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Paris Saint-Germain welcome Toulouse to the Parc des Princes on Saturday without one of their key playmakers in Marco Verratti.  

The defending Ligue 1 champions are already 10 points clear at the top of the table, having taken 32 points from the first 12 games.

Yet, while PSG remain unbeaten in domestic action, Real Madrid finally handed Laurent Blanc s men their first loss of the campaign at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.

Real claimed a 1-0 win in the Champions League Group A clash in the Spanish capital, Nacho s 35th-minute goal settling the encounter.

And the reverse was doubly costly for PSG, with Italy midfielder Verratti suffering an ankle injury serious enough to see him miss the visit of Dominique Arribage s struggling side.

However,…

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Hoping to find a route into the play-off places on Tuesday night, West Brom will welcome a struggling QPR to the Hawthorns.

Starting with the hosts, eventually frustrated over the weekend as they had to settle for a 0-0 stalemate at home against Plymouth, West Brom will be desperate to make a real statement here. Although the Baggies might have largely struggled with their consistency since opening up the 2023/24 campaign, Carlos Corberan’s side still have their sights firmly set on clinching a play-off ticket this season. Opening up October with a routine 1-0 win against Sheffield Wednesday, the former Huddersfield boss has seen his squad suffer just a single defeat from any of their previous seven appearances a run that ste…

Spanish media outlet Don Balon claims that Real Madrid are hot on the trail of Arsenal hotshot Alexis Sanchez.

It is no secret that the Chilean hopes to leave the Emirates for greener pastures, but Arsene Wenger doesn’t seem keen on selling this summer.

Nevertheless, latest reports suggest that Real Madrid chairman Florentino Perez is prepared to offer €70 million for the former Barcelona forward.

While Arsenal were hoping to get Karim Benzema in exchange, los Blancos are not interested in such a deal, meaning the Gunners will need to consider a cash only offer.

It remains to be seen though whether Sanchez would be tempted by the prospect of joining Real Madrid having represented their bitter rivals between 2011 and 2014.

The Chilean has sinc…

England s friendly clash with Germany at Wembley on Friday will see a video assistant referee (VAR) used in an official match in the United Kingdom.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) agreed to a two-year test of VAR in 2016, making goals, penalties, straight red cards and mistaken identity cases reviewable by match officials.

VARs and other officials do not have the power to insist that the referee consults video evidence of an incident, but they are able to recommend that a decision is looked at.

Wembley has seen VAR used once before, with a charity match in October playing the role of testing ground for the system.

Fittingly, England and Germany matches have a history of controversial incidents which would have been avoided with VAR.<…

Former Barcelona president Joan Gaspart believes Real Madrid president Florentino Perez will keep fighting to make his club the most successful in Spain despite Barca s incredible dominance in recent times.

Real Madrid have won just one La Liga title since 2008, while Barcelona have won five of the last seven and Atletico Madrid winning the other.

In that time, they also won their 10th Champions League title, completing the famous La Decima under Carlo Ancelotti.

This season, Madrid languish in third in the La Liga title race, 12 points behind leaders Barcelona, but remain in the Champions League having cruised past Roma to book their spot in the quarter finals.

Despite the club s fall from grace as the top dog in Spanish football, Gaspart believes Perez …

Sergio Aguero says there is no limit to what he can achieve at Manchester City after becoming the club s all-time record goalscorer.

The Argentina striker scored his side s third in their 4-2 Champions League win over Napoli at the San Paolo on Wednesday, surpassing Eric Brook s 78-year-old record of 177 for the club.

The achievement cemented the 29-year-old s place as one of the best players in City s history and helped Pep Guardiola s side secure their last-16 spot with two group games to spare.

And Aguero insists he is as ambitious as ever in his seventh season at the Etihad Stadium.

There s no limit, he said. For me, every game is important. Obviously when I score a goal I m very happy, but above all a player is happy if his team wins. The limit is …

Argentina captain Lionel Messi admitted he would have liked play at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he was left out of the squad in favour of the Copa America Centenario.

Coach Gerardo Martino opted against making Messi who won gold at the Beijing Games in 2008 compete at both June s Copa America and the Olympics in August.

Martino stressed that the Barcelona star agreed with the decision, but Messi conceded he is disappointed not be involved for the campaign in Brazil.

I would have liked to go because it was a spectacular experience for me to play in the [2008] Olympics, just as it was for the [2005] U20 World Cup, Messi told ESPN.

Not just because we won, but for the experience I gained.

It was a great experience to stay in the Olym…

Paris Saint-Germain are interested in signing Paul Pogba from Manchester United in the summer transfer window, according to . It has been reported that the French giants are considering making a bid for the France international midfielder.

Pogba is out of contract at United at the end of next season. The 28-year-old returned to the Red Devils from Italian giants Juventus in 2016. No new deal is in place, and there is speculation that the midfielder himself wants to leave and is looking for a new challenge.

PSG are one of the richest clubs in the world and will be aiming to reclaim the Ligue 1 title next season. Mauricio Pochettino’s side will also be determined to win the Champions League in 2021-22. Pogba scored and gave three assists in 21 Premier League starts for…

Denis Cheryshev will be back in yellow next season after agreeing a deal to sign for Villarreal from Real Madrid.

The two La Liga clubs agreed a fee before the Russian star signed a five-year deal with the club he played for during the 2014-15 season.

During his previous stint, he featured in 40 games across all competitions, scoring seven goals and assisting 10.

| ¡Bienvenido de nuevo, ! / Welcome back Cheryshev! / Benvingut de nou, Cheryshev!

— Villarreal CF (@VillarrealCF)

He returned to Madrid last season, but failed to work his way into coach Zinedine Zidane s plans, eventually being loaned out in January to Valencia.

Since signing for Madrid in 2008, Cheryshev made over 100 appearances for the club s second-string side, but…

Giorgio Chiellini was delighted to gain a measure of revenge after he opened the scoring in Italy s 2-0 Euro 2016 win over holders Spain.

The Juventus man turned in a typically robust defensive display and scrambled home a deserved opener for Italy in the 33rd minute of a superb first-half performance.

Spain came on strong as the clock ticked down, with Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, man-of-the-match Leonardo Bonucci and their club goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon manning the fort before Graziano Pelle struck in stoppage time to spark delirious celebrations.

Italy were knocked out of Euro 2008 on penalties by Spain and were thrashed 4-0 in the final four years later.

A shoot-out loss at the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil then followed, leaving the 31-year-old…