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Benzema hits hat-trick in Madrid rout, Atletico, Villarreal win

Madrid (AFP) – Karim Benzema scored a stunning hat-trick in a seven-minute salvo as Real Madrid thumped Real Valladolid 6-0 on Sunday in La...

Newcastle up to third after beating Man Utd, West Ham out of bottom three

London (AFP) – Newcastle avenged their League Cup final loss against Manchester United as Joe Willock and Callum Wilson clinched a 2-0 win that...

France survive Ireland scare, Netherlands ease past Gibraltar

Paris (AFP) – France held on to beat Ireland 1-0 in Dublin on Monday to win their second Euro 2024 qualifier, while the Netherlands eased...

Mbappé delivers for France as captain; Lukaku nets hat trick

Kylian Mbappé delivered for France again, this time wearing the captain’s armband. Leading a new era for Les Bleus, there was something very familiar about...

‘Unbelievable’ Leverkusen shock Bayern to keep Dortmund top

Berlin (AFP) – Argentina's World Cup winner Exequiel Palacios struck twice from the spot as Bayer Leverkusen blew the Bundesliga title race wide open with...

Isak fires Newcastle to within sight of Premier League top four

Nottingham (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Alexander Isak said Newcastle believe they will seal a place in next season's Champions League after the Swede scored twice,...

World Cup 2026 to feature 12 groups of four teams

Kigali (AFP) – The expanded 2026 men's World Cup in North America will start with 12 groups of four teams, a change from the original...

Haaland’s five-goal haul a warning to Man City’s Champions League rivals

Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Manchester City are into the Champions League quarter-finals for a sixth consecutive season, but Erling Haaland's five-goal haul in a...

Ref corruption case is Spanish football’s worst ever moment – La Liga president

arcelona (AFP) – Spanish football is enduring its worst ever moment because of the refereeing corruption case involving Barcelona, La Liga president Javier Tebas said...

Salah misses penalty as Bournemouth shock Liverpool

Bournemouth (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Jurgen Klopp admitted Liverpool's top four bid had taken a "big knock" after Mohamed Salah missed a penalty in their...

Barcelona charged with corruption in referee affair

Barcelona (AFP) – Spanish prosecutors on Friday charged Barcelona with corruption over payments the club made to a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee through...

BBC presenter Lineker pulled from air over ‘1930s Germany’ post on UK migrant policy

Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off air by the BBC after his comments on Britain's migration policy sparked a furious...

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