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Eden Hazard came off the substitutes' bench to send Chelsea into the Carabao Cup semi-final at the expense of Bournemouth. A foot injury meant Hazard was not risked from the start, but he came on with 30 minutes to go and scored a deflected effort six minutes from time to settle Wednesday's quarter-final at Stamford Bridge. Hazard's 10th goal of the season earned a 1-0 win to keep Maurizio Sarri's hopes of his first managerial silverware alive and ended the Cherries' bid for a first League Cup semi-final place. The fixture was a repeat of the same stage of the same competition a year ago. Then Dan Gosling's 89th-minute equaliser was rendered irrelevant by Alvaro Morata's stoppage-time winner in Chelsea's 2-1 victory. Both sides made six changes, with Bournemouth fielding a three-man defence, five-man midfield and a frontline which included Callum Wilson, who has been linked with a January move to Stamford Bridge. Chelsea, as expected, dominate...

Manchester United have sacked Jose Mourinho following the team's disappointing start to the season, Goal.com reports. "Manchester United announces that manager Jose Mourinho has left the club with immediate effect," a statement, obtained by the news site, read. "The club would like to thank Jose for his work during his time at Manchester United and to wish him success in the future. "A new caretaker manager will be appointed until the end of the current season, while the club conducts a thorough recruitment process for a new, full-time manager."

*BREAKING💥: Man United♦ Part Ways With Mourinho*😱 Manchester United have decided to relieve Jose Mourinho's duties as manager with immediate effect. This follows United's disappointing 3-1 loss to arch-rivals Liverpool last Sunday after which questions were raised on the team's listless performance. Mourinho has struggled this season with the team languishing in the 6th spot with just 26 points, a massive 19 points off league leaders Liverpool. Off field fractions with star player Paul Pogba has not helped the Portuguese tactician either and he now finds himself out of a job. "Manchester United announces that manager Jose Mourinho has left the club with immediate effect," a club statement read. "The club would like to thank Jose for his work during his time at Manchester United and to wish him success in the future. "A new caretaker manager will be appointed until the end of the current season, while the club conducts a thorough recruitment...

The Federal Government has said that talks with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have so far been fruitful, expressing optimism that the ongoing strike by the university teachers, will soon be called off. According to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, this is predicated on the FG’s consideration of some of ASUU’s demands, including the submission of the union’s list of outstanding payments, and the identification of some areas in the universities in need of revitalisation as contained in the signed 2009 agreement. Ngige said: “There are areas that are still outstanding which we are going to address on the 17th. We have the issue of shortfall of salaries, that of some federal university workers. ASUU has given a list to the office of the Accountant General.“We agreed that by Wednesday that the list will be checked to find out really whether those universities were actually paid and they have to be visited and paid the outstanding lecturers there. So,...

*ASUU storms out of meeting with FG*  Abuja On: December 17, 2018 Leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday stormed out of a conciliatory meeting with the Federal Ministry of Education summoned by Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige. The meeting, which was scheduled to commence at 5.00pm, started about one hour behind schedule but ended abruptly as the ASUU delegation led by its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyomi walked out less than one hour after. But the leadership of ASUU refused to comment on why they were walking out of the meeting. Speaking at the commencement of the meeting on Monday, Ngige expressed shock that the issue of short fall in salaries of university lecturers was still lingering. He however expressed hope the ongoing strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will soon be resolved. The Minister said he expects the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to brief the meeting...