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This release was published on openPR.It’s doubtful anyone in Liverpool ever walked into a dressing room saying: ‘We wanted Winston Churchill.’ No matter, they may have their own Dutch version of him anyway. Among his many qualities, Arne Slot evidently knows how to deliver a half-time rally cry. While securing victory in Girona to guarantee qualification to the Champions League round of 16, Liverpool continued their happy knack of improving with time. Twenty of the past 24 Liverpool goals have arrived in the second half – most after the 60th minute – which depending on your point of view means they are worryingly slow starters or love a big finish. Slot is unimpressed by this contradiction and issued rousing messages post-match too, criticising his players for their lack of application in a first half in which they were grateful goalkeeper Alisson marked his comeback with the kind of performance that underlined his status as the world’s number one. “If you ask me about all the six [Champions League] games, I’m really pleased with all the results,” said Slot. “I’m really pleased with the first five games, but I’m far from pleased about the performance tonight. “If you play against a team that has such a good idea about football and knows how to bring the ball out from the back like some of the teams we’ve played recently, such as Real Madrid and Manchester City, you need to be so intense if you want to make it difficult for them. “But if you are waiting a few seconds to press them then this team can cause you a lot of problems. Every time we lost the ball, we were not aggressive enough and they could go almost all the way to our goal and have a shot.” This is not the first public dressing down from Slot to remind his players of standards. There are occasions – albeit rare – when this extraordinarily talented group of players looks like it wants to win in second gear. They are at their most thrillingly effective at their famed ‘full throttle’ without the ball as much as with it, and Slot does not want them to slack off. He must be tired of giving the same speech during the break. Whatever messages he and his coaching team are dispatching during the intervals, his team keeps re-emerging re-energised with tactical problems solved, the momentum of games more often than not irreversibly shifting towards the Champions League and Premier League leaders. Such attention to detail is becoming a feature of Slot’s debut campaign, like a grandmaster making the necessary adjustment having rapidly assessed where his opponent is trying to strike. After Alisson’s first-half brilliance, Mohamed Salah was the inevitable attacking catalyst for victory here, his 63rd-minute penalty ending Girona’s resistance to preserve Liverpool’s 100 per cent Champions League record. That followed a prolonged period of Liverpool possession which, while also a feature of the first half, had included several lapses where the home side could have benefited from counter-attacks. Such frequent surges were snuffed out as the game progressed. This still wasn’t as straightforward as previous European victories, the evening putting one in mind of a tight away fixture at an unfashionable English stadium more than an intimidating Uefa tie. That is not surprising given how many players familiar to Premier League football were in the home line-up. Slot’s decision to pick his strongest available XI and leave out the unlucky Caoimhin Kelleher was vindicated. Alisson was called upon five times in the first 50 minutes, his capacity to make the difficult look straightforward asserting his class. This excellence laid the foundation so when former Manchester United midfielder Donny van de Beek fouled Luis Díaz, Mohamed Salah could take the points. Salah strikes again from the penalty spot! 💥 📺 & — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) “We have an incredible goalkeeper. Alisson has been so important for so many years and showed why he is, in my opinion, one of the best or the best in the world,” said Slot. Liverpool could have led sooner but squandered numerous first-half chances. Darwin Núñez remains the great Liverpool enigma, the arguments still raging as to whether Slot’s side can maintain their dominance at home and in Europe without a free-scoring number nine. No Anfield striker has embraced the phrase ‘hit and miss’ so eagerly as Núñez, his moments of quality so often caveated because of his tendency to squander routine chances, albeit while converting the spectacular. In any normal season, a central striker scoring just three goals heading to Christmas would be a cause for concern. The issue has been camouflaged by the reliability of others, especially Salah who continues to press home his case for that new deal. Diogo Jota has more goals than Nunez in this campaign and he has not played for six weeks. Nothing has happened in Jota’s absence to suggest he will not assume senior status when he returns in the coming weeks. Núñez’s defenders will point out he is working harder than ever and still making the runs beyond defenders in the hope of a decisive pass. For much of the season, he has cut a frustrated figure when not receiving the necessary assists. This was more of the Núñez of last season as opportunities came and went, the Uruguayan embracing the hit-and-hope theory to shoot directly at keeper Paulo Gazzaniga after perfect through-balls from Ryan Gravenberch and Salah. Rather than pay the penalty for wastefulness and carelessness, Liverpool won with one. The fixer Slot is recognising and correcting flaws as Liverpool march on. 07:50 PM GMT Liverpool have won six out of six And top the group by five points from Inter. 07:40 PM GMT Mo’s half-century Mo Salah is the first player in Liverpool's history to score 5️⃣0️⃣ goals in European competitions 👑 — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) 07:36 PM GMT Full time: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Salah plays a neat one-two with Szoboszlai, the latter’s contribution a cute flick, and then bends a left foot shot into a defender and behind for a corner, that comes to naught and prompts the ref to blow for time. 07:34 PM GMT 90+3 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Stuani is penalised for grabbing Gomez round the neck as they fought to head Asprilla’s cross. 07:33 PM GMT 90+2 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Frances jumps into the back of Gakpo with no hope of winning the ball. Having just been yellow-carded that was stupid. But the referee lets him off. 07:31 PM GMT 90 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Liverpool have hardly been mesmerising but they have been efficient, Alisson showed his class and they exploited a daft mistake form Van de Beek. We will have four minutes of stoppage time. 07:29 PM GMT 88 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Booking for Frances for wrestling Gakpo over as he tried to power past him. 07:28 PM GMT 86 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Alexander-Arnold bends the free-kick over the wall and Gazzaniga moves a yard to his right to tip it over. Then Gazzaniga starts going mad because there are now two balls on the pitch and makes out that Liverpool are timewasting by ignoring it and refusing to boot the interloper off. Girona defend the corner solidly. 07:26 PM GMT 84 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Elliott shimmies and gulls Juanpe who brings him down rather than let him go past. Free-kick 25 yards out, dead centre. Gazzaniga protested swearily that he couldn’t line up his wall because Alexander-Arnold would not place the ball. He was holding it in his arms. 07:24 PM GMT 82 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Shot from Martin after a cute lay-off from Stuani is blocked on the 18-yard line and then Van Dijk heads Asprilla’s resulting cross out. 07:22 PM GMT 80 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Liverpool are doing a fine containment job now. Taking off Gil and Danjuma has robbed Girona of pace. 07:21 PM GMT 78 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Salah floats a deep cross out. Booking for Gomez for standing on the veteran Stuani’s heel. His screams would make the dead shiver. 07:19 PM GMT 76 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Gakpo is playing down the left and Diaz in the middle. Elliott as a kind of inside-right. 07:18 PM GMT 74 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Van de Beek is penalised for a foul on his former Ajax team-mate Gravenberch. That’s the last contribution of Van de Beek who is hooked off along with another former Ajax man. More subs: Elliott → Jones and Solis → Van de Beek Martin → Blind 07:16 PM GMT 72 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Szoboszlai ‘wins’ a corner that should have been a goal-kick but the referee did not see the double rebound. Girona head it out to the right where Van de Beek is knocked off the ball much to his disgust and he protests when the referee waves play on. But Girona see off the second phase of Liverpool’s attack. 07:13 PM GMT 70 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Stuani → Gil Portu → Danjuma. Slot, who had Elliott and Gakpo stripped before the goal, opts for only the one change: Gakpo → Nunez. 07:09 PM GMT 67 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Diaz is fouled by Frances as he ran down the Liverpool left but the ref, inexplicably to these eyes, waves play on. Twenty of the last 23 Liverpool goals have come in the second half. Slot’s half-time team talks must be Churchillian. He certainly goes to the same barber, Chris. 07:08 PM GMT 65 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 1 Girona rally well from their disappointment twice to get in shooting distance without finding the guile or luck to beat Alisson. 07:03 PM GMT GOAL! Left corner about halfway up the post, having sent Gazzaniga the other way. Salah strikes again from the penalty spot! 💥 📺 & — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) Not saying they took ages to review that penalty decision, but Salah could have signed two more contract extensions before the VAR finally advised the referee to take a look. 07:03 PM GMT Liverpool penalty Van de Beek throws up his arms. It was a daft decision to try to tackle him from that position. 07:02 PM GMT 59 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Diaz wants a penalty and there is a VAR check when he seems to slip in the box when shaping to shoot and Van de Beek steps on his heel with one foot and hooks the second around him. Lengthy delay. The ref is sent to the screen. 06:59 PM GMT 57 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Alexander-Arnold pings over a dipping cross from the right that seems to be arrowing towards Nunez but Krejci gets there first. Slot sends his subs out to warm up, Gakpo at their head. Can only be a matter of time before Cody Gakpo comes on. Reckon Nunez has ten minutes to make sure he isn’t the one hooked. 06:57 PM GMT 55 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Diaz is booked unjustly for slipping, his momentum taking him into Frances as he fell and clipping him at most. 06:55 PM GMT 53 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Nunez receives the ball, back-to-goal, on the right of the box after Diaz wriggles through on a diagonal run and hits a pass that Szoboszlai dummies. Nunez receives it and then tries to dink it over the centre-halves for Diaz, who had continued his run, but wafts it out for a goal-kick. 06:52 PM GMT 51 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Brilliant from Danjuma with his dribble down the left, bursting past Szoboszlai and then nutmegging Alexander-Arnold but when he goes one-on-one with Alisson, albeit at an angle, he pokes his foot too far under the ball and scoops it miles over the bar. From the sublime... 06:50 PM GMT 48 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Danjuma sprays a left-foot shot wide after Van de Beek won the ball off Jones, made 35 yarsd and then laid it off to Asprilla to tee up the former Everton loanee. 06:48 PM GMT 46 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 No half-time changes and Girona pile forward from the kick-off down the left after a Liverpool error and Danjuma thunders a shot that Alisson bats away with his raised forearms. Liverpool break from the rebound and fly up the right but Szoboszlai, who has not had much impact, shanks a cross/shot that falls between both stools. 06:43 PM GMT Inspired Girona Raring to go 🔥 A look inside the Girona's changing room moments before kick off 👀 📺 & — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) 06:34 PM GMT Half-time verdict Plenty of chances in a game which has shaped up how one might have anticipated last weekend’s Mersey derby had it gone ahead, Girona sitting back and waiting for counter-attacks while Liverpool try to break a low block defence. Nunez should have had a couple, but Alisson has been the visitors’ best player. 06:33 PM GMT Half-time: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Very enjoyable first half in terms of competitive balance, much better than a lot of the unbalanced dreck we have seen in some games in this bloated phase. Liverpool are crying out for Jota’s return given the erratic nature of Nunez’s finishing. he could have had a couple of goals but then again So could Girona but for Alisson’s sharpness. 06:31 PM GMT 45 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Chance for Liverpool at the death when the left-wing cross from Robertson is back-headed by Nunez but it won’t come down quick enough for Salah who has to have a swing at it instead. The block ends the half, bang on 45 minutes. 06:29 PM GMT 44 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Danjuma breaks into a broad smile when Romeu wins the ball in midfield and triggers a counter and he uses Blind’s decoy run down the left to come infield and shoot... towards the corner flag. 06:28 PM GMT 42 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Gil hits the deck when brushed off by Diaz and earns a free-kick. May have been a foul but he hammed that dive up disgracefully. 06:26 PM GMT 40 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Alisson catches the corner. He’s had a proper workout on his comeback. 06:24 PM GMT 38 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Fine save from Alisson, diving to his left to stop Asprilla’s pile-driver with his left from the left of the D. Liverpool are not managing the space between defence and midfield well, Jones at fault that time for losing the ball. 06:23 PM GMT 36 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Alisson backpedals to catch the cross and then bowls the ball out to Salah who storms up the right and feeds Nunez with the kind of cross that John Toshack would have devoured. Nunez looks to lay it off instead and it goes away. Back come Liverpool and they work it back to the No9 who smashes his shot into a pair of white-socked shins. If Liverpool had a No9 with a killer instinct, they might win the quadruple. Nunez remains hit and miss and miss and miss... 06:20 PM GMT 34 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Girona corner on the left after Miguel’s whippy cross hit the first defender. Alisson swat the corner out but Girona win the second ball and push forward. Diaz goes to sleep and lets Frances lurk alone at the edge of the box and when the ball falls to him Gravenberch has to put it behind for another corner. 06:18 PM GMT 32 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Nunez’s very high and quick press puts Krejici under a bit of pressure and his clearance loops up off Nunez’s leg and swirls across the six-yard box. Gazzaniga catches it at full stretch. 06:16 PM GMT 30 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Girona are giving Liverpool a proper battle now. I feared for them after 10 minutes. 06:15 PM GMT 28 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Alisson comes out of the area to the edge of the D to stop Alexander-Arnold’s softish header being stolen by Danjuma. Earlier Gazzaniga diddled Nunez in his own six-yard box with a drag-back and pass. Had it not come off, Nunez would have had an open goal. Cojones. 06:13 PM GMT 26 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Diaz scoots up the byline from the left with dazzling feet. He is pursued by Frances who cannot catch him but Juanpe gets over to effect a jammy double rebound that stops it going for a corner and gives Girona a goal-kick instead. After a submissive start, Girona are growing in confidence, although suspect a couple of their chances would have been ruled out for offside had they taken them. Left back Miguel Gutiérrez looks decent. One to watch. 06:10 PM GMT 24 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Good defending at the subsequent corner should have triggered another raiding party from Girona but Asprilla messes up the release pass, Liverpool intercept and send Salah down the line to whip a cross in that Nunez cannot turn in under heavy pressure from Juanpe. 06:08 PM GMT 22 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Liverpool with a short one-two at the corner to change the angle for Alexander-Arnold who whips a cross through the six-yard box from a spot about parallel with the 18-yard line. Miguel heads it behind for a corner. 06:06 PM GMT 20 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Liverpool corner earned by the underlapping Robertson. Impressive how Girona have managed their tempo and clicked into rapid counters when given the chance. 06:05 PM GMT 18 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Girona have been troubling Liverpool in the inside-left channel and Miguel is flourishing there, striding between Gomez and Alexander-Arnold to blast a shot on goal. Alisoon slaps it away with one hand and Gil blazes over having trapped the ball nicely to set up a left-foot shot from 18 yards. 06:02 PM GMT 16 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Gil’s tenacity after running on to a pass from Asprilla gets him up off the floor having slipped 18 yards out to stab a shot into teh scrambling and horizontal Alisson’s chest. 06:00 PM GMT 14 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Liverpool break like lightning themselves from Alisson’s throw and Salah bombs down the right, two v two but opts for the shot rather than playing in Nunez who was peeling towards the far post, but slices it wide. 05:59 PM GMT 12 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 But now Girona do break and fly into the counter-attack with Miguel down the left after exchanging passes with Danjuma and beating Alexander-Arnold’s attempt to catch him offside. He fizzes a left-foot cross that Blind swings and misses at in the centre and then Gil mis-hits his shot, scuffing it and Alisson grabs it at the second attempt. 05:57 PM GMT 10 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 It’s all Liverpool who are encamped 40 yards out and Girona simply can’t hold on to the ball when they win it back, so snappy is Liverpool’s press. Joe Gomez’s shot to goal ratio in his Liverpool career is probably 100 to 0. He’s getting closer though... 05:54 PM GMT 8 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Darwin Nunez has a very good opportunity down the inside left of the box when played in by Gravenberch but he puts his laces through it, opting for sheer power rather than placement, and fires it straight at Gazzaniga. 05:52 PM GMT 7 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Blind hooks a pass up the left for Miguel to chase but he loses control by the touchline and though he claims a throw-in, he had the last touch. 05:50 PM GMT 5 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 A delay while Blind is told not to manhandle Gravenberch and/or block Van Dijk. Then Robertson whips the corner to the near post. Gomez gets on his pogo stick to meet it with a towering header that Gazzaniga bats over. From the second corner Gazzaniga runs through the six-yard box to slap it away, not entirely convincingly. 05:48 PM GMT 3 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Miguel Gutierrez makes a mess of his attempt to play out from the back and concedes a corner on the right to Liverpool. 05:48 PM GMT 2 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Gravenberch looks for Nunez with a long, aerial pass down the inside-left that floats down Gazzaniga’s throat. 05:47 PM GMT 1 min: Girona 0 Liverpool 0 Apologies – it’s not checks. It’s some kind of pattern I cannot name. Liverpool kick off and give Alisson an immediate touch and the returning keeper chips it long up the left. Girona give it straight back and Liverpool sweep the ball across defence then across midfield, Alexander-Arnold joining both lines. 05:44 PM GMT Out come the teams Girona are wearing their home kit of red and white checks, Liverpool in what the club, I kid you not, says is ‘Night Forest green and Anthracite with flashes of Washed Teal and Sail’ 05:35 PM GMT Arne Slot speaks to TNT Sports It feels really good to have Alisson back, firstly for him but also for us. We didn’t want to take any risk with him but we believe he’s absolutely ready. They have all these flags here so it’s a special occasion for Girona. It’s always a special occasion when Liverpool come. Our players are so experienced, they’ve played in so many different environments, so many stadiums. They know what it’s like to play Champions League. Some of them have won it, some have been in finals, some have been at the club when they haven’t qualified. The stadium is not so big but the style of play of Girona is something to be aware of. 05:20 PM GMT Small ground, big wages Girona’s owners have clearly invested more on players’ salaries than the infrastructure of their stadium. This is comfortably the smallest Champions League venue I can remember watching Liverpool play in. Around 10,000 fans expected this evening as some of the temporary stands are closed. Liverpool were allocated about 500 tickets. 05:12 PM GMT Girona’s tactic Michel generally prefers 4-2-3-1 so I presume Miguel will play alongside Romeu in the central two with Van de Beek in the 10 role and the three ostensibly wide forwards, Gil, Asprilla and Danjuma rotating or leaving Danjuma to play through the middle mainly. Danjuma scored two goals in the opening two games of the season starting as a central striker for Villarreal this season before being sent out on loan for the third season in succession. 04:58 PM GMT Looks familiar Girona resemble an ex-Premier League journeyman XI. Donny van de Beek probably has the most to prove as you can be sure many viewers will be watching the coverage tonight and asking: ‘Didn’t he used to play for Manchester United?’ To which the right answers will, of course, be ‘yes’ and ‘well, sort of’. 04:56 PM GMT And now for those of you watching in black and white... Gazzaniga; Frances, Juanpe, Krejci, Blind, Miguel; Van de Beek, Romeu; Asprilla, Gil, Danjuma. Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Jones; Salah, Szoboszlai, Diaz; Nunez. Benoit Bastien (France). 04:46 PM GMT Girona’s team news LINE-UP! ❤️🤍 — Girona FC (@GironaFC_Engl) 04:43 PM GMT Kelleher’s misfortune Is Caoimhin Kelleher the unluckiest keeper in the world? The Irish No 1 has been outstanding since deputising for Allison – the late equaliser for Newcastle in his last match his only blemish. But it’s back to deputising for the Brazilian. It speaks volumes for Kelleher that Arne Slot has had no need to rush Alisson back. Slot has picked a strong line-up, which is no doubt a response to last weekend’s derby cancellation. Win tonight and Liverpool are sure of being in the knockout stages. 04:37 PM GMT Liverpool team news Alisson returns: How we line up to take on Girona 💫🟢 — Liverpool FC (@LFC) 03:29 PM GMT Betting on the match today? Take a look at for free bets and betting offers 03:26 PM GMT Preview: Liverpool eye six in a row Good afternoon and welcome to live coverage of the Champions League match between Girona and Liverpool from Estadi Montilivi. This match is the sixth round of bloated group-stage fixtures and features the teams who were third in their national leagues last season but their fortunes so far could scarcely be more contrasting: Liverpool, who have won five out of five, sit top of the 36-team group and have already qualified for the knockout stage following victories over Milan, Bologna, RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen and Real Madrid; Girona are 30th with one won – over Slovan Bratislava – and defeats by Paris Saint-Germain, Feyenoord, PSV and Sturm Graz. The Catalans are ninth in La Liga and it’s not hard to see why they have struggled compared with last year. One should note that historically, they are punching well above their weight even if their profile and clout have been transformed since the City Football Group’s takeover in 2017. But the driving forces of last year’s standout season – Artem Dovbyk, who scored 24 goals, Savinho, who bagged 11 and Aleix García, their ‘Rodri’ – have all been sold and their replacements, the returning Oriol Romeu, Bryan Gil and Abel Ruiz, are yet to click. Their squad is rammed with familiar names from England’s top two tiers – Daley Blind, Donny van de Beek, Paulo Gazzaniga, Arnaut Danjuna, Christhian Stuani, Romeu, Gil and Yáser Asprilla – and Michel is such a terrific coach it is not inconceivable that he could succeed Pep Guardiola if they are willing to hire on reputation rather than name. Victory for Liverpool, who play Lille and PSV in their final two matches after Christmas, would put them one point away from an automatic bye into the last 16 which will save them two matches as they plot their charge for a Premier League and European double. Alisson is available again after 66 days out but the loss of Ibrahima Konaté‘s aerial power is not easily covered and ought to be something to consider in the January window. Yes, they are flying but the squad still looks thin to me with Konstantinos Tsimikas, Conor Bradley, Diogo Jota and Federico Chiesa – as cursed as Arthur a couple of years ago – continuing to recover from injuries and Alexis Mac Allister suspended.
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Two-time UK Championship winner Mark Selby lost in the first round of the 2024 event as fellow Englishman Jack Lisowski produced a superb fightback at the York Barbican on Sunday evening. Lisowski, 21st in the world rankings, was 3-0 behind and had only scored six points as Selby dominated the early stages with two stunning centuries. But Lisowski got back into the match and, aided by breaks of 55, 63, 100, 70 and 61, won six of the next seven frames to take the victory 6-4 and set up a last-16 tie with Ali Carter. Former world number one Mark Allen said his game "is not in a good place" after an "awful" performance as he battled to a 6-4 win over Jackson Page in the opening round. Northern Ireland's Allen, who won the tournament two years ago, only made one break of 50 against 23-year-old Page, a player 41st in the rankings and in his first last-32 match at the UK Championship. "It wasn't fun to be part of that match," said Allen. "I'm just playing like that all the time and it's hard to put my finger on why, that's the frustrating thing. "I got the job done and that's pretty much it, it was awful. I'm not in a good place with my game, everything else is fine but with snooker I'm just struggling. "I'm probably trying too hard, I just needed to give 100 per cent on every shot and nothing is coming easy for me." Allen reached the top of the world rankings for the first time in his career after the World Championship in May, before he was replaced by Judd Trump at the end of August. Now third in the world, the 38-year-old has reached two semi-finals in 2024-25, losing to Mark Selby at the British Open in September and against Xiao Guodong in the Champion of Champions earlier this month. Welshman Page led 3-2 but Allen, an 11-time ranking event winner, made his experience count as he won four of the next five frames to clinch victory. However, Allen, who plays either China's Si Jiahui or Wu Yize in the last 16, was left bemused by his lack of form. "I'm doing all the things that got me to world number one, working really hard on the practice table but it's not coming easy," he added. "I'm hoping one performance turns it around but I feel a million miles away from that. "Jackson is a brilliant talent but not very experienced on the big stage so I thought I would take advantage of that and it nearly backfired. "It's not fun, I'm not going to lie - I couldn't enjoy any part of that match. It's unsettling given how much I practice, and considering how hard I've been working. I'm probably not as far as I think I am, I'm my worst critic." In the other match in the afternoon session, England's Ali Carter defeated Welshman Ryan Day 6-4. Carter has twice lost in the semi-finals of the UK Championship, but had not won a match in the later stages of the tournament since his 9-8 loss to Shaun Murphy in the final four in 2012. "It's all about getting a win," said Carter. "Wins have been hard to come by of late and it has zapped my confidence. It was hard work from start to finish. "I found the table was quite heavy and to screw back was quite different, but you have to play on whatever the table is like. "I've had some good times here, but mostly terrible ones. I was 8-4 up in the [2012] semi-finals against Shaun Murphy and that went wrong 9-8 and I've not had too much success since then. "Everything is so dependent on doing well in the big ranking events. I've not had a good run here for a long time so let's hope it leads to one this year."None
Political Unity: We need to borrow a leaf from Kebbi – Sultan urges SokotoAttributes 2,440% revenue growth to increased adoption of its ProteographTM Product Suite and exciting discoveries made by Seer customers across multiple areas of biology and disease REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Seer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEER), a leading life sciences company commercializing a disruptive new platform for proteomics, today announced it ranked No. 57 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 TM, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 30th year. Seer grew 2,440% during this period. Seer's President and CFO, David Horn, credits increased adoption of Seer's Proteograph Product Suite, as well as new discoveries made by its customers across neurodegenerative disease, cancer, and metabolic disease, with the company's 2,440% revenue growth. "This has been an exciting year for Seer, from the launch of our technology access center in Europe, to seeing our Proteograph platform used by astronauts on the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission, to the recent announcement of our co-marketing and sales agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific,” Horn said. "We're proud to see continuing validation of our work providing customers and the broader scientific community with the power to enable deep proteomic insights at a scale and price point that hasn't been possible before." Seer previously ranked No. 5 as a Technology Fast 500 award winner for 2023. Overall, 2024 Technology Fast 500 companies achieved revenue growth ranging from 201% to 153,625% over the three-year time frame, with an average growth rate of 1,981% and median growth rate of 460%. About the 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 : Now in its 30th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech companies - both public and private - in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2020 to 2023. In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company's operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least US$50,000, and current-year operating revenues of at least US$5 million. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered within North America. About Seer : Seer is a life sciences company developing transformative products that open a new gateway to the proteome. Seer's Proteograph Product Suite is an integrated solution that includes proprietary engineered nanoparticles, consumables, automation instrumentation and software to perform deep, unbiased proteomic analysis at scale in a matter of hours. Seer designed the Proteograph workflow to be efficient and easy to use, leveraging widely adopted laboratory instrumentation to provide a decentralized solution that can be incorporated by nearly any lab. Seer's Proteograph Product Suite is for research use only and is not intended for diagnostic procedures. For more information, please visit www.seer.bio . Media Contact: Patrick Schmidt [email protected] Investor Contact: Carrie Mendivil [email protected] About Deloitte : Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 8,500 U.S.-based private companies. 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