The Premier League champions will also face Borussia Dortmund and Napoli in their bid to finish in the top eight automatic places, having topped qualifying with a perfect record last term. Meanwhile, both Man City and Aston Villa will host holders PSG. The Villa Park fixture will be a repeat of the recent Super Cup, which PSG won 2-1 in Salzburg. Among Liverpool's fixtures is a trip to Inter Milan and another tie against Atletico Madrid, with Man Utd also scheduled to face Diego Simeone's side. Transfer Centre LIVE! | Latest on YOUR Premier League club!Got Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Stream Premier League games with no contract📺PL clubs' league phase opponents in full Arsenal: Real Madrid (H), Bayern Munich (A), Borussia Dortmund (H), Real Betis (A), Lille (H), Napoli (A), Sabah (H), Slavia Prague (A) Aston Villa: Barcelona (A), PSG (H), Borussia Dortmund (H), Club Brugge (A), Fenerbahce (H), Galatasaray (A), Viking (H), Slavia Prague (A) Liverpool: Inter Milan (A), Atletico Madrid (H), FC Porto (H), Club Brugge (A), Villarreal (H), Fenerbahce (A), Lens (H), Lask (A) Man City: PSG (H), Barcelona (A), Sporting CP (H), Porto (A), Napoli (H), RB Leipzig (A), AEK Athens (H), Lens (A) Man Utd: Atletico Madrid (A), Bayern Munich (H), Roma (H), Sporting CP (A), RB Leipzig (H), Villarreal (A), Sabah (H), Como (A) When do fixtures begin? The first round of games will be played September 8-10, with the first six rounds taking place through to December. The league phase resumes in January with the eighth and final round on Jan 27. The top eight teams in the final standings go direct to the round of 16 in March. Teams placed ninth-24th enter the knockout play-offs in February to decide the other eight teams in the round of 16. Teams placed 25th-36th are eliminated. Exact fixture dates, times and match schedule will be announced on Saturday. Four debutants in Champions League draw Four newcomers will debut in this Champions League edition. Como from Italy, coached by Cesc Fabregas, LASK of Austria, Viking from Norway, and Azerbaijani champions Sabah, who were only founded in 2017. Another first this season is an African coach leading a team into the main draw. Former Man City midfielder Yaya Toure guided Slovakian champions Slovan Bratislava through their qualifying play-off on Wednesday. League phase dates in full Matchday 1: September 8-10Matchday 2: October 13-14Matchday 3: October 20-21Matchday 4: November 3-4Matchday 5: November 24-25Matchday 6: December 8-9Matchday 7: January 19-20Matchday 8: January 27 Knockout phase dates Knockout phase play-offs: February 16/17 and 23/24Round of 16: March 9/10 and 16/17 March 2027Quarter-finals: April 6/7 and 13/14Semi-finals: April 27/28 and May 4/5Final: 5 June 2027 - Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, Madrid

Sky Sports News reported Chelsea were considering a late move for Martinez after current No 1 Robert Sanchez came under criticism after his error in Monday's win at Fulham. Martinez has needed to find a new club after Villa signed Zion Suzuki from Parma for nearly £30m. Transfer Centre LIVE! | Chelsea news & transfers🔵Chelsea fixtures & scores | FREE Chelsea highlights▶️Got Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Latest Sky Sports deals or stream PL games with no contract📺 He was the subject of interest from Juventus but they chose to sign Guglielmo Vicario from Spurs. Question marks will now be raised over whether both Sanchez and Mike Penders will remain at Stamford Bridge for the season. Penders started Chelsea's Carabao Cup tie with Luton on Thursday night, after Sanchez started v Fulham. It is debatable whether Chelsea need three No 1s as they are not in Europe, and Penders has just returned from his loan at Strasbourg. Sanchez was expected to be No 1 again this season but his performances have not always been convincing. This deal for 33-year-old Martinez comes despite denials that Chelsea have been in the market for an experienced goalkeeper. The Blues came close to signing Mike Maignan from AC Milan last summer but could not agree a fee. Merson: Martinez is one of the best goalkeepers in the world Sky Sports' Paul Merson: Martinez is available and he can be hard work sometimes. He comes across like that. But he's one of the best goalkeepers in the world. And if Chelsea want to get back to being one of the best in the world, you've got to have a top goalkeeper. Robert Sanchez is usually a good shot-stopper. This weekend, or against Arsenal at the Emirates in two weeks' time, he could be mind-blowing. He could make save after save after save and you'll sit there and go: 'Wow.' He could save Chelsea next week. I don't like picking on goalkeepers because it's a hard job - and you make one mistake for every 50 mistakes the outfield players make with their passing. But the match against Fulham was another game that he brought the other team back into the game.

Spurs travel to Anfield in the competition for the second time in three seasons, having lost 4-1 on aggregate to the Reds in the semi-finals of the tournament in 2024/25. Elsewhere, Sunderland host promoted Hull, while fellow Premier League new boys Ipswich face Arsenal. Holders Manchester City will welcome Championship side Norwich to the Etihad, having not lost to the Canaries in five home meetings dating back to 2013. Transfer Centre LIVE! | Latest EFL news and rumoursGot Sky? Watch the Carabao Cup LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Latest Sky Sports deals or stream the Carabao Cup with no contract📺 Coventry will go head-to-head with Aston Villa in an all-Midlands clash, while there is guaranteed to be at least one cross-London tie too with West Ham hosting either Fulham or AFC Wimbledon, who go head-to-head on Thursday. Chelsea, meanwhile, will face old rivals Leeds if they beat Luton on Thursday night and Newcastle face a long trip to Millwall after narrowly beating fellow Championship side West Brom. Everton, knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Wolves last season, will get a chance at revenge at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, while Brentford visit League One side Reading and Bournemouth host Lincoln. The ties will be played on the weeks commencing September 7 and September 14. Third round draw in fullCrystal Palace vs MiddlesbroughMan Utd vs BrightonMan City vs NorwichSunderland vs HullIpswich vs ArsenalCoventry vs Aston VillaBournemouth vs LincolnLiverpool vs TottenhamChelsea or Luton vs LeedsMillwall vs NewcastleFleetwood vs Sheffield UnitedEverton vs WolvesLeyton Orient vs BradfordReading vs BrentfordPeterborough vs BarnsleyWest Ham vs Fulham or AFC WimbledonCarabao Cup 2026/27 round dates Round three: w/c September 7 and w/c September 14 Round four: w/c October 26 Round five: w/c December 14 Semi-final first leg: w/c January 11 Semi-final second leg: w/c February 1 Final: Sunday March 21 How to watch the Carabao Cup on Sky Sports Sky Sports customers can watch matches on Sky Sports+, with games also available on the Sky Sports app and website. The nine Premier League sides in Europe - Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Brighton, Sunderland and Crystal Palace - all come in for the third round.

A deluge of rain postponed play until 12.20pm on Thursday afternoon, and much like the weather, England's day got off to a dreary start, with the hosts going 3-36 after just 10.3 overs, after Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl. Scorecard: England vs Pakistan, second Test at Lord's England without Carse for Lord's Test after nightclub incidentWith alarm bells ringing, what's gone wrong for Pakistan cricket?Not got Sky? Latest Sky Sports deals or stream no contract After a week dominated by England's latest off-field incident involving bowler Brydon Carse, captain Joe Root's mood would not have lifted much as he was dismissed on Thursday by Abbas for just four runs. That was further compounded by the cheap dismissals of Ben Duckett (17) and Emilio Gay (8), who were also snared by Abbas. Abbas would take figures of 4-56 in, while Ali returned 3-67, producing three sensational 'nip-backers' to remove Harry Brook (15) as well as Jamie Smith (61) and Ollie Robinson (0). With captain Babar Azam back in the side, Pakistan produced a much-improved performance from their innings and 103-run defeat at Headingley last week. But issues remain with Pakistan's fielding, with Mohammad Rizwan and his slips standing far too deep behind the wicket and saw multiple chances drop short in front of them. England, meanwhile, rallied as the weather began to improve, with Jordan Cox (55) hitting back-to-back half-centuries, while Smith also brought up his fifty after what's been a lean period for the wicketkeeper-batsman. "I was trying to ride the wave a little bit," Smith told Sky Sports. "It is not the most free-scoring at times here - you can feel a bit out of rhythm but then catch up. "I felt I scratched around at the start, but once I found the middle of the bat, it was slightly different to how I usually play, which is almost at top tempo to start with. "That seemed to help today." Gus Atkinson (34no) also performed well at the crease, and will return on Friday morning alongside Josh Tongue (1no), after play was suspended at 6.10pm on Thursday due to bad light, before the umpires chose not to return to the field. Abbas gets Pakistan off to a flying start After taking only one wicket against England at Headingley, Abbas was in prolific form on Thursday, first dismissing Gay with the help of the agile reflexes of Rizwan, who dived down the leg side to glove an edge from the Durham batter. Pakistan had come close to dismissing Duckett early in the first over, with the England opener edging a ball out to the slips but the ball did not carry. Duckett would face 20 deliveries before Abbas finally had him pinned lbw. The decision was initially given not out, looking like it was bouncing over the stumps, but Abbas was convinced it was plum, and he was proven right thanks to a successful review. Root then arrived at the crease and initially rode his luck, with Imam-ul-Haq shelling an edge from the skipper at third slip, before Usman came close to taking a catch on the edge of the slip cordon. In the next over, Abbas swung a ball into Root's leg stump, with the England captain unable to get his bat to the ball in time, as he was dismissed lbw. Brook then entered the fray and angrily smashed Ali for four through square leg on his first delivery. But his stay at the crease was short-lived, with Brook skittled by a beauty from Ali, who jagged the ball back into his off stump, in what was perhaps the delivery of the day. England dig in after lunch England found themselves 80-4 at lunch and in need of some stability, which came to a degree in the form of a partnership of 43 between Cox and Dan Lawrence, before the latter was run out following a bizarre mix up. Cox hit seven boundaries on his way to his half-century, and after a couple of good starts with Brook and Lawrence, he and Smith set about mounting a score, with the pair posting a stand of 67 off 97 deliveries. It was a moment of brilliance, though, from Salman Agha that broke the partnership, with the Pakistan all-rounder diving in the air to take a spectacular one-handed catch off an edge from Cox. Smith would follow, with Ali taking both his and Ollie Robinson's wickets with two stunning nip-backers in the space of three deliveries. Archer was the last of the England batters to be dismissed by Abbas, but not before he slogged a six back into the Lord's Pavilion, with Abbas later removing his bails before the players left the field. Watch day two of England's second Test match against Pakistan at Lord's live on Sky Sports Cricket from 10.15pm on Friday. Not got Sky? Latest Sky Sports deals or stream no contract

The Willie Mullins-trained 10-year-old will go down as one of the most popular National Hunt horses of recent times, with his haul of 12 Grade One victories including back-to-back Cheltenham Gold Cup wins in 2023 and 2024 and a hat-trick of Irish Gold Cups between 2023 and 2025. He was beaten into third place when bidding for a fourth Irish Gold Cup win in February and that proved to be his final career start as he was ruled out of a sixth appearance at the Cheltenham Festival in March after suffering a setback. In all Galopin Des Champs won 15 of his 26 career outings and Turley, who ran the black gelding together with her husband, Greg, will always cherish memories that will last a lifetime. Aventure ends Diamond Necklace's unbeaten record'It meant that little bit more!' | Ryan celebrates Ebor win Turley told the Press Association: "We've had the best time of our lives, we really have. "We never thought this would happen to us. We've had the most wonderful time." When asked if one day stood out above the rest, she said: "Three Irish Gold Cups and the two at Cheltenham, it's hard to pick out one. Every time it was just a wonderful surprise, it was just magnificent. "I don't know if I could say one day, maybe the first Cheltenham Gold Cup as that was just extraordinary - like something out of a dream, the joy it brought. "The other day was in Leopardstown when he won the third (Irish) Gold Cup. Everybody was singing, 'ole, ole, ole' and that just made the hair stand up on the back of our necks. "People love him and we still have people coming up on Instagram and TikTok saying, 'we miss him, we miss him'. He was so well loved and deserved to be loved, he was just wonderful. "Everybody did take to him and he was an unassuming character really when you think of it, but he just loved it - I think he enjoyed every bit of it himself." Turley revealed Galopin Des Champs could now embark on a second career in the equestrian sphere, adding: "He's actually gone over to Ruby Walsh's family and his daughter Isabelle is going to see what he does in that arena, so we'll see if something happens out of that. "They'll retrain him and see what happens. If he likes it he can do it, if he doesn't we'll have another plan and that's the way it is - it's all about him, whatever he wants to do. "He'll only be 11 next year and he's still looking fantastic." While Galopin Des Champs will never again carry the Turley's yellow and brown silks, they have several high-class prospects to look forward to including King Rasko Grey, who provided them with another Cheltenham Festival success in last season's Turners Novices' Hurdle. "King Rasko Grey has just come back in from the summer and is looking fantastic, so we have high hopes for him," Turley added. "He did so well in Cheltenham obviously and he's looking like a good horse. He has very big boots to fill, but we won't have another Galopin - he's one of a kind, a diamond. We'll enjoy it whatever happens."