Football

Villarreal ended Atletico Madrid's streak of 27 straight home games without a loss in the Spanish league after striker Luciano Vietto scored late to grab a 1-0 win.

Garcia said it's now or never for them as they take on an in-form FC Goa in their first leg semifinal of the Hero Indian Super League football tournament.

Angel di Maria will miss Manchester United's match against Liverpool on Sunday as the winger remains sidelined with a hamstring injury.

Neymar scored a spectacular goal as Barcelona came from behind to beat Paris St Germain 3-1 in their Champions League showdown for top spot in Group F.

NorthEast United FC played out a 1-1 draw against Mumbai City FC in an inconsequential Indian Super League match to end at the bottom position in the tournament.

The Brazilian football legend's health had left the soccer-mad nation on tenterhooks since his admission to the clinic just over a fortnight ago.

Aguero suffered a knee ligament injury in the opening minutes of City's 1-0 home Premier League victory over Everton.

Southampton will be hoping United manager Van Gaal does not pair Rooney and Van Persie together in attack for Monday's EPL match at St Mary's.

Balotelli uploaded on Instagram a picture of the video-game character Super Mario with text around the image including "jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew".

Goals from Romeo, Santos and Slepicka ensured that Zico's FC Goa are comfortably through to the Indian Super League semi-finals.

Manchester City ended a six-year wait for a EPL win at Sunderland with an impressive 4-1 victory on Wednesday for the defending champions.

United kept up their resurgent form with a 2-1 win over Stoke on Tuesday, with Juan Mata's second-half goal securing a fourth straight victory.

Kolkata's coach Antonio Lopez Habas created a flutter when he said that his team was suffering from refereeing bias in the ISL.

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is planning to give some of the lesser lights in his squad a chance to impress when they play at third-tier Huesca.

Bhutia on Sunday was honoured with the AFC Hall of Fame Award on occasion of the Asian Football Confederation's 60th anniversary.

Bruno Pelissari scored in 88th minute as Chennaiyin FC defeated Kerala Blasters FC 1-0 in match 45 of the Indian Super League on Sunday.