Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jose Mourinho expects Zlatan Ibrahimovic to help Manchester United rule the Premier League after the Swedish star marked his debut with an excellent goal in Sunday's 3-1 win at Bournemouth. After winning league titles with Ajax, Barcelona, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain, Ibrahimovic has his sights set on […]

Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester United made a flying start to the Jose Mourinho era as goals from Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic sealed a 3-1 win in their Premier League opener at Bournemouth on Sunday. Mourinho is desperate to restore his tarnished reputation after being sacked by Chelsea last season and […]

Berlin (AFP) – Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer says he is baffled as to why Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has demoted World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger and banished him from United's senior squad. "I can't understand it. Bastian is a super player and an important figure with a lot of experience, who is very important […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Neymar led Brazil into the semi-finals of the Olympics with his first goal of the competition to edge the third of a trilogy of grudge matches with Colombia in three years 2-0. The Barcelona star curled home an inch-perfect free-kick after just 12 minutes of Saturday's game, but was lucky […]

London (AFP) – Antonio Conte hopes his first taste of the Premier League doesn't end in another sleepless night as Chelsea's new manager starts a new era at Stamford Bridge on Monday. Conte is eagerly awaiting his introduction to the English game after spells as Juventus and Italy coach, but the renowned perfectionist knows he […]

Southampton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Southampton's French manager Claude Puel made a valiant attempt to communicate with the media in English after his first Premier League match ended in a 1-1 draw with Watford. But Puel would have got his message across more quickly if he had known the good old-fashioned English footballing expression 'a […]

Liverpool (AFP) – Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino believes his players might take a little longer to completely recover from their international exertions after they salvaged a 1-1 draw at Everton on Saturday. Pochettino was happy with the second-half comeback that earned his side a point in their opening match of the Premier League season, […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said the door was not closed for club stalwarts like Joe Hart and Yaya Toure despite dropping them for his first Premier League game. Guardiola picked Willy Caballero in goal for Saturday's narrow 2-1 win over Sunderland instead of Hart, whose future at the club […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Nigeria's Olympic football coach Samson Siasia believes an African country could win the World Cup if it weren't for the pitiful state of sports administration blighting their chances. Siasia led Nigeria to the semi-finals of the Olympics on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Denmark despite a chaotic build-up to […]

Kingston upon Hull (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Claudio Ranieri admitted his Leicester City side were suffering from nerves after they began their Premier League title defence with a surprise 2-1 defeat at managerless Hull City. Ranieri's team suffered only three league defeats all season on the way to winning the title for the first time […]

The Premier League has announced the TV fixtures for the UK for October and November, which means we can extrapolate which games will be featured on NBCSN in the United States. Out of the games that have been moved, they include big clashes between Liverpool-Manchester United, Chelsea-Manchester United, Arsenal-Spurs, Manchester United-Arsenal and Chelsea-Spurs. Schedules and […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Defeating the dominant world champion and three-time reigning Olympic gold medallist USA women's team is tough enough, but Sweden's Hedvig Lindahl also had another "enemy" in their shock quarter-final win – the beating Brasilia sun. Goalkeeper Lindahl suffers from vitiligo, a condition that causes patches of skin to lose their […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Pep Guardiola conceded that fortune had favoured Manchester City after beginning his tenure as manager with a laboured 2-1 win over Sunderland on Saturday's Premier League opening day. City needed an 87th-minute own goal from Sunderland debutant Paddy McNair to secure victory at the Etihad Stadium after Sergio Aguero's fourth-minute […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Sunderland debutant Paddy McNair scored an 87th-minute own goal to earn Pep Guardiola a 2-1 victory in his first Premier League game as Manchester City manager on Saturday. City took an early lead courtesy of Sergio Aguero's penalty, but they failed to make their territorial dominance count and Jermain Defoe […]

London (AFP) – Leicester City's Premier League title defence got off to a dismal start as crisis-club Hull clinched a 2-1 win over the champions, while the Pep Guardiola era at Manchester City started with a dramatic 2-1 victory against Sunderland on Saturday's opening day. Three months on from their 5,000-1 fairytale title triumph, Leicester […]