Daryl Dike and Benji Michel each netted a brace for Orlando City in a 5-0 rout of San Jose Earthquakes on Tuesday.
The comfortable win moved the Lions clear of Philadelphia to sit alone in second place behind New England Revolution in Major League Soccer s Eastern Conference.
Nani opened the scoring from the spot in the seventh minute and the Orlando native Michel followed with his first goal of the season after 16 minutes.
The USA international Dike put the game out of reach, netting in the 31st and 49th minutes with Nani assisting on both goals.
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Dike was making his first start since returning to Orlando City from a loan to Barnsley, where the 21-year-old scored nine goals …
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Latvia and Armenia will lock horns with each other in UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group D this week. The match between Dainis Kazakevičs’s side and Oleksandr Petrakov’s team will be held at Skonto Stadium in Riga and will kick off at 5pm UK time on Thursday.
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Latvia are one of the smallest footballing nations in Europe and do not tend to do well. Not one expects them to go qualify for any major international competitions or even come close to qualifying.
Dainis Kazakevičs’s side are not going to qualify for the UEFA Euro 2024 finals. Latvia are at the foot of UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group D with no point from five matches. Latvia have lost all five of their qualifiers.
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Ten-man Bayer Leverkusen failed to capitalise on Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund dropping Bundesliga points when they visited Wolfsburg.
Leverkusen had the chance to return to the top of the league on Sunday with a win after Bayern were held to a goalless draw by Hamburg and Jurgen Klopp s Dortmund were defeated by his former club Mainz on Saturday.
But Giulio Donati s sending off after just seven minutes forced Roger Schmidt s side to play at a man disadvantage for much of the match.
That clumsy challenge also afforded Ricardo Rodriguez the opportunity to put the hosts in front from the spot, which he duly accepted, adding to the goal he scored in Thursday s 4-1 UEFA Europa League loss to Everton, when he also netted at the wrong end.
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Championship strugglers Bolton Wanderers have been served with a winding-up petition from Her Majesty s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) over unpaid PAYE and VAT in November.
Bolton have racked up huge debts since falling out of the Premier League in 2012 and announced a deficit of £172.9million in April of this year.
The Lancashire club s crisis deepened when players failed to receive wages on time for November.
Bolton have now fallen foul of HMRC, with a club statement reading: Bolton Wanderers can confirm that the club has now received a winding-up petition from HMRC in respect of unpaid PAYE and VAT for the month of November.
Despite requests from the club to HMRC to give it further time to either conclude a sale or raise additional funds, HMRC has proce…
Manchester City defender Taylor Harwood-Bellis has joined Anderlecht on a season-long loan.
The 19-year-old is linking up with former City captain Vincent Kompany, who is preparing for his second full season in charge as coach at Lotto Park.
Kompany successfully called on his former club for help last term, taking Lukas Nmecha on a temporary deal spanning the 2020-21 campaign.
The German went on to score 18 goals in 37 league appearances over the course of his stay in Belgium.
Now the hope will be that Harwood-Bellis, who spent the back half of last season in the Championship with Blackburn Rovers, can make a similar positive impact.
The teenager, who joined City s academy at the age of six, has made senior appearances for the club so far.
Diego Llorente has left Real Madrid and joined Real Sociedad, agreeing terms on a five-year deal.
The defender spent the previous two campaigns on loan at Rayo Vallecano and Malaga, enjoying life as a first-team fixture at both.
That was a far cry from his experience at Santiago Bernabeu, where he made just two substitute appearances in the league since 2012.
The 23-year-old made his Spain debut in a 3-1 friendly win over Bosnia-Herzegovina in May last year, and will be hoping his move to La Real will provide the platform to further build his reputation.
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Real Madrid are interested in signing Milan Skriniar from Inter Milan in the summer transfer window, according to . It has been reported that Spanish and European giants Madrid have already approached Milan for the 27-year-old central defender, but the asking price of €55 million is high for Los Blancos.
Skriniar is one of the best central defenders in the world, and at the age of 27, he is at the top of his game at the moment. The Slovakia international centre-back has been on the books of Inter since 2017 and won the Serie A title last season.
Madrid are at the top of the La Liga table at the moment with 57 points from 25 matches, six points ahead of second-placed Sevilla. Inter, who are the defending Italian champions, are second in Serie A with 54 points from 25 m…
Bayern Munich are optimistic they will reach an agreement over a contract extension for David Alaba and that he will ultimately stay with the club for the rest of his career, according to chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Alaba, 28, joined Bayern s academy in 2008 and has since gone on to enjoy a glorious association with Die Roten s senior side, winning a total of nine Bundesliga titles.
Ever since his breakthrough campaign in 2011-12, when he made 30 league appearances, Alaba has rarely struggled to hold down a place in the side.
The recently concluded 2019-20 campaign posed an entirely different challenge, as a defensive injury crisis led to the Austria star featuring as a centre-back.
He took to the task with aplomb, allowing teenage sensation Alphonso…
England are in good shape to go on a long run at Euro 2016 in France next year, according to their former defender Ledley King.
Roy Hodgson s men have already booked their ticket to the tournament, having won all eight of their Group E qualification matches so far and will attempt to make it a perfect 10 in their last two encounters against Estonia and Lithuania.
King who was capped 21 times between 2002 and 2010 has seen significant improvements in England s displays and feels the faster pace of their attack could prove to be a huge benefit at the finals next year, which begin in June.
I think there is a good youthful squad at the moment, he told Omnisport.
Obviously previous tournaments were disappointing but I believe the players would have learned a…
Lee Carsley has been appointed interim England head coach for next month s Nations League fixtures versus the Republic of Ireland and Finland.
The Football Association (FA) has been searching for a new England boss for the first time since 2016, with Gareth Southgate resigning in the aftermath of the Three Lions Euro 2024 final loss to Spain.
Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Graham Potter and Eddie Howe have been linked with the post, but the FA is keen to take its time over a full-time appointment.
With that in mind, Carsley has been handed the job on an interim basis, initially just for next month s fixtures but with the potential to extend his remit into the coming months.
Carsley has been England Under-21 manager since 2021 and led the team to Euro…