Month: November 2020

7:27 AM ET Bundesliga club Schalke plunged into further chaos on Tuesday after they sacked their technical director, suspended two players from the first team and parted ways with a third player who joined before the start of the season. Germany’s third-biggest club are without a win in 24 league games and sit at the
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5:00 AM ET Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi resume their rivalry after being named on the shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s Player award, world football’s governing body announced on Wednesday. Bayern Munich‘s treble-winning Robert Lewandowski will battle it out with Juventus star Ronaldo and Barcelona‘s Messi after finishing as top goal scorer in the
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5:33 AM ET Borussia Dortmund forward Jadon Sancho has said he experienced a “hard” spell at the club after being linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer. Sancho, 20, has been far from impressive in some matches this season, leading to speculation that the United transfer saga, which dragged on until October,
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5:37 PM ET Juventus progressed to the Champions League last 16 after a Cristiano Ronaldo goal and a stoppage-time header from substitute Alvaro Morata gave them a comeback 2-1 home win over Hungarians Ferencvaros on Tuesday. The result left Juve second in Group G on nine points from four games, three behind leaders Barcelona who
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2:56 PM ET Chelsea qualified for the Champions League round of 16 with a dramatic 2-1 victory at Rennes on Tuesday night. The result puts Frank Lampard’s men top of Group E with 10 points from four matches, level with Sevilla who defeated Krasnodar in Russia, and nine ahead of Krasnodar and Rennes in the
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4:51 PM ET Sergino Dest became the first U.S. international to score for Barcelona in their 4-0 Champions League win over Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday night. Barcelona manager Ronald Koeman fielded a team without talisman Lionel Messi and midfielder Frenkie de Jong, with both players staying behind in Spain to rest due to a massive
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5:28 AM ET Adriana Garcia Zlatan Ibrahimovic has hit out at EA Sports and said his name and image rights are being used in FIFA 21 without his consent. The AC Milan forward said he does not have an agreement with the company nor has he received any income from it over the use of
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9:14 AM ET Jurgen Klopp has defended Roberto Firmino‘s position in the Liverpool team and said the Brazilian forward “plays twelve instruments in our orchestra” amid criticism of his goal output for the Premier League champions. Firmino is expected to line-up alongside a fit again Mohamed Salah when Liverpool face Atalanta at Anfield in the
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7:26 AM ET The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) are increasingly concerned by the prospect of hidden mental health issues within the game after identifying a decline of more than 25% in members accessing the organisation’s counselling services during the coronavirus pandemic. Since 2016, the PFA has noticed year-on-year growth in terms of its members —
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