Liverpool breezed past West Ham United 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday. A penalty goal&nbsp;by Mohamed Salah&nbsp;in the 35th minute opened the score for the reds, after which&nbsp;Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's 2nd half goal extended Liverpool's lead to 15th consecutive wins. Interestingly, Liverpool has gone 41 Premier League games without defeat as they march towards their first top-flight title since 1990. Liverpool now sits 19-points clear on top of the Premier League table with 70 points in hand.&nbsp;

Liverpool breezed past West Ham United 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday. A penalty goal by Mohamed Salah in the 35th minute opened the score for the reds, after which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's 2nd half goal extended Liverpool's lead to 15th consecutive wins. Interestingly, Liverpool has gone 41 Premier League games without defeat as they march towards their first top-flight title since 1990. Liverpool now sits 19-points clear on top of the Premier League table with 70 points in hand.

Tottenham continued to rise on the Premier League points table after they edged out Aston Villa 3-2 in a five-goal thriller on Sunday night. The stunning away win for Spurs came after Son Heung&nbsp;min rescued them twice including an injury-time goal which gave the visitors 3 points on the night. Spurs now are just 1 point behind Chelsea in the 5th place who have a game in hand in the race for next season's Champions League qualification.&nbsp;

After scoring a match-winning goal Portuguese football club&nbsp;Porto's Moussa Marega&nbsp;walked off the pitch as he was racially abused by the fans. Marega&nbsp;had pointed to the colour of skin while celebrating the goal but fans chose to abuse him instead. Despite numerous requests by the team's staff and his fellow players, Marega&nbsp;walked off the pitch and was visibly furious. Racism in football doesn't seem to end despite efforts by the leagues across the world and Moussa&nbsp;Marega&nbsp;became the latest victim.&nbsp;

Mesut&nbsp;Ozil scored his first goal for Arsenal in over 10 months as his side thumped Newcastle United in the Premier League on Sunday. 4 goals were scored at the Emirates by Arsenal as they beat 13th placed Newcastle to register their 1st win in last 7 outings under new manager Mikel&nbsp;Arteta.&nbsp;Aubameyang,&nbsp;Nicolas Pepe&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Alexandre Lacazette&nbsp;also got on the scoresheet apart from Ozil&nbsp;as Arsenal completed a rout to enter the top 10 on the points table.&nbsp;

Barcelona edged past Getafe&nbsp;after a hard-fought 2-1 win in the La Liga&nbsp;on Saturday to go level with table toppers Real Madrid. Barcelona scored twice in 6 minutes after Antoine Griezmann&nbsp;opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. However, Getafe&nbsp;fought back with a goal in the 66th minute but were denied further goals by the Barca keeper. Now, both Barcelona and Real Madrid have 52 points on the table with a 2-goal difference.&nbsp;

"This is insane!", is what Liverpool manager Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;had to say after his side registered a narrow 1-0 win against Norwich City in the Premier League on Saturday, moving closer to winning their first top-flight title in 30 years. Attacking midfielder&nbsp;Sadio&nbsp;Mane came off the bench and netted the only goal of the game with just 12 minutes remaining on the clock. With this win, the Reds have extended their gigantic&nbsp;lead with 76 points on the charts and are now unbeaten in 43 league games.&nbsp;

Brazilian football legend Pele's life has hit a rough patch as the 79-year-old is suffering from depression and refuses to leave his house unaided due to mobility problems. The 3-time World Cup winner has made all his recent appearances&nbsp;in a wheelchair and according to his son, Pele's&nbsp;condition has worsened due to inadequate&nbsp;rehabilitation after a transplant&nbsp;operation which has left the 3-time World Cup winner too afraid to even leave his house.&nbsp;

The reigning English Premier League Champions, Manchester City, has been banned from all European club competitions for the next two years beginning in 2020-2021 on Friday. The UEFA&nbsp;has also slapped the&nbsp;Abu&nbsp;Dhabi&nbsp;owned club&nbsp;with a fine of whopping 232&nbsp;crores.&nbsp;The shocking sanctions&nbsp;were issued&nbsp;after they were found in serious breaches of UEFA's&nbsp;club licensing and financial fair play regulations. The investigations started with leaks showing city overstated sponsorship revenue. While calling it a&nbsp;flawed decision, City said they&nbsp;were disappointed but not surprised by the decision and will appeal against it.

Saturday&nbsp;marked the first anniversary of the 10 teenage academy players who died in the tragic fire incident at the&nbsp;Flamengo&nbsp;football club in Brazil. In 1 year, most families of who lost their children&nbsp;in the tragedy haven't received&nbsp;any compensation yet. 4 of the 10 families who lost their loved ones have reached a compensation agreement while the others battle for the attention from the club. While the club maintains that it pays the court-ordered monthly compensation, the families are battling in the courts for a fair trial of the accused from the football team. According to various reports in the local press, the academy which housed the kids flouted many constructions norms but the club got away with considerably fewer fines.&nbsp;

Barcelona's forward&nbsp;Ousmane Dembele&nbsp;has been ruled out for 6 months after undergoing surgery for a hamstring tear. The 22-year-old was recovering from another thigh injury when he pulled out of training last week after suffering a ruptured tendon in his thigh. The Frenchman has only played 3 full games this season, missing 63 games in all competitions for his side. Dembele&nbsp;has suffered a string of injuries since joining the La Liga&nbsp;giants from Dortmund in 2017 for a stunning 105 million euros. He is all set to miss the upcoming Euro 2020 due to the injury

Argentina's top-flight footballer Marcelo Diaz&nbsp;was handed a banana during his match on Sunday&nbsp;during a break. The midfielder not only walked around the pitch eating the fruit but also took a free-kick. Apparently, the trick worked as Diaz&nbsp;scored a crucial goal for his side just 4 minutes before the match ended.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Just like the legendary Diego Maradona's&nbsp;goal in the 1986 World Cup which was termed the 'Hand of God goal', a similar attempt on Sunday&nbsp;went completely unnoticed.&nbsp;Joshua Grommen&nbsp;while playing in the AFC&nbsp;Cup for&nbsp;Filipino team, Ceres Negros&nbsp;FC scored a goal which came out to be rather controversial. Sadly, there was no video assistant referee and the goal was considered legal.&nbsp;

After facing years of discrimination and transphobia, Argentina's Mara Gomez is one step closer to script history as she became the first transgender&nbsp;woman to be signed by a woman's first division club. Gomez spent years playing in&nbsp;Buenos Aires's&nbsp;local clubs and now she awaits permission from the Argentine Soccer Federation to play in the first division. A decision in Gomez's favour will mean that she will become the first transgender&nbsp;woman to play professional football.&nbsp;

Premier League football club Manchester United banned their latest signing&nbsp;Odion&nbsp;Ighalo&nbsp;over fears of his exposure to the dreaded coronavirus. Ighalo&nbsp;who is on loan at United from Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua&nbsp;has been banned from the club's training ground in Carrington. The footballer is currently training in a separate&nbsp;location in Manchester with a personal trainer. Keeping in mind the border concern restrictions on travellers who were in China within the past 14 days, United has decided to take precautionary steps but reports suggest that Ighalo&nbsp;has statistically lesser chances of being exposed to the virus.&nbsp;

The electric atmosphere at San Siro&nbsp;was&nbsp;buzzing with Series A fans and they couldn't have asked for a grander Milan derby. Visitors Inter Milan were 2-0 down at half-time as Antonio Conte's side looked dead. A sensational second-half fightback&nbsp;then saw Inter come from behind to&nbsp;stun the home side&nbsp;4-2. The win helped them take top spot in Serie A with 54 points and are ahead of Juventus&nbsp;on goal difference. It was a completely different script in the second-half as 3 goals within 20 minutes&nbsp;put Inter Milan back in command. Italian club's new signing&nbsp;Romelu Lukaku then sealed the win with a stoppage-time goal. Inter are now unbeaten in 16 league games.

Spanish Champions Barcelona twice came from behind to beat Real Betis&nbsp;3-2 on Sunday night and closed their gap between La Liga&nbsp;leaders Real Madrid. The game was tied at 2-2 before Defender Clement Lenglet&nbsp;took Barca&nbsp;to victory as he headed in Lionel Messi's&nbsp;free-kick in the&nbsp;73rd-minute. The Catalan giants are still at the second spot with 49 points but are in contention&nbsp;to leapfrog Real Madrid at the top as they take on&nbsp;Zinedine Zidane's&nbsp;men in 3 weeks.

Real Madrid fought back from a goal down to&nbsp;thrash&nbsp;Osasuna&nbsp;4-1 on Sunday night and maintained their&nbsp;3-point lead at the top of La Liga&nbsp;standings.&nbsp;Unai Garcia put&nbsp;Osasuna&nbsp;ahead in just the 14th minute but 2 goals in a span of 5 minutes from Isco and Sergio Ramos brought Real back into the contest. Gareth Bale too had his first start in 5 games but&nbsp;Lucas Vazquez replaced the Welshman and doubled the lead for his side.&nbsp;22-year-old&nbsp;Luka Jovic&nbsp;then made it 4-1 in extra time s Real Madrid now have 52 points from 23 outings.

Athletic Bilbao&nbsp;upset a Lionel&nbsp;Messi&nbsp;led&nbsp;Barcelona 1-0 in the quarter-final&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Copa del Rey&nbsp;on Thursday night and ended their hopes of&nbsp;reaching a 7th consecutive final. It took 3rd minute of the stoppage time for Spanish forward Inaki Williams to break the deadlock and give his side a dramatic victory. With not everything going well in Barca's&nbsp;camp,&nbsp;Athletic Bilbao poured fuel on Barcelona&rsquo;s fire by dumping out the&nbsp;Catalan Giants.

Before Barcelona was shown the door, Real Madrid too suffered the same fate as they were knocked out by Real Sociedad&nbsp;in the quarter-final of the&nbsp;Copa del Rey&nbsp;in a cup shocker.&nbsp;Real Sociedad&nbsp;won a goal-fest 4-3 as Real Madrid conceded those many goals in a game for the first time under manager&nbsp;Zinedine Zidane. The 2 shock results mean that the Copa del Rey final will not feature Barcelona and Real Madrid for the first time since 2010.

Arsenal midfielder&nbsp;Mesut&nbsp;Ozil&nbsp;received&nbsp;death threats as two men confronted his security guard in front of his north London home on Tuesday. Germany's World cup winning footballer&nbsp;Ozil&nbsp;remember had also faced an&nbsp;attacking carjacking incident in July, last year. These terrifying&nbsp;incidents happened after&nbsp;Ozil&nbsp;dined with Turkish President Recep&nbsp;Tayyip&nbsp;Erdogan&nbsp;at an Iftaar&nbsp;party in May last year.

Barca's new boss has been having fun on the training ground. Manager&nbsp;Quique Seti&eacute;n&nbsp;had his players training with blindfolds on Saturday in their final session before their game against&nbsp;Real Betis&nbsp;on Sunday.&nbsp;Antoine Griezmann and Arturo Vidal were seen running with their eyes covered. The exercise was reportedly to help the players improve 'coordination and orientation' among themselves.

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