Title-holders Liverpool secured a place in the Champions League last 16 thanks to a 2-0 victory at Salzburg on Tuesday.

Naby Keita and Mohamed Salah scored in the second half for Jurgen Klopp's side who finish top of Group E, a point ahead of Napoli.

Didier Deschamps' contract as coach of world champions France has been extended through to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a source said Tuesday.

Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki announced on Friday that she will retire from tennis after next month's Australian Open.

Zinedine Zidane confirmed on Friday that Gareth Bale has not trained ahead of Real Madrid's match against Espanyol as injury threatens to rule him out of this month's Clasico.

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard admitted the club will be on the lookout for new faces in the January window after a FIFA-imposed transfer ban was reduced on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday.

Jurgen Klopp says he does not care about being top of the Premier League at Christmas as he prepares his Liverpool team for a hectic few weeks.

Neymar and Kylian Mbappe both scored as Paris Saint-Germain restored their five-point cushion at the top of Ligue 1 with a 2-0 win over Nantes on Wednesday.

Eden Hazard is set to miss the Clasico against Barcelona after further tests revealed a fracture in his right ankle, Real Madrid confirmed on Thursday. 

Jurgen Klinsmann is making the Hertha Berlin players suffer in training to get them fit for the Bundesliga relegation battle, forward Davie Selke says.

Italian football clubs on Thursday slammed a renowned sports daily's front page as "unacceptable" and "terrible" after it used "Black Friday" in a headline in reference to Romelu Lukaku and Roma defender Chris Smalling.