92nd-minute winner, while Juventus were held by Nantes and Roma lost at RB Salzburg. Xabi Alonso saw his Leverkusen side go behind to an early Lukas Hradecky own goal, before two second-half strikes from Moussa Diaby and then Florian Wirtz appeared to set the hosts up for a comeback victory.
Calvin Bassey shut down some of his Ajax doubters as Dutch pundits singled him out as one of the only players worth praise in their 0-0 stalemate with Union Berlin.