Antonio Conte was impressed by four or five players in Chelsea s FA Youth Cup thrashing of Manchester City on Wednesday.

Chelsea lifted the trophy for the fourth successive season with a 5-1 victory at Stamford Bridge completing a 6-2 aggregate victory in a repeat of the 2015-16 final.

Conte watched the match alongside owner Roman Abramovich, while club captain John Terry and all-time leading goalscorer Frank Lampard were also in attendance.

Trevoh Chalobah, brother of first-team member Nathaniel, opened the scoring before Ike Ugbo added an impressive acrobatic finish to Dujon Sterling s excellent cross.

GOAL! It s 2-0 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate to Chelsea now, as volleys home.

— The FA (@FA)

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Stefano Pioli urged his Inter side to build on an exceptional performance during the closing weeks of the season after they mercilessly dispatched Atalanta 7-1 at San Siro.

Captain Mauro Icardi and playmaker Ever Banega both hit hat-tricks as Inter leapfrogged their opponents and moved up to fourth in Serie A.

It means the Champions League places remain a realistic proposition, with Inter six points behind Napoli and five shy of Roma before the latter host Palermo in Sunday s late kick-off.

This was an exceptional performance where everything we practised worked perfectly, Inter coach Pioli told Mediaset Premium.

It was a game of a high level and we did well to make it look easy, because Atalanta are a tough opponent and had conceded very few goals unti…

Borussia Dortmund have signed Reinier from Real Madrid on a two-year loan.

Reinier, 18, joined Madrid from Flamengo for a reported €30million in January and played for the Castilla side in the Segunda B1.

He made just three appearances under Raul before the season was put on hold amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Brazilian will spend the next two campaigns in the Bundesliga with Dortmund, who have built a reputation for developing young talents by providing first-team opportunities.

Reinier said: I am happy to be with BVB now. The club is known for betting on young players and making them better.

I want to learn a lot here, play a lot and help the team to be successful. I hope that we will have many happy moments together.

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According to reports coming from , the five-time MLS champions LA Galaxy have once again set their sights on Boca Juniors forward Dario Benedetto.

The 28-year-old Argentine was already linked with LA Galaxy during his time in the Mexican Primera Division with both Club Tijuana and Club America, respectively, and the MLS heavyweights are once again exploring the possibility to sign him.

This time around, though, LA Galaxy are also interested in Boca Juniors manager Guillermo Barros Schelotto and believe they would be able to persuade them both to move to the United States.

Benedetto was a standout performer in Liga MX, wreaking havoc on MLS defences in the CONCACAF Champions League but his Boca Juniors spell has been largely ruined due to a ruptured ACL which saw…

Liverpool and Manchester City enjoyed a Europa League cruise on Thursday as a tournament often derided as the Champions League s poor relation gorged on a feast of 78 goals and three hat-tricks.

England midfielder Joe Cole scored the quickest European goal in Liverpool s history after just 25 seconds as his team enjoyed a 4-1 victory over fellow former European champions Steaua Bucharest at Anfield.

Roberto Mancini s expensively-assembled Manchester City won 2-0 at Red Bull Salzburg while mighty Juventus were held to a 3-3 draw at home by unfashionable Polish side Lech Poznan.

Poznan s Latvian striker Artjoms Rudnevs grabbed all of his side s three goals while Patrick Helmes of Bayer Leverkusen and Alexandr Kerzhakov of Zenit St Petersburg also hit hat-tricks.

Chelsea full-back Paulo Ferreira insists the Premier League champions still have a voracious appetite for success ahead of Saturday s trip to Aston Villa.

Carlo Ancelotti s side won the Premier League and FA Cup double for the first time in the club s history last season, while many of the Blues squad also played key roles in the team s 2005 and 2006 English title triumphs.

Despite the deluge of silverware in recent years, Ferreira, who has won everything but the Champions League in his six-year stay at Chelsea, is confident the team s burning desire to keep winning will fire the Blues to more success this season.

The west Londoners are already four points clear at the top of the table and Ferreira, 31, underlined Chelsea s winning mentality as he set his sights…

Lille boss Rene Girard has said in no uncertain terms that AS Roma are showing interest in star defender Marko Basa.

The Giallorossi coach Rudi Garcia is well aware of the Montenegrin s qualities having worked with him at Stade Lille Metropole, and club officials are already working on the deal that should see the 31-year-old arrive at Stadio Olimpico.

Lille coach Rene Girard has moved to confirm the transfer talk, hinting that the player is tempted by the prospect of moving to Italian Serie A.

“Basa? I understand that Marko is attracted by the sirens coming from Rome, but my hope is to be able to keep him with us,” Girard confessed to La Voix du Nord. “We ll know more in the coming days.”

Marko Basa, who had previously spent four years with Le M…

Manchester City F.C. midfielder Samir Nasri has put pen to paper on a new five-year deal with the English Premier League champions.

The France international, who was left out of Les Bleus 23-man World Cup squad by manager Didier Deschamps, has scored 22 goals in 129 appearances for City since joining from Arsenal in a deal worth around £25 million in August 2011.

Nasri is arguably coming off his best season with the Sky Blues, having scored in the Capital One Cup against Sunderland and in the title-clinching league match against West Ham United on the final day of the campaign.

Since arriving in Manchester, Nasri has won two Premier League titles and the League Cup but more importantly he won a £10,000 bet with talk show host Piers Morgan a bel…

Pep Guardiola can leave a lasting legacy at Manchester City and match his achievements at Barcelona, according to Xavi.

During a four-year spell in charge at Camp Nou, Guardiola won 11 major trophies, including three LaLiga titles and the Champions League on two occasions.

Spain legend Xavi played an influential role in that glorious era and believes his old boss has the capacity to shape a City side that will go down in history alongside that fabled Barca outfit.

After failing to pick up a trophy in his first season at the Etihad Stadium, Guardiola guided City to a record-breaking Premier League triumph in 2017-18, as well as the EFL Cup, and Xavi knows there will be more success to come.

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Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe expects a complicated trip to Red Star Belgrade, but he urged his team to capitalise on their win over Liverpool.

Goals from Juan Bernat and Neymar helped PSG to an important 2-1 home victory over the Premier League giants in the Champions League on Wednesday.

The Ligue 1 champions will secure a spot in the knockout round if they beat Red Star Belgrade in Group C on December 11.

Mbappe is eager for PSG to make the most of their chance, although he understands the challenges his side will face against a team unbeaten at home since October 2017.

In the group, nobody won there so it s going to be complicated, he said, via L Equipe.

We will have to put as much intensity and as much desire there. It would be rea…