Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng has died aged 26 of a suspected heart attack after collapsing on the pitch. Ekeng fell to the floor in the 70th minute of a televised Romanian league match between Dinamo and Viitorul. He was pronounced dead in hospital two hours later. The Cameroonian FA confirmed the news on Twitter, while Ekeng’s former ...
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Liverpool, Sevilla reach Europa final
Liverpool romped into the Europa League final with a 3-0 win over Villarreal on another magical night at Anfield to tee up a showpiece clash with holders Sevilla who swatted away visitors Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 on Thursday. Five times European champions Liverpool reached a 12th continental final thanks to an own goal from Bruno Soriano and further strikes from Daniel ...
Read More »Real tame City to reach UCL final
Real Madrid reached their 14th European Cup final and crushed Manchester City’s hopes of a maiden title after Gareth Bale’s deflected effort secured a 1-0 victory in the second leg of their Champions League last four clash in Madrid on Wednesday. Bale’s right-footed shot ricocheted off City midfielder Fernando on its way into the top corner to break the deadlock ...
Read More »Ranieri knew at Xmas that they would win
Leicester City coach Claudio Ranieri said on Tuesday that he believed at Christmas his team would win the Premier League, even as he continued to tell the media his only goal was avoiding relegation. “Now I can say it, I always knew we’d win,” Ranieri told Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano the day after Leicester’s triumph. He said he had ...
Read More »Leicester City win Premier League title after Tottenham draw at Chelsea
Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time. Tottenham’s 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri’s side. Leicester started the campaign as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title after almost being relegated last season. But they have lost just three league games in what has ...
Read More »Nkana down Dynamos to restore lead
Nkana restored their four-point lead at the summit of the Faz Super League table on Sunday, when they beat Lusaka Dynamos 3-0 at home in Kitwe. The victory saw the early pacesetters continue to keep defending champions Zesco United at arms length on 15 and 19 points respectively. Sunday’s win saw Nkana stay unbeaten in their opening seven games after ...
Read More »Pep under pressure for Atletico return
Bayern Munich’s coach Pep Guardiola knows he needs to prove his critics wrong by overturning a 1-0 first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid in Tuesday’s crunch home Champions League semifinal. Guardiola and Bayern are bidding to avoid losing a semi-final to a Spanish side for the third year running having lost the first-leg last Wednesday at Atletico after Saul Niguez’s early ...
Read More »Hanover 96 player killed day after relegation
Having been relegated from the Bundesliga the day before, Hanover 96 were on Sunday mourning their midfielder Niklas Feierabend after the 19-year-old was killed in a car crash. The youth team talent was only given a professional contract in February and had not made his debut in Germany’s top flight. “This morning we received the terrible news that our 19-year-old ...
Read More »Man United make Leicester wait
Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City must wait to complete their fairytale Premier League title quest after being held to a 1-1 draw by Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday. The Foxes needed three points to win the league for the first time, but with thousands of fans back in Leicester and millions of new converts around the world watching on ...
Read More »Leicester seek to clinch title
The champagne is at the ready, the Premier League trophy in place but what used to be a routine occurrence at Old Trafford will have a surreal twist on Sunday if Leicester City beat Manchester United there to clinch the title. Leicester’s cast-iron nerve has held firm when many expected them to fade and three points at the home of ...
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