Football

Kerala booked their ticket to the semi-finals in style, forcing a 1-0 victory over NorthEast in an Indian Super League match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sunday.

Anthony Martial and Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice each to help Manchester United ease into the League Cup semi-finals with a 4-1 home victory over West Ham United on Wednesday as Arsenal suffered a 2-0 home defeat by Southampton.

The plane that crashed in Colombia killing 71 people including Brazilian footballers had skipped a scheduled refueling stop, media quoted a representative of the Bolivian airline as saying.

NorthEast United scored in the final minute of the added time to hold defending champions Chennaiyin FC to a 3-3 draw in a thrilling match and kept themselves alive for a play-offs berth in the Indian Super League on Saturday.

Rooney put in an inspired performance in Thursday's 4-0 Europa League victory over Feyenoord, scoring United's first-half opener from an Ibrahimovic through ball to become the club's all-time leading scorer in Europe with 39.

Bale limped out of the game after around an hour and on Wednesday the club confirmed he had suffered "a traumatic dislocation of the peroneal tendons of his right ankle", reports Xinhua news agency.

It was a landmark night for England captain Rooney at Old Trafford as he netted his record-breaking 39th European goal that took him past Ruud van Nistelrooy's milestone of 38

Rampant Dortmund netted five times in 15 first-half minutes with Shinji Kagawa grabbing two goals while Reus, back for the first time after six months out injured, completed the scoring in stoppage time.

The duo, who did not have tickets for the match, were found during a security sweep before the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, and handed over to the police who chose not to arrest them, British media reported.

FC Pune City prevailed 4-3 over league leaders Delhi Dynamos to boost their chances of reaching the semi-finals of the Indian Super League (ISL) here on Friday.

Chelsea's Antonio Conte was named Premier League manager of the month after leading the club to four consecutive wins in October.

Chennaiyin FC and FC Pune City will confront each other here on Tuesday aware that anything less than a win could severely dent their chances of qualifying for the ISL semi-finals.

Croatia stayed on course to reach the 2018 World Cup after two superb strikes by midfielder Marcelo Brozovic gave them a 2-0 home win over Iceland in a Group I qualifier played behind closed doors in Zagreb on Saturday.

Shaw and Smalling were in the firing line after the Portuguese accused them of betraying United's "culture".

Mumbai City FC today defeated NorthEast United FC by a single goal, making it the third consecutive defeat of the home team in the ongoing Hero Indian Super League.

FC Pune City coach Antonio Habas will be encouraged with his personal record against his FC Goa counterpart Zico as he attempts to get his team out of the bottom in a Hero Indian Super League clash on Thursday.