Ilkay Gundogan spent five years at Borussia Dortmund before joining Manchester City in 2016, making 157 appearances, winning the 2012 league and cup double and reaching the 2013 Champions League final with the German club. Now he must do his best against them, with City protecting a slim 2-1 going into the second leg of their Champions League quarterfinal clash at the Signal Iduna Park tonight (Wednesday).

Meanwhile, City have been heavily linked with Dortmund striker Erling Haaland, and Gundogan had a few words to say about the young Norwegian too.

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Serhou Guirassy scored a second-half goal for Stuttgart to secure a 1-0 victory away to Augsburg, setting a new club record in the process.

Stuttgart have won their 22nd match this term, an incredible feat as they have never secured this number of victories in a single season. What makes this even more remarkable is, this time last year they were playing in a relegation play-off.

Guirassy scored the opening goal of a game for the 11th time this season. He is the only non-German player to do so more often in a season since Bremen s Ailton in 2003-04 (12 times). The forward increased his tally to 26 for the season with his strike just three minutes into the second half.

Seb Hoeness side have scored in 30 of their 33 games only Bayer Leverkusen (31) have scored goal…

Carlo Ancelotti will be the first coach to oversee a team in five Champions League finals after Real Madrid s remarkable comeback against Manchester City.

Ancelotti, who returned to Madrid for a second spell in charge at the end of last season, became the first coach to win all of Europe s top five leagues when Los Blancos wrapped up their 35th LaLiga title on Saturday.

But it appeared a shot at a double would be evading Madrid when Riyad Mahrez struck in the 73rd minute at the Santiago Bernabeu to put City 1-0 up on Wednesday and 5-3 up in the tie.

However, two goals in the space of 91 seconds from Rodrygo restored parity on aggregate to force extra-time and then up stepped Karim Benzema to score from the penalty spot and complete one of the most outrageous come…

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Arsenal debutant Willian matched famous feats from the club s history in the Gunners 3-0 win against sorry Fulham on Saturday.

Following up their FA Cup and Community Shield triumphs, Mikel Arteta s side started their Premier League season in style at Craven Cottage.

Alexandre Lacazette got an eighth-minute opener, before Willian teed up his Brazilian compatriot and fellow new arrival Gabriel to score from a corner.

Willian had a second assist on his debut soon after when he played in Aubameyang, with the former Chelsea midfielder becoming the first Arsenal player to provide two assists on his Premier League bow for the club since Ray Parlour against Liverpool in August 1992.

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Gennaro Gattuso s Valencia tenure lasted just 18 LaLiga matches as the club announced his departure on Monday.

The former Milan and Napoli coach was appointed ahead of the 2022-23 season after a year out of the game.

But Gattuso has been unable to inspire Valencia, who finished ninth last term.

Gattuso leaves the club in 14th place, winless in four outings since the World Cup break and just a point above the bottom three – albeit with a game in hand over the other sides in the bottom half.

Following Sunday s last-gasp defeat to Real Valladolid – his final match at the helm – Gattuso addressed supporters and told them Valencia s poor results were his responsibility.

The 45-year-old also angrily confronted the assembled media a day before Vale…

Atletico Madrid s hopes of qualifying from their Champions League group will go down to the final matchday after Thomas Muller scored an 86th-minute penalty to earn a weakened Bayern Munich a 1-1 draw at the Wanda Metropolitano.

Bayern had won their previous 15 games in UEFA s flagship competition but were already assured of top spot in Group A and left the likes of Robert Lewandowski and Manuel Neuer out of their travelling squad.

With Lokomotiv Moscow losing 3-1 at home to Salzburg earlier on Tuesday, victory for Atleti would make certain of second place with a game to spare, an aim they were on course to achieve thanks to Joao Felix s eighth goal in 14 appearances this season.

The Portugal international converted from a Marcos Llorente cutback after 26 m…

Al-Nassr lost a dramatic Kings Cup final featuring three red cards against Al-Hilal on Friday, with the Saudi Pro League champions claiming the treble with a 5-4 penalty shoot-out win.

Former Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic peeled away to the back post to head home the opener after just seven minutes, before Cristiano Ronaldo was denied by Yassine Bounou.

Al-Nassr looked to be imploding when David Ospina was sent off for a wild lunge on Malcom outside his penalty area shortly after half-time, but it was 10 versus 10 when Ali Al Bulayhi received his second yellow card late on.

Aiman Yahya took advantage to equalise in stoppage time, before Al-Hilal lost a second centre-back to a red card, Kalidou Koulibaly receiving his marching orders when he clattered into su…

The Republic of Ireland host Gibraltar on Monday evening knowing nothing but victory is acceptable after a disappointing start to their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign.

Friday night’s 2-1 defeat in Greece left Ireland pointless in Group B after two fixtures and seriously dented their hopes of making it to the finals.

Here, the PA news agency takes a look at some of the talking points surrounding a must-win game.

Kenny cornered?

Ireland boss Stephen Kenny once again finds himself at a crossroads three years into his reign. The 51-year-old’s 23 competitive matches in charge to date have yielded just four victories – against Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Scotland and Armenia – and a campaign towards which he has been building since replacing Mick McCarthy looks to …

Valencia are interested in signing Juan Mata from Manchester United in the January transfer window, according to . Mata is out of contract at United at the end of the season, and the attacking midfielder could sign a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club from January 1.

Mata was on the books of Valencia from 2007 until 2011 when he moved to Chelsea. The Spain international attacking midfielder then switched to Manchester United in 2014 and has been an important player for the team over the years. Mata has won the FA Cup and the UEFA Europa League once each with United.

Valencia are seventh in the La Liga table at the moment with 25 points from 17 matches, just four points behind fourth-placed and defending Spanish champions Atletico Madrid. Los Che’s chances of f…

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is not willing to be drawn into mind games with Tottenham counterpart Antonio Conte and is instead focused on getting the most out of his players.

Conte last week stated that Spurs would require a miracle to finish fourth place in the Premier League.

Tottenham increased the pressure on Arsenal by hammering Newcastle United 5-1 on Sunday to leapfrog their north London rivals into the final Champions League qualification spot.

However, the Gunners are only behind Tottenham on goal difference and have two games in hand, the first of those coming away at Crystal Palace on Monday.

Conte s comments were perceived as being psychological tactics ahead of a potentially tense run-in that will see the fierce rivals do battle in a reschedu…