The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be attending the demonstration of the Remote Voting EVM prototype to be held by the Election Commission (EC) on January 16. The demonstration will be held for all eight recognized national and 57 State political parties in India. The prototype will, it is hoped, enable remote voting by migrants in the subsequent election.
As many as 30 families living in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath were shifted to a community hall and a primary school after their homes developed deep cracks, leaving them in a panicked state. According to the district administration, over 570 houses have developed cracks in the picturesque town, located around 50 km from the revered Badrinath temple. Among the 570 homes, 100 are not in a state to be used at all.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved the “Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND)” scheme with an outlay of ₹2,539.61 crore up to 2025-26, paving the way for upgrade and expansion of the public service broadcasting infrastructure across the country.
cores of larger-than-life cut-outs of Rahul Gandhi in different poses, including chewing sugarcane and striking a combat pose, have lined up the roads as the Bharat Jodo Yatra entered the Jat-dominated western Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.
The Telangana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to join the digital path laid by the central leadership with its national president J.P. Nadda virtually launching the special ‘Saral’ voter mobile app for the benefit of the party workers from the booth level in all the 119 Assembly constituencies on January 7.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday pledged to deepen his country’s alliance with the United States under Japan’s new defense policy that breaks from its exclusively self-defense-only stance in the face of growing regional tensions.
Chhattisgarh Police have arrested at least 11 persons — including the current and former district presidents of the BJP — in connection with separate, violent incidents over purported religious conversions in Narayanpur earlier this week.
Days after the chief priest of Ram temple in Ayodhya, Acharya Satyendra Das, extended his wishes to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Ram Temple trust’s general secretary and senior Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Champat Rai also appreciated Mr. Gandhi for his efforts. “Has anyone in the RSS ever criticized his yatra? Has the Prime Minister ever criticized the yatra? This young man is covering 3,000 km of India. Anyone will appreciate his efforts,” he further said.
Facing a country beset with problems that range from a cost-of-living crisis to deteriorating public services, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised to halve inflation, grow the economy and reduce wait times for medical treatments in a speech that set out his policies for the year.
The mobile application-based attendance system for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (MGNREGS) workers should be withdrawn and those who have lost wages due to technical errors in the past must be compensated, the Congress said on Wednesday.
An Indian tribunal on Wednesday declined a request by Google to block an antitrust ruling that ordered the tech giant to change its approach to its Android platform, dealing the U.S. firm a setback in a key growth market.
A video of a Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) worker manually cleaning a small clogged gully with his bare hands has become viral on social media on Wednesday.
After escaping a late charge by the Sri Lankan all-rounders at Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday night, Hardik Pandya and Co. — along with their islander counterparts — took a bus ride on Wednesday afternoon to the home of Maharashtra cricket.
Already a laughingstock after six failed ballots to elect a Speaker, the chaos on Capitol Hill this week has now attracted some heavyweight satirists and mockery.
After hours and hours of agog talking heads on cable news, Jon Stewart and Julia Louis-Dreyfus both took to social media today to rip warring Republicans and the seemingly increasing embarrassing and never-ending bid by GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy to seize the gavel of the House of Representatives.
In the now ajourned Day 2 of wall-to-wall and vote-to-vote coverage on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, the former Daily Show host paid a tongue firmly in cheek tribute to DC’s own cable network earlier Wednesday:
As votes appear to be shifting and deals are being cut late Wednesday to snare the necessary 2018 votes McCarthy needs to achieve his lifelong Speakership goal, Louis-Dreyfus put her own spin on the haywire situation. In that vein, the multiple Emmy winner and past fictional Vice President and President of the United State weaved stranger fact and fable together to put the real-life MAGA chaos in the context of the once almost unimaginable lampooning of the acclaimed Veep:
Of course, Stewart and Louis-Dreyfus’s POV on the process comes after Democrats have been deriding their GOP colleagues on the other side of the aisle for nearly two days. As Dems House leader Hakeem Jeffries consistently won the most votes for Speaker on the ballots, even with the Republicans holding a thin majority in the House overall, Representatives like LA’s Ted Lieu made it clear they were going to enjoy the clown show:
Rep Lieu’s colleague from Arizona’s 7th Congressional District jumped on the popcorn bandwagon also yesterday:
In a nominating speech on the floor of the House for McCarthy today, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) tried to caution her own party in a swipe at the raucous Democrats for enjoying the bloodletting among Republicans with “the popcorn and blankets and alcohol and blankets that is coming over there.”
All of which was further material for Stewart:
If only there was a gif of someone watching this with great anticipation whilst enjoying popcorn…
Undoubtedly, with overnight arm-twisting and a seventh ballot starting at 9 AM PT on January 5, there will be more to come — funny or not.
As Rep, Lieu emphasized after the last ballot today, this fiasco may seem humorous but there are some very real-world consequences as well:
The chaos caused by the inability of #KevinMcCarthy and House Republicans to govern has real world consequences. We have no Members of Congress right now. We cannot see classified documents, hold Committee hearings or conduct oversight. https://t.co/lLrgxEv2iJ
FILE – In this Thursday, May 16, 2019, file photo, Salesforce chairman Marc Benioff speaks during a news conference, in Indianapolis. Salesforce is laying off about 10% of its workforce, more than 7,350 employees, the latest job cuts in the tech industry as corporations cut back on software and other spending. The San Francisco cloud computing software company will also be closing some offices, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.Photo by Darron Cummings /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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E-commerce giant Amazon and business software maker Salesforce are the latest U.S. technology companies to announce major job cuts as they prune payrolls that rapidly expanded during the pandemic lockdown.
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Amazon said Wednesday that it will be cutting about 18,000 positions. It’s the largest set of layoffs in the Seattle-based company’s history, although just a fraction of its 1.5 million global workforce.
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“Amazon has weathered uncertain and difficult economies in the past, and we will continue to do so,” CEO Andy Jassy said in a note to employees that the company made public. “These changes will help us pursue our long-term opportunities with a stronger cost structure.”
He said the layoffs will mostly impact the company’s brick-and-mortar stores, which include Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go, and its PXT organizations, which handle human resources and other functions.
In November, Jassy told staff that layoffs were coming due to the economic landscape and the company’s rapid hiring in the last several years. Wednesday’s announcement included earlier job cuts that had not been numbered. The company had also offered voluntary buyouts and has been cutting costs in other areas of its sprawling business.
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Salesforce, meanwhile, said it is laying off about 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce.
The cuts announced Wednesday are by far the largest in the 23-year history of a San Francisco company founded by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff. Benioff pioneered the method of leasing software services to internet-connected devices — a concept now known as “cloud computing.”
The layoffs are being made on the heels of a shake-up in Salesforce’s top ranks. Benioff’s hand-picked co-CEO Bret Taylor, who also was Twitter’s chairman at the time of its tortuous $44 billion sale to billionaire Elon Musk, left Salesforce. Then, Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield left. Salesforce bought Slack two years ago for nearly $28 billion.
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Salesforce workers who lose their jobs will receive nearly five months of pay, health insurance, career resources, and other benefits, according to the company. Amazon said it is also offering a separation payment, transitional health insurance benefits, and job placement support.
Benioff, now the sole chief executive at Salesforce, told employees in a letter that he blamed himself for the layoffs after continuing to hire aggressively into the pandemic, with millions of Americans working from home and demand for the company’s technology surging.
“As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing, and I take responsibility for that,” Benioff wrote.
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Salesforce employed about 49,000 people in January 2020 just before the pandemic struck. Salesforce’s workforce today is still 50% larger than it was before the pandemic.
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg also acknowledged he misread the revenue gains that the owner of Facebook and Instagram was reaping during the pandemic when he announced in November that his company would by laying off 11,000 employees, or 13% of its workforce.
Like other major tech companies, Salesforce’s recent comedown from the heady days of the pandemic have taken a major toll on its stock. Before Wednesday’s announcement, shares had plunged more 50% from their peak close to $310 in November 2021. The shares gained nearly 4% Wednesday to close at $139.59.
“This is a smart poker move by Benioff to preserve margins in an uncertain backdrop as the company clearly overbuilt out its organization over the past few years along with the rest of the tech sector with a slowdown now on the horizon,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote.
Salesforce also said Wednesday that it will be closing some of its offices, but didn’t include locations. The company’s 61-story headquarters is a prominent feature of the San Francisco skyline and a symbol of tech’s importance to the city since its completion in 2018.
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It may be 2023, but Matthew Lawrence and Chilli’s new romance has us feeling like it’s the ’90s all over again. The former “Boy Meets World” star and TLC singer were first linked when they were spotted vacationing in Hawaii back in August 2022, six months after Cheryl Burke filed for divorce from Lawrence after three years of marriage. However, it wasn’t until Jan. 3 that Chilli’s rep, Christal Jordan, confirmed to People that they were officially a couple.
According to Jordan, Chilli and Lawrence became romantically involved just before Thanksgiving, sharing she’s “never seen [Chilli] this in love” in the 17 years they’ve worked together. “She is glowing. They are really cute together,” Jordan told the publication. Both Chilli and Lawrence also made their relationship Instagram official by posting a video dancing to A-ha’s “Take On Me” in matching onesies on Jan. 1. “#newyearsshenanigans #onesiegang #wecute,” they captioned it.
Prior to Lawrence, Chilli famously dated Usher and Nick Cannon. Meanwhile, Lawrence’s dating history includes Danielle Fishel and Heidi Mueller. Read more about the actor’s past romances ahead.
One of the top shutdown corners in NFL history and perhaps the greatest returner to ever play the game are among 15 finalists selected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2023, it was announced on Wednesday.
Cornerback Darrelle Revis and cat-quick return man Devin Hester headline a list that includes three other defensive backs in safety Darren Woodson and cornerbacks Ronde Barber and Albert Lewis.
Other defensive players on the gold jacket finalist list are edge rushers DeMarcus Ware, Dwight Freeney and Jared Allen, along with linebackers Patrick Willis and Zach Thomas.
Receivers Torry Holt, Reggie Wayne and Andre Johnson made the cut. Joining them are offensive lineman Willie Anderson and Joe Thomas.
Freeney, Revis and Thomas are finalists in their first year of eligibility, while Johnson, Allen, Hester and Ware are in their second year.
Revis was a four-time first-team All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowl selection during his 11 seasons in the NFL, including eight with the New York Jets. He also won a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots during the 2014 season.
Hester played 11 seasons in the NFL, including eight with the Chicago Bears. He holds the NFL record for most returns for a touchdown on special teams with 20 (14 punts, five kickoffs, one missed field goal).
Selected in the second round of the 2006 draft out of Miami, Hester was voted to three Pro Bowls, won 13 special teams player of the week awards and was voted to the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 2000s.
Players must have participated as an active NFL player for five consecutive seasons to be considered and nominated for election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
CLASS OF 2023 MODERN-ERA PLAYER FINALISTS
Jared Allen
Willie Anderson
Ronde Barber
Dwight Freeney
Devin Hester
Torry Holt
Andre Johnson
Albert Lewis
Darrelle Revis
Joe Thomas
Zach Thomas
DeMarcus Ware
Reggie Wayne
Patrick Willis
Darren Woodson
In addition to the Modern-Day Player Finalists, Don Coryell was nominated by the coach/contributor committee and three players were nominated by the senior committee: linebacker Chuck Howley, defensive tackle Joe Klecko and quarterback Ken Riley.
Final voting for the Pro Football Hall of Fame will take place later this month by the 49-person selection committee in advance of Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona. The Class will be announced live on the “NFL Honors” telecast scheduled to air on Feb. 9.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023 will be enshrined Aug. 5 in Canton.
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Ashley Olsen is best known as an actress and fashion designer.
She reportedly secretly married her long-term boyfriend Louis Eisner in Dec. 2022.
Some of Ashley’s previous boyfriends include football player Matt Kaplan and actor Jared Leto.
Her marriage ceremony with Louis apparently took place at a home in Bel-Air, CA.
Ashley Olsen, 36, reportedly married her boyfriend of five years, Louis Eisner, 33, on Dec. 28. The actress and her new husband secretly exchanged vows at a private residence in Bel-Air, CA, according to Page Six, and only “a few dozen guests” were in attendance. They also reportedly had an afterparty that “went late with 50 people or so total.”
Find out more about Louis and his relationship with Ashley below.
Louis is an artist.
The California native grew up in an artistic family, with his mother Lisa being a famous fashion photographer and jewelry designer. He attended Columbia University, where he studied art history, and was part of Still House Group, which is a collective young artists. His paintings are mostly abstract and some of them can be seen on Artnet.com and on his Instagram page. After graduating from Columbia, he moved back to Los Angeles, and has been curating and painting using the skills he learned, according to Interview magazine.
Ivanka Trump reportedly bought one of his paintings.
The former first daughter apparently added one of Louis’ pieces to her art collection in 2013, Bloomberg reported. It was sold to her by dealer Bill Powers, who told the outlet that her collection has “become a form of branding” and some artists are “uncomfortable” with that. “I think there are a lot of artists that are uncomfortable now being incorporated, or leveraged, as part of the Ivanka Trump brand,” he said.
When did Louis and Ashley start dating?
Ashley and Louis out and about. (WCP / BACKGRID)
Louis and Ashley reportedly started a relationship in 2017, after being friends for years before that. They apparently met through mutual high school friends and their first public outing together was at the Hammer Museum’s Gala in the Garden in October 2017.
Louis and Ashley sparked marriage rumors in early 2022.
After Ashley was spotted with a gold ring on her left hand ring finger, rumors began to swirl that she and Louis had gotten hitched. She was photographed wearing the piece of jewelry when she was getting a ride to somewhere in New York. Since the couple has been very private about their romance, many wondered if the speculation was correct or not, but neither one of them ever confirmed or denied it at the time.
Louis’ first red carpet appearance with Ashley came two years into their relationship.
Louis and Ashley during their first red carpet appearance together in 2021. (Rob Latour/Shutterstock)
The pair made their red carpet debut at the Young Eisner Scholar’s 20th anniversary celebration in Beverly Hills in Sept. 2021. It was Ashley’s first time posing at a red carpet event since 2019 and she looked very comfortable and content with her beau. The event wasn’t just any event, either. It was a fundraiser for the Young Eisner Scholar organization, which seeks to help students in underserved communities, and was founded by Louis’ father Eric.
The S&P 500 finished higher on Wednesday but below its session peak after volatile trading following the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting, which showed officials laser-focused on controlling inflation even as they agreed to slow their interest rate hiking pace.
Officials at the Fed’s Dec. 13-14 policy meeting agreed the US central bank should continue increasing the cost of credit to control the pace of price increases, but in a gradual way intended to limit the risks to economic growth.
Investors were poring over the Fed’s internal deliberations for clues about its future path. After the meeting, Fed Chair Jerome Powell had said more hikes were needed, and took a more hawkish tone than investors had expected back then.
While some money managers said the minutes included no surprises, the market appeared to have been holding onto hopes for some sign that the Fed was at least considering easing its policy tightening.
“The market is like a kid asking for ice cream. The parents say ‘no,’ but the market keeps asking because the parents have caved in the past,” said Burns McKinney, portfolio manager at NFJ Investment Group LLC in Dallas. “The market still thinks it’s going to get ice cream, just not as soon as they thought before.”
McKinney pointed to the minutes for evidence of Fed officials’ concern that an unwarranted easing of financial conditions would complicate their efforts to fight inflation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 133.4 points, or 0.4%, to 33,269.77; the S&P 500 gained 28.83 points, or 0.75%, to 3,852.97; and the Nasdaq Composite added 71.78 points, or 0.69%, to 10,458.76.
The S&P’s rate-sensitive technology index lost some ground after the minutes before finishing up 0.26%. Even the bank sector, which benefits from higher rates, pared gains but still finished up 1.9%.
Energy was the weakest of the S&P’s 11 major industry sectors, closing up 0.06%, while real estate was the strongest, closed up 2.3%, followed by a 1.7% gain in materials.
Also on Wednesday, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari also stressed the need for continued rate hikes, setting out his own forecast that the policy rate should initially pause at 5.4%.
“The Fed minutes are a good reminder for investors to expect rates to remain high throughout all of 2023. Amid a persistently strong job market, it makes sense that fighting inflation remains the name of the game for the Fed,” said Mike Loewengart, head of model portfolio construction at Morgan Stanley Global Investment Office in New York.
“Bottom line is that, even though we flipped the calendar, the market headwinds from last year remain.”
Market participants now see a 68.8% chance of a 25 basis points rate hike from the Fed in February, but still see rates peaking just below 5% by June.
Earlier in the day, data showed US job openings in November indicating a tight labor market, giving the Fed cover to stick to its monetary tightening campaign for longer, while other data showed manufacturing contracted further in December.
US equities were pummeled in 2022 on worries of a recession due to aggressive monetary policy tightening, with the three main stock indexes logging their steepest annual losses since 2008.
On the Nasdaq 100 the largest gainer was US shares of JD.Com Inc, which rose 14.7% on hopes for a post-COVID-19 recovery in China. The largest decliner was Microsoft, down 4.4% after a UBS analyst downgraded the stock to “neutral” from a “buy” rating.
Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 4.30-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 2.74-to-1 ratio favored advancers.
The S&P 500 posted five new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 84 new highs and 51 new lows.
On US exchanges 11.35 billion shares changed hands, compared with the 10.83 billion-share average for the last 20 trading days, which included some volume weakness due to the holidays.
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Southampton manager Nathan Jones acknowledges his side were not good enough as they failed to register a shot on target in their home defeat to Nottingham Forest
It may have seemed slightly strange to suggest before kick-off that Southampton needed the win more than Nottingham Forest considering both sides started the evening in the relegation zone, but Nathan Jones’ team were in desperate need of three points as they looked to lift themselves off the foot of the Premier League table.
Against a Forest team that had only scored once on the road this season and were yet to win away from home, it was, at least on paper, an ideal opportunity for Saints to breathe some much-needed life into their survival bid.
But it never looked like happening. They failed to register a shot on target as they deservedly fell to a sixth consecutive league defeat. Six points from a possible 27 at St Mary’s this term says it all.
The club’s decision to sack Ralph Hasenhuttl in November and appoint former Luton boss Jones is yet to be vindicated.
‘You don’t know what you’re doing’, disgruntled home supporters chanted at the final whistle. It’s four league defeats out of four for the Welshman. He has had a brutal start to life as a Premier League manager.
Unless the Southampton board backs him with some quality signings in the January transfer window, it’s likely to get worse. At the moment, his side look destined for Championship football next season, a division he knows all too well. Dan Sansom
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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from the Premier League match between Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspur
Wednesday’s games was another example of just how far Crystal Palace have to go. Patrick Vieira has been introducing younger players into the aging squad he inherited. While youth is often preferred, it does come with the pitfalls and in the Premier League, they can be painfully exposed.
“We have young players in our squad and that kind of game has to be managed better,” the Crystal Palace manager told Sky Sports after the game.
“The way they managed the game and those difficult periods they had shows a huge difference between the two teams. The experience was a massive factor on the game today.”
It’s hard to disagree with Vieira’s assessment. Crystal Palace had more shots – 19 to Tottenham’s 14 – and more final third entries, as well as more passes in the opposition half and passes in the final third.
But for all of their sometimes dazzling football in the final third, it was ultimately four of Spurs’ six shots on target that found the net. Only one of Tottenham’s shots on target in the second half did not end up as a goal.
They have a player in Harry Kane that turned the game hugely in Tottenham’s favour in the second half. Spurs somehow came out unscathed in the large periods of Crystal Palace dominance and made their chances count when they came – the key to any successful Premier League team.
These are all attributes that Vieira needs for his team. While Wilfried Zaha has often been the man to turn on the magic for Crystal Palace – and performed well against Tottenham – it is not nearly as consistent as he or his team would like.
You cannot say there is not the passion, talent or drive in the Crystal Palace squad because there clearly is, but after two bruising home defeats – although starkly different performances – lessons on game management and taking opportunities will have been harshly learnt.
As for Tottenham, after a poor run of form, it is exactly the second half Antonio Conte would have been hoping for. He also needs to find the consistency within his team to keep pushing those top four sides, but Wednesday’s victory at a tricky away ground was – another – good start. Charlotte Marsh
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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from the Premier League match between Southampton and Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest’s first away win of the season provided further evidence that Brennan Johnson is in the process of rediscovering his best form. The 21-year-old started the season brightly with two goals in Forest’s six games of the season but then failed to find the net – or an assist – before going to the World Cup with Wales, and even found himself dropped to the bench on a couple of occasions.
However, a little bit of time to recover after Wales’ group-stage exit appears to have worked wonders for Johnson, who has appeared re-energised since domestic football resumed. He scored twice at Blackburn as Forest eased into the Carabao Cup quarter-finals and was a constant threat as Steve Cooper’s side outplayed Chelsea at the weekend.
Against Southampton on Wednesday he made a decisive contribution, seizing on Lyanco’s error to race clear and calmly set up a tap in for Taiwo Awoniyi. His performance was backed up by the numbers too, with Johnson leading Forest in chances created (3), dribbles completed (3) and tackles made (2).
“Brennan very rarely makes the wrong decisions, he always makes the right decision for the team,” Cooper said.
“Tonight he made the right decision. And they deserved the goal and the assist.”
With the win having elevated Forest out of the bottom three, there is little doubt that Johnson’s performances will need to remain at a high level if they are to remain clear of the drop zone. Sam Johnston
Image: Thilo Kehrer struggled as Leeds ran him ragged at Elland Road
David Moyes is a defence-first type of manager. Always has. Always will. He builds solid foundations and adds creative spark in key areas to win games. It’s what has made West Ham the force they have been for the last two years. However, this West Ham side does not look like a Moyes team. It ships goals at an alarming rate. The 2-2 draw with Leeds means the Hammers have now conceded two or more goals in all their last six games in all competitions. Opposition teams do not have to work hard to create big chances.
Thilo Kehrer – signed from PSG in the summer – must make his defensive compatriots nervy, as yet again he did not look up to Premier League level at Leeds.
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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from the Premier League match between Leeds United and West Ham
His West Ham career started badly by giving away a penalty on debut in the 2-0 defeat to Brighton and his showing at Leeds was the latest in a line of wretched and sloppy performances that are letting his manager down. Yes, he was being asked to play an unfamiliar left-back role but within 60 seconds he had already played a horrendous back-pass that sent Rodrigo through on goal – one which Nayef Aguerd bailed him out with a fantastic last-ditch tackle. He spent the next 89 minutes being given the run-around by the excellent Wilfried Gnonto, offered nothing as an attacking outlet and made a host of individual errors. He is a liability and surely Moyes must have seen enough by now. Lewis Jones
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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Wolves
Aston Villa’s second-half performance underlined how Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui described them – that they one of the best teams in the Premier League. The issue for the home side is they were nowhere near that level in the first 45 minutes.
Happy for Wolves to have the ball, Villa looked like the away side rather than the home side as they stayed compact, invited pressure, and tried to feed off the scraps that came their way if they could counter.
While this underdog move may work against Tottenham away, it did not against a Wolves side ready to exploit the room left down the wings. The decision in the first half by Unai Emery to set up for the counter-attack ultimately backfired as his side lost out to an early goal, lost control of the game, and subsequently the home support went missing too.
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Aston Villa head coach Unai Emery says his side played with a lot of heart in the second half against Wolves
It was a weird atmosphere as the away end made the lion’s share of the noise and the home support remained mostly quiet until they booed the team offside. ‘Wake up’ one Villa fan suggested.
Maybe this was some of the advice passed on by Emery because ‘wake up’ was precisely what Villa did – they were positive, and after the triple substitution which included Danny Ings, Villa looked like the home side again. Emery summed it up nicely in the post-match press conference – “we played with the heart in the second half.”
The Villa fans and players will rue that first half, but not as much as Leon Bailey will rue his miss – he was inconsolable after his last-gasp effort went wide. It was not necessarily Bailey’s missed opportunity to blame, it was the counter attacking setup that put Villa behind in the first place that the hosts will regret. Adam Williams
Three games in and Julen Lopetegui has a win, a draw and a defeat as Wolves head coach. It has been an encouraging start, the improvement obvious. But the challenge is also clear. For the second game in succession, points have been lost late on. He needs them desperately.
Wolves were superb in the first half, Daniel Podence scoring a wonderful goal. Perhaps it sums up their problems this season that he departed with an injury at the break. As soon as someone finds some scoring form, Lopetegui loses him. They needed a second goal.
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Wolves head coach Julen Lopetegui says he is disappointed with the point against Aston Villa
There were chances on the counter-attack but instead it took a spectacular Leon Bailey miss for Wolves to escape with a point. Three would have taken them out of the relegation zone but the forthcoming fixtures mean they could now be down there for a while.
Following the visit of West Ham next week, the next two Premier League fixtures are against Liverpool and Manchester City. January may yet bring more signings than points. They will need to be the right ones for Lopetegui to continue this fledgling revival. Adam Bate
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