(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayern Munich have been drawn with Manchester United in Group A of the 2023/24 Champions League season. The third team in the group is FC Copenhagen of Denmark and they will be joined by Galatasaray in the group. The draw for the group stage of this season’s UEFA Champions League, made at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea and Everton narrowly avoided humiliating League Cup exits against fourth tier opposition as they scraped into the third round on Wednesday. At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea trailed against minnows AFC Wimbledon before recovering to win 2-1 thanks to Enzo Fernandez’s first goal for the club. Struggling Everton came from behind in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ange Postecoglou suffered his first defeat as Tottenham boss as Fulham won 5-3 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the League Cup second round on Tuesday. Postecoglou had masterminded an encouraging start to his first season in charge of Tottenham, with successive Premier League wins against Manchester United and Bournemouth following […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Erling Haaland Wins PFA Player Of The Year Award England and Aston Villa star Rachel Daly won the women’s prize, voted for by fellow players. Organised by the Professional Footballers’ Association, the awards salute the best male and female players in English football in 2023. Haaland enjoyed a stunning debut season for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan says she will be back “stronger” next year after she lost her world women’s 100m hurdles crown to Jamaica’s Danielle Williams on Thursday in Budapest. In an interview with journalists after the game, Amusan said it was quite “a journey getting into the final” despite all she had gone […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lionel Messi inspired Inter Miami to come back from 2-0 down to beat Cincinnati on penalties after their thrilling US Open Cup semi-final ended 3-3 after extra-time in Ohio. Miami, who won the Leagues Cup on penalties against Nashville on Saturday, are now one win away from their second trophy since Messi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsenal shrugged off Takehiro Tomiyasu’s red card to extend their perfect start to the Premier League season as Martin Odegaard sealed a 1-0 victory against Crystal Palace on Monday. Odegaard’s second-half penalty at Selhurst Park put Arsenal on course for their second successive win. But Mikel Arteta’s side had to dig deep […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – English Premiership side, Manchester United, on Monday issued a statement saying that Mason Greenwood does not have any future with the club. This development is coming at the end of an internal investigation into allegations made against the 21-year-old. The statement reads in part: “Based on the evidence available to us, we […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino suffered his first defeat as Michail Antonio’s superb strike and Enzo Fernandez’s penalty miss condemned the Blues to a 3-1 loss against West Ham on Sunday. After last weekend’s 1-1 draw against Liverpool, Pochettino’s side wasted a lively performance as they paid the price for sloppy defending and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian track queen Tobi Amusan has been cleared of doping violations with the provisional suspension lifted. “A panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, has today found that Tobi Amusan has not committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period,” the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City won the UEFA Super Cup for the first time on Wednesday but needed penalties to beat Sevilla after a 1-1 draw in Athens. Youssef En-Nesyri’s towering first-half header gave the Spaniards the lead. European champions City were far from their slick best, but hit back to force the game to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea and Liverpool had to settle for a 1-1 draw to start their Premier League season on Sunday as Tottenham also drew 2-2 at Brentford as they began life without Harry Kane. Liverpool’s bright start was rewarded when Luis Diaz prodded home the opening goal, but debutant Axel Disasi earned Chelsea boss […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former world champion Anthony Joshua needed seven rounds to stop stand-in opponent Robert Helenius in the seventh round of their heavyweight bout on Saturday. Helenius was only drafted in after fighting in Finland last weekend when Dillian Whyte was ruled out of what would have been an all-British clash following “adverse analytical […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge got off to a winning start on Saturday but the big-spending Gunners were made to sweat in a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest. First-half goals from Eddie Nketiah and Bukayo Saka had the home side cruising at the Emirates. But they were made to suffer a nervy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Erling Haaland started the Premier League season with a bang as the Norwegian struck twice in defending champions Manchester City’s 3-0 win at promoted Burnley. Rodri completed the scoring after Haaland’s first-half double to give City a perfect start to their quest to become the first side to win four consecutive English […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – England scraped into the quarter-finals of the Women’s World Cup when they beat Nigeria 4-2 on penalties in Brisbane on Monday. Despite Nigeria having the better of the chances throughout, the European Champions — reduced to 10 players after 87 minutes — snuck home in front of 50,000 spectators after the match […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsenal lifted the Community Shield to end Manchester City’s silverware streak with a 4-1 penalty shoot-out victory after a 1-1 draw against the treble winners on Sunday. Mikel Arteta’s side forced the shoot-out thanks to Leandro Trossard’s heavily deflected equaliser 11 minutes into stoppage time at Wembley. Cole Palmer’s superb curler had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria have won the 2023 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket championship, making it a record fourth title on the bounce. The D’Tigress defeated Senegal 84-74 in Kigali, Rwanda to etch their names in Nigerian basketball folklore. Nigeria are now the second side, after Senegal (1974 to 1981), to have won the championship four times […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The D’Tigress have reached the final of the FIBA 2023 Women’s AfroBasket championship. They overpowered hosts Rwanda 79-48 in the semi-final tie on Thursday to seal a fourth straight final appearance at the competition. Rena Wakama’s girls were dominant in the first quarter of the game, beating the hosts 22-6. Nigeria went […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairperson of the Nigerian Women’s Football League (NWFL), Aisha Faloe, has stated that FIFA would still pay the 2023 Women’s World Cup (WWC) prize money through the country’s federations. Falode made this revelation when she spoke in a chat with Lagos Talks FM on Wednesday The African Examiner recalls that after […]
