#player-confidence

#player-confidence

He doesn't have a defence that protects him. He doesn't have a defence that gives him confidence. They leave him very exposed during every game, and that makes it extremely difficult for him to keep a clean sheet, he explained. Canizares went further, suggesting that the problem is structural rather than individual. In his view, Barcelona currently lack clear defensive concepts that help safeguard their goalkeeper. This, he warned, could eventually hurt Garcia's confidence and overall performance as the season progresses.

I think he's definitely got that sort of mentality that nothing seems to really bother him, so that's a pretty incredible trait to have as far as he just doesn't really ride the waves of what's going on around him. He has that kind of confidence and swagger about him, and just wants to play on the biggest stages, and that's what seems to bring out the best in him. Yeah, he was fun to get a chance to play with, especially on a line for a little bit there too. Not surprised to see he's thriving under the new dress code.

This is what I've been asked to do. I've not had any discussions beyond that. I did the job this week and concentrated on the games. All the discussions with that will unfold in the next couple of days.

I have been playing a lot of minutes down there, and that is fun. Obviously, I want to be here, but you can't really look in terms of what-ifs. I have been around here for a while with this organization and in the NHL. If you keep playing that (what-if) game, it's not good for you mentally. It is just about putting one foot in front of the other, working hard, and being a good teammate.

Following a heavy challenge by Renato Veiga that resulted in a straight red card, Yamal became the clear target of the home supporters. In fact, sections of the Villarreal crowd felt the Barcelona youngster had exaggerated the contact. Whether fair or not, the verdict from the stands was immediate. Every touch from Barça's number 10 was met with loud whistles and constant jeers.

Maybe I have a theory to rotate because it's impossible to sustain but I had a lot of confidence in them and I still do. I have a huge value for what they are as football players. Maybe I think higher of them than they think about themselves. It was a good lesson for me, as experienced as I am as a manager it was a good lesson for me for the future.

The Toronto Maple Leafs ' lack of secondary scoring early on in the season was one of the main negative talking points surrounding the team, but Max Domi did his part to chip away at that narrative with two goals on Tuesday night. He scored the opening goal and the game-winner to help lead the Leafs to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames, and overall looked much more confident than he did in the first few weeks of the season.

More timidity to observe, more vulnerability in defence, more powder-puff stuff up front, more wide men running in ever decreasing circles. Another defeat, another performance that along with zero goals and zero points had zero positives. In the last few seasons, Rangers, for all their other faults at the time, went toe-to-toe with Athletic Bilbao, Benfica, Red Bull Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund.

I don't know what Jadon Sancho is doing at the moment though, Merson said. He's not running at anybody, not committing people and not taking chances! Sancho needs to stop playing it safe and has to take risks with the ball at his feet. If you lose the ball, no one cares. Try and make things happen instead of just passing it around.

Five league games, zero wins and 10th in the 12-team Scottish Premiership, Neil McCann's assessment that "a lot of things are going wrong at the minute" at Rangers is an accurate one. In the Ibrox side's latest dismal display - a first defeat at home to Hearts since 2014 - Russell Martin became the first Rangers head coach to fail to win any of his first five league games in 47 years.