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[ad_1] LONDON: Newcastle face an early test of their Premier League aspirations this season when they take on Manchester City , while Chelsea's £115 million ($146 million) midfielder Moises Caicedo is set to make his debut at West Ham. Tottenham are looking for the scalp of Manchester United on Saturday in their first home game since the departure of Harry Kane. AFP Sport looks at the best of the action on the second weekend of the Premier League season: The Magpies head to the Etihad top of the table after a 5-1 demolition of highly-fancied Aston Villa last weekend. Sandro Tonali and Harvey Barnes scored on their debuts, while Alexander Isak's classy double was further evidence of the Swede's rise to becoming one of the Premier League's top marksmen. After qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years, there have been doubts over how Eddie Howe's men will balance the demands of domestic and European football. But they could be fac

[ad_1] LONDON: Ivory Coast international Wilfried Zaha, who has signed for Turkish champions Galatasaray, has been labelled Crystal Palace's "talisman and greatest player" by the Premier League club's chairman Steve Parish. The 30-year-old forward joined Galatasaray on a free transfer after turning down a new contract with Palace and will receive a signing-on fee of 2.35 million euros ($2.6 million) and an annual salary of 4.35 million euros, the Turkish club said. Zaha had been offered a reported £200,000 ($256,000) a week from the London club whom he joined aged 12. He has scored 90 goals in 458 games for Palace and was sent on loan to the club twice during an unhappy two-year hiatus at Manchester United . Parish called Zaha "our talisman, our greatest player" and said he "remains a true inspiration for all our young players in the academy". "We would not be the club we are today without Wilfried," he added. Palace manage

[ad_1] LONDON: Dean Smith insisted that Leicester can avoid relegation after the Premier League strugglers hired him as their manager until the end of the season on Monday. Former Aston Villa and Norwich boss Smith replaced Brendan Rodgers, who was sacked on April 2 after his side's slump into relegation trouble. Smith will take charge for Leicester's last eight games of the campaign as they battle to avoid dropping into the Championship for the first time since 2014. The Foxes sit second bottom of the table and are two points from safety after Saturday's damaging 1-0 home defeat against fellow strugglers Bournemouth. "I'm really happy to have the opportunity to lead the team during these final weeks of the season," Smith said. "The challenge in front of us is clear, but it's one myself and my coaching team have experienced before and, with the quality in this squad and the number of games remaining, it's very much achievable. &quo

[ad_1] LONDON: Trent Alexander-Arnold's late equaliser rescued Liverpool in their 1-1 draw at title rivals Manchester City, as Arsenal snatched top spot in the Premier League with a dramatic 1-0 win at Brentford on Saturday. Alexander-Arnold struck 10 minutes from the end of a tense summit meeting at the Etihad Stadium after Haaland's landmark strike looked like extending City's record home winning run. City had won their previous 23 games on home turf in all competitions, but Liverpool's escape act gave Arsenal the chance to leapfrog both of them into pole position. Haaland converted Nathan Ake's pass with a fine finish from just inside the area in the 27th minute, reaching his half-century of Premier League goals in record time in his 48th appearance. Pep Guardiola's men went flat after that and Alexander-Arnold made them pay, drilling his shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the area before celebrating by putting a finger to his lips in f

[ad_1] ROME: Serie A top goal-scorer Victor Osimhen said on Monday he dreams of playing in the English Premier League. The Nigeria striker, who was in Rome to collect the award for foreign athlete of the year in Italy from the foreign press association, said he wanted to deliver a league title to Napoli fans but was also looking further ahead. "A lot of people worldwide consider the Premier league as the best and strongest league," said the 24-year-old. "I'm in one the best league of the world, which is the Italian Serie A. "Of course I'm working so hard to make sure that I achieve my dream of playing in Premier League someday, but it's a process and I just want to keep on this momentum." Osimhen joined Napoli in 2020 from Lille. He has 19 league goals this season as Napoli have built a 15-point lead as they chase a first title since the days of Diego Maradona. "As a football player, when you arrive in Napoli you fall in love e