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It was the Foxes who took an early lead in the Hong Kong showpiece as Islam Slimani (12) headed home, but new signing Salah (20) scored his second goal since arriving at Liverpool to equalise not long after. Coutinho (44) scored the goal of the tournament to seal the victory with one minute of the first half to play, curling a stunning strike past Kasper Schmeichel and showing why he is a rumoured target for Barcelona. It was Leicester who drew first blood, with Slimani nodding home in the 12th minute. Christian Fuchs crossed a dangerous ball into the box after a fine pass from Marc Albrighton down the channel and the Algerian striker rose above James Milner to head into the net. Eight minutes later, Liverpool were back in the game with a brilliantly worked goal. Salah slid the ball across the top of the box to Coutinho, who chipped the ball expertly over the top to the Egyptian winger as he made his way into the box and nodded past Schmeichel. After his hand in Leicester's ...

An under-strength Arsenal side were well beaten by Chelsea as they went down 3-0 in their pre-season friendly at the Bird's Nest in Beijing. Willian opened the scoring before a Michy Batshuayi double either side of half-time accentuated the difference between the two teams. Here, we pick out three talking points from the game… Is slow start a worry? Arsenal were dramatically beaten 4-3 by Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium on the opening weekend of last season and that proved significant in May. Ultimately, the Reds found themselves only one point ahead of the Gunners in the race for fourth, bringing Arsene Wenger's run of 20 consecutive top-four finishes to an end. So Arsenal will be looking to begin the forthcoming campaign rather more convincingly. On this evidence, there is much work to do. The penalty shootout victory over Bayern Munich in midweek masked the fact that Wenger's men looked vulnerable for much of the match and that frailty was exposed again by C...

It's a type of story that long pre-dates the current mania about "fake news". Transfer rumours have long dominated the back pages of newspapers during the summer transfer window, and many commentators view such stories as pure speculation. Take, for instance, Match of the Day presenter and former England player  Gary Lineker who recently tweeted : "90% of transfer stories are guesswork in the hope of getting lucky." But just like in many other areas of the media and entertainment industries, social media is changing the game when it comes to transfer rumours - in this case allowing fake stories to spread wider and faster than ever before. To take one example, as speculation surged recently around the impending transfer of Wayne Rooney, a satirical story was posted on a popular Facebook group, "Manchester United Dream Team Forever", which has more than 550,000 members. The story was created by a humour website, "Soccer on Saturday". Mo...