Manchester United will not be able to count on their midfielders in the next English championship match against Newcastle Kobby Mainu AND Bruno Fernandes. Both players will miss the match due to injury. According to the mentor Manchester United Ruben Amorim, Mainu will return to the field before Fernandes, but the exact date has not been announced.

Encounter Manchester United — Newcastle will be played on 26 December.

Russian goalkeeper of the French football club Paris Saint-Germain Matvey Safonov he was recognized as the team’s best player in December by journalists from the Le Parisien newspaper. This is reported on the official website of the publication.

In December Safonov spent PSG four games, in two of which he kept his goal intact. In the final of the Intercontinental Cup, where PSG beat Brazilian Flamengo, the Russian saving four shots in the post-match penalty shootout.

Safonov received an average rating of 7.25 points (maximum 10) from Le Parisien journalists. Second place went to Warren Zaire-Emry (7 points), third place went to Viljan Pacho (6.31). Georgian football player Khvicha Kvaratskhelia took fifth place, receiving 6 points.

The Intercontinental Cup became the sixth trophy for 26-year-old Safonov as part of the French team. The Russian goalkeeper has moved PSG in the summer of 2024 from Krasnodar, last season he won the Champions League, the French Championship, the National Cup and the Super Cup, as well as the Super Cup of UEFA.

Vitaly Kafanov continues to work as a goalkeeping coach for the Russian national football team. This was reported by the press officer of the Russian national team Ekaterina Grishenkova.

Previously inside Average information appeared that Kafanov is the main candidate for the post of head coach of Rubin Kazan, which intends to fire the current coach of the team Rashida Rakhimova.

“We do not comment on the rumors that have appeared. Vitaly Vitalievich Kafanov continues to work as a goalkeeping coach of the Russian national football team,” Grishenkova said.

Rakhimov has led Rubin since April 2023. After 18 rounds, the Kazan team has scored 23 points and ranks seventh in the Russian championship table.