Month: May 2021

4:55 PM ET Barcelona cruised to the Women’s Champions League title on Sunday. Boris Streubel – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images Barcelona put on a brilliant display to beat Chelsea 4-0 to win the Women’s Champions League final for the first time in the club’s history on Sunday. Coming into the game full of confidence after winning
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4:28 PM ET Lionel Messi’s contract with Barcelona runs out at the end of June. AP Photo/Joan Monfort Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman hopes Lionel Messi hasn’t played his last game for the club at Camp Nou but conceded the forward has not had enough support this season. Messi scored his 30th league goal of the campaign
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2:31 PM ET Barcelona fell to an unlikely defeat against Celta Vigo. David Ramos/Getty Images Barcelona‘s hopes of winning La Liga ended as they suffered a shock 2-1 defeat against Celta Vigo on Sunday. That result, coupled with Real Madrid‘s 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid‘s 2-1 win over Osasuna, means Barca fall seven
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10:55 AM ET Tottenham kept their faint hopes of Champions League qualification alive after a 2-0 home win against Wolves on Sunday. Harry Kane and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg scored in either half to move Spurs within five points of fourth-placed Chelsea with two games remaining. – Stream LIVE games and replays on ESPN+ (U.S. only) Kane’s
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1:30 PM ET Goalkeeper Alisson scored a last-gasp winner to boost Liverpool‘s chances of Champions League qualification with a 2-1 win at West Brom on Sunday. Mohamed Salah cancelled out Hal Robson-Kanu‘s opener in the first half but Alisson grabbed a late header from a corner to score late and close the gap on fourth-placed
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9:37 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said Harry Maguire is “positive” about his chances of making the Europa League final. The England defender is recovering from an ankle ligament injury and is set to miss the final two Premier League games against Fulham and Wolves. – Stream ESPN FC
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1:13 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Just after midnight on Tuesday night, Barcelona‘s players silently boarded a bus waiting outside the Ciutat de Valencia, knowing it was over, another opportunity wasted. Just before midnight on Wednesday night, fireworks exploded in the sky outside the Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid fans who had followed the game from the
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4:11 PM ET LONDON — Stretched above the majority of Leicester supporters, housed in a semi-circle behind the Wembley goal into which Youri Tielemans unleashed a majestic 25-yard strike to beat Chelsea 1-0 in the FA Cup final, was a banner bearing the image of the club’s deceased owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Thirteen words accompanied his
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9:45 PM ET Marcelino Moreno‘s header off a long cross from Jake Mulraney in the second minute of second-half stoppage time secured host Atlanta United a dramatic 1-0 victory over CF Montreal on Saturday night. Atlanta scored only its third goal in its past three games and prevailed for the second time this season, with
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12:45 AM ET North Korea has officially pulled out of qualification for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Mike Hewitt – FIFA North Korea has pulled out of next month’s qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, the Asian Football Confederation confirmed on Sunday. The move comes after the country had already withdrawn from
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3:47 PM ET Spotify owner Daniel Ek claims he has had a takeover bid for Arsenal rejected by club owners Kroenke Sports Enterprises. Ek is leading a consortium including former Gunners players Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Dennis Bergkamp seeking to capitalise on fan unrest and the collapse of the Super League. 2 Related KSE
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10:35 AM ET Steven Gerrard’s Rangers side became only the second team to win the Scottish Premiership and go a full season without losing a game after the champions beat Aberdeen 4-0 at home on the final day on Saturday. Rangers won all 19 of their home games at Ibrox and equalled the league record
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9:30 AM ET Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is out of Sweden‘s plans for this summer’s European Championship due to a knee injury sustained while playing for AC Milan against Juventus, Sweden boss Janne Andersson has said. Ibrahimovic came out of international retirement in March after an absence of almost five years from the national team, and
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11:33 AM ET Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski equalled Gerd Muller’s 49-year-old German league goal record when he scored with a 26th minute penalty in their 2-2 draw at Freiburg to take his season tally to 40 goals. The striker is already second on the all-time scorers list in the Bundesliga, with 276 goals, behind
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11:43 AM ET Champions League hopefuls Eintracht Frankfurt crashed to a 4-3 defeat at relegated Schalke on Saturday to all but dash their hopes of a top-four finish with one game left in the season. Frankfurt are in fifth place on 57 points, with Borussia Dortmund fourth on 58 and in action against Mainz on
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