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To follow the claiming of both major footballer of the year awards by scoring a hat-trick in Manchester United’s first home game was some Bruno Fernandes act, and points to an intent to continue his stellar form of last season. Ipswich Town came to scythe Michael Carrick’s side via the pace of Julio Enciso, Issa Diop and Daizen Maeda, and when Leif Davis gave them a 29th-minute lead victory was o…

Messi nets four goals, adds assist in 7-1 Miami win Dejan Joveljić scores twice on Sounders debut Minnesota United score three times in four minutes Inter Miami interim coach Guillermo Hoyos ran out of superlatives for Lionel Messi after the ⁠Argentine playmaker scored four goals in a Major League Soccer match for the first time in his career to ⁠inspire a 7-1 thrashing ⁠of CF ​Montreal on Saturd…

Promoted Málaga slump to 4-0 defeat at the Bernabéu Suzuki scores hat-trick in Freiburg’s win against Werder Real Madrid maintained their perfect start to the season in La Liga with a comfortable 4-0 home ⁠win over promoted Málaga on Sunday, scoring three times inside 30 minutes before adding a late fourth. Jude Bellingham’s brilliant solo opener, an own ⁠goal by the Málaga goalkeeper ⁠Alfonso He…

2nd Test, D4: England, 290 & 208, bt Pakistan, 110 & 194, by 194 runs Robinson’s 4-24 earns match figures of 8-35; Tongue takes 3-46 Tempting as it is to consider the state of Pakistan’s Test team and shrug at England completing a breezy series victory with a match to spare, it was not entirely insignificant for Joe Root and his men given the backdrop of a chaotic summer. Until Josh Tongue nicked…

England forward’s exit continues busy summer for Villa News follows Emiliano Martínez moving to Chelsea The England forward Ollie Watkins has joined the list of high-profile departures from Aston Villa after completing a move to the Saudi Arabian team Al-Hilal for a reported £50m. The 30-year-old has been at Villa since joining from Brentford in 2020 and reached double figures in goals every seas…

In the fullness of time Chelsea’s surrender against Brighton & Hove Albion last April may come to be seen as the turning point. The humiliation accelerated Liam Rosenior’s demise and forced the Stamford Bridge hierarchy into a reckoning which has led to the appointment of Xabi Alonso, a shift in the transfer strategy, the JP Morgan front three and the end of Robert Sánchez’s time as the No 1 goal…

At the final whistle Álvaro Arbeloa provided a study in pensiveness while Régis Le Bris simply looked relieved. An almost palpable fear of losing formed the subtext of a match decided when two of the Sunderland manager’s second-half substitutes, Habib Diarra and Wilson Isidor, combined for the latter to score. Isidor’s goal not merely supplied Sunderland with their first win of the season while l…

How the US Open became obscenely expensive Follow us on Bluesky | And you can mail Graham Krejcikova gets in a muddle after squandering a 40-0 lead on serve. Deuce. She fights back though. Wins the game with a lovely serve down the T. All square at 2-2. Paolini delivers a dominant effort on serve to change ends at 3-2 up. Continue reading...

Leeds United and Brentford continued their unbeaten starts to the Premier League season with a draw that had enough moments to suggest both can be optimistic about what lies ahead. Both sides won on the opening weekend, albeit in differing circumstances. Leeds crafted a hard-earned win at Nottingham Forest while Brentford were outstanding in dismantling Tottenham Hotspur. And they cancelled one a…

Record crowds, premium seats and an unchecked resale market are transforming the self-styled people’s slam – and leaving ordinary fans fighting to get through the gates It takes a truly exceptional affordability crisis to put Bill Ackman and Zohran Mamdani on the same side of the barricade. Yet this month the billionaire hedge fund manager and New York’s democratic socialist mayor found common ca…

Promoter Warren confirms Briton recovering in hospital Croat accepts he lost first eight rounds before victory Moses Itauma has been urged “not to give up” by Filip Hrgovic, the new IBF world heavyweight champion, who stopped the 21-year-old Briton with a dramatic and stunning turnaround in their title fight late on Saturday night at London’s O 2 Arena. Itauma was taken to hospital in a precautio…

Slovene awaiting surgery on collarbone after fall Race continues with stage nine facing summit finish Tadej Pogacar, who was dramatically forced to withdraw from the Vuelta a España on Saturday after a heavy fall, has shared a photo of himself from hospital accompanied by the Bee Gees’ song Stayin’ Alive. Pogacar, the clear leader of the Vuelta until his crash, greeted followers on his Instagram …

Updates from the final day of this Championship round Day three roundup | Sign up for The Spin | Mail Tanya There’s a damp patch just before the bowler’s delivery stride at the press box end. They’re hoping for play later dependent on sawdust and sun. Still showery everywhere except the southeast . The Met office says: Outbreaks of rain affect parts of Scotland and northern England at first. A ba…

Striker talks life in Saudi Arabia, problems with the Azzurri and ‘special feeling’ of playing for Manchester City Whenever the name Mario Balotelli is brought up, particularly in Italy, the conversation is almost inevitably laced with a sense of regret. There is that lingering “What if?”, a collective sigh over a player who possessed the raw, undeniable potential to be one of the best in the wor…

The Indian, just 21, scored his second major success of the summer following Norway Chess at Oslo while Wesley So halved to Sinquefield Cup victory with nine straight draws India’s world No 12, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, won the Grand Chess Tour finals in St Louis on Thursday night when he defeated the US’s world No 2, Fabiano Caruana, in a mix of classical, rapid and blitz games by 15-13. It was…