FRANCE:

Monaco lose 4-0 at Nice in the Cote d’Azur derby as Mario Balotelli makes it four goals in two games for the new Ligue 1 leaders.

Willem II midfielder Anouar Kali makes history in the 5-0 loss at Ajax as the first player to be sent off by a video-assistant referee.

Champions League sides CSKA Moscow and Rostov lose 2-1 and 4-0 to lower-league opposition Yenisey Krasnoyarsk and Dynamo Moscow in the Russian Cup.

Ex-international midfielder Mamadu Bah, who was capped 35 times by Sierra Leone, dies in a road traffic accident in Freetown at the age of 39.

Villarreal draw 1-1 with Real Madrid and deny them a Liga-record 17th successive victory.

Antalyaspor drop Samuel Eto’o until further notice after the 35-year-old Cameroonian striker wrote on his Instagram account: “Perhaps some people do not feel respect for me because I am black.”