Bayern Munich star Robert Lewandowski matched Gerd Muller s long-standing record of 40 goals in a Bundesliga season on Saturday.
Muller, another Bayern legend, netted 40 times across the 1971-72 campaign.
However, his record now looks set to tumble after Lewandowski equalled his haul with a game to play, converting a penalty to open the scoring in a 2-2 draw at Freiburg.
The Poland international revealed a t-shirt reading 4EVER GERD with a picture of Muller on it, while his celebrations included receiving a guard of honour from Bayern players and staff by the visiting dugout as he hailed the historic goal, which arrived in the 26th minute.
40 ( ) has scored his 40th goal of the season, equaling Gerd Müller s Bundesliga record from the 1971-72 seaso…
Reports from France suggest that Marseille star Hatem Ben Arfa is close to completing a switch to Newcastle United in the near future. The deal is expected to be formalised on either Monday or Tuesday, with Newcastle expected to pay L OM an initial loan fee of 800,000 euros.
Ben Arfa, born in Clamart, originally played for Olympique Lyon before switching to South Coast outfit Marseille in 2008. He celebrated his 23rd birthday in March this year and has already earned seven caps for the French national team.
TSG Hoffenheim and Rubin Kazan were the other teams in contention for Ben Arfa, who is said to prefer a move to Newcastle over transferring to either Germany or Russia.
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Cameroon step up their FIFA World Cup preparations with a friendly against Macedonia in Austria on Monday.
Brazil 2014 will be Cameroon s seventh appearance at a finals and they will hope to come through their friendly without any injuries as they dream of a second appearance in the knockout stages.
Only in 1990 have the African nation progressed beyond the group stages and they failed to claim a point in South Africa four years ago, but 2014 gives them a chance to put that disappointment behind them.
Victory over Tunisia secured their place in the finals and made sure they remain Africa s most successful nation in terms of appearances on the biggest stage of all with seven.
Cameroon meet their European opponents after spending the previous week in Austria at a t…
Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes has been ruled out of his side s Champions League group stage match at home to FC Copenhagen on Wednesday due to fever.
Victor Valdes will not be able to defend the Barcelona goal tonight due to the vomiting and fever he has suffered over the last few hours, the Catalan club announced on their website on Wednesday afternoon.
Valdes, Spain s third-choice goalkeeper, will be replaced by Barcelona s reserve keeper Jose Manuel Pinto, with reserve team goalkeeper Ruben Mino called into the squad as back-up.
Pinto has never played for Barcelona in the Champions League and is yet to make a competitive appearance this season.
Copenhagen are top of Champions League Group D and lead Barcelona, the 2009 champions, by two points a…
Sevilla and the Argentine Football Association (AFA) have reached an agreement in principle for Jorge Sampaoli to become the new head coach of Argentina, the LaLiga club have announced.
Sampaoli joined Sevilla before the start of this season and guided them to a fourth-place finish in Spain s top flight, but the closing weeks of their campaign were dominated by speculation linking him with the national team post in his homeland after Edgardo Bauza was sacked.
The former Chile boss and 2015 Copa America winner described leading Argentina as his dream job and told reporters after last weekend s final match of the campaign, a 5-0 win over Osasuna, that the AFA needed to resolve his contract situation with Sevilla.
In a statement on their official website, Sevilla co…
Turkish heavyweights Galatasaray have expressed interest in signing Napoli defender Vlad Chiriches, Radio Marte can reveal.
The 27-year-old Romania international has been identified as one of the top transfer targets for the Turkish outlet. Galatasaray have reportedly already submitted an offer for the defender but Partenopei are not entirely satisfied with the proposed terms.
Galatasaray’s €2 million offer is thought to be €3 million shorter than Napoli’s valuation of the defender.
Another potential stumbling block to any deal could be Maurizio Sarri’s instructions to club officials to refrain from selling the first-team members this summer.
Chiriches however is thought to be unhappy with his team status and is keen on a charge of scenery afte…
Lionel Messi was reportedly absent from Barcelona s pre-season testing on Sunday as the forward continues to try to engineer a move away from the club.
First-team players were due to attend coronavirus testing ahead of a return to training from Monday as preparations for the 2020-21 season get underway.
Messi, who handed in a transfer request via burofax on Tuesday, is said to have no desire to begin pre-season preparations and, according to widespread reports, did not attend.
The 33-year-old reportedly wants to meet with the Barca board in person in order to arrange a transfer away from Camp Nou in as amicable a fashion as possible.
Messi, for his part, is said to think the clause in his contract that allows him to leave for nothing at the end of each…
Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed three players have tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of their return to Ligue 1 action next week.
The 2019-20 Champions League finalists are due to begin their domestic title defence at Lens on September 10, with that fixture pushed back at PSG s request.
However, a trio of players have contracted coronavirus ahead of that match, which will likely be postponed should a fourth positive test be returned.
A PSG statement on Wednesday read: Three PSG players are confirmed positive after a Sars CoV2 test and have undergone the appropriate health protocols.
Three players are confirmed positive after a Sars CoV2 test and have undergone the appropriate health protocols.
All players and staff will continue to be t…
Gotham Knights launches in just a few weeks, headlining a very busy October on the gaming calendar. Before it launches on October 21, you might want to load up some filters to keep mentions of the game out of your social media feeds. Spoilers for Gotham Knights and its ending have apparently begun circulating, so now is a good time to be alert and double-check your feeds.
To mark its upcoming release, a new trailer has gone live for the game and shows off the entire Bat-family of Nightwing, Batgirl, Red Hood, and Robin in action. It’s a new look at the criminal underworld that has begun to step out of the shadows since the death of Batman and includes a number of familiar faces from the caped crusader’s rogues gallery.