Liverpool Beat Leipzig 2-0 In Champions League Last-16 First Leg
Liverpool FC seized the initiative against RB Leipzig in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 clash by cruising to a 2-0 win in a chilly Budapest on Tuesday. READ ALSO: Argentina World Cup Winner Leopoldo Luque, Dies At 71 Clinical early second-half strikes from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, both courtesy of dreadful defensive errors, proved decisive and leave...
Argentina World Cup Winner Leopoldo Luque, Dies At 71
Argentina world Cup winner Leopoldo Luque has died at the age of 71, the Argentina Football Association has announced. Luque was hospitalised with Covid-19 in December and he never fully recovered, Argentina media reported. The Argentina Football Association said on Twitter: "The AFA, through its president Claudio Tapia, expresses its pain over the loss of Leopoldo Jacinto Luque, world champion with the National Team...
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers Star Vincent Jackson Found Dead In A Hotel Room
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Vincent Jackson was found dead late Monday morning in a hotel where he’d been staying since Jan. 11. His body was reportedly discovered by a housekeeper at 11:30 a.m. The three-time Pro Bowl pass-catcher was reported missing by his family on Feb. 10, according to news station WFLA, which says police located him in a Tampa-area...
Liverpool Will Bounce Back After Leicester Setback – Salah
Mohamed Salah has promised Liverpool fans that the team will ‘fight like champions’ as they look to turn their season around. Jurgen Klopp’s side suffered their third consecutive defeat following a 3-1 loss to Leicester City at the weekend. The Reds now face a difficult task to hold on to the title they won last season and Klopp has already conceded...
Man City’s Gundogan Beats Saka, Six Others To EPL January POTM Award
Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan has been voted EA SPORTS Player of the Month for January ahead of Bukayo Saka and six other nominees. English topflight organiser Premier League made the announcement on Friday. Gundogan scored five goals in the month, including spectacular efforts versus Chelsea, Crystal Palace and West Bromwich Albion, to help City to six successive wins on their way to the top of the Premier League table. The...
Ex-Eagles Defender Yisa Sofoluwe Is Dead
Former Super defender Yisa Sofoluwe died on Tuesday evening at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. The PUNCH broke the news of Sofoluwe’s ill-health on Friday after the Maroc ’88 Africa Cup of Nations star was diagnosed with mild cerebral atrophy, a brain disease. According to healthgrades.com, cerebral atrophy is the progressive loss of brain cells over...
Serena Williams Withdraws From Australian Open Semi-Final
Serena Williams has pulled out from the Yarra Valley Classic with a shoulder problem hours after reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open warm-up event. The 23-time Grand Slam champion had earlier beaten fellow American Danielle Collins 6-2 4-6 10-6 in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park on Friday to set up a semi-final clash with top-ranked Ashleigh Barty. The 39-year-old had been...
UEFA Congratulates Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar
UEFA, on Friday, congratulated Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, on his 36th birthday. The Europe top-football governing body also celebrated Paris Saint-Germain star, Neymar, as the Brazilian clocks 29 years today. UEFA took to their official Twitter account to post a compiled video of Ronaldo and Neymar in actions for their past and present clubs respectively in a separate tweet. READ ALSO: FG...
Ajax Goalkeeper, Andre Onana Suspended For 12-Months
Ajax goalkeeper, Andre Onana, 24, has been suspended for 12 months by UEFA after he failed a doping test last October. The suspension is effective as of February 5, and will apply to all football activities at both national and international level. The substance furosemide was discovered in the Cameroon international's urine in an out of competition test on 31 October...
Samuel Chukwueze Undergoes Successful Groin Surgery In Germany
Nigeria international Samuel Chukwueze has undergone successful surgery on his groin at a facility in Munich, Germany, ABN TV reports. The Villarreal star aggravated the injury during the Yellow Submarine’s 4-0 triumph at Celta Vigo in a Spanish top-flight game – having replaced French midfielder Etienne Capoue in the 66th minute. Subsequently, he has been out of action for Unai Emery’s...
