LONDON (AFP, REUTERS) – Antonio Conte on Wednesday (Dec 15) spoke of the “big problem” managers will face in future after confirming Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League clash at Leicester City today will go ahead as scheduled, following two postponed matches due to a Covid-19 outbreak in his camp. Spurs’ Europa Conference League game against Rennes... » read more
LONDON (AFP) – Leicester left Newcastle still rooted in the English Premier League relegation zone with a 4-0 thrashing on Sunday (Dec 12), while West Ham’s Champions League ambitions were dented by a 0-0 draw at Burnley. Despite being hit by a coronavirus outbreak that left Brendan Rodgers without seven players, the Foxes gave Eddie... » read more
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND (REUTERS) – Premier League leaders Manchester City and title challengers Liverpool and Chelsea all needed penalties to secure victories on Saturday (Dec 11), leaving the top of the table unchanged. Manchester City beat Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Etihad thanks to a Raheem Sterling spot kick after a controversial penalty award. Liverpool also won... » read more
LONDON (REUTERS) – Arsenal weathered storms on and off the pitch before coasting to a 3-0 Premier League win over Southampton on Saturday (Dec 11) as boss Mikel Arteta dropped captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from the match-day squad for disciplinary reasons. Before kickoff, Arteta was tight-lipped as he explained that Aubameyang’s absence was due to a... » read more
BERGAMO, ITALY (REUTERS) – Villarreal became the last team to reach the Champions League knockout stages as Netherlands international Arnaut Danjuma’s double helped them to a 3-2 win at Atalanta in their rearranged final Group F match on Thursday (Dec 9). The game was scheduled to take place on Wednesday but was postponed due to... » read more
LONDON (AFP) – Tottenham’s Premier League game at Brighton on Sunday has been postponed due to a severe coronavirus outbreak at the north London club. Eight Tottenham players and five staff members have tested positive for the virus, forcing the postponement of Thursday’s (Dec 9) Europa Conference League tie against Rennes. Tottenham asked Premier League... » read more
TURIN, ITALY (AFP) – Juventus completed their Champions League group phase with a largely uneventful 1-0 win over Malmo which allowed them to qualify for the last 16 as Group H winners. Massimiliano Allegri’s side leapfrogged Chelsea to claim top spot after Moise Kean headed the only goal of the game and Chelsea conceded a... » read more
ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA (AFP) – Chelsea blew their chance to finish top of Champions League Group H as Magomed Ozdoev’s stoppage-time equaliser forced the holders to settle for a dramatic 3-3 draw at Zenit Saint Petersburg on Wednesday (Dec 8). Thomas Tuchel’s side had already qualified for the last 16 and were hoping to take... » read more
WATFORD, UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) – Bernardo Silva backed up Pep Guardiola’s claim he is the best player in the Premier League right now by scoring twice as Manchester City cruised to the top of the Premier League with a 3-1 win at Watford. Silva’s sumptuous cushioned volley against Aston Villa in midweek earned Guardiola’s glowing... » read more
LONDON (AFP) – Manchester City beat West Ham 2-1 in swirling snow on Sunday (Nov 28) to return to second in the Premier League and Watford manager Claudio Ranieri endured a miserable return to Leicester. Free-scoring Liverpool laid down the gauntlet by hammering Southampton 4-0 the previous day to move to within one point of... » read more
MILAN (REUTERS) – Edin Dzeko scored twice in the space of six second-half minutes to earn Inter Milan a 2-0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk at San Siro on Wednesday (Nov 24) and send the Italians to the brink of their first Champions League knockout stage appearance in a decade. The Bosnian swept home a finish... » read more
MANCHESTER (REUTERS) – Manchester City are determined to return to the Champions League final and will use their disappointment of losing last season’s showpiece as motivation, midfielder Ilkay Gundogan said on Tuesday (Nov 23). City reached their first ever Champions League final in May but lost 1-0 to Chelsea, with Gundogan collecting his second runners-up... » read more
MANCHESTER (AFP) – Tottenham needed a second-half fightback to launch Antonio Conte’s reign in charge with a 2-1 win over Leeds, while Manchester City swept aside Everton 3-0 on Sunday (Nov 21) to go second in the Premier League. A severely depleted Leeds remain just two points above the relegation zone after threatening to spoil... » read more
MANCHESTER (AFP) – Raheem Sterling, Rodri and Bernardo Silva got the goals as Manchester City cruised to a 3-0 win over Everton to move within three points of Premier League leaders Chelsea. With the focus of the football world on events across Manchester on Sunday (ov 21) as United sacked manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, City... » read more
LONDON (AFP) – English Premier League strugglers Norwich are set to hire former Aston Villa boss Dean Smith as their new manager, according to reports on Saturday (Nov 13). The Canaries have reportedly offered Smith the chance to succeed Daniel Farke, who was sacked on Nov 6 with the club rooted to the bottom of... » read more
LONDON (REUTERS) – Premier League clubs have unanimously opposed Fifa’s plans for a biennial World Cup and extended international breaks from 2024, the league’s chief executive Richard Masters said on Thursday (Nov 11). Soccer’s world governing body is considering holding the global showpiece event every two years instead of every four once the international match... » read more
LONDON (AFP) – Norwich sacked manager Daniel Farke on Saturday (Nov 6), hours after they beat Brentford to register their first Premier League win of the season. The 45-year-old German had been under increasing pressure after the Canaries failed to win any of their opening 10 games on their return to the Premier League. “In... » read more
MALMO, SWEDEN (AFP) – Chelsea moved to the brink of sealing their place in the Champions League last 16, but the defending champions were made to work hard for a 1-0 win over Malmo in Sweden on Tuesday (Nov 2). Hakim Ziyech broke the home side’s resistence 11 minutes into the second-half as the Moroccan... » read more
PARIS (AFP) – While Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe have dominated the headlines for Paris Saint-Germain this season, Neymar’s recent form has become a source of concern in the French capital. The Brazilian has scored just one goal in eight games since the campaign began, and that was a penalty in a 2-1 league win... » read more
MANCHESTER (AFP) – Liverpool inflicted a historic hammering on Manchester United as Mohamed Salah scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 win at Old Trafford on Sunday (Oct 24), leaving Ole Gunnar Solskjaer clinging to his job. For the first time in Premier League history, United trailed 4-0 at half-time and failed to score in a... » read more