LEICESTER // Manchester City midfielder Frank Lampard notched a trademark goal on Saturday to draw level with Thierry Henry in fourth place on the list of leading English Premier League goalscorers.
Lampard arrived late in the box to steer in a cross and secure his team’s 1-0 win at Leicester City, the 175th league goal of his prolific career.
“I’m very happy with it. I thought it was going to be out of my reach,” Lampard told the BBC.
“I have respect for Henry, he is one of the greatest in Premier League history and to be up there with him his incredible.”
Lampard, 36, scored the vast majority of his goals for Chelsea, and his landmark strike for City kept his new team in touch with his former club at the top of the table.
The defending league champions trail Jose Mourinho’s side by three points following a fifth successive league win.
“Those are the kind of games we need to get results. We needed to grind them out,” Lampard said.
“We were not at our best, but got three points. I’ve watched Leicester and seen, even though they are down near the bottom, they are not short of passion.
“We were nowhere near the force we can be sometimes, but you have to show two sides to your game and I think we did that today.”
Meanwhile, City manager Manuel Pellegrini said after the game that captain Vincent Kompany and striker Edin Dzeko will miss the rest of 2014 after suffering injuries at Leicester.
Bosnia international Dzeko sustained a calf problem in the warm-up and was unable to start the match, while Belgium defender Kompany was hit by a recurrence of his nagging hamstring strain toward the end of the match at the King Power Stadium.
The double setback adds to City’s growing injury list, and it leaves Pellegrini short of bodies in the attacking department, with strikers Sergio Aguero and Stevan Jovetic already sidelined.
Top scorer Aguero damaged knee ligaments in last weekends's victory over Everton and could be sidelined for eight weeks.
The problems and lack of offensive firepower up front forced Pellegrini to draft 18-year-old forward Jose Angel Pozo into his starting line-up at Leicester, and the youngster could now get further chances.
“We will see with Jose Pozo,” the manager said. “We have other young players in the [youth] squad Patrick Vieira manages. We will see, also, another way to play, but we are not going to complain about injuries.”
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MEDIEVIL (1998)
Developer: SCE Studio Cambridge
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Console: PlayStation, PlayStation 4 and 5
Rating: 3.5/5
Company Profile
Name: Direct Debit System
Started: Sept 2017
Based: UAE with a subsidiary in the UK
Industry: FinTech
Funding: Undisclosed
Investors: Elaine Jones
Number of employees: 8
MATCH INFO
Manchester City 4 (Gundogan 8' (P), Bernardo Silva 19', Jesus 72', 75')
Fulham 0
Red cards: Tim Ream (Fulham)
Man of the Match: Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City)
UAE cricketers abroad
Sid Jhurani is not the first cricketer from the UAE to go to the UK to try his luck.
Rameez Shahzad Played alongside Ben Stokes and Liam Plunkett in Durham while he was studying there. He also played club cricket as an overseas professional, but his time in the UK stunted his UAE career. The batsman went a decade without playing for the national team.
Yodhin Punja The seam bowler was named in the UAE’s extended World Cup squad in 2015 despite being just 15 at the time. He made his senior UAE debut aged 16, and subsequently took up a scholarship at Claremont High School in the south of England.
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Herc's Adventures
Developer: Big Ape Productions
Publisher: LucasArts
Console: PlayStation 1 & 5, Sega Saturn
Rating: 4/5
SPECS
Engine: 1.5-litre turbo
Power: 181hp
Torque: 230Nm
Transmission: 6-speed automatic
Starting price: Dh79,000
On sale: Now
ROUTE TO TITLE
Round 1: Beat Leolia Jeanjean 6-1, 6-2
Round 2: Beat Naomi Osaka 7-6, 1-6, 7-5
Round 3: Beat Marie Bouzkova 6-4, 6-2
Round 4: Beat Anastasia Potapova 6-0, 6-0
Quarter-final: Beat Marketa Vondrousova 6-0, 6-2
Semi-final: Beat Coco Gauff 6-2, 6-4
Final: Beat Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-2
Company Profile
Name: Raha
Started: 2022
Based: Kuwait/Saudi
Industry: Tech Logistics
Funding: $14 million
Investors: Soor Capital, eWTP Arabia Capital, Aujan Enterprises, Nox Management, Cedar Mundi Ventures
Number of employees: 166
Kill
Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Starring: Lakshya, Tanya Maniktala, Ashish Vidyarthi, Harsh Chhaya, Raghav Juyal
Rating: 4.5/5
Sarfira
Director: Sudha Kongara Prasad
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Radhika Madan, Paresh Rawal
Rating: 2/5
FINAL SCORES
Fujairah 130 for 8 in 20 overs
(Sandy Sandeep 29, Hamdan Tahir 26 no, Umair Ali 2-15)
Sharjah 131 for 8 in 19.3 overs
(Kashif Daud 51, Umair Ali 20, Rohan Mustafa 2-17, Sabir Rao 2-26)
COMPANY PROFILE
Company name: Klipit
Started: 2022
Founders: Venkat Reddy, Mohammed Al Bulooki, Bilal Merchant, Asif Ahmed, Ovais Merchant
Based: Dubai, UAE
Industry: Digital receipts, finance, blockchain
Funding: $4 million
Investors: Privately/self-funded
MATCH INFO
Manchester United 1 (Rashford 36')
Liverpool 1 (Lallana 84')
Man of the match: Marcus Rashford (Manchester United)
The specs
Price: From Dh180,000 (estimate)
Engine: 2.0-litre turbocharged and supercharged in-line four-cylinder
Transmission: Eight-speed automatic
Power: 320hp @ 5,700rpm
Torque: 400Nm @ 2,200rpm
Fuel economy, combined: 9.7L / 100km
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