Competition: French Ligue 1
Market: Marseilles to win against Toulouse
Odds:

Olympique de Marseilles welcome Toulouse to the Stade Vélodrome in tonight’s French Ligue 1 clash, and are favourites to pick up all three points to get off the mark in their opening game of the new season.

Marseilles finished 13th in the French Ligue 1 last season, picking up 48 points from the 38 games, and struggled for wins on home soil. L’OM won just three games at the Stade Vélodrome in 2015/16, but they only lost five, drawing 11.

They’ll be looking to get their home form back on track this season, and will fancy their chances of getting a result against Toulouse today as a result of the visitors’ poor form in the last 12 months.

Toulouse finished …

Serbia forward Danijel Ljuboja has been suspended by his Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart until the end of the season on disciplinary grounds, it was announced on Thursday.

He has not behaved in the way you expect from a professional player, said Stuttgart coach Markus Babbel.

This is his second infringement in a short period of time.

The Stuttgart coach refused to give any details over what the 30-year-old, who has 19 caps for Serbia and is out of contract in June, had done.

Danijel had the chance to leave the club during the winter break, but he did not take it, there was always a problem, said Stuttgart s director of sport Horst Heldt.

Since his arrival in Stuttgart in 2005, Ljuboja has been disciplined on several occasions and after his firs…

Spanish midfielder Jose Maria Gutierrez has announced this retirement from football at the age of 35.

The veteran midfielder has been a free agent since leaving Besiktas in November 2011, but he was hoping to continue his career.

However, after almost a year without action, the Spaniard has decided to call it quits on his playing career.

The decision has been made, Guti . I have received offers but I ve decided to stop. I can now spend more time with my family.

I m going to train to become a sporting director or a coach and I d like to train youngsters. I d really like to coach the Real Madrid youth team. That s my dream.

The highly rated midfielder began his career at Real Madrid and was handed a first team debut in December 1995.

The…

Seattle Sounders 13-game unbeaten streak to start the 2021 MLS season is over after conceding late in a 1-0 defeat away to Minnesota United on Sunday.

Finnish midfielder Robin Lod tapped home from Niko Hansen s deflected cutback for the 81st-minute winner.

The Sounders had enjoyed a spectacular start to the season, but have now only managed one win from their past four games.

Seattle remains top of the Western Conference with 29 points from 14 games, but second-placed Sporting KC are three points behind with a game in hand after winning three in a row. Minnesota moves up to sixth with the win.

United had two good first-half chances from set pieces, with Emanuel Reynoso s free-kick going marginally off target and Bakaye Dibassy s flick from a corner going …

Everton have completed the signing of former Leicester City winger Demarai Gray from Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.

In a deal reportedly worth around £1.7million, the Premier League winner has signed a three-year deal at Goodison Park.

Gray will therefore be contracted to the club until the end of the 2023-24 season, with Everton having an option to extend that by a further year.

The 25-year-old joins Andros Townsend and goalkeeper Asmir Begovic as the first arrivals ahead of the 2021-22 season under new manager Rafael Benitez. 

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I m delighted to be back in the Premier League at such a big club and I m excited to play with the team and get to work, Gray said to Everton TV.

Speaking to the manager …

Chris Coleman has been sacked by Sunderland after overseeing their relegation from the Championship, while chairman Ellis Short has agreed to sell the club.

Coleman was appointed in November, signing a two-and-a-half year deal after leaving his previous post in charge of Wales, who he led to the semi-finals of Euro 2016.

But the 47-year-old, who has been linked with the vacancy at Ipswich Town, was unable to turn things around at the Stadium of Light as Sunderland suffered successive relegations to drop into the third tier for the first time in 30 years.

Sunderland AFC announces that manager Chris Coleman and his assistant Kit Symons have been released from their contracts, said a brief club statement on Sunday.

The club would like to place on record it…

Frank Lampard was in no mood to entertain Jose Mourinho s assertion that Antonio Rudiger got Son Heung-min sent off during Chelsea s 2-0 win at Tottenham.

It was a case of the apprentice besting the master at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Willian s first-half brace only telling part of the story when it came to the superiority of Lampard s Chelsea against Mourinho s abject Spurs.

The occasion was marred when Rudiger told match officials he had suffered racist abuse from the stands during the second half and Spurs have pledged to take strong action against anyone found guilty.

While Lampard and Mourinho were united in their condemnation of another bleak episode for British football, they had different views of the incident involving Rudiger and Son that saw …

Laurent Koscielny ensured Arsene Wenger marked his 20-year anniversary at Arsenal with a victory as he scored a controversial late winner to beat Burnley 1-0 at Turf Moor.

A resilient display from Burnley was undone in the final minute of stoppage time as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Koscielny fumbled the ball over the line – despite the latter appearing to handle while also being in an offside position.

Chances were at a premium on Sunday, a day after Wenger brought up his two-decade landmark in the Gunners hotseat, with Alexis Sanchez wasting the visitors best chances.

Sanchez and Walcott dragged early chances wide in a cagey first half and Burnley should have gone in ahead, but Sam Vokes headed a glorious opening wide.

Another Sanchez effort cl…

Napoli have completed the signing of Arkadiusz Milik from Ajax for an initial €32 million.

The Serie A side were in the market for a new forward following the departure of Gonzalo Higuain to Juventus and they have now found their man in Milik.

They presented the Poland international to their fans ahead of Monday s friendly against Nice and Milik has now signed a contract to complete his move to the Stadio San Paolo.

Milik came through the ranks of the Rozwoj Katowice youth academy and also represented Gornik Zabrze, Bayer Leverkusen and Augsburg before joining Ajax in 2014.

The 22-year-old scored 32 goals in 52 Eredivisie appearances as Ajax finished as runners-up behind PSV twice.

Milik becomes Napoli s third signing of the close-season after…

Belgian midfielder Steve De Ridder has left Southampton after his contract was terminated by mutual consent.

The 26-year-old, who had a year left on his deal, had been with the club since 2011 after joining from De Graafschap but has now agreed to end his stay as he seeks first-team football.

He played a big part in the club s push for promotion to the Premier League in 2011-12 netting three goals in 32 league appearances but found himself increasingly overlooked last season.

With boss Mauricio Pochettino continuing to strengthen his squad ahead of the new campaign, De Ridder s opportunities looked to be limited again this year.

A statement on the club s official website confirmed: Southampton Football Club and Steve De Ridder have mutually agreed to cancel the p…