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 […]

Watford (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Watford piled on the misery for Jose Mourinho as Manchester United crashed to a third successive defeat in an embarrassing 3-1 loss at Vicarage Road on Sunday. Mourinho's side were rocked by Etienne Capoue's first half opener and, although Marcus Rashford equalised after the break, United capitulated in the closing […]

Berlin (AFP) – Werder Bremen's Viktor Skripnik on Sunday became the first Bundesliga coach sacked this season after a fourth straight defeat marked the club's worst ever start. After nearly two years in charge, mostly battling to avoid relegation, the 46-year-old was axed in the wake of Saturday's 4-1 German league defeat at Borussia Moenchengladbach […]

New York (AFP) – Former Chelsea and England star Frank Lampard limped out of New York City FC's 2-2 MLS draw with FC Dallas with an apparent left calf injury. With the playoffs four weeks away it could be a serious blow for City and Lampard, who missed the first 12 matches of the season […]

Leicester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Claudio Ranieri believes Algerian duo Islam Slimani and Riyad Mahrez can form a deadly double act for Leicester after the Algerian duo inspired a 3-0 win over Burnley. Slimani scored twice on his Premier League debut for the champions on Saturday, while fellow Algeria international Mahrez displayed the form that […]

Berlin (AFP) – Carlo Ancelotti was happy for illness-hit Bayern Munich to win ugly in a 3-1 comeback against Ingolstadt as the Bundesliga giants finally conceded a goal this season. Ancelotti replaced Pep Guardiola as Bayern's head coach at the start of the season and the Bavarians scored 20 goals without reply in winning their […]

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Pep Guardiola is refusing to get carried away by Manchester City’s outstanding start to the season and insists maintaining it will not be easy. City’s 4-0 demolition of Bournemouth took them five points clear at the top of the Premier League with a seventh successive victory in all competitions making […]

Kingston upon Hull (United Kingdom) (AFP) – A proud Arsene Wenger praised his Arsenal side's response to their "shock" start to the season after they climbed into the Premier League's top three with a 4-1 rout at Hull. The Londoners recorded three consecutive league wins for the first time since December as Alexis Sanchez scored twice and […]