London (AFP) – Mateusz Klich bagged a second-half double as Leeds came from behind to beat Rotherham 2-1 and extend their lead at the top of the Championship to three points. Amid the furore caused by Marcelo Bielsa's revelation he had spied on each of his Championship opponents training sessions this season, Leeds' promotion push […]

Glasgow (AFP) – Celtic stretched their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to three points with a 3-0 win over struggling Hamilton as 10-men Kilmarnock were held 0-0 at Aberdeen on Saturday. Callum McGregor, Ryan Christie and Scott Sinclair were on target for Celtic as the champions continued their 100 percent record at […]

Marseille (AFP) – Marseille promised on Saturday to take action against the spectator who threw the firework that halted their home game against Lille for 35 minutes as one of their players said he'd rather be "spat on" than be placed in harm's way. Marseille lost the Ligue 1 match, 2-1. They have been in […]

Madrid (AFP) – Antoine Griezmann struck again as Atletico Madrid kept the pressure on Barcelona at the top of La Liga by beating in-form Getafe 2-0 on Saturday. Griezmann now has 10 goals in his last 11 games, his latest helping Atletico register their sixth win in seven league matches. The only dropped points came […]

London (AFP) – Manchester City's quest for four trophies continued with a 5-0 thrashing of Burnley to march into the FA Cup fifth round as League One Shrewsbury narrowly missed out on shocking Wolves in a 2-2 draw on Saturday. City boss Pep Guardiola labelled talk of a quadruple as "fantasy" earlier in the week, […]

Milan (AFP) – Sassuolo shrugged off the shock departure of Kevin-Prince Boateng to Barcelona by ending their four-month Serie A home win drought with a 3-0 success over Cagliari on Saturday, keeping their Europa League push alive. It was the first win of the year for the side from Modena who had not taken three […]

Dortmund (Germany) (AFP) – Marco Reus shone as Borussia Dortmund opened a nine-point lead over Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga table with a 5-1 rout of strugglers Hanover on Saturday. With defending champions Bayern hosting Stuttgart on Sunday, Dortmund grabbed the chance to thump second-from-bottom Hanover with Reus causing havoc on his […]

Barcelona (AFP) – Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has admitted he views Atletico Madrid as a greater threat to his side winning La Liga this season than Real Madrid. Atletico, who play Getafe on Saturday, sit five points behind Barca in the table while Real's stuttering campaign means they are already 10 adrift of the league […]

London (AFP) – Relatives of missing Premier League player Emiliano Sala on Saturday began a private search for his plane, which disappeared over the Channel, after local police called off their own rescue mission. The news was announced by an online fund-raising campaign for the operation, and confirmed to AFP by a friend of the […]

London (AFP) – Frank Lampard's Derby County moved into the last 16 of the FA Cup with a hard-fought 1-0 win at League One Accrington Stanley as both sides ended with 10 men on Saturday. A mudbath of a pitch made flowing football difficult, but third-tier Accrington will feel hard done by not to have […]

Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid coach Santiago Solari has praised Karim Benzema's excellent run of form, particularly as the striker is playing through the pain of a broken finger. Benzema sustained the injury during Madrid's win over Real Betis earlier this month and the decision was taken to skip surgery so the Frenchman could avoid […]

Paris (AFP) – Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel said on Saturday it was too soon to assess the seriousness of forward Neymar's foot injury. The world's most expensive player left the field in PSG's French Cup win over Strasbourg on Wednesday due to a problem with his fifth metatarsal which he also fractured last season. […]

Berlin (AFP) – Anthony Modeste insists he will take his case to CAS after FIFA ruled his decision to walk out on Chinese side Tianjin Quanjian was not justified by unpaid salary. The 30-year-old striker posted on Instagram that he will approach the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, in a bid to […]

Paris (AFP) – Leonardo Jardim returned as Monaco head coach on Friday, only three months since being sacked by the club with the team struggling in the relegation zone. Here, AFP Sport takes a look at famous managers who returned to their former clubs, some more than once. Kevin Keegan (Newcastle) 1992-1997, 2008 — Keegan […]

Berlin (AFP) – FIFA has thrown Anthony Modeste's transfer to Cologne in doubt by declaring his decision to walk out on Chinese side Tianjin Quanjian was not justified by unpaid salary. The 30-year-old French striker walked out on the Chinese club last year, citing a lack of pay, and signed a new contract until 2023 […]