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England midfielder Mount struck with Chelsea’s first effort on goal at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan in Seville, rolling Zaidu Sanusi expertly before driving into the bottom corner just after the half-hour mark.  Full-back Ben Chilwell then pounced on a defensive error to double the lead with five minutes to play, …

The La Liga giants began without defenders Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, and were tipped to be there for the taking. But it was the visitors’ back line that proved shakiest with a comedy of errors that now see them on the brink of exiting the competition they won in 2018/2019. …

Atletico have had an outstanding season in Spain, where they are four points clear at the top-flight summit, but could find no way past a Chelsea side who look increasingly formidable as the English Premier League side kept successive clean sheets against an attack including Luis Suarez and Joao Felix. Two …

Juventus were only knocked out on away goals. Barcelona would only have been two goals down if Messi’s late first-half penalty had gone in rather than hit Keylor Navas and the crossbar. Ronaldo should have scored from a free header. PSG should not have been awarded the penalty from which …

In one of the most dramatic, unpredictable games of the season so far, Juventus repeated the rigmarole of their second leg of the round of 16 against Lyon last season, when they started as favorites despite being a goal down, only to swiftly concede a penalty. This time, the inspirational Sérgio Oliveira, …

Owner Roman Abramovich and his board of directors increasingly look to have found the right manager in Tuchel for their gifted and expensively assembled squad, although how much of a masterstroke the move can be considered on their part is debatable given that the 2020 Champions League finalist is thought not to …

The photogenic pair were bombarded with racist comments under a shot they had shared of themselves posing on a boat in Ibiza, which 19-year-old Huitema affectionately described as a “baecation”. Almost four months after the picture had first been posted, a targeted campaign of poisonous comments appeared based around the …

The visitors stunned viewers by walking off in Paris after an allegation of racism against one of the officials in the first half, when former Chelsea striker Demba Ba was seen pointing and arguing with one of the refereeing team while a crowd including Brazil striker Neymar tried to discover what …

As Bayern claimed a 1-0 win over PSG in the final of Europe’s most glittering club football tournament, played in Lisbon, hundreds of disappointed fans poured out of bars and other venues into the streets of Paris. Multiple vehicles were smashed and at least one car torched near the Champs-Elysées, …

Three athletes in Russia passed a positive doping test, said the international weightlifting Federation. We are talking about the Hope of Evstyukhina, Oleg Chen and David Bedjanyan. In August of 2019 they are also not allowed to compete because of violation of anti-doping rules. Evstyukhina — three-time world champion and …