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Captain Shreyas Iyer remained unbeaten at 69 while Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh scored quick half-centuries as Punjab Kings (PBKS) chased down the target of 220 runs in just 18.5 overs against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
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Arsenal suffered a huge blow in the Premier League title race on Saturday, losing 2-1 at home to Bournemouth to give Manchester City renewed hope of catching the long-time leaders.The visitors took the lead at
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DUBAI: Dubai Basketball and Jurica Golemac have mutually agreed to part ways with immediate effect. In a statement released by the club, Dubai Basketball thanked the Slovenian for his professionalism, commitment, and dedication throughout his
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Bayern Munich’s Leon Goretzka reacts during the Bundesliga match against St. Pauli in Hamburg Saturday. (Reuters) Bayern Munich romped to a 5-0 win at St Pauli Saturday, breaking a 54-year Bundesliga goalscoring record and moving to within touching distance of a 35th league crown. Leon Goretzka’s 53rd-minute goal, Bayern’s second of the match, brought up 102 league goals this season, breaking a previous mark set by the Bavarian giants in 1971-72. Top scorer Harry Kane was left on the bench but Jamal Musiala, Michael Olise, Nicolas Jackson and Raphael Guerreiro joined Goretzka on the scoresheet as Bayern pulled 12 points clear of Borussia Dortmund, who lost to Bayer Leverkusen earlier on Saturday. With five matches remaining this season, defending champions Bayern can win the title as early as next week at home against Stuttgart. Mindful of Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final second leg against Real Madrid, Bayern left Kane, Luis Diaz, Dayot Upamecano and Jonathan Tah on the bench. The missing firepower mattered little as Musiala headed the visitors in front with nine minutes gone. Early in the second half, Goretzka turned the ball in from close range to best a record the Bavarians set over half a century ago with a side featuring club legends Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller. Olise added another just a minute later. Kane replacement Jackson got one of his own and Guerreiro scored late to round out the victory and up the record to 105. Robert Andrich hit a long-range strike late in the first half as Leverkusen became just the second team to beat Dortmund in the league this season with a 1-0 away victory. Dortmund, whose two previous defeats this season came against Bayern, remain eight points clear in second place despite their four-game winning streak coming to an end. A day after extending his deal at the club to 2031, Nico Schlotterbeck received a smattering of boos and whistles from the home fans amid reports he had a release clause for this summer inserted into his contract. “We’re really happy Schlotti extended,” centre-back partner Waldemar Anton told DAZN. “He didn’t deserve the boos. That hurts the team, everyone in the stands needs to know that. It’s nonsense and it’s not something we can accept.” Stoic and risk averse under coach Niko Kovac, Dortmund were uncharacteristically fluid in attack in the opening half hour but Andrich broke through for the visitors in simple fashion. The Germany midfielder intercepted a Ramy Bensebaini pass and took a touch before blasting a low shot into the bottom corner past Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Kobel. Dortmund’s best chance came with seven minutes remaining when Serhou Guirassy collected a Carney Chukwuemeka pass and hit the underside of the crossbar. Yan Diomande’s 81st-minute effort boosted RB Leipzig’s hopes of a top-four finish, securing a 1-0 home win over Borussia Moenchengladbach. Diomande’s late winner lifted third-placed Leipzig three points clear of Stuttgart, who face Hamburg at home on Sunday, with Leverkusen a point further back in fifth. The goal continued the 19-year-old’s impressive debut Bundesliga season, in which he has scored 11 times. Leipzig captain David Raum praised the teenage winger, calling him “a player with world-class potential”. Gladbach ultras unveiled a banner directed at academy product and captain Rocco Reitz, who will join Leipzig in the summer, which said: “Whoever wants what’s here can never be our skipper.” Elsewhere, Wolfsburg lost 2-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt to slide closer to relegation. Goals from Oscar Hojlund and Arnaud Kalimuendo left second-last Wolfsburg, who have won just once in 14 games in 2026, six points from safety. Last-placed Heidenheim kept their slim hopes of beating the drop alive with a 3-1 home win over Union Berlin. The victory, Heidenheim’s first since early December, took them two points behind Wolfsburg and eight from fourth-bottom Cologne. Related Story
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Barcelona’s Ferran Torres celebrates with Lamine Yamal scoring his team’s second goal during the La LIga match against Espanyol at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona Saturday. (AFP) Lamine Yamal set up two goals and scored another as Barcelona took a significant step towards defending their La Liga title with a 4-1 derby win over Espanyol Saturday. Ferran Torres netted twice with Yamal and Marcus Rashford finding the net late on as the Catalans moved nine points clear of second-placed rivals Real Madrid. Los Blancos drew 1-1 against Girona on Friday and with seven games remaining, one of which is a Clasico at Camp Nou in May, Hansi Flick’s side have a commanding lead. Barca face Atletico Madrid on Tuesday in the Champions League quarter-finals, aiming to fight back from a 2-0 first-leg defeat, but the coach still picked a strong side against Espanyol. Midfielder Pedri Gonzalez and 18-year-old winger Yamal played the full match as Flick tried not to let the second leg disrupt the team’s league campaign. After a strong start to the season Espanyol were beaten at home by Barca in the first game of 2026 and have failed to win a match since. They offered little resistance as Hansi Flick’s side cruised into a two-goal lead. Yamal created both goals for Torres, whipping in a corner which the Spain international nodded home for his first goal since January. Although some wondered if Flick would rest Yamal for Tuesday’s visit to face Atletico, the teenager is always keen to play and Barca fans adore watching him. Yamal’s assist for the second was sumptuous, playing Torres through with the outside of his boot and the striker’s shot trickled past Marko Dmitrovic and into the net. Espanyol came close when Tyrhys Dolan’s chipped effort clipped the top of the crossbar but they were mainly pinned back in their own territory. Yamal curled a free-kick narrowly over the crossbar and Dmitrovic made a good double save to keep Fermin Lopez and Eric Garcia at bay. Barcelona thought they had extended their lead early in the second half when Torres stabbed home Garcia’s goal-bound header but it was ruled out for a tight offside against the defender. Espanyol pulled one back through Pol Lozano immediately afterwards with a rasping effort after Barca struggled to clear the ball. Substitute Rashford could have got a third for Barca but the England international seemed to lack confidence as he delayed his shot before firing straight at Dmitrovic. The winger missed several chances against Atletico in the first leg of the Champions League tie, but by the end he found the net and will look to make further amends at the Metropolitano. Yamal notched the third in the 87th minute by charging down a loose ball, which rebounded beyond Dmitrovic, leaving him with a tap-in. Two minutes later Rashford hooked home the fourth with a volley from Frenkie de Jong’s cross, with the Dutch midfielder on as a substitute for his first appearance since suffering a hamstring injury in February. Related Story
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Arsenal’s shock 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth Saturday blew the Premier League title race wide open as Liverpool beat Fulham to boost their chances of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. The Gunners could have opened up a 12-point lead at the top of the table, but a third straight domestic defeat for Mikel Arteta’s men has put the destiny of the title back in Manchester City’s hands. City have two games in hand on the long-time leaders, starting with today’s trip to Chelsea, and host Arsenal next weekend in a potential title decider. Just a few weeks ago the Gunners were dreaming of an unprecedented quadruple but they lost to City in the League Cup final and were dumped out of the FA Cup by second-tier Southampton. A wobble in the Premier League, which they have not won since 2004, raises major doubts about their staying power, with six matches to go. After suffering just three defeats in their opening 49 matches of the season in all competitions, they have lost three of their past four, ramping up the tension. “It’s a big punch in the face, that’s what I said to the boys, and now it’s about how we react to that,” said a downbeat Arteta, whose team remain favourites for the title. The Spaniard, whose side have finished as runners-up three times in a row, admitted Arsenal’s long title drought was playing on their minds. “We know what is at stake and the fact that as a club we haven’t done it for so long is a reason for that,” said the Spaniard. “It talks about the difficulty but I just want to focus on the things that we can control, dominate and we have done. It’s not that we have to do a lot of new things that we haven’t done, no, let’s keep doing a lot of it, or almost all the things that we’ve done for nine months because that’s what has taken us all the way there.” Junior Kroupi reacted quickest to Adrien Truffert’s deflected cross to give mid-table Bournemouth an early lead, silencing a nervy crowd at the Emirates. Viktor Gyokeres levelled before the break from the penalty spot, but a lack of creative spark in the final third was again the home side’s undoing. Arsenal’s fine defensive record has underpinned their title charge but they were cut open with ease when Alex Scott finished off a fine team move for the winner in the 74th minute.Arteta said he desperately needed all his first-choice players back. Absentees on Saturday included Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori. “We need everything, first of all we need everybody fit and available,” he said. “So the ones that are not involved, the ones that are not with us, that are really big, important players, we need them immediately with us because then we’re going to be much stronger. And then the other ones, they need to stand up, me the first one, and embrace this challenge and go for it. So today we have to suffer. It’s painful, it’s a terrible feeling but tomorrow is a different day and if somebody would have said to me in August, we are in this position right now in April, I’m sure we would all take it.” Arsenal face Sporting Lisbon in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday after a 1-0 win in the first leg. Then four days later comes the summit meeting at City that could make or break their season. Five English sides will qualify for next season’s Champions League and fifth-placed Liverpool strengthened their case with a 2-0 home win against Fulham, easing the heat on manager Arne Slot. Teenager Rio Ngumoha scored his first goal at Anfield in the early evening match to put the Reds ahead, whipping his shot around the diving Bernd Leno after a jinking run.The recalled Mohamed Salah, departing at the end of the season, doubled Liverpool’s lead shortly before half-time with a sublime, arrowed finish. It is a desperately welcome three points for Liverpool and the beleaguered Slot, whose team had won just two of their previous eight games in all competitions. Heavy defeats by Manchester City in the FA Cup and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League have piled the pressure on the Dutch boss a year after he led the club to Premier League glory. Brentford and Everton missed the chance to move level on points with Liverpool earlier in the day, drawing 2-2. Twice the Bees led through Igor Thiago, who took his tally for the season to 21 Premier League goals and within one of Erling Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot. Beto levelled midway through the first half for the visitors and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall struck in stoppage time to salvage a point. Brighton are also well in the mix for their first ever taste of Champions League football. Mats Wieffer scored twice as the Seagulls beat relegation-bound Burnley 2-0. A fifth win in six games for Fabian Hurzeler’s men takes them up to ninth and within three points of the top five. It was a third successive league win for Brighton while second-from-bottom Burnley look almost certain to be relegated as they are 12 points off the safety zone with six games left. Related Story
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Napoli's Serie A title defence suffered a blow with Sunday'1-1 draw at Parma which gave league leaders Inter Milan the chance to move nine points clear.Scott McTominay's drilled finish on the hour mark gave Napoli a draw which may well not be enough for the champions to claim a third Scudetto in four seasons.Napoli trail Inter by six points, a gap which could increase following the late match between the Milan giants and Champions League chasers Como.Antonio Conte's team were on the back foot within 36 seconds. That was how long it took for Gabriel Strefezza to race on to Nesta Elphege's knock-on and beautifully curl home Parma's opener.Napoli struggled to break down the hosts who were content to sit deep and soak up the pressure and deny the away team a sixth straight league win.Last weekend's win over AC Milan had reopened the prospect of retaining the title but a draw at the Stadio Ennio Tardini has made that feat less likely with six matches remaining in their season.'I told the boys that there is a very thin line that separates winners and losers,' said Conte.'If you concede a goal after 30 seconds it's inevitable that a match which was already going to be against a deep-lying team was going to become even more like that.'They rightly put up the barricades and tried to hit us on the counter... in the end I can't really criticise the team for their desire and commitment.'Parma are level on 36 points with Genoa, who also took a step towards safety with a tumultuous 2-1 win over Sassuolo in the day's early fixture. Both teams were down to 10 men for the second half following a tunnel bust-up.Caleb Ekuban tapped home Genoa's winner with six minutes remaining in front of a typically passionate crowd at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris who watched their team move nine points clear away from the relegation zone in 13th.Genoa midfiedler Mikael Ellertsson and Italy international Domenico Berardi were sent off after a row blew up just after the half-time whistle, with the hosts leading through Ruslan Malinovskyi.
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The city of Cagliari, in the South of Sardinia, Italy will play host to the opening round of the 2026 UIM F1H2O World Championship season, as the year’s racing will commence on the May 29-31
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UAE Team Emirates-XRG arrive in Paris with all focus on the cobbled chaos of Paris-Roubaix, a race renowned for pushing riders to their absolute limit.After a spectacular start to the spring classics campaign, with victories
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The UAE Committee for Talent and Sports Support (UAETSS) held an event at Dubai Autodrome in Motor City, to announce the inclusion of a group of young promising athletes in its development programmes.The event was
