Real Madrid will hope to continue their impressive goalscoring run against Portuguese opponents away to Sporting CP on Tuesday as they look to secure Champions League progression.
In their last 20 meetings with Primeira Liga sides, Madrid have never failed to find the back of the net, encouraging news ahead of a trip to Lisbon in Group F – where a point would confirm a last-16 berth for Zinedine Zidane s holders.
Borussia Dortmund s clash with Legia Warsaw also promises goals if the teams form so far in this season s competition is anything to go by, with the latter hoping to avoid breaking an unwanted record.
In Moscow, meanwhile, CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev continues his long wait for a clean sheet against Bayer Leverkusen.
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Former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany insisted John Stones will prove his quality and silence his critics.
Stones has won two Premier League titles among other honours since joining City from Everton in 2016, however, doubts remain over the England international s long-term credentials in Manchester.
Errors and a lack of consistency have raised questions over Stones, who started 20 league matches last season but missed most of the run-in as Pep Guardiola preferred Kompany.
However, Kompany – who has since departed City for Anderlecht in a player-coach role – backed the 25-year-old to prove his doubters wrong.
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The Independent understand that Jack Wilshere is no closer to agreeing a new deal at Arsenal.
Having spent last season on loan at Bournemouth, the England international’s future with the Gunners has been the subject of much speculation though he has impressed on his return.
However, he has just three months remaining on his current deal with the North London side and there is yet to be any headway in negotiations.
The twenty-six year old has made twenty-eight appearances in all competitions this season, scoring twice.
He is closing in on two hundred games in all competitions for Arsene Wenger’s side and during that haul he has won two FA Cups while he had a loan spell at Bolton Wanderers early on in his career.
Internationally he has bee…
What is going to happen with Sergej Milinkovic-Savic? Serbia international had a great 2017-18 season at Lazio, making the biggest European clubs pay close attention to his performances, but the next year was not as great. Milinkovic-Savic struggled after a tough World Cup with Serbia and his stock started going down.
This summer seems as the perfect one for Lazio to sell, as the Serie A club might not be able to sell him for a better price next year and that is what Lazio president Lotito spoke about on Monday.
“Milinkovic-Savic? At Lazio, we keep only those who want to stay at the club,” Lotito told Gazzetta dello Sport. “If the player expresses his intention to explore a new adventure, we will not oppose him. At what price can we let him go? Negotiations are n…
Defending champions the United States advanced to the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarter-finals after routing Trinidad and Tobago 6-0 in Group D on Saturday.
USA infamously lost to Trinidad and Tobago in 2017 as they failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup but Gregg Berhalter s men exacted some revenge against the Soca Warriors in Cleveland.
Aaron Long headed home a 41st-minute opener before a five-goal second half, with Gyasi Zardes quick-fire brace, and Christian Pulisic, Paul Arriola and the former leading to the USA to back-to-back wins following their 4-0 demolition of Guyana.
USA started the match with pace and purpose, but they were unable to create any real clear-cut chances in the first 30 minutes.
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Marcus Rashford and Phil Foden starred to send England through to the World Cup knockout stage as Group B winners after a 3-0 victory over Wales on Tuesday.
Victory sets up a last-16 clash with Group A runners-up Senegal on Sunday for England, while Wales crashed out in Qatar without a win for the first time in a major tournament.
Foden started at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium after being left out of the goalless draw with the United States on Friday and won the free-kick for Rashford to break the deadlock in the 50th minute.
Manchester City star Foden extended the lead just a minute later before Rashford doubled his account to eliminate an uninspiring Wales from Group B, in which the USA beat Iran to progress as runners-up.
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Looking to extend their stay in the European spots on Wednesday evening, Fiorentina will make the trip to the Stadio Marc Antonio Bentegodi when they face off against Verona.
Starting with the hosts, while Verona might have thought that they had found a much-needed boost earlier in the campaign, the Gialloblu have largely come crashing back down to earth. Putting in flat display once again over the weekend and hit with a deserved 1-0 defeat away at Torino, Head Coach Igor Tudor has seen his side lose each of their last three contests on the spin. Crashing out of the Coppa Italia last week after suffering a remarkable 4-3 defeat against Empoli on home soil, Verona have really shown a host of issues at the back. With just a singl…
Arsenal remain interested in signing Paris Saint Germain forward Edinson Cavani,.
Gunners’ manager Arsene Wenger is set to move for the Uruguay international when the transfer window reopens in January.
Cavani, who has previously been linked with a move for Manchester United moved to Paris from Napoli in the summer of 2013.
Since signing for PSG he has racked up one hundred and eleven appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring sixty-five goals.
He has won two Ligue 1 titles so far while he was part of the squad that also won the Coupe de France last season.
Internationally he has been capped seventy-two times for his country, scoring twenty-seven goals and played at both the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and last summer’s to…
Italian newspaper La Nazione reports that Fiorentina have opened negotiations to sign Werder Bremen players Marko Arnautovic and Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Having really raised the club’s profile this season, mostly thanks to the heavy summer recruitment, the Artemio Franchi outfit want to continue squad rebuilding process in the summer.
According to La Nazione, they are already in talks with Werder Bremen to sign Marko Arnautovic and Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
With star striker Stevan Jovetic widely tipped to leave the club in the summer transfer window, Viola hope to replace the talented forward with the Austria international.
Arnautovic, 23, has some Serie A experience, having spent the 2009/2010 season on loan at Inter.
On the other hand, t…
Antonio Conte says Mohamed Salah s extraordinary return in front of goal this season would have been difficult to predict, and insists he was not involved in Chelsea s decision to sell the Egypt star.
Salah failed to shine when he moved to the Blues from Basel in 2014, spending time on loan at Fiorentina and Roma, before signing for the Giallorossi in 2016.
Liverpool parted with a fee that could rise to €50 million to bring the 25-year-old to Merseyside in June.
And he has repaid that outlay by netting an extraordinary 43 goals in all competitions, firing the Reds to the Champions League final in the process.
I think this season for Salah is a fantastic season, Conte said ahead of Chelsea s Premier League match at home to Liverpool on Sunday.
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