Romelu Lukaku has spoken publicly of his desire to return to former team Inter just a few months after departing the reigning Serie A champions to join Chelsea last summer.

The Belgium international, who has scored twice in the last two games, stressed that he is fully fit after recovering from injury and COVID-19, but he expressed his unease for the formation that Thomas Tuchel is using at the Blues.

“Physically I am fine, but I am not happy with the situation at Chelsea,” Lukaku told Sky Sport Italy.

“Tuchel has chosen to play with another system. I am not happy and it is normal. The only thing I can do is not give up and continue as a professional.

“[My departure from Inter] shouldn’t have happened that way and I’m sorry for the fans. It wasn’t the time. I have Inter in my heart and I hope to play there again.

“I want to return to Inter from the bottom of my heart. I do not want to do it at the end of my career, but when I am still at the highest level.”

Manchester City have continued their fantastic winning streak in the EPL by defeating Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates.

Both sides went into the match in great form, with the home side, who were without their head coach Mikel Arteta as he was isolating at home with COVID-19, having won their last four Premier League games in a row and with City on a 10-game winning streak in the league

There was controversy early on after Arsenal‘s Martin Odegaard was brought down in the box by Ederson in goal for what looked like a stonewall penalty. VAR reviewed the incident, however, and decided that the Brazilian stopper had touched the ball before coming into contact with Odegaard and no penalty was given, leaving the home side frustrated.

The breakthrough finally came for the Gunners after 31 minutes, though, when Kieran Tierney played the ball to Bukayo Saka inside the area, who swept it past Ederson.

The sides then went into the break at 1-0 with the home crowd very pleased with what they’d seen in the first 45 minutes and Arsenal worthy of their lead.

But, just eight minutes into the second half there was more VAR involvement as Pep Guardiola‘s side were awarded a penalty after a tug on Bernardo Silva from Granit Xhaka in the area, and Riyad Mahrez converted from the spot.

Just moments later there was even more drama, as Aymeric Laporte headed the ball past his own goalkeeper for Nathan Ake to clear off the line, with Gabriel Martinelli blasting the rebound over the bar.

From the restart, Gabriel was sent off for a second yellow card, for fouling Gabriel Jesus, leaving the home side with 10 men.

Giannis Antetokounmpo has landed the “Best Male Athlete” honour for 2021 in the PSAT (Panhellenic Sports Press Association) Awards. This is the second consecutive year the 2021 NBA champion wins the honor, redeeming for his successful run with the Milwaukee Bucks.

The “Greek Freak” wasn’t able to travel to Athens in order to receive his award, as he is currently in quarantine in Milwaukee, after entering the NBA’s health and safety protocols last week.

Joining Giannis in the top three of the Panhellenic Sports Press Association voting are Tokyo 2020 long jump gold medalist, Miltos Tentoglou and rowing – single sculls gold medalist, Stefanos Ntouskos.

In 2021, Nigerian sports recorded incredible, nerve-wracking, eye-raising, jaw-dropping and disappointing moments.

Anthony Joshua’s second career defeat by Oleksander Usyk, Blessing Okagbare’s drug ban, Super Eagles’ shocking home defeat in the hands of Central African Republic (CAR) — and four other events — were among the most disappointing moments in sports this year.

Adekuoroye’s first round ouster at Olympics

Many believed that Odunayo Adekuoroye was going to have an easy ride to the podium at the Olympic Games, considering her record on the world stage.

But it was not to be.

The two-time Commonwealth gold medalist lost to Anastasia Nichita of the Republic of Moldova on account of a fall. Adekuoroye was leading 8-2 on the scorecard before Nichita achieved the win via victory by pinfall (VBF).

Joshua’s second career defeat

Anthony Joshua lost his heavyweight titles to Oleksandr Usyk when he was outpointed by the former cruiserweight king in September to suffer his second career defeat, having lost to Andy Ruiz Jr two years ago.

Banyana Banyana stunned Super Falcons in Lagos

The South African women national team tore apart Super Falcons in front of the home crowd in Lagos at the inaugural Aisha Buhari Cup in September, recording a 4-2 victory over the nine-time African champions.

Super Eagles upset by CAR

Just like their female counterparts, the three-time African champions were stunned at home in their World Cup qualifier game against the Central African Republic (CAR), a team ranked 124th in the world.

The 1-0 loss at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos was Nigeria’s first-ever defeat to the CAR.

Blessing Okagbare’s doping ban

Nigeria’s sprint queen was banned by the World Athletics (WA) after failing an out-of-competition test ahead of the women’s 100 metres semi-final race at the Tokyo Olympics.

The US-based sprinter tested positive for human growth hormone (HGH). The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Okagbare failed the out-of-competition test taken on July 19.

Efe Ajagba’s first boxing career defeat

Delta state-born Efe Ajagba was handed his first professional boxing career defeat in October as an undercard in the heavyweight title trilogy showdown between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury.

Ajagba, who survived the entire duration of the fight to the tenth round, lost to Frank Sanchez of Cuba, who proved to be a stronger fighter.

Israel Adesanya’s first career loss

The Nigerian-born New Zealander moved up to the 205 pounds category to challenge Jan Blachowicz, the then champion of the division, for a second belt in March.

In his bid to become the fifth fighter in UFC history to hold two titles concurrently, he lost by unanimous decision (49-46, 49-45, 49-45) — marking his first career defeat.

The loss brought his professional MMA career record to 20-1.

Super Eagles new coach, Jose Peseiro is expected in the country on January 2nd to sign all necessary documents.

Peseiro will join the team in Cameroon as observer and get to know the team very welll before his first assignment as a coach of the team come March, 2022.

Nff president, Amaju Pinnick has described the coach as a top coach in Europe.
“He is a top coach with rich resume and sound knowledge of the game.

Peseiro has coached in FC Porto, sporting Lisbon, sporting Braga and he was Mourinho assistant in Real Madrid.