Diego Costa scored four goals and was later sent off as Real Madrid were beaten 7-3 by city rivals Atletico, leaving Zidane 'hurt' but 'not concerned' at the result.

MLS ALL-STARS 0-3 ATLETICO MADRID: The Spanish giants beat the All-Stars on Wednesday, with Llorente, £114m summer signing Felix and Costa finding the net in the rout in Orlando.

Atletico Madrid have been hit with a setback after in-form striker Alvaro Morata was ruled out of the upcoming match with Eibar due to a knee injury.

Costa played up front with Griezmann for a season and a half under Diego Simeone's stewardship and believes the want-away Frenchman left the club for the right reasons.

The 30-year-old is generating interest and Al Rayyan see Costa as a viable alternative to Juventus forward Mario Mandzukic, after talks broke down to acquire the Croatian this summer.

While Atletico are still keeping pace with La Liga's top two, their performances have left fans frustrated with three of their last four league games ending as goalless stalemates.

The Portuguese star underwent X-ray and MRI scans at a local hospital and the club later confirmed that their mega-money summer signing has suffered a Grade 2 ankle sprain.

Trippier has made a positive start to life at the La Liga giants so far and has fitted in well in Diego Simeone's squad - striking up a great connection with Costa, who he knows from his Premier League days.

Manchester United decided to let Romelu Lukaku leave in the summer without bringing in a replacement, although they are expected to snap a striker up in the January transfer window.

Diego Costa is mulling over the option of a return to his homeland, after reportedly entering talks with Copa Libertadores champions Flamengo.

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Atletico are eight points off the lead in La Liga, on Thursday night they were dumped out of the Copa del Rey by a third division side and Liverpool loom on the horizon in Europe.

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Atletico Madrid have no hope of winning the league title and struggle to score. So Tuesday's showdown with Liverpool is the most important match of their season.

Saul Niguez gave the hosts the lead in the fourth minute and defended well to keep out a dominant Liverpool in the second half. DOMINIC KING was there to rate the players' performances.

Former Chelsea goalkeeper Marcin Bulka has recalled a bizarre incident involving a Diego Costa and Nathaniel Chalobah. Bulka rose through the Chelsea ranks before moving to PSG.

The 31-year-old ignored requests for an interview after the Spanish side had completed a 4-2 victory on aggregate against Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday night.

As Liverpool saw their Champions League title defence ended in dramatic fashion by Atletico Madrid at Anfield, Jurgen Klopp fumed at the style of his opponents. Sportsmail looks at where it was lost.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: For the first time in 30 years, Liverpool are the champions. We knew that already and it looks now as though the coronavirus has confirmed it.

IAN LADYMAN: Football has a bigger heart and much greater intelligence than many may think and during this tricky time we are beginning to see it but the game needs to do more to publicise it.

Kim Yo-jong (left) sat alongside her brother and his wife at North Korea's mass games in Pyongyang, the first time she has been seen in 50 days following reports she was sent to a labour camp.

President Donald Trump said North Korea's special representative to the U.S. for nuclear negotiations had not been assassinated and said he looks forward to meeting again with Kim Jong-un.

The North Korean mass games are a spectacle of gymnastic synchronisation believed to be the world's 'biggest human performance' held at Rungrado, reportedly the world's biggest stadium.

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg vowed that he wouldn't write 'love letters' on White House letterhead to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if he became president - a jab at Donald Trump.

In one shot,  locals enjoy a feast of wine and biscuits, in another a local dignitary is carried through a provincial village.

The magnitude 1.3 quake took place in the Chinese city of Hunchun at 19:38pm local time today with a focal depth of zero metres, reported China seismic network.

Alex Sigley, a 29-year-old student of Korean Literature at Kim Il Sung University, has been arrested and the Australian government is frantically trying to work out why.

Alek Sigley's wife Yuka Morinaga said she received her last message from him on Monday. The 26-year-old, who is based in Tokyo, usually speaks to Mr Sigley every day on WhatsApp.

North Korea has released its own smartphone which is incapable of connecting to foreign WiFi. The Pyongyang 2425 handset can only access state-run 'Mirae' WiFi, an intranet network.

Perth man Alek Sigley, missing in North Korea, may have been silenced ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to the demilitarized zone, an expert said on Friday.

President Trump still isn't saying for certain he will meet Kim Jong-un at the DMZ, just hours before he takes his trip there.

Carlson watched the notoriously heavy smoker speaking to Trump as Kim welcomed the US president into North Korea - the first ever to ever set foot in the secretive state.

Two Bradley Fighting vehicles were seen being driven past the Nationals' baseball stadium on Tuesday. Two M1 Abrams tanks and an armored M88 recovery unit will be at the 'Salute to America' event.

Donald Trump is closing down Washington D.C.'s airspace for his 'biggest fireworks ever' and Air Force One flyby, causing two hours of delays and cancellations for July 4 travelers in the capital.

Donald Trump promised the 'show of a lifetime' for the Fourth of July and said the cost of his extravaganza will 'be very little compared to what it is worth' as questions arise about the final tally.

An Australian student was freed from the clutches of North Korea after a colourful Swedish politician urged the hermit kingdom to let him go.

The Australian student's business partner, Michelle Joyce, said she would 'be surprised' if he didn't return to the country despite the negative experience.

Kim's eagerness to meet Trump in the DMZ that divides North and South Korea contrasted with the picture that Pyongyang paints of a powerful and proactive leader, a source told Korean media.

Alek Sigley, 29, landed in China safe and well on Thursday after spending nine days detained in the communist country.

Choe In-guk - the son of former South Korean foreign minister Choe Dok-shin who defected in 1986 - was filmed arriving in Pyongyang on Saturday where he pledged allegiance to Kim Jong-un.

Starting in Rotterdam, the two Maybach S600s took a four-month route across five countries before it is thought they were flown to North Korea from Russia, before Kim Jong-un took a ride in one (pictured).

The Beijing-backed company, which has been blacklisted in the U.S. over fears of its possible role in Chinese espionage, is said to have worked on a range of projects in the secretive state over eight years.

The two missiles were launched from the coastal city of Wonsan into the Sea of Japan early on Wednesday, almost exactly a week after a similar test in the same location (file image).

Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the test of a 'new-type tactical guided weapon' on Tuesday, North Korean state media said, which was meant as 'a warning' to the US and South Korea.

Donald Trump said South Korea has agreed to pay the U.S. 'a lot more money' for protection after North Korea's Kim Jong-Un conducted a series of missile tests over the past two weeks.

The latest launch comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had received a 'very beautiful letter' from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system today, seen as an attempt to build leverage ahead of negotiations with the United States.

The UN banned luxury goods from entering North Korea to punish the rogue state for its nuclear weapons tests, with luxury watches among the specific items named.

Japan's military last year said it was 'possible' that North Korea had achieved miniaturisation, but Tokyo now appears to have upgraded its assessment (pictured, a recent North Korean weapons test).

Jacob Bogle, a researcher from the US, analysed satellite images of North Korea taken since 2003 and found that a uranium plant at Pyongsan appears to be leaking waste into a nearby river.

The Russian-American businessman, 53, was an invaluable FBI source who helped the US government 'combat terrorists', a letter filed by prosecutors in 2009 and unsealed on Friday reveals.

The Coast Guard says the short-range projectiles did not reach Japanese waters or the  Exclusive Economic Zone.