Competition: Euro 2016
Market: England to remain unbeaten in Euro 2016 qualifiers
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After seeing past Estonia in their recent Euro 2016 qualifier, England maintained their 100% record from three games in Group E. The Three Lions have a maximum nine points, and with a fairly easy group to navigate out of, many believe Roy Hodgson’s side could stay unbeaten for the entire qualifying campaign.

Estonia, Lithuania, Switzerland, San Marino and Slovenia are with England in Group E, and considering they’ve already beaten Switzerland away from home in what was billed as their hardest game of the group campaign Coral are giving odds of 4/6 for England to go the entire qualifying campaign unbeaten.

Roy Hodgson’s men are yet to even conceded a goal in …

Lucas Leiva has announced the end of his playing career after undergoing tests for a heart problem.

The former Liverpool and Lazio midfielder was forced to withdraw from training at Brazilian club Gremio in December after the discovery was made during a routine screening.

After spending some time to evaluate and undergo further tests, Lucas confirmed at a press conference on Friday that he has decided to call time on his playing days.

Firstly I would like to thank Gremio for all the support in these three months, a tearful Lucas said. Today, I am announcing my retirement.

It s been a difficult period, I think this is the first time I ve cried over this case. But I can only thank you. I m ending where I d like, not the way I d like. But I m sure a new c…

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez made a big mistake over the European Super League and seriously damaged his image at the club with his grotesque leadership, according to Ramon Calderon.

Perez was named as chairman of the newly-created organisation behind the breakaway competition, which initially saw 12 of Europe s biggest teams sign up to be involved.

However, following widespread backlash to the plan, the big six from the Premier League Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham all announced they were withdrawing on Tuesday.

The proposal included founding members being certain of playing in the Super League each season, regardless of where they finished in their domestic leagues.

Along with Madrid, LaLiga du…

Paris Saint-Germain have won seven of the past eight Ligue 1 titles. This weekend, they might make it eight out of nine.

But this time, the odds are against them.

In the Qatari Sports Investment era, PSG have turned Ligue 1 into their own personal playground, away from the heartache that Champions League tilts tend the bring.

In 2016-17, they missed out to Monaco, whose lavishly gifted young squad came together at the perfect time.

Kylian Mbappe s supernova emergence inconvenienced PSG so much they decided they had to sign him once the campaign ended, but the France sensation had quite the supporting cast.

Bernardo Silva, Thomas Lemar, Fabinho, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Benjamin Mendy all went on to rake in hundreds of millions of euros collectively as…

Juventus have completed the signing of highly rated Dusan Vlahovic from Fiorentina for a fee of €70million.

The striker, who turned 22 on Friday, agreed to a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Bianconeri and passed a medical.

Juve will pay the €70m fee over three financial years, plus additional costs of €11.6m. A further €10m will be due to Fiorentina should Vlahovic meet certain sporting objectives.

Vlahovic is the joint-top scorer in Serie A this season with 17 goals from 21 appearances – a tally only matched by Lazio s Ciro Immobile.

He has been linked with a host of top clubs across Europe after his impressive form over the past two seasons.

Vlahovic joins Massimiliano Allegri s Juve team, who have often struggled to turn possessi…

Spain playmaker Cesc Fabregas considers England to be among the contenders for the Euro 2016 title.

Roy Hodgson s side – who came through their qualifying group for next year s competition in France with a 100 per cent record faced defending European champions Spain on Friday, suffering a 2-0 defeat.

While the Chelsea midfielder believes England are a team in transition, he feels they have enough quality to challenge for the trophy next summer.

He was impressed by their counter-attacking football but warns they will need to be more clinical if they are to succeed.

They are a young team, the same as us, changing a little bit as the [Steven] Gerrards and [Frank] Lampards have gone, Fabregas is quoted as saying by The Mirror. It s the same for us with Xav…

Celtic are interested in signing Martin Dubravka from Newcastle United in the summer transfer window, according to . Joe Hart has decided to retire, and Dubravka is one of the goalkeepers that Scottish Premiership giants Celtic are keen on signing as a replacement.

TEAMtalk has reported that Celtic have made contact with Premier League club Newcastle and have asked about a potential deal for Dubravka. The Magpies have made the 35-year-old Slovakia international goalkeeper available for transfer, and the Hoops, who won the Scottish Premiership title last season yet again, are keen.

Newcastle, who did not finish in the Premier League top four last season, are going to sign a new goalkeeper to compete with Nick Pope and are desperate to get rid of Dubravka, who has been on…

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp does not care that his side are now considered favourites to win the Premier League.

Sunday’s win over Brighton, combined with Manchester City and Arsenal’s goalless draw, elevated the Reds back to the top of the table with nine matches to go.

But Klopp is well aware, with a round of midweek fixtures followed closely by games at the weekend, the situation can change in an instant.

“It is nothing we are obviously aware of. The situation is, for us, Sheffield United, and not who is the favourite,” he said ahead of Thursday’s home game against the rock-bottom Blades.

“I am pretty sure when we lost at Arsenal (on February 4) we were not favourites after that – maybe rightly so – but I don’t know and I don’t c…

Christian Eriksen described Manchester United s derby drubbing as a very bad day at the office after hat-tricks from Erling Haaland and Phil Foden rocked the Red Devils.

A 6-3 defeat at the Etihad Stadium almost flattered United, with two late goals from Anthony Martial making the scoreline look as though they might at some point have had a foothold in the game.

Instead, it was a savaging for United, who conceded six goals in a Premier League fixture for only the fourth time. This was the second time it has happened against City, the first coming at Old Trafford, a 6-1 pasting in October 2011.

Eriksen was caught napping for Foden s opener, as he let the City homegrown talent run away from him to tuck in Bernardo Silva s cross.

He then lost Haaland at a co…

Carlo Ancelotti refused to blame the officials after Real Madrid s 3-2 loss at Rayo Vallecano, putting Monday s defeat down to a bad game .

Oscar Trejo scored the winner for Roya with a retaken second-half penalty, converted after the VAR penalised Dani Carvajal for encroachment, to condemn Madrid to their first defeat in LaLiga this season.

Los Blancos trail Barcelona by two points at the top-flight summit after just their second loss to Rayo in 21 league games.

Madrid are also without a win in their last two LaLiga outings after a 1-1 draw with Girona and coach Ancelotti acknowledged his side struggled at Vallecas.

We knew they played like that, they were more forceful than us in the duels. It was a bad game, that s it, the Italian said.

It co…