Lucas Piazon could return to the Fulham side to face his former club Reading. The Chelsea loanee, who was at Reading last season, was surprisingly dropped to the bench as Fulham were beaten 2-1 at Brighton last weekend. Full-back Ryan Fredericks is also pushing to return to the starting line-up. Boss Slavisa Jokanovic has a fully-fit squad to choose from with no new injury concerns. Reading ...Full Story »

Sone Aluko and Tom Cairney settled the west London derby as Fulham sank neighbours Brentford 2-0 at Griffin Park. Aluko hit his third goal of the season in the first half and Cairney struck in injury-time to seal a deserved win for the visitors from just along the Thames. The Bees had tasted derby success the previous Friday night when won 2-0 at QPR, but missed the chance to make it a double ...Full Story »

RIO DE JANEIRO - Two lawyers from English Premier League champion Chelsea will defend soccer player Lucas Piazon from sexual assault charges he's facing in Canada. Fabiano Souza, a Sao Paulo-based spokesman for the 21-year-old Piazon, says Friday that the offer came "a few hours ago" and was promptly accepted. Piazon currently plays on loan in England for second-tier Reading but still has a ...Full Story »

Toronto police have issued arrests warrant for two Brazilian footballers that featured in last summer’s Pan American games. And the two players that have been named are Andrey da Silva Ventura of Botafogo, and Reading midfielder Lucas Piazon, who is on loan from Chelsea. The assault is said to have taken place on the morning of July 26th, when Piazon and Ventura met with two women at a...Full Story »

Hamburg scored their first goal of the season, but it was not enough to prevent them from going down 2-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday. Nicolai Muller cancelled out Haris Seferovic's opener, after Hamburg had set a new Bundesliga record of 507 minutes without scoring at the start of a season. It was not enough even for a point, though, as Lucas Piazon's brilliant late free-kick snat...Full Story »

Chelsea has confirmed that Lucas Piazon has joined Dutch club Vitesse on loan until the end of the season. The 19-year-old was brought to the club as a youth player two years ago from Brazilian side Sao Paulo and made his debut last season before going on to make a further two appearances in all competitions. He gained his first taste of regular first-team football on loan to Spanish side Mala...Full Story »

Lucas Piazon has spoken of his joy at swapping Chelsea for Malaga on loan, as he believes it will give him a chance to progress as a player after finding life "difficult" at Stamford Bridge. The Brazilian signed for the Blues in 2012 through a pre-contract agreement but has struggled for first-team opportunities in London due to his tender age and the plethora of attacking talent in Rafa Benit...Full Story »

Lucas Piazon is hoping he will be given the chance to prove himself at Malaga after joining the club on loan from English Premier League side Chelsea until the end of the season. The 18-year-old Brazilian, who can play either as a striker or out wide, is not in the squad for the Primera Division game at home to Celta Vigo but has been encouraged by a brief conversation with manager Manuel Pelle...Full Story »

The Brazilian forward, who recently joined Malaga on loan for the rest of the season, revealed he is happy to have been likened to the Real Madrid midfielder Lucas Piazon says he is comfortable with being compared to fellow Brazilian Kaka. The 18-year-old previously played for Sao Paulo, the same side at which the Real Madrid midfielder began his sparkling career and it is this similarity th...Full Story »

The 18-year-old striker joins the Spanish side until the end of the season and will wear the No.12 shirt, formerly worn by Arsenal star Santi Cazorla at La Rosaleda   Malaga have confirmed the signing of Chelsea youngster Lucas Piazon on loan until the end of the season. The striker underwent a medical with the Spanish side on Tuesday, and trained with members of the squad who have not t...Full Story »