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Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter It amounts to miserable seven for Pep Guardiola. The manager who started this season expected to secure his seventh Premier League title has…

Bukayo Saka scored twice in Arsenal’s 3-0  win over Monaco on Wednesday He almost netted his first hat-trick, but was denied by one of his team-mates  LISTEN NOW: It’s All Kicking Off!, available wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday and Thursday By SAM BROOKES Published: 06:48 GMT, 12 December 2024 | Updated:…

McLaren boss Zak Brown has admitted it “will be a challenge at times” managing the team’s drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as they both target the Drivers’ Championship in 2025. Norris claimed victory in Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to secure the Constructors’ Championship for McLaren for the first time since 1998. Having…

Arsenal youngster Myles Lewis-Skelly, making his first Champions League start, impressed to give Mikel Arteta another selection puzzle to solve amid fans’ natural excitement Source link [og_img]

It wasn’t a flawless performance, but Arsenal more than steadied the ship with their Champions League win over Monaco last night. Mikel Arteta’s side were almost perfect in the first half, and had the likes of Gabriel Martinelli or Gabriel Jesus been at the races, they could’ve gone in with a three or four-goal lead…

Manchester United are aiming for a third successive Europa League victory on Thursday when they travel to Viktoria Plzen. The Red Devils won their first European encounter under Ruben Amorim by beating Norwegian champions Bodo/Glimt 3-2 at Old Trafford, but back-to-back Premier League defeats to Arsenal and Nottingham Forest have since soured the mood. With…

Getty Images The 2024 NBA Cup knockout stage is underway, and fans were treated to both an upset and a controversial finish on Wednesday night. First, the Hawks knocked the Knicks out of the in-season tournament with a 108-100 upset at Madison Square Garden. Trae Young had 22 points and 11 assists and De’Andre Hunter…

NRL want a team up and running in WA by 2027 However, it definitely won’t be the Western Bears WA Premier Roger Cook is behind new expansion talks By JASPER BRUCE FOR AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 05:49 GMT, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 05:49 GMT, 12 December 2024 The NRL‘s Perth expansion team could be…

By ISAAN KHAN Published: 00:01 GMT, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 01:07 GMT, 12 December 2024 Mikel Arteta hinted that Myles Lewis-Skelly has a chance of making the vacant left-back spot his own after an inspired performance against Monaco on Wednesday night. The 18-year-old, who became Arsenal’s youngest starter in the Champions League since Alex…

Jalen Green made two free throws with 3.5 seconds left and the Houston Rockets beat the Golden State Warriors 91-90 on Wednesday night to advance to the NBA Cup semifinals in Las Vegas. Houston snapped a 15-game skid against the Warriors, winning for the first time in the series since Feb. 20, 2020. The Rockets…

City went down 2-0 to Juventus on Wednesday as their tough run continued They are 22nd in the Champions League table, one point ahead of elimination LISTEN NOW to It’s All Kicking Off!: Why can’t Chelsea win the league? They made seven changes and still scored five. Do you think Liverpool could do that? By…

Manchester City have now lost seven of their last ten games across all competitions following Champions League defeat at the hands of Juventus on Wednesday night. Juve ran out 2-0 winners in Turin to claim victory in Europe for the first time since matchday two and climb to withing touching distance of the all-important top…

Match of the Day analyst Nedum Onouha explains what makes Ademola Lookman a Balon D’or nominee by looking at how the former Everton striker caused Real Madrid problems in Atalanta’s 3-2 loss to the European Champions on matchday six at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo. MATCH REPORT: Atalanta 2-3 Real Madrid Available to UK users…

By JACK BEZANTS Published: 04:39 GMT, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 04:48 GMT, 12 December 2024 Bill Belichick was celebrating his hugely anticipated return to football on Wednesday night – but he would have been wise to ignore social media after taking over as UNC coach. The 72-year-old Belichick signed a five-year deal with North…

Dec 11, 2024, 05:28 PM ET In one of the most stunning and compelling moves in college football history, six-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick was named the new head coach at North Carolina on Wednesday night. UNC officials said the sides agreed to a five-year deal pending approval by the board of trustees, which…

City lost 2-0 vs Juventus to leave their Champions League hopes uncertain Guardiola, however, was full of praise for his side’s performance in the game LISTEN NOW to It’s All Kicking Off!: Why can’t Chelsea win the league? They made seven changes and still scored five. Do you think Liverpool could do that? By LEWIS…

The former club captain was offered a grim assessment after European defeat  Man City have now recorded just one win in their last 10 matches played  LISTEN NOW to It’s All Kicking Off!: Why can’t Chelsea win the league? They made seven changes and still scored five. Do you think Liverpool could do that?  By TAMARA…

The final Europa League action of the calendar year occurs this week as Matchday 6 throws up some tantalising duels. There was just one game on Wednesday before the remaining 34 teams take to the stage on Thursday across the continent. The league phase table is looking finely poised heading into the final few fixtures….

The Americas is eyeing a record number of places at Rugby World Cup 2027. The eleventh edition of the Men’s Rugby World Cup will be played in Australia. It is a return to the country that also hosted the tournament in 2003 and co-hosted, with New Zealand, in 1987. Those two tournaments and the 2027…