A horrible error from Benfica s young record-breaking goalkeeper Mile Svilar gifted Manchester United a 1-0 win at the Estadio da Luz as Jose Mourinho s men made it three victories from three in Group A.
Svilar made history as the Champions League s youngest-ever goalkeeper at 18 years and 52 days, but his disappointing positional judgement resulted in Marcus Rashford scoring the decisive goal 26 minutes from time, letting United off after a pretty poor performance.
United probably just about edged things before the break, but it was a turgid half of football, with neither team showing a great deal of quality in the final third.
Mourinho will have been particularly unimpressed with United s inability to test Svilar regularly, particularly given how uncomfortab…
Roma president James Pallotta denied reports claiming Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) wants to acquire the Serie A club.
QSI – which already owns Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain – has been linked with a takeover of Italian side Roma.
Roma are owned by an American investment group, which acquired the team in 2011, and Pallotta played down the takeover claims.
Qatar Sports Investments want to acquire Roma? There is nothing to it. This is fake, Pallotta told RomaPress in response to a report published by French newspaper Le Parisien.
Roma, who reached the Champions League semi-finals last season, have struggled this term.
After sacking Eusebio Di Francesco in March and appointing former boss Claudio Ranieri until the end of the season, Roma…
Over 200 people were arrested on Sunday in Austria on the second day of Euro 2008, including 157 mostly German fans in Klagenfurt, the interior ministry said on Monday.
Among those arrested in the south Austrian town, where Germany and Poland met for their first group stage match, were 144 Germans and 10 Polish fans, said ministry spokesman Konrad Kogler.
All except two fans have since been released, Klagenfurt police spokesman Gottlieb Tuerk told AFP.
They were not expected to be expelled from the country as previously reported in the media, he added.
Dozens of German supporters were arrested after chanting Nazi slogans, which is punishable by up to two years in prison under Austrian law.
But Carinthia police decided not to press incitement…
Fifa will not intervene in the case of Abdullah Ibhais, a former employee of Qatar’s World Cup committee who is on hunger strike after being detained by police in Doha.
Football’s governing body said it would not be taking any action but would “continue to follow this matter closely”, after Ibhais was arrested at his house on Monday.
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Ibhais held the position of deputy communications director for the Supreme Committee, the Qatari body responsible for the delivery of next year’s World Cup. He was removed from the role in 2019 after being accused of fraud over a contract to produce social media content for the t…