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The Seattle Seahawks’ defense, which has been vastly improved over the past two weeks, will get some help for the stretch run of the season. Edge rusher Uchenna Nwosu is expected to return to practice on Wednesday to begin ramping up to game shape. “I think the plan is we’ll have him out there (Wednesday) in some capacity,” Macdonald told reporters on Monday. “Return to play, in terms of how long, I can’t tell you. The window will open then we’ll go from there.” Macdonald’s announcement occurred just hours after Nwosu posted a hint about his potential return on social media. The post simply said “Perfect Timing.” The team’s highest-paid edge rusher has missed the past five games after he was placed on injured reserve following a thigh injury he suffered during the Seahawks’ Week 5 game against the Giants. Nwosu was making his 2024 season debut in the game after sitting out the first four games of the regular season while rehabilitating from a MCL sprain he sustained during the Seahawks’ preseason finale game against Cleveland If the Seahawks designate Nwosu to return to practice on Wednesday, they will have 21 days to activate him or place him back on injured reserve, which would end his season. Even if Nwosu returns to practice, he will need some time to get himself into game shape, and he’s not expected to play against the New York Jets on Sunday. “This week is going to be pretty limited, so we won’t be seeing him this week, then we’ll take it from there,” Macdonald told reporters on Monday. Nwosu set a career-high with 9.5 sacks during his debut Seattle campaign in 2022, but he’s been plagued by injuries since that time. He missed the final 11 games of last season after suffering a torn pectoral muscle and has played in one game in 2024 after dealing with those injuries.
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ZOUK MOSBEH, Lebanon — The crushing reality of homes and businesses reduced to crumbled cement and mangled steel has curdled the joy many in Lebanon felt after Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire earlier this week. “I have no house. Now we’re looking in the village to rent one apartment,” Ali Eid, 56, told NBC News in a telephone interview Friday after returning to his hometown of Maarakah in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district. “We, as many other people, are extremely happy to come back, but at the same time, I look at the people who lost their houses and their loved ones, it’s devastating,” added the high school teacher. Eid was one of almost 1.2 million people displaced inside Lebanon as Israel and the Hezbollah militant group traded fire during almost 14 months of conflict that began the day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in which about 1,200 people were killed and around 250 taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. Thousands of people displaced to northern Lebanon by the fighting have started to make their way back south as the fragile ceasefire negotiated by the United States continues to hold, despite Israel urging them to stay put. Almost 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to officials in the country. In northern Israel, 60,000 people have been forced from their homes, with 80 soldiers and 50 civilians killed, according to local officials. Imad Komayha is a political activist and writer who moved several times after leaving his home in the village of Kfarsir before he ended up in Lebanon’s north. On his return, he said around 50 homes had been destroyed in the village, but his house was still standing. “Some shattered glass only, but around us, my neighbor’s house is on the ground.” “I am happy, scared, in complete shock at the same time. People are in complete shock. Looking at the destruction is devastating,” said Komayha, 58, adding that he had been to the funerals of a mother, her daughter and her son-in-law shortly after he returned. “We’re trying to do many tasks at the same time, cleaning the house, receiving neighbors, getting news from people who did not show up, asking about the casualties,” he said. “Let’s hope this will be our last displacement. It feels great to get back home,” he added. Others like Elham Ezzeldine were less fortunate. After she returned from her brother’s house in Lebanon’s capital Beirut to her home in the southern city of Tyre, she estimated it would cost her at least $30,000 to repair it. “I can’t describe to you the amount of damage,” the 51-year-old housewife said. “There are some areas and streets in Tyre that are on the ground. I don’t know how long it will take us to go back to our normal life and city. My husband is not working. He used to have a clothing store in Tyre, which was completely demolished.” “I cry for Tyre, my beautiful city, I cry for the people who lost their loved ones and their houses,” she said. “I wonder what everybody gained from this damned war, except death and destruction,” she added. After nearly a year of cross-border clashes in parallel with the Gaza war, Israel stepped up its air and ground campaign in Lebanon in September, while a large number of Hezbollah’s leaders were assassinated including its chief, Hassan Nasrallah. In the village of Niha, Ali Alamine was also “angry” at the destruction. “I can’t describe my feelings, we lost many friends during the war, and I am devastated.” Alamine, 52, said he “cried like a baby,” when he saw the destruction in nearby Dahiya, where his office is based. “Hearing the news is one thing and seeing the damage is another story,” he added. While he counts the personal cost of the conflict, the cost of physical damage and economic losses for Lebanon will be around $8.5 billion, according to an estimate from the World Bank — a huge price for a country still suffering the effects of a financial collapse five years ago. And while the truce was the first major sign of progress in the region since war began more than a year ago, it did not address the war in Gaza, where United Nations and aid officials say hunger and desperation are growing among the population, almost all of which relies on humanitarian aid to survive. Meanwhile in Lebanon, Alamine and others are still taking stock of the devastation. “I thank God that we lost material things only, but again it hurts so bad to see all this,” he said, adding: “Let’s hope that everything is over and that we can have a normal life again.”Arne Slot used the build-up to Liverpool’s showdown with Manchester City as an opportunity to hail Pep Guardiola as the best manager in the world . But it was a little aside in private that gave a more telling insight into why the Dutchman believes he can succeed where Jurgen Klopp failed by bringing an end to the Catalan’s domination of the Premier League . “I don’t look up to Pep,” said Slot in a briefing with the Sunday newspapers ahead of the clash between two teams that have gone head-to-head for the title for most of the last seven years. “That’s not the words I would want to use.” Just moments earlier, Slot had told the TV cameras: “Pep is one of the best in the world - and in my opinion THE best.” But with Liverpool holding an eight-point advantage over the four-in-a-row champions, they won’t be suffering from any inferiority complex. Especially after beating European champions Real Madrid more comprehensively than the 2-0 scoreline suggested on Wednesday night. Twenty-four hours earlier, City saw a 3-0 lead against Slot’s former club Feyenoord evaporate in the last 14 minutes of a game they had dominated. That came on the back of five successive defeats that had shaken City to the core and led to suggestions that Guardiola’s team is now ripe for the taking. “I got in touch with Feyenoord but not in a tactical way,” admitted the Dutchman. “I just contacted people I worked with to say ‘what an amazing result and congratulations with the unbelievable performance’ and those kinds of things.” Anfield has been a graveyard for the Blues - both before and after Guardiola arrived at the Etihad to win six titles in seven seasons. City have won just three games on Liverpool soil stretching back to 1956. Guardiola’s only success there came when the stadium was left empty by the pandemic and he went home with a 4-1 victory. “What is even stranger than that is that the only time Liverpool have won the league in the last 30 years was when there were also no fans,” countered Slot. “I think the reason for this (record) is that Liverpool have always had great teams as well. It’s a combination of the fans and the players. “If you only had good fans and terrible players it is difficult to win any game. But if you have very good players and the fans are all behind you, this always gives you something extra. “I think another statistic is that from the last nine or 10 games we have played against City, we have only won once. “The last eight times we played Real Madrid we had never won - until the other night when we won. So for me, data and statistics like that don’t mean a lot with this game.” Slot insists that the only thing the champions are lacking is a stroke of luck. The worst run of his managerial career came early in his reign at AZ Alkmaar when he drew four games on the bounce. But he feels the Eredivisie in his homeland cannot be compared with the difficulties in winning games in the Premier League or Champions League . Slot said: “I remember those four draws in a row - but it is also different when you play in the Premier League and the Champions League. In Holland, if you play Europa League or Conference League games and then a league game, it is much easier. You probably aren’t going to lose five in a row. “In the Premier League and Champions League, this can happen to every team - especially if you are as unlucky as City have been in the last four or five games they played because the results could have been the opposite. “I cannot answer how I would react (to five successive defeats) until I have been in that position. If I analysed City at the moment, I would say the results are not what they want. But if you look at how they play, I would not be concerned at all.” Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. 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