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Sporting staged a stunning comeback to beat Bodø/Glimt 5-0 after extra time and reach the Champions League quarter-finals with a 5-3 aggregate victory in their last-16 tie. Trailing 3-0 from the first leg in Norway, Sporting attacked from the kick-off and went ahead in the 34th minute when Gonçalo Inácio headed in from Francisco Trincão’s corner. Continue reading...

Director says stronger penalties needed for withdrawals Jack Draper continues comeback at Miami Open Aryna Sabalenka says she may never return to compete at the Dubai Tennis Championships after she and Iga Swiatek were harshly criticised by the tournament director for their withdrawals from the tournament last month. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Sabalenka said during her pre-tournament press confer…

Sanderson suggests player should miss summer tour Back-rower sustained calf injury during Six Nations Alex Sanderson has warned that Tom Curry’s physical playing style will shorten his career and has suggested England should give him the summer off with the World Cup next year in mind. The back-rower sustained a calf injury in the warmup for England’s Six Nations defeat by Italy in Rome. Sanderso…

‘Never nice’ to hear boos after reaction to Spurs draw Liverpool face Galatasaray looking to overturn deficit Arne Slot has said that he must have “done a lot of things wrong” for Liverpool fans to boo their team, but he does not feel the Anfield crowd has turned against him before a crucial Champions League tie against Galatasaray. Slot believes the glum mood around the Premier League champions …

‘We are in as good a place as any time this season’ Howe says Tonali ‘fully committed’ to the club A week ago Eddie Howe called it the “biggest match in the club’s history”, and that was in Newcastle; this time it’s Barcelona, but Howe has insisted his players will not be overawed when they walk out at Camp Nou for the second leg of their Champions League last-16 second leg on Wednesday night. “Y…

Updates on the second legs of the last-16 ties Get in touch! Share your thoughts with Scott This edition of Clocko begins as the first half in Lisbon finishes … and the comeback is on! Sporting Clube de Portugal have made it a third of the way back towards equality, Gonçalo Inácio flashing in a header from a right-wing corner on 34 minutes. The home side should have already been leading, truth be…

Updates from 8pm GMT kickoff at Etihad Stadium Get in touch! Share your thoughts with Daniel In one way or another, most stories are about identity: roughly, who are we and we cool with that? Well, our teams tonight arrive at this game as potential protagonists, both in something of quandary. City are in between teams, problem being they’ve been there a while and it’s not exactly clear what sort …

Batter denies the team ‘weren’t fussed’ in Australia 28-year-old believes his ‘best batting years are to come’ Ollie Pope has challenged the perception England “weren’t fussed” during their troubled Ashes tour but accepts why it formed. Ben Stokes’ tourists crashed to a 4-1 series defeat by Australia that is being reviewed by the England and Wales Cricket Board, with tour planning, preparation, i…

‘We want to turn things around’ says Tottenham defender Romero returns as Udogie and Bergvall back from injury Micky van de Ven has hit back at suggestions that he and his Tottenham teammates do not care about the club’s plight and will dig out escape routes in the summer. The defender has endured a terrible couple of weeks, taking in his gamechanging red card in the defeat by Crystal Palace and …

Miami also receive third- and fourth-round picks Denver fell one win short of Super Bowl last season The Denver Broncos have reportedly traded for Miami Dolphins receiver Jaylen Waddle, a move that would add offensive firepower to a team that fell one win short of the Super Bowl last season. ESPN reports that the Broncos will send first-, third- and fourth-round picks in this year’s draft to the …

Pep Guardiola’s team have ground down other title contenders in the past with their relentless winning streaks. But those days appear to have gone Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here This has been a strange season for Manchester City. Every now and then, they’ve threatened to produce the sort of run that used to define them. They won eight games in a row from the end of November to the e…

Goals from Caitlin Foord and Sam Kerr help see off China and show that they can take Australia to Asian Cup glory Suddenly, somehow, Caitlin Foord had the ball at her feet at the halfway line, in a moment of relief from the suffocating Chinese midfield. The match was in the balance at 1-1, and this fine generation of Matildas was as close to glory as they were to embarrassment in the feverish pre…

Smaller clubs at risk of ‘funding their direct rivals in the EFL’ ‘Other European leagues have a levy on Uefa income’ A number of mid-ranking Premier League clubs are lobbying for a percentage of the biggest teams’ Uefa revenue to be used to help fund a new financial settlement with the English Football League. Talks over the so-called New Deal for Football have been in stasis since midway throug…

Independent team now called Les Marseillaises want to become an iconic club and have the history-making Corinne Diacre at the helm “Here in Marseille your blood is not red, it’s blue,” says Les Marseillaises’ manager, Corinne Diacre. “Even today it can be hard for some parents to see their girls wanting to play football, but here they don’t play football: they play for Marseille. It’s seen as com…

The champions France lead with five players but every side is represented in pick from a tournament to savour 15. Thomas Ramos France Plays like the lovechild of Mike Brown and Thomas Castaignède with Jonny Wilkinson levels of marksmanship thrown in. There was never any doubt he would nail that decisive final winning penalty in Paris, just as he did against England in Lyon two years ago. The 30-y…