The Milan club is top of the Italian league with Juventus 10 points adrift of the summit having played a game less.

Momota and the rest of the Japan national team assembled at Tokyo's National Training Center on Saturday ahead of two weeks of tournaments in Thailand starting from Jan. 12.

Ozil has not played for Arsenal since March and was not named in the squad lists for the first half of the Premier League season and the Europa League. The German, who is one of the highest-paid players at the club, is out of contract at the end of the campaign.

A year ago to the day, United lost 2-0 at Arsenal to fall 24 points behind the English champions, having played two games more.

It lifted United, who had scraped several road wins in similar fashion this term, to second in the standings. They are two points behind champions and leaders Liverpool and opened up a prospect of a thrilling title race.

Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino, the ex-Tottenham coach and a former PSG player, is widely reported to be the favourite to take over.

The latest blow to the Indonesian sports community was the postponement of the soccer U-20 World Championship, which was earlier slated for 2021, but then FIFA, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the main reason, decided to postpone it to 2023. The decision was made on Christmas Eve.

The pandemic is forcing people to exercise a high degree of flexibility in how they go about their activities, and intellectually disabled athletes are no exception.

It's the first meeting between the clubs since Los Angeles claimed a 4-1 series win in the opening round in August.

The 39-year-old Swiss last played a competitive match at the season-opening Grand Slam in January before he had to undergo surgery on his knee. He later required a second operation.

Liverpool were on course to take all three points at Anfield after Sadio Mane put them ahead on 12 minutes but Semi Ajayi's late header denied them the victory.

Leading through Sadio Mane's early goal, Klopp's side appeared to be heading for an eighth successive home league win but a late header by Semi Ajayi left Liverpool frustrated.

The Argentine's future has been a hot topic ever since he tried to leave Barcelona in August. He had to put those plans on hold till the end of the 2020-2021 season as the club insisted on enforcing the 700-million euro ($854 million) exit clause should another club want to snap him up.

The main draw entry for the first Grand Slam of 2021 comes two years after Murray, the five-time runner-up in Melbourne, played what he feared would be his final professional match there, losing in the first round to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.

Messi was a mainstay of Guardiola's Barca side that won 14 major titles and has been linked with a switch to City since the manager signed a new deal that will keep him at the Premier League club until the end of the 2022-23 season.

United drew 2-2 at Leicester City in the Premier League on Saturday and Fernandes was involved in both United goals, as well as one of Leicester's.

On a rainy, cold night at the Etihad Stadium, Newcastle boss Steve Bruce started with a five-man backline but there was little his side could do to keep control of City's array of attacking talent.

The world’s soccer governing body FIFA officially announced on Thursday the postponement of the U-20 World Cup from 2021 to 2023 and at the same time appointed Indonesia to still host the event, giving more time for both the organizing committee and the U-19 national squad.

Resplendent in a gold-studded black outfit, Hanyu unveiled a new short program routine set to "Let Me Entertain You" by Robbie Williams at the Japanese national championships in Nagano, and claimed the lead with a score of 103.53.

Elysha nabbed two bronze medals at a statewide championship in Queensland.

Milan, chasing a first Serie A title since 2011, launched straight onto the attack from kick-off, with Turkish midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu setting up Leao to slot home the rapid opener.

Bayern had not lost any of the previous six, and the club again overturned the deficit as the newly-crowned Best FIFA Men's Player, Lewandowski, equalized two minutes before halftime.

Costa is one of only three survivors alongside captain Koke and defender Jose Gimenez, plus coach Diego Simeone, from the side that won the club's last title in 2014 and he believes the current crop of players is good enough to repeat the feat.

Dejan Kulusevski and Alvaro Morata were also on target although it could have been very different if Juve's 42-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had not saved with his legs at close range from Juraj Kucka in the 15th minute.

Manchester City got back to winning ways with a 1-0 victory at in-form Southampton while Newcastle United was held to a 1-1 draw at home to struggling Fulham.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport's ruling cut a four-year ban for systematic doping imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

United has now won all six away league games this season - conceding first on each occasion - and the latest comeback victory moved the club up to sixth place, on 23 points, five behind leader Liverpool but with a game in hand.

ONE Championship athletes Eko Roni Saputra and Priscilla Hertati Lumban Gaol are two of the fastest rising Indonesian stars in martial arts. They are moving up the ranks among Asia’s best talents, and both have set lofty goals for themselves in the new year.

An executive board meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) unanimously approved the proposal to name the runner-up in the two-horse race for the 2030 games as 2034 hosts.

Tokyo organizers and the Japanese government are struggling with increased costs and, despite the growing possibility of vaccination, whether to allow foreign visitors and what safeguards and restrictions will apply to spectators and participants.