FOOTBALL DIGEST

ENGLAND could face Argentina and Brazil in the Nations League from 2024 as the European competition is expanded to include all 10 South American countries. ‘From 2024, teams from this continent will join the competition,’ said UEFA vice president Zbigniew Boniek. ‘In what format will it be? We’re still working on it. ‘The schedule for national teams is restricted so you can’t mix it up too much.’

CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN still dreams of resuming his career after his contract with Inter Milan was terminated by mutual consent. The Dane has not played since a cardiac arrest against Finland at Euro 2020, and cannot continue his career in Serie A because Italian law forbids him to play with an implanted defibrillator. Eriksen’s agent Martin Schoots told Sportsmail: ‘All physical results are positive. Christian has his dreams. ‘Christian is doing really well. He has been training himself for months and things are going well.’

THE Premier League’s medical department will consult Newcastle to determine if concussion protocols were broken after Eddie Howe’s comments about Isaac Hayden being ‘dazed’. Liverpool’s leveller on Thursday came while Hayden was down with a head injury. Howe slammed the decision to allow the game to continue but critics have argued Newcastle were also wrong to let Hayden finish the game.