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After suffering a horrifying ear injury in the previous round, Jean-Philippe Mateta is “ready” to play for Crystal Palace in their FA Cup quarter-final against Fulham on Saturday.

In Palace’s FA Cup fifth-round victory on March 1 after being kicked in the head by Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts, Mateta needed 25 stitches to his left ear.

Roberts was given a lengthy six-game suspension after catching Mateta as he ran out of the net.

The 27-year-old French striker has missed a game that included a two-week international break.

Mateta has 15 goals in all competitions this season, according to Palace manager Oliver Glasner, who confirmed on Friday that the weekend game will be played at Craven Cottage.

The Austrian remarked, “Oh no, he’s been training with us for two weeks.” It’s important for him to train a little bit, he says, “Of course, always with his protection.”

He said, “We had a game inside of us during the international break where he could play for 60 minutes without any issues.” He’s ready. “

When Fulham comes to play, Mateta will wear a protective mask.

Because he is tall enough, I told him to try water polo, “said Glasner.” He claims to be comfortable despite the appearance of something strange.

“Let’s see, tomorrow when he scores a header, it was the right mask and protection,” he said.

Steve Parish, the chairman of the Palace, described the situation as the “most reckless challenge” he had ever seen, but Mateta claimed there was “too much emotion” in the midst of the battle.

When Liam texted me while I was in the hospital, I said, “It’s okay, it’s football,” Mateta told Sky Sports. He thanked me. He was concerned.

Even if Manchester City salvaged a disappointing season by winning the Club World Cup, manager Pep Guardiola has admitted that he and his players do not deserve a bonus.

Guardiola’s team are currently fifth in the Premier League and has lost both the Champions League and League Cup.

City, who have won the English title for the previous four years, could finish the year without a major trophy for the first time since Guardiola’s inaugural season in charge in 2016/17.

With a quarter-final match against Bournemouth looming on Sunday, their only chance of capturing domestic silverware is in the FA Cup.

Guardiola believes City are performing so poorly that they will not deserve a bonus from the large prize pool at the post-season tournament in the United States, even if they win the FA Cup or the Club World Cup in June and July.

The Club World Cup winners will receive up to $125 million in prize money, with a total prize pot of $1 billion going to the 32 participating clubs, according to FIFA, the world’s governing body.

This season, we don’t deserve it. This season, we don’t deserve a bonus. Guardiola stated to reporters on Friday, “I don’t know how much if we win,” but the club benefits.

A Spanish appeals court overturned former Brazilian football player Dani Alves’ conviction for rape on Friday, arguing that his trial had “shortcomings” and “inaccuracies” and was biased.

A young woman raped in a Barcelona nightclub’s VIP bathroom on December 31, 2022, and Alves was given a four-and-a-half year jail sentence in February of that year.

After posting the one million euros ($1.1 million) bail set by the court, the 41-year-old, who won the Champions League three times with Barcelona, was released from jail in March. He is currently appealing his release.

The player’s conviction was “annulled” by the appeals court, which according to the appeals court’s four judges “unanimously” accepted.

The court also rejected the public prosecutors’ appeal for a nine-year, more severe jail term.

In its decision, the court said that Alves’ trial contained “a number of gaps, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and contradictions regarding the facts, the legal assessment, and its consequences.”

According to the prosecution’s witness statements, the victim claimed that Alves had violently forced her to have sex despite begging him to let her go, causing her “anguish and terror” while she testified behind a screen to protect her identity during the trial.

Alves first claimed he had never met the woman, but later later claimed they had sex over a sexual encounter.

The victim’s attorneys claimed during the trial that she had been “glued” to the player while dancing in a nightclub.

Alves was a key member of a formidable Barcelona team that won 126 caps for Brazil and the Copa America twice, winning the title six times.

Along with Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus, he also won European league titles.

The Madrid court hearing on Friday announced that legendary coach Carlo Ancelotti will go on trial next week for allegedly failing to report income to the country’s tax office.

The 65-year-old Italian is accused of having allegedly cost Spain’s Treasury more than one million euros ($1.1 million) in unreported earnings from image rights in 2014 and 2015 and is being sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.

According to a court spokesman, the trial will begin on Wednesday and will likely last two days.

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Ancelotti, who has won a total of five Champions League titles, including three with Real, must be present, he added.

Even though he himself claimed to be a tax resident in Spain and indicated that his residence was in Madrid, the prosecution accuses him of only declaring the personal remuneration received from Real Madrid in his tax returns for those two years.

They accuse Ancelotti of allegedly starting a “confusing” and “complex” system of shell companies to stifle his extra income from both his image rights and those of others, including real estate.

Ancelotti&nbsp was ordered to go on trial for the affair in a Spanish court in 2023, but there was no fix date.

When asked about the case, Angelotti claimed last year that the affair was “an old story that I hope will be resolved soon.”

He joined Real Madrid in 2013, leaving in May 2015, and then became a Bayern Munich employee the following year.

The former international midfielder from Italy, who won the European Cup twice with AC Milan before making his Real Madrid debut in 2021.

Along with his success in the Champions League, he has also won domestic titles with Real Madrid and Milan, Chelsea in England, Bayern Munich in Germany, and Paris Saint-Germain in France.