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Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders, is a futuristic-looking stadium that’s hosting the Super Bowl for the first time this year when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers. The field is as unique as the stadium’s exterior, with natural grass that is almost always exposed to the sun, but rolled up for the Game s. Last year, when the Chiefs beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, there was a bit of a problem when the players were slipping about on the field. This year, the NFL is taking extra measures to make sure that does not happen again. SUPER BOWL LVIII Super Bowl Halftime Show: how to watch SUPER BOWL LVIII Super Bowl LVIII: odds and predictions “This surface has been nurtured from the time the grass was planted to the Super Bowl,” said Jeff Miller, the NFL ’s vice president of communications. “It’s maintained with a number of tools and metrics... Our field management expert has been on this for weeks and has v...

Marc-Andre ter Stegen was not present in Barcelona training on Monday and faces a race against time to prove his fitness ahead of Tuesday's Champions League clash with Porto. The goalkeeper withdrew from the Germany squad for this month's international break as he battled a back injury which also forced him to miss the weekend's 1-1 draw with Rayo Vallecano. Ter Stegen had hoped to return to action quickly, confirming on social media that he was "coming back soon", but it appears that comeback may not be imminent as manager Xavi revealed the goalkeeper is yet to return to training . "Tomorrow, Marc will have a fitness test," Xavi told the media. "We'll see how he is. "He hasn't trained, so tomorrow he will test to see if he is 100%." In Ter Stegen's place, Inaki Pena started against Vallecano and would likely retain his spot in the starting lineup against Porto. Ter Stegen has not trained / Mateusz Slodkowski/GettyImages LI...

Jesse Lingard has hit out at his former club Manchester United, claiming he was never given a proper explanation for being frozen out at the club and accusing United officials of making 'false promises'. The 30-year-old midfielder graduated from United's academy and went on to make 232 appearances for the club, but struggled for game time in his later years at Old Trafford and appeared just four times during his final season. Lingard went out on loan to West Ham and impressed during the second half of the 2020/21 season, only to return to United and continue to be left out by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and his successor, Ralf Rangnick. Speaking ahead of his return to Old Trafford as a Nottingham Forest player, having joined the newly-promoted club in the summer, Lingard admits he still feels left in the dark by his treatment at United. "I don’t know why I wasn’t playing," Lingard told The Telegraph . "I don’t know what the problem was, whether it was politics or...