Manchester United are guaranteed to finish in the top four of the Premier League thanks to Everton s 1-0 win at West Ham on Sunday.

The Red Devils won 3-1 at Aston Villa earlier in the day, Bruno Fernandes, Mason Greenwood and Edinson Cavani securing all three points after Bertrand Traore s opener.

It was the 10th time this season United have recovered from conceding first to win, which marks a record in the Premier League.

Former United manager David Moyes then saw his West Ham side lose at home to his old club Everton courtesy of Dominic Calvert-Lewin s first-half strike.

That result means Ole Gunnar Solskjaer s side are now certain to finish in the top four in the table – and return to next season s Champions League – regardless of their results…

With all eyes from across Italy falling on the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday night, Roma and Juventus played out a 1-1 stalemate.

Rightfully billed as a season-defining affair for both of the Italian giants, the Wolves got off to a flying start here as Belgium international Romelu Lukaku tapped home from close range and recorded a 12th Serie A strike of the season.

However, although Daniele De Rossi’s men might have been sat in pole position to take a giant step towards a Champions League ticket, they were quickly pegged back just 16 minutes later as Gleison Bremer glanced his header home just after the half-hour mark.

With five of the other top eight sides in Serie A dropping points ahead of kick-off in Rome, both sides were desperate to make a heavyweight state…

Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann admits his side deserved to lose their Champions League quarter-final first leg against Villarreal on Wednesday.

Arnaut Danjuma scored the only goal of the game in the eighth minute, and only wasteful finishing prevented the hosts from taking a greater lead to Germany for next week s second leg.

The result marked the first time Bayern have failed to score in a Champions League game since February 2019 (0-0 v Liverpool), ending a run of 30 consecutive games in which they had scored at least once.

While Nagelsmann accepted Villarreal were deserving winners, he still believes his side have what it takes to turn it around in the reverse fixture.

We deserved to lose. We weren t good today. In the first half, we lacked p…

Real Madrid turned down a €100million bid from a Premier League club for Gareth Bale last year, according to the Spanish side s former president Ramon Calderon.

Bale hit out at Madrid in an explosive interview on Wednesday, accusing the LaLiga giants of making things very difficult for him to move away from the Santiago Bernabeu.

The Wales international was on the brink of joining Chinese Super League side Jiangsu Suning in July 2019, only for Madrid to pull the plug on a deal at the 11th hour.

And Calderon Madrid president between 2006 and 2009 has claimed an unnamed English club also stepped forward with a big offer for Bale 12 months ago.

I know in the last day of the transfer window last year there was an offer from the Premier League, he told ta…

Nick Pope was described as the world s best goalkeeper by Bruno Guimaraes after his 10th consecutive clean sheet helped Newcastle United put one foot in the EFL Cup final.

Pope recorded yet another shutout as Newcastle earned a 1-0 win in the first leg of their semi-final tie against Southampton on Tuesday, with Joelinton scoring a second-half winner before Saints had Duje Caleta-Car sent off.

While Newcastle dominated for long periods, Pope made two crucial saves to deny Che Adams when the game was goalless, the first an excellent one-on-one stop with his legs.

Pope has now kept 10 successive clean sheets across all competitions – a feat not managed by any other Premier League goalkeeper in records dating back to the start of the 2012-13 season.

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Harry Winks acknowledged his long-range wonder goal in Tottenham s Europa League victory over Ludogorets was unintentional.

The England midfielder scored Tottenham s third in a 4-0 victory on Thursday from 53.7 yards when he received possession from a throw and saw a long ball forward sail into the top-right corner of the net.

Winks looked surprised after he celebrated with his Tottenham team-mates and only two goals have been scored from a longer distance in the Europa League since 2009-10.

Jordi Gomez s goal for Omonia against PSV (61.2 yards) and Kemar Roofe s strike for Rangers versus Standard Liege (55.4 yards), both in October of this year, were further away from goal.

But after his spectacular effort from distance caught Ludogorets goalkeeper Plam…

Vincent Kompany lamented Bayern Munich s profligacy and urged his team to learn from their mistakes after their 1-0 loss to Aston Villa.

Jhon Duran s superb finish at Villa Park saw the hosts claim all three points in Wednesday s Champions League encounter.

It was just the second meeting between Villa and Bayern, with the first having come back in the 1982 European Cup final, which the English team won 1-0.

Bayern had their chances, though, having 17 shots, getting seven on target and mustering 1.42 expected goals (xG), with Emiliano Martinez making a string of fine stops late on.

We missed some big chances and they scored the chance. We ve got to take the learnings from this, said Kompany after suffering his first defeat as Bayern head coach.

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Poland and Germany will lock horns with each other in a friendly international match this week. The game between Fernando Santos’s side and Hansi Flick’s team will be held at Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw and is scheduled to kick off at 7:45pm UK time on Friday.

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Poland are a major force in European football and tend to qualify for the European championships quite regularly now. They have some major players, such as Wojciech Szczęsny, Jakub Kiwior, Jan Bednarek, Robert Lewandowski and Arkadiusz Milik. Poland reached the group stage of UEFA Euro 2012 and Euro 2020 and the quarter-finals at the 2016 European Championship.

Fernando Santos has been in charge of Poland since the end of t…

Chelsea boss Emma Hayes refused to step on England manager Sarina Wiegman’s toes when asked if Lauren James should return to the Lionesses’ starting line-up for Sunday’s World Cup final against Spain.

The 21-year-old Blues forward scored three goals and picked up the same number of assists before she was sent off in the Lionesses’ last-16 victory over Nigeria and given a two-match ban for stepping on the back of defender Michelle Alozie.

Having served her punishment during the quarter- and semi-finals, James is now available to reclaim her spot in Wiegman’s starting XI – but she remains in competition with replacement Ella Toone, who netted the Lionesses’ opener in their 3-1 last-four victory to eliminate co-hosts Australia.

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Kylian Mbappe says he is targeting Thierry Henry s France goalscoring record after scoring twice in Tuesday s 5-0 friendly thrashing of South Africa.

Mbappe was in fine form as the world champions dispatched the Bafana Bafana in Lille, bending home a superb opening goal on 23 minutes before winning and converting a 75th-minute penalty. 

With his first goal of the contest, Mbappe became the first player to net in five successive France matches (a total of nine goals) since Karim Benzema did so between November 2013 and June 2014 (he posted seven strikes).

The 23-year-old also added an assist during a fantastic display, teeing up Matteo Guendouzi for his first France goal at the death, meaning he also became the first player in the 21st century to record an ass…