Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – A hotly anticipated staging post in Manchester City's Pep Guardiola era arrives on Tuesday when Monaco visit the Etihad Stadium in the first leg of the Champions League last 16. Guardiola was appointed to take City to the next level on the European stage and he has already masterminded a […]

London (AFP) – Marcus Rashford insists Manchester United will be on a revenge mission when they face Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-finals at Stamford Bridge. Jose Mourinho's side suffered an embarrassing 4-0 defeat against the Premier League leaders in west London in October. It was a chastening afternoon for former Chelsea boss Mourinho on […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – A hotly anticipated staging post in Manchester City's Pep Guardiola era arrives on Tuesday when Monaco visit the Etihad Stadium in the first leg of the Champions League last 16. Guardiola was appointed to take City to the next level on the European stage and he has already masterminded a […]

Milan (AFP) – Former Croatia midfielder Ivan Juric has been sacked as coach of Genoa following a 5-0 reverse at struggling Pescara and replaced him by Andrea Mandorlini, the Serie A club announced Monday. "Genoa Cricket and Football Club announces that Ivan Juric has been relieved from his duties as first team coach," said a […]

Hong Kong (AFP) – Megabucks import Oscar will hope to make his mark for Shanghai SIPG as the AFC Champions League returns this week, featuring a trailblazing female coach but missing last year's winners, who were banned for match-fixing. Brazilian playmaker Oscar, SIPG's 60-million-euro buy from Chelsea, will be under the spotlight in week one […]

Glasgow (AFP) – Rangers caretaker manager Graeme Murty questioned his side's desire after they lost further ground on Aberdeen in the hunt for second place in the Scottish Premiership following a 2-1 defeat to Dundee on Sunday. Rangers fell behind at Dens Park to first-half goals from Mark O'Hara and Kevin Holt before Joe Garner […]

Paris (AFP) – Manchester City avoided Europe's heavyweights in the Champions League last-16 draw but Pep Guardiola's side must instead beware of an in-form Monaco, the leading scorers in Europe's top divisions this season. City host the French league leaders at the Etihad Stadium in the first leg on Tuesday looking to extend a nine-game […]

By showing a rescheduled NASCAR race on Sunday morning on FOX Sports 1, the programming change caused plenty of consternation among soccer fans in the United States this weekend who wanted to watch the Manchester United FA Cup game against Blackburn Rovers. Originally scheduled to air at 11:15am ET on Sunday, the Blackburn-Manchester United game […]

Barcelona (AFP) – Barcelona boss Luis Enrique labelled harsh treatment dished out to his players by Barca fans nonsensical as the Spanish champions squeezed past Leganes 2-1 on Sunday. Following a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain in midweek, Barca needed a last minute Lionel Messi penalty to see off a Leganes side […]

London (AFP) – Manchester City and Monaco go into Tuesday's Champions League showdown each pinning their hopes on short, left-footed midfield creators from the Iberian peninsula who go by the name of Silva. Monaco's Silva is Bernardo, a 22-year-old Portuguese winger whose knack for decisive goals has made him a central figure in their free-scoring […]

London (AFP) – Arsene Wenger has expressed fears about Sutton United's synthetic 3G pitch ahead of Arsenal's perilous FA Cup fifth-round match against the non-league minnows on Monday. The Arsenal manager believes the artificial surface could impede his men despite their best efforts to prepare on a similar pitch. Arsenal desperately hope to avoid succumbing […]

Paris (AFP) – Paris Saint-Germain missed the chance to eat into Monaco's lead at the top of the French Ligue 1 table after being held to a 0-0 draw by Toulouse at the Parc des Princes on Sunday. At the same venue where they had blown away Barcelona five days earlier, winning 4-0 in the […]

Madrid (AFP) – Barcelona needed a last minute Lionel Messi penalty to see off lowly Leganes 2-1 as a poor week for the Spanish champions continued on Sunday. Barca were thrashed 4-0 by Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday to leave their Champions League hopes hanging by a thread and had to rely on Messi for snatching […]

Blackburn (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jose Mourinho refused to dwell on the prospect of facing his former club Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-finals after Manchester United negotiated a difficult fifth-round visit to Blackburn Rovers in a 2-1 victory. It took the substitute pairing of Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to combine for the latter […]

Milan (AFP) – Torino coach Sinisa Mihajlovic leapt to the defence of Joe Hart on Sunday despite the England goalkeeper shipping four goals in a 4-1 defeat to Serie A title hopefuls Roma. Edin Dzeko, a former teammate of Hart's at Manchester City, beat the Englishman on 10 minutes with a low strike from the […]