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MILAN: Zlatan Ibrahimovic made a winning return after being sidelined with the coronavirus as AC Milan beat Inter Milan 2-1 in an entertaining derby match on Saturday. Ibrahimovic only resumed training this week after recovering from the virus but the 39-year-old Swede scored twice early on. Romelu Lukaku netted for Inter in the 29th minute. “I’m very hungry because they …

LONDON: Bruno Fernandes atoned for a missed penalty as Manchester United blitzed Newcastle United 4-1 with late goals in the evening kick-off on Saturday while Raheem Sterling grabbed the winner as Manchester City beat Arsenal 1-0 in their Premier League clash. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s United went into their match at St James’s Park desperate to restore pride after a 6-1 …

ALCANIZ (Spain): Suzuki’s Alex Rins held off a spirited challenge from Repsol Honda rookie Alex Marquez to claim his first victory of the season at the Aragon Grand Prix in Spain on Sunday. Rins’ team-mate Joan Mir finished third to take a six-point lead at the top of the championship ahead of Fabio Quartararo, who started at the top of …

BARCELONA: Barcelona and Real Madrid lost for the first time this season on Saturday against modest La Liga opposition, increasing the doubts over their stalled attacks ahead of Champions League openers and their own Clasico clash next weekend. Zinedine Zidane made four substitutions at half-time but could not spark a lethargic Real into life as his team fell 1-0 at …

KARACHI: The RBG Warriors beat Logistics Lions by 21 runs in a thrilling final to win the NBP President’s T20 Inter-Group Cricket Tournament here at the NBP Sports Complex on Sunday. President NBP Arif Usmani was the chief guest on the occasion and distributed the prizes. He lauded the high standard of cricket played in the tournament and praised the …

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa put up an all-round performance to beat Southern Punjab by 10 runs in the final to clinch the National T20 Cup 2020 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Shoaib Malik’s cameo of 56 not-out off 22 balls propelled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to a daunting total of 206-4 while three wickets each from bowling duo of Shaheen Shah Afridi …

Shoaib Malik and Sarfaraz Ahmed have not been picked for the upcoming Zimbabwe series, said head coach and chief selector Misbahul Haq on Monday while announcing the names of 22 probables for the ODI and T20I series. “I want to categorically state that their careers are not over by any means as performance remains the only criterion for selection. These …

PARIS: Kylian Mbappe shrugged off any lingering fatigue to score twice in his second game in 48 hours as Paris Saint-Germain defeated 10-man Nimes 4-0 on Friday to take over top spot in Ligue 1. The France forward struck the opener on 32 minutes at the Stade des Costieres and netted again late on as a weary Nimes folded following …

LONDON: Champions Liver­pool were foiled by VAR as they were held to a 2-2 Premier League derby draw with Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday after a late effort from Jordan Henderson was ruled out. Everton remained top of the table on 13 points, three ahead of Liverpool, after an incident-packed end to the 237th Merseyside derby. The game was …

LAHORE: Just three days before the Zimbabwe cricket team is scheduled to touch down in Islamabad for a three ODI and three T20I series, the Pakistan Cricket Board reiterated it has not paid any extra money to the visitors to undertake the FTP tour as was the case with them in 2015. “The PCB paid Zimbabwe, a World XI and …