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Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino bemoaned a familiar lack of cutting edge after his team lost the first leg of their League Cup semi-final 1-0 to Championship side Middlesbrough at the Riverside on Tuesday. Hayden Hackney scored the only goal on 38 minutes as Pochettino’s expensively assembled array of stars again failed to perform away from home, AFP reports. Chelsea have ...

Manchester United proved too strong for League One Wigan Athletic as Erik ten Hag’s side moved into the fourth round of the FA Cup. Diogo Dalot fired the 12-time winners into a 22nd-minute lead with a fine curling strike after the impressive Marcus Rashford had a shot blocked. Rasmus Hojlund’s diving header clipped the bar, Rashford had an attempt fumbled ...

Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby legend JPR Williams has died at the age of 74. The former London Welsh, Bridgend and Barbarians full-back was synonymous with Wales and the Lions’ glories of the 1970s. Williams captained Wales and Bridgend, winning 55 caps for his country. During historic triumphant Lions tours to New Zealand in 1971 and 1974 in ...

A day after being elected as the Member of Parliament for the first time, Shakib Al Hasan turned up at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket in Mirpur of the capital on Monday as he gears up for the upcoming Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), starting on January 19. Shakib, still an all format captain of Bangladesh, earned a landslide victory in Magura-1 constituency ...

Kylian Mbappe helped record 14-time champions Paris Saint-Germain avoid an embarrassing slip-up with a 9-0 rout at sixth-tier amateurs Revel in the French Cup on Sunday. Revel’s young supporters had implored Mbappe to make the trip to the game played at Castres – Revel’s humble stadium only has capacity for 2,000 fans in the Haute-Garonne south-western region – in a ...

With an aim to win the Under-19 World Cup trophy for the second time, Bangladesh youth team leaves country for South Africa at the early hour on Sunday, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official said. The expectation is high on the youngsters this time around after they clinched the Asia Cup trophy for the first time in December last year, ...

National awardee footballer and former captain of Dhaka Mohammedan SC Zahirul Haque passed away today (Saturday) at 7 am at a city hospital after suffering from different old age complications. He was 88. His namaj-e-Janaja was held after magrib prayer at the Khajur Bagan mosque in Monipuripara area of the capital, reports UNB. Zahirul Haque, who played for Dhaka Mohammedan ...

The International Cricket Council has fixed the slot of 20 teams for the group stage in the next edition of the T20 World Cup to be hosted by West Indies and USA in June next. The teams have been divided into four groups, and each group contains five teams. According to the draw, India and Pakistan have been kept in ...

France striker Kylian Mbappe has turned his back on “several tens of millions” of euros in a bid to ease a possible move away from Paris Saint-Germain, a source involved in the negotiations told AFP on Thursday. In an agreement he reached with the club last summer, the source claims Mbappe waived bonuses amounting to around 60 to 70 million ...

Four players who had an impressive Cricket World Cup in India have been shortlisted for the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2023 Award. Shubman Gill (India) 1584 runs and 24 catches in 29 matches The year that was Fairly raw on the biggest stage, Shubman Gill produced performances that would make 2023 his coming-of-age year in international cricket. ...