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Pablo Fornals’ deflected second-half strike helped West Ham end their winless start to the Premier League season with a 1-0 victory at Aston Villa. In a game lacking quality, the 76th-minute effort by the Spanish playmaker saw the Hammers open their account for the top flight campaign after losses to Manchester City, Nottingham …

Manchester City kept up their strong start to their Premier League title defence on Matchday 4, although they had to battle back from 2-0 down to defeat Crystal Palace. Arsenal remain on top though after they came from behind to edge a win over Fulham in the late kickoff on Saturday. Brighton & Hove Albion moved …

Alexis Sanchez scored his first goals in a Marseille shirt on Sunday, netting a brace in a 3-0 Mediterranean derby win for his new club away at Nice in Ligue 1. The Chilean former Arsenal star scored both his goals in the first half on the Cote d’Azur, with on-loan …

Marcus Rashford has insisted that his only focus is on competing for trophies with Manchester United again amid rumoured transfer interest from Paris Saint-Germain. Rashford has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford this summer after losing his spot in the first-team over the past 12 months. The United academy graduate suffered …

Kylian Mbappé scored the fastest Ligue 1 goal for 30 years to set Paris Saint-Germain on their way to a runaway 7-1 victory at Lille as they kept up their 100% start to the new Ligue 1 season. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: François Lo Presti/AFP/Getty Images Mbappé took only eight seconds to lob …

Ahead of LaLiga’s opening weekend, former Bayern Munich star and current FC Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski had some thoughts about his old club, including that Serge Gnabry and Sadio Mané “can score 20 goals each this season.” That would sure go a long way in replacing the Polish Hitman — a subject that many …

Gabriel Jesus, Oleksandr Zinchenko and William Saliba shone on their debuts as Arsenal began the 2022/23 Premier League season in impressive style with a gutsy 2-0 win at Crystal Palace. Potentially tougher opponents await as the trio target their competitive home debuts for the club: former champions Leicester City finished …

KILKENNY SECURED THE result required to advance to next weekend’s National Hurling League semi-finals with a deserved win over the previously unbeaten Waterford at UPMC Nowlan Park. Goals in either half by Cillian Buckley and Billy Ryan ultimately proved the difference between the sides during a lively fixture albeit one …

Liverpool have kept the double dream alive after seeing off Nottingham Forest to make the FA Cup semi-finals at the weekend. But the wily German has admitted that his side cannot afford to fixate on Manchester City with the Champions League quarter-finals also in the pipeline. ‘We have Watford, Benfica, …

Nigeria Queen of the tracks, Blessing Okagbare desire of returning to the tracks may have been flung following her failure to upturn the suspension placed on her by World Athletics (WA) after failing an out-of-competition test. The U.S.-based sprinter was thrown out of the Tokyo Olympics Games on the eve …