Bayern Munich bade farewell to Philipp Lahm and Xabi Alonso in fitting fashion with a 4-1 win over Freiburg on the final day of the Bundesliga season.

Arjen Robben, Arturo Vidal, Franck Ribery and Joshua Kimmich sealed a 25th win of the season for the champions and ensured they went a whole league campaign without defeat at the Allianz Arena for the first time since 2008.

The match was largely a tribute act to club captain Lahm and Alonso, however, who played their final matches before retiring from respective glittering careers.

Past greats of the club were presented to the crowd prior to kick-off before Lahm, ahead of his 517th appearance for Bayern, was granted a special tribute involving flowers, a golf bag and a mosaic in the stands with the message from a c…

With the Conference League qualifiers making their return on Thursday, clubs from across the continent are all desperate to extend on their European adventures.

In what could be a nail-biting night of action, we have created your ultimate Europa Conference League betting double.

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Missing out on what they would have billed as a first-leg opportunity away in the Faroe Islands last week, Derry will be calling on a far more polished display when they return to the Brandywell Stadium on Thursday night. Desperate to extend on their Europa Conference League qualifying adventure in midweek, the Northern Irish outfit will be looking to avoid a potential banana skin.

Despite eventually settling for that goalless draw on foreign soil l…

Kevin De Bruyne says he is excited to work with top striker Erling Haaland at Manchester City, admitting the arrival of the 21-year-old might enable him to build on his already impressive assist figures.

De Bruyne was named Premier League Player of the Season as City won their fourth top-flight title in five seasons last month, with the midfielder top-scoring for Pep Guardiola s men with 15 league goals during the 2021-22 campaign, also adding eight assists.

Despite his impressive goalscoring return, the Belgian fell some way short of his tally of 20 Premier League assists in the 2019 -20 campaign (a joint single-season record in the competition, along with Thierry Henry in 2002-03) – but De Bruyne s attempts to record similar figures in the future could be aided by t…

Speaking after Manchester United s 1-0 defeat at Newcastle on Sunday, Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville said his old club need to sign five or six top players to fix all the problems that have been plaguing them.

Neville, who has always been supportive of his ex-teammate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, said United went about the right way in the summer regarding three signings Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Daniel James, but he believes much more is needed to make the team properly competitive. Apparently, the 20-time English champions need another top class centre-back, a left-back, two central midfielders, a wide attacker and an out-and-out striker.

Neville sees the fact that the club have changed managers with relative frequency since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, and …

Kai Havertz hopes to repay the trust of Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea in the absence of Romelu Lukaku, while the Germany international cannot wait to learn from Raheem Sterling.

Tuchel has previously used Havertz as a false nine to lead the Blues line, with Lukaku either injured or unselected, but the striker scored just eight times in 29 Premier League appearances last season.

With Lukaku returning to Inter on loan, Tuchel ruling out a move for Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski joining Barcelona, Havertz will likely be tasked with the role up top once more.

Though the former Bayer Leverkusen star acknowledged he did not expect the positional switch, Havertz is aiming to make the role his own and give Tuchel reason to have faith in him.

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Former Barcelona star Javier Mascherano hopes Paris Saint-Germain s Neymar returns to the LaLiga champions to play alongside Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.

Neymar swapped Barca for PSG in a world-record €222million transfer in 2017 but the Brazilian superstar has been regularly linked with a Camp Nou comeback.

The 28-year-old forward spent four years at Barca, where he won two LaLiga titles and the Champions League among other honours.

Mascherano was team-mates with Neymar when Barca claimed the 2014-15 Champions League trophy via a 3-1 win over Juventus in Berlin and the ex-Argentina captain reflected on that successful night at Olympiastadion.

The other day, I watched the final in Berlin again and what the three up front created was impressive, Neyma…

Bruno Fernandes has refuted suggestions he and Cristiano Ronaldo cannot play together effectively, as the Manchester United duo prepare to link up for Portugal in the international break. 

Both Fernandes and Ronaldo have been named in Fernando Santos squad for Nations League fixtures against the Czech Republic and Spain this month.

While Fernandes has been an ever-present for United at the start of their Premier League campaign, Ronaldo has not started a league game since a 4-0 defeat at Brentford last month, and is yet to find the net on the domestic front this season.

United have won four consecutive league games with Ronaldo on the bench, and the legendary forward s 2021 transfer from Juventus led to a significant drop-off in Fernandes attacking output.

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According to a recent report from Gazzetta dello Sport, Kalidou Koulibaly’s agent is working on a deal that’ll take his client to Manchester City.

The defender’s future has been a big source of discussion for well over a year now, with many believing that it would be one of the two Manchester clubs that land his signature.

Napoli have been lucky enough to keep hold of the 29-year-old since back in 2014 when they bought him from Genk, but they always would’ve known that this was coming.

City were always going to spend big money once it had been confirmed that their European ban was going to be overturned. Their biggest issue last season was clearly the lack of defensive structure they have in their squad, and with Pep Guardiola being determined to win a C…

FIFA has sent its “support and prayers” to Liverpool forward Luis Diaz following the kidnapping of his parents in Colombia.

It has been confirmed that Diaz’s mother has been rescued and after the player returned home to be with family members, the Colombian authorities have stepped up their search for his father.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Instagram: “On behalf of FIFA and the global football community, I would like to extend our support and prayers to Luis Diaz, his family and his friends in these difficult times.”

Pedimos a los captores de Luis Manuel Díaz, padre de , que lo liberen ya, sin condiciones. El fútbol es paz. Lucho, estamos contigo. Colombia está contigo.

— Selección Colombia (@FCFSeleccionCol)

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Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand declared we haven t seen a player like Jude Bellingham at his age after the Borussia Dortmund teenager helped guide his team to a 4-1 Champions League win at Sevilla.

Bellingham scored one and assisted one as Dortmund eased to victory in Spain on Wednesday, with other goals coming from Raphael Guerreiro, Karim Adeyemi and Julian Brandt, while Youssef En-Nesyri pulled one back for the hosts.

Bellingham, 19, who captained the Bundesliga side, became just the second teenager to score in the first three games of a Champions League campaign.

The only other player to achieve that feat is his former BVB team-mate Erling Haaland, who did so with Salzburg in the 2019-20 season.

Bellingham s tally of three Champions League goa…