Barcelona returned to the top of the Spanish league on goal difference after Robert Lewandowski’s first-half penalty secured a 1-0 win over Rayo Vallecano. The Catalan club on Monday (February 17, 2025) took advantage of weekend slip-ups by Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid to move onto 51 points, the same as Madrid and a point…
Real Madrid dispatched Manchester City 3-1 with a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) in their Champions League playoff second leg at a raucous Santiago Bernabeu stadium, earning them a 6-3 aggregate victory and a place in the last 16. Last year’s champions will face either Bayer Leverkusen or city rivals Atletico Madrid,…
Lionel Messi scored from the right side of the box in the 56th minute to lift Inter Miami past Sporting Kansas City 1-0 on a bitterly cold Wednesday (February 19, 2025) night in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions Cup’s first round. Both teams struggled to find consistency on the hard, slick field for…
When a team’s hopes of qualification for the Indian Super League playoffs rest on mathematical miracles entailing undue favours from other teams, it is very much clutching at straws. With four matches left in the league phase of the 2024-25 season for Punjab FC, the team from the north needs to win all its remaining…
A Madrid derby. A German classic. A rare meeting between Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain. The Champions League got more heavyweight clashes when the draw for the round of 16 was made Friday (February 21, 2025). Defending champion Real Madrid’s reward for ousting 2023 title winner Manchester City this week in the knockout playoffs is two…
Defensive blunders and profligacy in attack have been recurring problems for Punjab FC in its meandering Indian Super League (ISL) campaign. It didnât show much improvement on either front on a balmy Saturday evening as East Bengal prevailed 3-1 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in a contest between two teams languishing in the lower half…
Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge was dented by an unexpected 1-0 home loss to West Ham on Saturday (February 22, 2025) that featured a fifth red card of the season for Mikel Arteta’s team. Second-place Arsenal squandered a chance to trim the gap to Liverpool to five points as Jarrod Bowen’s first-half header secured a…
Newcastle United scored four goals in 11 first-half minutes to keep alive their Champions League qualification hopes with a thrilling 4-3 victory over Nottingham Forest at St James’ Park on Sunday (February 23, 2025) but had to hold on under heavy pressure in the second period. Newcastle moved into fifth place with 44 points from…
Bayern Munich substitute Serge Gnabry grabbed a late goal to cap a 4-0 win over third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt that consolidated the Bavarian powerhouse’s Bundesliga lead. Gnabry fired the ball through Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp’s legs in the second minute of stoppage time, almost 10 minutes after Jamal Musiala ran past a host of defenders and…
Battle for possession: Bagan’s Ralte, right, and Odisha’s Kannoly Praveen vie for the ball. | Photo Credit: PTI A capacity Salt Lake Stadium exploded in wild celebrations as Dimitri Petratos fetched the winner in the third minute of added time to help Mohun Bagan SG prevail over 10-man Odisha FC by a solitary goal in…
