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Most of the attention in Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League quarter-final with Barcelona on Wednesday will be on Kylian Mbappe, but Ousmane Dembele is also set to have a big role to play for the French club against his former side. Mbappe, who is expected to be coming up against Barca in a Real Madrid shirt next season, has 39 goals ...

If Real Madrid are to exact revenge on Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals, they will need to end Rodri’s remarkable run of 64 games unbeaten for club and country. The 27-year-old last tasted defeat when Spain lost a Euro 2024 qualifier to Scotland on March 28, 2023. Since then he has scored the winner in the Champions League ...

Lionel Messi scored after coming off the bench but his Inter Miami were held to a 2-2 draw by the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer on Saturday. The Argentine had been out of action for almost a month with a hamstring injury, missing the last four games, but was named among the substitutes for the home game. Messi missed ...

Pakistan batter Bismah Maroof and leg spinner Ghulam Fatima suffered minor injuries after being involved in a car accident on Friday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a statement that the two received immediate first aid and were placed under the care of the board’s medical team. Both players are part of a training camp for probables for their ...

Premier League leaders Liverpool head to Manchester United looking to move a step closer to equalling their bitter rivals’ record of 20 English titles. In a gripping title race, Arsenal and Manchester City will hope for a Liverpool stumble, while the top four battle and relegation survival fight are also heating up. AFP Sport looks at three talking points ahead ...

The Australian women’s cricket team defeated Bangladesh by 77 runs in the third T20I of the three-match T20I series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday. The hosts were whacked past by 10 wickets in the first T20 before 58-run defeat in the second game despite a record hat-trick of Fariha Trisna.While they were able to get past ...

Inter Miami, without Lionel Messi, lost 2-1 at home to Mexico’s Monterrey in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup quarter-final on Wednesday with Argentine Jorge Rodriguez scoring a superb 89th-minute winner. Miami had taken the lead through defender Tomas Aviles in the 19th minute but the game changed when Inter midfielder David Ruiz was sent off in the ...

Bangladesh and Australia women national cricket teams on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They exchanged greetings with the premier at Ganabhaban in the afternoon. During the meeting, the prime minister highlighted various steps taken for the development of cricket and other sports in Bangladesh, said PM’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon at a press ...

Coming from behind, defending champions Dhaka Mohammedan SC reached the semifinal of the Federation Cup Football Tournament as the first team eliminating Sheikh Russel KC by 2-1 goals in the first quarter final at the Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Stadium in Gopalganj on Tuesday. Guinea forward Sekou Sylla put Sheikh Russell KC ahead twinkling of an eye in the very ...

Bangladesh left-arm medium pacer Fariha Trisna registered career-best 4-19, including a hat-trick but it was not enough to save her side from a 58-run defeat to Australian Women’s team in the second T20 International on Tuesday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. Having won the game, Australia confirmed the three-match T20 series with a match to go. The visitors won the ...