Arsenal caretaker manager Freddie Ljungberg said it is obvious what he needs to work on as the Gunners’ defensive problems were again exposed in a 2-2 draw at struggling Norwich on Sunday.
Norwich twice led through Teemu Pukki and Todd Cantwell, but Arsenal captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang ensured Ljungberg did not suffer defeat in his first game since taking temporary charge.
“It’s easy to see what we have to work on,” said Ljungberg. “We need to work on the transitions, we dominated and they break on us too easily.”
Arsenal also had goalkeeper Bernd Leno to thank for coming away with …
Kelechi Iheanacho struck deep into stoppage time as Leicester beat Everton 2-1 to close the gap on Liverpool at the top of the Premier League to eight points.
Richarlison had given the visitors a shock lead at the King Power as Everton produced a performance that may do enough to save manager Marco Silva’s job ahead of the Merseyside derby on Wednesday.
But the introduction of Iheanacho just after the hour mark changed the game as the Nigerian set up Jamie Vardy to equalise and then dramatically scored the winner, which was initially ruled out for offside before a VAR …
Fabio Cannavaro took Guangzhou Evergrande to their eighth Chinese Super League (CSL) title on Sunday, a month after the Italian coach was publicly lambasted by the club for his “weak ability to rectify mistakes”.
With the championship going down to the final day of the season, Beijing Guoan needed to defeat Shandong Luneng at home and hope that Cannavaro’s side lost to visiting Shanghai Shenhua.
Guoan triumphed 3-2 thanks to a 91st-minute goal but Evergrande were comfortable 3-0 winners over struggling Shenhua.
It is the first major honour of his coaching career and a personal triumph for Cannavaro, 46, who …
Nico Hulkenberg bade farewell to Formula One, at least for now, with a smile of relief on Sunday when he finished 12th for Renault at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The 32-year-old German had known for several months that he was set to lose his seat and admitted it was a curious experience as he drove his final races with the team.
“I’m feeling good,” he said after his 177th Formula One race. “I am kind of relieved that it’s all over.
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George Russell completed his rookie season in Formula One on Sunday as the only driver without a point, but with his reputation enhanced during a character-building year with former champions Williams.
The 21-year-old Briton, who on Saturday completed a 21-0 whitewash of team-mate Robert Kubica in their qualifying contests for the year, finished 17th in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
For a Williams driver, in another season of frustration and disappointment, it was a small victory as he and his team looked ahead to ending their slump in 2020.
“I felt so sick on Thursday, I wasn’t sure I would …
Reigning champions Toulouse jumped to fourth in the Top 14 with a 45-10 victory over Bayonne, who finished with 13 men, on Sunday
Toulouse who lost five of their first eight games in Top 14, have now won six straight, including two European victories.
Both teams had a chance to climb into the top three, but the game quickly became one-sided.
Sofiane Guitoune sidestepped through the Bayonne defence for the first Toulouse try after 18 minutes. Winger Matthis Lebel added a second five minutes later.
Bayonne were reduced to 14 when No. 8 Mat Luamanu was sent off for …
Celtic and Rangers continued their shootout at the top of the Scottish Premiership thrashing Ross County and Hearts respectively on Sunday.
Just one goal separates the Glasgow giants as Celtic won 4-1 in the Highlands for a 10th straight victory, then Rangers responded with a 5-0 hammering of managerless Hearts at Ibrox.
Celtic midfielder Ryan Christie took his tally for the season to 15 with a first half brace either side of Ross Stewart’s leveller for County.
Tom Rogic then made it 3-1 as his deflected effort found the bottom corner 23 minutes from time.
US superstar Mikaela Shiffrin won the women’s alpine World Cup slalom at Killington Sunday in dominant style, beating Slovkian Petra Vlhova by 2.29 seconds.
Shiffrin, the three-time overall World Cup champion, took a stranglehold on the race in the opening leg, flying down an icy course in front of delighted home fans in Vermont in 51.98sec — 1.13sec faster than Vlhova.
Shiffrin’s second run of 58.47sec was more than enough for victory with a total time of 1:50.45 as Vlhova clocked 59.63 to take second in 1:52.74.
Sweden’s Anna Swenn Larsson delivered a superb second run of 58.38 to take …
A passenger bus plunged off a bridge onto a frozen river in Siberia on Sunday, killing 19 of the more than 40 people on board, authorities said.
A tyre on the bus burst as it was crossing the bridge over the Kuenga river in eastern Siberia’s Zabaikalsky region.
The vehicle, which was travelling from Sretensk to Chita and carried 40 passengers, skidded off the road and onto the ice.
“Nineteen people died and 21 received various injuries,” the office of the governor of the Zabaikalsky region said in a statement.
Two preschool-aged children were reportedly among the dead.
National television …
There was a major crack among the country’s opposition political parties on Sunday after 55 national chairmen of political parties rejected the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) call for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
The PDP had last Thursday asked the INEC chief to resign over statements allegedly credited to two INEC Commissioners; Festus Okoye and Haruna Mohammed, that the “card readers were circumvented” in elections conducted by the Commission.
The party, in a statement issued on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the statements were admissions that …
The pair were set to meet on Sunday evening at Stade Louis II, but will now face off at a later date after the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes in southeastern France were issued with a red alert for rain and floods.
The red level is the highest in the French meteorological scale, and indicates that “hazardous phenomena of exceptional intensity” are expected, and that members of the public must follow safety instructions issued by the public authorities.
“Following a decision by the
