The two bear unmistakable similarities: both are of a similar age both 5ft 9in tall both

The two bear unmistakable similarities: both are of a similar age, both 5ft 9in tall, both precociously gifted in the art of scoring goals. I haven’t got the money to go into the transfer market anyway.”The confidence is very low and has been for a long time. Paul Furlong shrugged off Steve Morrow only to shoot wide while Adebola shot across the face of the goal.Gerry Francis was blunt about his team’s performance and warned that changes could be on the way. Ravanelli wrapped it up with a last-minute strike.Metz, title contenders last season, finally gained their first victory of the new campaign with a 1-0 success at home to Monaco.

The team from eastern France had to wait for a penalty on the half-hour for Bruno Rodriguez to score the only goal.In Germany, an inspired performance by the Brazil striker Elber helped the Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich crush the champions, Kaiserslautern, 4-0.Bayern, twice beaten by Kaiserslautern last season, were in a class of their own this time. They took the lead through playmaker Karlheinz Pflipsen, but Thomas Reis equalised four minutes later before Sebastian Schindzielorz scored the winner for Bochum.Spartak Moscow, the most successful club in Russian football history, secured their sixth Russian Premier Division title in seven years with a 3-1 home win over Shinnik Yaroslavl.. GERRY FRANCIS, the new Queen’s Park Rangers manager, will have talks with Vinnie Jones today in an attempt to sort out his position with the club. Jones, who was player-assistant manager under Ray Harford, has not turned up at Loftus Road since Francis became manager. Francis said after yesterday’s defeat by Birmingham City: “I will be meeting with Vinnie and his agent tomorrow to see what he wants to do and what he doesn’t want to do.
“I have spoken to him three times on the phone and that has been both positive and negative I don’t want anyone here that doesn’t want to stay.

Elber delighted the 63,000 crowd packing the Olympic stadium by scoring two goals and setting up the other two, for Mario Basler and the Iranian striker, Ali Daei. He hit a superb first goal, a fine volley from a cross by the captain, Laurent Blanc, and struck his second from close range. Zidane’s team-mate, the Dutchman Edgar Davids, was also dismissed in the dying seconds, but by then Juve had done enough to win.Brazil’s Edmundo and Argentina’s Gabriel Batistuta each scored twice as Fiorentina thrashed Salernitana 4-0 to stay two points clear of Juventus.Fiorentina scored their goals in the second half after Salernitana had the defender Salvatore Monaco sent off for a violent tackle on Edmundo. Batistuta, with eight goals, is the league’s leading goalscorer.Milan came from behind with goals from Oliver Bierhoff, Leonardo and George Weah to beat an unlucky Roma side 3-2 and stay third. The Juventus captain slotted home from close range after Gianluca Pagliuca had blocked his 86th minute penalty, awarded for a clumsy tackle by Fabio Galante on Filippo Inzaghi.
The champions, who dominated the match, looked to have lost all hope of victory when their French World Cup playmaker, Zinedine Zidane, was dismissed for a two-footed challenge on Portugal’s Paulo Sousa in the 49th minute.

ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO scored four minutes from time to give nine- man Juventus an unlikely 1-0 win over Internazionale in last night’s Italian Serie A action. Langer, who scored his fourth half century, faced 161 balls and hit three fours and a six. That took his series aggregate to 513.Justin Langer, dropped by Moin Khan when 50, was run out while attempting a risky single with Mark Waugh. He added 56 runs for the fourth wicket with his twin brother Steve, 76 for the fifth wicket with Darren Lehmann and 63 for the seventh wicket with Gavin Robertson.The latter partnership with Robertson ended Pakistan’s faint hopes of levelling the series as he frustrated their bowlers for two hours before being the last man out.Robertson scored an attractive 45 that included 17 runs in an over of Arshad Khan. He faced 99 balls and hit five fours and a six.Resuming on 130 for 1 Mark Taylor added four more runs to his overnight score before being bowled by Arshad Khan. Australia were dismissed for 390 in the last over of the day’s play, setting Pakistan a challenging target of 419 to win.
Pakistan, who trail 1-0 in the series after losing the first Test at Rawalpindi by an innings and 99 runs, have never chased such a high target. The highest they have achieved is 315 against Australia at the same ground four years ago when they won by one wicket.Waugh was in prime form after struggling earlier in the series and his 15th century in his 81st Test was punctuated with nine boundaries and a six off 232 balls in 335 minutes.