London (AFP) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said winning felt much better with fans in attendance after beating Tottenham 1-0 at Wembley to lift the League Cup for the fourth consecutive year in front of 8,000 supporters on Sunday. Aymeric Laporte's header eight minutes from time finally rewarded a dominant performance from City as […]

London (AFP) – Manchester City claimed a fourth consecutive League Cup on Sunday with a dominant display to beat Tottenham 1-0 in front of 8,000 fans at Wembley. Aymeric Laporte's header eight minutes from time finally ended Tottenham's resistance as their 13-year wait to win a trophy goes on. For the first time in 13 […]

Paris (AFP) – Wissam Ben Yedder scored a late winner as Monaco beat Angers 1-0 on Sunday to move back within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain, as Bordeaux slumped to defeat at Lorient after being warned this week they could go out of business. Monaco, who edged PSG to the title in […]

Kiev (AFP) – Mircea Lucescu celebrated guiding Dynamo Kiev to the Ukrainian league title on Saturday in his first season as coach at the bitter rivals of Shakhtar Donetsk, the side he managed for 12 years. Such was the level of protests at his appointment of the former Shakhtar stalwart from Dynamo fans the 75-year-old […]

Johannesburg (AFP) – Leaders Mamelodi Sundowns surrendered a 21-match unbeaten South African Premiership run since the season began last October when losing 2-1 at home to mid-table Kaizer Chiefs Sunday. Uruguayan Gaston Sirino gave the frontrunners a 35th-minute lead in Pretoria only for the home side to concede twice in two minutes midway through the […]

Madrid (AFP) – Barcelona took over as Atletico Madrid's chief challengers for the title on Sunday as Antoine Griezmann scored a quick-fire double in a 2-1 win away at Villarreal in La Liga. Three goals in seven minutes before half-time saw Villarreal take the lead and then swiftly throw it away as Griezmann equalised with […]

Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) (AFP) – Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona's Women's Champions League semi-final tie is finely poised after Sunday's first leg ended 1-1. Barca host the French capital side for the return leg next week with a potentially vital away goal from Jenni Hermoso for the opener after 12 minutes against her former club. This season's […]

Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) (AFP) – Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona's Women's Champions League semi-final tie is finely poised after Sunday's first leg ended 1-1. Barca host the French capital side for the return leg next week with a potentially vital away goal from Jenni Hermoso for the opener after 12 minutes against her former club. This season's […]

Milan (AFP) – Matteo Darmian scored the only goal to push Inter Milan to the brink of the Serie A title with a 1-0 win over Hellas Verona on Sunday with coach Antonio Conte hailing the victory as worth "nine points". Achraf Hakimi sent the ball through for Darmian to grab the winner after 76 […]

Berlin (AFP) – Second-placed RB Leipzig made Bayern Munich wait to be crowned Bundesliga champions as Emil Forsberg netted a second-half penalty in a 2-0 home win on Sunday against 10-man Stuttgart. Defeat for Leipzig would have confirmed Bayern as German champions for the ninth straight season despite Hansi Flick's side losing 2-1 at Mainz […]

Paris (AFP) – Bordeaux slumped to a fifth consecutive loss on Sunday following a miserable 4-1 defeat by Lorient that compounded the Ligue 1 club's troubles after being warned this week they could go out of business. Nigerian forward Terem Moffi scored a hat-trick to keep Bordeaux in a battle against relegation, three days after […]

London (AFP) – After a week in which English fans helped bring down a proposed European Super League with furious protests, the return of supporters to stadiums took another significant step forward with 8,000 in attendance for Sunday's League Cup final between Manchester City and Tottenham at Wembley. For the first time in 13 months, […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United drew 0-0 with Leeds on Sunday to stay on track for a second-place finish in the Premier League after Burnley took a giant step towards survival. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men beat their bitter rivals 6-2 at Old Trafford in December but both sides looked short of energy and imagination in […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge believes plans for the Super League are "definitively over", a week after the short-lived attempt by 12 European clubs to create a competition to rival the Champions League. "The subject is definitely over. That was a warning shot," Rummenigge told Sunday's edition of German daily Bild. "In the […]

Wolverhampton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Chris Wood scored a first-half hat-trick as Burnley pummelled sorry Wolves 4-0 on Sunday to lift themselves nine points clear of the Premier League relegation zone. Burnley were sharper and more committed but mid-table Wolves contributed to their downfall with some sloppy defensive work at an empty Molineux. The away […]