Football

Arsenal will be without Alexandre Lacazette for four to six weeks due to injury - leaving Danny Welbeck as their only available senior striker in the Europa League.

The club confirmed their £52 million summer signing has undergone an arthroscopy on his left knee in London on Tuesday morning.

January purchase Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is ineligible to play Europa League football for Arsenal because he was registered in former club Borussia Dortmund's squad for the knockout stages.

Croatia manager Zlatko Dalić will monitor the high profile pre-World Cup friendly between Nigeria and England at the National Stadium in London as his side will be in the United Kingdom early June for a friendly.

Croatia will battle Brazil at the famous Anfield Stadium, the home ground of Liverpool, on June 3, a day after the Super Eagles clash with the Three Lions.

The friendly will assist the Croatians to prepare for their second Group D fixture against Argentina at Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, Nizhny Novgorod on June 21.

Jamie Redknapp has described Manchester City Midfielder, Kevin De Bruyne as "the best I’ve ever seen at passing the ball" after he nabbed three assists for Manchester City on Saturday. Redknapp stated this on Sunday after Pep Guardiola's side romped to a 5-1 win against Leicester at the Etihad Stadium with Sergio Aguero netting four times in the second half. However, De Bruyne pulled the midfield strings and set up the first three of City's goals.

Super Eagles winger Nura Mohammed, 15, made his professional debut for El Kanemi Warriors in their 1-0 loss to Enugu Rangers in the Nigeria Professional Football League on Sunday.

About a week ago, the youngster was on the bench as Nigeria were beaten by Morocco in the final of the African Nations Championship.

Despite El Kanemi Warriors losing to an 82nd minute goal scored by Kelvin Itoya, Nura Mohammed gave a good account of himself so much so that Rangers fans asked the players to pay special attention to the number 32.

Nigeria’s Plateau United started their campaign in the CAF Champions League on a promising note. The reigning Nigeria Professional Football League champions put up a good show in the first leg of their preliminary stage clash against Eding Sport on Sunday. The preliminary round of game which was played in New Jos Stadium saw the home side beat the visitors by three goals to nil.

Chelsea Manager, Antonio Conte believes Chelsea Board would be ‘stupid’ to show him the exit door despite recent run of dreadful results, triggering speculation that club owner Roman Abramovich could sack him any moment from now. Speaking ahead of the club's encounter against West Brom on Monday evening, the Italian said;