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Willy Caballero was Manchester City’s hero as they beat Liverpool on penalties to win the Capital One Cup at Wembley. The 34-year-old Argentine goalkeeper spectacularly rewarded the faith of manager Manuel Pellegrini with saves from Lucas, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana in the shoot-out after he was selected ahead of first-choice Joe Hart. Fernandinho put City ahead just after the ...

Gianni Infantino caused a surprise by polling the most votes in round one of voting in Friday’s election to succeed Sepp Blatter as Fifa president. The Uefa secretary general failed to get enough to seal outright victory, claiming 88 of the 207 votes available at an extraordinary congress in Zurich. Pre-vote favourite Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa won 85. Prince ...

Manchester United came from behind to beat Midtjylland 5-1 with a brace from debut striker Marcus Rashford while Tottenham beat Fiorentina 3-0 and Liverpool squeezed past Augsburg to make the last 16 of the Europa League on Thursday. United had been trailing 2-1 from the first leg, and went 3-1 down on aggregate to the Danish champions before an own-goal, ...

Six Nations: England v Ireland Venue: Twickenham Date: Saturday 27 February Kick-off: 16:50 GMT Coverage: Live on ITV, commentary on BBC Radio 5 live & BBC Sport website and BBC Sport app, plus live text commentary. Saracens forward Maro Itoje will make his first start for England in the Six Nations game against Ireland at Twickenham on Saturday. Itoje, 21, ...

Zesco United have departed for Juba, South Sudan for the second leg Caf Champions League preliminary round match scheduled for Friday, February 26. Zesco United have a 2 – 0 advantage from the first leg played on February 14 at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola thanks to goals by Idriss Mbombo and Clatous Chama. Coach George Lwandamina has included goalkeeper ...

Manchester City may be toiling domestically at the moment but they produced a superb European away performance to beat Dynamo Kiev 3-1 in Ukraine in their Champions League last 16, first leg on Wednesday. Manuel Pellegrini’s side did enough to win the game in the first half with Sergio Aguero and David Silva both scoring to underline their importance to ...

Daniel Sturridge says his future is at Liverpool after accusing his critics of “disrespect”. It has been reported the striker, who has played nine games this season due to injury, wants to leave Anfield over criticism of his fitness record. “I think it is astonishing, disappointing – whoever is saying it – but that’s football,” said 26-year-old Sturridge. “I am ...

Evans Sakala will be temporarily in charge of Nchanga Rangers following the death of head coach Fighton Simukonda last week. Sakala was the the late Simukonda’s first assistant at Nchanga since arriving at the Faz Super League club in the middle of the 2015 season. Nchanga secretary Jimmy Chongo said the club will take their time in coming up with ...

Lionel Messi left Arsenal spellbound as the Barcelona striker’s clinical double sealed a 2-0 last 16, first leg victory on Tuesday that put the Champions League holders firmly on course for the quarterfinals. Barca coach Luis Enrique joked this week that all he needed to do was shout ‘Abracadabra’ for Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez to deliver the kind of ...

Things have not been easy these past two weeks for Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh. And he can’t bottle up about it. The opinionated gaffer has told of how financially handicapped his preparations for next month’s Afcon 2017 qualifer against Egypt have been. The game is slated for March 25 in Kaduna, but things are not going well. “I am ...