A late equaliser from Alex spared Paris Saint-Germain s blushes as the Ligue 1 leaders were held to a 1-1 draw by Guingamp on Saturday.
The defending champions appeared to be heading for only their second league defeat of the season when Mali striker Mustapha Yatabare put the hosts ahead six minutes from time with a header from Rachid Alioui s corner.
However, Jocelyn Gourvennec s men were denied a famous victory just three minutes later when Alex powered home Lucas Moura s delivery to rescue a point that moves PSG six ahead of Monaco, who host Marseille on Sunday.
At the other end of the table, Montpellier boosted their survival hopes with a 3-1 home win over Nice that puts the 2011-12 champions six points clear of the drop zone.
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Sunderland have made an approach to sign Carl Jenkinson on loan from Arsenal, .
The full-back spent last season with West Ham United, for whom he made thirty-six appearances in all competitions.
Prior to his switch to the Boleyn Ground, the former Charlton Athletic man racked up fifty-seven appearances in all competitions for the Gunners, with his one and only goal for the club coming in his last outing for the club a 2-0 win over Norwich City in the final game of the 2013/14 campaign.
Arsene Wenger has no intention of selling the one time England international permanently, though could be willing to ship him out on a temporary basis once again with Calum Chambers and Mathieu Debuchy also currently competing for a starting berth at right back for the North L…
Pablo Sarabia insists injury-enforced changes were no excuse for Paris Saint-Germain s surprise 2-0 loss to Reims in Ligue 1.
The champions lost a home league match for the first in 16 months as their visitors capitalised upon a lacklustre display – substitute Boulaye Dia sealing the points in stoppage time after Hassane Kamara s first-half opener.
Head coach Thomas Tuchel made five changes to his starting XI and was without the likes of Julian Draxler, Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappe and Mauro Icardi, but former Sevilla winger Sarabia felt there was still ample quality to get the job done.
It was a game in which we could not find any space, we were unable to knock the ball about with the right pace, and then they penalised us on the break, he told reporters.
Arturo Vidal has not taken long to aim a dig at Barcelona s fierce rivals Real Madrid by claiming Los Blancos would have not won the previous two Champions Leagues had VAR been in use.
The Chile international swapped Bayern Munich for Camp Nou earlier this month and after only two competitive appearances for the Blaugrana he has taken a swipe at Madrid.
Vidal was part of the Bayern squad that was beaten by Real Madrid in the latter stages of the previous two editions of the competition.
Bayern felt hard done by on both occasions as Madrid got the rub of the green when it came to the big decisions, including Vidal s red card in their quarter-final second leg in April 2017.
That clash went to extra time with the scores level at 3-3 on aggregate but Cristia…
Coach Otto Rehhagel said Greece still had a mountain to climb to reach the World Cup knockout phase after his side registered their first ever win at football s showpiece event.
Coming into Thursday s match against Nigeria, the Euro 2004 winners had never won a match or scored a goal in a World Cup finals, finishing pointless in their only other appearance, in the United States in 1994.
They started their campaign in South Africa with a 2-0 defeat to South Korea and their hopes hung by a thread when trailing Nigeria 1-0 Thursday before a red card for Nigeria s Sani Kaita changed the match.
The Greeks came back to win the Group B clash 2-1 after a goal late in the first half by Dimitrios Salpingidis and a second half winner from Vasileios Torosidis.
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French giants Olympique Marseille have officially announced the transfer of Ivory Coast international Bakari Kone to Qatari club Lakhwiya. The deal marks the end of Kone s two year stay at L OM. Kone made a little over fifty appearances for Marseille after transferring from Nice in 2008 for a reported ten million euro fee.
Kone returns to the Gulf after a gap of eight years. He once played for Al Ittihad in Qatar but left them in 2003 to pursue his further career in France with Lorient. After two impressive seasons for Lorient, Kone earned a transfer to Nice in 2005.
Kone made his debut for Ivory Coast in 2004 but was not part of their 2010 World Cup team.
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West Ham United F.C. co-owner David Sullivan has confirmed the club have agreed a deal to sign Alex Song from Barcelona.
The deal is subject to Song, who joined Barcelona from Arsenal for a fee of £15 million in the summer of 2012, passing a medical at Upton Park.
The former Cameroon international, 27, tallied three assists in 28 English Premier League appearances while on loan at West Ham last season.
We have a deal in place with Alex Song subject to a medical. If the medical is okay, we ll take him, Sullivan said.
He s a player we all admire and we just hope that the medical shows he s in a sufficient state for us to gamble.
He couldn t physically pass a medical tomorrow, but if the medics say it s just a technical thing and h…
Clint Dempsey scored a hat-trick, including two goals in the final five minutes, as Seattle Sounders stole a 4-4 draw at Portland Timbers.
In the first meeting between the arch-rivals in the 2014 MLS season, Seattle skipper Dempsey struck in the 85th minute and then converted a penalty two minutes later as the Sounders recovered from being 4-2 down to claim a point at Providence Park in Portland.
Seattle s late comeback kept the Timbers winless in five games this season and added another chapter to the rich history between the two clubs.
Saturday s game was the 85th meeting between the Sounders and the Timbers, who also played against each other in the old North American Soccer League and first clashed in 1975.
The visitors hit the front in just the third minute …
England defender Ben Chilwell has signed a new long-term deal with Leicester City, the Premier League club have confirmed.
Chilwell has impressed for Claude Puel s side since the start of last season, and has started all eight league games for the Foxes this term, making his first start for the national side against Croatia on October 12.
And the 21-year-old, who made his first top-flight appearance in 2016, and has now agreed a fresh contract which will keep him at the King Power Stadium until 2024.
Leicester s always felt like the right place for me, Chilwell told the club s official website.
I ve had fantastic support at every level since I arrived nine years ago and I ve always felt opportunities would come if I continued to work hard.
That…
Former Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac says he would rather die than sign for Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain.
The France international spent five years at Stade Velodrome following a move from Toulouse, winning two Coupes de la Ligue and the Trophee des Champions before his surprise move to Tigres in 2015.
The 31-year-old striker has enjoyed a successful career in Mexico but still keeps up to date with the French top flight, in which PSG are battling Monaco for the title this term.
Gignac has not ruled out a return to Ligue 1 before he retires but has made it abundantly clear that he would never join Unai Emery s side.
It s just PSG that I hate. I d rather die than sign for them, he told Life And Style magazine.
Even if PSG offered …