Sports News, Scores, and Analysis
Hosts Ivory Coast stunned Senegal at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday, knocking out the reigning champions on penalties in the last 16 to keep their hopes of winning the title on home soil alive. A week ago it looked as if the Ivorians were set for a humiliating group-stage exit from their own…
Liverpool will face Chelsea in the League Cup final after surviving a scare in their 1-1 draw against Fulham in the semi-final second leg on Wednesday. Holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg, Liverpool took the lead through Luis Diaz early in the first half at Craven Cottage. That should have been the signal for a…
India’s wait for a maiden knockout round berth in the Asian Cup continued as they crashed out of the continental football showpiece after suffering a 0-1 defeat to Syria in their last group match at Al Khor, Qatar on Tuesday. Substitute Omar Khribin scored the all-important goal in the 76th minute to keep Syria in…
Udinese will ban for life a man found to have racially abused France goalkeeper Mike Maignan, the Serie A club announced on Monday. Maignan was abused during Udinese’ 3-2 defeat to AC Milan on Saturday, which was halted for five minutes in the first half after repeated offensive remarks from behind the goal he was defending….
Liverpool shrugged off the absence of Mohamed Salah to move five points clear at the top of the Premier League as Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez struck twice in a 4-0 win at Bournemouth on Sunday. The Reds’ title credentials will be tested while their star man is away with Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations. But Jota and Nunez…
India vs Uzbekistan Highlights, AFC Asian Cup 2024: India fell to a second straight defeat at the AFC Asian Cup 2024 on Thursday, losing 3-0 to Uzbekistan, all the goals coming in a torrid first half for Igor Stimac’s team. The result put Uzbekistan in pole position to qualify along with Australia from Group B with one round of…
Lamine Camara scored a stunning brace as Senegal began their defence of the Africa Cup of Nations title with a 3-0 win over Gambia on Monday, but fellow heavyweights Algeria and Cameroon were both held in their opening matches. Sadio Mane‘s Senegal are hoping to retain the trophy they won in Cameroon two years ago and…
Pep Guardiola has revealed injured Manchester City striker Erling Haaland is set to be sidelined until the end of January. Haaland has missed City’s last eight games with a foot injury suffered in early December in a major blow to their hopes of retaining the Premier League title. Guardiola had hoped to welcome the 23-year-old…
Atalanta set up an Italian Cup semi-final with Fiorentina after winning 2-1 at AC Milan on Wednesday, while Lazio won 1-0 in a fiery derby with Roma which finished with three red cards. Teun Koopmeiners struck either side of half-time of an entertaining quarter-final to continue Atalanta’s bid for a first major trophy since 1963,…
Kylian Mbappe helped record 14-time champions Paris Saint-Germain avoid an embarrassing slip-up with a 9-0 rout at sixth-tier amateurs Revel in the French Cup on Sunday. Revel’s young supporters had implored Mbappe to make the trip to the game played at Castres – Revel’s humble stadium only has capacity for 2,000 fans in the Haute-Garonne south-western…
