Jordan Pickford, Everton, goalkeeper, £5.1m – Manchester United (h) United have scored just twice in their past four league games while Everton are flying under David Moyes. While they may not be razor tight at the back, they still have two clean sheets in their past four and home advantage here. Pickford racks up save […]
Dan Sheehan will captain Ireland against Wales in Saturday’s Six Nations game in Cardiff. The hooker will lead the team for the first time with regular skipper Caelan Doris ruled out because of a knee injury. Sheehan, 26, came off the bench in Ireland’s wins over England and Scotland but replaces the injured Ronan Kelleher
Ireland’s Jack Conan admits the side’s back row will be under a “huge amount of pressure” to fill the void left by Caelan Doris’ injury against Wales in the Six Nations on Saturday (14:15 GMT). Simon Easterby’s side have won their opening two games of the championship against England and Scotland, but will be forced
Rangers’ decision to keep manager Philippe Clement despite the “disastrous” Scottish Cup loss to Queen’s Park is about “the long-term interests of the club, not to save money”, according to chief executive Patrick Stewart. Stewart spoke in a club website interview just hours before Rangers responded to a newspaper report claiming takeover talks with a
LaMelo Ball scored 27 points as the Charlotte Hornets upset the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA with a 100-97 victory. The fixture, which was rearranged following the wildfires in Los Angeles, was the first game since the All-Star break. But the rest appeared to do the Lakers little good, as LeBron James and Luka
Real Madrid were able to play within themselves after four minutes, Mbappe’s hat-trick completed with superb speed of thought and foot for his second after 33 minutes then low drive just after the hour. The Bernabeu, surrounded by thousands of fans forming a welcoming committee for Carlo Ancelotti’s side two hours before kick-off, with flares
Mbappe struggled to adapt to the central striker role entrusted in him by Ancelotti, with Vinicius Jr preferred in his favourite left-wing role. “If you go back to the first Clasico of the season at Bernabeu, it was so big for him,” European football expert James Horncastle told BBC Match of the Day. “Madrid lost
James Horncastle, Chris Sutton and Stephen Warnock discuss what could have led to the miscommunication between Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman and his manager Gian Piero Gasperini who came out and criticised Lookman for taking and missing the penalty in Atalanta’s 3-1 (5-2 on aggregate) loss to Club Brugge in the Champions League Play-offs. MATCH REPORT: Atalanta
Liverpool may have only managed a draw on Wednesday, but Slot’s side have now gone 22 consecutive Premier League games without defeat, winning 15 of those. It is the first time they have been able to put together such a streak since their 44-match unbeaten run between January 2019 and February 2020, when they went
Two leagues will be rewarded with an extra spot in the Champions League next term based on performance in Europe this season. At present the Premier League is in the driving seat with six of its seven teams reaching the last 16 across all three Uefa competitions. Manchester City’s defeat to Real Madrid is the
