Erling Haaland benefited from a slip by Brentford defender Kristoffer Ajer in the 71 st minute to score a vital winner 19 minutes from time as Manchester City eventually broke Brentford’s stubborn resistance to close within a point of the Premier League summit. What looked set to be a night of frustration at Etihad Stadium…
Borussia Dortmund and PSV Eindhoven have it all to play for in the second leg after Luuk de Jong’s coolly converted penalty earned PSV a draw in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. The Dutch striker equalised 10 minutes into the second half after Mats Hummels was adjudged to have fouled Malik…
Inter Milan will go into the second leg of their champions league round of sixteen tie with Atletico Madrid with a one goal advantage after substitute Marko Arnautovic scored the only goal in their match against the Spanish side Lautaro Martinez’s shot was parried into the path of Arnautovic by Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak and…
The funeral for Kenyan world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum, who was killed in a car crash this month, has been brought forward to Friday. Kiptum’s death, just a few months after he smashed the world marathon record and before the Paris Olympics shocked his home country and the world of athletics. “Kelvin will be laid…
Arsenal travel to Porto for the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday as they bid to make the quarter-finals for the first time since 2009-10. The Gunners topped their group on their return to the competition after a six-year absence and face the 30-time Portuguese champions for a place in the…
Striker Victor Osimhen is expected to start for Napoli in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Barcelona, making his first appearance for the club this year. Napoli have never won a major European match against Barcelona drawing two and losing two while they’ve previously faced them in the round of 16…
The Nigeria Football Federation has fixed a date for the 2024 State Federation Cup finals. The NFF disclosed this in a release by the director of competition, Ruth David in Abuja on Tuesday. The state preliminaries have been fixed to commence on 1st March – 31st March 2024 across all the states. The finals have…
Emerse Fae has been appointed as Ivory Coast coach on a permanent deal after leading the Elephants to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations title. The 40-year-old took over on an interim basis after Jean-Louis Gasset was sacked during the group stage of the finals, where the West Africans had lost two games including a…
Ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers between Nigeria’s Super Falcons and Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon, 11 players have arrived the Super Falcons’ camp in Abuja The team’s camp opened in Abuja on Tuesday morning. Goalkeepers Chiamaka Nnadozie, Tochukwu Oluehi and Linda Jiwaku as well as Akudo Ogbonna are among the early arrivals in camp….
Come July first French Captain Kylian Mbappe will officially become a Real Madrid player after the Paris St-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe agreed to join Real Madrid. The France captain has told PSG he intends to leave the club with his contract expiring in June. Mbappe has not signed a contract with Real yet, but the…
