Week two of the English Premier League (EPL) season saw Eric Bailly, Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial were all on point, as the Red Revils cruised to a 4-0 win over Swansea. Rivals Liverpool weren’t nearly as impressive but grabbed their first win of the 2017-18 EPL season in their game against Crystal […]
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Nigeria has won the hosting right for the 2018 African Wrestling Championship in the Senior, Junior and Cadet categories. Nigeria is having this right 42 years after the competition was instituted. The President, Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), Daniel Igali, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos after the […]
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Marcos Alonso’s double helped Chelsea ruin Tottenham’s first Premier League game at Wembley, ensuring that Chelsea grabbed a late 2-1 win. An own goal from Michy Batshuayi had looked as though it would rescue a point for Spurs, but Alonso – who had scored a superb first-half free kick – fired a low finish through […]
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Home-based Super Eagles team have qualified for the Africa Nations Championship, CHAN 2018, set to be staged in Kenya. The B team secured a 2-0 win over the Benin Republic team at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano on Saturday. The nervy win means the Nigerians scale through 2-1 on aggregate, after losing the first […]
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Real Madrid followed up on their first leg 3-1 win over rivals Barcelona, beating them 2-0 at Santiago Bernabeu for a 5-1 aggregate victory to lift the Spanish SuperCup for the tenth time. Marco Asensio who scored a sensational blast on Sunday, scored the first goal against Barcelona in the 4th minute of the encounter, before […]
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Swansea City midfielder, Gylfi Sigurdsson has completed his move to Everton for a club record fee of £45 million. The Iceland international has been involved in a drawn out transfer negotiation with Swansea, already having two bids rejected. Sigurdsson has now completed his move to the Merseyside club, signing a five-year deal with Koeman. “Hopefully […]
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A former Chelsea manager Steve Clarke says Diego Costa is only making things difficult for himself, as Chelsea can afford to keep Costa on the books for two years. It was expected that the striker would leave the club in the summer, but a move to Atletico is impossible, due to a transfer ban. Costa […]
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Spanish Football Federatio (RFEF), on Monday slapped a five-match ban on Real Madrid’s star forward, Cristiano Ronaldo following his red card in Real Madrid’s Spanish Super Cup first leg 3-1 win over Barcelona. The Portugal international was ordered off after picking up two yellow cards, one for taking his shirt off after putting Real 2-1 […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo scored before he was sent off as Real Madrid thrash Barcelona 3-1 the Spanish Super Cup first leg on Sunday night. The second half of the game at the Nou Camp saw Gerard Pique’s own goal put Real ahead (50) before Lionel Messi equalised from the penalty spot (77) after Luis Suarez was […]
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Benin Republic secured a 1-0 win over Nigeria in the first leg CHAN qualifier played in Cotonou on Sunday evening. CHAN Eagles’ Afeez Aremu committed a foul in the 89th minute. That gifted Benin Republic a late penalty which they converted to beat Nigeria by a lone goal in the first leg clash. The Beninoise […]
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