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Nigeria’s contingent to Sunday’s 7th African Nations Championship qualifying match against the Black Galaxy of Ghana will storm the city of Cape Coast today. Head Coach Salisu Yusuf and his assistants this morning released the final list of 22 players for the trip and for the return leg in Abuja on Saturday. Sunday’s clash will take place at the Cape Coast Stadium, starting from 5pm Nigeria time. Meanwhile the Super […]

Rangers Fc of Scotland will play in the Uefa Champions League for the first time in more than a decade after a stunning 1-0 win over PSV Eindhoven to reach the Champions League group stage. The decisive moment of an absorbing tie finally came on the hour, when Malik Tillman intercepted a PSV pass out from defence and squared for Antonio Colak to find an empty net from six yards. […]

Esther Onyenezide says she is yet to recover from the Falconets elimination at this year’s FIFA U-20 women’s World Cup in COSTA RICA. The Falconets hopes of securing a first ever U-20 World Cup title was ended following a 2-0 defeat to the Netherlands in the quarterfinals on Sunday. The Christopher Danjuma-led side went into the game as Favorites after finishing top of their group that had France, South Korea […]

League Two strugglers Crawley Town knocked Premier League newcomers Fulham out of the Carabao Cup on fairytale night at their Broadfield Stadium. Goals from Tom Nichols and Liverpool loanee James Balagizi gave the hosts a famous victory, with the full-time whistle prompting a pitch invasion by their jubilant supporters. Crawley sits 23rd in League Two - 84 league positions below their opponents having lost four of their opening five league […]

Manchester United displayed a performance of class and intensity as goals from Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford earned them a deserved 2-1 win over a depleted Liverpool at Old Trafford. United had endured a week of intense criticism after their 4-0 hammering at Brentford last weekend but responded in style to leapfrog Jurgen Klopp's side and earn a first league win over their bitter rivals since March 2018, and Erik […]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria will take on the Desert Foxes of Algeria in a friendly on September 27 at the New Stadium in Oran. The Algeria Football Association AFA were forced to look for an alternative opponent after Ghana pulled out from an agreed friendly on the same day. The Desert Foxes will first play a friendly against Guinea on September 24 before facing Nigeria. This will be the […]

Italian striker Gianluca Scamacca scored his first West Ham goal as they beat Danish side Viborg in their Europa Conference League play-off first leg at London Stadium. The 30.5 million Pounds signing from Sassuolo, was handed his first start and took just 24 minutes to make an impact when he headed in following neat play on the left from fellow new arrival Maxwel Cornet. Jarrod Bowen tucked a second into […]