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Under-fire Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is in pressing need of a positive outcome as his side prepare to welcome Premier League leaders Manchester United to the Emirates Stadium this Sunday. Fourth-place Arsenal are only three points below United, but Wenger’s methods have once again fallen under scrutiny following the London club’s abject 3-2 home defeat by Olympiakos in the Champions ...

The 2015 Barclays Cup semifinals have been brought forward by a week to October 11 in Lusaka. This year’s Barclays Cup semifinals were earlier scheduled for October 17. The Football Association of Zambia said the date has been moved because of the 2016 African Nations Championship (Chan) final round, first leg qualifier to be played on October 17. Zambia will ...

Wales captain Sam Warburton said the 23-13 World Cup win over Fiji was one of the hardest games of his career. The victory in Cardiff put Wales top of Group A and means they will reach the quarter-finals if England lose to Australia on Saturday. Scrum-half Gareth Davies and hooker Scott Baldwin scored tries, with fly-half Dan Biggar adding 13 ...

Britain’s Johanna Konta was beaten 6-4 3-6 7-5 by former world number one Venus Williams in the quarter-finals of the Wuhan Open. Konta, who won 21 of her previous 22 matches and beat world number two Simona Halep on Wednesday, served for a place in the last four in the decider. However American Williams, 35, won four games on the ...

George Lwandamina says midfielder Clatous Chama is not in his immediate Zambia plans, despite enjoying good form at Zesco United. Chama, who is also coached by Lwandamina at Zesco, has been instrumental in the defending Faz Super League champions’ quest to defend their title with numerous assists and has also scored five goals so far this season. Furthermore, Zambia’s 2016 ...

Cristiano Ronaldo equalled Raul as Real Madrid’s all-time top scorer when he netted both goals in a 2-0 win at Swedish side Malmo in Champions League Group A on Wednesday. Former Spain striker Raul, now with New York Cosmos, hit 323 goals in 741 appearances for Real between 1994 and 2010, while Ronaldo has needed a mere 308 games to ...

Britain’s Johanna Konta staged a superb fightback to beat world number two Simona Halep 6-3 3-6 7-5 and reach the quarter-finals of the Wuhan Open. After winning the first set, Konta looked set for defeat as her Romanian opponent won the second and was 5-1 up in the decisive third. However Halep had no answer as Konta fought back to ...

Two late goals in two minutes from Sergi Roberto and Luis Suarez gave reigning champions Barcelona a dramatic 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on Tuesday.Trailing 1-0 at the Nou Camp with 10 minutes to go, Sergi poked in a rebound from close range, and moments later Suarez produced a fine finish for the winner, sweeping home ...

Arsenal and Chelsea had a Champions League night to forget on Tuesday as a Robert Lewandowski hat-trick helped Bayern Munich crush Dinamo Zagreb. Champions Barcelona, missing injured icon Lionel Messi, followed up their opening Group E draw at Roma with a stirring come-from-behind 2-1 win at Bayer Leverkusen. The Germans appeared to have the three points in the bag after ...

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has been banned from football for life. The 72-year-old Trinidadian is the former head of Caribbean and North and Central American football (Concacaf), but quit Fifa in 2011. He is fighting extradition to the US on corruption charges and denies accepting millions of dollars in bribes. Warner committed “many and various acts of misconduct continuously ...