Manchester City earned their third straight Premier League title as Arsenal faltered against Nottingham Forest, who earned a 1-0 win to secure top-flight safety.

Manchester United took another surge towards Champions League football and Brighton booked their spot in Europe next season with a win against Southampton.

Here the PA news agency takes a look at another action-packed weekend of top-flight football.

Celebrations for City as Arsenal lose out

Manchester City were crowned Premier League champions for a third successive season after Arsenal lost 1-0 by Nottingham Forest on Saturday. The Gunners had spent 248 days at the top of the table and held an eight-point lead over City in March, but poor results saw Pep Guardiola’s side able to take advantage to sea…

New Sunderland forward Jeremain Lens believes Dick Advocaat is the man to get the best out of him after completing a move to the Stadium of Light.

Netherlands international Lens joined Sunderland on a four-year deal on Wednesday.

The transfer ends a two-year spell at Dynamo Kiev in which he won the Ukrainian Premier League once and the Cup on two occasions.

However, Lens scored only 16 goals in his time with Dynamo having previously enjoyed the best season of his career under Advocaat in 2012-13, netting 19 times, with 15 of those strikes coming in the Eredivisie.

And, speaking to Sunderland s official website, Lens who also played for Advocaat at AZ said: It will be the third time [working with Advocaat], I have good periods with him, in PSV I reach my o…

Radamel Falcao is excited by the prospect of being reunited with Diego Costa at Chelsea and believes their playing styles complement one another.

Colombia international Falcao completed a season-long loan to the Premier League champions from Monaco earlier this month.

Falcao will once be a team-mate of Spain international Costa, having previously played together at Atletico Madrid.

With manager Jose Mourinho normally employing just one striker in his starting line-up, it is likely the duo will be fighting it out for a starting berth at Stamford Bridge.

But Falcao believes the pair can be effective as a partnership.

Speaking to Chelsea s official website, he said: He is crazy! And happy. I know him from Atletico and we enjoyed very good times. …

With the inaugural UEFA Nations League kicking off this week, teams will be looking to get the new campaign off with a win while battles in the Brazilian Serie A really start to heat up. On that note, we here at Soccer News have found a handful of helpful tips that can boost your midweek acca:

Thursday 6th September

19:45 BST Germany vs France

Two sides who endured very different summers in Russia, Didier Deschamps newly crowned World Champions France will travel to the Allianz Arena filled with confidence. Lifting a title for the first time in 20 years, The Blues have been in remarkable form over the past 12 months and have now only lost on of their last 19 outings in all competitions. Winning their last four on the bounce and also now unbeaten in their last three …

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Scotland and Portugal will lock horns this Sunday in a thrilling match that will put two sides going head-to-head despite their opposite form in recent matches. While Scotland will try to end their friendly woes, Portugal will aim to continue their success playing away from home. Kick-off is scheduled for Sunday at 17:00 BST.

Scotland

There s no way to make things pretty here: Scotland have been struggling of late, and those problems have become even more noticeable when we talk about friendly matches. The Scots have dropped their last three friendly matches, and have won just once of their past six contests (W1, L5) under this category. To make things even more difficult, they have now gone 312 minu…

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Following consecutive losses, AC Milan confront a significant challenge to their diminishing title aspirations this Sunday evening as they welcome the formidable Atalanta BC to San Siro.

While Milan currently hold a seven-point lead over their Lombardy counterparts in the Serie A standings, Atalanta s recent streak of five consecutive league victories signals a narrowing of the gap between the two teams.

AC Milan

Despite a 3-2 defeat on the night, Milan successfully advanced past the Europa League playoffs on Thursday, having carried a three-goal advantage to Rennes following their dominant performance in the first leg of the knockout tie.

Rafael Leao once again found the back of the net in France, but Benjamin Bourigea…

Carlo Ancelotti acknowledges Karim Benzema is a bit tired following his return from injury, but has refused to rule out using the striker when Real Madrid face Getafe on Saturday.

Benzema missed three weeks after sustaining a thigh injury in the Champions League win over Celtic last month, returning to Los Blancos side for last week s 1-1 draw with Osasuna.

The France striker crashed a late penalty against the crossbar in that match as Madrid dropped points for the first time this season in LaLiga, and also failed to impress in Wednesday s 2-1 Champions League win over Shakhtar Donetsk.

Benzema failed to score despite recording eight shots totalling 0.93 expected goals (xG) in that contest, and Spanish media reports had suggested he was doubtful for the trip to G…

(GSM) Juventus are set to sign CSKA Moskva winger Milos Krasic, the player has confirmed.

Italian media reported on Thursday that a 15 million euro deal has been struck and the Serbia star will pen a five-year deal.

25 year-old Krasic was left out of CSKA Moskva s match against Anorthosis and confirmed, during half-time, that he will be joining Juventus.

The Serbian 2009 Player of the Year joins Juve after the Italian giants offloaded Christian Poulsen to Liverpool and Tiago to Atletico Madrid.

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Democratic Republic of Congo club Tout Puissant Mazembe overcame a series of pre-match setbacks to defeat Dynamos of Zimbabwe 2-1 Sunday and reach the African Champions League semi-finals.

Midfielder Alain Kaluyituka gave the Crows the lead on 59 minutes in their Lubumbashi fortress and Zambia-born striker Given Singuluma doubled the advantage soon after for the title holders.

Dynamos, who had seven players ruled out by suspension and injury, reduced arrears through Thabani Kamusoko with six minutes left of the Group A game and the result eliminates them from the competition with one round to go.

Mazembe, whose victory last year was their third in the premier African club championship and first since 1968, are level with Esperance of Tunisia on 10 points but hav…

Paulo Dybala and Stefano Sturaro both scored their maiden Champions League goals as Juventus recovered from a 2-0 deficit to secure a 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich in a see-saw first leg of their last-16 tie.

The visitors looked to be coasting to a fourth straight win over their Italian opponents when they went two goals up, Thomas Muller getting the first of them on 43 minutes when converting a cutback from Douglas Costa.

A curling strike from Arjen Robben 10 minutes after the break was no more than Bayern deserved for their dominance.

Yet Juventus produced a dramatic recovery in the final half-hour, starting with Dybala halving the deficit with a cool finish following a defensive mistake by the German side.

The comeback was complete when substitute Stur…