FootBall

Borussia Dortmund leapfrogged Inter Milan into the round of sixteen, following a 2-1 win over Slavia Prague. The Bundesliga side opened the scoring with the game just ten minutes old, as Marco Reus squared the ball to Jadon Sancho who turned the ball home from close range.  Prague battled back …

Chelsea moved through to the Champions League knockout stage with a 2-1 win over a largely compliant Lille side at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. Tammy Abraham and Cesar Azpilicueta scored first-half goals as Frank Lampard’s men bounced back from their weekend defeat to Everton by sewing up second spot in …

Carlo Ancelotti has been sacked by Napoli despite steering the Serie A club into the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday night. Napoli beat Genk 4-0 at home on Tuesday to end a run of nine games without a victory in all competitions, securing second place in Group …

Deschamps, a former France skipper who led the team to 1998 World Cup glory, has been at the coaching helm of Les Bleus since summer 2012. The decision to extend his contract will be made official by the French football federation at a press conference later Tuesday, the source told …

Barcelona and Real Madrid face a new threat of disruption at the season’s first Clasico after pro-Catalan independence activists targeted the Camp Nou for protests. The Tsunami Democratic protest group, which is run by anonymous leaders and mobilises followers by means including social media, has called on its supporters to head to four …

Didier Deschamps will lead France in their World Cup defence after committing to Les Bleus through to the end of their Qatar 2022 mission. The new deal for the head coach, confirmed at a news conference in Paris, rewards the former midfielder for his ongoing success with the national team. Deschamps …

Arkadiusz Milik scored a first-half hat-trick as Napoli eased into the last-16 of the Champions League with a 4-0 home win over Genk. With the Belgian side already consigned to finishing bottom in Group E, all the pressure was on Carlo Ancelotti’s men at Stadio San Paolo on Tuesday. Yet …

Mitch Freeley Goal! Mohamed Salah fires Liverpool into a 2-0 leads minutes after the restart. Somehow, from the tightest of angles Salah scores! Wow!  Goal! Naby Keita opens the scoring against his former side! Sadio Mane floats a ball into the box and Keita nods the ball into an empty net!  …

Sunday’s women’s College Cup final had seven players on the field who have been invited to a senior United States Women’s National Team camp, but the breakout star of the 0-0 draw between Stanford and North Carolina wasn’t any of them. Cardinal freshman goalkeeper Katie Meyer made a name for …

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Tactically Naive, SB Nation’s weekly soccer column. Today is Tactically Naive’s birthday! Hooray! Update from the All-England Apology Championships It was a thrilling evening at the London Stadium, London. The Premier League’s two most risible excuses for football teams went head to head …