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Club Brugge’s Christos Tzolis tucked away a late equaliser to secure a dramatic 3-3 draw with Atletico Madrid in their Champions League playoff first leg on Wednesday as the Belgian side avoided defeat after an agonising own goal appeared to have cost them. Tzolis slammed home an angled shot in the 89th minute to level the tie although the goal ...

Teenager Tom Edozie scored a 94th-minute equaliser on debut as Arsenal let a two-goal lead slip at bottom side Wolverhampton Wanderers in a 2-2 draw on Wednesday, wasting a big chance to move clear in the Premier League title race. Arsenal have 58 points from 27 matches, five ahead of second-placed Manchester City having played a game more. Wolves are ...

UEFA said on Wednesday it would “investigate allegations of discriminatory behaviour” after Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior accused Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni of racially abusing him during a Champions League match in Lisbon. Tuesday’s first leg of the knockout phase play-off tie was stopped for more than 10 minutes after Vinicius complained to French referee Francois Letexier about the alleged abuse ...

Newly appointed Youth and Sports State Minister Aminul Haque has announced the government’s intention to facilitate the return of Shakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe Bin Mortaza to Bangladesh cricket by addressing the legal cases filed against them. Speaking on Tuesday, the State Minister said the matters would be reviewed at the state level to ensure a swift resolution. “Since there ...

Barcelona were stunned by Girona who roared back to win 2-1 at home in a breathless Catalan derby on Monday, as last season’s champions failed to return to the LaLiga summit, leaving Real Madrid top of the table. Barcelona struck the woodwork twice in the first half, Raphinha hitting the post before Lamine Yamal fired a penalty against the same ...

Fran Perez, Oscar Valentin and Nobel Mendy fired Rayo Vallecano to a 3-0 win over an understrength Atletico Madrid on Sunday in a LaLiga match overshadowed by protests against Rayo owner Raul Martin Presa. With Atletico’s focus on Wednesday’s Champions League knockout playoff at Club Brugge, Diego Simeone selected a weakened side and paid the price, with Perez and Valentin ...

Arsenal scored all their goals in the opening 27 minutes of Sunday’s 4-0 FA Cup fourth-round win over League One Wigan Athletic, while Leeds United needed penalties and Wolverhampton Wanderers endured a mud bath on a good day for top-flight sides. Any hopes of a Wigan upset in North London were swiftly ended as Noni Madueke and Gabriel Martinelli both ...

Talking to Khelajog on Sunday, the newly elected Member of Parliament Ishraque Hossain threw his full support for the return of senior all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan to the Bangladesh cricket team, and also hailed the former Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, calling them ‘national assets’, despite their controversial political past. When he was asked whether his stance had changed regarding ...

Tom Banton, who carried England to victory in the T20 World Cup against Scotland on Saturday in Kolkata, finally came of age as an international batsman after a stop-start career. His place had been under threat from Ben Duckett after he scored only two against both Nepal and the West Indies in his first World Cup. But coach Brendon “Baz” ...

India and Pakistan will clash in the Twenty20 World Cup in Colombo on Sunday, still feeling the aftershocks of a tumultuous fortnight in which Pakistan’s boycott threat – later reversed – nearly blew a hole in the tournament’s marquee fixture. With bilateral cricket a casualty of their fraught relations, emotions run high whenever the bitter neighbors lock horns in multi-team ...