Cesc Fàbregas asked the Greek striker to play as a centre-forward and nothing else – the old-school sort. And the Greek striker listened, adapted and continues to score

Before the geometrically flawless trajectory of the shot that allowed the Nerazzurri to equalise, Marcus Thuram spotted a gap that was invisible to most

The Spanish goalkeeper kept Fiorentina in the game whilst hope hung by a thread and the team teetered on the brink against Inter. Then his team-mates ruined it all, yet again

The Italian driver is dominating in Austin and needs just two points to be mathematically certain of winning the Formula 1 World Championship. However, it cannot be ruled out that all five remaining Grand Prix races will actually take place. Ferrari are performing well

A professor of orthopaedics and traumatology at Sapienza University, he was also a competitive wrestler, judoka and sambo practitioner (the Soviet combat sport), having finished fourth at the European Championships: “I stopped because I didn’t have the time, not because I didn’t want to.” Interview

Ahead of a highly anticipated derby, the manager of one of the teams, ‘the Poirot of football’, asks an artificial intelligence programme to draw up a sort of match plan. The story of a true event