Marseille coach Elie Baup has insisted his side will not be daunted by their trip to Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League.

The Ligue 1 outfit currently sit bottom of Group F alongside Dortmund after they fell to a 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in their opening match, while last season s beaten finalists lost by the same scoreline at Napoli.

However, Baup believes his team were unlucky against Arsene Wenger s men and has pledged they will go to Signal Iduna Park looking for all three points on Tuesday.

The problem was that we weren t rewarded with a result (against Arsenal), he said.

We just need to keep playing our game and get the best out of ourselves.

We really want to express our full potential and we won t hold back.

The best apprenticeship i…

Fenerbahce in ambitious bid for Ozil

Turkish newspaper Vatan has suggested that Fenerbahce have plans to recruit Arsenal star Mesut Ozil.

The Turkish giants are again attracting world-class talent to Sukru Saracoglu Stadium, with Robin van Persie recently joining from Manchester United.

And the latest reports have claimed that Fenerbahce are also showing interest in Arsenal hotshot Mesut Ozil.

Prizing the Germany star away from the Emirates could prove to be mission impossible, but it appears the Turkish side are ready to give it a go.

Mesut Ozil joined Arsenal in a €50 million deal from Real Madrid two years ago and has since scored 9 goals in 52 Premier League outings.

The 26-year-old won the 2014 World Cup with Germany and remains a…

Defeat at West Brom has Garry Monk fearing that Swansea City are in danger of wasting their chance to record a best Premier League finish.

Garry Monk feels Swansea City s season has reached a critical moment  following Wednesday s 2-0 defeat at West Brom.

Swansea currently sit ninth in the table, which would equal their best Premier League finish, achieved in 2012-13.

But after a disappointing display at The Hawthorns  during which his side appeared devoid of ideas and fell to goals from Saido Berahino and Brown Ideye  Monk is well aware that Swansea could yet squander the opportunity to finish higher up the league than ever before.

It s a critical moment for us, he told Sky Sports.

We are in a position where we can achieve things that we ha…

Barcelona right-back Moussa Wague has joined Ligue 1 side Nice on loan until the end of the season with the view of a permanent move.

The 21-year-old made his LaLiga debut last April and was promoted to Barca s first-team squad ahead of the current campaign.

He has started a couple of league and Champions League matches in 2019-20, but Nice confirmed on Friday an agreement has been reached to sign the Senegal international.

Nice have the option to make the deal permanent at the end of the season for €10million, plus €500,000 in add-ons.

As part of the agreement, Barcelona have the right to trigger a €15m buy-back clause in Wague s contract up until June 2021.

Wague is the fourth player to leave Camp Nou on loan this month, along with Jean-Cl…

Erik ten Hag is confident Cristiano Ronaldo will score more goals after the forward opened his account for the season to help Manchester United shoot down Sheriff in the Europa League.

Ronaldo had not started any of United s previous four Premier League matches and failed to impress in a home defeat to Real Sociedad last time out.

However, having started Thursday s game, Ronaldo was on target from the penalty spot as United got three points on the board in Group E.

It was the 699th club goal of Ronaldo s career, albeit his first in the Europa League, with Sheriff the 124th different side the 37-year-old has scored against, and Ten Hag is expecting plenty more to follow this season.

He needed that goal, Ten Hag told United s club media.  He was clo…

Feyenoord are interested in bringing Manchester City s John Guidetti back to the club, according to technical director Martin van Geel.

Sweden international striker Guidetti spent the 2011-12 season on loan at De Kuip, scoring 20 goals in 23 appearances for the Rotterdam club.

The 21-year-old missed all of last term through injury and, although he has now returned to fitness, is yet to break into the first team at the Etihad Stadium.

Guidetti is thought to be attracting interest from a number of clubs, and Van Geel revealed that he plans to speak about the forward when he meets with City executive Brian Marwood.

The arrangement with Marwood was already planned for a long time and in the first instance it won t be about Guidetti at all, Van Geel told Algemeen Dagb…

Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has saluted the work done by genius  Pep Guardiola since his arrival in 2013.

The Spaniard took over from Jupp Heynckes after the German giants claimed an historic treble in the 2012-13 season, winning the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and UEFA Champions League.

Bayern strolled to the Bundesliga title in Guardiola s first campaign at the helm, and look set to do the same this time around.

Rummenigge commented: We changed our philosophy a bit in the fact we tried to get the biggest quality as possible and I believe the key factor is our coach Pep Guardiola. He is doing a fantastic job and he brings us a bit more quality as well than before.

I would say he is special in the fact that he is looking like a genius in his …

Parma will start the 2018-19 Serie A season with a five-point deduction as a result of Emanuele Calaio who has received a two-year ban sending suspicious messages to Spezia players last term.

The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) had been investigating texts sent by Calaio – who used to play for Spezia – to former team-mates Filippo De Col and Claudio Terzi ahead of the Serie B fixture between the teams at the end of the 2017-18 season.

In the FIGC s case document, which names both De Col and Terzi, it accuses Calaio of trying to get less competition commitment from the players of Spezia .

Parma won 2-0 to secure a third successive promotion, though media reports suggested they were in danger of having two points from that match voided, subsequently seein…

15:00 Halifax vs Yeovil 

Starting with Saturday s hosts, putting three past Chesterfield on the road in midweek, Halifax have continued on what has been a stellar start to the new National League campaign. Snatching top spot off of Woking on Tuesday, they are now enjoying a four-match winning run and the mood in their camp is the highest it has been in recent memory. Spending large spells of the 2018/2019 campaign battling it out at the foot of the table, it will undoubtedly be their continued form in the final third most impressing Head Coach Pete Wild. With no team in the division bagging more goals than Saturday s hosts, one man to watch this weekend will be the red-hot Liam McAlinden. Already with five National League goals to his name, the 25-year-old now has four in his l…

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp said it would be a funny old day after his team set up a Wembley FA Cup semi-final with former club Portsmouth.

But Redknapp urged his players, who face Portsmouth in the Premier League on Saturday, to keep focused on their run-in as they bid for a place in next season s Champions League.

Tottenham came from behind against London rivals Fulham in Wednesday s quarter-final replay to win 3-1 at White Hart Lane, setting up a Wembley showdown with Pompey on April 11.

It ll be a funny old day, Redknapp said.

They ve got great supporters and it will be a great atmosphere. It will be good for Portsmouth as they obviously need something to lift their season.

Redknapp won the FA Cup with Pompey in 2008 but grati…