Newcastle 1-0 Leicester City:

Newcastle eased the pressure on manager Alan Pardew after Gabriel Obertan 's goal
earned the struggling Magpies their first Premier League win of the season against
Leicester City on Saturday.
The Frenchman hit home in the 71st minute to give Newcastle victory at the eighth
time of asking and cap an unconventional day at St James' Park.
Kick-off on Tyneside was delayed by an hour due to issues
with the newly installed big screen at St James' Park, with
engineers scaling the stadium walls to fix the issue and
ensure the game went ahead.
Once the game did get under way Newcastle enjoyed the
better of the proceedings, though a lack of composure in
front of goal looked likely to cost them - with their
profligacy typified by Papiss Cisse missing an open goal.

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Lens 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain

Paris Saint-Germain overcame their injury crisis to beat Lens 3-1 following a bizarre
spell of three dismissals in six minutes on Friday.
Referee Nicolas Rainville produced three red cards in quick succession early in the
second half at the Stade de France, as the champions had Edinson Cavani sent off
just moments after he had scored a penalty while Lens saw Jean-Philippe Gbamin
and Jerome Lemoigne given their marching orders.
PSG coach Laurent Blanc was without a host of star names including David Luiz,
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva for the Ligue 1 clash, and Adamo Coulibaly
opened the scoring after just 10 minutes following a swift Lens breakaway.
That put Lens boss Antoine Kombouare on top against his former club, but Yohan
Cabaye levelled just before the half-hour mark, before Maxwell's delightful lob -
which came after a poor piece of goalkeeping from Rudy Riou - put PSG in front.
Referee Rainville's decisions then proved the only second-half talking points.
Having awarded a soft spot-kick against Gbamin for a foul on Cavani, Rainville sent
the defender off before showing two yellow cards to PSG's Uruguayan striker for his
gun-firing celebration towards the crowd and then his reaction to his initial booking.

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Sudan defeat a sad end for Keshi

There is no getting around it now. Stephen Keshi’s cycle as coach of the Super Eagles has come to an end. There is no anger, there is no bitterness. There is just… nothing. The final whistle in Khartoum was a knell that rung hollow in Nigerian hearts.

When Keshi became the trustee of Nigeria’s footballing hopes and dreams, the day was bleak. The Big Boss overhauled a team that had failed to qualify for the 2012 Cup of Nations, installing youth and injecting vitality. A policy of openness saw the likes of Ogenyi Onazi, Kenneth Omeruo, Godfrey Oboabona and Sunday Mba carve out a niche for themselves in the Super Eagles.

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Estonia 0-1 England

Wayne Rooney's precise free-kick maintained England's 100 per cent start to Euro 2016 qualifying with a laboured win over 10-man Estonia in Tallinn.
The England captain curled home a free-kick 17 minutes from time on his 99th international appearance at the A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn on Sunday to ensure Roy Hodgson's side made it three wins from three in Group E.

Rooney's 43rd international goal extended England's perfect start after they had endured a frustrating second half following Estonia captain Ragnar Klavan's red card three minutes after half-time

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