The perfect Easter weekend for Barcelona means they’re closing in on back-to-back La Liga titles, having extended their lead over closest rivals Real Madrid to seven points. Álvaro Arbeloa, who earned plenty of plaudits for his team’s dismantling of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in the Champions League, took full responsibility for Madrid’s shock defeat at

How aggressive Real Madrid are in rebuilding in midfield this summer may well depend on the extent of their success during the remaining weeks of the season. Seven points back in the La Liga title race, embarrassed in the Copa del Rey and cruelly beaten in the Spanish Super Cup, there’s a real chance Madrid

2 Both head coaches involved in the Easter Sunday 1-1 Bundesliga draw between Union Berlin and St. Pauli declared themselves pleased with the point picked up. Steffen Baumgart’s capital city club took an enormous stride towards safety by sharing the spoils with their opponent. Now in 10th place on 32 points, one more win over

And then there were two. As the clock ticked down at St Mary’s Stadium on Saturday night even the stray yellow balloons on the pitch had begun to take on a weirdly mocking quality. The balloons were almost too much, like metaphors-for-hire in an arthouse film, popping up in shot every time Arsenal tried to transform

Reports over the weekend claimed that the Italy national team players attempted to negotiate a bonus before their World Cup play-off final defeat against Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the latest updates indicate that the Azzurri squad members would have received individual ‘gifts’ had they managed to qualify. Report: Italy squad would have received World Cup

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PARIS (AP) — Lyon’s hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League were further dented on Sunday after a 0-0 draw at Angers in Ligue 1, extending its winless run in all competitions to nine matches. Looking for a first win since mid-February, Paulo Fonseca’s players were devoid of ideas in a match that offered

Rabat – Lamine Yamal faced racist abuse again during yesterday’s Barcelona 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid in La Liga, adding another troubling episode to a pattern that Spanish football still struggles to control. A video from the stands during the match shows fans shouting racist slurs at the 18-year-old while he prepared to take a

Newspapers in Italy warn that the government will need to ‘accelerate’ if the Azzurri are to remain as one of the co-hosts of EURO 2032, as only one stadium is currently ‘ready’ to host matches at the final tournament. Which venues in Italy are ready to host EURO 2032? Back in 2023, both the Italian

When Pep Guardiola arrived on English shores in 2016, the pundit Stan Collymore wrote a column which effectively told the ex-Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss that his fancy football would simply not work in our league. ‘If he thinks he’s going to turn up and outplay everybody in the Premier League, and pass pretty patterns

Cremonese have to make do without Jamie Vardy for the visit of Bologna in Serie A on Easter Sunday, as Marco Giampaolo looks to steer clear of the relegation zone while Vincenzo Italiano hopes to lift the Rossoblu closer to the European positions. Giampaolo led Cremonese to a massively important 2-0 victory away against Parma