Madrid, Jan 18 (IANS) Atletico Madrid remain top of Spain’s BBVA Primera Liga while both Real Madrid and FC Barcelona enjoyed easy wins on Sunday. Atletico produced another commanding defensive performance against Las Palmas and opened the scoring through left back Felipe Luis after 17 minutes, Xinhua reported. Las Palmas struggled to break Atletico down […]
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Mumbai have formidable squad in HIL: coach Stacy
Mumbai, Jan 18 (IANS) Hockey India League (HIL) franchise Dabang Mumbai Hockey Club’s newly-appointed head coach Jay Stacy said the side is keen to start their campaign with a win over Kalinga Lancers in Bhubaneswar later this week. The team would hope to revive their fortunes to make up for the disappointments of 2015 in […]
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Villarreal draw while Sevilla's good form continues
Villarreal (Spain), Jan 17 (IANS) Villarreal were unable to tighten their grip on fourth place in the La Liga as they were held to a 0-0 draw by Real Betis. Betis travelled to the El Madrigal Stadium on Saturday without a win since November and after sacking coach Pepe Mel in midweek but proved to […]
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Former Chelsea star tells Pato to choose Arsenal over Chelsea
Former Chelsea star Juliano Belletti has advised Brazilian striker Alexandre Pato to pick Arsenal over his rumored next club Chelsea. According to ESPN Brasil, Pato is tipped to join Chelsea in next couple of days, however, Belletti believes Pato will be more suited to either Spanish La Liga or Arsenal among the Premier League clubs. […]
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Arsenal look to sign player who was personally scouted by Jose Mourinho
Arsene Wenger is looking to sign Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko who is also a target for Everton. Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo claim that Arsenal has lodged an official inquiry for the player. Yarmolenko has been at Ukranian side Dynamo Kyiv from 2007 and is also a regular Ukranian international. Jose Mourinho personally scouted him […]
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Wenger looking to sign Leicester duo
Arsene Wenger is looking to make 2 new additions to his backroom staff by signing Leicester’s head of technical scouting Ben Wrigglesworth and fellow scout Steve Walsh. According to the report in The Daily Mail Arsenal plan to overhaul their recruitment system and Wenger has identified these two men as his main targets. Arsene Wenger […]
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Preview: La Liga top three in Sunday action
Madrid, Jan 16 (IANS) The top three football sides in Spain’s La Liga all play their respective matches on Sunday in the 20th round of games of the season. Matchday 20 is a repeat of the first day of the campaign and league leaders Atletico Madrid will no doubt settle for a repeat of the […]
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China to play Chinese Taipei in TT Team Championships
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 16 (IANS) Both China’s men’s and women’s teams will face Chinese Taipei in the upcoming World Team Table Tennis Championships, according to the group stage draw made here on Saturday. The 24 men’s and women’s championship division teams were drawn into four groups of six teams for the first stage of the […]
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Arsenal to capitalise on Real Madrid transfer ban as they eye former Madrid star
Arsenal could move for former Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata in the next transfer window reports The Sun. Morata joined Juventus from Real Madrid in 2014 but the La Liga club inserted a buy-back clause in his contract which would’ve allowed them to re-sign him for £22million last summer or £26million this summer. Now that […]
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Australian Open 2016: Djokovic, Serena top seeds
Melbourne, Jan 14 (IANS) Defending champions and world No. 1 ranked Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams top the Australian Open seedings lists, which follow rankings ahead of the first Grand Slam tournament of 2016. Four-time finalist Andy Murray was seeded No. 2, 17-time major winner Roger Federer was No. 3 and 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka […]