MADRID, May 11 ― Barcelona may have navigated their way past Real Madrid and Villarreal this week but their first ever unbeaten La Liga season is not quite over the line yet. Ernesto Valverde's side visit Levante on Sunday, whose lowly position of 16th betrays a late surge in form, which has included four ...

  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...

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 ...

KIEV (Ukraine), May 27 — Gareth Bale came off the bench to score twice, w88 malaysia including one of the all-time great goals in a Champions League final, as Real Madrid beat Liverpool 3-1 in Kiev yesterday to take the trophy for the third year running. Bale’s jaw-dropping overhead kick in the 64th minute ...

MADRID, May 18 — La Liga’s winners and losers are settled and the European qualification spots decided but for a collection of star players the final weekend of the season w88 will be anything but a dead rubber. Here, we look at five talking points ahead of the last weekend in La Liga: Zinedine Zidane would...

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...

  Danny Welbeck has learned to deflect criticism and is no longer overly influenced by those who wonder whether he really belongs at the highest level of club and international football. The Arsenal and England forward confounded the doubters by scoring twice w88 casino in his club’s 3-2 home win...

  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...

  He moved from Malaysia to Papua New Guinea in 1985, and became a naturalised citizen of his adoptive country. Though "initially involved" in rugby league, he subsequently became an association football player, coach and referee, and then a senior official. While "administering...

BAKU, April 29 — Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his first win of 2018 today and took over as leader of the title race when he triumphed in a dramatic, crash-strewn Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The 33-year-old Briton, who had struggled for outright pace, managed to steer his Mercedes w88 through a chaot...

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...

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Even before Tuesday's Champions League exit at the hands of Liverpool, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola acknowledged his team were not ready to win Europe's elite club trophy. Now the Spaniard's task, once the Premier League title is formally secured, w88 will be to i...

LYON, May 16 — Marseille star Dimitri Payet is determined to go down in history by beating Atletico Madrid in today's Europa League final as the club celebrates a w88 quarter of a century since their greatest moment. They became the first, and to date only, French club to win the Champions League by beating ...

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...

PARIS, May 31 — Caroline Wozniacki’s French Open record does not strike fear into opponents but the Dane could be the dangerwoman at this year’s French Open, according to former champion Mats Wilander. The 27-year-old Dane was in imperious form yesterday, thrashing Georgina Garcia Perez in 51 minutes ...

LIVERPOOL, May 22 — The last time Liverpool faced the might of Real Madrid, then w88 manager BrendanRodgers named a second-string side so impossible did it seem that England’s most successful club on the European stage could compete with the self-proclaimed “kings of Europe”. Madr...

  LONDON, May 7 — Chelsea manager Antonio Conte said their 1-0 win over Liverpool yesterday gave him hope of a top-four Premier league finish that he did not think was possible a month w88 live ago. Olivier Giroud’s first-half header at Stamford Bridge saw Chelsea close the gap on fourth-placed London...

  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...

  LONDON, April 26 — Stoke City will hope that the Liverpool they w88 face on Saturday is the team that wobbled alarmingly in the final 10 minutes of their Champions League semi-final against AS Roma, not the one that dismantled the Italians over the previous 80.Nothing is ever clear with Jurgen Klopp'...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

MONTE CARLO, April 16 — Former world number one Novak Djokovic showed signs of a return to form with a 6-0, 6-1 thrashing of fellow Serb Dusan Lajovic in the Monte Carlo Masters first round today. It was an impressive performance from the 30-year-old in his first match since splitting w88 from coach Andre Agassi ...

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...

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 ...

  BERLIN, April 10 — Bayern Munich’s David Alaba and Arturo Vidal have been ruled out of their Champions League quarter-final second leg against Sevilla tomorrow as the Germans eye a semi-final spot after their 2-1 first leg victory. Versatile fullback Alaba has missed their last two matches w88 with ...