Dortmund (Germany) (AFP) – Borussia Dortmund's Spanish international defender Marc Bartra will be out for around four weeks after injuring his wrist in Tuesday's bomb attack on the team's bus, coach Thomas Tuchel said. "Marc would prefer to play again on Saturday, but he will need around four weeks," said Tuchel, whose side entertain Eintracht […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admits he was shaken by the bomb attacks on Borussia Dortmund's team bus this week. Three explosions went off as the Dortmund team made their way to their Signal Iduna Park stadium for the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Monaco on Tuesday. Guardiola was […]

Milan (AFP) – Serie A giants AC Milan were sold to Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux on Thursday in a deal which sees the Chinese-led consortium take a 99.9% stake in the club and which ushers in a new era in Italian football. The seven-time European champions who are Italy's most successful club in international competition, […]

London (AFP) – Leicester are working with UEFA and local authorities in Spain to discover why their fans were involved in crowd trouble before the Champions League quarter-final at Atletico Madrid. There were clashes between Leicester supporters and police on Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon ahead of the Foxes' 1-0 first leg defeat. Social media […]

Milan (AFP) – Argentina forward Paulo Dybala on Thursday extended his contract with Juventus by two years, keeping him at the club until 2022, the Serie A champions announced. Dybala, who struck twice in the 3-0 Champions League quarter-final first-leg win over Barcelona on Tuesday, signed a five-year deal with Juventus when he joined the […]

Dortmund (Germany) (AFP) – German federal prosecutors said Thursday they had cleared the sole suspect in custody for a bomb attack against the Borussia Dortmund football team bus of involvement. The announcement marked a setback for investigators, who described the three blasts late Tuesday as a "terrorist" act and said they are focusing on suspects […]

Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Carlo Ancelotti insists Bayern Munich can still turn around their Champions League quarter-final tie at the Bernabeu despite their 2-1 first-leg defeat at home to Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired Real Madrid. Ronaldo netted his 100th European goal on Wednesday, scoring both goals in Real's 2-1 comeback win at Bayern, who had Javi Martinez […]

Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge insists striker Robert Lewandowski will be "100 percent ready" for next Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final return at Real Madrid after injury kept him out of Wednesday's first-leg defeat. The Poland hot-shot sat out Wednesday's 2-1 loss in Munich with a bruised shoulder as Cristiano Ronaldo chalked […]

London (AFP) – West Ham winger Michail Antonio will miss the rest of the season after suffering a serious hamstring injury. Antonio was forced off during the first half of West Ham's 1-0 win over fellow strugglers Swansea last weekend. Hammers boss Slaven Bilic confirmed on Friday that the 26-year-old's injury is significant enough to […]

London (AFP) – N'Golo Kante and Eden Hazard have seen their key roles in Chelsea's bid for the Premier League title acknowledged with nominations for England's Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award. The duo were on a six-strong shortlist announced Thursday that also included Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, Manchester United's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Everton's Romelu […]

Dortmund (Germany) (AFP) – Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel accused UEFA of treating the bomb attack on their team bus as if only a "beer can" had been thrown and claimed they were only informed by text message that they would have to play their Champions League game against Monaco. The German side were defeated […]

Berlin (AFP) – German federal prosecutors said Thursday that they had no evidence that the sole suspect in custody for the bomb attack against the Borussia Dortmund football team bus was linked to the crime. However they said that they were seeking an arrest warrant to keep the 26-year-old Iraqi national, identified only as Abdul […]

Johannesburg (AFP) – JS Kabylie of Algeria hope Mohamed Boulaouidet can perform another CAF Confederation Cup salvage operation when they face TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo this weekend. The Algerians are trailing the Congolese 2-0 after the first leg last weekend of a play-off with a place in the lucrative group phase […]

Dortmund (Germany) (AFP) – German investigators Thursday focused their probe into three explosions that rocked the Borussia Dortmund football team bus on a sole "Islamist" suspect in custody, after the side defiantly returned to the pitch. The roadside blasts left Dortmund's Spanish international Marc Bartra and a policeman injured, with the bombs "containing metal pieces" […]

Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Cristiano Ronaldo netted his 100th European goal on Wednesday to give holders Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback win at 10-man Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final, first-leg. "I wanted to reach this record. To be able to reach this mark is an honour and against a team like Bayern it […]