River Plate opened their Club World Cup campaign with a 3-1 win over Urawa Red Diamonds on Tuesday, with goals from Facundo Colidio, Sebastian Driussi and Maxi Meza enough to see off a spirited challenge from the Japanese side.

Referees have always faced scrutiny with VAR since it was introduced – and they’ve had no shortage of controversy in South America. Anderson Daronco has been an international referee

Alexis Sanchez has had a poor season at Udinese where he had hardly had any prominence or game time. He still feels he has a couple of good seasons in him. His preference is to stay somewhere in