Yamal bags brace as Barca take Girona revenge
GIRONA, Spain: Teenage star Lamine Yamal struck twice as La Liga leaders Barcelona thrashed Girona 4-1 on Sunday.
GIRONA, Spain: Teenage star Lamine Yamal struck twice as La Liga leaders Barcelona thrashed Girona 4-1 on Sunday.
SAN SEBASTIAN: Vinicius Junior and Kylian Mbappe both struck from the penalty spot to earn Real Madrid a 2-0 win at Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia looks to a former La Liga delegate, Giorgio Pompili Rossi, to get its troubled football league back on its feet.
MADRID: Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez blasted La Liga for not employing goal-line technology after his team’s 3-2 Clasico defeat on Sunday left Real Madrid on the brink of the title.
CADIZ: Joao Felix netted a brilliant bicycle kick to earn depleted Barcelona a 1-0 La Liga win at relegation-threatened Cadiz yesterday as manager Xavi Hernandez rested key players ahead of their Champions League quarter-final against Paris St Germain.
The win moves the hosts to ninth in La Liga with 38 points, eight off the European spots.
BILBAO: For M-League teams who can’t afford foreign footballers, they should look at Spanish club Athletic Bilbao.
RIYADH: Vinicius Jr scored a hat-trick in the first half as Real Madrid were crowned Spanish Super Cup champions after a 4-1 demolition of bitter rivals Barcelona in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
MADRID: Spain's La Liga reacted angrily Thursday to Europe's top court ruling UEFA and FIFA had broken EU law in stifling the Super League, declaring it is “a selfish and elitist model.”