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NEWS

Valere Germain gave Marseille a last minute win against Monaco

Marseille beat Monaco 3-2 with a last-minutes goal from Valere Germain on Sunday. Greek striker Kostas Mitroglou headed home from a pinpoint Dimitri Payet cross to give Marseille the lead on the stroke of half-time.But Monaco level up with two goals after the break as Youri Tielemans equalised and Colombia forward Radamel Falcao knocked in a loose ball from close range after the Marseille defence got into a tangle.Substitute Florian Thauvin coolly turned a low cross to equalise before Germain headed in from a corner to win the game against his former club in the 89th minute.
LALIGA

Barcelona hammered Huesca 8-2 at Camp Nou

The Laliga champion Barcelona hammer Huesca 8-2, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez scored twice. Huesca took a early lead in their first league visit to the Nou Camp, when Colombian forward Cucho Hernandez deflected the ball in from point-blank range but Messi soon dampened the celebrations of the visiting supporters by cannoning a shot in off the post to level.Jorge Pulido own goal gave the catalans the lead and Suarez extended their lead by scoring for the first time in five games. Huesca’s Alex Gallar pulled one back before halftime to make it 3-2 but any hope of a comeback  from the Huesca lost by three Barca goals in 11 minutes from Ousmane Dembele, Ivan Rakitic and another strike from Messi.Jordi Alba capped a brilliant performance to score the seventh after setting up two of t...
SERIE A

Carlo Ancelotti suffered his first defeat after Sampdoria beat Napoli 3-0

Napoli were thrashed 3-0 by Sampdoria and missed the chance to level up with Serie A  Leaders Juventus. Juventus  moved 3 points after beating Parma  2-1 on saturday.Napoli were undone by two first-half goals from Sampdoria's Gregoire Defrel and Fabio Quagliarella's second-half strike.Defrel, on a season-long loan from Roma, fired home rising shots in the 11th and 32nd minutes and Quagliarella added a third in the 75th minute to secure Sampdoria's first win of the season and made Napoli to their first defeat.
PREMIER LEAGUE

Rafael Benitez hail Newcastle United effort in the 2-1 defeat at Manchester City

Rafael benitez hail his players for their effort against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.Manchester City thrashed Newcastle united 2-1 this evening thanks to goals from Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker. DeAndre Yedlin was on target for Benitez's side, who are now 18th in the Premier League. Newcastle fought back after going behind early on, Yedlin cancelled out Sterling's strike and the game was decided by a second-half goal from Walker.Newcastle United manager Benitez said : I was pleased with some things, but disappointed in the end because we want to get a result. The team effort was there and the mentality. The players were fighting for each other. I was really pleased with that, but disappointed.
PREMIER LEAGUE

Liverpool maintain their 100percent record despite Alisson blunder against Leicester City

Liverpool thrash Leicester 2-1 to maintain their 100 per cent record, Sadio mane and Roberto Firmino scored in the first half to put Liverpool on top at the King Power Stadium before the hosts hit back thanks to Alisson.His blunders, which saw him robbed of possession by Kelechi Iheanacho and resulted in Rachid Ghezzal slotting home, was the first goal the Brazilian has conceded since his £67million summer move from Roma.But Liverpool survived to record their fourth straight win and continue their flying start to the campaign. Leicester battled well and worried the visitors but failed to win.
PREMIER LEAGUE

Predicted Line-up: Brighton vs Fulham

BRIGHTON LINE-UPLast weekend brighton setup defensively for their trip to Anfield last Saturday, Brighton manager Chris Hughton could revert to the same side that saw off Manchester United at the Amex a fortnight ago.This means Pascal Gross coming back into the starting line-up in place of Yves Bissouma, who has performed well in the brighton past two matches.Bruno Saltor Grau returned to training this week and could come back into contention. Lewis Dunk was set to train yesterday but is again likely to miss out. Florin Andone and Jose Izquierdo have again been ruled out.Line-up: Ryan, Montoya, Duffy, Balogun, Bong, Knockaert, Stephens, Propper, March, Gross, Murray. Substitute (from): Button, Bruno, Bernardo, Suttner, Kayal, Bissouma, Jahanbakhsh, Locadia.FULHAM LINE-UPFulham thrashed&nbs...
TRANSFERS

Celtic officially accepted £20million bid for Moussa dembele from french club Lyon

Celtic have officially accepted a £20 million bid from ligue 1 club Lyon for Moussa Dembele. After the relationship between the french player dembele and Brendan Rodger have deteriorated  in the last 24 hours as a result of a string of controversial Twitter posts.However, Dembele reacted angrily to his move to the Ligue 1 outfit, who will play in the Champions League group stages this season, being blocked and took to social media to aim digs at the Scottish champions.He wrote: A man without his word is nothing. A real man keeps his word. He then added: A lie has many variations, the truth none. Careful who you call the leader of yours.It was reportedly stated that, Brendan Rodgers asked Dembele to leave training early at Lennoxtown because he was not impressed by his attitu...
LALIGA

Mariano Diaz is glad to wear Ronaldo 7 for Real madrid

Mariano Diaz is happy by the challenge of taking the ownership of Real madrid number seven shirt formerly occupied by the international Portuguese player Cristiano Ronaldo.Mariano completed his return to Real madrid after spending  a single season in Lyon. Mariano is the only major attacking signing made by Madrid following Ronaldo surprise move to Juventus in a €112million deal in July.Mariano said:It is a challenge and a pride to carry the same number as all the legends, like Emilio Butragueno, and the great players who have carried it. I was excited, I was free and I am very happy to wear the seven.
TRANSFERS

Everton forward player Sandro Ramirez Move to Real Sociedad on a loan deal

Everton Forward player Sandro ramirez has moved to spain to Join Real Sociedad on a season loan. Sandro started in Everton's 3-0 win over Rotherham in the EFL cup on wednesday but Marco Silva opted to send the 23-year-old again to spain, having spent time at sevilla last season. He made his everton debut starting in a 1–0 home win against Stoke City in the Premier League.Ramirez stated following his transfer to Real Sociedad:  I join a strong and committed team. Sandro arrived from Malaga in 2017 after scoring 28 LaLiga goals, however, the forward player  struggled to adapt in the Premier League. The Spaniard netted just one goal in 15 appearances across all competitions before joining Sevilla on loan in January.
LALIGA

Luka Modric : I am happy with Real Madrid

Real madrid Midfielder Luka Modric was crown UEFA 2017-18 player of the Year on thursday,  has been at the centre of speculation Regarding a move to Serie A side inter.The Real Madrid midfielder modric told reporter after defeating Ronaldo to the Award in Monaco: I am in the best club of the world, I want to be here. I am happy, I am super happy being here, very quiet and I just like to keep working doing well, things like last six years.The  Croatia Captain additionally received the golden ball at the arena cup in Russia after leading croatia to the final, He added: As i already said, i am very glad to be right here. I have been working to achieve as high as possible, so thanks to god I am here. This is the best year of my career collectively and individually, so I am really enj...
NEWS

Olympiakos Eliminate Burnley out of the UEFA Europa League in qualifing second leg playoff match at Turf Moor

Burnley anticipation of moving to the Europa league Group stage has ended as a 1-1 draw with Olympiakos at turf moor of their qualifying Play-off second leg made them lose the tie 4-2 on aggregate.Sean dyche's side knew 2-0 win would be sufficient to send them through, Burnley created some great chances  in the first half but have been unable to take them, with sam Vokes sending one header wide and any other Over.Ashley Barnes then struck narrowly wide, Vokes sent a curling effort against a post early in the second half and youngster Dwight McNeil brought a good save out of Andreas Gianniotis.Olympiakos subsequently snatched a goal in the 83rd minute through Daniel Podence before substitute Matej Vydra, making his Burnley debut, replied with a close-range finish three minutes later.
UCL

UEFA announce best player in every position for 2017/18 season

Uefa didn't only announced the Champions League draw during thursday ceremony in Monaco. For the second year in a row, UEFA have taken the opportunity to give awards to the best players of last year's competition. UEFA PRESIDENT AWARD 2018 Winner: David Beckham Awarded for brilliant achievements, excellence and exemplary personal qualities during his time in football. CHAMPIONS  LEAGUE  17/18 GOALKEEPER OF THE TOURNAMENT Winner: Keylor Navas  Other nominees: Alisson Becker (Roma, now Liverpool), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, now Paris Saint-Germain). CHAMPIONS  LEAGUE 17/18 DEFENDER OF TOURNAMENT Winner: Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) Other nominees: Marcelo (Real Madrid), Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) CHAMPIONS LEAGUE17/1...
PREMIER LEAGUE

Sadio Mane reveals he turned down Manchester United big offer before Joining Liverpool

Liverpool winger Sadio Mane stated he held discussions with Manchester united before he moved to Liverpool in june 2016. Mane move to Liverpool from Southampton for £34million and claimed united were the wrong team to join for after being approached by then boss Louis van gaal a year  before. He told reporter: Some teams wanted me, including Manchester United, which was the wrong team for me. Although,  I spoke with Van Gaal, and they even made an offer. But for me it was not the right club, it was not the right moment.To feel this, the right moment, the right coach, the right club.Sadio Mane has had a very great career at Liverpool ,scoring 36 goals in 76 Liverpool appearances including three goals in Liverpool opening three games this season. Reds manager Jurgen Klopp...
LALIGA

Real Madrid has announced the return of Mariano Diaz to Bernabeu as new no.7

Real madrid has announced the return of their former striker Mariano diaz back to Bernabeu. The striker has been in Real madrid before moving to Lyon, and he’s very excited about his return, as the new no. 7, Mariano has signed a five 5 year deal with Real Madrid.Mariano played thrice for Lyon this season, not scoring, but bagged 21 with seven assists in 45 appearances last season. He made his debut  in the first game of the Ligue 1 season against RC Strasbourg Alsace , scoring twice in a 4–0 home win.He cost Lyon around $10 million last summer. No fee has been reported for this deal. Mariano was capped by the Dominican Republic in 2013 and scored in his lone match, but has since shelved his tenure with the CONCACAF side in order to leave himself available to Spain.
UCL

2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage draw

This season Champions league Group stage draw will takes place in monaco on friday Morning, with the repetition of last  season Final between Real madrid and liverpool. Real Madrid won the trophy for the 3rd season running after they thrash Liverpool 3-1 in Kiev in May, but their hopes of making it four in a row were hit by the immediate departure of Cristiano Ronaldo and resignation of coach Zinedine Zidane. With Julen Lopetegui now in charge, Real Madrid will ensures they are  one of the top team in the draw, which will begin just after 6pm local time at the Grimaldi Forum.  They'll be joined by europa league Champions  Atletico madrid and  none of the top team can play each other, so Real will not be drawn in the same group as Ronaldo’s new club Juven...
SERIE A

Ac Milan Manager Rino Gattuso plans to make major tactical changes ahead clash with Roma

Ac Milan head coach Rino Gattuso plans to make major tactical changes in Milan squad next week, as they battle  against Roma. It was reportedly stated that Milan Manager Gattuso will start summer signing Tiemoue Bakayoko against Roma and will also play another summer signing Mattia Caldara, who arrived from Juventus this summer, in the centre of the defense. The Italian will take the place of Mateo Musacchio. It is stated that Ignazio Abate is set to return and he will replace Davide Calabria or he will play further forward. Ricardo Rodriguez is expected to keep his place at left-back, along with Alessio Romagnoli.Ac Milan had started with a 4-3-3 formation in their Serie A opener against Napoli last week as Franck Kessie, goalscored Jack Bonaventura and Lucas Biglia had started in mi...
TRANSFERS

Lorient sign Crystal palace winger Jason Lokilo on a loan deal

Crystal palace winger Jason Lokilo has moved to Lorient on a long term loan. The winger has featured 26 times for  Crystal palace last season.Lorient's interest started from Lokilo impressing in Palace's Crystal  development side last season, with nine goals being netted in 26 appearances.Lokilo still has two years remaining on his contract, giving him the chance to try to impress ahead of making a bid for the Eagles first team next summer.
PREMIER LEAGUE

Danny Rose reveals his future with Tottenham Hotspur

Danny rose has revealed that his future with Tottenham Hotspur is not a clean cut. With some transfer windows still open till the end of the Month, Rose knows he can quit the club. But, the defender added that he expects to remain at the club.Danny Rose told reporter: I am good. I am no longer paying attention to the speculation about my future. If i am here past friday, Which i’m looking ahead to be, it will great. I am looking Forward to seeing what we are able to achieve at the end of the Season.I and the manager have had a conversation about my Future over the smartphone, as well as  one-hour meetings Over the past couple of weeks. We’re both aware about the Situation.
TRANSFERS

Barcelona striker Paco Alcacer sign 1year loan deal with Borussia Dortmund

Paco Alcacer signed a one-Yr deal, costing a reported fee of €2.2 million, with a Choice to buy for €25 million if he meets Dortmund's need for a regular goal-scorer.Paco Alcacer said in a statement: I am really looking forward to playing in the Bundesliga soon, This is one of the best leagues in the world and Borussia Dortmund, with these incredible fans and the famous south stand, is something magical for every footballer.Alcacer  joined Barcelona for €30 million in 2016 after scoring 43 goals for Valencia with 17 assists in 124 matches.But, he failed to make it into Barcelona first eleven with luis suarez and Lionel messi ahead of him but nonetheless managed 15 Goals in 50 games with eight assists.Dortmund director Michael Zorc said:  We are very happy that A...
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