Inter crashed out of the Champions League as they suffered a 2-1 defeat at home to Barcelona last night.

It’s an old adage in football: if you can’t win a game, at least do your best not to lose it.

Of their 19 games since the start of 2018, Switzerland have lost five, tacked on by a penalty shoot-out loss to England in the Nations League finals last time out.

Statistics don’t always tell the whole story but David Luiz has a right to point to them when he turns up at Anfield with new club Arsenal still being billed as the Premier League’s defensive comedy routine up against the country’s best centre-back, Virgil van Dijk.

Ahead of the 2019/20 La Liga season — which kicks off tonight — Dermot Corrigan looks at the key storylines to follow in the months ahead

Manchester City have completed the signing of Portugal right-back Joao Cancelo from Juventus, with Brazil full-back Danilo heading in the other direction.

Manchester United may have finished only sixth in the table last season but they comfortably retained their position as the leading developers of Premier League talent.

The Republic of Ireland have been beaten 4-0 by Portugal in their Under-19 European Championship semi-final.

Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata will join Atletico Madrid on a permanent deal at the end of the 2019-20 season, the Premier League club have announced.

Jose Antonio Reyes, the ex-Arsenal and Spain forward, has died in a car crash at the age of 35, former club Sevilla have announced.

Eintracht Frankfurt wiped out a two-goal first-leg deficit to beat Benfica 2-0 in Germany and advance into the Europa League semi-finals on the away goals rule.

Three of Mayo’s previous management team have now linked up with rivals of the recently-crowned Division 1 champions.

Arsenal will play their second leg at the Emirates on a Wednesday at 5pm.

One of the earliest and most hard-earned lessons I learned in the playground as a young football neophyte was that there was no team called Manchester.

Eden Hazard was excused from Chelsea’s Europa League trip to PAOK after twice telling Maurizio Sarri he was tired.

Manchester United face a reunion with Cristiano Ronaldo after being pitted against Juventus in the Champions League group stage.

Liverpool are close to smashing the transfer world record for a goalkeeper.

Brazil have spent four years trying to atone for its last World Cup match, the calamitous 7-1 defeat as hosts by Germany.

Every European Cup and Champions League Final is memorable, for good reasons or bad.

Agree with him or not, our man inside the game would pay to listen to Mourinho.

Porto 0 Liverpool 5

The morning of February 6 60 years ago was much like any other winter’s day in Manchester. By the evening the city was plunged into grief.

Here's a full list of the ins and outs of the January transfer window.

The January transfer window has not yet opened and already a huge deal has been agreed, with Virgil van Dijk heading from Southampton to Liverpool for what is understood to be £75million, the highest price ever paid for a defender.

Jose Mourinho believes Manchester City’s players go down very easily, with the Manchester United boss saying it only takes a “little bit of wind” to knock them over.

Jose Mourinho played down the personal significance of Manchester United's clash with Chelsea on Sunday and insisted his history with the London club will be forgotten.

Man United 2 Benfica 0: Manchester United fans are starting to understand properly now what it means to support a Jose Mourinho team so it should come as no real surprise to them that United beat Benfica with a lucky own goal and a penalty, that they look set to qualify comfortably for the last 16 of the Champions League after four wins from four, or that despite those facts it was all rather uninspiring.

Manchester United are on the brink of reaching the Champions League knock-out phase after teenage Benfica goalkeeper Mile Svilar unwittingly put Jose Mourinho's men on course for another narrow win.

Jose Mourinho says Romelu Lukaku is "untouchable" and believes Manchester United fans should back him in the same way.

Romelu Lukaku is “untouchable” in Jose Mourinho’s eyes — and the Manchester United manager believes fans should see the striker in the same way.

One hopes the TV lip-reader was right: “When you’ve won the Premier League, let me know.” That, allegedly, is what Ashley Young said to Spurs’ Alli during a set-to on Saturday. In the “show-us-yer-medals” culture that is English football, there is no effective rejoinder to that. 

Juan Mata wants Manchester United to show unity as they look to bounce back from their lacklustre defeat at Huddersfield.

Jose Mourinho believes his history of success creates a rod for his own back and leads to scrutiny that many managers do not have to face.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho expects to have Zlatan Ibrahimovic back fit before the end of the year.

Paul Scholes believes Manchester United should push to beat their title rivals away from home to give themselves a psychological advantage.

Jose Mourinho's appetite for success means "sometimes it isn't easy to work with" the Manchester United manager, but Nemanja Matic has never played under a better boss.

Benfica 0 - Manchester United 1: Manchester United continued their charge towards the Champions League knock-out phase as Benfica’s Mile Svilar, the competition’s youngest-ever goalkeeper, was embarrassed by a Marcus Rashford free-kick.

Manchester United increased their chances of making the Champions League knock-out phase as Benfica's Mile Svilar, the competition's youngest-ever goalkeeper, was embarrassed by a Marcus Rashford free-kick.

Jose Mourinho believes it will be an "impossible mission" to end his managerial career at Manchester United.