Portugal news

Despite Cristiano Ronaldo missing from the Portugal squad, we expect the European champions' recent trend of high scoring friendlies to continue

Portugal will welcome the World Cup runners-up in an international friendly on Thursday, though star striker Ronaldo will be absent

The top European leagues take a breather for a week as the first international break of the 2018-19 domestic season takes place

Having proved themselves the best national side in the world this summer, Al Hain-Cole sees no reason not to back Les Bleus for the inaugural trophy

The Real Madrid, Juventus, Barcelona and Liverpool stars are all in with a shout, along with players from the Greek, Australian and Brazilian leagues

The biggest names in football will be dazzling in different countries for the first time in nearly a decade this year, but what boots will they wear?

The world champions lead the way under a new formula, with Joachim Low's men dropping out of the top 10 along with Lionel Messi & Co.

Mesut Ozil called time on his international career on Sunday, joining a list of stars to hang their boots up before age caught up on them

Russia 2018 is a wrap, so Goal looks into its crystal ball and tries to predict the starting line-ups for Qatar in four years' time

The World Cup often marks a watershed in players' careers, and a few of the game's biggest names may choose to stand down now Russia 2018 is over

The Tottenham striker won the battle for sharpshooting supremacy, which involved some of the best strikers in the world

The use of video assistant referees (VAR) is being rolled out for the first time at the World Cup and Goal takes a look at some of the incidents