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• Brighton equaliser against West Ham leaves MOTD pundits 'frustrated'

  08-12-2025 00:58 via bbc.com
  Match of the Day's Thomas Hitzlsperger and Shay Given dissect Georginio Rutter's late equaliser for Brighton in their 1-1 draw with West Ham, and share a number of "frustrations" that it was allowed to stand.
  
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• Unai Emery aims to craft ‘a new era’ at Aston Villa on special return to Basel

  11-12-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  At the scene of one of his Europa League final triumphs, the manager is setting targets to achieve success with VillaFor Unai Emery, there was a welcome air of familiarity upon arrival at Basel’s St Jakob-Park on Wednesday. It was a return to Switzerland and the scene of his third Europa League triumph with Sevilla in 2016, when his side overcame Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool, 3-1.“This competition is so, so special for me,” the Aston Villa manager said. “We won her
  
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• ‘Charge out like Zaire in 74’: how footballers really train for set pieces

  11-12-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  I’ve spent too many wet and windy Friday afternoons preparing set-piece routines and it’s not a pretty sight By Nutmeg magazineSet pieces, eh, those brief but frequent interludes that sporadically pockmark our weekly sacrament, filling our heads with daydreams and fantasies of intricately worked ruses or 30-yard thunderbolts. Quite often the unintentional birth child of an ugly hacked clearance or theatrical swan dive, they ordinarily result in nothing more than a rudimentary blemish
  
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• Championship roundup: Boro close gap at top after Coventry held by 10-man Preston

  11-12-2025 08:19 via theguardian.com
  Lampard tells Coventry players to stay ‘level-headed’Boro win at Charlton; Millwall denied by late own goalFrank Lampard insisted the title race was never over after his Coventry side were frustrated in a 1-1 draw at 10-man Preston as their Championship lead was reduced to five points.After Andrew Hughes deflected Jack Rudoni’s shot into his own net, it seemed as if Coventry would bounce back strongly from their 3-0 defeat by Ipswich at the weekend. But despite that, and the ma
  
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• Real Madrid show fight but another setback leaves Xabi Alonso’s future on knife-edge | Sid Lowe

  11-12-2025 00:53 via theguardian.com
  The hosts battled against Manchester City but a second successive home defeat pushes manager towards exitOn the night they were going to sack him, Xabi Alonso watched his team rise against their fate and perhaps his, but fall again. He listened to the fans whistle and the final whistle, embraced the man who had been his mentor and then, defeated for the second time in four days here, disappeared straight down the Bernabéu tunnel without looking back. Real Madrid had taken the game to Manc
  
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• Champions League: Mourinho’s Benfica swat aside Napoli while PSG draw blank

  10-12-2025 23:38 via theguardian.com
  Ajax win 4-2 at Qarabag; Juventus edge out PafosCopenhagen stun Villarreal; Bodø/Glimt hold DortmundBenfica’s Richard Ríos scored one goal and set up another to seal a vital 2-0 victory against Napoli on Wednesday, boosting the Portuguese side’s hopes of reaching the Champions League knockout stage.The result reignited Benfica’s European campaign, clinching a second consecutive win after a poor start and lifting them to six points and up to 25th place, just one po
  
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• OL Lyonnes show their WCL credentials and outclass Manchester United

  10-12-2025 23:15 via theguardian.com
  Marc Skinner, the Manchester United manager, defended his decision to make five changes after his team were outplayed in the Champions League.Melchie Dumornay’s two sumptuous late goals produced a margin of victory that was no less than OL Lyonnes deserved when United failed to lay a glove on their opponents. Continue reading...
  
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• Grimaldo’s late strike for Leverkusen denies Newcastle comeback victory

  10-12-2025 23:09 via theguardian.com
  Eighty-eight minutes had passed and Newcastle fans were already in party mode when Alejandro Grimaldo collected Ibrahim Maza’s pass and concluded a move he had initiated courtesy of a glorious run and dummy.As the Spain left wing-back’s shot slid beneath Aaron Ramsdale’s body and his Bayer Leverkusen teammates celebrated an arguably deserved equaliser, North Rhine-Westphalia suddenly felt a much colder place for Eddie Howe’s players. Continue reading...
  
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• Haaland seals Manchester City win at Real Madrid to leave Alonso on brink

  10-12-2025 23:05 via theguardian.com
  For Xabi Alonso, the slide towards the abyss has looked sudden from the outside. Everything was fine at the beginning of November, results for Real Madrid excellent. Since when precious little has gone his way. The manager desperately needed something here. When this latest game eluded him, it was easy to fear the worst. Time is not a commodity afforded to men in his position.Alonso has now won twice in eight matches in all competitions and the pain was deep, the frustration given an extra twist
  
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• Chelsea bounce back and hit Roma for six in Women’s Champions League rout

  10-12-2025 23:03 via theguardian.com
  The Chelsea captain, Millie Bright, had dismissed any suggestions that the team were in crisis after a first league defeat in 34 games, and six goals in a comprehensive victory against Roma in their penultimate game of the Champions League group phase put those thoughts to bed.An own goal broke the fight of Roma early on, with further goals from Wieke Kaptein, Johanna Rytting Kaneryd, Sjoeke Nüsken, Maika Hamano and Lucy Bronze. Continue reading...
  
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• Madueke and Martinelli magic makes it perfect six for Arsenal at Club Brugge

  10-12-2025 22:57 via theguardian.com
  This was an evening of notable milestones for Arsenal and Gabriel Martinelli, although there was no smile broader than Noni Madueke’s. The England forward was subjected to a ridiculous online petition that opposed his move across London from Chelsea in the summer. But on a rare appearance on the right flank as Bukayo Saka was given a welcome rest, Madueke scored a fantastic individual goal before adding a second after half-time to set up a comfortable victory for Mikel Arteta’s side.
  
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• LGBTQ+ events to go ahead at World Cup game despite Egypt and Iran objections

  10-12-2025 17:38 via theguardian.com
  Organisers confirm ‘Pride Match’ activities will take placeSeattle to host Egypt v Iran in Group G next summerPlans to celebrate LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms in Seattle during the World Cup next summer will continue despite objections from the Egyptian and Iranian football federations over the “Pride Match” due to take place in the city.Seattle organisers have confirmed that they are “moving forward as planned” with Pride activities in the city when Egypt face I
  
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• Liverpool win at Inter while Mo Salah lifts weights alone | Football Weekly

  10-12-2025 16:34 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Lars Sivertsen as a Salah-less Liverpool win in Inter, Chelsea lose to Atalanta and Spurs beat Slavia Prague. On the podcast today: Liverpool win in Milan against Inter. They needed a result, any result – and they got it thanks to Alessandro Bastoni pulling Florian Wirtz’s shirt. Elsewhere, Chelsea lose in Bergamo – since we asked if anyone should start taking them seriously they’ve given us a categoric respons
  
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• Paul Pogba invests in Saudi Arabian camel racing team and aims to ‘elevate the sport’

  10-12-2025 13:39 via theguardian.com
  Footballer hopes to own world’s most expensive camel‘I’ve watched my fair share of races on YouTube,’ he saysIt is known as the sport of the sheikhs, with thousands of fans packing desert tracks to watch robot jockeys compete for huge prizes. Now professional camel racing has a new high-profile investor: Paul Pogba.The Monaco midfielder said he had become a shareholder in the Saudi Arabia-based Al Haboob, the world’s first professional camel racing team competing ac
  
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• Liverpool players will not try to influence Salah on his future, says Szoboszlai

  10-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘It’s going to be the club’s and his decision,’ midfielder saysCurtis Jones insists squad is firmly behind Arne SlotDominik Szoboszlai has said the Liverpool dressing room will have no influence over Mohamed Salah’s next move because only the player and the club can decide how their standoff ends.Salah missed Liverpool’s valuable Champions League win at Inter on Tuesday having been left out of Arne Slot’s squad in response to his highly critical intervie
  
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• ‘Headphones Norm’: Charlton turn up volume to remember fan who touched lives

  10-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Tributes were paid at the Valley to a familiar face who began watching games in 1968 and became an inspirationThe sudden death of the Charlton Athletic supporter Norman Barker has touched countless lives far beyond the club’s south-east London home. The Addicks’ Championship match against Portsmouth on Saturday was halted on 12 minutes after fans alerted the officials to a medical emergency in the North Stand. The players were taken down the tunnel and the game was later abandoned. B
  
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• ‘A different type of game’: USMNT veterans on how to handle World Cup pressure

  10-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  In 2010 and 2022, the US faced heightened emotions from the lead-in to the tournament itself. As hosts next year, little will changeThe draw is done. The schedule is set. For the US men’s national team, all that’s left, aside from playing the games, are the emotional highs and lows. After the draw, US head coach Mauricio Pochettino referenced a “competitive stress” factor triggered by the World Cup. He said the friendlies against Belgium and Portugal in March are intended
  
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• The Knowledge | Which football clubs have pictures of people on their badges?

  10-12-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Plus: players popping up randomly on TV, triple-doubles in names and which match featured the most Ballon d’Or winners?Mail us with your questions and answers“While scanning the Champions League fixtures, I noticed that Pafos FC of Cyprus have a person’s face on their badge (Cypriot freedom fighter Evagoras Pallikarides),” writes Paul Savage. “Other than faces of legendary characters (Ajax), do any other badges have people on them?”This was one of the more pop
  
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• ‘Hating soccer is more American than apple pie’: the World Cup nobody wanted the US to host

  10-12-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Glitzy draws, OJ-era chaos, grass laid over AstroTurf and a host nation that barely cared – the 1994 World Cup arrived amid suspicion and slapstick. Yet it became a watershed that would alter US sport and global football politics alike“The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and telev
  
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• Fabio Cannavaro: ‘Uzbeks are tough, never give up. Playing them is a pain in the arse’

  10-12-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  In an exclusive interview, the former World Cup winner talks about taking Uzbekistan to the 2026 World Cup and a project close to his heart in NaplesUzbekistan may have made history by qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in the country’s 34 years of independence in June after losing only once in 15 qualifiers. But they then had a problem: Timur Kapadze stepped down and they needed a head coach for next year’s tournament.They turned to Fabio Cannavaro, Italy’s 2006 W
  
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• England scout for World Cup camps amid fears of losing preferred base to Netherlands

  10-12-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Kansas City plan for US training base in doubtFA exploring alternative options on east coastThe Football Association has sent operational staff to the US this week to scout for World Cup ­training camps amid concerns that ­England may lose their preferred site to the Netherlands.Thomas Tuchel had cleared an FA plan for England to be based in ­Kansas after a pre-tournament ­training camp in Fort Lauderdale, but after the draw last week there are concerns that the Netherl
  
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• Big result for Slot and Liverpool with no Salah in Milan

  10-12-2025 01:19 via bbc.com
  Liverpool win away in the Champions League without Mohamed Salah for the first time since 2009, in a big night for boss Arne Slot.
  
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• Would Liverpool have got 'soft' penalty in Premier League?

  10-12-2025 01:06 via bbc.com
  Liverpool's late winner at Inter Milan in the Champions League came from a "soft" penalty decision, but would it have been given in the Premier League?
  
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• Fans angry after cup game called off after kick-off time

  10-12-2025 00:31 via bbc.com
  Supporters were left angry after Tuesday's KDM Evolution Trophy match between Queen of the South and Dunfermline Athletic was postponed 10 minutes after the match was due to kick off.
  
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• Son, Simons and mini Spurs revival lift Frank's spirits

  10-12-2025 00:29 via bbc.com
  Son Heung-min's emotional return sets the tone for another significant step forward for Spurs and head coach Thomas Frank, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.
  
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• Gabriel, 15, among crop aiming to preserve 87-year Man Utd record

  10-12-2025 00:17 via bbc.com
  BBC Sport's Simon Stone checks in on the progress of the young players who will be tasked with preserving a proud 87-year-old record at Manchester United.
  
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• Man Utd and Arsenal progress in Champions League - what do Chelsea need?

  10-12-2025 00:09 via bbc.com
  BBC Sport assesses how Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd have fared so far in this season's Women's Champions League with two league phase rounds remaining.
  
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• Beth Mead fires Arsenal past Twente to book place in WCL knockout stage

  09-12-2025 22:58 via theguardian.com
  Arsenal qualified for the Champions League knockout phase after a narrow but industrious victory at Meadow Park, with Beth Mead’s early finish enough to overcome Twente.Arsenal are guaranteed to come inside the top 12 of the 18-team league phase and may still have a chance to reach the top four and go straight into the quarter-finals depending on results on Wednesday and if they can then win their last game in Belgium against Leuven next week. Continue reading...
  
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• Salah top priority for Saudi league - Wednesday's gossip

  09-12-2025 22:52 via bbc.com
  Saudi Arabia keen to bring Mohamed Salah to league in January, Antoine Semenyo prefers Liverpool move but Arsenal and Manchester City also interested.
  
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• 'A really dangerous circle' - Arteta on Arsenal injuries

  09-12-2025 22:15 via bbc.com
  Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta say the injuries his squad are suffering this season are not a result of overtraining.
  
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