Germany defender Mats Hummels says the Euro 2016 quarter-final win over Italy was a big moment , although he does not believe his country s national team have broken any form of curse.

Joachim Low s side triumphed 6-5 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Bordeaux in July, with Hummels among those to be successful from the spot before Matteo Darmian missed the crucial kick.

The victory was Germany s first over Italy at a major tournament and went some way towards avenging defeats suffered at the 2006 World Cup and the semi-final stage of Euro 2012, although the reigning world champions went on to lose to hosts France in the last four this year.

Speaking ahead of the friendly clash between the teams in Milan on Tuesday, Hummels acknowledged it was an important triumph …

It was Liverpool s SAS partnership that dominated the Premier League scoring charts last season, with magnificent Luis Suarez finishing the campaign as top scorer with 31 goals in 33 fixtures. Seeing as how the Uruguayan has since moved to Spanish La Liga, it will be up to usual suspects Daniel Sturridge, Sergio Aguero, Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney as well as new boy Diego Costa to decide on Luis Suarez s successor.

Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)

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With Robin van Persie missing a big chunk of the previous league campaign, Wayne Rooney was United s top scorer last term, netting 17 goals despite not being deployed as an out-and-out striker, and chances are the new Red Devils captain can hope for a similar ret…

England manager Sarina Wiegman has named her squad for this summer’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Sixteen of the 23-player contingent were part of the team that won Euro 2022, but there are some notable absentees through injury, form or retirement.

Here, the PA news agency compares the two squads.

Experience

Wiegman’s World Cup squad is far less experienced than her Euro 2022 selection, with a total of 733 caps at an average of 32 per player compared with 973 – 42 per player – among their predecessors.

Six players have fewer than 10 caps, compared with only four of last year’s contingent, while another half-dozen have amassed at least 50 caps – versus nine of the Euros squad.

Four of the five most-capped players who feature…

Wayne Rooney, England’s top scorer before he was eclipsed by Harry Kane in March this year, announced his retirement from international football with immediate effect, on this day in 2017.

No outfield player has won more England men’s caps than the 37-year-old, who netted a then-record 53 goals across 120 appearances for his country.

Rooney had been offered a reprieve by England boss Gareth Southgate after a fine return to his boyhood club Everton, but decided the time was right to call it a day.

In a statement released to the PA news agency, Rooney said: “It was great that Gareth Southgate called me this week to tell me he wanted me back in the England squad for the upcoming matches. I really appreciated that.

“However, having already thought lon…

Whether you’re rolling over your winnings from Sunday or trying to claw your way out of a weekend of red, Monday Night Football betting is the Grand Finale to the Week 6 schedule. 

And with that in mind, we go beyond the spread and total for Monday’s matchup and give our best NFL prop bets for this primetime battle between the Indianapolis Colts and Baltimore Ravens.

Here are my favorite free prop picks and predictions for Monday Night Football.

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Super Bowl LVII is in the books, so that means it’s officially NFL mock draft season! 

And even though mock drafts have accompanied the NFL Draft for many years now, mocks with an NFL Draft odds angle are new to the game. While the betting markets for the 2023 NFL Draft are light as of now, you can be sure that will change as the Chicago Bears’ clock to April 27 counts down.

But will it be the Bears making the first pick? With a draft class featuring several potential franchise quarterbacks, Chicago has plenty of leverage.

In version 1.0 of my 2023 NFL mock draft, I have them making a move. But with what team? And who will they select?

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Monday Night Football will return to Detroit for the first time since 2018 as the 3-4 Las Vegas Raiders are set to take on the 5-2 Detroit Lions.

NFL Week 8 odds are large in favor of the Lions, as they look to bounce back from an embarrassing loss last week at the hands of the Ravens. However, the Raiders are bringing back Jimmy Garoppolo for this contest.  

Find out what my NFL picks are for this MNF affair when I take a deep dive into the MNF odds.

You can also get our full game analysis with our Raiders vs. Lions predictions, plus a Jared Goff odds and props spotlight.

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The second leg of the EFL Cup semi-final will see Chelsea and Middlesbrough battling for a place in the final. Our soccer betting odds have the Blues as overwhelming favorites to win in regulation.

With three upcoming matches over nine days, Mauricio Pochettino will be happy to have had 10 days off since their last match. But that’s not enough to get any of his injured players back, with nearly a full squad either on the trainer’s table or away for international duty. Still, he has the quality at his disposal to overcome a 1-0 deficit from the first leg and reach the final.

Middlesbrough will hope to somehow do enough to make that advantage count. They were fortunate to escape with the win in the first leg after conced…

One of the NFL’s greatest rivalries will be renewed this evening when the Dallas Cowboys face the New York Giants in primetime.

These venerable franchises have met 125 times since 1960, with the Cowboys holding a commanding 75-48-2 lead in their all-time series. That includes a pair of embarrassingly lopsided victories in 2023, as Dallas outscored New York 49-17 and 40-0. However, oddsmakers are expecting a much more competitive affair tonight, with Dak Prescott & Co. entering the game as mere 5.5-point favorites.

There are a number of subscription-based TV channels and streaming services available to watch this evening’s game, but did you know you can also live stream the action directly from legal sports betting sites?

Discover the details be…

Adam Idah struck late as Norwich started life back in the Championship with a 1-0 win at Huddersfield. Idah scored nine minutes from time after Teemu Pukki pounced on a poor back-pass by Richard Stearman.

It meant defeat for Carlos Corberán in his first league match as Huddersfield manager, but the goal left his opposite number, Daniel Farke, “feeling good again” after last season’s gruelling run to relegation.

Bournemouth’s Arnaut Danjuma finally sees off battling BlackburnRead more

“It’s just the first game out of 46,” he said, “so I’m not over-interpreting it. But if I could have painted the game I’d have painted it exactly like today – a tough away game, difficult conditions, highly motivated…