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Welcome to Fully Equipped’s weekly Tour equipment report. Each Friday of PGA Tour weeks (plus other times, if news warrants), GOLF equipment editor Jack Hirsh will run you through some of the biggest news surrounding golf clubs on Tour, including changes, tweaks and launches.
While the presumed next iterations of Callaway’s mini driver and titanium fairway woods surfaced on Tour, it was the Quantum TD-TD driver head that actually went in play, getting conversions from both Min Woo Lee and Kevin Yu.
Two @USGA conforming list drops for Callaway this morning with the Quantum Mini driver and the Quantum Ti fairway wood. Both were part of the Elyte line last year, but there appear to be some notable changes.
Lee raised eyebrows last year when the long-hitting Aussie switched into the Elyte Triple Diamond Tour Draw head and immediately saw an uptick in driving accuracy, finishing tied for first in the category at the FedEx Open de France. This year, in two starts, his driving accuracy percentage is six points higher than in 2025.
He loved the smaller profile of the Triple Diamond TD head, and the reduced face progression (more offset) helped him get a more neutral start line than the standard Triple Diamond, making it easier for him to hit his favored pull cut off the tee.
But he still didn’t feel like he had his “bomb it” swing and was living at the higher end of spin windows, between 2,400 and 3,000 RPMs, according to Callaway Tour Rep Kellen Watson.
But in testing the new Quantum TD-TD — which hit the USGA conforming list last fall with some of the other Quantum heads — this week, Watson and Lee found a shaft change from the OG Fujikura Ventus Blue 7-X to the new Ventus Black 7-X with VeloCore+ not only brought that high spin threshold down about 300 rpms, but also tightened his delta to 2,300 to 2,700.
“Shape suited his eye very well and all the numbers were similar, but mainly the ‘all-out’ drive had a much better start line, spin rate and down-range pattern. Allowing Min to take full advantage of his length is a huge boost for his chances every week.” Watson told GOLF. “About 12 shots on the range and nine holes of practice on a very windy day at Pebble were enough to get his stamp of approval.”
Lee gained .648 strokes off the tee in Round 1 at Spyglass Hill in a round of 67 and had hit 19 of his first 25 fairways as he finished up his second round on Friday.
Meanwhile, Yu, who prefers a push draw to Lee’s fade, also found success with the Quantum TD-TD. Yu previously played the Elyte Triple Diamond Max and the Paradym Ai-Smoke Triple Diamond Max.
But the new Quantum Triple Diamond Max is a little different than the previous iterations, Watson said.
“He was trying to change swing mechanics to compensate for the small differences,” Watson explained. “In the load of testing we had done with all of our staff, we were quick to find out that the TD-TD was a great option for previous TD Max users who wanted to work the ball both ways.”
Thanks to the more neutral start line, Yu actually found he could work in a slight fade to his arsenal, a valuable weapon around a tight track like Pebble Beach.
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“In the grand scheme of things, the footprint difference between the TD-TD and TD Max is minute,” Watson said. “Kevin didn’t have any apprehension between the two shapes, especially after the first few shots with TD-TD. Ball speed, spin rates and launch dynamics were unchanged after the previous models, allowing Kevin to seamlessly transition with a new shot shape to take advantage of.”
Yu hit 11 of 14 fairways at Pebble Beach in Round 1 and gained nearly .8 strokes off the tee.
Overall, it was a big week for Quantum as Lee’s switch meant eight of the 10 Callaway staffers in the field — and 10 percent of the field — were playing a Quantum driver at Pebble.
Lee adds a versatile weapon
For someone who has 170 mph ball speed with a 2-iron, Pebble Beach would seem like an obvious track to gear back with iron off the tee, but Lee actually took the club he once called his “secret weapon” out of the bag this week.
Last week at the WM Phoenix Open, Lee added a new 21 degree Apex Utility Wood to the bag and he’s kept this week despite the windy conditions at Pebble Beach.
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“The problem in the past for me is I spun the hybrid way too much,” Lee told Callaway’s Johnny Thompson. “This one keeps the spin down, which is nice, but it still has the height, which is what you want into par-5s and into tee shots.”
The club could actually be a more long-term replacement for Lee as Watson said the club was the best option at three windows: a stinger, stock and high ball. The stinger had the same ball speed and carry that Lee gets with his utility iron, but he also got the best landing angle when he tried to hit a high ball.
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In more Callaway news, in what was otherwise a quiet week with a smaller field and a huge purse at stake, Lee wasn’t done with gear changes, making a swap at putter, too.
He had been using a prototype black and white Odyssey S2S Jailbird, but this week, he’s switched to a new Odyssey prototype putter.
From photos, we can tell the putter has four movable weights on the sole, presumably to dial in CG. Odyssey’s Cody Hale said Lee was seeking a change to something that better matches his in-to-out stroke path and had a touch more face rotation.
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Keegan Bradley also has a new Odyssey putter this week, with a new Ai-Dual Jailbird Cruiser 1/2 Ball going in for his Ai-One model. He had three dots milled into the half ball alignment aid.
He gained 1.3 strokes putting yesterday in a round of 63.
Sepp Straka moved away from his Odyssey Stroke Lab Tuttle for a similar reason, picking up a White Hot OG Rossie with a slant neck to add some face rotation, too.
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Meanwhile, Keegan Bradley also moved into an Ai-Dual 1/2 Ball Jailbird Cruiser that matched the specs of his previous Ai-One Jailbird Cruiser, but with three dots milled into the 1/2 ball.
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This section is dedicated to cool photos we’ve snapped recently on Tour, but haven’t had a reason to share yet. For this week, check out Neal Shipley’s Ping Mini Driver Prototype.
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Odds and Ends
Some other gear changes and notes we’re tracking this week.
Rory McIlroy returned to his RORS PROTO blades. … Marco Penge switched into PXG’s Tour-only Lightning Tour Max driver, the same driver Eric Cole is using, highlighting a trend we started tracking a few weeks ago with Max Homa’s switch to the Cobra OPTM LS-K prototype driver. … Wyndham Clark went back to a Titleist TSR3 driver after using a Ping G430 LST his past few starts. … Ryo Hisatsune switched from a Vokey SM11 K*-grind to a .08M in his 60-degree. … Harry Hall switched from a TaylorMade Qi4D LS driver to a Titleist GT3 and upgraded his wedges from Vokey’s SM10 to SM11. … Robert MacIntyre added a TaylorMade Qi4D 5-wood in place of his Stealth 2 Rescue. … Sepp Straka and Michael Thorbjornsen both added 21 degree Qi4D 7-woods, with Straka replacing a three-year-old Callaway Paradym 7-wood. … There were 71 TaylorMade fairway woods in play with 21 Qi4Ds out of the 80-player field.
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It happens to weekend warriors and tour pros alike: You stripe a few down the middle and your driver starts to feel automatic — until it isn’t.
In a recent video from Titleist, GOLF Top 100 Teacher Joe Hallett explains that when players get that sudden boost of confidence, it often pulls their focus from the fundamentals. The most common error? A stance that creeps too wide.
“When you start hitting the ball good, especially on the tee, there’s something that starts to sneak into you and it’s this feeling of power, the feeling that you’re invincible. And that begins to show in the width of your stance,” he says.
“Little by little, you will notice as players get up to the tee, they start to get more and more of this set and the stance becomes wide,” he continues, “That is when you need to start worrying.”
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To find your optimal driver stance, Hallett explains that you need to determine what width gives you the most accuracy and power. The best way to do that is to use Hallett’s Goldilocks method:
Hit a few drives with your feet just inside shoulder width
Then at shoulder width
Then slightly outside than shoulder width
This will help you understand how each stance width impacts your quality of contact, ball flight, accuracy and even power.
“If we keep our feet together, it kind of controls the swing, the length of the swing. That probably lends itself to more accuracy,” he says, “As the stance gets wider, it provides a little extra punch.”
Once you’ve hit a few shots with each stance, Hallett says you should start to notice a slight decline in performance as you play around with that wider stance.
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“You are going to have a phenomenon where you go, that wasn’t quite as solid,” he says, “Back that up a notch, and then you have found your stance width.”
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While your perfect driver stance is optimal for most tee shots, sometimes you really want to step on one. Hallett says that’s when you need to know how to make a wider stance work for you. In his experience, a wider stance that does not work has one commonality: The trail foot is too far outside the trail shoulder.
“This stance, I call wide right,” Hallett says.
The reason the “wide right” stance causes issues is because it forces you to make a massive move to load into your trail side, which, as Hallett explained earlier, can reduce your accuracy and power in a big way. Hallett says having your trail foot too far back can also cause you to keep your weight on your lead side through the swing, creating a reverse pivot and as a result, draining your swing of power.
“When I go to hit this, my weight’s going to move backwards. And I can tell you that moving backwards is not going to help the ball go forwards,” he says.
Instead, Hallett recommends setting up in what he calls the “correct right” stance. The key: move your trail shoulder and trail foot together as you take your stance.
This trick helps you stack your shoulders over your hips and knees, while positioning your feet slightly wider. Which allows you to load properly at the top of your backswing and generate maximum power without sacrificing control.
“Now, I’m loaded up behind the ball and I can add some extra pop into that tee shot,” Hallett says.
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To dial in your drives on the course, just remember to focus on your feet. Stick with your optimal driving stance for most shots, and when you’re ready to really crush one, set your trail foot and shoulder together. This “correct right” stance will help you load properly and unleash your a powerful, controlled strike.
Tempers flared at an Olympic curling match between Canada and Sweden Friday with a profane insult being hurled after allegations of cheating were made.
Canada beat Sweden 8-6, and Canadian third Marc Kennedy and Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson got into it after Eriksson accused Kennedy of an illegal procedure called double-touching stones after releasing them at the hog line.
Kennedy shouted, “I haven’t done it once. You can f— off,” at Eriksson.
Canada’s Ben Hebert, Brad Jacobs and Brett Gallant compete in the men’s curling round-robin against Sweden during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo Feb. 13, 2026. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
Eriksson replied, “I’ll show you a video after the game. I’ll show you a video where it’s two meters over the hog line.”
Swedish team leader Fredrik Lindberg said in a statement, “At this point, the Swedish Olympic Committee will not seek an investigation regarding the events during Friday’s game,” according to The National Review.
Sweden’s Rasmus Wranaa, left, reacts next to Canada’s Ben Hebert during the men’s curling round-robin during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo Feb. 13, 2026. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP)
Kennedy responded to the allegations after the match.
“I have a ton of respect for Oskar Eriksson,” he said. “He’s one of the best players to ever play. I just told him … I would never accuse you of cheating. I’ve been on tour for 25 years. He pulled a hog line official on us to make sure we weren’t double-touching. The hog line official was there for six ends, never said a thing and he’s still talking about it in the ninth end.
The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium on Feb. 4, 2026, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.(Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
“I don’t like being accused of cheating, so I told him what I thought of it.”
According to World Curling policy, a moving stone cannot be touched beyond the hog line, but it is not a violation if a thrower double-touches the rock before the line.
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Oct 9, 2021; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Deontay Wilder (red/black trunks) is knocked out by Tyson Fury (black/gold trunks) during their WBC/Lineal heavyweight championship boxing match at T-Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images
Tyson Fury’s return to the boxing ring will take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The former heavyweight champion’s April 11 bout against Arslanbek Makhmudov was announced last month, but the venue wasn’t revealed until this week.
Fury, a 37-year-old Manchester, England, native, hasn’t fought since losing back-to-back matches in 2024. He lost his title belts in a split decision against Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk that May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, then dropped a rematch to Usyk in a unanimous decision at the same venue seven months later.
Those were the first two career defeats for Fury (34-2-1).
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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was the site of Fury’s last title defense, on Dec. 3, 2022, against fellow Briton Derek Chisora. Fury won his next fight, vs. former UFC heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou, in Riyadh on Oct. 28, 2023, before taking the two defeats the following year.
Makhmudov (21-2) will be fighting in England for the second straight time. The 36-year-old Russian defeated David Allen by unanimous decision in Sheffield last October.
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, in addition to being home of a Premier League soccer team, plays host to two NFL games per season.
The Fury-Makhmudov fight will be shown on Netflix.
Akshay Bhatia shot an eight-under-par 64 to share the second-round lead with Ryo Hisatsune at 15 under at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Defending champion Rory McIlroy birdied the final hole to sign for a 67 but sits six strokes off the pace heading into the weekend.
The Northern Irishman made five birdies and an eagle but was left to rue bogeys on the 10th and 14th, although his four on the par-five 18th proved a more than satisfactory conclusion to the five-time major winner’s day.
American Bhatia had earlier produced one of the rounds of the day at Spyglass Hill, while Hisatsune recovered from dropping shots either side of the turn to pick up four shots in his final five holes.
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Rickie Fowler was equally as impressive as he moved into a tie for second alongside Sam Burns, at 14 under as he chases his first win since July 2023.
Austria Sepp Straka is currently the best placed European player at 12 under, with England’s Matt Fitzpatrick two shots further back along with the likes of Keegan Bradley, Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele.
Englishman Tommy Fleetwood followed his 67 on Thursday with a 68 to sit at nine under with McIlroy, with Ireland’s Shane Lowry one shot further back.
A charging Scottie Scheffler brought himself back into picture with three birdies and an eagle on a five-hole stretch after the turn to reach the clubhouse at six under across the first two days.
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England’s Justin Rose and Harry Hall are at five under with Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre, with each player in the field having played one round at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill.
All the third and fourth-round action will take place solely at Pebble Beach, with there also being no 36-hole cut at the $20m (£14.7m) PGA Tour signature event.
The truncated ISL 2025-26 season will start on Saturday. (X | ISL)
New Delhi: “Why don’t you write something positive?” said an irate Indian football official to this reporter. It was the plea of a frustrated representative who had done plenty at the grassroots level but was trying to please multiple stakeholders in the administrative chaos that is Indian football.Picture this. Only two days before the Indian Super League, the country’s top football division, was set to get underway on February 14, members of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) Executive Committee were voting on whether to keep it a 14-team league or expand it to 15 by including Churchill Brothers.
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That plea from Churchill Brothers was unanimously rejected, keeping Inter Kashi in the top division after a legal quagmire that remains unresolved. The league will therefore remain a 14-team competition with a single round-robin format, featuring 91 matches across the 2025–26 season.Yes, the 2025–26 season is finally getting underway in February 2026, five months later than originally planned. The February 14 start date was reached only after the intervention of the Sports Ministry, which wanted the delay to not affect the country’s ambitious bid to host the 2036 Olympics.All this transpired because Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), the Reliance-backed company that launched and ran the ISL since 2014, saw its Master Rights Agreement (MRA) with the AIFF end in December 2025.The AIFF, stalled by court visits and constitutional updates, neither contemplated its options leading up to this deadline nor moved to renew the association.In the interim, uncertainty prevailed over if, or when, the season would get underway. While administrators twiddled their thumbs, foreign players departed to keep their careers going. Clubs were forced to let them go to recover some costs and to respect the players’ wishes.When the season finally received a start date, organisers struggled to get stadiums in playable condition. Odisha FC will only begin training for the new season on February 17 and, with no home venue confirmed, their opening fixture against Punjab FC on February 16 has been postponed. Kerala Blasters, who at one point considered shutting shop, had no clarity on which city they could feasibly play in.After extensive back-and-forth, the AIFF readied an interim fixture list, which was officially announced just a week before the league’s start. With FanCode on board as the digital broadcaster, the linear television announcement with Sony Sports Network will only take place on the day the season begins.
Not just doom and gloom
Now for the positives amid the gloom. All stakeholders, including clubs, players, fans, sponsors and even the AIFF, deserve credit for ensuring the season was not lost. They showed maturity for the greater good.Most players have agreed to take pay cuts to keep the ball rolling, quite literally. The same applies to club owners and CEOs who have agreed to invest in a truncated season, aware that revenues will not match previous years, but have returned for the greater good.Even the AIFF, which has faced heavy criticism and could serve as a case study in administrative mismanagement, can argue that its hands were tied by legal disputes and warring factions. The fact that it eventually managed, through multiple mediators, to get everyone moving in the same direction is commendable.
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More drama in store?
Unsurprisingly, the drama and court visits may not be over. As the AIFF circulated the League Rules on the eve of the season’s start, it made clear that relegation will be implemented as per the latest Constitution.This comes barely two weeks after clubs wrote to the Sports Ministry seeking Force Majeure for the season, effectively requesting a pause on relegation.Subsequently, the club that goes down could take the legal route later if the issue is not addressed for now.
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Zac Gallen is heading back to the desert. Gallen and the Arizona Diamondbacks are closing in on a one-year contract worth $22.025 million, according to a report from The Athletic. About $14 million would be deferred. The deal matches the $22.025 million qualifying offer Gallen rejected in November. The team has not yet announced the signing, which is pending a physical.
Gallen, 30, is coming off a 2025 season in which he didn’t live up to his established standards, hence settling for a one-year contract despite finishing in the top 10 of the National League Cy Young voting three times in his career.
For his career, Gallen has pitched to a 119 ERA+ and an FIP of 3.65 across parts of seven MLB seasons. Over that span he’s compiled a WAR of 20.7, and he’s topped 30 starts and 180 innings in three of the last four seasons. Gallen spent the last six seasons and change with the D-backs, who acquired him from the Miami Marlins in July 2019 in exchange for Jazz Chisholm Jr.
Earlier in the offseason, CBS Sports ranked Gallen as the No. 18 available free agent in the class of 2025-26. Here’s part of R.J. Anderson’s write-up:
“Gallen salvaged what he could with a good 11-start closing stretch, but an otherwise miserable walk year makes him feel like a strong candidate to accept the qualifying offer (if one is tendered) and try again in 2026. Otherwise? He’s a candidate to sign a one-year deal elsewhere and modify his arsenal in an attempt to push back against a trend that has seen his performance slip in each of the past two years.”
Before Gallen’s return, FanGraphs estimated Arizona’s 2026 payroll at $173 million. That is just south of the franchise record ($177 million in 2024), so Gallen will push the club well into uncharted payroll territory. The D-backs will neither gain nor forfeit draft picks to re-sign their own qualified free agent.
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Arizona brought Merrill Kelly back earlier this offseason, and now they’ve reunited with Gallen. Those two will join lefty Eduardo Rodriguez and righties Ryne Nelson and Brandon Pfaadt in the rotation. Corbin Burnes, last offseason’s big free-agent splash, is expected to return from Tommy John surgery at midseason.
The D-backs went 80-82 last season and missed the postseason by three games. They sold at the trade deadline, most notably sending Kelly to the Texas Rangers and Eugenio Suárez to the Seattle Mariners, though they kept Gallen.
Retired wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson believes that quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s stint with the Miami Dolphins might be coming to an end. After a disappointing 2025 season, there is uncertainty regarding his future.
On Friday’s episode of Jordan Schultz’s podcast, the Super Bowl XXXVII champion said that Tagovailoa still has a chance at redemption. However, he needs the right coach and team to help guide him out of this hole.
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“The guy, if he can stay healthy, and he finds the right coach in the right system, is Tua,” Johnson said. “Because he’s done it at high level at Alabama. I’ve seen the Miami Dolphins winning when he’s healthy. And I’ve seen the Miami Dolphins without him.
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“And that tells me if he got the right coach in the right situation that understands the player, you can work miracles with him. I don’t need him to carry the team. I just need him to drive the bus and not sideswipe cars. And if he can do that, he’s a guy I think in the right situation, he gets out to places you’re trying to go.”
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The Dolphins drafted Tua Tagovailoa with the fifth overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft. However, in just six years, he’s suffered multiple concussions, raising concerns about his longevity in the league. Despite this, the team decided to give him a four-year, $212.4 million extension in 2024.
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During that season, Tagovailoa suffered his third concussion in two years, which sidelined him for a couple of games. The Dolphins missed the playoffs and finished second in the AFC East with an 8-9 record.
This season, they once again failed to make the postseason after a 7-10 campaign, finishing third in the AFC East. Tagovailoa played in 14 games and recorded 2,660 yards and 20 TDs passing with 15 interceptions and 30 sacks. He was then benched in favor of rookie Quinn Ewers for the last four games.
Last month, the Dolphins decided to fire coach Mike McDaniel after four seasons. They named ex-Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Halfey as his replacement.
Dolphins GM gets honest about Tua Tagovailoa’s future with the franchise
On Thursday, Dolphins GM Jon-Eric Sullivan shared his thoughts on the team’s quarterback situation involving Tua Tagovailoa.
He said that they plan on acquiring a quarterback at this year’s draft. However, they have not yet finalized whether they plan on retaining Tagovailoa after his disappointing 2025 season.
“Of course, we’ll be looking at other quarterbacks in the draft,” Sullivan said as per PFT. “But look, Tua was in my officec the other day, if I’m being perfectly frank. We had a great conversation. Tua has been a very good player in this league. He’s done a lot of really good things for the Miami Dolphins You guys should be proud to have him and having had him.
“I don’t know what the future holds right now, and I told Tua that. We’re working through some things. What I can tell you is that we are going to infuse competition into that room, whether Tua is part of the room, whether he’s not part of the room. … We’re getting close to a decision. And when we do, we’ll let Tua know whether he’s gonna be a part of this or not.”
In six seasons, Tua Tagovailoa played in 78 total games and has recorded 18,166 yards and 120 TDs passing for the Dolphins.
Manchester City centre-back Ruben Dias returned to the team last weekend vs Liverpool after a spell out of the squad with a hamstring injury
Manchester City centre-back Ruben Dias admits the intensity between himself and Erling Haaland during training is huge when the pair come up against each other. Alongside Haaland, Dias has won the Champions League and a further two Premier League titles as City cemented their dominance in domestic football.
While the pair are teammates at the weekend, training proves to be a different battle with no quarter being conceded by either. Explaining the dynamic, the Portuguese defender told Record: “Training with Erling? It’s dangerous. When we train seriously, there are usually sparks flying. I’d classify him as one of those strikers who has to be 100 to 0… A one percent chance is enough for him to score a goal.”
Dias spent the majority of January and the beginning of February out with a hamstring injury picked up in the draw against Chelsea. However, the 28-year-old returned to action as a substitute in the victory over Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday. He then started the win over Fulham in midweek and played the full 90 minutes as the Blues closed the gap to Arsenal in the Premier League to just four points.
As he fights back from injury, Dias reflected on what makes his mentality different to those who have not made it to the top of professional football. “I’m different because I’ve always been willing to sacrifice more than anyone else,” he said. “If you don’t have the mentality, there’s no point in coming here, because this will expose you. “I don’t want any memory other than high performance at the highest level that exists.”
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The Blues are battling on four fronts with a Carabao Cup final and the last-16 of the Champions League to look forward to in March. This weekend, City are looking to advance to the fifth round of the FA Cup when they host League Two Salford City.
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NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan will train at different times ahead of their big T20 World Cup match on Sunday in Colombo. Pakistan will practice in the afternoon, while India will train in the evening, with both teams also scheduled to speak to the media before their sessions. Updating on their training schedules, ICC stated, “Pakistan will have a training session at the RPICS from 14h00 to 17h00 local time and hold a media interaction at the Press Conference Room starting around 13h45.”
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“India will have a training session at the RPICS from 18h00 to 21h00 local time and hold a media interaction at the Press Conference Room starting around 17h30,” the ICC statement added.Team India received a grand welcome when they arrived in Colombo on Friday. Local dancers and drummers greeted the team at the airport, creating a festive scene. Arshdeep Singh grabbed attention by dancing to the drum beats, which, as expected, soon went viral on social media. Head coach Gautam Gambhir looked serious and focused.India will hope to dominate Pakistan on the field. Players like Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, and either Abhishek Sharma or Sanju Samson are expected to play key roles with the bat. Abhishek is recovering from illness and will aim to bounce back after a poor start in India’s tournament opener.Arshdeep and Hardik have strong past records against Pakistan, and Ishan Kishan is in good form. Tilak Varma has performed well against Pakistan in the latest Asia Cup final and will try to continue that success.Since Sri Lanka’s pitches usually help spinners, Varun Chakravarthy could be an important bowler for India in this match.
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