Paris Saint-Germain matched their Ligue 1 points record from the 2013-14 season with Friday's 4-0 rout of Rennes moving them onto 89 points with three games still to play. Maxwell struck the opening goal five minutes after half-time on a soggy evening at the Parc des Princes before Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice to increase the Swede's goal haul to 34 for the campaign.

Real Madrid will be without Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema for the trip to Real Sociedad in La Liga but coach Zinedine Zidane is hopeful of having both back to face Manchester City next week. Ronaldo has missed Madrid's last two games, including the 0-0 draw away to City in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, while Benzema came off in that match and his club later confirmed he was suffering from a thigh injury.

PAOK have been docked three points from next season's Greek Super League and fined 10,000 euros ($11,353; £7,770) by the Greek federation for failing to show up for their Greek Cup semi-final second leg at Olympiakos on Wednesday. The Thessaloniki club forfeited the match to Olympiakos 3-0 to protest their punishment after the first leg match on March 3.

England rugby head coach Eddie Jones delivered a motivational talk at Crystal Palace on Thursday ahead of their season run-in, which concludes with the FA Cup final against Manchester United. Palace are not yet safe from relegation in the Premier League and manager Alan Pardew enlisted the services of Australian Jones, who led England to a Six Nations Grand Slam last month, in a bid to focus their minds.

Former Dinamo Zagreb boss Zdravko Mamic and his brother Zoran, the team's coach, were charged Tuesday with "abuse of power and bribery" in a multi-million euro corruption case, prosecutors said. A statement from the national anti-graft bureau USKOK said the Mamic brothers were charged along with one of the club's former directors and a tax inspector.

On form Nice striker Hatem Ben Arfa has vowed to give his all should he make France's 23-man squad for Euro 2016, daily newspaper L'Equipe reported on Tuesday. "I could go to the Euro and even if I never played a minute I'd be cheering the others on and encourage the others in training," said Ben Arfa, who is trying to shake of the idea he has a difficult personality.

Club legend Alessandro Del Piero hailed Juventus after the Turin giants' record-equalling fifth consecutive Serie A title on Monday. Juventus, emulating their feat of 1935 when the Turin giants won a fifth straight title for the first time, went 12 points clear of Napoli with a 2-1 win at Fiorentina on Sunday.

Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez was on Sunday named as the winner of English football's Player of the Year prize, voted for by his fellow professionals. The 25-year-old French-born Algerian international winger, outstanding in Leicester's incredible charge towards the Premier League title, received the trophy at a lavish awards ceremony in London.

Borussia Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke says the club will cope if captain and Germany star Mats Hummels opts to leave. "We have always found solutions and we will find solutions again," said Watzke after reports that Hummels is the latest Borussia star to be offered a contract at Bayern Munich.

Liverpool's big week has been given an unwanted injection of tension by Mamadou Sakho, who has been sidelined by the club while he is investigated by UEFA over a possible doping violation. France centre-half Sakho, who has been a key player in recent weeks, was left out of the team that drew 2-2 against Newcastle at Anfield on Saturday and is being sidelined by the club, with the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Villarreal looming on Thursday.

Liverpool's supporters were less than impressed by the announcement on Thursday that former striker Michael Owen has been appointed as the club's first "international ambassador". Owen came through Liverpool's youth system and scored 158 goals in 297 appearances for the club, but later spent three years with their hated rivals Manchester United.

Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini has admitted his misfiring side's chances of reaching next season's Champions League are virtually over after their crushing 1-0 defeat to Genoa on Wednesday. "It was very difficult before and it’s very difficult now," Mancini said after a 77th minute strike from Genoa skipper Sebastian De Maio blew a hole in the Nerazzurri's hopes.

Captain Mark Noble scored two penalties as West Ham United defeated FA Cup semi-finalists Watford 3-1 to keep pace in the Premier League's scramble for European places. Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes saved two penalties in his side's 1-0 win at West Bromwich Albion at the weekend, but Noble beat him twice from 12 yards at the Boleyn Ground as West Ham set a new club top-flight record of 15 home games without defeat.

Striker Stefan Kiessling on Tuesday extended his contract with Bayer Leverkusen until 2018, having formed a strong partnership with Javier Hernandez. The 32-year-old, who had hinted at a Leverkusen exit last December, has signed a year's extension and been offered an unspecified future role after his career.

Jamie Vardy has been charged with improper conduct following the Leicester striker's angry reaction to his red card against West Ham, the Football Association announced on Monday. Vardy was sent off by referee Jonathan Moss after earning a second booking for diving in an unsuccessful attempt to win a penalty in the second half of Sunday's 2-2 draw at the King Power Stadium.

Laurent Blanc claimed that his job has been in danger since he joined Paris Saint-Germain as coach, after his team bowed out of the Champions League with a quarter-final defeat to Manchester City. The Frenchman led PSG to a domestic treble of Ligue 1, French Cup and French League Cup titles last season, but the main objective for the club's billionaire owners, Qatar Sports Investments, remains to conquer Europe.

Dejan Lovren scored a heart-stopping stoppage-time header as Liverpool completed an astonishing comeback to beat Borussia Dortmund 4-3 on Thursday and reach the Europa League semi-finals. Held 1-1 in last week's first leg at the Westfalenstadion, Dortmund scored twice in nine minutes through Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to take a firm grip on the tie.

Bayern Munich came out on top in an entertaining Champions League last-eight clash with Benfica, reaching the semi-finals with a 3-2 aggregate victory, after a second-leg 2-2 draw in Lisbon. After a slow start to the game, Benfica drew back onto level terms in the tie in the 27th minute, as Raul Jimenez escaped the Bayern defence to nod past Manuel Neuer.

Kevin de Bruyne is desperate for Manchester City to reach the Champions League final after firing them into the last four of Europe's elite club competition for the first time. De Bruyne scored the only goal of the game as City beat French side Paris St Germain 1-0 at the Etihad for a 3-2 aggregate quarter-final win.

Roma coach Luciano Spalletti remained defiant on the thorny issue of captain Francesco Totti after the out-of-favour club captain provided his first assist of the season in a frustrating 1-1 draw with Bologna on Monday. Totti's future after 23 seasons at the club is a hot topic in Italy as the Serie A giants stall on offering the 39-year-old an extra year's contract.