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Tottenham will play Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals, while Manchester United have been drawn against Barcelona. Last year’s beaten finalists Liverpool will play Porto and Ajax will face Juventus in the other ties. The semi-final draw was also made and Manchester United will meet Liverpool if both win their last-eight ties. The quarter-final first legs take place on ...

Zinedine Zidane said he is “very happy to be home” after returning as Real Madrid manager just 10 months after leaving the Spanish giants. The Frenchman replaces Santiago Solari, who was sacked after less than five months in charge. Former Real midfielder Zidane, 46, who left in May after leading the club to a third straight Champions League trophy, has ...

Real Madrid centre-back Sergio Ramos has been handed a two-game suspension by Uefa for deliberately getting himself booked during his team’s Champions League last 16, first leg against Ajax. The Spaniard was already set to miss the second leg, with Real holding a 2-1 aggregate lead, but will now miss the first leg of the quarterfinals as well, should Real ...

Jurgen Klopp feels Liverpool proved some doubters wrong after they turned on the style to crush Watford at Anfield and stay top of the Premier League. The Reds had dropped six points in their previous four top-flight games but two goals each by Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk, as well as another from Divock Origi, helped them to their ...

The Football Association of Zambia has announced that National Team Coach Sven Vandenbroek’s contract will not be renewed when it comes to an end next month. And National team assistant coach Chintu Kampamba has been dropped, while Green Eagles Coach Aggrey Chiyangi and his ZANACO counterpart Numba Mumamba have been roped in as first and second assistants to the outgoing ...

Manchester City won the Carabao Cup in a penalty shootout at Wembley after Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga defied manager Maurizio Sarri’s attempt to substitute him. City claimed the first major trophy in their four-pronged assault on silverware but this stale final, which was goalless after extra time, will be remembered for an almost unprecedented challenge to Sarri’s authority by Arrizabalaga. ...

Polokwane City will square off with Kaizer Chiefs in an Absa Premiership match at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Saturday. Kick-off is at 3:30 pm. Rise and Shine are winless in their last three league matches after drawing 1-1 with Mamelodi Sundowns away in midweek. The draw saw Polokwane remain eighth on the league standings – two points behind fifth-placed ...

Steve Komphela felt Friday’s Absa Premiership clash between Chippa United and his Lamontville Golden Arrows team was a classic tale of two halves as the two sides drew 1-1 at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. “I think for the neutral it was a nice match to watch but maybe not so for us as Arrows and Chippa,” ...

Liverpool’s Champions League last-16 tie against Bayern Munich remains finely poised after a goalless draw in the first leg at Anfield. The hosts posed the greater threat but were either wasteful in front of goal or kept out by Bayern’s well-marshalled defence. Sadio Mane missed a handful of first-half chances, most notably dragging a shot on the turn wide from ...

As Maurizio Sarri watched his side limp out of the FA Cup, he resembled a jaded end-of-the-pier entertainer going through the same old act that once brought him acclaim but is now greeted with open hostility and – even more painfully – mockery. The early weeks of the season, when the ‘Sarri-ball’ philosophy that won him the adulation of peers ...