Arsenal coasted to a 1-0 win over West Brom in their final Barclays Premier League home match of the season at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal will be without club record signing Mesut Ozil for “a minimum of three and a maximum of six weeks” with a hamstring injury, manager Arsene Wenger has announced.

Arsenal’s title hopes have suffered another blow after scans revealed Mesut Ozil’s hamstring strain will keep him sidelined for at least four weeks.

Arsenal will be without suspended goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and defender Kieran Gibbs due to a calf injury for Wednesday night’s Champions League last-16 second-leg clash away to Bayern Munich.

Kieran Gibbs is out of for Saturday’s Premier League game against Sunderland.

Arsenal expect to have England midfielder Jack Wilshere back from an ankle problem against Liverpool on Saturday.

Arsenal 2 Crystal Palace 0

The Premier League title race is pretty much ‘as you were’ following a transfer deadline day in which most of the top eight — even super-wealthy Manchester City refused to pay overinflated prices and saved their money instead for the summer market.

Arsenal have completed the loan signing of experienced Spartak Moscow midfielder Kim Kallstrom for the rest of the season.

Arsenal switched tack from youth to experience on deadline day, dropping their interest in young German winger Julian Draxler and turning to veteran Swedish midfielder Kim Kallstrom.

Sweden 2 Portugal 3 (Portugal win 4-2 on aggregate)

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Captain Robbie Keane believes the Republic of Ireland can take huge encouragement from their goalless World Cup qualifying draw in Sweden.

Ireland produced an uplifting performance to keep their World Cup dream alive with a creditable goalless draw in Sweden last night.

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni was pleased with his side’s performance in their goalless World Cup qualifying draw in Sweden.

Sweden 0 Ireland 0

Swedish coach Erik Hamren has warned that Ireland will set out to be party poopers in Stockholm when the countries meet in a World Cup qualifier on Friday week.

Kris Commons believes Celtic are a match for anyone in the last 16 of the Champions League but would prefer a tie against boyhood heroes Manchester United.

Fraser Forster revealed he played during Celtic's 2-1 Champions League win over Spartak Moscow at Parkhead last night believing Barcelona had made the Hoops chances of qualifying for the last-16 easier by taking the lead against Benfica in the other Group G tie.

Celtic 2 Spartak Moscow 1

Celtic 2 Spartak Moscow 1

Spartak Moscow 0 Barcelona 3

Spartak Moscow 2 Celtic 3

Two high-quality second-half goals from Andriy Shevchenko gave hosts Ukraine a triumphant start to Euro 2012 in Kiev last night.

Ukraine 2 Sweden 1

APOEL 1 Lyon 0 (after extra time; 1-1 on aggregate, APOEL win 4-3 on penalties)

SAMIR NASRI’S penalty took France to Euro 2012 after a tense evening against Bosnia & Herzegovina last night.

Celtic 2 Lyon 2

THE conqueror of Fiorentina and Manchester United, Arjen Robben, again produced the moment of individual brilliance that settled a Champions League game, although the former Chelsea winger’s 70th-minute winner was just one of several talking points.

BAYERN MUNICH defender Philipp Lahm has played down the impact of Lyon’s travel woes ahead of tonight’s Champions League semi-final first leg.

REAL MADRID’S dreams of a Champions League final at their Bernabeu home were crushed by Lyon last night as the Spanish giants were knocked out at the last-16 stage for the sixth successive season.

Real Madrid 1 Lyon 1 (Lyon win 2-1 on aggregate)

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard returned for the Champions League encounter against Lyon at Anfield but the surprise selection was teenage defender Martin Kelly.

WALTER SMITH launched a scathing attack on referee Jonas Eriksson, accusing him of “opting out” of awarding Rangers a crucial penalty in their Group G game against Sevilla.

SERBIA tightened their grip on World Cup qualifying Group Seven with a routine 2-0 win over Brian Kerr’s Faroe Islands last night.

The Netherlands booked their place in next year's World Cup finals with a 2-1 victory over Iceland in Reykjavik tonight.

Diego Maradona's reign as Argentina manager began with a 1-0 victory over Scotland in a friendly in Glasgow tonight.

REAL MADRID striker Gonzalo Higuain hailed his side’s fighting spirit after Bernd Schuster’s side claimed an incredible Primera Liga victory over Malaga on Saturday.

Lyon secured an historic seventh successive Ligue 1 title with a convincing 3-1 victory at Auxerre.

EVERTON manager David Moyes believes his side will cope without Tim Cahill after revealing the influential midfielder will miss the rest of the season.

Lyon midfielder Kim Kallstrom admits he would relish a summer move to Barclays Premier League side Everton.

Manchester United 1 Lyon 0 (agg: 2-1)

Lyon 1 Manchester United 1