ROME, May 2 — Liverpool are on the brink of a return to the Champions League final as they lead Roma going into today’s semi-final second leg amid tight security with thousands of Reds w88 fans flooding into the Italian capital. The five-time winners have a 5-2 advantage in a clash overshadowed by s...

MANCHESTER, April 16 ― Manchester City are English champions for a fifth time after Manchester United's shock 1-0 home defeat to West Brom handed their local rivals an unexpected early title party. City put themselves in position to win the league by bouncing back from a bitterly disappointing week to ease past To...

  MADRID, April 25 — Arsenal’s Europa League semi-final against Atletico Madrid tomorrow will be a clash of styles as stark as they come but Arsene Wenger and Diego Simeone are anything but w88 polar opposites. Arsenal will flood forward at Emirates Stadium while Atletico will sit back; Arsenal will d...

MOSCOW, June 20 ― Senegal's discipline and faith in themselves as a new generation of African talent were key to their 2-1 win over Poland yesterday, said coach Aliou Cisse, refusing to accept the result was all down to errors by the Group H seeds. Neither side's goalkeeper was troubled for much of m88 the 90...

  DOHA, April 24 ― Italian club and Champions League semi-finalists Roma w88 announced yesterday their new shirt sponsors will be Qatar Airways in a three-year deal, described as the largest the club has ever signed. The deal was made public just a day before one of Roma's biggest games for decades, the firs...

  MILAN, April 18 — Mauro Icardi scored his 25th goal of the Serie A campaign to help Inter Milan ease past Cagliari 4-0 to move third in Serie A yesterday, putting the pressure on Roman rivals Lazio and Roma in the battle for Champions League places. Inter had not scored or won in their last three w88 game...

KIEV, May 24 — Real Madrid fans have returned 1,000 tickets for Saturday’s Champions League final against Liverpool as spiralling accommodation and travel costs deter supporters from travelling w88 to Kiev. Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said the tickets could not be resold to Liverpool fans for security...

REPINO, June 14 — England full back Kieran Trippier is hoping his familiarity with Tottenham team mate Harry Kane — and his deadly crossing ability — can deliver World Cup success for England. The 27-year-old attacking right back is expected to start England’s opening Group G game against Tunisi...

PARIS, May 31 — Two-time champion Maria Sharapova edged closer to a possible French Open last-16 duel with old rival Serena Williams today as top seed Simona Halep and 2016 winner Garbine Muguruza breezed into the third round. Sharapova, the 2012 and 2014 champion in Paris, needed w88 five match points to see off...

  LONDON, May 10 — Jose Mourinho says he wants Paul Pogba to stay at Manchester United as fresh reports linked the midfielder w88 with a move away from Old Trafford, this time to French giants Paris Saint-Germain. The Frenchman, 25, has endured a difficult season at Old Trafford, with Mourinho leaving him o...

  BERLIN, July 3 — Germany coach Joachim Loew will stay in his post to lead a national team overhaul after the current world champions crashed out in the group stage at the mansion88 World Cup in Russia, the German Football Federation (DFB) said today. Loew’s contract runs until 2022, having been exte...

  SINGAPORE, May 23 — Olympic swimming champion Joseph Schooling loves his black chye tow kueh (fried carrot cake), and his favourite place for it is Bee Bee Carrot Cake at w88 Marine Terrace Market and Hawker Centre. So much so the hawker stall in the Marine Parade neighbourhood saw sales soar af...

LONDON, July 12 ― American John Isner mansion88 reached his first Grand Slam semi-final as he beat Canadian Milos Raonic 6-7(5) 7-6(7) 6-4 6-3 in a clash of the giants at Wimbledon yesterday. The 33-year-old saved a set point in the second set tiebreak to avoid going two sets down and then took control of the match to ...

LONDON, July 13 — Jelena Ostapenko blamed a ‘slow’ Centre Court after her power game misfired against Germany’s Angelique Kerber yesterday. The 21-year-old had w88 not dropped a set on her way to becoming the first Latvian woman to reach the Wimbledon semis, but self-destructed against Kerber in...

SAINT PETERSBURG, July 11 — Belgium coach Roberto Martinez said luck was against his side as they fell short against France in the World Cup semi-final today, losing 1-0 in Saint Petersburg as the ‘golden generation’ saw another chance slip away. A Samuel Umtiti header from a mansion88 corner was the ...

  MADRID, July 5 ― Cristiano Ronaldo has received an offer to leave Real Madrid and join Italian champions Juventus, a source close to the player told Reuters yesterday. Ronaldo, m88bet who joined Real from Manchester United in 2008 for a then world record £80 million (RM429 million), is the Spanish club�...

ROSTOV-ON-DON (Russia), July 3 — Keisuke Honda said his country had a blueprint for the future despite being knocked out of the World Cup in painful m88 fashion by Belgium today. Akira Nishino’s side had been 2-0 up in Rostov-on-Don thanks to goals from Genki Haraguchi and Takashi Inui, and were seemingly h...

MOSCOW, July 2 — Goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev was the hero as Russia beat 2010 winners Spain on penalties to set up a World Cup quarter-final against Croatia, who survived link m88 their own spot-kick drama yesterday. Fernando Hierro's Spain totally dominated the match at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, hogging 74 p...

SAMARA, June 28 — Colombia’s Yerry Mina thumped home a second-half header to secure a dramatic 1-0 victory over Senegal today that catapulted the South Americans into the World Cup last 16 and dumped their African opponents out of tournament. Senegal had only needed a point in their final Group H game to re...

MOSCOW, June 27 — The goals finally dried up at this thrilling World Cup yesterday when a flat France and dull Denmark played a mutually beneficial 0-0 draw at the Luzhniki mansion88 Stadium which allowed the French to finish top of Group C and the Danes to qualify in second spot. Thirty-six games in Russia had f...

VOLGOGRAD, June 25 — Essam El Hadary, the oldest player ever to appear at a World Cup, marked his record achievement with one outstanding penalty save for Egypt but was powerless to stop a second in a 2-1 defeat by Saudi Arabia today. The 45-year-old mansion88 goalkeeper flew to his right to make a spectacular st...

  LONDON, June 21 ― Winning athletes love to bite their medals and smile for the cameras as they hold their trophies aloft, but their teeth may actually be holding them back. Around half of Britain’s elite sports men and women have dental problems bad enough to affect their performance, according to a study...

MOSCOW, June 20 — Banned former Fifa president Sepp Blatter attended a World Cup match in Moscow today and said the football tournament was a bit like “my World Cup” because of the warm welcome he had received in Russia. Blatter, who led Fifa for 17 years, is serving a six-year ban from “all foo...

SOCHI, June 12 — Brazil attracted an army of excited youngsters — including one who managed to get onto the pitch for a selfie — as they held their first training session on Russian soil ahead of the w88 World Cup today. Around 5,000 locals turned out to watch the relaxed session at the Yug-Sport Stad...

  VOLGOGRAD, June 18 — England open their World Cup campaign today seeking to banish memories of dismal performances in recent tournaments as Belgium’s “Golden Generation” kick off as dark-horse challengers. England, winners on football’s biggest stage more than half a century ago, m...

  MOSCOW, June 18 — Mexico stunned World Cup holders Germany yesterday, inflicting a 1-0 defeat that throws the Germans' title defence into disarray as Neymar's Brazil stuttered to a draw against Switzerland. The outstanding Hirving Lozano smashed home the Mexican winner in the 35th minute at Mo...

LONDON, June 7 — Amazon has secured the rights to show English Premier League football matches for the first time in further evidence of their financial might in the bidding wars for sports events, the league said today. The giant online retailer will show 20 Premier League matches a w88 season for three years, s...

PARIS, June 6 — World number 72 Marco Cecchinato said he had “amazed” w88 himself by becoming the first Italian man in 40 years to reach a Grand Slam semi-final with a breathtaking 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 1-6, 7-6 (13/11) French Open victory over 12-time major winner Novak Djokovic yesterday. Cecchinato, who ...

OAKLAND, June 3 — Cleveland Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith confessed to cluelessness yesterday in his botched rebound play in the NBA Finals opener, promising a tighter focus in Sunday’s link w88 crucial second game. Smith squandered a final chance at a regulation-time Cleveland victory in a game Golden State w...