Port Vale missed a chance to break into the play-off places as automatic promotion chasers Exeter achieved a 0-0 Sky Bet League Two draw at Vale Park.Vale, still with assistant boss Andy Crosby in charge with manager Darrell Clarke on compassionate leave, needed a fourth straight win to climb into the top seven.Instead, the Potteries outfit drop to ninth as Matt Taylor’s second-placed Grec...Full Story »

Newcastle prepare £12m bid for Kelly Newcastle will make a £12 million ($16m) bid for Bournemouth centre-back Lloyd Kelly this summer. The Daily Express reports the club are looking to strengthen in defence and hope to reunite Kelly with ex-Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe. Arsenal to quadruple Saka wages Arsenal will offer Bukayo Saka a new contract that will see his salary quadru...Full Story »

Matty Stevens grabbed the game’s only goal as League Two leaders Forest Green ended their seven-match winless run with a 1-0 victory at Colchester.Colchester, sporting yellow and blue to help raise money for the humanitarian effort in Ukraine, went close early on when Noah Chilvers’ fierce low shot was parried by Rovers goalkeeper Luke McGee.But Shamal George denied Stevens and Jack ...Full Story »

Oldham will be without captain Carl Piergianni for Tuesday’s visit of Sutton.The defender will serve the second game of his two-match ban for accumulated bookings.Forward Junior Luamba is still expected to be sidelined for the relegation-battling Latics with a hamstring injury.Oldham are currently second-bottom of League Two and have lost their last four league games.Sutton were handed a b...Full Story »

Carlo Ancelotti has recognised that he made mistakes that ended up costing Real Madrid in their 4-0 loss against Barcelona in El Clasico on Sunday night. Real Madrid remain 12 points ahead of their arch-rivals after the defeat, but the Italian was understandably frustrated with the performance his side put in. "We were not recognisable, everything went wrong. I told the players that [the def...Full Story »

Departing Chelsea midfielder Charly Musonda is interesting Jose Mourinho's Roma. The 25-year-old Belgian playmaker will be a free agent in the summer after Chelsea opted not to renew his contract following 10 years at Stamford Bridge. Roma, managed by former Chelsea boss Mourinho, are among the clubs vying for the player's signature. Goal says fellow Serie 'A' side Hellas Verona are also th...Full Story »

TAMMY ABRAHAM smashed a record set by Gabriel Batistuta as he helped Roma thrash bitter rivals Lazio 3-0. The England striker has already made himself a hero to the Giallorossi since his arrival from Chelsea last summer. Tammy Abraham scored twice as Roma thrashed rivals Lazio Now he has further cemented his status as a fan favourite as his early double helped claim the bragging rights in the...Full Story »

Xavi Hernandez is refusing to rule out a late run for the title and Gerard Pique proclaimed Barcelona are back after they hammered Real Madrid 4-0 in Sunday's Clasico at the Santiago Bernabeu. A Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang double and further goals from Ronald Araujo and Ferran Torres ended Barca's six-game winless run against Madrid, dating back to 2019, and cut the gap on Carlo Ancelotti's side ...Full Story »

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insisted his side were no-one’s “dream draw” as he faced up to the prospect of taking on title rivals Manchester City twice in seven days in a league and FA Cup double.Diogo Jota’s 78th-minute goal secured a first win at Nottingham Forest’s City ground in 13 visits – succeeding where Arsenal and Leicester had failed this season &...Full Story »

Pep Guardiola hailed “brilliant” Phil Foden after his stunning strike capped off Manchester City’s dominant 4-1 FA Cup win over Southampton at St Mary’s.City remain on course for a treble after the emphatic quarter-final victory, capped off by Foden’s strike for their third goal.Raheem Sterling had opened the visitors’ account when he tapped home in the 12th m...Full Story »

Phil Foden’s stunning strike capped off a dominant Manchester City performance as they booked their place in the FA Cup semi-finals with a 4-1 win over Southampton at St Mary’s.Pep Guardiola’s side had failed to win either Premier League game against the Saints this season, but their emphatic victory kept them on course for a treble.Raheem Sterling had handed the league leaders...Full Story »

QPR boss Mark Warburton admitted irate home fans had every right to jeer his team after Sunday’s 3-1 defeat by struggling Peterborough.Stuttering Rangers have lost five of their past six matches, have slipped to eighth in the Sky Bet Championship table, and are struggling to stay in the race for a play-off place.Warburton, whose players were booed off after an appalling second-half display...Full Story »

Peterborough climbed off the bottom of the Sky Bet Championship table with a stunning 3-1 victory at play-off chasing QPR.Jonson Clarke-Harris scored two of their goals – one of them from the penalty spot – and Jack Marriott’s stunning strike sealed Posh’s first win since Grant McCann’s recent appointment as manager, after Luke Amos had given the hosts the lead.Amos...Full Story »

Rangers kept in Celtic’s slipstream – but only just – after Connor Goldson’s late strike gave the disjointed Ibrox men a 2-1 win over Dundee at the Kilmac stadium.Christie Elliott stunned the visitors when he headed the cinch Premiership’s bottom side into the lead in the sixth minute, and the nervy champions failed to take advantage of a controversial penalty just ...Full Story »

TOTTENHAM have already been part of one fly-on-the-wall documentary - now loan star Dejan Kulusevski is starring in another with girlfriend and fellow footballer Eldina Ahmic. Playmakers, now in its fifth series, is a show put together by Sweden’s TV4 network that follows five Swedish athletes and their partners, also including Aston Villa goalkeeper Robin Olsen. Dejan Kulusevski and par...Full Story »

Spain boss Luis Enrique has explained his reasoning behind the omission of Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea. Speaking in a press conference following the squad’s announcement, the former Barcelona manager revealed that De Gea was not in the squad because he didn’t suit their style of play. Many modern goalkeepers are required to be able to play with the ball at their fe...Full Story »

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink blamed Burton’s 2-0 defeat at Charlton on individual errors.Conor Washington put the Addicks ahead after 12 minutes as he raced onto goalkeeper Craig MacGillivray’s long kick and lifted his finish over Ben Garratt.Corey Blackett-Taylor opened his goal account for the Addicks in the 42nd minute, producing a low right-footed finish from the edge of the box.Burto...Full Story »

Gary Rowett expressed his pride despite Millwall slipping to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of his former employers Stoke.The travelling Lions, who entered the fixture amid an eight-match unbeaten run, found themselves behind due to Jacob Brown’s precise header inside 20 minutes.Brown, whose goal ended Millwall’s eight-hour run without conceding, missed a sequence of opportunities to cons...Full Story »

Ian Evatt paid tribute to his bench after Bolton snatched a late 1-0 victory at Crewe.Substitute Amadou Bakayoko polished off a rebound in the last minute after a Kieran Sadlier free-kick struck the post to end bottom club Crewe’s second-half resistance.The decisive set play was won by another of the Wanderers’ late replacements, Elias Kachunga, as the visitors kept their outside pla...Full Story »

Swindon boss Ben Garner felt his side paid dearly for a lack of intensity as the Robins suffered a 3-1 defeat at Crawley to drop to seventh in League Two.A 50th-minute goal from Josh Davison cancelled out Kwesi Appiah’s first-half opener for Crawley, but late goals from Tom Nichols and substitute Isaac Hutchinson left Garner reflecting on a “missed opportunity” for his side.He ...Full Story »