Boulogne-Billancourt (France) (AFP) – England and Scotland will meet each other in their opening game at the 2019 women's World Cup in France after being placed in the same group at Saturday's draw ceremony alongside former winners Japan as well as Argentina. Old rivals England and Scotland will meet in Nice in their opening game […]

London (AFP) – Norwich scored a last-gasp winner against Bolton to stay ahead of Leeds at the top of the England Championship on Saturday. Mario Vrancic and Marco Stiepermann put the Canaries 2-0 up but Bolton rallied through Sammy Ameobi and Mark Beevers' 88th-minute equaliser to level at 2-2. Ameobi was then sent off before […]

Madrid (AFP) – Atletico Madrid and Sevilla moved joint top of the La Liga table alongside Barcelona as Atletico thumped Alaves 3-0 and Pablo Machin's men drew at Valencia on Saturday. Nikola Kalinic, who returned a World Cup runners-up medal this year, opened his league account for the season with the first goal before Antoine Griezmann […]

Milan (AFP) – Polish striker Arkadiusz Milik bagged a brace as Napoli warmed up for next week's Champions League clash with Liverpool by easing past promoted Frosinone 4-0 in Serie A on Saturday to close the gap on champions Juventus to eight points. Piotr Zielinski opened after just seven minutes in the Stadio San Paulo […]

London (AFP) – Mohamed Salah's hat-trick fired Liverpool to the top of the Premier League with an impressive 4-0 win at Bournemouth, while Manchester United also finally hit some free-scoring form with a 4-1 win over Fulham at Old Trafford on Saturday. Arsenal extended their unbeaten run to 21 games, but left it late to […]

London (AFP) – Lucas Torreira rode to Arsenal's rescue as the Uruguayan's impressive start to life as a Gunner continued with an overhead kick winner seven minutes from time to beat an obdurate Huddersfield 1-0 at the Emirates. Torreira hooked home a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cross from close-range, yet the image that will endure of a […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jose Mourinho answered his critics — for the time being at least — as his Manchester United side recorded their biggest league victory in 13 months with a 4-1 win over Fulham. Ashley Young, with his first goal in over 12 months, Juan Mata and Romelu Lukaku shot United into […]

Berlin (AFP) – Robert Lewandowski helped fire defending champions Bayern Munich up to second in the Bundesliga on Saturday while Jadon Sancho led leaders Borussia Dortmund to a 2-1 derby win at Schalke. Lewandowski scored twice in an impressive 3-0 home win against Nuremberg to lift Bayern up from fourth to second in the table, […]

London (AFP) – Mohamed Salah's hat-trick fired Liverpool to the top of the Premier League with an impressive 4-0 win at Bournemouth, while Manchester United also finally hit some free-scoring form with a 4-1 win over Fulham at Old Trafford on Saturday. Arsenal extended their unbeaten run to 21 games, but left it late to […]

Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jurgen Klopp and Eddie Howe were in agreement that Mohamed Salah is one of the world's best players after Liverpool's crushing 4-0 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday. Salah's hat-trick lit up the game and gave Klopp's side the perfect boost ahead of next week's decisive Champions League meeting with Napoli. […]

Doha (AFP) – If Qatar's bid to host the rescheduled Copa Libertadores final had been successful, River Plate fanatic Javier Maluf would have had a gentle 10-minute drive to see his heroes play. Instead, on Saturday evening, he and his family will begin a 14,200-kilometre, 15-hour round trip dash to Madrid — and stay there […]

Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Liverpool delivered a clear sign they intend to push Manchester City all the way in the Premier League with an emphatic 4-0 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday that was capped by a hat-trick from Mohamed Salah. This victory, the Reds' fifth consecutive league win, secured with the additional help of […]

Paris (AFP) – French champions Paris Saint-Germain have quashed reports the club could be forced to sell either Kylian Mbappe or Neymar in a bid to circumvent eventual Financial Fair Play (FFP) sanctions. Qatar-owned PSG are one of a number of clubs under scrutiny from UEFA's FFP regulations after splashing a combined total of more […]

Paris (AFP) – The French Football Federation (FFF) announced on Saturday a fifth successive year of profit with their accounts up by 821,000 euros ($935,000) for the season 2017-2018. Their annual financial report, which concluded on June 30, showed a 9,000 euros ($10,2000) increase compared to the previous year. The association's yearly income grew from […]

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa will face two challengers when he seeks a fresh term at an election in April, the football body said Saturday. Qatar's Saoud Al-Mohannadi, an AFC vice president, and AFC executive committee member Mohamed Khalfan Matar Saeed Alromaithi of the United Arab […]