Wissam Ben Yedder came off the bench to score the decisive goals as Sevilla moved into the quarter-finals of the Champions League with a stunning 2-1 away win at Manchester United.
At a restless Old Trafford, United never got out of first gear and Sevilla, having dominated the opening leg at home without finding a way to beat David de Gea in a goalless draw, deservedly progressed.
When Ben Yedder came off the bench with less than 20 minutes to play, the game was finely balanced with both sides aware the first goal would be decisive.
And it proved to be the case as Ben Yedder made an immediate impact, collecting a pass from Ever Banega to smash in a low finish.
With United reeling, Ben Yedder soon added his eighth goal of this season s Champions League, De…
A Robert Lewandowski brace and Arturo Vidal s goal helped Bayern Munich close to within touching distance of a fourth successive Bundesliga crown as they downed Schalke 3-0 at the Allianz Arena on Saturday.
The result means Pep Guardiola s men can clinch the title as early as next weekend if second-placed Borussia Dortmund fail to beat Hamburg and Stuttgart in their next two matches, coupled with a Bayern triumph at Hertha Berlin on April 23.
The deserved victory rounded off a fine week for the Bavarian giants in which they also progressed to the last four of the Champions League, but they were made to work for the three points by an stubborn Schalke side who kept them at bay for almost an hour.
The visitors defended stoutly as they sought to keep a first clean s…
Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has suggested both Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery will be offered contract renewals at some stage in the coming months.
Both wingers contracts are due to expire in June 2017, but Bayern are yet to open talks over new deals with the experienced attackers.
Nevertheless, Rummenigge has made it clear the Bundesliga champions are keen to hold on to both Robben and Ribery beyond the expiration of their existing deals.
I do not rule out that both will sign renewals with Bayern, Rummenigge told Kicker. We all know how incredibly important they are, both on and off the pitch.
But both will have to be patient for a bit. It is only normal to wait a bit longer with players who are older than 30.
Robben, 32, jo…
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Cadiz and Real Madrid will lock horns with each other in La Liga this weekend. The match between Sergio González’s side and Carlo Ancelotti’s team will be held at the Nuevo Mirandilla and is scheduled to kick off at 5:30 pm UK time on Sunday.
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Cadiz are an also-ran in La Liga and are among the clubs who could get relegated to the Segunda Division at the end of the season. They finished 14th in the league last season, and one suspects that they will be happy if they end up in a similar place this time around.
Sergio González’s side are 16th in the La Liga table at the moment with 10 points from 12 matches. Cadiz are three points above the relegation zone and are in real dange…
Excitement of the play-offs
Could the Premier League benefit from a play-off system?
The Premier League season finally grinded to a halt yesterday and what a year it has been.
We’ve had Chelsea winning the league under manager Antonio Conte, even though many people had written them off when they lost 3-0 to Arsenal in September to leave them eighth in the table.
Then there was the puzzling decline of Leicester City under Claudio Ranieri when they looked a former shadow of the side that had won the title the previous year.
We’ve also had an enthralling relegation battle where it looked like Marco Silva’s Hull City would scrape survival only for his unblemished home record to come to a surprising halt against Sunderland to undo all of their h…
After years of waiting, the FIFA World Cup returns to our screens as the greatest spectacle in sport hits the Middle East this Sunday. The fact that the competition is being held in Qatar isn t exactly sitting well with the majority of fans and pundits out there, but there has still been an attempt from the masses to forget about all of that in favour of what we all know and love the beautiful game.
Eight groups of four teams are set to compete in the final World Cup before the capacity is extended from 32 to 48 in 2026. The expectation is that we ll see a whole lot of unpredictable scorelines, goals and potentially career-changing performances, but in reality, most folks just want Qatar s effort to go off without too many problems.
We can t picture a scenario in which …
Youri Tielemans says leaving Leicester City this transfer window is not out of the question amid ongoing links with a possible move to Arsenal.
The Belgium international is into the final 12 months of his Leicester contract and has also previously been touted as a target for Tottenham, Manchester United and Real Madrid.
He has impressed across his three-and-a-half-year stay at Leicester, the 25-year-old having scored 18 goals and assisted the same amount in 120 Premier League games.
That ranks Tielemans in the top 10 midfielders in the competition since his debut in February 2019 in terms of goal involvements, while he is sixth for successful passes (5,477).
The Anderlecht youth product is understandably attracting interest from elsewhere, and he has not…
Bayern Munich will to allow Thomas Muller to leave the club halfway through the season, according to branch in Germany.
The forward recently spoke about not being happy with a squad role at the club, having spent his entire career so far at the Allianz Arena and playing a huge part in the team s triumphs in recent years. He has helped them to win eight Bundesliga titles, five DFB-Pokal trophies and the 2013 Champions League, as well as reaching the final of UEFA s elite club competition the previous year.
On the other hand, the club and head coach Niko Kovac feel they need Muller to stay where he is, as he represents a more-than-able replacement for any attacking player Robert Lewandowski upfront, Philippe Coutinho as the number 10, Kingsley Coman and Serge Gnabry on e…
Thomas Tuchel questioned the commitment of his Chelsea players and admitted they were simply not good enough in their heavy friendly defeat to Arsenal on Saturday.
The Blues were thumped 4-0 by Premier League rivals Arsenal at Camping World Stadium in Orlando in the final game of their pre-season tour of the United States.
Gabriel Jesus, Martin Odegaard, Bukayo Saka and Albert Sambi Lokonga were all on target for the Gunners, who looked far sharper in front of the 64,000 watching spectators.
And with the new season just two weeks away, Chelsea head coach Tuchel is worried about what he saw from his side.
I think we deserved to lose – which is fair enough – because we were simply not good enough, he said.
We were absolutely not competitive. …
According to a recent report from Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona defender Gerard Pique wants to retire whilst still playing for the club at the age of 35. However, if he winds up losing his place in the starting XI or his level of importance within the squad, he wouldn’t be opposed to bringing that forward.
The date would be the summer of 2022 if he was to go ahead with this plan, ensuring that Barca fans can breathe a sigh of relief if they were panicking about just how old he is.
Pique has been a consistent force to be reckoned with at the back for Barcelona for many years now, and it seems as if that’ll continue to be the case for a few years to come.
Defenders always seem to give themselves a little bit more time than forwards or wingers when it comes …