Kylian Mbappe grabbed yet another Champions League goal as Paris St Germain saw off a stubborn Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in their Group F opener.

The France forward took his tally to 41 goals in just 62 appearances among Europe’s elite with a controversial penalty early in the second half.

Achraf Hakimi added the second as PSG bounced back from Friday’s surprise domestic defeat at home to Nice.

The French champions now sit top of their group after AC Milan drew 0-0 with Newcastle in the earlier match.

The hosts created their first chance after only three minutes when Mbappe won a free-kick on the left wing.

Ousmane Dembele’s cross fell to Lucas Hernandez inside the six-yard box but he could only prod the loose ball wide.

But Dortmund sta…

Liverpool beat Leicester City at Anfield on Thursday by 2-0, getting some sweet revenge for the narrow defeat they suffered at the hands of the Foxes at the King Power Stadium in late December. Both goals were the work of Diogo Jota, who took his chance from a rebound after Kasper Schmeichel saved Virgil van Dijk s header in the 34th minute, before latching onto a brilliant assist from Joel Matip to fire past Schmeichel again in the 87th.

That man Jota again

The impact the signing of Diogo Jota in 2020 has had for Liverpool has been spoken about quite a lot, and yet, match after match, the Portuguese forward always makes sure there s more to be said on the subject.

On this particular occasion, he didn t get off to a great start, with both Luis Diaz and Roberto Firmino …

Gary Neville claims the Football Association (FA) and Premier League have a huge problem  after former top-flight official Mark Halsey suggested he had been told to lie about his in-game decision making.

Halsey, who retired from refereeing at the end of the 2012-13 season, was responding to a question on Twitter regarding the FA s charge on Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero for an elbow on West Ham s Winston Reid.

City appealed against Aguero s three-match ban but the FA rejected their application, with Halsey suggesting referee Andre Marriner may have been asked to lie about his view of the clash between Aguero and Reid.

I have been in that situation when I have seen an incident and been told to say I haven t seen it, Halsey posted.

Paul I have b…

Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone faces a selection dilemma over whether to include Diego Costa for Sunday s La Liga clash with Osasuna.

Costa has been instrumental in Atletico s excellent campaign so far, scoring 27 goals in all competitions and helping Simeone s men keep pace with Barcelona and Real Madrid in an enthralling title race.

Atletico are level with Barca and Real on 60 points ahead of the trip to Osasuna, who are winless in their last eight games against the capital club.

Costa heads into the match in good form, having found the net in Saturday s 3-0 success over Real Valladolid and the 1-0 UEFA Champions League win at Milan on Wednesday in the first leg of their last-16 tie.

With 21 top-flight goals to his name in 2013-14, the 25-year-old is just …

that Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin remains frustrated about not securing a big money transfer in the summer.

The 24 year old was linked with moves to both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur during the recently closed transfer window, but the south coast club rejected all approaches for him having already parted company with a number of their key players from last season.

He has however insisted that he is focussed at the club he has been since the summer of 2008, something that was demonstrated when he bagged a brace in the Saints’ come-from-behind victory at West Ham United last time out.

Schneiderlin has made two hundred and thirty-four appearances for Southampton, scoring twelve goals and was part of the squads that achieved back-to-back promoti…

Leicester City booked their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 2012 thanks to a 1-0 win over Sheffield United on Friday.

Jamie Vardy scored the only goal of the game at the King Power Stadium, as his looping header over goalkeeper Jamal Blackman in the 66th minute settled a hard-fought tie.

Riyad Mahrez provided the assist on his first start for the Premier League side since January 20, the winger s deep cross setting up his unmarked team-mate at the back post.

Yet the hosts needed a moment of excellence from Kasper Schmiechel to deny Sheffield United an equaliser, the goalkeeper stretching low to his left to keep out a first-time effort from George Baldock that looked destined to find the corner of the goal.

Instead, Vardy…

Sam Allardyce was left frustrated on his Crystal Palace debut as Troy Deeney s second-half penalty earned Watford a 1-1 draw at Vicarage Road on Monday.

Palace parted ways with Alan Pardew last week after a poor run of form left the Eagles just a point above the relegation zone.

Allardyce was consequently confirmed as his replacement marking a return to management following his dismissal as England boss after just 67 days after he was caught on camera reportedly claiming to give advice on how to circumvent third-party ownership rules as part of an undercover newspaper sting.

His return to the dugout started well with Palace rewarded for a lively opening when Yohan Cabaye opened the scoring following good work from Andros Townsend.

However, the smile was w…

Liverpool are closing in on the surprise signing of Southampton striker Rickie Lambert, .

The Reds, who finished second in the Premier League last season – two points behind champions Manchester City, are preparing to compete in the Champions League after an absence of five years.

Strike pair Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez scored a combined fifty-two top flight goals between them last term though back up forward Iago Aspas failed to hit the net in fourteen league outings.

Lambert, a boyhood Liverpool fan, has averaged twenty goals in the last three seasons and is currently preparing for this summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil having been selected by Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson.

The 32 year old spent five years at the Merseyside club as a youn…

Sadio Mane has beaten Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah and Manchester City s Riyad Mahrez to the CAF African Player of the Year award for 2019.

Mane was a standout player as Liverpool went all the way in the 2018-19 Champions League, while he has also enjoyed a strong start to the 2019-20 Premier League campaign.

The Senegal international placed in the top three in each of the previous three years, finishing runner-up to Salah in 2017 and 2018, and third in 2016, when Mahrez came first.

But this time Mane claimed the prize, ahead of Liverpool team-mate Salah and Mahrez, who won a domestic treble with City and captained Algeria to glory at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

It s official!

The African Player of the Year for is

What an achieve…

“My head is 100 per cent here at River, I am fully committed”.

Those are the short and sweet words of Exequiel Palacios, quoted by AS, who seems to have confirmed that he won’t be leaving River Plate anytime soon. The young Argentine, who has already had a few call ups to the senior national team, first made his debut for River back in 2015 and hasn’t looked back since. Of course, due to his success he has been looked at by a series of top clubs across Europe, with Real Madrid being located towards the top of that list.

There’s been heavy speculation linking him with a move to the Bernabeu, with some suggesting that the deal would be finalised during the January transfer window. Alas, that didn’t prove to be the case, and Real will likely now have to wait it…