Centre-back Henrique has returned to Palmeiras on loan, but he is unlikely to start in their Serie A clash against Fluminense on Sunday.
The Barcelona defender, who spent time at the club in 2008, moves back to the Brazilian top-flight having being on loan at Bundesliga outfit Bayer Leverkusen and La Liga side Racing Santander in the past two seasons.
With five clean sheets in their first nine games, Palmeiras have one of the best defences in the league. It means Henrique short of fitness after being on his European off-season break is unlikely to be rushed into a start against Fluminense.
I m on vacation since June. I spent the first two weeks resting and then I started training, but not with the intensity to play perfectly, he said.
(I) will not lack…
Manchester City s first foray into the Champions League begins with the visit of Napoli to Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.
City s owners, the Abu Dhabi United Group, have spent more than 400 million pounds since purchasing the club in August 2008 as they attempted to secure a berth in European football s elite competition.
A third-place finish in the English Premier League last season realised those ambitions, but a tough draw pits the newcomers against experienced European campaigners Bayern Munich and Villarreal, together with Napoli in Group A.
Coached by Walter Mazzarri, the Naples-based club finished third in Serie A last season, earning a place at the top table of European football for the first time since the club s heyday in the 1980s, when Argentina supers…
FIFA have confirmed that the Club World Cup will be held in Morocco despite the country s removal as hosts for the Africa Cup of Nations.
The North African country, which played host to the Club World Cup in 2013, was announced as the venue for 2015 AFCON tournament in January 2011.
However, Moroccan officials have repeatedly requested for the postponement due to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in west Africa and failed to confirm its intention to host the tournament last weekend.
As a result the Confederation of African Football (CAF) stripped Morocco of its hosting duties on Tuesday and also expelled their team from the competition.
CAF is to select a new AFCON host in the coming days but FIFA has insisted that they will not be altering their plans f…
Hat-trick hero Sergio Aguero salvaged a 3-2 win over 10-man Bayern Munich to keep Manchester City s UEFA Champions League hopes alive.
Winless in their four previous Group E outings, Manuel Pellegrini s team looked set to extend that record to a fifth game on Tuesday until a late intervention from their Argentine superstar.
They had been handed a huge opportunity to claim a major scalp when Bayern defender Mehdi Benatia was sent off for a professional foul on Aguero midway through the first half.
The City striker converted the resulting 22nd-minute penalty before the hosts evening began to unravel as Xabi Alonso buried a low 40th-minute free-kick and then Robert Lewandowski put Pep Guardiola s visitors ahead on the stroke of half-time.
But Alonso swit…
Brighton and Hove Albion are ready to smash their transfer record in an attempt to sign Leicester City midfielder Tom Lawrence, according to the Mirror.
The Seagulls already paid a record fee for goalkeeper Matthew Ryan earlier this summer, and are expected to lay out an even bigger amount if they finalise a deal for Lawrence.
The twenty-three year old faced Brighton, who won the Championship title last term, twice last season during a year-long loan spell with Ipswich Town.
Lawrence has made just four appearances for the Foxes since signing from Manchester United in the summer of 2014 having had temporary stints with Rotherham United, Blackburn Rovers and Cardiff City prior to moving to Portman Road twelve months ago.
He impressed with Mick McCarthy…
Tyrone Mings has signed a new long-term deal with Bournemouth, according to Sky Sports.
The twenty-four year old moved to the Vitality Stadium in the summer of 2015 only to suffer a serious knee injury eleven minutes into his Premier League debut against Leicester City.
His next league outing came against the same opponents fourteen months later – his first of seven top flight outings last term when he also served a five-match ban following an incident with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Prior to his move down south the defender played sixty-three times for Ipswich Town with his one and only international goal so far coming in a 4-2 win over Birmingham City in February 2015.
Mings is the latest in a line of Cherries players to agree a new contract this summe…
In the 15th minute and then early in extra time, the chant of Football s coming home rang out around certain quarters of Wembley.
A handful of English supporters even waved the St George s flag excitedly, these people having sadly come down with a curious case of helluva match fatigue.
The Spanish and Italian fans in London whistled in derision, united in incredulity. Before them a vintage Euro 2020 semi-final was unfolding, but their English brethren were farting out a Lightning Seeds song.
Like the Wimbledon wag who shouts Come on, Tim in an Andy Murray match, this was conduct that invited pity. Save it for another day, eh?
Besides, hadn t they read the signs?
An Italy fan strode down Wembley Way before kick-off in a tricolore flag bearing�…
Naby Keita scored Liverpool s fastest ever Premier League goal as the Reds ripped through Huddersfield Town on Friday with Mohamed Salah marking a personal milestone in style just before the break.
Just 15 seconds were on the clock when Keita doubled his tally of league goals for the campaign, slotting in off the post after robbing Jon Gorenc Stankovic of possession and exchanging passes with Salah.
It was Liverpool s fastest league strike in the competition, while also making Huddersfield the first Premier League side to score and concede a first-minute goal in the same season since Bournemouth in 2016-17.
Jurgen Klopp s side soon had another when Sadio Mane headed home Andrew Robertson s cross, the forward notching his 10th in his last nine games at An…
Leonardo Bonucci claimed the booing of the Italian national anthem by England fans helped to inspire the Azzurri to Euro 2020 glory.
Italy beat England 3-2 on penalties in Sunday s final at Wembley after the match had finished 1-1 following extra time.
Bonucci, who equalised to cancel out Luke Shaw s opener – the quickest goal ever scored in a European Championship final – and then converted his spot-kick in the shoot-out, was a rock at the heart of Italy s defence throughout the tournament.
No defender made more interceptions at Euro 2020 than Bonucci, whose tally of 12 tied him with Ukraine s Mykola Matvienko.
Several incidents occurred outside the ground on Sunday, with groups of supporters without tickets managing to force entry into Wembley.
Canada took a giant stride towards qualifying for their first World Cup since 1986 after Cyle Larin s brace led them to a 2-1 win over rivals Mexico in frosty conditions in Edmonton on Tuesday.
Larin struck either side of half-time, the victory seeing Canada leapfrog the United States and Mexico into top spot in CONCACAF 2022 World Cup qualifying with 16 points from eight games.
The result condemned Mexico to back-to-back qualifying defeats, after Friday s 2-0 loss to USA, leaving El Tri third on 14 points.
USA are second on 15 points following their 1-1 draw in Jamaica earlier on Tuesday.
Canada went ahead on the stroke of half-time when Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa failed to hold Alistair Johnston s long-range effort, with Besiktas forward Larin s…