Remember the name, Erling Haland. The wonderkid of Red Bull Salzburg has lit up the Champions League in his very first appearance. The son of Leeds legend Alf-Inge Haland was incredible in his side’s first-half destruction of Genk, hitting a hat-trick in simply devastating fashion. The 19-year-old’s treble has seen him equal Wayne Rooney’s record of being the first teenager to score more than once on his Champions League debut. Rooney netted a hat-trick for Manchester United against Fenerbahçe, and Haland has replicated the feat suit by doing the same in Salzburg. He also became just the eighth player to score three times in his first ever Champions League game.…

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard is already showing resemblances to Jose Mourinho when he was at his ‘very best’, according to club legend Pat Nevin. Lampard, who will manage his first Champions League game on Tuesday night as the Blues entertain Valencia, has not been afraid to mix up his systems this season. And Nevin says the former Chelsea midfielder’s ‘fearless’ approach against Wolves was deservedly rewarded in the shape of an emphatic 5-2 victory. Writing in his column for Chelsea’s official website, he said: “We have fearless Frank whose bravery is still amazing me. “The change of system against Wolves was in retrospect a master stroke and one that would have…

Liverpool could be forced to called upon young goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher in tonight’s Champions League clash with Napoli. The Reds are in Italy for their Group E opener at the Stadio San Paolo with Adrian in goal as he continues to fill in for injured number one Alisson. But should anything happen to the Spaniard, Jurgen Klopp will have to bring 20-year-old Kelleher off the bench for his senior debut. The youngster returned to training recently following a broken wrist and has been included in Liverpool’s matchday squad in the past few weeks. Kelleher, a 20-year-old from Cork, joined Liverpool from Ireland’s Ringmahon Rangers in 2015 and has since progressed…

Tight end is already one of the weakest positions in fantasy football, and injuries to Trey Burton and Greg Olsen aren’t going to help Week 2 rankings. Fortunately, Burton looks on track to return to the field this week, but Olsen will be a game-time decision for Thursday night. That creates a potential waiver wire sleeper in Ian Thomas, though Olsen owners don’t want to be going to that well this early. Sterling Shepard might also miss this week’s game, which would benefit another TE, Evan Engram. We’ll break it all down below. For updates on injured RBs Joe Mixon and Tevin Coleman, click here; for more on JuJu Smith-Schuster…

These days, “Monday Night Football” does not necessarily carry the best matchup of NFL teams in a given week. Yet it doesn’t seem to matter who’s playing on “Monday Night Football,” because based on TV ratings, fans are still seeking and finding the channel on which they can cap a weekend of pro football vieweing. And in Week 2 of the 2019 season, those fans are being treated to a game between two teams desperate for a win. Both the Browns and the Jets lost last week, and for Cleveland in particular, the dreaded 0-2 hole to start the season would be an embarrassing development for a team that entered the year with such…

Martin Truex Jr. passed Kevin Harvick with 20 laps to go and cruised to a comfortable victory in the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday night. Harvick, Brad Keselowski, Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney made up the top five in the first race of the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.  MORE: Watch NASCAR live with fuboTV (7-day trial) Truex capitalized on his opportunities Sunday to automatically qualify for the second round of the playoffs. Joey Logano dominated the early going, winning Stage 1 and leading 103 of the first 160 laps, but Truex won Stage 2 after passing Logano with three laps remaining in the stage. Logano…

The Blues boss could be set for a sanction after his team’s frustrating home draw in the Premier League Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri has been charged with misconduct following his sending-off against Burnley, the Football Association has announced on its  official website. The Italian was sent off for leaving his technical area and walking down the touchline towards the end of the game and there was an altercation between both sets of players and staff members at full-time. Sarri subsequently refused to speak to the media after the game, with assistant boss Gianfranco Zola taking on those duties. Zola explained that the tactician felt “frustrated” by being sent off and “offended” by something said to…

A man currently on the books at Camp Nou has revealed that he hopes to one day line up alongside a fellow Brazil international at club level Barcelona midfielder Philippe Coutinho has fuelled the transfer talk surrounding both him and fellow Brazilian Neymar with an admission on his future plans. After a little over a year at Camp Nou, 26-year-old playmaker Coutinho is already sparking exit speculation. A return to the Premier League has been mooted for the former Liverpool star, with Manchester United and Chelsea said to be among his suitors. Coutinho has, however, offered no indication that he is looking for a move in the summer window. An iconic countryman…

The Nerazzurri are keen on the left-back but he wants to be a Premier League success after breaking into the first team in recent weeks Emerson Palmieri is happy to stay at Chelsea even though he has been added to Inter’s list of summer targets as the Serie A club target the signing of new full-backs, Goal understands. The Italy international has finally forced his way into Maurizio Sarri’s thinking at Stamford Bridge after playing a backup role to Marcos Alonso for the first 18 months of his Chelsea career. There continues to be an interest from major clubs in Serie A about bringing the left-back, who moved to west London…

The Gunners defender was dismissed after collecting two yellow cards in a 3-0 defeat away at Leicester City, much to the frustration of his manager Unai Emery has questioned Ainsley Maitland-Niles’ red card in Arsenal’s resounding 3-0 Premier League defeat to Leicester City on Sunday.  The 21-year-old was dismissed after 36 minutes for a second yellow card and the Foxes never looked back, forging ahead through Youri Tielemans in the 59th minute before Jamie Vardy sealed an emphatic win with two late goals.  The defeat leaves Arsenal in fifth and they could be four points adrift of the Champions League qualification places if Chelsea overcome Manchester United later on Sunday.  Despite Leicester’s dominance before Maitland-Niles’ dismissal,…