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Luis Enrique said Paris Saint-Germain will stop Lamine Yamal by not letting Barcelona have the ball when the two teams meet in a heavyweight Champions League clash on Tuesday. Recent meetings between the sides, including PSG’s 2-1 win in Barcelona last year, have been characterised by Yamal’s battle with left-back Nuno Mendes. However, with Portugal international Mendes missing the fixture through injury, Yamal is likely to come up against Lucas…

Ronald Araújo has said he is “really happy” to be at Liverpool but it is “too early” to say whether he will make his loan move from Barcelona permanent. The defender’s season-long loan move to Anfield was one of the surprise transfers of the summer after he endured a challenging season with the La Liga champions. However, he has impressed playing at both right-back and centre-back under Andoni Iraola and…

PARIS — The showpiece Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona will go ahead as planned on Tuesday in the French capital city, the French Interior minister confirmed, despite a weekend of protests marred by violence and looting across the country. Many French citizens have been left shocked by the images of violence that have drawn worldwide attention and highlighted the country’s tense social climate. On Monday, French Prime…

One-time England international Steven Caulker has shared his fear at facing unemployment. Caulker, 34, won his sole England cap in 2014 in a friendly against Sweden, in which he scored. He played in the Premier League for six different clubs between 2011 and 2016 and then hold coaching and assistant-management roles at FC Málaga City in 2023, Stjarnan in 2025, and Konyaspor in 2026. Taking to his LinkedIn at the…

Como coach Cesc Fàbregas is excited about the “dream come true” opportunity to host Manchester United in Wednesday’s Champions League group game. Speaking after guiding his team to a 3-1 win at Fiorentina on Sunday, a result that kept Como fifth in Serie A, the former Arsenal star said of Manchester United: “They are a great team. Just three years ago, when we were in Serie B, it would have…

Antoine Semenyo is injured and faces an eight-week absence for Manchester City, Enzo Maresca confirmed. Erling Haaland, who suffered a knock at the weekend against Ipswich Town, is in the mix to play AEK Athens on Tuesday in the Champions League. Semenyo sustained a knee injury in City’s 3-2 Premier League win over Ipswich, after he came off the bench in the 76th minute. “After the scan we feel much…

Arsenal forward Noni Madueke has said that the club showed the spirit of champions in their hard-fought Premier League win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday. Forest had defended imperviously for most of the match and limited the Gunners to just one shot on target. But Madueke broke the deadlock in the 80th minute, with his deflected strike earning Arsenal their 10th win in 11 games. “This place is so hard…

Former West Brom and Stoke City forward Saido Berahino has announced his retirement from football at the age of 33. Berahino made over 133 appearances in the Premier League across both clubs, with a majority of those coming during his time at West Brom. He progressed through the ranks at West Brom before making his debut in 2012. His breakthrough season came in the 2014-15 season, where he scored 20…

Harry Maguire has insisted that the Manchester United dressing room have left Lisandro Martínez‘s outburst in the past. Martínez was back in the side as United were held to a 1-1 draw at Elland Road against Leeds United on Sunday, although he came off at half-time. The Argentina defender had previously aimed a verbal tirade at director of football Jason Wilcox after United lost to Atletico Madrid in the Champions…

José Mourinho claimed he hadn’t seen “any images” of an alleged elbow from Arda Güler — which saw no intervention from the referee — in Real Madrid‘s 4-1 win over Sevilla on Sunday, saying he didn’t understand the “obsession” with the incident in his postmatch news conference. Sevilla coach Luis Garcia Plaza was furious at the decision not to send off Güler for the first-half clash with Gerard ‘Peque’ Fernandez…