Chelsea have kept two clean sheets in 10 games since appointing Liam Rosenior as head coach last month. Repeated doziness at the back has cost them. They have held commanding advantages against Charlton, Crystal Palace, Wolves and Leeds, only to give away silly goals. It is a bad habit and proved costly when a 2-0 lead was squandered during Tuesday's draw with Leeds.
"You always miss good football players," Slot began (via X account @iMiaSanMia). "He was so important for us last season, but he wasn't the only one. There were more players that were influential in our results. But I think we have replaced them with very good players as well."
Basically every elite football club in Europe has a file on Francolino Dju. In an age of essentially everything being known in football these days, the Midtjylland man might just be the best-kept striking secret in the European game, having left Benfica's academy and thrived in Denmark. Let's fill you in: here's your quick scout report on the 21-year-old. You may like Franculino has been on fire in Denmark (Image credit: Getty Images)
Fancy a football quiz? It's time for a trawl through Wikipedia, as we bring you 100 players from the history of the game and present with little more than a curriculum vitae: it's that classic game of name the footballer based on their clubs, with no time limit. So go on: who stumped you on this list and who was way too easy? Which names were on the tip of your tongue and which ones were obvious from a mile off?
Pellegrino Matarazzo stood there, still and composed. Brown pants. Black sweater. Arms crossed, one hand to his chin and grey beard. The New Jerseyan looked less like the manager of Real Sociedad, a club that placed in La Liga's top six for five straight seasons before last year, than a math professor. That's what he well might have been, had his life taken only a slightly different turn; he graduated from Columbia University with a degree in applied mathematics, after all.
The Chilean players' association officially became a union in December, and its president, Javiera Moreno, believes there needs to be women's representation in players' unions around the world. We want this movement to become massive, says the former Universidad Catolica captain. Our goal is to spread this to other countries. I don't know if in other places the path will be to have a specific union for women. This was needed here, but I think there needs to be at least representation of women's players within every country's footballers' union.
If we are walking down the street, I'll get asked about Deadpool [by someone] and it's usually a two or three-second conversation. If someone talks about Wrexham, I just turn right round and park it against a street pole. My kids are like, 'oh no!'
Spurs parted company with 'Big Ange' last summer following a topsy-turvy 2024/25 campaign in which the club won the UEFA Europa League, but also finished 17th in the Premier League table. Postecoglou will contend that as the season progressed, European competition took priority, hence why the team finished in such an uncharacteristically lowly position. But, the Spurs hierarchy didn't quite see it that way, deciding to start afresh in the summer with Brentford's Thomas Frank.
Newcastle United winger Harvey Barnes will not be switching allegiance to Scotland before the World Cup, head coach Steve Clarke has confirmed. The 28-year-old, who has one England cap from a friendly against Wales in October 2020, is eligible for Scotland through his maternal grandparents. However, Clarke revealed Barnes has turned down the opportunity to play for a place in his squad.
It was a banner day for Team France on February 11, 2026, at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. In the women's 15km individual biathlon, Julia Simon claimed gold ahead of teammate Lou Jeanmonnot, who took silver. In moguls, Perrine Laffont grabbed bronze, eight years after her PyeongChang triumph. The highlight came on the ice, where Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron won Olympic gold in figure skating.
Yeah, I heard that. I don't know what will happen, we'll talk about that in the summer. I'm under contract at Tottenham until 2030, so after the World Cup, we'll see what we'll do and how to proceed. As for me, I wouldn't mind staying at HSV. My brother Mario should start playing again in autumn, so I'd get the chance to play with him, which is my biggest wish right now. You know how football is, you never know what's going to happen,
On this occasion, using the stutter step, I waited for the goalkeeper to move. He moved a little early and once he went one way, it would be hard for him to go the other way,
Lionel Messi will face a race for fitness to feature at the start of the MLS season for Inter Miami after suffering a hamstring injury. The Argentina superstar did not feature in Miami's training session on Wednesday, having suffered the injury during a friendly with Barcelona SC in Ecuador. Miami confirmed Messi's withdrawal from training in a club statement, just over a week before their MLS opener away to Los Angeles FC on February 22.
