Xhaka set to stay at Sunderland despite Chelsea interest
Sunderland captain Granit Xhaka is set to stay at the club this summer, despite interest from Chelsea.
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'Disgusting' Paraguay went 'way too far' against France 
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BBC pundits Thomas Hitzlsperger, Joe Hart and Micah Richards discuss Paraguay's attempts to get under France's skin at the 2026 World Cup.
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Mbappé spot-on to take France past stubborn Paraguay into World Cup quarter-finals 
The Guardian Sport
On this occasion, France kept the champagne football on ice. Which was probably just as well, given the temperature. As Philadelphia broiled in an independence day heatwave, the World Cup favourites were forced to drop a gear or two but still had too much for a Paraguay team that set out for a fight but were ultimately no more than a nuisance. In the annals of France-Paraguay encounters this was more France 98 than Sweden 58, where Just Fontaine embellished his World Cup legend with a hat-trick. Les Bleu s ’ modern-day goal machine, Kylian Mbappé, had to make do with just the one, a penalty, to draw him level again with Lionel Messi in the golden boot race, but one behind the great man in terms of the all-time goalscoring record. Continue reading...
Mbappe coolly fires France into lead from penalty spot BBC Sport
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No world record, no win - Hodgkinson beaten again in Diamond League BBC Sport
Keely Hodgkinson fell short in her pursuit of breaking the women's 800m world record, after she was beaten by Kenya's Lilian Odira in the latest Diamond League event in Eugene, Oregon - making it back to back defeats for Hodgkinson, after she also lost in the event in Stockholm a month ago.
