Month: August 2020

7:57 AM ET Julien LaurensCorrespondent Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Thiago Silva will sign a two-year deal for Chelsea this week after leaving Paris Saint-Germain on a free, sources have told ESPN. The PSG captain’s contract at the French club ran out at the end of the previous campaign but he played all the
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7:32 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick hinted Thiago Alcantara had played his last game for the club following their Champions League final victory, and had a bit of fun while doing so. Thiago, 29, has one year left on his Bayern contract but is expected to
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6:58 PM ET MLS deputy commissioner Mark Abbott said that the decision to play last Thursday’s match between the Chicago Fire and Columbus Crew SC, despite a Fire player’s preliminary positive test for COVID-19, was in line with the league’s protocol. The player in question wasn’t part of Chicago’s traveling delegation that went to Columbus
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4:57 PM ET Bayern Munich won their sixth Champions League title on Sunday evening in Lisbon thanks to Kingsley Coman’s second-half header against Paris Saint-Germain. It was Bayern’s first European title since 2013 and capped a remarkable season in which they wrapped up their Treble. It was a nervy first half and despite the expectation
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4:59 PM ET Major League Soccer side Vancouver Whitecaps will earn €1 million after former player Alphonso Davies won the Champions League with Bayern Munich on Sunday. Davies, 19, helped Bayern lift their sixth Champions League trophy after they beat French champions Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Lisbon. – Stream FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)–
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8:58 PM ET Elche were promoted to La Liga by beating 10-man Girona 1-0 away thanks to a goal deep in stoppage time from Pere Milla in the Segunda Division playoff final, return leg on Sunday after the first leg had ended goalless. Milla’s header, which came after Girona’s talismanic striker Cristhian Stuani was sent
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4:51 PM ET Bayern Munich celebrated their sixth European crown on Sunday. Getty Bayern Munich won their sixth European title after defeating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the Champions League final in Lisbon on Sunday. Kingsley Coman scored a header in the 60th minute to put the German giants level with Liverpool for third-most all time in
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2:57 PM ET Reuters Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Barcelona‘s latest signing Miralem Pjanic will be unable to join up with the team for preseason for at least two weeks after the midfielder gave a positive test for the novel coronavirus, the Catalan club said on Sunday. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+
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9:19 AM ET Roberto d’Aversa has left Parma after the club finished 11 in the league last season. Photo by Enrico Locci/Getty Images Parma have dismissed coach Roberto d’Aversa three weeks after the end of the season, the Serie A club announced on Sunday. D’Aversa, 45, took charge of Parma when they were in the third-tier
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8:57 AM ET Sinisa Mihajlovic has tested positive for coronavirus. Emilio Andreoli/Getty Images Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic has tested positive for COVID-19 and will remain in isolation for the next two weeks, the Serie A club said on Sunday. Mihajlovic, 51, guided Bologna to a 12th-placed finish in the Italian top flight last season despite being
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7:33 AM ET Manchester United forward Anthony Martial has credited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after he achieved his best goalscoring tally at the club last season. Martial scored 24 goals in all competitions and finished the campaign as United’s top goalscorer. – Stream FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Insider Notebook: Arsenal, Man City battle
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10:05 PM ET Inter Miami CF had a home debut to remember, earning a 3-2 victory over Florida rival Orlando City SC on Saturday night thanks to Julian Carranza‘s first two career MLS goals and a second-half score for Rodolfo Pizarro. The win was the first for previously winless Miami (1-5-0, three points), a club
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3:22 PM ET Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe says he wants to make history for France by winning the country’s first Champions League title in 27 years in Sunday’s final against Bayern Munich. PSG beat Atalanta and RB Leipzig in the “final eight” in Lisbon, and Mbappe is feeling relaxed about the test against Bayern
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