* Eden Hazard scored his first goal for Real Madrid in over a year and his team appear to turn a corner as they beat newly-promoted Huesca 4-1 in La Liga on Saturday (Oct 31).
* Hakim Ziyech scored his first Premier League goal on his maiden English top-flight start as Chelsea powered to a 3-0 win at Burnley on Saturday (Oct 31).
* Diogo Jota grabbed the winner as Liverpool ground out a 2-1 victory over West Ham United at Anfield on Saturday (Oct 31) to take the lead at the top of the Premier League.
* Manchester City beat Sheffield United 1-0 at Bramall Lane on Saturday (Oct 31) with a Kyle Walker goal separating the two teams as the home side's winless start to the Premier League season extended to seven games.
* Inter Milan hit back from two goals down to salvage a 2-2 draw at home to Parma in Serie A on Saturday with Ivan Perisic heading a stoppage-time equaliser after Gervinho scored twice for the visitors.
* European champions Bayern Munich went top of the Bundesliga on Saturday (Oct 31) as Thomas Muller and Serge Gnabry provided the goals with Robert Lewandowski rested for their 2-1 win at Cologne.
* Defender Mats Hummels scored twice in the second half to help Borussia Dortmund beat Arminia Bielefeld 2-0 on Saturday and move level on points with leaders Bayern Munich.
* Paris St Germain cruised to a 3-0 win at Nantes on Saturday to move three points clear on top of Ligue 1, with Ander Herrera, Kylian Mbappe and Pablo Sarabia all scoring second-half goals.
* Cristiano Ronaldo has returned a second negative coronavirus test but will not start Sunday's (Nov 1) game against Spezia, Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo said on the eve of the match.
* Lucy loser Lorenzo Sonego of Italy followed up his shock win over world number one Novak Djokovic by beating Britain's Dan Evans to reach the Vienna ATP final on Saturday (Oct 31).
* Andrey Rublev marched into the Vienna Open final after Saturday's semi-final opponent Kevin Anderson retired with a leg injury in the second set to leave the Russian one win away from securing a Tour-leading fifth title in 2020. Rublev, ranked eighth in the world, has yet to drop a set at the tournament and moved into the final when South African Anderson retired while trailing 6-4 4-1.
* Partizan Belgrade's teenage winger Filip Stevanovic will move to Manchester City when the transfer window opens in January, the Serbian club said on Saturday. City have not yet confirmed the signing of 18-year-old Stevanovic but Sky Sports reported that the Premier League club will pay eight million euros (US$9.32 million) plus add-ons for the Serbian youth international.
* Frenchman David Gaudu secured his maiden grand tour win when he claimed the 11th stage of the Vuelta, a 170-km mountain trek between Villaviciosa and the Alto de La Farrapona on Saturday. The 24-year-old beat breakaway companion Marc Soler of Spain with a late burst in the final ascent, a 16.5-km effort at an average gradient of 6.2per cent.
* British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday English Premier League soccer matches will continue during a month-long national lockdown starting next week to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
* World number two Simona Halep tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is recovering well from her mild symptoms.
* More than 6,000 mostly young spectators watched at a Shanghai stadium and millions tuned in online to see Damwon Gaming win the League of Legends world championship on Saturday (Oct 31). The South Korean team beat Suning, the surprise finalists from China, 3-1 to claim one of the most prestigious titles in e-sports.
