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1 week ago | 
espn.in | Zenia D'Cunha |Sam Marsden |Gabriele Marcotti
Th 2024-25 UEFA Champions League semifinals are set after dramatic second-leg ties which brought no real change in last week's first-leg results. Arsenal dug in at the Santiago Bernabeu on a night of missed penalty and stoppage-time winner for a huge 5-1 win on aggregate to knock out defending champions Real Madrid. They will take on Paris Saint-Germain, who lost the second-leg match to Aston Villa 3-2 but managed to make it 5-4 on aggregate.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Anirudh Menon |Zenia D'Cunha
Robert Lewandowski looks a little out of place in that Barcelona forward line. Watch him stride around that pitch, a giant amongst diminutive technicians, an old man who looks like he's about to coach the kids that zip about around him, and you wonder what he does.
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Zenia D'Cunha |Mark Ogden |Ryan O'Hanlon
European football returned after the international break with an action-packed weekend. Somethings didn't change at all as Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland were among the goals. Editor's PicksIs Rashford back to form for Villa, England? Or is it a false dawn?
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3 weeks ago | 
espn.in | Zenia D'Cunha |Aaditya Narayan
Anahat Singh was already earmarked for excellence when she was 14 years old - entering the spotlight as the youngest member of the Indian contingent at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Less than three years later, Anahat is the newly-minted India No. 1, has Asian Games and World junior medals to her name, and is becoming the beacon for Indian squash as it becomes an Olympic sport at the LA 2028 Games.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Aaditya Narayan |Zenia D'Cunha
After Jenny and Greg Mairs had played their final match as professional badminton players - in the quarterfinals of the All-England Championships - an emotional Greg threw his racquet into the home crowd and it was caught by people wearing bright red T-shirts emblazoned with a logo spelling out 'Badminton Insight'. Standard farewell match behaviour... till you look closely.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Sunaadh Sagar |Zenia D'Cunha |Sam Tighe |Mark Ogden
At first, you think you know exactly what is going to happen. Vinicius Jr has picked up the ball down the left, squared up Rayo Vallecano right back Andrei Ratiu. Of course, he's going to cut inside... and unleash. Ratiu certainly thinks this too, but there's little he can do but back up, fall for a shoulder feint and recover, fall for another shoulder feint and recover just enough to force Vinicius' touch wide.
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1 month ago | 
espn.co.uk | Zenia D'Cunha |Sam Tighe |Rob Dawson |Mark Ogden
It was an action-packed weekend in European football with shock losses for big teams and La Liga title race getting even tighter. In the Premier League Nottingham Forest beat Manchester City to jump to third while Mo Salah-powered Liverpool extended their lead at the top as Manchester United drew with Arsenal.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Zenia D'Cunha |Anish Anand
"Sometimes I do think about [her daughter] during the event but it's very important to stay focused and sometimes I don't even talk with her so that I don't get emotionally weak. It's tough being so but if you want to become a world champion and to prove yourself, you need to do [it]."Koneru Humpy has proven herself, multiple times over, knows exactly what toll it takes... and yet she keeps pushing herself more.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Sunaadh Sagar |Zenia D'Cunha
November, 1952. Seventy-two years and four months ago. That was the last time Como 1907 had defeated Napoli in Serie A - until last Sunday. In between, there was a constant flirtation with all four tiers of Italian football, including the club's best-ever spell of five consecutive years in the top-flight during the mid-80s. The club also survived two bankruptcies (in 2004 and 2016), necessitating a restart in Serie D and working their way up.
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1 month ago | 
espn.in | Zenia D'Cunha |Mark Ogden |Rob Dawson |James Olley
This weekend of European football action has seen the contrasting results in title races. The Premier League race is tilting towards a Mo Salah-record-powered Liverpool, after they beat Manchester City and Arsenal lost to West Ham. The La Liga, race is poised on a knife's edge with three teams - Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid - in touching distance and three winning this weekend.
