Cologne (Germany) (AFP) – Manchester United were made to pay for their profligacy in front of goal as Sevilla enjoyed another special night in the Europa League by coming from behind to reach Friday's final with a 2-1 win in Cologne. Bruno Fernandes's early penalty was cancelled out by Suso's strike for Sevilla in a […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Keylor Navas has been ruled out their Champions League semi-final with Leipzig, the French side said on Sunday. Costa Rica's Navas left the field in the dramatic last-eight win over Atalanta with a muscular issue and will miss Tuesday's meeting against the German outfit. Spain's Sergio Rico, who has […]

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – Debutant Tiklas Thutlwa scored the winner as Black Leopards shocked Maritzburg United 3-2 in Soweto on Sunday to boost hopes of avoiding relegation from the South African Premiership. Leopards remained bottom below Polokwane City, but only on goal difference, and have five more matches to play. The match equalled […]

Glasgow (AFP) – Rangers have only themselves to blame for dropping their first points of the season said manager Steven Gerrard after a 0-0 draw with Livingston in their Premiership clash on Sunday. Rangers still went top on goal difference above Hibernian, whose 100 percent start to the season ended with a 0-0 draw at […]

Madrid (AFP) – Top Barcelona officials will hold an emergency board meeting on Monday following the team's humiliating 8-2 Champions League quarter-final defeat by Bayern Munich, a club source told AFP on Sunday with under-fire coach Quique Setien likely to be axed. "The president (Josep Maria Bartomeu) has called an imminent emergency meeting of the […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Jerome Boateng on Sunday praised the form of "world-class" Alphonso Davies and said treble-chasing Bayern Munich must stay focused in the wake of their Champions League demolition of Barcelona when they play Lyon in the semi-finals. "I don't know whether the others read the papers, I certainly don't much, but we know […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Lyon were not supposed to make it to Lisbon at all for the Champions League 'Final Eight', but now they are through to one of two Franco-German semi-finals against Bayern Munich while the giants of England, Spain and Italy watch from the sidelines. It is an unlikely last-four line-up in this unprecedented […]

Shanghai (AFP) – Rafael Benitez hit rock-bottom in the Chinese Super League on Sunday after Giovanni van Bronckhorst's Guangzhou R&F extended Dalian Pro's wretched winless start to the season. Israeli international striker Eran Zahavi scored a first-half penalty to give R&F a badly needed 1-0 victory, van Bronckhorst's first win as a coach in Chinese […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Manchester City's latest shock Champions League exit to Lyon left Pep Guardiola in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons as the Catalan coach again tinkered to ill-effect when it mattered most in Europe. Guardiola, one of the most decorated coaches of all-time with eight league titles to his name in Spain, […]

Düsseldorf (Germany) (AFP) – Shakhtar Donetsk are better suited than most to deal with the eery surroundings of a Europa League semi-final behind closed doors as the Ukrainian champions continue to thrive despite not playing in their home city in six years. Uprooted by a war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Lyon coach Rudi Garcia said his side were "not setting any limits" after their stunning win over Manchester City on Saturday set up an unlikely Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich. The French team defeated Pep Guardiola's men 3-1 in the 'Final Eight' in Lisbon with a late brace from substitute Moussa […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Moussa Dembele broke his Champions League drought in timely fashion in Lisbon on Saturday after Maxwel Cornet again proved a thorn in Manchester City's side with his fourth goal in three games against the Premier League heavyweights. Quite remarkably, no player has struck more often versus Pep Guardiola's City since the start of […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Moussa Dembele came off the bench to score two late goals as Lyon caused another Champions League sensation on Saturday, dumping out Pep Guardiola's Manchester City with a 3-1 quarter-final win in Lisbon. City had looked on course to come back and win the tie behind closed doors at the Estadio Jose […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Pep Guardiola admitted Manchester City shot themselves in the foot once more in the Champions League after crashing out in the quarter-finals for the third straight season with a shock 3-1 defeat to Lyon in Lisbon. A familiar cocktail of defensive errors, missed chances and VAR controversy did for Guardiola's side with […]

Lisbon (AFP) – Moussa Dembele said Lyon's shock 3-1 Champions League victory over Manchester City showed the French side are a "great team" as well after reaching the semi-finals for just the second time in the club's history. French striker Dembele scored twice after coming on as a substitute for the final 15 minutes in […]