Month: September 2020

2:55 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. The NWSL announced Monday that the fall series game between the Portland Thorns and OL Reign has been postponed a second time because of air quality concerns in the Portland area. The
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9:19 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United fear increased competition for Jadon Sancho‘s signature next summer if they cannot prise him away from Borussia Dortmund in this transfer window, sources have told ESPN. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has not given up hope of signing Sancho, despite Dortmund insisting privately they will keep the 20-year-old for at
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11:23 AM ET A Ligue 1 discipline committee will look into allegations that Paris Saint-Germain‘s Neymar was subjected to racist abuse during their 1-0 loss against Marseille on Sunday with the league likely to launch a full investigation, sources have told ESPN. The committee is also examining the possibility of launching an investigation into allegations
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6:18 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Luis Suarez risks spending the season in the stands as he remains in a tense stand-off with Barcelona over his contract situation, sources have told ESPN. Suarez, 33, is surplus to requirements at Camp Nou and new coach Ronald Koeman informed him last month that he should look
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1:41 AM ET LAFC erupted from a long scoring drought to deliver three goals in a nine-minute stretch late in the first half to rally for a 4-2 victory over the visiting Portland Timbers on Sunday night. Mark-Anthony Kaye, Diego Rossi and Bradley Wright-Phillips all scored between the 37th minute and halftime as LAFC got
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2:43 PM ET Tottenham and Everton were only separated by Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s 55th-minute goal at the Tottenham Stadium, but the game, which finished 1-0 to the visitors, suggested there is a bigger gulf in their respective searches for identity and improvement, and that should trouble home manager Jose Mourinho. The new Premier League campaign began
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2:41 PM ET Jose Mourinho confirmed that Tottenham’s preseason preparations were hampered by multiple players testing positive for COVID-19 and believes the situation contributed to their 1-0 defeat against Everton. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Play English Soccer Pick ‘Em with ESPN Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored the only goal as Spurs lost
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12:08 PM ET Frank Lampard has said he was “amused” by Jurgen Klopp’s dig at Chelsea‘s massive spending spree and added that Liverpool‘s title success was built on a similar financial outlay. Klopp said on Thursday that Manchester City and Chelsea were more immune to the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic due to being
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5:19 PM ET Marseille beat PSG in a match marred by fighting and hard challenges. Julien de Rosa/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. . 10775752ag Olympique Marseille earned a smash-and-grab 1-0 win at Ligue 1 champions Paris St Germain after forward Florian Thauvin struck in the 31st minute of a pulsating though ill-tempered match at the Parc des Princes on Sunday.
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7:00 AM ET Manchester United and England forward Mason Greenwood has apologised and admitted to showing poor judgement after a video emerged online which shows him inhaling gas from a balloon. British media reported that the video was filmed several weeks ago and shared on social media platform Snapchat. – Insider Notebook: Greenwood, Foden face
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8:18 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Andrea Pirlo started his Juventus managerial career with a 5-0 win against Novara on Sunday in a club friendly. Two late goals from Manolo Portanova along with contributions from Cristiano Ronaldo, Aaron Ramsey and Marko Pjaca saw them easily slide by the Serie C side.
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1:23 PM ET Tottenham began their 2020-21 Premier League campaign by slumping to a 1-0 defeat against Everton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday. The result gives Jose Mourinho’s men a disappointing start to the new season, while Carlo Ancelotti’s side will be buoyed by the impressive result after a number of new signings in
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8:03 AM ET Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has accused the agent of David Alaba of being “a money-grabbing piranha” amid negotiations over a new contract and claimed Manchester United and Liverpool are “trying to blackmail” Bayern over the transfer of Thiago Alcantara. Hoeness, who stepped down at Bayern in November 2019 after more
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6:08 AM ET Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer singled out Donny van de Beek and Dean Henderson for praise after a 1-0 preseason defeat against Aston Villa on Saturday. United went down to an Ollie Watkins goal at Old Trafford. They start their Premier League campaign a week late after their involvement in the
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12:35 AM ET Diego Rubio scored his first two goals of the season to fuel the Colorado Rapids to a 5-0 victory over Real Salt Lake in Sandy, Utah, on Saturday night. This marked the first win for Colorado in three meetings with their Rocky Mountain Cup rival this season. It also snapped a seven-game
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3:29 PM ET Lionel Messi played the first half in Barcelona’s friendly win over Gimnastic. David Ramos/Getty Images Barcelona beat second-division Gimnastic de Tarragona 3-1 in a preseason friendly on Saturday, with Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembele each making encouraging returns by scoring in Ronald Koeman’s first game in charge. Lionel Messi wore the captain’s armband
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