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Lionel Messi has a history of terrorising Manchester United but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes it is not impossible to stop the Barcelona star inflicting more damage in Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final. Messi scored in both of Barca’s Champions League final victories over United, in 2009 and 2011, and is hungry to win the competition for a fifth time after crashing ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has returned from a hamstring injury to be named in the Juventus squad for their Champions League quarter-final with Ajax. Ronaldo has not played since sealing his side’s progress to the last eight with a hat-trick against Atletico Madrid on March 12. Giorgio Chiellini misses out with a calf strain, while Emre Can also stays behind with an ...

Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool are “on fire” ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League quarterfinal first leg at home to Porto. Liverpool have won their last five matches in all competitions and are top of the Premier League following wins over Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur; although Manchester City have a game in hand. They reached the last eight of the Champions ...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has told ESPN FC he wants to build a Manchester United team in the mould of his fellow 1999 Treble winners while adding he is not worried that Manchester City could surpass their achievement by winning the Quadruple. Solskjaer is two weeks into his spell as permanent manager after penning a three-year deal to replace Jose Mourinho ...

Manchester City and Tottenham will have a few encounters over the next weeks battling nationally and internationally and all of them can be decisive for their season glory. Anticipating a potentially careful approach in their first match on both sides mybet.africa offers a refund on all match result if the two teams should go off the pitch in a goalless ...

A teenage girl in Brazil has allegedly confessed to torturing her five-year-old brother to death before eating his severed penis. Maycon Roque’s heavily mutilated body was found by his mother on Thursday night after a relative broke into the family house to find 18-year-old Karina, standing beside the child’s remains. Police are investigating the possibility that the crime, in Sao Roque, south ...

Positioned comfortably at the top of the seven cardinal sins against the continent of Africa is the term ‘shithole.’ Allegedly coined by President Trump to describe the deplorable conditions around the continent, the sons of the soil have vowed never to forgive the self-styled president—as if he will ever lose sleep over it! Seven years earlier, the President described as ...

The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month nosedived several times before it hit the ground, a preliminary report has said. Pilots “repeatedly” followed procedures recommended by Boeing before the crash, according to the first official report into the disaster. Boeing’s boss has admitted for the first time a failure in the jet’s anti-stall system was a factor in the ...

Outgoing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has asked his country for “forgiveness” in a letter published by the Algerian Press Service. The president, who has been in power for 20 years, said he was “proud” of his contributions but realised he had “failed in [his] duty”. He added that he was “leaving the political stage with neither sadness nor fear” for ...

MPs have voted by a majority of one to force the prime minister to ask for an extension to the Brexit process, in a bid to avoid any no-deal scenario. Labour’s Yvette Cooper led the move, which the Commons passed in one day. The bill is due to be considered by the Lords later and will need its approval to ...