Chelsea secured their place in the FA Cup semi-finals with a comfortable 2-0 victory at Middlesbrough on Saturday.
Boro overcame Manchester United and Tottenham to reach the last eight, but Thomas Tuchel s Premier League side did not have such difficulties at the Riverside Stadium.
Romelu Lukaku needed just 15 minutes to open the scoring before Hakim Ziyech added a second in the first half, while Boro managed only one shot on target, which came in the 85th minute, in response.
Chelsea will now wait to find out the identity of their semi-final opponent in Sunday s last-four draw, with the ties set to take place across April 16 and 17 at Wembley Stadium.
Mason Mount s early cross just escaped the despairing dive of Christian Pulisic at the back post, but …
Manuel Akanji feels it is about time Manchester City put an end to their Anfield hoodoo.
The champions travel to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday in a crucial clash at the top of the table.
Second-placed City are widely considered the favourites for the title but their record at the home of the Reds is notoriously poor.
City have won just once at Anfield in front of a crowd since 1981, when Nicolas Anelka scored a double 21 years ago.
They did triumph there 4-1 behind closed doors in 2021 but the atmosphere will be completely different this weekend.
City defender Akanji said: “It definitely will be massive. The winner will go to the top of the league. I don’t want to talk about the title race but it would be a big win for us.
Nottingham Forest are “extremely dismayed” to have been docked four points for breaching Premier League financial rules.
The deduction drops Forest into the Premier League’s relegation zone, leaving them 18th with nine games to play.
The PA news agency understands Forest will now take time to consider their next steps, including the potential to appeal.
Club statement.
— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC)
The Premier League said Forest admitted breaching profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) by £34.5million above their permitted threshold of £61million.
Clubs are usually allowed maximum losses of £105million over a three-year assessment period but this is reduced by £22million per season for any seasons within the period spent i…
It has been an unusually quiet transfer deadline day as some Premier League club’s look to get new signings in ahead of the 11pm deadline.
Here, the PA news agency takes a look at some of the best deals done so far.
Rogers makes Villa switch
Aston Villa is delighted to announce the signing of Morgan Rogers from Middlesbrough!
— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial)
Aston Villa have completed a move for Morgan Rogers from Middlesbrough, with the forward having impressed in the Sky Bet Championship so far this season with seven goals and eight assists to his name.
The 21-year-old arrived at Villa Park after Middlesbrough finally succumbed to an offer in the region of £16million.
Rogers will now line up in the Premier League to help Unai Emery�…
Cafu admits he did not see former team-mate Daniele De Rossi becoming a head coach, but hopes the Roma boss can do great things with the Giallorossi.
The former midfielder replaced Jose Mourinho in the Stadio Olimpico dugout in January on a deal until the end of the season, and has overseen nine victories in 14 Serie A games only losing to newly crowned champions Inter and fourth-place Bologna.
De Rossi s glittering career at Roma as a player, which brought over 600 appearances across an 18-year period, was in its infancy when he briefly played alongside Cafu for the Giallorossi during the early 2000s.
The former Brazil captain, who played 217 times between 1997 and 2003, helped the club win the Scudetto under Fabio Capello in the 2000-01 season, and was inducted…
The Georgia Bulldogs are the first back-to-back National Champions in the College Football Playoff era (since 2014) after hammering the TCU Horned Frogs 65-7 on Monday.
There were ominous signs early as Georgia quickly forced a TCU punt on the opening possession, before marching down the field in five plays to open the scoring with a 21-yard touchdown run from quarterback Stetson Bennett.
TCU tried to make a game of it, scoring their only touchdown of the contest in the first quarter with a short-range quarterback run of their own from Max Duggan, but the Georgia defense went up a level and shut things down the rest of the way.
Bennett rushed for his second touchdown and threw two more to open up a commanding 38-7 lead at half-time, and they continued to pile on …
When the 18-year-old Harry Kane had a penalty saved on his Tottenham debut, nobody would have imagined him putting away 39 spot-kicks for the club on the way to beating Jimmy Greaves record goals haul.
Here we are, though, almost 11 and a half years on from that miss against Hearts in a Europa League qualifier, and Kane is Tottenham s outright all-time leading scorer.
Goal number 267 arrived against the reigning Premier League champions Manchester City on Sunday, his 200th goal in that competition.
Drink that in for a moment. It s an astonishing feat. Kane has earned the club record by chipping away at Greaves mark in the Tottenham teams of Harry Redknapp, Andre Villas-Boas, Tim Sherwood, Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Ryan Mason, Nuno Espirito Santo and Ant…
Vincent Kompany has the backing of the Bayern Munich board despite going three games without a win in all competitions, says president Herbert Hainer.
Kompany started his Bayern tenure with six wins from his first six games, scoring 29 goals, which was a new club record for a new head coach across that period.
However, since a 5-0 thumping of Werder Bremen, Bayern have gone three games without a victory, which included a 1-0 defeat in the Champions League to Aston Villa.
Ahead of the international break, Kompany s side drew with Eintracht Frankfurt, with Omar Marmoush netting a late leveller in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time.
Bayern welcome Stuttgart to the Allianz Arena this Saturday, though they know failing to win could see th…
Andriy Yarmolenko scored in extra-time to send West Ham into the Europa League quarter-finals, eliminating Sevilla with a 2-1 aggregate triumph on a dramatic night at the London Stadium.
Tomas Soucek levelled up the tie with a powerful header shortly before half-time, but the Premier League side were unable to find a pivotal second goal before the contest moved into extra-time.
With the match seemingly heading for spot-kicks, Yarmolenko stepped up to tap home a dramatic West Ham winner after 112 minutes and the hosts held on to win 2-0 on the night.
The Ukrainian substitute s stunning intervention means David Moyes team have reached their first major European quarter-final since they reached the last eight of the 1980-81 Cup Winners Cup.
It had to be h…
Wout Faes scored two own goals as Liverpool came from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 at Anfield.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall capitalised on poor defending to give Liverpool an early lead but Jurgen Klopp s side were gifted a fourth consecutive Premier League win by Faes.
The defender inexplicably hit the target at the wrong end twice in the first half on Friday to put Liverpool in front.
Liverpool were not at their fluent best, but moved just two points behind fourth-placed Tottenham with a win from their final match of 2022, with new signing Cody Gakpo watching on.
2 Wout Faes is the fourth player with two own goals in a single Premier League game, after Jamie Carragher (1999, Liverpool vs Man Utd), Michael Proctor (2003, Sunderland vs Charlton) and Jonatha…