Goalkeeper to hang up gloves after nearly 19 years and 103 caps She appeared at five World Cups and won the Asian Cup in 2010After five World Cups, six Asian Cups, 103 caps and nearly two decades in a Matildas shirt, Lydia Williams says it is the right time to call time on her international career. One of the most experienced Australian footballers...

Tricky trips for Arsenal and Manchester City, a big day at the bottom and auditions for Euro 2024If Arsenal miss out on the title, one of the games they will look back on will be the 2-1 defeat to Fulham on New Year’s Eve, the last time they were beaten away from home in the league. However, Fulham have a chance to do Arsenal a favour this weekend....

Josip Stanisic preserved Bayer Leverkusen’s remarkable unbeaten run with a last-gasp equaliser against Roma as the Germans reached the Europa League final.Not for the first time in recent weeks, Xabi Alonso’s Bundesliga champions looked set to taste their maiden defeat of the season only to somehow fight back. Continue reading...

Ademola Lookman, Matteo Ruggeri and El Bilal Touré scored in Atalanta’s 3-0 win over Marseille for a 4-1 aggregate victory on Thursday. The Italian side will meet Bayer Leverkusen, who overcame Roma, in their first European final in Dublin on May 22.Lookman put Atalanta ahead in the second leg on the half-hour with a long-range strike past Pao López...

Premier League yet to sign off on 777 Partners deal to buy club‘If you can’t buy then you have to generate from inside’Sean Dyche has warned Everton could be forced to sell their best ­talent this summer unless the club is finally taken over. The Everton manager, who has previously likened his job to juggling sand, claims he will be reduced to “juggling...

There is a graffiti mural in the north stand – home to the most ardent, impassioned Olympiakos ­supporters – that displays a mockup of ­Muhammad Ali standing over his opponent sandwiched between the words: “Piraeus means knock out!”And so it proved for Aston Villa, whose European adventure came to a joyless end in the Greek port. A familiar face landed...