Jack Grealish was among the scorers as Manchester City eased past Norwich City 5-0 on Saturday for their first win of the Premier League season.
The reigning champions fell to a 1-0 loss at Tottenham in their opening game but had no trouble in seeing off their newly promoted opponents at the Etihad Stadium.
British record signing Grealish scored in an unconventional manner 22 minutes into his home debut after Tim Krul s unfortunate own goal had given the hosts an early lead.
Aymeric Laporte added to the scoring in the second half and substitutes Raheem Sterling and Riyad Mahrez piled the misery on Norwich, who slipped to a second successive defeat on their return to the top tier.
City had won their previous three home league games against Norwich by an ag…
Geoff Hurst, Harry Kane and Gareth Southgate were among the many to pay tribute to Jimmy Greaves after the Tottenham, Chelsea and England great died at the age of 81.
World Cup winner Greaves, the leading goalscorer in the history of the English top flight, passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The clinical striker scored a staggering 357 goals in 516 First Division games and ended six seasons as the highest scorer.
Greaves is Spurs record marksman, having found the back of the net an incredible 266 times in 379 appearances, and is fourth on the list of England s leading scorers, with 44 from 57 matches – including a record six hat-tricks.
He won the World Cup on home soil in 1966, but sustained an injury and had to watch on as Geoff Hu…
Barcelona have accelerated a shake-up at Camp Nou by allowing technical secretary Ramon Planes to leave the club.
Planes, who was recently linked with a switch to Newcastle United, heads out of Barcelona within a fortnight of Xavi arriving as head coach.
He had a contract running through to the end of this season but will depart with immediate effect, having requested to be freed from his deal.
Barcelona said in a statement: FC Barcelona and Ramon Planes have reached an agreement to terminate the contract that bound both parties until 30 June 2022, at the request of the man who had until now been the club s technical secretary.
The club wishes to publicly express its gratitude to Ramon Planes for his commitment, professionalism and contributions throug…
A record-breaking defeat to Germany on matchday two leaves Portugal with work to do against France in a repeat of the previous European Championship final.
Portugal became the first defending champions to concede four goals at the Euros and now need at least a point to reach the last 16.
Top spot in Group F could still be theirs if they beat France, although Portugal s Euro 2016 final triumph was their only win against Les Bleus in 13 attempts.
Reflecting on the Germany match ahead of this tough test, coach Fernando Santos said: We all felt disappointed on our way back.
Everyone feels a sense of responsibility, and the following day the players reacted well.
They are experienced players and appreciate that sometimes you don t win. There are time…
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The Africa Cup of Nations is underway as football fans prepare for weeks of entertainment and unpredictability. International football is a chaotic part of the beautiful game and AFCON consistently lives up to that reputation and we re expecting that trend to continue. Today, we re going to take a look at what should be a really fun showdown between Nigeria and Egypt.
Nigeria
After only reaching the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, Nigeria have their eyes on Qatar later this year but that doesn t mean they should be underestimated in the AFCON. They finished third in 2019 after winning it all in 2013 but their inconsistency often leads to frustration for many of their supporters. Now, all they can hope for i…
Valerien Ismael kicked off his Watford reign in magnificent style with a 4-0 win over a hapless QPR at Vicarage Road.
The red-hot Hornets produced a swashbuckling first-half display which saw them score all their goals inside 43 minutes as Rangers showed why many have tipped them to struggle to stay up this season under Gareth Ainsworth.
The visitors, who were without first-choice centre-backs Jimmy Dunne and Jake Clarke-Salter due to injury, handed a full senior debut to Joe Gubbins alongside recent signing Morgan Fox and both struggled to contain a rampant home side.
It took just 33 seconds for the Hornets to open the scoring when Tom Dele-Bashiru slotted past Asmir Begovic after a sublime reverse pass from the impressive Imran Louza caught out the flat-footed …
Liverpool have become only the second club after Manchester United to score 2,000 goals in the Premier League.
The Reds hit the landmark figure in Saturday s meeting with Brighton and Hove Albion thanks to Mohamed Salah s 61st-minute penalty to put his side 2-0 ahead.
Jurgen Klopp s team are still some way off United in terms of all-time goals in the competition, however, with their fierce rivals boasting 2,173.
Arsenal are next on the list behind United and Liverpool with 1,997 goals, followed by Chelsea (1,953) and Tottenham (1,716).
20 goals for the 4th time in his 5 seasons with the Reds.
— Liverpool FC (@LFC)
Liverpool s highest scoring Premier League season came in 2013-14 when netting 101 times, making them one of only…
Erol Bulut welcomed the return of Cardiff’s confidence after the Bluebirds moved within seven points of the Championship play-offs by beating Huddersfield.
Famara Diedhiou’s first-half finish secured a 1-0 victory as Cardiff claimed three consecutive wins for the first time since September.
“The last four games, I’m happy,” Bulut said after taking a 10 points from those matches.
“We are performing – it was not easy after the Bristol City win on Saturday, a derby – and we have to think positive.
“If you win games you feel much better. The last games we get our confidence back and it looks much better.
“We have 10 games to play and hopefully we can show much more.
“But I don’t think about play-offs right now. We take …
Nottingham Forest have been docked four points for breaching Premier League financial rules.
The deduction drops Forest into the Premier League’s relegation zone, leaving them 18th with nine games to play.
The Premier League said Forest admitted breaching profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) by £34.5million above their permitted threshold of £61million.
Clubs are usually allowed maximum losses of £105million over a three-year assessment period but this is reduced by £22million per season for any seasons within the period spent in the Championship.
The commission which imposed the sanction on Forest praised the club for their “exceptional co-operation” in their dealings with the Premier League on this issue.
The commission noted F…
Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish was left scratching his head by the lack of interest in midfielder Eberechi Eze during the transfer window.
Eze, who joined Crystal Palace from Queens Park Rangers in 2020, has attracted plenty of interest for his performances with the Eagles over the years.
The 26-year-old got his tally up and running for the new Premier League season on Sunday, netting the equaliser in Palace s 1-1 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Last season, Eze completed more dribbles (69) and created more chances (54) than anyone else in the Eagles squad, also scoring 11 goals in 27 league appearances.
But another one of Palace s top performers last term, Michael Olise, sealed a £50million move to Bayern Munich.
Parish, however,…