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CF Pachuca and Toronto FC will lock horns with each other in the 2024 Leagues Cup next week. The game between the Liga MX side and the Major League Soccer club will be held at the BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario. It is scheduled to kick off at 2 am UK time next Monday.

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CF Pachuca are one of the most well-known and most well-supported clubs in Mexico. Los Tuzos have won the national championship seven times and the CONCACAF Champions Cup on six occasions. The Mexican club finished seventh in the regular phase in Clausura 2024 and ended up in the quarter-finls in the final phase.

Guillermo Almada’s side will be determined to make an impact in the 2024 Leagues Cup. Not ma…

Manchester United will host Liverpool in the FA Cup quarter-finals after the two sides advanced with fifth-round victories on Wednesday night.

The Reds remain in contention for three more trophies after their rousing 1-0 extra-time victory over Chelsea in Sunday’s Carabao Cup final, and booked their place in the last eight with a 3-0 win over Southampton.

United left it late to ensure they would be next to try spoiling Jurgen Klopp’s extended leaving do, with Casemiro’s 89th-minute header sending his side through with a 1-0 win to eliminate Nottingham Forest and ensure the 12-time FA Cup winners took one step closer to reaching what would be a record 22nd final.

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Roberto Martinez has no doubts about Cristiano Ronaldo s ability to play 90 minutes every few days at Euro 2024, as Portugal prepare to face Turkiye in their second game.

Portugal opened their Group F campaign with a nervy 2-1 win over Czechia on Tuesday, with Francisco Conceicao coming off the bench to net a 92nd-minute winner.

Ronaldo – the all-time leading scorer at the Euros with 14 goals – played all 90 minutes in the Selecao s opening match, becoming the first player to feature at six different editions of the tournament (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024).

He endured a frustrating outing, failing to score from five shots worth 0.73 expected goals (xG) including missing one big chance, as defined by Opta.

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Desperately seeking a Serie A boost in the early hours of Wednesday, Corinthians will welcome Criciuma to the Heriberto Hulse.

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Starting with the hosts, while Corinthians might have opened July with an action-packed 3-2 victory against Vitoria, it appears that was just a minor boost for the Timao. Putting in another downbeat performance last week as they fell to a 2-0 loss at the hands of Vasco, Ramon Diaz’s men have come under a huge amount of scrutiny since opening up the 2024 campaign. At the heart of a Serie A relegation scrap and battling it out in the drop zone, the Sao Paulo-based outfit will have plenty of pressure on their shoulders here. Hit with a routine 3-0 drumming against Cruzeiro on July 7th, the former Al …

It s on to the final for hosts France and Euro 2016 will be all wrapped up in three days time. What s that N Golo, four more years?

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Ahead of France s triumphant semi-final against Germany, Leicester City midfielder N Golo Kante showed being shunted out of Didier Deschamps starting XI had done nothing to dent his assurance by casting himself as United States president Barack Obama alongside some pre-match punning that puts our efforts on this humble diary to shame.

Introduced as a 70th-minute substitute at the Stade Velodrome, Kante selflessly took a yellow card for the team shortly afterwards bringing down Toni Kroos to halt a Germany attack.

It was the kind of hard-headed, tough decision for the greater good that would probably draw a …

Cole Palmer will be among the very best players in the world if he continues on his current trajectory, believes the forward s Chelsea team-mate Marc Cucurella.

Palmer enjoyed a magnificent debut campaign in 2023-24 after swapping Manchester City for Stamford Bridge, with his 33 Premier League goal involvements (22 goals, 11 assists) the most of any player.

After impressing for England at Euro 2024 – where he came off the bench to score in their 2-1 final defeat to Spain – Palmer has picked up where he left off this term, registering 11 goal contributions (six goals, five assists) to once again lead the charts.

He became the first player in Premier League history to score four goals before half-time in a single game versus Brighton and Hove Albion in Septembe…

Cristiano Ronaldo may get his first taste of Serie A action with champions Juventus against Chievo after Massimiliano Allegri s men were handed an away trip to start the 2018-19 season.

Ronaldo s sensational transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus took the football world by surprise and he will be a marked man should Allegri choose to hand him a place in the Bianconeri s starting line-up.

Allegri s men entertain Lazio in their second game and last season s second-placed side Napoli arrive in Turin on matchday seven in September, but they must wait until December to face Roma at home.

Should Juventus make a charge for their eighth successive Serie A title, their credentials will be tested in their final run of eight games that includes Milan at home, Inter away and …

This classic derby match sees a resurgent, if unspectacular Liverpool team take on Everton, the most improved team in the league in recent weeks.

All is not well at Liverpool football club with what appears to be no money to spend and co owners Gillette and Hicks seemingly uninterested in running the club and searching for a way out of their ill thought out investment. Fortunately for Liverpool fans, results seem to be improving on the pitch. Their recent good run of form has seen them creep back up the League table and they now sit fifth, just a point behind Tottenham, although Man City lie in wait in 6th place, with two games in hand on the Reds. Recent form can be put down to better organisation and a strong will from the players to dig themselves out of their malaise. Injur…

Liverpool fans must be wondering what more their team could have done after they picked up 97 points and still did not win the Premier League, yet the Reds are not alone in coming up just short in a title race despite performing superbly.

Jurgen Klopp s side won 30 of their 38 matches and lost just once, only to miss out on the title by one point as Pep Guardiola s Manchester City retained the trophy on Sunday.

Liverpool s 97-point haul is the best accrued by a team that has finished second in the Premier League s 20-club era.

But how does it compare to other runners-up in Europe s major leagues, who racked up the points but still finished without winners medals?

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Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has been awarded the 2011 African Player of the Year at a ceremony in Ghana s capital, Accra, on Thursday.

The Manchester City player, who has had an impressive season, edged out Mali s Seydou Keita and Andre Ayew of Ghana to clinch the coveted football award of the continent.

Keita, who plays for Spanish giants Barcelona, came second leaving the youngest contender Ayew of Marseille with the second runners-up spot.

Toure, during the year under review, helped City win the English FA Cup by scoring the final goal against Stoke City.

After leaving Barcelona, Toure has become one of the most valuable players at the club with his impeccable ball control, recovery and his intelligent reading of the game.

He was also…