SPORTS

Juventus midfielder Blaise Matuidi has been ruled out of the club's Champions League round of 16 first leg tie against Tottenham Hotspur.

Spurs were awarded two penalties at Anfield as they fought back to earn a thrilling 2-2 draw against their top four rivals.

Lawrence Okolie is looking to fight on the undercard of mentor Anthony Joshua's heavyweight unification showdown against Joseph Parker after his victory over Isaac Chamberlain.

Harry Kane's 95th-minute penalty seals a dramatic 2-2 draw for Tottenham at Liverpool after his initial miss from 12 yards is punished by Mohamed Salah.

Everton's Sam Allardyce has revealed the reason behind his decision to drop Cenk Tosun and dismissed suggestions that Ademola Lookman could have helped avoid a drubbing by Arsenal.

Jose Mourinho expects Marouane Fellaini to return by the end of March after the Manchester United midfielder had surgery on his latest knee injury on Saturday morning.

Roger Federer has spoken out on how he is able to continually perform on the big stage following his 2018 Australian Open win.

Roy missed the warm-up game against the Prime Minister's XI last week with a back spasm, while Plunkett has been out of action with a hamstring problem.

Ronda Rousey will have one major difficulty she needs to overcome in the WWE, according to former UFC star Josh Barnett.

Nadal has played a part in 3 of Spain's 5 Davis Cup wins and is very motivated to make a comeback in 2018 should Spain progress further in the competition.

Manager Antonio Conte says he would prefer to bring in a couple of world-class players at the end of the season over making wholesale changes to his squad.

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has given his verdict on the title unification fight between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker.

Federer thought it would be difficult to go through the same journey again, especially when he had come so close to achieving something special.

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn believes Tyson Fury could use the stripping of his RING Magazine title to reignite his boxing career.

Liverpool have a deal in place with RB Leipzig that will see Guinea midfielder Naby Keita move to Anfield in the summer.

Ramsey's hat-trick came moments before he was due to be subbed off, coming on the end of another Mkhitaryan cut-in as the Armenian also finished the game with three assists.

The UFC have booked UFC 225 in Chicago in what will be the Windy City's first-ever pay-per-view show. Will CM Punk have his second fight there?

There is no concrete evidence to suggest that the injury is just a recurrence of the same hamstring injury that kept him out of action for the first half of the season.

The Algeria international handed in a transfer request on 30 January to try and force through a move to Manchester City.

Petr Cech and Nacho Monreal handed Arsenal two concerns ahead of the derby against Tottenham after both players were forced off during the 5-1 victory over Everton.

Aaron Ramsey notches a first career hat-trick, Henrikh Mkhitaryan racks up three assists and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang nets on his debut as Arsenal thrash Everton 5-1.

Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez both net for Manchester United during a routine 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town at Old Trafford that sends the visitors into the bottom three.

Lewis Hamilton is in the final year of his contract with Mercedes but is keen to remain with the Silver Arrows team beyond the 2018 campaign.

UFC star Conor McGregor lost to boxing legend Floyd Mayweather in a boxing fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in August 2017.

Theo Walcott's former club Southampton were also interested in re-signing the forward before he joined Everton in the January transfer window.

Chung has ambitions to win a Grand Slam in the future and has set his sights on the French Open in May, having done very well on clay in 2017.

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher claims Philippe Coutinho is not good enough to cost Barcelona £142m in the January transfer window.

Chuba Akpom went out on his sixth loan spell after failing to break into Arsenal's first-team under Arsene Wenger.

Arsene Wenger was keen to sign a defender during the January transfer window but failed with a late move for Jonny Evans.