Month: March 2022

5:55 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Paul Pogba has offered a reward for information after his home was burglarised while his children were inside during Manchester United‘s Champions League loss to Atletico Madrid. The Manchester United midfielder was informed of the incident after the final whistle at Old Trafford on Tuesday night. Pogba’s wife, Zulay, was
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5:54 PM ET Christian Pulisic scored as Chelsea claimed a 2-1 victory away to Lille on Wednesday to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals. Lille opened the scoring through a Burak Yilmaz penalty on 38 minutes to cut their aggregate deficit to 2-1, but Pulisic provided a cool finish on the stroke of half-time to
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5:55 PM ET Villarreal beat Juventus 3-0 in the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday to reach the quartetrfinals with a 4-1 victory on aggregate. Gerard Moreno scored the game’s opening goal with a penalty on 78 minutes following Daniele Rugani‘s foul on Francis Coquelin, which referee Szymon Marciniak awarded after consulting with the
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3:35 PM ET Axel Witsel scored an 87th-minute goal to give Borussia Dortmund a 1-0 victory at Mainz on Wednesday as they closed in to within four points of Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich. In a rescheduled game, postponed 10 days ago due to a large number of COVID-19 cases in the Mainz team, Belgium midfielder
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8:15 PM ET Thomas Tuchel has distanced himself from Chelsea‘s aborted request to have Saturday’s FA Cup quarterfinal at Middlesbrough played behind closed doors by insisting “it was not the very best idea.” The Blues initially asked the Football Association to play at the Riverside Stadium without supporters after being denied the chance to sell
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12:37 PM ET Kurt Zouma is set to be prosecuted by the RSPCA, it was announced on Wednesday. Mateo Villalba/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images British animal rights group the RSPCA announced their intention on Wednesday to prosecute West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma after a video emerged last month showing him kicking and slapping a cat. In
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5:23 PM ET Harry Kane netted his record 95th Premier League goal on the road in Tottenham Hotspur’s win over Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday night. The 28-year-old international, playing in his 139th match away from home in England’s top flight, took sole possession of the mark he shared with Wayne Rooney coming into
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9:00 AM ET Adriana Garcia Karim Benzema will return to a French court this summer. Photo by David S. Bustamante/Soccrates/Getty Images Karim Benzema will be tried in a French court on June 30 following his appeal against being found guilty of “complicity” in the sex-tape case against former teammate Mathieu Valbuena. The Real Madrid striker appealed
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1:59 PM ET Caitlin Murray Expansion team Angel City FC will host the North Carolina Courage for its first regular season game as the National Women’s Soccer League revealed its 2022 schedule on Wednesday. Angel City kicks off the NWSL’s 10th season on April 29 at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, where it
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6:18 AM ET Adriana Garcia The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has come under heavy criticism for human rights abuse of migrant workers building the stadium. Getty Images FIFA president Gianni Infantino believes a “strong commitment” to ensure labour reforms are fully implemented is being shown by the government in Qatar, where the World Cup will
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5:25 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Erling Haaland‘s departure from Borussia Dortmund appears to be getting closer, with Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona the frontrunners to pay the €75 million exit clause in his contract. With a remarkable scoring ratio of a goal per game (80 goals from his 80 appearances for the club in
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7:22 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent David de Gea has admitted Manchester United are “far away” from challenging in the Premier League and Champions League after being eliminated from Europe by Atletico Madrid. Atletico defeated United 1-0 at Old Trafford as the LaLiga side advanced 2-1 on aggregate and into the Champions League quarterfinals. The loss
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6:33 PM ET Associated Press A federal court in Las Vegas has signaled that the public might get a look at a Las Vegas police report compiled about Cristiano Ronaldo after a Nevada woman said in 2018 that the international soccer star raped her in 2009. U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts said in documents filed
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