Europe

Aron Jóhannsson kept up his good form in the Allsvenskan with a brace in Hammarby's 3-3 draw against Kalmar on Sunday.

After a long run of injuries stretching back several seasons, the USMNT forward has gotten consistent playing time in Sweden over the last couple of months and has reaped the benefits. Since the beginning of the 2014-15 season, Jóhannsson has missed over 100 games due to injury. Since late July, though, he has featured in every game for seventh-place Hammarby and scored four goals in the club's last six games. 

Lyon secured its fifth straight Champions League title on Sunday after an entertaining 3-1 win over Wolfsburg to cement its place as the greatest dynasty in the history of the women's club game. 

With seven titles overall, no team comes close to matching Lyon’s total (Frankfurt has four), and it says everything about the club's European dominance of late that all those victories have been recorded over the past 10 seasons.

The unstoppable force of Lyon (four successive Champions League titles) met the immovable object Wolfsburg (unbeaten in more than a year) in the heavyweight final of the 2019-20 UEFA Women’s Champions League on Sunday, and it was the French side that reinforced its standing as the best team on the planet with a 3-1 victory at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Spain.

LaLiga on Sunday released a statement saying Lionel Messi's Barcelona contract was still valid, days after his shock announcement that he wants to leave the club and hours after he failed to attend a pre-season medical.

Messi's failure to show for his medical underlined the 33-year-old's determination to leave the club he has been with throughout his career.

Leeds United has completed the signing of Spain forward Rodrigo Moreno from Valencia for a club-record fee, the newly promoted Premier League side said on Saturday.

The 29-year-old has signed a four-year deal at Elland Road after Leeds reached an initial agreement with the Spanish club on Tuesday.

 "This is a new step in my career and I want to help the team achieve the goals of the season"

Chelsea has some of the most-talented attackers in England, what with Sam Kerr, Erin Cuthbert, Ji So-Yun and Fran Kirby in the ranks. And yet it was a defender, Millie Bright, who ripped a long-range golazo to break the deadlock on the way to a 2-0 win over Manchester City in the Women's Community Shield on Saturday.

Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace has beaten West Ham and newly-promoted West Brom to the signing of highly-rated youngster Eberechi Eze. 

Welcome to the Pride of south London, @EbereEze10! #CPFC | https://t.co/utMcYSDkhb

— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) August 28, 2020

Victor Osimhen began as he means to go on at Napoli, scoring an eight-minute hat trick in a friendly against Serie D side L'Aquila on Friday. 

Victor Osimhen has scored a hat-trick inside the first eight minutes of his pre-season debut for Napoli.

Starting strong pic.twitter.com/BGQOJs7Pwu

— B/R Football (@brfootball) August 28, 2020