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Tottenham Thrashes Aston Villa 4-1 in Premier League

Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
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Tottenham Thrashes Aston Villa 4-1 in Premier League

Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs
Soccer Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - November 3, 2024 Tottenham Hotspur's Dominic Solanke celebrates scoring their second goal Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs

Dominic Solanke scored twice as Tottenham thrashed Aston Villa 4-1 in the Premier League on Sunday.
The forward struck two goals in the space of four second-half minutes at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after Villa had led at the break, The Associated Press reported.
Solanke scored in the 75th and 79th as Spurs produced a stunning second-half performance to follow up its victory against Manchester City in the League Cup on Wednesday.
Morgan Rogers had given Champions League-chasing Villa the lead in the 32nd minute, but Brennan Johnson leveled the game four minutes after the break.
Solanke's double put Spurs 3-1 ahead and James Maddison curled a free kick into the top corner in the sixth minute of added time. Solanke is now on five goals for the season.
Tottenham is up to seventh in the standings, while fifth-place Villa missed out on the chance to move into the top three.
Grudge match AFC Wimbledon beat MK Dons 2-0 in the first round of the FA Cup and took bragging rights in one of English soccer’s fiercest grudge matches.
Matty Stevens and Omar Bugiel scored either side of halftime at Stadium MK in a competition that holds deep ties for fans of both clubs.
Wimbledon was a shock winner of the Cup in 1988 when beating the mighty Liverpool 1-0. The team relocated to Milton Keynes in 2002 and was renamed MK Dons, which prompted disgruntled fans to create a phoenix club called AFC Wimbledon.
And it was the traveling AFC Wimbledon fans who were left celebrating Sunday after securing its place in the next round of the Cup.

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Ducati’s Marquez Undergoes Successful Double Surgery After French GP Crash

Gresini Racing MotoGP rider Alex Marquez of Spain is helped after crashing during the MotoGP race at the French Motorcycling Grand Prix in Le Mans, France, 10 May 2026. (EPA)
Gresini Racing MotoGP rider Alex Marquez of Spain is helped after crashing during the MotoGP race at the French Motorcycling Grand Prix in Le Mans, France, 10 May 2026. (EPA)
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Ducati’s Marquez Undergoes Successful Double Surgery After French GP Crash

Gresini Racing MotoGP rider Alex Marquez of Spain is helped after crashing during the MotoGP race at the French Motorcycling Grand Prix in Le Mans, France, 10 May 2026. (EPA)
Gresini Racing MotoGP rider Alex Marquez of Spain is helped after crashing during the MotoGP race at the French Motorcycling Grand Prix in Le Mans, France, 10 May 2026. (EPA)

Reigning ‌MotoGP champion Marc Marquez underwent successful double surgery on Sunday in Madrid following his crash in Saturday's French Grand Prix sprint, Ducati announced.

Marquez suffered a nasty highside crash at Le Mans where the Spaniard fractured his foot and was thrown off his bike, which cartwheeled through the air before landing beside him.

The 33-year-old had also planned to undergo ‌shoulder surgery ‌after the Catalan Grand Prix ‌next ⁠weekend before the ⁠crash changed the timeline and he opted to get both surgeries done together.

"The medical team... successfully stabilized the fracture in the fifth metatarsal of the rider's right foot," Ducati said in a statement.

"Simultaneously, Marquez underwent a ⁠second, pre-planned surgical procedure to ‌fix a past injury ‌in his right shoulder. This previous trauma had ‌become painful again following the violent crash ‌at last year's Indonesian Grand Prix.

"The doctors removed two screws and a bone fragment from a previous Latarjet surgery (in December 2019) that had shifted, ‌compressing the radial nerve."

Ducati said Marquez would remain in the hospital ⁠overnight and ⁠his progress over the upcoming weeks would determine his return to racing.

He was set to miss next weekend's Catalan Grand Prix and will now target a return at the Italian Grand Prix scheduled for May 29-31 at Mugello, Ducati's home turf.

Marquez, who has yet to secure a podium finish this season, has now dropped to seventh in the standings -- 71 points behind Aprilia's championship leader Marco Bezzecchi.

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Barcelona Need a Point Against Real Madrid to Win La Liga

Barcelona's German coach Hans-Dieter Flick gives a press conference on the eve of the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona on May 9, 2026. (AFP)
Barcelona's German coach Hans-Dieter Flick gives a press conference on the eve of the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona on May 9, 2026. (AFP)
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Barcelona Need a Point Against Real Madrid to Win La Liga

Barcelona's German coach Hans-Dieter Flick gives a press conference on the eve of the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona on May 9, 2026. (AFP)
Barcelona's German coach Hans-Dieter Flick gives a press conference on the eve of the Spanish league football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona on May 9, 2026. (AFP)

Barcelona only need a draw against Real Madrid in a high-stakes Clasico to clinch back-to-back La Liga titles later Sunday, with Madrid in disarray after a dressing-room bust-up between two of their leading players.

Hansi Flick's side have an 11-point lead over their age-old rivals and while one point would be enough, a victory would keep them on course to make history -- and celebrate in style.

If Barcelona win their last four league games this season, starting with the battle against Alvaro Arbeloa's fracturing Madrid in Catalonia, they will match the all-time league record of 100 points.

Should Barca beat Madrid and then Real Betis the following weekend, they will become the first team to win all their home matches in a 38-game La Liga season.

The tension around Madrid after a season in which they will finish without a trophy for just the fifth time this century burst to the surface in extraordinary fashion this week.

A post-training clash between French midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni and teammate Federico Valverde left the Uruguayan requiring hospital treatment for a head injury, and out for a fortnight.

Valverde's explanation that he "accidentally" collided with a table during the argument "causing a small cut on my forehead" failed to smooth over the situation.

The club imposed a 500,000-euro ($590,000) fine on each player and says they have apologized to each other and to their teammates, the club's staff and to Madrid supporters.

Arbeloa said he was happy that the club had acted swiftly and that the players had "acknowledged their mistake, expressed their regret, accepted the consequences of what they have done, and asked for forgiveness."

"For me, that's enough. What I'm not going to do is burn them at the stake in public, because they don't deserve that... because of what they've shown me over these four months and over these years," the Madrid coach added.

He said despite the confrontation, Tchouameni would be in the squad for the Clasico.

- Barcelona cohesion -

Barcelona coach Flick said the incident at Madrid was something you see in other clubs, but it was not "normal".

"It happens around the world, so it's not only a thing at Real... was I surprised? Maybe a little bit," Flick told reporters.

"But in the end, I don't care about that, because it's not my club, it's not my team. So I don't have to think about that."

Flick was at pains though to stress that in contrast to Madrid, everybody at Barcelona was on the same page.

"The most important thing, and what I really appreciate a lot in this club, is that we are all going the same way," the German explained.

"When something happens, we are talking in the same way."

Adding to the raft of statistics, Barca could become the first team to clinch La Liga in a Clasico since 1932, when Madrid won their first Spanish league.

"We want to win the title, the second in a row," Flick said.

"It's amazing, not normal, here in Spain. So this is what we want to do, nothing else, nothing more."

Madrid will not be able to count on Kylian Mbappe. The French forward has been recovering from a hamstring injury and trained with his teammates on Friday, but he was not on the squad list issued by the club on social media on Sunday.

Barcelona's young star Lamine Yamal will also watch from the stands -- the 18-year-old's own hamstring injury is expected to sideline him until the World Cup.

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Galatasaray Crowned Turkish Champions

Galatasaray supporters celebrate after their team won the Turkish Super Lig soccer tournament at Taksim square in Istanbul, Türkiye, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP)
Galatasaray supporters celebrate after their team won the Turkish Super Lig soccer tournament at Taksim square in Istanbul, Türkiye, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP)
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Galatasaray Crowned Turkish Champions

Galatasaray supporters celebrate after their team won the Turkish Super Lig soccer tournament at Taksim square in Istanbul, Türkiye, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP)
Galatasaray supporters celebrate after their team won the Turkish Super Lig soccer tournament at Taksim square in Istanbul, Türkiye, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP)

Galatasaray secured their fourth consecutive Turkish league title on Saturday after a 4-2 home win over Antalyaspor.

The Istanbul club are four points ahead of arch-rivals Fenerbahce, who they beat 3-0 last month, with one match remaining.

Led by star striker Nigerian Victor Osimhen, Galatasaray have qualified directly for the Champions League again after making it to the knock-out round this year, notably routing Juventus along the way.

The most successful Turkish club with 26 titles had previously won four consecutive league titles in the late 1990s.

Without a title for twelve years, the longest drought in their history, Fenerbahce sacked their coach and sporting director the day after their derby defeat to Galatasaray.