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Bill Gates slams Trump's COVID-19 adviser as 'pseudo-expert' who's 'off-the-rails'
In a new interview, top public health philanthropist Bill Gates sharply criticized the Trump administration for listening to COVID adviser Scott Atlas, whom Gates called a “pseudo-expert” who’s “off-the-rails.”
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'60 Minutes' Reveals What Was Really In That Giant Trump Health Care Plan Book
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Versatile Liverpool show they can find different ways to win as Diogo Jota becomes part of new formation
The prolonged absence of an injured Virgil van Dijk will doubtless be keenly felt over the course of this season but, for this weekend at least, Jurgen Klopp could bask in a summer signing that he did make and a new tactical formation that came with it. A failure to replace the departing Dejan Lovren as defensive cover may yet come to haunt Liverpool, given the serious nature of Van Dijk’s knee ligament injury, but with Diogo Jota in this kind of form, perhaps it will not matter. Klopp eschewed his default 4-3-3 formation, opting instead for a 4-2-3-1 that featured Mohamed Salah up front, Roberto Firmino behind him and Jota and Sadio Mane wide. Pundits purr daily about the attacking options Pep Guardiola can summon at Manchester City but is there a better front four at any club in Europe? “It was not so much about getting Diogo on the pitch because he can play a lot of positions in our usual formation,” Klopp said. “It was like, ‘How can we start? How can we change? How can we do all the stuff which is important in a game? How can we cause them problems?’ “Sheffield United have a big advantage obviously that they prepare a full week for our game. So we thought with a slight change we could at least give them some problems as well, which we did.” Even if that formation was not selected by Klopp specifically to accommodate the 23-year-old Portuguese, a surprise deadline-week signing for £41 million from Wolves, it certainly suited him, as his 64th-minute headed winner proved. This was the supplementary attacking role that Xherdan Shaqiri was signed to fill two years ago although, for a variety of reasons, his spell at Anfield has been largely unproductive, while Japanese forward Takumi Minamino has two league starts, and zero goals, 10 months after arriving. Jota, now with two goals on his two Anfield league appearances, already looks a cut above that pair. If he is to be the “fourth Beatle” to Liverpool’s sublime front three, he is not a bad one. “He’s a good player huh?” Klopp said. “It’s not too much about what he has brought to the club; it’s that he’s a good player – that’s what I really love – and it’s why we signed him. I said to the coaching staff that it’s so easy with him because he’s such a likeable person, it’s so easy to like him, it makes everything easier. “As a player, he is quick, he has physicality, he is strong, good in the air, good on the ground. He has exactly the quality we need, so that helps a lot. “He is still adapting. A lot of things we do are not natural to him but that’s only because Wolves play different. That he is that close already is just a sign how good a player he is. He stays fit, he’s 23 and the future is bright. We will need his quality and I am really happy that he settled nicely so far.”
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Morocco calls Muhammad cartoons an 'act of provocation' as France urges Arab countries not to overreact
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Trump planning to axe top security chiefs in White House shake-up if re-elected — report
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