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Manchester City moved to within a point of Premier League leaders Liverpool with a 1-0 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday evening. Phil Foden scored the winning goal midway through the first half and the visitors had to dig in deep to secure their victory on the south coast. The Cherries did immensely well to stay in the Game and ramped up the pressure on City late on but they couldn't quite carve out enough clear openings. How the game unfolded City should have taken the lead inside the opening ten minutes. Bernardo Silva dropped deep into his own box to collect the ball and play it long for Foden, who flicked it into the path of Erling Haaland, and he somehow fired wide when bearing down on goal. Straight back down the other end, Ederson had to be at full stretch to deny Milos Kerkez's long-range drive. With 24 minutes on the clock, City broke the deadlock. A clever dink over the Bournemouth backline from Mateo Kovacic found Haaland, whose bouncing half-volley was pushed asi...

Manchester City had Rodri to thank as the midfielder's late goal secured them a 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Saturday. The Blues were excellent and led through former City man Raheem Sterling's smart first-half strike , but Rodri struck late in the Game to mask over an uncharacteristically poor performance from Pep Guardiola's side. Erling Haaland missed two great headed chances and sent another effort wide of goal, summing up City's struggles. How the game unfolded Julian Alvarez struck wide inside the first two minutes as City made a hot start, before Haaland sent a header flying well wide of goal when he should have been celebrating a simple tap-in. Chelsea did offer some real threat on the counter. Conor Gallagher's dangerous cut-back was well cleared, as was a smart through-ball to Cole Palmer, while Sterling found an inch of space but could only muster up a tame effort. Nicolas Jackson should have scored 20 minutes in when a counter left him one-on-one with Eders...

Liverpool regained their five -point lead at the top of the Premier League table after thumping Chelsea 4-1 at Anfield on Wednesday night. With Arsenal winning on Tuesday and Manchester City earlier wrapping up a comfortable win over Burnley, three points were very much necessary for the Reds at Anfield. However, it was clear from early on that Liverpool would have no issues as they romped past a tepid Chelsea side that offered little. While Jurgen Klopp's team restored their advantage at the summit, the Blues remain tenth having suffered their first defeat since 24 December. How the game unfolded A poignant Anfield atmosphere greeted the two sides with the distinct contrast of red and blue setting the stage for some Premier League heritage. Unfortunately, there was little by way of a contest as Mauricio Pochettino's striker-less system failed to bear fruit - even if his Chelsea side were unlucky not to win an early penalty when Virgil van Dijk clipped Conor Gallagher. From t...

Eight-time grand prix world champion Marquez made the shock decision to quit Honda a year early to join the satellite Gresini Ducati squad for 2024, following a miserable 2023 campaign on the RC213V. Read Also: MotoGP How a struggling MotoGP sophomore saved his career but highlighted a wider issue This forced Di Giannantonio out of a ride, with the Italian left without one for 2024 until VR46 offered him a contract to replace Honda-bound Luca Marini at the end of the season – a week after the Gresini rider scored his maiden victory in Qatar. With much of the focus for the season ahead on Marquez and his debut on the Ducati, Di Giannantonio says facing up against the Spaniard on equal machinery has not given him any extra motivation. “My motivation is to look on my stats and I don’t have a star [championship] on my side,” he said when asked by Motorsport.com ahead of VR46’s 2024 launch if he felt he had a point to prove this season after losing...

However, tiebreakers will come into play if two or more teams have the same number of wins. The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head record between the tied teams, and the second tiebreaker is the points differential. There are a few more tiebreakers, but they are not relevant to this context. Some “Cupsplaining” follows During the In-Season Tournament, teams in the same group do not play simultaneously . This means that a team may already know the result of their group before their last group stage game. For example, the Bulls and Raptors play their final group stage game after all other games in their group have finished. This gives a team, let’s call them Team A, an advantage as they would know exactly what they need to do to win their group. Let’s say Team A needs to win their last game to force a 3+ way tie for first and win by 6 or more points. In this case, there could be no clear head-to-head winner as all three teams could be 1-1 against the other two. If it were a two-way tie...

Anthony Taylor will take charge of Chelsea's Premier League clash with Manchester City on Sunday just a week after being demoted to the Championship. Taylor was dropped down a division for the first time since 2019 after awarding Newcastle a controversial penalty in their 2-2 draw with Wolves at Molineux - he deemed Hwang Hee-chan to have brought down Fabian Schar in the penalty area when the South Korean attempted to clear the ball. The decision was upheld by VAR as Taylor was determined to have not made a clear and obvious error, with Callum Wilson subsequently going on to give Newcastle the lead. This past weekend, Taylor took charge of Preston's Championship clash with Coventry at Deepdale, when he again awarded a penalty kick after penalising Kyle McFadzean for impeding Milutin Osmajic. The decision was derided on social media after replays suggested the contact was minimal. Refereeing standards have been in the spotlight all season, but things ramped up over the weekend ...