The future of Zlatan Ibrahimovic at LA Galaxy will be decided at the end of the season, with no talks scheduled before then, the club's GM Dennis te Kloese told ESPN Deportes.

Ibrahimovic has a club-record 26 goals in 25 games this season for the Galaxy, who are looking to clinch a playoff spot as the regular season comes to an end, and any talk of extending the Sweden legend's time in MLS will have to wait until the season is concluded.

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"We've agreed that after the season we will evaluate and look calmly at his personal situation and that of the team," said Te Kloese in Spanish.

Ibrahimovic netted a hat trick last weekend as the Galaxy thrashed Sporting Kansas City 7-2 and said afterwards that he is the best player in MLS history.

"Zlatan is a very special case," Te Kloese stated. "If you watched on Sunday how he helped the team, he is committed to the club, to the fans and it is very special, it's a luxury to have him."

Te Kloese believes Ibrahimovic is an important guide to younger players at the club, with a video going viral recently of the 37-year-old giving tips to youngsters at the Galaxy academy.

"They need guiding, opportunities to play, minutes and between all us we're looking after their development, not just on the field, but also off it," said Te Kloese. "Someone like Zlatan, with what he's done in his career, can give a lot to those [younger] players. He's been very preoccupied with how the youngsters are getting on."

The Galaxy are currently in fourth position in the Western Conference with four regular season games left and face Montreal Impact at home on Saturday.

Virgil van Dijk insists there will be no hangover from Liverpool's Champions League defeat to Napoli as there is no reason for panic following their first loss of the season.

The champions of Europe were on the wrong end of a 2-0 scoreline at Stadio San Paolo in Group E on Tuesday night, courtesy of a controversial penalty converted by Dries Mertens and a Fernando Llorente strike in added time.

The spot-kick, awarded on 82 minutes when referee Felix Brych felt Andy Robertson had impeded Jose Callejon despite the forward initiating contact, was highlighted as the game-changing moment by Van Dijk.

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"It felt like it was going to be a draw, and then the penalty changed everything in the game," the centre-back said.

"It shouldn't be a wake-up call -- we have been performing outstanding since the start of the season so there is no reason to panic.

"We played well, we put them under pressure, we created opportunities on the break. It is not easy to do that here you know, because they have the fans behind them, they are a very good footballing side, but we did it.

"Of course it is all about the result and we know it was the wrong result."

Liverpool were markedly improved from their away display against Carlo Ancelotti's men last October, where they did not produce a shot on target in what Jurgen Klopp described as their worst performance of 2018-19.

However, they were still uncharacteristically sloppy in the final third.

"You wish in the end there was something different, you pick another pass instead -- the right pass -- but it is like that sometimes," Van Dijk said.

"There are always moments in games that could go better. But like I say if the penalty wasn't given then it was going to be a draw.

"The reality is that we conceded the penalty and it was unlucky that Adrian got something on it, but it didn't stay out."

A rare loose Van Dijk pass was punished by Llorente in the dying minutes and while it was an exacting test for Liverpool's rearguard, they were rarely troubled on Tuesday night.

"Napoli have a lot of movement, a lot of runs in behind and between the lines -- it is not easy to defend against," the 28-year-old said.

"But we did that pretty well I think, that's my feeling after the game. They couldn't put too much pressure on us, especially in the build up, which they do a lot in their home games.

"So there are many positive things we can take away from the performance. That is the key now looking towards the next game."

Liverpool travel to Chelsea on Sunday aiming to make it six consecutive league wins as they set the pace at the top of the Premier League table.

Angel Di Maria produced a vintage performance with two goals to help Paris Saint-Germain claim a 3-0 home win over Real Madrid in their Champions League Group A opening game on Wednesday.

In the absence of the formidable attacking trio of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Edinson Cavani, Di Maria provided two first-half goals as PSG suffocated Real throughout and Thomas Meunier added a third in stoppage time.

Real, European champions three years in a row from 2016-18 who eliminated PSG in the last 16 in 2017-18, failed to muster a shot on target and suffered their first defeat of the season.

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PSG lead the standings on three points, ahead of Club Brugge and Galatasaray, who played out a goalless draw earlier on Wednesday.

"We lacked intensity, we never got into the game, we created very few chances," Real coach Zinedine Zidane told a news conference.

Although PSG's win could be seen as a statement, the French champions still have a long way to go before putting three consecutive last-16 eliminations behind them for good including last season's embarrassing defeat by Manchester United.

"We played at a very very high level tonight, but it's not easy to show this in every game," said PSG coach Thomas Tuchel.

With Neymar suspended and Mbappe and Cavani injured, Argentine Mauro Icardi started up front after playing his first half hour for PSG in a Ligue 1 game against Strasbourg last weekend.

He had little impact, though, as Di Maria made sure his compatriot's lack of match time went unnoticed in PSG's first European game since a shock 3-1 home defeat by United sent them out of last season's Champions League.

Eden Hazard started for Real, who also had to cope with the absence of the injured Marcelo, Isco, Luka Modric, Marco Asensio and Fede Valverde as well as the suspended Sergio Ramos and Nacho Fernandez.

PSG started fast and were rewarded for their early domination in the 14th minute when Di Maria stabbed the ball past Thibaut Courtois at the near post from Juan Bernat's cross.

It was former Real player Di Maria's 25th goal in his 100th appearance in a European competition.

He made it 26 in the 33rd minute, curling a superb shot past Courtois from 20 metres after Idrissa Gueye had cut through the Real midfield.

Real forward Gareth Bale found the back of the net shortly afterwards but the goal was ruled out by the VAR for handball.

PSG left little space to Real and Di Maria came close to making it 3-0, only for his chip to land on the roof of the net after the Argentine had been sent through by the impressive Gueye.

Real forward Karim Benzema beat Keylor Navas from close range in the 77th minute, but the goal was ruled out for a Lucas Vazquez offside.

Full-back Meunier wrapped up an emphatic win when he scored from close range one minute into stoppage time following a PSG counter-attack.

India 151 for 3 (Kohli 72*, Dhawan 40) beat South Africa 149 for 5 (de Kock 52, Bavuma 49, Chahar 2-22) by seven wickets

After a washout in Dharamsala, India got their home season underway with a comfortable win in Mohali, against a new-look South Africa side that didn't quite show the depth of resources to genuinely challenge them. Having restricted the visitors to a below-par 149, India romped home with an over to spare, courtesy breezy knocks from Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli.

By the end, Kohli put on an exhibition of crisp timing for the crowd; he stepped out to drive Andile Phehlukwayo between extra-cover and a desperately diving long-off to bring up his fifty, whipped Kagiso Rabada off his legs for an effortless six, and then jumped out to the left-arm spin of Bjorn Fortuin to chip him over long-on and bring the equation down to four runs off eight balls. Shreyas Iyer sealed the deal two balls later, drilling Fortuin for a straight four to give India a seven-wicket win.

India were never in any trouble with the required rate, with Rohit Sharma giving them early impetus with a brace of pulled sixes off Anrich Nortje in the second over of the chase. Dhawan was in excellent touch too, as he demonstrated with back-to-back boundaries off Kagiso Rabada in the next over, a drive through the covers followed by a late chop backward of point.

Andile Phehlukwayo gave South Africa some respite by trapping Rohit lbw in the fourth over, but that respite was brief, as Kohli walked in and gave immediate notice of his timing, with two fours - a clip off his toes and an on-the-up cover drive - in his first six balls. At that point, India's required rate was only a tick above seven an over, and Kohli and Dhawan could stay in touch with it by simply taking the ones and twos on offer and waiting for the bad ball.

The pitch had been a little two-paced through the first innings, and India's seamers had profited from bowling cutters and slower balls into the surface. Now, there didn't seem to be as much grip, perhaps because of dew - Kohli had decided to bowl first for this very reason.

India's relentless march to their target only suffered two further blips; a brilliant, one-handed grab from David Miller, running to his right at long-on, sent Dhawan back for 40, and then Rishabh Pant - sent in at No. 4, above Iyer - fell early, failing to get the desired elevation while he looked to scoop Fortuin over short fine leg. It was another moment in the life of a young, gifted shotmaker who often gets dismissed in the grey zone between playing the game that makes him who he is and playing recklessly.

Sent in to bat, South Africa never really gained the sort of momentum they needed to post a total in the region of 180. Quinton de Kock peppered the off-side boundary to begin, but during the time he scored 52 off 37 at his end, his two batting partners made 35 off 31 balls at the other end.

Reeza Hendricks struggled against the swing of Deepak Chahar, and eventually fell to a miscued lofted shot off him. Temba Bavuma didn't look in any trouble against anyone in particular, but he definitely looked like a T20I debutant with 36 Tests and two ODIs behind him.

He took full toll when the bad ball came - as when Hardik Pandya sent down two successive short, wide slower ones - but he didn't quite seem to have the muscle or inventive strokeplay to manufacture boundaries. And just when South Africa were looking to accelerate, Bavuma suffered a slowdown, with Navdeep Saini denying him the width he craved and conceding just two runs off the bat in five balls. At the start of the next over - the 18th - he went after a slower one from Chahar and holed out, for 49 off 43 balls.

South Africa were 126 for 3 at that point. They only managed three runs off the rest of the 18th over, and only four off the 19th, bowled by Hardik Pandya, losing an out-of-sorts David Miller along the way. Phehlukwayo and Dwaine Pretorius swatted Saini for a six each in the final over to give South Africa a reasonable finish, but it couldn't make up for all the ground they had already lost.

Leicestershire 263 (Wright 60, Patel 4-58) and 32 for 2 (Carey 2-10) trail Glamorgan 435 and 251 for 5 dec (Brathwaite 103*) by 391 runs

Although Glamorgan's hopes of gaining promotion to Division One have diminished following Gloucestershire's win in three days and Northants' dominant position against Durham, the Welsh county should win their fourth championship game of the season on the final day.

Leicestershire will resume on 32 for 2, needing a further 392 to win, with Hassan Azad on 15 not out and the former Glamorgan batsman Mark Cosgrove, three.

Glamorgan have set Leicestershire the improbable target of 424 from a minimum of 113 overs, and although spin was likely to play a decisive part, it was Lukas Carey, getting movement from the pitch, who took the first two wickets in his second and third overs. He had Paul Horton caught by the wicketkeeper, then had Colin Ackermann held by David Lloyd at slip.

Glamorgan declared on 251 for 5 in their second innings and would have declared earlier had they not allowed Kraigg Brathwaite to reach his century in only the second of three games he is playing until the end of the season.

The West Indies opening batsman was at the crease for the duration, facing 189 balls and striking a six and 12 fours for his unbeaten 103. Not a flamboyant stroke player - he has a moderate strike rate of 40 in his Test career- Brathwaite and is selective in his approach. However, depending on his availability, he would be a useful Championship overseas player for any county, having played 56 Tests with eight centuries and 17 fifties.

Brathwaite, schooled at Combermere College in Barbados where past pupils include Chris Jordan and Jofra Archer, shared useful partnerships, notably with Chris Cooke, who scored 44 and put on 80 with Brathwaite for the fifth wicket.

Leicestershire's 10th-wicket pair, Chris Wright and Will Davis, had frustrated Glamorgan's bowlers in the morning session by adding 92 runs, with Wright scoring 60 and Davis a career-best 39 not out. Had they added another three runs they would have eclipsed the previous record for the final wicket for Leicestershire against Glamorgan - set by Dieter Klein and Gavin Griffiths on this ground last season.

Lancashire 259 (Livingstone 84, Croft 55*) and 289 for 8 (Jennings 97, Livingstone 68, Cummins 4-50) lead Middlesex by 211 runs

Middlesex claimed five wickets in a rather dramatic evening session at Emirates Old Trafford as they sought to inflict a first Championship defeat on the soon-to-be crowned Division Two champions Lancashire.

Having spent the first two days of this match recovering from 34 for 6 to make 337 in reply to the home side's 259, Dawid Malan's bowlers had restricted the home side to 289 for 8 when bad light ended play 11 overs early. That gives Lancashire a lead of only 211 and it all but completed a second fine fightback by Middlesex after a day the first two sessions of which had been dominated by the batsmen.

Miguel Cummins ended the day with figures of 4 for 50 but Ethan Bamber took two vital wickets with the new ball while Lancashire's best contribution was made by Keaton Jennings, who was dismissed for 97 for the second time this season when he chopped a ball from Nathan Sowter onto his leg stump. Jennings' dismissal ended his 127-run stand with Liam Livingstone and was the first of five Lancashire wickets to fall in 13 overs as the home side declined from 253 for three to 282 for 8.

In the morning session a career-best 34 by Saqib Mahmood had enabled Lancashire's batsmen to wipe out their 78-run first-innings deficit during a relatively quiet two hours' cricket. Mahmood hit five fours before he was caught behind when playing forward to Cummins but his was the only wicket lost on a pitch which seemed to be flattening out after a first day in which 16 wickets fell.

Lancashire's domination continued during the second session when the only batsman dismissed was Josh Bohannon, who was lbw to Toby Roland-Jones for 28, having helped Jennings put on 51 for the third wicket .

When he was three short of what would have been his first Championship century of the season, Jennings fell to Sowter, a dismissal which changed the course of what is proving to be the best game of Championship cricket seen at Old Trafford this season.

Bamber had Livingstone caught behind by Simpson two overs after taking the new ball and then trapped Lancashire skipper Dane Vilas leg before for only two in his next over. Rob Jones fell to Cummins for 16, caught in the gully by Sowter, and when Tom Bailey was pouched by Malan at second slip for only four, Lancashire were faced with the prospect of defending a fairly modest target on the final day if they wished to defend their unbeaten record in Championship cricket.

Durham 131 and 212 for 8 (Eckersley 54*, Hutton 4-54) trail Northamptonshire 217 and 315 (Proctor 86*, Levi 60, Rossington 52) by 189 runs

When Durham were relegated by the ECB as part of the financial rescue in 2016, figures at the club predicted a five-year journey back to the first division. On another warm, cosy day at Wantage Road they all but surrendered the possibility of making it in three to a Northamptonshire side whose own promotion may be confirmed as early as tomorrow.

One by one, the challengers are thinning out. As Durham slid to near defeat, so the push from Sussex expired via an unexpected loss to Derbyshire. If Northants complete victory and Glamorgan fail to convert their advantage against Leicestershire, then Northants will go up with a game to spare. Should Glamorgan win then Northants will still need only four points against Gloucestershire next week.

It would be an exaggeration to say that they are dominating this match, but neither have they been behind since the half-hour or so of carnage from Adam Rossington on the first day. With Luke Procter to the fore, they added 80 second-innings runs to their overnight 235 for 6 to set a target of 402 and once again Durham's top order collapsed to leave the result an apparent formality.

Durham can claim to be taking small steps forward, with five wins against four last season and a tally of 150 points, 20 up on 2018, with a game to go. There is even something slightly positive to be taken from the haul of 19 batting points. It may be easily the worst among their rivals, but they managed only 16 last summer. And even 11 Steve Smiths would struggle to rack up 400s at the Riverside.

If one eye is on the field, the other must be on the ledgers. The latest accounts, up to the end of September 2018, were lodged with Companies House recently and reveal an overall loss for the year of £1,136,418. This against a profit of £2,227,951 for 2017, when they received £2 million from the ECB for agreeing not to apply to stage Test cricket for the foreseeable future.

Durham certainly know the meaning of the word 'battle'. Whatever the paucity of certain techniques, enough of them showed the guts required to fight their way into a final day. The forecast is good, again, and the new ball is only one over old, but at a time when matches are routinely finishing way ahead of schedule their lower order deserve credit for refusing to succumb to the inevitable.

Ned Eckersley held things together during the gloom of a floodlit extra half hour, when Northants failed in a dubious mission to bounce their way to a breakthrough. Rossington must question his earlier strategy of easing up on Eckersley to focus on removing his tail-end partners. Matt Salisbury has faced 55 balls for his two runs, undaunted even after being struck by Doug Bracewell.

In fact, Durham's best periods bookended an otherwise rather dispiriting day. They struck in each of the first two overs, with the ball seaming away, and a brilliant diving catch by Cameron Steel at backward point removed Brett Hutton just as he was starting to smite profitably. But a last-wicket stand of 51 between Procter and Ben Sanderson shifted the initiative.

Procter completed his fifty from 109 balls and went along at better than a run a ball thereafter. No stroke startled as much as his straight six against Brydon Carse, which prompted a change of ball, though a couple of later Vince-like cover drives by Jack Burnham would have better sated the aesthetes who always converge around the second-hand bookshop during lunch.

They had only victory to anticipate as they ferreted through the shelves of slightly-foxed Swantons and mottled CMJs. In the seventh over, Alex Lees was bowled shouldering arms to Hutton, a poor decision given that the bowler was shaping the ball back in to the left-hander, and a tortured innings by Angus Robson ended with a routine catch to Rossington.

After his sensational stumping on Wednesday, Rossington suffered mixed fortunes this time. He dropped Robson, not that it mattered, and needed treatment after being struck painfully on a finger. Equally, he held an absolute beauty, right-handed at full stretch when Burnham chased a wide one from Procter, who enjoyed a characteristically effective, easily-overlooked day.

But Rossington's effort was trumped by Richard Levi at third slip when Carse slashed at Bracewell. Levi did well to react quickly enough let alone hold on at full stretch. Ominously, though, Carse had kept the nuggety Eckersley company for 17 overs. Salisbury has matched that, and while Northants supporters might have chuntered on their way out at least they have one last home day ahead.

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh-area law enforcement looked into an allegation that Antonio Brown committed a sexual assault in June 2017, but authorities won't prosecute him due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

A detective contacted Britney Taylor's lawyer after her lawsuit against Brown became public last week, a source told ESPN, but since the allegation is more than two years old, there won't be an investigation.

"Our office, along with the Allegheny County Police Department, made contact with counsel for the plaintiff in the federal lawsuit involving Antonio Brown," the Allegheny County District Attorney's Office told ESPN in a statement. "Procedurally, it appears there is a statute of limitations issue in moving forward with any inquiry involving the Allegheny County allegation mentioned in the lawsuit."

Taylor's lawsuit says that Brown -- in three separate incidents, two in June 2017 and another in May 2018 -- sexually assaulted Taylor, whom he met while they were attending Central Michigan and whom he later hired as a trainer. One of the alleged 2017 incidents happened in Pittsburgh, where Brown played for the Steelers for nine seasons. The others allegedly took place in Florida.

The NFL is investigating the matter and has interviewed Taylor, though it remains unclear when or if Brown will interview with the league.

ESPN first reported that Brown and Taylor entered into confidential settlement discussions months before the lawsuit surfaced last week, but the New England Patriots -- who signed Brown on Sept. 7 -- wouldn't have known about the situation unless confidentiality was breached. ESPN's Jeff Darlington reported those discussions included a $2 million settlement offer that Brown declined.

Brown made his season debut with the Patriots in Miami on Sunday. Sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Friday that Brown was not placed on the commissioner's exempt list because there is no criminal investigation into the wide receiver.

Brown's lawyer, Darren Heitner, said in a statement last week that his client and Taylor had been involved in a "consensual personal relationship."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who has asked the team to trade him, will play on Thursday night against the Tennessee Titans, coach Doug Marrone said Wednesday.

Marrone said he spoke with Ramsey on Tuesday, and there are no lingering issues regarding their sideline shouting match in Sunday's game. But the coach didn't have anything to say on Wednesday about Ramsey's trade request.

"I stay out of that," Marrone said. "I stay out of contracts, stay out of that stuff, and my focus is on the guys that are playing, and he's playing and he's on the team. I don't get involved in that."

Ramsey's agent informed the team after Sunday's 13-12 loss to Houston that the star cornerback wanted a trade. Ramsey is in the fourth year of his rookie contract, and the team exercised the fifth-year option for 2020. League sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen the Jaguars are seeking at least a first-round pick but would like more than that.

Ramsey said Tuesday that he doesn't have anything negative to say about anyone in the Jaguars building, and Marrone said Wednesday the two have a good relationship.

"Jalen and I have always had a good, open relationship where we've always been able to talk," Marrone said. "We sat down yesterday and we talked about what's gone on as far as he and I. It's like anything else in this profession: It's behind us now. His focus is on playing and doing the best job for his teammates and my job is to do the best for the team."

FRISCO, Texas -- The Dallas Cowboys have released former first-round pick Taco Charlton.

With the roster exemption for Robert Quinn's return expiring Wednesday, the Cowboys opted to cut ties with Charlton despite being on the hook for more than $1.8 million in guaranteed base salary over the next two years.

On Monday, Charlton posted -- and then deleted -- "Free me" on Twitter. He then tweeted, "Trust me the last thing I want to do is have to go to social media to get what I want so I can play football again."

The Cowboys had trade discussions with teams for Charlton, but nothing that prompted them to make a deal. Charlton was not on the field during the open portion of practice to the media Wednesday.

Charlton is one of the rare failed first-round picks the Cowboys have made in the past decade. In 2012, the Cowboys moved up to the sixth pick in the draft to select cornerback Morris Claiborne, and he never had more than one interception in his five seasons.

Charlton, the 28th overall pick in 2017, had four sacks in 27 games (seven starts) but was inactive for the first two games of this season. He had been a healthy scratch in four of the past six games, dating to the end of the 2018 regular season.

He was not able to find a consistent role in the rotation used by defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli. Last year, Charlton missed three games because of a shoulder injury that required offseason surgery. He also had ankle surgery.

After a slow start to camp, he had two sacks this preseason but faced a numbers crunch with the Cowboys liking the work of last year's fourth-round pick, Dorance Armstrong, and this year's fifth-round pick, Joe Jackson, because of their versatility.

If Charlton is claimed by another team, the Cowboys would not owe him the guaranteed money. If he goes unclaimed and signs with another team at a lower salary, the Cowboys would be on the hook for the difference in the guaranteed money.

Quinn practiced for the first time Wednesday since returning from his two-game suspension for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. He suffered a broken hand in training camp, but that has healed and the expectation is he will play Sunday against his former team, the Miami Dolphins.

He said he worked out for four hours a day during his suspension, not far from the Cowboys' headquarters. Quinn added that his surgically repaired hand has healed well enough to where he hopes not to need extra padding.

"If you ask a man what he can and cannot do, I'm sure he's going to tell you he can do everything," Quinn said. "If they need me to play 50, 60 snaps, that's what I have to do. You look at our D-line, we've got depth. We've got people who can play every position. At the end of the day, I'm just looking to help this team win. If it takes 10 plays or 50 plays, I just want to win."

That his return is coming against the team that traded him to Dallas in the offseason does not matter, according to Quinn.

"A lot of the guys are gone," Quinn said when asked whether he has contacted any of his former teammates. "It's kind of crazy what's going on. I kind of broke it down like this way: I think Coach [Brian] Flores is doing his thing, same thing [Jon] Gruden's doing. He's putting his team together. However you want go about it, that's how he's going about it.

"... I'm not in the building, so who cares? Again, he's the head coach. He can do what he wants. At the end of the day, like I said, you've seen one coach do it, don't knock another coach for doing the same thing. That's what it is."

The Cowboys could be without defensive end Tyrone Crawford on Sunday because of recurring hip issues that limited his work over the summer. Crawford did not practice Wednesday.