Stoke-on-Trent (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Chelsea manager Antonio Conte described Diego Costa as an example to his team-mates after the Premier League leaders went 13 points clear with a 2-1 win at Stoke City. The infamously feisty Costa, dropped in January after reports of a row with Conte, was left walking a disciplinary tightrope after […]

London (AFP) – Craig Shakespeare believes Kasper Schmeichel must be viewed as one of the game's top goalkeepers after his saves enabled Leicester City to record a fourth successive victory. First-half goals by Riyad Mahrez, Robert Huth and Jamie Vardy gave the champions a 3-2 win at West Ham United on Saturday, easing the relegation […]

West Bromwich (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he has made a decision on his future and will make it public very soon. Wenger revealed after seeing his side humbled 3-1 at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday that he has decided whether to stay with Arsenal when his contract expires at the […]

Milan (AFP) – Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, who faces a grilling by an Italian anti-mafia commission, on Saturday angrily denied claims he knowingly met bosses of a feared organised crime group. Agnelli was summoned after wiretap evidence from an ongoing investigation into the 'Ndrangheta linked staff at the Serie A champions to the Calabria-based criminal […]

Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Bournemouth bolstered their bid for Premier League survival and pushed Swansea deeper into the relegation mire as Benik Afobe inspired a 2-0 home win on Saturday. Eddie Howe's side took the lead at Dean Court thanks to a first-half own goal from Alfie Mawson, who deflected in Afobe's shot. Afobe […]

Milan (AFP) – England goalkeeper Joe Hart had a typically topsy-turvy evening as Torino took a point in a thrilling 2-2 home draw with Inter Milan on Saturday. Inter travelled to the Stadio Olimpico looking for a precious win as they bid to maintain their drive for a top-three finish and a return to the […]

Sunderland (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Bottom club Sunderland spurned a golden opportunity to make up ground in a 0-0 draw home to Burnley that left them seven points from Premier League safety on Saturday. Tom Heaton denied Sunderland a dramatic late winner leaving David Moyes' men deep in relegation trouble after spurning a series of […]

Paris (AFP) – Mario Balotelli endured a frustrating afternoon as Nice dropped two vital points in the French title race with a 1-1 draw at mid-table Nantes on Saturday. Nice had plenty of the ball but Balotelli was well shackled by the home defence — not always fairly — and the maverick Italian striker won […]

Madrid (AFP) – Casemiro was Real Madrid's unlikely hero as he hit the winner to open up a five-point lead on Barcelona at the top of La Liga with a 2-1 win at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday. Karim Benzema fired the visitors into a half-time lead from Cristiano Ronaldo's cross. Aritz Aduriz briefly levelled for […]

London (AFP) – Crystal Palace recorded a third successive Premier League win for the first time since September after Troy Deeney's own goal consigned Watford to a 1-0 defeat on Saturday. Deeney, the Watford skipper, headed a free-kick by Yohan Cabaye into his own net midway through the second half to send Palace four points […]

Liverpool (AFP) – Dominic Calvert-Lewin notched his first Premier League goal and unsettled star Romelu Lukaku bagged a brace in Everton's 4-0 thrashing of 10-man Hull on Saturday. With Kevin Mirallas in Belgium for the birth of his child, Calvert-Lewin made his second league start this season and the 20-year-old took full advantage with the […]

Stoke-on-Trent (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Gary Cahill kept Chelsea's title charge on track as the defender's 87th-minute winner gave the Premier League leaders a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Stoke on Saturday. Willian's cheeky free-kick put Chelsea ahead in the 13th minute but Stoke equalised when Jonathan Walters converted a penalty conceded by Cahill seven minutes […]

London (AFP) – Leicester City made it four wins from four under new manager Craig Shakespeare as the Premier League champions squeaked home 3-2 at West Ham United on Saturday. The win added to domestic home victories over Liverpool and Hull City plus Tuesday's Champions League success over Sevilla, which set up a last-eight assignment […]

London (AFP) – Arsene Wenger revealed he will make an announcement about his Arsenal future "very soon" after his side's problems increased in a 3-1 defeat at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. "I know what I'll do in my future, so you will know very soon," Wenger told reporters after Arsenal's fourth loss in five Premier […]

Berlin (AFP) – Second-placed RB Leipzig crashed 3-0 at Werder Bremen on Saturday to suffer a shock second consecutive Bundesliga defeat which allows Bayern Munich the chance to extend their runaway lead. Carlo Ancelotti's Bayern started the weekend 10 points clear in their seemingly unstoppable march to a fifth straight German league title, which will […]