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Late equaliser was a kick in the teeth for Eder Sarabia’s plucky promoted side who threatened first win since 1970s “It sounds a little crazy,” David Affengruber said but it didn’t sound crazy at all, not to anyone who had actually been watching. “We only come into this league this year and we’re a little bit disappointed to get a point against Real Madrid,” Elche’s Austrian centre-back concluded…

The jeers when Lamine Yamal trudged off with 10 minutes left said it all. It was billed as an epic showdown between two of the best young players in the world but in the end it was barely a contest. Lamine Yamal was shoved to the margins by Marc Cucurella, who could not have done a better job in neutralising the Barcelona winger, and was powerless to stop himself being left in the shade by Chelse…

Newcastle cannot complain they were not warned. Eddie Howe had cautioned his players that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was “as good as ever’ and would need to be “controlled” but ultimately they proved powerless to prevent the 36-year-old transforming both the match and Marseille’s Champions League ambitions. While Aubameyang fulfilled the soaring expectations of a raucously loud audience at this st…

You had to go back to September 2018 for the last time Manchester City lost a Champions League group match at home, when Pep Guardiola was in the stands due to a ban, and Nabil Fekir’s winner gave Lyon a 2-1 victory. Guardiola stood down all but one of the team that lost at Newcastle United and witnessed Bayer Leverkusen end a 23-match run in the type of off-colour display reminiscent of last sea…

This four-year experiment has produced exhilarating cricket – it is worth seeing the whole thing through before casting judgment Travis Head’s latest masterpiece is three days old, the postmortems are complete and England supporters have done their pained vox pops in Australia. And somehow we’re still more than a week out from the second Ashes Test. It’s a hefty gap bound to be filled by rage, mo…

Head coach’s current deal runs until 2027 RFU annual report shows net loss of £1.9m The Rugby Football Union has no plans to begin talks with Steve ­Borthwick over extending his ­contract beyond 2027 “for the ­foreseeable future” despite England’s 11-match winning streak and autumn clean sweep . Borthwick’s contract runs until the end of 2027 but with England halfway through the current World Cup…

Spain, Argentina, France, England will be the top seeds Fifa introducing format it utilised at Club World Cup The world’s top four teams will not be able to meet until the semi-finals of next year’s World Cup if they win their groups under a seeding system used by Fifa at the tournament for the first time. It means England would benefit from tennis-style seeding and avoid Spain and Argentina unti…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! When Jordan Pickford’s time as England and Everton’s eternal No 1 comes to its end, a career in peacekeeping, or failing that, manning the doors back in Sunderland, may await. As Idrissa Gueye and Michael Keane, teammates let us recall, went for each other at Old Trafford in full hold-me-back, hold-me-back mode, in stepped Pickford’s strong hand…

Research is on ‘an upward curve’ and the next five years could be vital in trying to limit cruciate ruptures Players who compete in the top two levels of German women’s football are four times more likely to rupture their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) than their male counterparts, according to the German Football Association (DFB). The governing body has funded a central injury and illness reg…

Players scuffled after end of Monday night’s game Game report: McCaffrey stars against former team San Francisco receiver Jauan Jennings said he threw a punch at Tre’Von Moehrig at the end of Monday night’s game after a “cheap shot” from the Carolina safety. Television cameras caught Moehrig delivering a punch to Jennings’ groin late in the 49ers’ 20-9 victory . Jennings did not immediately retal…

Coach insists more opportunities needed for team Executive knocks back idea England will not be ready England’s rugby league team will go into next year’s World Cup without playing a fixture for almost an entire year after it was confirmed there was no room in the 2026 Super League schedule to give the national team a mid-season international break. Following their whitewash defeat to Australia i…

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Gueye addressed players following 1-0 win at Old Trafford De Ligt accuses United of lacking urgency in Monday loss Idrissa Gueye received a round of applause from the Everton squad after apologising for his extraordinary red card in Monday’s victory at Manchester United . The midfielder became the first Premier League player to be dismissed for striking a team-mate in 17 years when slapping Micha…

The centre-back had a difficult start in Ligue 1 but now he is captaining the club and dreaming of winning the World Cup By Get French Football News Leonardo Balerdi bursts into laughter as he describes the moment a police van stopped in front of his car in Marseille, sirens blaring, only for four officers to jump out, shout and sing “ Allez l’OM !” and drive off again. “It was just a normal day,…

Eberechi Eze’s hat-trick and Manchester City’s loss to Newcastle means Arsenal are in control of their own destiny Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here So it turns out those who had already handed the title to Arsenal were right after all. It’s absurd, of course, to start handing out the title in November but a feature of modern football is how obsessed it becomes so early with title race…