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Erling Haaland scored his 45th goal of the season as Manchester City took a first-leg lead over Bayern Munich in their Champions League quarter-final. Rodri and Bernardo Silva were also on target for the English champions. Man City Coach, Guardiola has been regularly criticised for overly tinkering with his side when it comes to the crunch in the Champions League knockout stages.

Reading have sacked manager Paul Ince with the club in 22nd in the Championship. Ince was appointed on an interim basis in February 2022 before taking on the role permanently last May. The Royals were deducted six points last week for breaching the terms of a business plan set by the English Football League.

The Super Falcons will head into today’s international friendly with New Zealand looking to record their third successive win in 2023. The game will be the Falcons’ last Pre-World Cup friendly barring any last-minute arrangement before the Women’s World Cup billed to kick off from July 20 to August 20. The Falcons had defeated Haiti 2-1 last Friday, securing the team’s second straight win this year.

Ondo State Government has expressed its readiness to sell the state-owned football clubs the Sunshine Stars and the Sunshine Queens. The state Commissioner for Youths and Sports Development, Bamidele Ologunloluwa said the state-owned football teams were open for sale or privatization to the right investors by the end of the ongoing 2022/2023 league season. Ologunloluwa noted that the clubs needed to be privatised for proper administration, adding that it may lead […]

Romelu Lukaku's representatives have revealed that he was racially abused by Juventus fans after scoring a late penalty in the Coppa Italia draw in Turin. President of Roc Nation Sports International, Michael Yormark, described the abuse as despicable. Lukaku was shown a second yellow card for celebrating in front of the home fans after his 95th-minute spot-kick.

Sunshine Stars head coach, Edith Agoye has reiterated the team’s desire to secure a place in the season ending Super Six competition. The top three teams in Group A and B will clash to determine the overall winner of the 2022/23 Nigeria Premier Football League season. The Owena Waves moved to third position on the Group B table.

Carlos Alcaraz cruised into the last 16 of the Miami Open with victory over Dusan Lajovic. Alcaraz, won 6-0 7-6 to set up a meeting with American Tommy Paul. The Spanish defending champion, who has won 16 of 17 matches this year, needs to win the title to stay top of the rankings.

Nigeria international forward, Samuel Chukwueze, has been nominated for La Liga Player of the Month for March. This followed Chukwueze’s impressive performance for the Yellow Submarine side. The 23-year-old assisted three of the six goals scored by the club in March.

The World Health Organization, WHO, has revealed that new eight new confirmed cases of the Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea. A statement issued by WHO Africa Director, Matshidiso Moeti, said the confirmation of these new cases is a critical signal to scale up response efforts to stop the chain of transmission. This brings the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to nine and probable cases to 20 since the […]