Liverpool made light work of Manchester United in a Premier League showdown on Sunday as the Reds blew away a hapless Manchester United. Netherlands star Cody Gakpo, Mohamed Salah, and Darwin Nunez were in beastly form at Anfield, scoring twice each to dispatch their eternal rivals 7-0. Jurgen Klopp’s...
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Bayern Munich are happy to be top of the 2022/2023 German Bundesliga again with a 2-1 victory at lowly VfB Stuttgart on Saturday. But they say they know that more concentration and a better performance are needed on Wednesday in the 2022/2023 UEFA Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG)....
Arsenal recovered from conceding the second fastest goal in Premier League history as Reiss Nelson’s stoppage-time strike gave the Premier League leaders a thrilling 3-2 win over Bournemouth after title rivals Manchester City beat Newcastle 2-0 on Saturday. Mikel Arteta’s side were trailing by two goals with just over...
Gunmen on motorcycles shot at a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo, wife of Lionel Messi, in Rosario, in Argentina’s Santa Fe province early on Thursday morning. Local media and the city’s mayor reported that a threatening hand-written message was also left on the shop’s door for...
The Flying Eagles of Nigeria on Thursday in Ismailia beat Uganda 1-0 to qualify for the semi-finals of the ongoing FIFA Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt. The Nigerian under-20 male national football team also in the process qualified for the 23rd FIFA Under-20 World Cup finals...
FC Barcelona take a slender advantage to Camp Nou after they beat Real Madrid 1-0 in their Copa del Rey semi-final first leg at the Santiago Bernabeu on Thursday. An Eder Militao own goal was all that separated the two Spanish giants, with Carlo Ancelotti’s men having a lot...
On March 20th, the Cape Coast Stadium will host the first match of a double-header between Ghana’s Black Stars and Angola in the qualifications for the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament. Ghana’s team is eager to make up for their below-average performance in the previous AFCON...
Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Friday rained Naira rewards on members of the state contingents to the 2022 National Sports Festival tagged: “Delta 2022”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyo State came fourth on the medals table after winning 50 gold medals, 51 silver...
Morocco has made significant progress in its bid to host the 2025 AFCON finals after passing the stringent FIFA requirements for hosting an extended, restructured FIFA World Cup. In the stringent FIFA prerequisite criteria requirements on sports, hotels, health, and infrastructural facilities that make a country eligible to host the...
Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay officially submitted a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup on Tuesday. While doing so, the four South American countries called for the tournament to return “where football was born”, 100 years after the first World Cup was held in Montevideo. During...
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has a selection headache for the FIFA Club World Cup semi-final with Egypt’s Al Ahly on Wednesday. This is because he will be missing several key players due to injuries. Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, forward Karim Benzema and defenders Eder Militao, Lucas Vazquez and Ferland...
Victor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia were again the stars of the show for Napoli as the Serie A leaders won 3-0 at Spezia to extend their advantage to a whopping 16 points. Wing wizard Kvaratskhelia put Napoli ahead from the penalty spot two minutes after the break on the...
Riliwan Oladosu, the unbeaten World Boxing Federation (WBF) Inter-continental Super-featherweight champion, will face Tanzanian Nabir Ramadhina in a 10-round featherweight clash on Feb. 23 in Dar-es-Salaam. Oladosu, popularly known as “Real One”, is well known as a pound-for-pound boxer at the GOtv Boxing Night sponsored by Multichoice Nigeria. He...
Following are the results of Match Day 6 fixtures played on Sunday in the abridged 2022/2023 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL): Group A Enyimba International 2-0 El-Kanemi Warriors Shooting Stars 2-0 Nasarawa United Akwa United 3-1 Remo Stars Plateau United 1-0 Kwara United Bendel Insurance 0-0 Gombe United (played...
Aymen Mahious has become the second Algerian to win the African Nations Championship (CHAN) Golden Boot award after being handed the gong in Algiers on Saturday night. The 25-year old scored five goals in the competition which earned him the award as no player could overtake him following the...
Coach Abdul Maikaba of Rangers International FC of Enugu has assured the club supporters that his team will fight for the maximum points in match day six against Wikki Tourist FC of Bauchi. Maikaba said this on Saturday after his team’s training inside the Abubakar Tafawa Belewa Stadium, the...
Algeria’s hopes of winning the African Nations Championship (CHAN) on home soil were crushed in heartbreaking fashion as they lost 5-4 on penalties to Senegal in the final on Saturday. The Local Teranga Lions edged hosts in a very tense final at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Algiers in...
Erik ten Hag criticised “inconsistent” VAR after Manchester United’s Casemiro was the only player sent off following a mass brawl in Saturday’s 2-1 win against Crystal Palace. Bruno Fernandes’ early penalty and a Marcus Rashford strike put United on course for a 13th successive home win in all competitions....
Lionel Messi scored a superb second-half winner as a Paris Saint-Germain side missing the injured Kylian Mbappe and Neymar came from behind to beat Toulouse 2-1 on Saturday and consolidate their lead at the top of Ligue 1. Dutch midfielder Branco van den Boomen gave mid-table Toulouse the lead...
Nigeria’s under-20 national football team, the Flying Eagles, on Friday in Abuja overpowered their Zambian counterparts, the Junior Chipolopolo, 4-2 at the end of a thrilling international friendly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium’s mainbowl was a tune-up game...