One of the heavyweight clashes of the second round of group fixtures occurs in Munich on Tuesday when Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich host Olympique Lyon.
Juergen Klinsmann is under pressure to salvage something from a selection gamble that went badly wrong when Bayern Munich host Olympique Lyon in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Klinsmann left Bayern [...]
Villarreal CF look to improve outstanding opening-day draw with Manchester United FC when they resume their campaign at home to Celtic FC on Matchday 2.
The goalless draw at Old Trafford, where the UEFA Champions League holders had previously recorded 12 consecutive victories in the competition, gave them one point, but theywill want toadd another [...]
Champions Manchester United will need to be on their guard too at Danish outsiders Aalborg BK on Tuesday as they try and make up for a sterile 0-0 draw against Villarreal on opening night when Aalborg held Celtic in Glasgow.
Like United rivals – Chelsea, most of the main favourites to reach next May’s final [...]
Arsenal were knocked off the top of the Premier League by Chelsea after suffering a shock 2-1 home defeat by Hull City.
Goals by Geovanni and Daniel Cousin stunned the Gunners after they had gone ahead through an own goal.
Chelsea moved top with a 2-0 win at Stoke City while Liverpool are keeping pace with [...]
The Bundesliga’s two Champions League teams had wildly contrasting fortunes on a weekend when the last two unbeaten records in the division fell.
Bayern Munich slipped to ninth place, five points behind new leaders Hamburg SV, when Juergen Klinsmann dropped his most creative players and then, predictably enough, saw the team lose 1-0 at Hanover [...]
Seven-times champions Olympique Lyon extended their lead to five points with a 2-1 win over Nancy after France striker Karim Benzema scored his sixth goal in seven league games.
Lyon top the table on 19 points from seven games, with surprise package Toulouse second five points back and Olympique Marseille in third, a further point [...]
Groningen registered their third win this season beating 10-man Feyenoord 3-1 to go on top of the Dutch league. They are a point ahead of PSV Eindhoven and NAC Breda.
PSV created a number of chances against bottom side Volendam but had to wait until the 73rd minute before Stijn Wuytens broke the deadlock.
NAC scored [...]
David Villa’s hot streak in front of goal continued with two goals as Valencia returned to the top of the Spanish first division after a 4-2 home win over Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday.
Valencia, league champions in 2002 and 2004, knocked Villarreal off the summit on goal difference as they continued their unbeaten start [...]
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has warned his team-mates not to get carried away by their best start to a Premier League campaign.
The Reds are second in the table behind Chelsea on goal difference after winning four times in an unbeaten six-match run.
Rafa Benitez’s side underlined their determined to finally end the club’s 18-year wait [...]
David Beckham insists he is happy to stay in the shadows for England if it means Fabio Capello’s team qualify for the 2010 World Cup.
Beckham had worked his way back into the England squad under Capello, but his days as the first choice right winger could be over after Theo Walcott’s stunning hat-trick against [...]
