Sadio Mane scored twice as Kepa Arrizabalaga made another calamitous error in a 2-0 victory for Liverpool over 10-man Chelsea, with Thiago Alcantara conceding a penalty on his debut.

Frank Lampard s side hardly laid a glove on the Premier League champions at Stamford Bridge and their cause was not helped by Andreas Christensen s red card late in the first half, with Mane then scoring twice in the space of four minutes after the restart.

Mane s second was a gift from the much-maligned Kepa, whose days as Chelsea s first choice seem numbered with Rennes goalkeeper Edouard Mendy supposedly close to joining.

Thiago – who came on as a half-time substitute following his £20million move from Bayern Munich – marked his Liverpool debut by fouling Timo Werner to gi…

Bayern Munich CEO Oliver Kahn lauded Julian Nagelsmann s fast start to life at the German giants following their 5-0 Champions League rout of Dynamo Kiev.

Robert Lewandowski scored twice while Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting were also on target in Wednesday s crushing Group E victory.

Nagelsmann has now won nine of his first 10 games in all competitions since replacing Hansi Flick – the best start by a Bayern coach.

Bayern have kept five clean sheets across all competitions this season to top the Bundesliga and Group E, and former goalkeeper Kahn hailed their stability under highly rated boss Nagelsmann.

I think it has happened very, very quickly and we can already see his handwriting, Kahn said of former RB Leipzig coach Nagelsm…

Thomas Tuchel was delighted with Romelu Lukaku s second Chelsea debut, but tempered praise, insisting it is not the time for too much celebration .

Lukaku scored the opening goal in Chelsea s 2-0 win at Arsenal on Sunday, with Reece James grabbing the second.

The Gunners had won their past three games against Chelsea in all competitions, but were outclassed as £97.5million signing Lukaku had an instant impact.

He had eight attempts and created a further three chances, having only previously been involved in more than 11 shots in a single match in Europe s top five leagues (13 for Everton v West Ham, 2015).

Lukaku continued his outstanding Inter form, with 13 goals and eight assists in his past 19 league games, and appeared to solve Chelsea s biggest prob…

Paul Pogba will continue to play with a smile on his face as long as Manchester United keep winning, he explained after another decisive Premier League strike.

United reclaimed top spot with a 2-1 victory at Fulham on Wednesday, moving back ahead of Leicester City and Manchester City after their wins over Chelsea and Aston Villa respectively.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer s men triumphed having conceded first away from home for the seventh time in seven attempts this term with Pogba striking the winner after Edinson Cavani had cancelled out Ademola Lookman s early opener.

Pogba s effort was a fine left-footed blast from outside the area, his first league effort with his weaker foot from this range since January 2015 when he was still at Juventus.

It was a goal the…

Sarina Wiegman expressed her pride and relief after England qualified for the 2023 Women s World Cup with a 2-0 win over Austria.

Alessia Russo, replacing the retired Ellen White in the starting line-up, opened the scoring and Nikita Parris doubled the European champions lead at Wiener Neustadt Stadium on Saturday.

Victory for the Lionesses sealed their place in the showpiece in the tournament in Australia and New Zealand next year with one game to spare against Luxembourg on Tuesday.

England head coach Wiegman reflected on a job well done just over a month after her side won a first major trophy by being Germany at Wembley.

She said: I m happy that we qualified, that we had a win, conceded no goals, scored two, which is one more than we did in th…

Marcos Llorente and Alvaro Morata scored as Atletico Madrid earned a 2-0 win at Sevilla on Saturday, ratcheting up pressure on home boss Julen Lopetegui.

Koke claimed an assist for the opening goal, on the day he made a record-breaking 554th Atletico appearance, with Llorente taking the plaudits after placing a neat finish into the bottom-left corner.

Sevilla have won just one league game so far this season, and their lack of confidence was clear as Diego Simeone s men extended their lead through Morata s finish from a one-on-one chance after 57 minutes.

The result lifts Atleti into fifth in LaLiga s early-season standings, while Lopetegui appears to be on borrowed time at Sevilla after overseeing another meek reverse.

Atleti made a bright start as Llore…

Criticism of Louis van Gaal as a conservative coach is unfair, according to Arsene Wenger, who believes the Netherlands boss will gamble when required.

Van Gaal has led the Oranje to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in his third stint in the job, beating the United States 3-1 on Saturday.

The Netherlands also reached the semi-finals under the former Ajax and Barcelona coach in 2014, before missing out on qualification for Russia 2018 in his absence.

Wenger, leading FIFA s technical study group, therefore believes Van Gaal deserves more leeway as his style of play in this tournament is scrutinised.

After finishing top of Group A, Van Gaal told journalists to go home if the Netherlands football was terribly boring , as the accusation had been.

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Bayern Munich confirmed Harry Kane did not suffer a serious injury against Eintracht Frankfurt and will be available for England in the international break.

Kane, who has already netted 10 goals in nine appearances for Bayern in all competitions this season, was substituted in the 72nd minute of their 3-3 draw with a suspected thigh injury.

The England captain was assessed by the Football Association s (FA) doctors on Monday, with the German side announcing no structural injury was found.

Kane, who made his 100th appearance for England during their last match against Finland, will be available for the return leg in Helsinki, and their match against Greece at Wembley prior to that.

While the striker has been given the all-clear for international action, Da…

Africa Cup of Nations hosts Cameroon are back in action as the second matches of the group stage get under way.

Thursday sees Group A take centre stage, with Cameroon facing Ethiopia and Cape Verde taking on Burkina Faso.

Cameroon, champions in 2017, of course have the aim of going all the way on home soil to claim their sixth AFCON title. A win, combined with victory for Cape Verde, would see both progress to the knockout stage with a game to spare.

Cameroon v Ethiopia (16:00 GMT)

Cameroon are ranked 50th in the world by FIFA, making them the seventh-best side in the competition, but tournament hosts always have that extra impetus to go all the way.

Captain Vincent Aboubakar scored both of Cameroon s goals in a 2-1 win over Burkina Faso in thei…

Jonas Eidevall failed to concede Arsenal s hopes of winning the Women s Super League title after falling to a 2-1 defeat to Chelsea at the Emirates on Saturday.

The defeat leaves Arsenal in sixth place in the early-season standings having taken just five points from their opening four games of the season.

Mayra Ramirez and Sandy Baltimore handed the visitors a two-goal advantage early on, with Caitlin Foord s fine individual effort before half-time proving to be just a consolation.

It brought an end to a dismal week for Eidevall, having watched his side lose their Champions League opener 5-2 to Bayern Munich on Wednesday.

It certainly doesn t help, but as I said before, the only way is to go game by game, Eidevall said on his side s hopes of winning t…