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The 48-year-old replaces Dorival Junior, who was sacked on Saturday after reportedly refusing to accept a pay cut.

East Bengal came back from behind to defeat arch-rivals Mohun Bagan in the penalty shoot-out to storm into the 117th IFA Shield final.

The Bulgarian striker, who scored 46 goals for Tottenham from 2006-08, declined to celebrate after finding the net in the 52nd minute with a mis-hit shot that flew past goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

Malaga slipped to a 2-0 loss to visiting Espanyol on Sunday, wasting a chance to regain fourth place in the Spanish league.

After two encouraging wins Queens Park Rangers' recovery stalled on Saturday with a 3-2 defeat at Aston Villa as they stare now at relegation.

Rodgers made no excuses after Liverpool's 3-1 defeat at Southampton on Saturday all but extinguished their hopes of a late surge into the EPL's top four.

Stoke ended a run of three straight Premier League losses by drawing 0-0 with West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.

Victor Valdes has verbally abused a referee after 2-1 loss against Real Madrid in La Liga match.

Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle was paired with Rubin Kazan, FC Basel and Benfica respectively.

Goals from Oliver Giroud in the 3rd minute and Laurent Koscielny in the 86th helped Arsenal beat Bayern Munich 2-0.

A string of absentees including Wilshere, Podolski and Sagna, have made Arsenal's already huge task that much bigger.

Southampton players mobbed referee Mark Clattenburg when he pointed to the spot in the third minute of stoppage time.

AC Milan visit Barcelona on Tuesday for the second leg of their last 16 tie, holding a 2-0 lead from the first leg.

Lionel Messi extended his Spanish league record by scoring in 17 straight games to cap Barcelona's 2-0 win over Deportivo La Coruna.

Tevez also played a part in goals by Aleksandar Kolarov and David Silva as City crushed Barnsley 5-0 to reach the semi-finals.

Mario Balotelli came off the bench to help fire 10-man AC Milan to a hard-fought 2-0 win at Genoa.