There is much more to come from Jude Bellingham, according to Borussia Dortmund head coach Edin Terzic.
Bellingham captained the Bundesliga side during Wednesday s 4-1 win at Sevilla, where he became just the second teenager to score in the first three games of a Champions League campaign.
The only other player to achieve that feat is his former Dortmund team-mate Erling Haaland, who did so with Salzburg in the 2019-20 season.
Bellingham s tally of three Champions League goals this season is already a joint-high among English teenagers for a single campaign, along with Manchester United s Wayne Rooney, back in 2004-05.
The 19-year-old England international has been in good form for club and country, and Terzic believes he can get even better.
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Girona earned their first win of the 2024-25 LaLiga campaign in emphatic fashion, beating Osasuna 4-0 at the Estadi Montilivi on Thursday.
The Blanquivermells had taken one point from their first two league fixtures, but goals from Bryan Gil, Viktor Tsygankov, Abel Ruiz and Cristhian Stuani ensured a comfortable win for Michel s side.
Former Tottenham Hotspur winger Gil opened the scoring in the 34th minute, turning home Tsyhankov s delivery with an acrobatic finish beyond Sergio Herrera.
Tsyhankov increased their advantage eight minutes after the break, neatly turning and finishing into the bottom corner after being picked out by Bojan Miovski inside the area.
The victory was confirmed three minutes later when Ruiz rounded off a fine move with a thunder…
England forward Beth Mead said the team were “absolutely devastated” after missing out on the Nations League finals and failing to qualify for the Olympics for Team GB.
A dramatic evening saw England thrash Scotland 6-0 at Hampden Park, with Lucy Bronze’s stoppage-time header looking like it would be the crucial goal for the Lionesses to finish top of Group A1.
However, a late added-time brace from Damaris Egurrola meant the Netherlands pipped Sarina Wiegman’s team to the summit on goal difference, ending Team GB’s hopes of qualifying for Paris 2024 and ensuring the Dutch reached the inaugural Nations League finals.
It ends 6-0 in Glasgow, but we narrowly miss out on first place in Group 1A on goal difference.
A performance to be proud of.
Liel Abada insists he is “really happy” at Celtic and vowed to ignore transfer speculation to focus on the domestic treble.
The 21-year-old winger, signed from Maccabi Petah Tikva in 2021, has not always been a regular starter under Ange Postecoglou this season.
Portuguese favourite Jota and Japan attacker Daizen Maeda have often been preferred, and Abada has been linked with a move to the likes of Southampton, Ajax and Benfica.
Abada, who is contracted to 2026, has played well enough to be nominated for the PFA Scotland young player of the year award for the second successive season.
The ViaPlay Cup winners clinched the cinch Premiership title on Sunday with a win at Hearts and the 12-goal Hoops attacker insists his eyes are firmly on the finish to t…
Diego Demme and Marcel Sabitzer earned RB Leipzig a 2-0 victory at Zenit that edged Julian Nagelsmann s side closer to qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League.
Stand-in captain Demme rifled a fierce shot past Zenit goalkeeper Mikhail Kerzhakov in the fifth minute of first-half stoppage time to put Leipzig on the path to an important victory.
Nagelsmann s side put six goals past Wolfsburg in the DFB-Pokal last Wednesday and scored eight against Mainz at the weekend, but they lacked a clinical edge with Timo Werner starting on the bench due to a muscle complaint.
Werner, who scored five goals and assisted the same amount in those two resounding victories, came on in the 61st minute and played a role in Sabitzer ensuring they retained top spot in Grou…
Cristiano Ronaldo has firmly denied an allegation of rape brought by Kathryn Mayorga, whose fragile emotional state led to suicidal thoughts in the aftermath of the alleged attack, according to her lawyers.
The Juventus and Portugal star is accused by Mayorga of sexually assaulting her in a Las Vegas hotel in 2009.
Local police confirmed on Tuesday that they had reopened an investigation from the same year, but did not name the victim or any suspects.
Mayorga s legal counsel outlined the impact they say the alleged assault has had on their client at a press conference on Wednesday, just hours after Ronaldo had stated his innocence on Twitter, describing rape as an abominable crime .
Ronaldo initially described the claims, first reported by German publicat…
Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo has suggested Joao Felix will stay at the LaLiga club but knows there is nothing impossible in life .
Arsenal and Manchester United are among the clubs who have been linked with Joao Felix.
The Portugal forward has had a difficult time at the Civitas Metropolitano after arriving from Benfica for a huge fee of €126million in 2019.
Joao Felix scored in Atletico s first game after the World Cup against Elche, setting his side on the way to a 2-0 LaLiga victory.
The 23-year-old is set to feature in a huge clash against Barcelona on Sunday and Atleti president Cerezo indicated he will remain in the Spanish capital, but has not ruled out a January exit.
He is quoted as saying by Mundo Deportivo: Unless you say …
Manchester City stormed to a 4-0 victory at London Stadium as West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini endured an unhappy reunion with his former employers.
Pellegrini masterminded City s 2013-14 Premier League title triumph and one of the heroes of that campaign, David Silva, opened the scoring in the 11th minute – the evergreen playmaker s fourth in as many matches.
Raheem Sterling, who Pellegrini made City s record signing in 2015, scored the second and turned provider for Leroy Sane to put the game beyond the Hammers in the 34th minute.
West Ham enjoyed their share of chances and Michail Antonio struck the post after half-time, before Sane blasted past Aaron Cresswell s best efforts on the line in the game s final act.
As in the 3-1 derby win over Manchester…
Ronald Koeman revealed that Matthijs de Ligt s substitution was made to protect him during the Netherlands 2-2 draw with Germany in the Nations League.
Tijjani Reijnders had given the Netherlands the lead in the second minute, only for Deniz Undav and Joshua Kimmich to hand the visitors the advantage at the break.
For Germany s equaliser, Manchester United defender De Ligt saw his pass under no pressure intercepted by Jamal Musiala, resulting in Undav levelling the scores.
Koeman had previously addressed De Ligt s errors during the Netherlands 5-2 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina last week and had to do so once again on Tuesday.
Of course, I would rather have kept Matthijs de Ligt on the pitch. It just looks like he is now in a period where all his mistake…
New Birmingham boss Wayne Rooney says he felt his “pathway was a different way” after being approached about managing in Saudi Arabia.
Rooney was unveiled as Blues manager at a press conference at St Andrew’s on Thursday, where he sat alongside the club’s chief executive Garry Cook.
Cook assumed that role in July after Birmingham were taken over by US-based Shelby Companies Limited, having previously been working as executive president and chief executive of the Saudi Pro League.
Jordan Henderson and manager Steven Gerrard – two of Rooney’s former England team-mates – are among the high-profile names to have moved to the league in recent months.
When Rooney was asked if he had had an offer from Saudi Arabia, Cook said: “We discussed it, (b…