Tottenham Hotspur suffered a huge 4-0 loss to Newcastle United on Saturday, slipping down to fifth place on the Premier League table in their biggest defeat of the season. Tottenham struggled with counter attacks in the match at St. James Park in Newcastle, England, conceding goals to repeat mistakes. Captain Son Heung-min committed the first offense, giving away the ball inside Newcastle’s penalty area, which led to a counter attack that Alexandar Isak took advantage of in the 30th minute.   The Spurs defense also cost them another goal two minutes later, with full-back Pedro Porro mistiming a pass toward the penalty box and allowing Anthony Gordon to snatch the ball and make it 2-0.Spurs conceded yet another goal in the 51st minute in nearly the same pattern as the first goal. Son gave away the ball inside the Newcastle territory, leading to a counter attack that allowed Isak to find the back of the net again.  
 
Son came off in the 57th minute after a tepid performance before Spurs conceded goal No. 4 to Fabian Schar in the 87th minute from a corner.  “We just didn’t really get to any levels that would allow us to sort of get a grip on the game,” Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou said after the match. The 4-0 loss was the biggest defeat Spurs suffered in all competitions in the 2023-24 season. The defeat pushed the London side down to fifth on the Premier League table. They are tied on points with Aston Villa at 60, but Villa edge out the London side by one goal on goal difference.Reclaiming the fourth place would be crucial for Spurs, as the top four sides in the Premier League earn berths in the next season’s Champions League.  Six league fixtures remain for Tottenham. The club will have a two-week break before they play the next match against local rivals Arsenal on April 28. Arsenal sit in second place with 71 points — two points behind 온라인카지노 defending champions Manchester City having played one game fewer.  

FC Seoul manager Kim Gi-dong told reporters before a fixture against the Pohang Steelers on Saturday — which the capital side lost 4-2 — that Lingard underwent surgery on his knee a day before and he will need about a month to recover before returning to the pitch.   Lingard exhibited pain on his knee during training in March, forcing him to miss the past four league matches.  The former Manchester United midfielder made a surprising move to FC Seoul in February ahead of the 2024 season, but he has yet to display his best form.  In three league games he played as a substitute, he recorded zero goals and assists with an unimpressive performance. His performance against Jeju United on March 16 drew harsh criticism from Kim. The manager said the following: “Fame doesn’t win football games. If it did, I would have brought in a famous retired player.”  
 
Although Lingard and Kim have seemed to squash their beef, with the English midfielder saying during training last month that the situation was “part and parcel of football,” Kim has still said Lingard should take a leading role in the team.  If Lingard can recreate the results of his glory days — during which he displayed pace and made tidy crosses that saw him record assists — he could diversify FC Seoul’s attack that has proved to be solid so far this season.  The capital side has scored 10 goals in seven matches, during which they recorded two wins, three draws and three losses to sit in sixth place on the 12-team table as of press time Sunday.   The remainder of the season will see whether Lingard can make enough contributions for the capital side to move up the table in the K League title race.  The last time FC Seoul won the league was in 2016 — the last time the club lifted any kind of silverware from any 스포츠토토존 tournament.
 

It took him three games, and the San Francisco Giants’ Korean rookie Lee Jung-hoo finally has a hit at home.From the leadoff spot, Lee batted 1-for-4 and scored a run as the Giants defeated the San Diego Padres 3-2 at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sunday.Lee led off the bottom of the first inning with a single to center against starter Matt Waldron. It snapped a 0-for-11 slide for Lee, whose previous hit had come against the Los Angeles Dodgers on the road Tuesday.Lee had seen his batting average dip from .292 to .200 during his hitless skid. Lee did not have another hit Sunday, but his batting average rose slightly to .205.For the Padres, Korean shortstop Kim Ha-seong went 1-for-4 with an RBI to pick up his first hit of this three-game series in San Francisco. But the usually sure-handed fielder, who won the 2023 National League Gold Glove at the utility spot, committed two errors, the first time he has been charged with multiple errors in a game in his big league career.The first of those errors came in the bottom of the sixth, with the Giants up 2-0. Kim fielded a routine grounder off Lee’s bat but airmailed his throw well over the head of first baseman Jake Cronenworth.Lee advanced to second on a single by LaMonte Wade Jr. and then to third when Michael Conforto drew a walk. Lee then scored the Giants’ first run on a fielder’s choice grounder by Matt Chapman. Kim atoned for his mistake on that play, as he grabbed the ball on a tricky short hop and made an off-balance throw to second for the force out in a close play.

But Kim’s next mistake, which came in the eighth inning, proved more costly.The Giants still trailed 2-1 when they had runners at the corners with one out. Conforto hit a groundball right at Cronenworth, who stepped on the first base bag for the second out and threw to Kim in an attempt to complete the inning-ending double play.However, the ball popped out of Kim’s glove when he tried to tag the shoulder of the runner, Jorge Soler, and trickled into center field. That allowed pinch runner Tyler Fitzgerald to score the tying run.As the inning continued, Chapman knocked in the go-ahead run for the Giants with a single to right field.All three Giants runs were unearned, as they came following Kim’s errors. Kim’s RBI gave the Padres a 2-0 lead in the sixth, but it went for naught.”It felt good to get an RBI with a runner in scoring position, but I am disappointed to lose this game on my errors,” Kim said. “But we have more games coming up. I’ll just have to play better.”Kim said the ball slipped out of his hand on the first error and insisted he wasn’t conscious of the fact that it was Lee running down the line. “Some umpires don’t let us take a rosin bag on the field, and I think it was the case today,” Kim said.As for the second miscue, Kim said, “I didn’t catch the ball cleanly, and the ball came out when I made contact with the runner.””You can make mistakes, but it’s frustrating to make two in the same game,” he added.The Giants took two out of three at home against the Padres.These two National League West rivals have already played seven times this season. They split their four-game series during the final week of March in San Diego.Their next meeting will be in September in 토토사이트 San Diego

A lower number of proposals were made by shareholders and added to the agenda during the general meetings of listed companies this year, research released Monday showed.The meetings took place mostly in March.The research carried out by the Korea ESG Research Institute attributed the decline in the number of proposals to listed firms’ efforts to settle contested issues amicably with shareholders through dialogue outside the meetings.The research noted that the contested issues were mostly put up to a vote under a hostile environment at the meetings.Of the 4,528 items addressed by 689 listed companies this year, those based on proposals from shareholders totaled 52.The 2024 figure was down from 72 in 2022.In particular, only five of the 52 were related to demands for a dividend hikes, a common interest among shareholders.In 2023, 14 items dealt with such demands.

“It can be said the management are trying to be shareholder-friendly by dealing with the demands for higher dividends through dialogue,” the institute wrote. “This practice is an improvement as management used to go head-to-head with shareholders through a vote.”The institute pointed out that activist funds are complying with management’s calls for dialogue after they failed to woo retail investors at the general meetings.Activist funds have been noted for increasing pressure on listed firms to enhance shareholders’ voting rights, especially in line with the government’s Corporate Value-up Program aimed at improving corporate governance and ensuring higher shareholder returns.As part of efforts for higher returns, the listed companies increasingly retired treasury stocks, the institute said.Some 9.8 percent of the 689 surveyed companies retired treasury stocks before hosting their general meetings this year. The figure more than doubled from 2023.“We welcome the listed firms’ moves to improve governance structure under the Corporate Value-up Program,” 슬롯놀이터 the institute said.

Hyundai Motor and Kia will use battery cells produced by a local Indian company for their future EVs sold in the West Asian country, a move to increase their presence in the blossoming Indian EV market, the carmakers said Monday.The carmaking firms of Hyundai Motor Group said they signed a strategic cooperation agreement for local production of battery cells for India-specific EVs with India’s battery maker Exide Energy, at their R&D center in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province.Exide Energy is a subsidiary of Exide, a leading battery company in the Indian lead-acid battery market, which has been active there for over 75 years. Exide Energy aims to start the pilot production of EV battery cells as early as the end of the year.Initially, Exide Energy will develop and produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells, which will be supplied to Hyundai Motor and Kia’s production bases in India. The battery cells from Exide Energy will be equipped in their future India-specific EVs, marking the first EVs to use locally produced batteries.The agreement covers the carmakers’ India-only EVs, diversifying battery sources and strengthening the responsiveness of India’s EV market, which is set to grow even larger in the near future, the Korean carmakers said.”Hyundai Motor and Kia will pursue joint cooperation for the development and production of battery cells that will be used in Hyundai Motor and Kia’s EVs, expand the partnership for electric models including EVs and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and secure price competitiveness,” the carmakers said.

Hyundai Motor and Kia will cooperate with Exide Energy in all stages from development of batteries to mass production to ensure quality. Furthermore, the companies also plan to respond jointly to the Indian government’s EV policies.India, one of the top three car markets in the world, is considered one of the countries actively pursuing an electrification strategy, including offering incentives to companies starting EV production on its soil. The Indian government also announced plans to expand the share of EV sales to 30 percent of total vehicle sales by 2030.Hyundai Motor and Kia expect that EVs equipped with domestically produced batteries will become a favorable purchasing factor for Indian consumers. Also, they expect the partnership will decrease the risks of geopolitical uncertainties spreading across the global economy.“India is an important market where electrification is expected to expand in the future, and securing cost competitiveness through battery localization from the beginning is important,” said Yang Heui-won, president of Hyundai Motor and Kia’s R&D division. “It is very meaningful that the upcoming India-specific EVs to be mass-produced in India will be the first EVs using batteries produced locally by an Indian company.”Hyundai Motor previously announced plans to invest about 200 billion rupees ($2.4 billion) from 2023 over 10 years for the establishment of EV production facilities and infrastructure in India. In 카지노사이트킹 particular, by 2028, it aims to introduce six EV models and install a large number of EV charging stations.