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European champions Portugal defeat Poland 3-2 in the Polish city of Chorzow through Andre Silva, a Kamil Glik own-goal and a brilliant strike from Bernardo Silva .Portugal now have two wins in two game in the Nations League after also beating Italy 1-0 in September. Genoa striker Krzysztof Piatek had given Poland a 19th-minute lead with Jakub Blaszczykowski cutting the deficit for the home side in the 77th minute.In Podgorica, Serbia reduced Montenegro 2-0 in the first meeting between the two former members of the old Yugoslavia. Aleksandar Mitrovic scored both goals with an 18th-minute penalty followed by an 81st-minute effort.Israel recovered from a goal down in Haifa to defeat Scotland 2-1. Charlie Mulgrew put  Scotland ahead with a 25th- minute penalty but midfielder Dor Peretz le...

The former Arsenal striker and current assistant manager of the Belgium national team Thierry Henry is set to replace Leonardo Jardim as Monaco manager. According to report, The Frenchman Henry was formerly linked with Aston Villa after the sacking of Steve Bruce.Henry began his career with the French club in 1995. He made over 100 appearances for Monaco and scored 20 times for the club. Monaco won the Ligue 1 title in 2016-17, but have started off the season poor this time around and are currently in 18th place in the league.

Wales manager Ryan Giggs has revealed that Gareth Bale has 50-50 chance to play Ireland at Aviva Stadium in their Nations League match next Tuesday. Gareth Bale will miss the opportunity to play Spain and his Real Madrid teammates including Sergio Ramos and Nacho in an international friendly at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff this evening (7.45pm) but could return to play Ireland in Dublin."Bale will be out of play against Spain," said Giggs, whose side are second in Nations League B group four, level on three points with leaders Denmark and above bottom side Ireland on none but having played a game more.Giggs said:“He had a scan last week, a couple of weeks ago with Real Madrid. We rescanned it and have done everything we can to get as much information, There was a l...

England manager Gareth Southgate has added Ben Chilwell to his squad as a replacement for injured Manchester United left-back Luke Shaw. Chilwell, who made his England debut in a 1-0 friendly win over Switzerland on home soil at Leicester's King Power Stadium last month, had originally been included in England's under-21 squad. But the 21-year-old will now take the place of Shaw, whose bad luck with injuries continues to rule him out of a Nations League double-header away to Croatia and Spain. Luke Shaw suffered concussion in a 2-1 defeat to Spain last month on his first international start since breaking his leg in 2015. He completed the 90 minutes in United's thrilling comeback from 2-0 down to beat Newcastle 3-2 on Satur...

2018 Ballon d’Or nominees has been released and this time the award will take place in Paris on 3rd December 2018. The Ballon d'or has been  dominated by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo over the past decade (5 times winners, each), but as we saw with FIFA’s  the best award going to Luka Modric, 2018 could bring a changing of the guard.Two Chelsea players who will be hoping that is indeed the case are Eden Hazard and N’Golo Kante, both of whom are nominated for the second consecutive year. Kante finished 8th and Hazard 19th in last year’s field of 30 nominees. These are the 30 nominees for the 2018 Ballon d’Or :1.     Sergio Aguero (Argentina / Manchester City)2.     Alisson (Brazil / Roma & Liverpool)3.     G...

Brendan Rodgers has admitted that he is loving every second of his time at Celtic amid Aston Villa speculation. According to Report, Aston Villa are searching for a replacement for Steve Bruce, who was sacked following a troublesome start to the new Championship campaign.Bruce, who has a good record of getting teams out of the Championship and into the Premier League, has left Villa in 15th place, having won just three of their opening 11 games. Aston villa lost away from home at the weekend following Bruce's dismissal, falling to a 2-1 defeat away at Millwall. The latest loss leaves them on just 15 points from 12 games, winning three, drawing six, and losing three.Brendan Rodgers was asked about the Aston Villa rumours and said: “I have been linked with a number of ...