Christian Eriksen scored twice as Tottenham came from behind to beat Premier League strugglers Sunderland 4-1 at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
A draw at Everton and a midweek defeat to Leicester City had dampened talk of a Spurs title tilt but Eriksen benefited from two touches of fortune to haunt Sunderland again while Mousa Dembele and Harry Kane also helped end the visitors mini-revival.
Separated by 14 spots prior to kick-off, 18th-placed Sunderland withstood long spells of Spurs pressure before Patrick van Aanholt scored for the second time this week to break the deadlock against the run of play 40 minutes in.
Spurs were level before half-time, however, as Lee Cattermole failed to clear Eriksen s effort on the line. The Denmark international has now s…
Standing in the way of title holders America and another CONCACAF Champions League final are Santos Laguna as the Mexican rivals prepare to go head-to-head in the final four.
Santos welcome six-time winners America to Estadio Corona for the opening leg of their semi-final tie on Wednesday.
America head to Torreon having dispatched MLS side Seattle Sounders 5-3 on aggregate in the quarter-finals.
The Liga MX giants also overcame Chivas Guadalajara in Sunday s Clasico Nacional.
But while two-time runners-up Santos are wary of an America team boasting Oribe Peralta, Carlos Quintero and Michael Arroyo who have scored 10 goals between them in the Champions League midfielder Diego Gonzalez is bullish about their chances.
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Serie A side Genoa have announced that they have completed the signing of Ricardo Centurion from Sao Paulo.
The Rossoblu announced the transfer on their official website, having reportedly paid €5 million for his services.
Centurion had already spent a year with Genoa, on loan from Racing Club, making 12 Serie A appearances during the 2013/2014 campaign.
He was later sold to Sao Paulo, where he failed to justify the money invested in him, but in turn impressed during a loan stint with Boca Juniors.
Centurion, 24, had a key role to play in helping La Xeneize win the league title, scoring 8 goals in 22 appearances.
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Liverpool are ready to make a £25m move for Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, according to the Mirror.
Chelsea and Manchester City are also monitoring the situation but the Merseyside outfit are keen to steal a march on their rivals as they look to strengthen their squad ahead of a season back in the Champions League.
The England international started just sixteen Premier League games last season while he has only bettered that tally once since arriving at the North London club six years ago.
In total, the twenty-three year old has made one hundred and ninety-four appearances for the Gunners in all competitions, scoring twenty goals while he has been part of the squads that have won the FA Cup in three of the past four seasons.
He has been ca…
Bayern have been working on bringing in Leroy Sane from Manchester City since April this year, and though the move hasn t happened this summer, they plan to revisit the situation in January, claims the respected German journalist .
Though he was absolutely vital to City s 100-point march to the Premier League title in 2017/18, Sane s influence in the team diminished significantly last summer with the arrivals of Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez. Injuries weren t very kind on him either, and he was being left out of the starting XI by manager Pep Guardiola increasingly often throughout last season. In April, Bayern got a wind of him being open to a return to Germany.
Ahead of the Community Shield in which City faced Liverpool in early August, a breakthrough in the negotia…
Ahmed Musa struck both goals as Nigeria boosted their World Cup qualification hopes with a 2-0 defeat of Iceland, a result that is also good news for Argentina.
Lionel Messi s team were pushed to the brink of an early exit after a stunning 3-0 loss to Croatia on Thursday, but victory in their final Group D game against Nigeria could now send them through to the last 16.
Musa was left out of Nigeria s loss to Croatia but he justified his recall to the side with the opening goal shortly after the interval at the Volgograd Arena on Friday.
The forward controlled a cross from Victor Moses and thumped an unstoppable drive into the roof of the net, with Musa becoming the Super Eagles top scorer in the history of the tournament courtesy of his third World Cup goal.
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Atletico Madrid returned to the top of LaLiga, though only by a point, as they drew 1-1 with Real Betis in a thrilling encounter.
Real Madrid leapfrogged their neighbours into top spot with Saturday s Clasico triumph over Barcelona, and in response Diego Simeone s Atletico made an ideal start against Betis on Sunday.
Yannick Carrasco scored their quickest goal of the season, timed at four minutes and 36 seconds. However, Cristian Tello struck back for European hopefuls Betis 15 minutes later, directing a wonderful volley into the bottom-right corner.
Chasing four home wins in a row for the first time since April 2018, Betis had the better of the second half, though Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak stood firm when called upon and his counterpart Claudio Bravo made a…
Ronald Koeman said it feels very special to be appointed head coach of his dream club Barcelona.
Barca on Wednesday announced Koeman as the successor to Quique Setien, who was let go following the 8-2 hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals on Friday.
Koeman, who spent six years at Camp Nou as a player under Johan Cruyff and served as an assistant to Louis van Gaal for two, has left his role as head coach of the Netherlands to sign a two-year contract with the Catalan giants.
It was an honour to be the national coach of the Netherlands. Over the past two and a half years, I have done everything I can to achieve success with Oranje, he said in a statement published by the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB).
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The Numbers Game: Spurs hope Conte´s Arsenal struggles end if his first north London derby goes ahea
Antonio Conte is set to take charge of his first north London derby on Sunday.
We say is set to rather than will because there does appear to be the possibility of the game being postponed due to Arsenal s growing list of absences, with the club reportedly requesting for it to be called off.
The Gunners were without as many as nine first-team players for Thursday s EFL Cup semi-final first-leg draw with Liverpool, and Mikel Arteta intimated they have further issues as a result of that match.
But, for the moment, the game is planned to go ahead as normal and Conte will surely be eager for it to do so, with Arsenal s predicament seemingly giving him the best possible chance to right some previous wrongs…
CONTE S ARSENAL HOODOO
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Cristiano Ronaldo has long made European football his personal playground and now counts a century of international goals among his seemingly endless achievements.
The five-time Ballon d Or winner superbly struck the celebrated number 100 in Portugal s Nations League meeting with Sweden on Tuesday.
It was just his fourth Nations League goal, but across a 17-year Portugal career there are many more mind-bending numbers to be found in a three-figure tally surpassed only by one man, Iran s Ali Daei, in international football.
To mark the milestone, we have mined the Opta data to bring you six of the best stats behind Ronaldo s terrific ton.
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— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano)
6 – Ronaldo has scored multipl…