Marseille (AFP) – Lyon's team bus was stoned as the players arrived at the Velodrome stadium for their traditionally high tension clash with Marseille in Ligue 1 on Sunday. "The Lyon players' bus was stoned and a window broken, but there were no injuries," a police spokesman told AFP. In the same fixture last season, […]

Marseille (AFP) – Frank McCourt, the future owner of French Ligue 1 giants Marseille, was described as "the man we've been waiting for" by the club's sporting director Basile Boli on Sunday. "He's going to spark something and so much the better for us," said the former player after meeting McCourt in Marseille on Sunday. […]

Southampton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Charlie Austin came off the bench to give Southampton their first Premier League win of the season by scoring in a 1-0 win over Swansea at St Mary's on Sunday. It was the south coast club's first Premier League success under manager Claude Puel and their second victory in a […]

London (AFP) – Harry Kane found the net for the second time in two Premier League games as Tottenham Hotspur beat Sunderland 1-0 on Sunday, but was stretchered off late on. The England striker scored at White Hart Lane for the first time since March to lift his team to third and keep the visitors […]

Berlin (AFP) – Hertha Berlin maintained their 100 percent Bundesliga record with a 2-0 win over Schalke 04 to set up a top-of-the-table clash on Wednesday against Bayern Munich. Hertha's victory on Sunday means they are only second in the German league table on goal difference behind Bayern with the only teams boasting a perfect […]

London (AFP) – Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane will undergo tests on Monday after injuring his right ankle during his side's 1-0 win over Sunderland on Sunday, manager Mauricio Pochettino said. Kane had to be stretchered off after badly turning his ankle in a sliding challenge on Papy Djilobodji, having earlier scored the game's only […]

Glasgow (AFP) – Inverness Caledonian Thistle substitute Alex Fisher struck an 89th-minute winner to deny Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic victory in a 2-2 draw on Sunday. Brendan Rodgers's Celtic, chasing a sixth successive title, were looking to bounce back from their humbling 7-0 demolition by Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday. They looked on […]

London (AFP) – Misfiring Manchester United crashed to a third consecutive defeat on Sunday as manager Jose Mourinho saw his side deservedly beaten 3-1 at Watford in the Premier League. It is the first time Mourinho has lost three straight games within the same season since he was at Porto in 2002 and it left […]

Montpellier (France) (AFP) – Newly-recruited playmaker Younes Belhanda grabbed a point for Nice in a 1-1 draw at Montpellier with a determined late strike on Sunday meaning his side climb above champions Paris Saint Germain into second place in Ligue 1. Having come fourth last season, Nice lost their coach Claude Puel to Southampton while […]

Berlin (AFP) – Japan striker Yoshinori Muto on Sunday again came off the bench to score his second goal in just three Bundesliga games in Mainz's 3-1 away win at Augsburg. Muto came on with 66 minutes gone for Colombia striker Jhon Cordoba, who had scored Mainz's early opener, and stabbed the ball over the […]

London (AFP) – Misfiring Manchester United crashed to a third consecutive defeat on Sunday as manager Jose Mourinho saw his side deservedly beaten 3-1 at Watford in the Premier League. Marcus Rashford cancelled out Etienne Capoue's opener for Watford, but a late goal by Juan Camilo Zuniga and a stoppage-time Troy Deeney penalty gave Walter […]

London (AFP) – Andros Townsend scored one goal and made another as Crystal Palace inflicted a crushing 4-1 defeat upon winless Stoke City in the Premier League on Sunday. Townsend set up the opening goal for James Tomkins at Selhurst Park and completed the scoring with his first Palace goal after Scott Dann and James […]

Watford (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jose Mourinho admits Manchester United's lack of confidence has contributed to their dismal three-match losing streak. Mourinho's side slumped to an embarrassing 3-1 defeat at Watford on Sunday to cap a miserable week that also included losses against Manchester City and Feyenoord. After winning the first three games of the […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich's Brazil winger Douglas Costa was on Sunday ruled out for the foreseeable future with a hamstring injury, 10 days before their Champions League clash at Atletico Madrid. Costa suffered the injury in the second-half of Bayern's 3-1 comeback win at home to Ingolstadt in the Bundesliga on Saturday, which preserved […]

London (AFP) – Seamus Coleman said the "hard work" demanded by new Everton manager Ronald Koeman is behind the club's best start to the season in 38 years. The Toffees came from behind to beat Middlesbrough 3-1 on Saturday as they extended their unbeaten start to the Premier League season to five games. That meant […]