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, 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...

  MILAN, May 14 — Juventus wrapped up their seventh successive Serie A title, and their fourth league and cup double in a row yesterday with a pragmatic 0-0 draw away to AS Roma in the style that has become their hallmark under Massimiliano Allegri. Rivals Napoli, the neutrals’ favourites thanks to th...

  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 ...

  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...

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...

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 ...

  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, 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...

  MUNICH, April 24 — Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes will decide at the last minute if full back David Alaba and midfielder Corentin Tolisso can play in tomorrow’s Champions League semi-final first leg at home against Real Madrid, he said today. The German champions, itching for revenge after w88 la...

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 — West Bromwich Albion caretaker manager Darren Moore believes the club have captured the hearts of the nation with their ongoing battle to avoid relegation from w88 malaysia the Premier League. Moore took charge of the club last month with West Brom in a dire situation, well adrift at the bottom of...

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...

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 ...

  LIVERPOOL, April 13 ― Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp hopes his side's Jekyll and Hyde nature is a thing of the past as they aim to avoid a European hangover at home to Bournemouth tomorrow. Victory will take Klopp's men another step closer to sealing a return to the Champions League next w88 season j...

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...

  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...

SOWETO, May 17 — Careless defending gifted European giants Barcelona two goals as they defeated South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns 3-1 yesterday in a friendly w88 bet game to honour the late Nelson Mandela.Ousmane Dembele, Luis Suarez and Andre Gomes scored for the Spanish league and cup winners before Sib...

ROME, May 9 — AC Milan manager Gennaro Gattuso compared today’s Italian Cup clash with holders Juventus to “the World Cup final”. Juventus — set to be crowned Serie A champions w88 for the seventh straight year — are bidding for a fourth consecutive domestic league and Cup double. Mi...

  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...

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 ...

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...

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...

  PARIS, May 30 — There were an Open-era record eight lucky losers in the men’s singles first round w88 at Roland Garros, as a spate of players withdrew injured following changes to the rules regarding prize money. The eight have produced some of the stories of the early stages of the 2018 French Open...

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 ...

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...

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...

  ROME, May 2 — Jurgen Klopp warned that Liverpool would not let off-field distractions take the focus off their dream of reaching the Champions League final when they face Roma today. Klopp's w88 side are on the brink of reaching the final for the first time since 2007 as they look to defend a three-g...

  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...