Stoke-on-Trent (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Joe Allen scored twice as Stoke City collected their first win of the Premier League season on Saturday by defeating bottom side Sunderland 2-0 to climb out of the relegation zone. Allen headed in the opening goal after just eight minutes before the Wales midfielder doubled his tally with Stoke's […]

Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – A double by Junior Stanislas inspired Bournemouth to a 6-1 Premier League thrashing of Hull on Saturday and make it a miserable start for Mike Phelan in his first match as permanent manager. Stanislas' brace plus goals by Charlie Daniels, Callum Wilson, Steve Cook and Dan Gosling — Ryan Mason […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich are now winless in their last three games after being held to a 2-2 draw at ten-man Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday in the German league. After last month's 1-0 Champions League defeat at Atletico Madrid and their 1-1 league draw with Cologne before the international break, this was […]

Milan (AFP) – Edin Dzeko struck a brace and Mohamed Salah added a third as clinical Roma dented Napoli's Serie A title hopes with a superbly-orchestrated 3-1 win at a shocked San Paolo on Saturday. Napoli were looking to get back to winning ways after a shock defeat at Atalanta two weeks ago left them […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery has been sidelined for up to three weeks with a fresh injury and will miss Wednesday's Champions League game at home to PSV Eindhoven. The 33-year-old, who is out of contract at the end of the season, picked up a leg injury on Friday in training and […]

London (AFP) – Tottenham Hotspur and South Korea winger Son Heung-min has become the first Asian footballer to be named the English Premier League's player of the month after he won September's edition of the award. Son scored four goals in the top flight for Spurs last month and played a key role in taking […]

London (AFP) – Claudio Ranieri admitted Leicester had only themselves to blame for the latest setback in their lacklustre defence of the Premier League title. Ranieri's side slumped to a 3-0 defeat at Chelsea on Saturday and are languishing 10 points behind leaders Manchester City just five months after becoming English football's most unexpected champions. […]

London (AFP) – Chelsea gave Antonio Conte a well-timed vote of confidence as Diego Costa and Eden Hazard inspired a 3-0 win against spluttering champions Leicester on Saturday. Conte had to endure speculation he was in danger of being sacked just three months into his Chelsea reign after bookmakers suspended betting on his dismissal on […]

Being top of La Liga is no longer a novelty for Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. Indeed, seven games into the Spanish football season, the Vicente Calderon club’s hike to the summit of the table has barely made headlines. The bald statistics totted up from their games no longer make for spectacular reading either. Atletico have […]

Sydney (AFP) – Football Federation Australia was Saturday seeking clarity on whether its Asian World Cup qualifier against Thailand in Bangkok next month will still go ahead following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The FFA said it was chasing official notification from governing football bodies whether the match scheduled for the Rajamangala Stadium in […]

Paris (AFP) – High-flyers Nice stretched their lead at the top of Ligue 1 with a 2-0 victory over 10-man Lyon on Friday after second-place Monaco crashed to defeat at Toulouse. Nice captain Paul Baysse volleyed in a fifth-minute strike at the Allianz Riviera while Jean-Michael Seri swept in a second on 76 minutes to […]

Berlin (AFP) – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed a penalty and hit the bar before scoring to earn Borussia Dortmund a 1-1 home draw against Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga on Friday as both sides ended with 10 men. Valentin Stocker gave the visitors a 51st-minute lead with a calm finish before Aubameyang made up for his […]

Glasgow (AFP) – Kenny Miller scored a stunning 100th goal for Rangers to give them a 1-0 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Premiership on Friday. The 36-year-old striker, in his third spell at the club, got on the end of Lee Wallace's cross to send a sensational strike fizzing past Owain Fon […]

London (AFP) – Wales international footballer Ched Evans was found not guilty of rape by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday following a retrial. Evans, who plays for English third-tier club Chesterfield, was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in a hotel room near Rhyl, north Wales, in May 2011. The 27-year-old was […]

The Premier League today announced which matches will be moved in December and January for the purposes of being shown live on British television. As a result, we can now extrapolate the US TV schedule of games for those months — at least for many of the games. NBC Sports typically doesn't reveal the official TV […]