Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes the bond between Manchester United players and fans is returning after completing a first Premier League derby double over Manchester City for 10 years at Old Trafford on Sunday. Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay took advantage of errors from City goalkeeper Ederson to keep United hot […]

Rome (AFP) – Italy's chaotic football season witnessed a player revolt Sunday over the idea of having to play matches during the coronavirus outbreak — and the league demand for the games to go ahead. Series A football has been in disarray for well over a week from the impact of a virus that first […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester United completed a first Premier League double over Manchester City for 10 years as Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay punished two errors from visiting goalkeeper Ederson for a 2-0 win at Old Trafford on Sunday. Victory keeps United hot on the heels of Chelsea for a top-four finish in […]

Paris (AFP) – Rennes shook off their painful midweek French Cup semi-final exit to thrash Montpellier 5-0 in Ligue 1 on Sunday and solidify their grip on a Champions League spot. Faitout Maouassa struck the opener inside 10 minutes at Roazhon Park and Adrien Hunou doubled the lead for Rennes, whose French Cup title defence was […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich will host Eintracht Frankfurt in a rematch of the 2018 final in the German Cup semi-finals after Sunday's draw, while Bayer Leverkusen will head to history-making fourth-tier outfit Saarbruecken. It is the first time in German Cup history that a fourth-division side has made it to the semi-finals. As a […]

Berlin (AFP) – Thomas Mueller scored as Bayern Munich opened up a four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga with a 2-0 victory over Augsburg at the Allianz Arena on Sunday, while the spread of the coronavirus threatened to curtail the season. Bayern lacked fluency in the opening stages despite scoring 13 goals in their […]

Glasgow (AFP) – Steven Gerrard hailed a "big win" for Rangers that kept alive their Scottish Premiership title hopes as Ryan Kent's deflected effort 13 minutes from time ground out a 1-0 win at Ross County on Sunday. Gerrard's men had suffered a torrid week prior to their trip to the Highlands after losing 1-0 […]

London (AFP) – Chelsea powered to their biggest Premier League win of the season and cemented their place in the top four as Mason Mount and Pedro inspired a 4-0 demolition of Everton on Sunday. Frank Lampard's side won for just the second time in seven league games thanks to goals from Mount, Pedro, Willian […]

Rome (AFP) – Struggling SPAL gave their slim Serie A survival hopes a boost with a 1-0 win at Parma in a match that kicked off over an hour late following the Italian sports minister's call for top flight matches to be suspended due to coronavirus. Andrea Petagna's 71st-minute penalty decided a contest that was […]

Paris (AFP) – A lawyer friend of FIFA chief Gianni Infantino met with Swiss public prosecutor Michael Lauber in 2015 to find out if Infantino, who was planning to run for the FIFA presidency, was the target of a corruption investigation, French daily Le Monde reported on Sunday. The newspaper said that the information came […]

Berlin (AFP) – Three former German football officials and ex-FIFA Secretary General Urs Linsi will go on trial on Monday in Switzerland over suspicions that Germany bought votes to obtain the 2006 World Cup. The three defendants have indicated that they will not be present at the hearing in Bellinzona for a variety of reasons, […]

Hong Kong (AFP) – The AFC Champions League was put on temporary hold in West Asia on Sunday while football officials work out ways to get the remaining group matches played despite the new coronavirus outbreak. With the competition's East Asian zone already severely disrupted by COVID-19, delegates from West Asia suspended group play to […]

Rome (AFP) – Italy's Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora called Sunday for an immediate suspension of the Serie A season due to the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 233 people in the Mediterranean country. "The FIGC (Italian Football Federation) should consider immediately STOPPING Serie A," Spadafora wrote in a statement on his Facebook page. "It makes […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Pep Guardiola admitted he never imagined that he would be quite so dominant over Manchester United as Manchester City manager ahead of his side's trip to Old Trafford on Sunday. Since Guardiola came to England in 2016, City have finished above United every season with a combined points difference of […]

Johannesburg (AFP) – Al Ahly of Egypt avenged a humiliating loss to Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa last season by drawing 1-1 in Pretoria on Saturday to win a CAF Champions League quarter-final. Record eight-time African champions Ahly led 2-0 after the first leg last weekend and qualified 3-1 on aggregate for a semi-finals showdown […]