Soccer (FIFA)

Soccer (FIFA)

Galatasaray 1-2 Juventus. The second half starts in Istanbul. Juve have made a second sub, Juan Cabal replacing Andrea Cambiaso. That's the last we'll see of Cambiaso in this tie, as he was booked in the first half and misses the second leg as a result. Share For the completist, here are the teamsheets from the Ali Sami Yen. Federico Gatti came on for Bremer just after the half-hour mark, the Brazilian defender limping off with a hamstring issue.

Vinicius Junior and his teammates appeared ready to walk off and the game was put on hold for 10 minutes after the Brazilian told the referee that he had been subject to racist abuse after scoring the goal that gives Real Madrid a 1-0 first-leg lead in their Champions League playoff against Benfica. Vinicius had celebrated the strike dancing in the corner of the Estadio da Luz and in the confrontations that followed, Benfica's Gianluca Prestianni said something to him while covering his mouth.

He was booked for his celebrations and items were thrown towards him from the stands. Television pictures showed a heated exchange between Vinicius and Benfica winger Gianluca Prestianni. The forward then spoke to referee Francois Letexier and went and sat down in the dugout as play was halted for around 10 minutes. Letexier made a crossed arms gesture to signal racist abuse.

Red Bull New York has waived and bought out defender Raheem Edwards, sources with knowledge of the situation tell amNewYork. Edwards had departed the team's preseason preparations in Texas last week and had not been seen since. The veteran Canadian was signed one month before the start of the 2025 season. He appeared in 24 MLS matches, starting 15, with inconsistent play plaguing the majority of his time in New York.

Feyenoord will train in Belgium this week instead of their home in Rotterdam so signing Raheem Sterling can work with his new team-mates. England forward Sterling joined Feyenoord last week after leaving Chelsea by mutual consent but he can not train or play in the Netherlands until he is granted a work permit. Manager Robin van Persie says he has moved his side's training to Tubize - which is around 137km from Rotterdam - to allow the 31-year-old to gel with his new team-mates as quickly as possible.

City had revived their promotion bid with a weekend win at Hull, but they had some making up to do with home fans after being thumped 5-0 by Derby in their previous appearance at Ashton Gate. George Tanner escaped injury after being clattered by his own goalkeeper Radek Vitek and Neto Borges sent a shot skywards from the edge of the box.

The 21-year-old Germany international has always been a ruthlessly efficient passer and calm under pressure, but he has made great strides during this season and pushed himself to be more well-rounded. While no official announcement has been made, Pavlović seems to have won the starting job next to Joshua Kimmich and - at times - has outperformed his more experienced and lauded partner.

One poor decision is forgivable, two is careless, but there were a hat-trick of howlers, with Tammy Abraham clearly offside for Aston Villa's opener. Lucas Digne needed his own dedicated review booth, escaping with a yellow card for an agricultural tackle on Jacob Murphy and avoiding a penalty for handball. Officials ruled that Digne handled the ball outside the penalty area, an impressive feat given that he both took off and landed inside the box as he jumped to block a cross.

Welcome to the FC Bayern Campus Round Up, where the matches of Bayern Munich's U-23, U-19 and U-17 squads are recapped, line ups are provided and the highlights to the matches are hyperlinked on top of their respective score line. The U-23's season has not started yet, therefore their match was a friendly and no official highlights were provided. Meanwhile, the U-17s did not play.

There are many. Internationally, there was Edwin van der Sar and Peter Schmeichel,

These days, however, they don't just have to sound their best for real-life games. Gremlin Interactive's groundbreaking Actua Soccer in 1995, which featured BBC Sport duo Barry Davies and Trevor Brooking on the mic, was the first football video game to feature a running match commentary, albeit a basic one. What might have been a gimmick became part of an ongoing quest for realism, evolving over the decades through the long-running Pro-Evo Soccer and Fifa series of games, to EA FC and Konami's eFootball.

Image source, Getty Images England captain Leah Williamson returns to the squad for the first time since Euro 2025 as they prepare to begin their 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying campaign. Williamson, 28, missed England's friendly victories over China, Ghana and Australia as well as their defeat by Brazil at the end of 2025 due to a knee injury. The Arsenal defender had surgery after lifting England's second successive European title in July and returned to action at the start of December.

The last time Diego Simeone lined up an Atlético Madrid side in the Champions League, he was in touching distance of that coveted top-eight finish which would have earned his club a succulent €18.2 million bonus and saved them two deeply unwelcome and risky extra knockout matches. Exactly three weeks later, when the Argentine coach lines Atleti up against Club Brugge on Wednesday for the first leg of their playoff to reach to round of 16,