Real Madrid’s Fifa Club World Cup semi-final clash tomorrow with Mexico’s Cruz Azul has been switched to Marrakech from Rabat due to the waterlogged pitch at the Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay Abdellah.

The Bundesliga came back with a bang at the weekend after its month-long hibernation.

GERMANY’S football season restarted dramatically on Friday night after their six-week break and the victims were Bayern Munich, still league leaders but only on goal difference ahead of Borussia Dortmund and Schalke, with the other Borussia just a point behind in fourth place.

Former Hertha Berlin coach Lucien Favre has been appointed as the new coach of Borussia Monchengladbach, the Bundesliga strugglers confirmed today.

Two goals from on-loan Liverpool forward Andriy Voronin sent Hertha Berlin top of the Bundesliga today as they edged past title rivals Bayern Munich 2-1 at the Olympiastadion.

THE RDS woodwork twice denied St Patrick’s Athletic last night, as the League of Ireland side gave it everything but ultimately came up short in their efforts to turn around a 2-0 deficit against Hertha Berlin and reach the promised land of the group stages of the UEFA Cup.

Hertha Berlin 2 St Patrick's Athletic 0

St Patrick’s Athletic boss John McDonnell has urged his players to “make a name for themselves” as they prepare to take on Bundesliga outfit Hertha Berlin in the first leg of their UEFA Cup first-round clash