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An 80th-minute goal from Trent Alexander-Arnold secured Liverpool a 1-1 draw with leaders Manchester City on Saturday, keeping Juergen Klopp’s team a point adrift of the top spot in the tight Premier League title race. Erling Haaland had given defending champions City a first-half lead at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, becoming the quickest player to score 50 goals in the ...

Argentina forward Angel Di Maria will retire from international football following next year’s Copa America, the 35-year-old said on Thursday after representing his country for 15 years. Di Maria has made 136 appearances for world champions Argentina since his debut in 2008, playing in four World Cups and scoring in the 2022 final win over France, reports Reuters. He will ...

With a sweet memory of winning both the T20 and ODI home series against Pakistan this month, Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team due to fly for South Africa Saturday (Nov 25) to play three-match T20I and three-match ODI series against the hosts. The ensuing ODI series is a part of the ICC Women’s Championship. Nigar Sultana Joty-led Bangladesh Women’s team will ...

Liverpool will become the latest team to attempt to storm Manchester City’s Etihad fortress this weekend as Everton focus on Premier League survival following a punishing points deduction for breaching financial rules. Arsenal have a chance to top the table depending on results elsewhere, while Tottenham host high-flying Aston Villa. AFP Sport picks out three talking points ahead of the ...

Fast bowler Taskin Ahmed was given a rest for four weeks to recover from his recurring shoulder injury which further flared up during the ICC Cricket World Cup. Due to the shoulder problem, he missed two matches against India and South Africa and also was not at his best throughout the tournament though there were high hopes on him to ...

Many fans came to the Maracana Stadium on Tuesday to watch Lionel Messi in his likely last match in Brazil, a superclasico in World Cup qualifying against the hosts. Instead, they saw Nicolas Otamendi score the only goal in a 1-0 win for Argentina after a brawl between fans that delayed the start of the game. The World Cup champions ...

Bangladesh finally earned a 1-1 draw against Lebanon in their World Cup Qualifiers fixture at the Bashundhara Kings Arena on Tuesday. The Jamal Bhuiyan led team fought back from a goal down after Sheikh Morsalin scored with a powerful long-range shot. The youngster took the ball in the middle of the opposition half in the 72nd minute and unleashed a ...

South Africa’s former rugby star Hannes Strydom has died in a car accident at the age of 58. He was part of the Springbok team that famously won the 1995 Rugby World Cup after the end of apartheid in 1994. Strydom gained 21 Springbok caps in his career between 1993 and 1997. Former teammate and close friend Kobus Wiese told ...

Australia won the Cricket World Cup for a record-extending sixth time Sunday, ending India’s dominant run in its home tournament with a six-wicket victory in a low-scoring final on the back of Travis Head’s 137. A heavily pro-Indian crowd inside the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium was silenced as Head combined with Marnus Labuschagne (58 not out ) in a 192-run ...

India showed a dismal batting performance as they were bowled out for a below-per-score of 240 runs against Australia in the final match of the World Cup in Ahmedabad. Australia tightened their grip and restricted them to the meager total despite India picking 80 runs in the first powerplay at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. Being asked to bat, ...