Darmstadt top scorer Phillip Tietz slotted in the 36th-minute winner following a VAR review to lift his team to 67 points, with one game left to play.
* Wigan Athletic will be deducted four points from next season's League One campaign after the club failed to pay player salaries this month, the English Football League (EFL) said on Friday. A further four-point penalty has also been suspended until the end of the next season.
* Einer Rubio thwarted Thibaut Pinot and Jefferson Cepeda to win the shortened 74.6km-stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday after a bizarre delayed start, with organisers forced to change the route due to adverse weather conditions. Colombian rider Rubio (Movistar) delivered a perfectly-timed sprint in the final kilometre to earn his first Grand Tour stage win in style, while Geraint Thomas retained the leader's maglia rosa jersey.
* Freiburg scored twice in four minutes in the second half through substitutes Christian Guenter and Nils Petersen to snatch a 2-0 victory over VfL Wolfsburg on Friday and keep their hopes of a top four finish alive going into the final Bundesliga matchday.
* Cairo giants Al Ahly advanced to a fourth successive African Champions League final as they completed a comfortable aggregate victory over Esperance of Tunisia after a 1-0 home win in Friday's second leg of their semi-final tie. Hussein El Shahat scored after 22 minutes, with a clever chip over the goalkeeper from an acute angle, to ensure a 4-0 aggregate triumph after Al Ahly had won 3-0 away in Tunis in last Friday’s first leg.
* Seventh seed Elena Rybakina beat Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko 6-2 6-4 in a rain-delayed semi-final at the Italian Open on Friday and will play Anhelina Kalinina in Saturday's final.
* Several thousand people lined the streets in Jakarta on Friday (May 19), chanting, lighting flares and waving flags to welcome the triumphant Indonesian football team home from the Southeast Asian Games. Indonesia defeated Thailand 5-2 in extra time in a bad-tempered men's final in Phnom Penh on Tuesday that saw four players sent off and two mass brawls.
* Former world number one Simona Halep has been charged with a further breach of anti-doping rules, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) confirmed on Friday (May 19). Romanian Halep has been provisionally suspended since October 2022 for testing positive for the banned substance roxadustat at the US Open in August last year.
* Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United and Marcus Rashford will "find each other" in the quest to secure a new Manchester United contract for the England forward. Rashford has only one year left on his deal at the club he has represented since the age of seven.
* Africa will employ a single stage of World Cup qualification for the next finals in 2026, doing away with three rounds previously for a format that will take almost two years to complete. The continent will have nine places at the expanded 48-team tournament in North America and have decided on a format of nine groups, where the winner alone will qualify for the World Cup, the Confederation of African Football announced on Friday.
