Mauricio Pochettino insists Tottenham's ugly response to the end of their Premier League title challenge is actually a good omen for the future.

Pochettino will be without key midfielders Mousa Dembele and Dele Alli for Tottenham's final home game of the season against Southampton on Sunday as the pair serve suspensions accrued during the tense conclusion to their team's unsuccessful bid to catch champions Leicester.

Rafael Nadal will face defending champion Andy Murray in the Madrid Masters semi-finals after extending his perfect start to the European clay-court season to 13 matches with a 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 win over Joao Sousa on Friday.

Murray continued his serene passage into the last four by sweeping past eighth seed Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-2.

Germany midfielder Ilkay Gundogan will miss Euro 2016 after suffering a dislocated kneecap in training with Borussia Dortmund, his club announced on Friday.

"Season -- and European Championship -- finished!...Get well soon, Illy," said Dortmund on their official twitter feed, revealing the news of the serious injury suffered by the 25-year-old.

Massimiliano Allegri is set to sign a new two-year deal with Juventus that will make him Serie A's highest-paid coach, but only after the club agreed not to sell Paulo Dybala or Paul Pogba.

Widespread reports in Italy said Allegri, who has steered the Old Lady of Turin to successive league titles the past two seasons, will put pen to paper on Friday.

In-form Real Madrid star Gareth Bale is set to miss the Spanish giants' crucial La Liga clash with Valencia on Sunday after the club confirmed on Friday he has suffered a knee sprain.

"Bale has been diagnosed with a sprained right knee joint," Madrid said in a statement.

England's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will miss the Euro 2016 finals in France Championships after Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said Friday the Gunners winger has suffered a new knee injury which will sideline him for up to two months.

Oxlade-Chamberlain has not played since injuring a knee in the Champions League defeat by Barcelona on February 23.

A rough tackle, the whistle blows and a foul is given. "Get back in the kitchen!" the player yells at the referee.

It's one of the kinder things male players have said to Melany Bermejo, one of the rare women referees in the macho world of Latin American football.

Brighton manager Chris Hughton says his side have nothing to fear as they prepare to face Middlesbrough in a Premier League promotion shoot-out worth at least £170 million ($246 million) on Saturday.

Hughton's team are bidding to return to the top flight after a 33-year absence and the rewards are bigger than ever due to the lucrative new Premier League television deals that start next season.

Lyon can wrap up direct qualification for next season's Champions League group stage with a win when they entertain Monaco on the penultimate weekend of the Ligue 1 campaign on Saturday.

Both sides are on course to finish in the top three in France but both are desperate to avoid ending the season in third spot, and thus having to come through two qualifying rounds to make the Champions League proper.

Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich will try to heal their Champions League hurt with a win at Ingolstadt on Saturday which would confirm a record fourth straight German league title.

Atletico Madrid advanced to the Champions League final on away goals at Bayern's expense on Tuesday despite losing the second leg of their semi-final 2-1 in Munich having triumphed 1-0 in Spain last week.