Month: April 2022

9:56 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Pep Guardiola said he will not be affected by the pressure ahead of Manchester City‘s title showdown with Liverpool and insists he will “sleep like a baby” ahead of the meeting at the Etihad Stadium. Guardiola also joked he’s annoyed with the Premier League for scheduling the game at 4.30
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10:03 AM ET Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel revealed on Friday he gave his players a stern dressing down to stop the team’s slump in form from wrecking their season. Chelsea travel to Southampton on Saturday aiming to end a difficult week on a high after last weekend’s 4-1 Premier League loss to Brentford was
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9:46 AM ET Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo will return for their Premier League clash with Everton after overcoming illness but defender Luke Shaw will be unavailable for up to three weeks, interim manager Ralf Rangnick said on Friday. Ronaldo, United’s top goalscorer this season with 12 league goals, will be back after missing their
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1:16 PM ET Atlanta United FC striker Josef Martinez is sidelined six-to-eight weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, the club announced Friday. Martinez had ACL surgery on the same knee and missed all but one game in 2020 before returning for the next season. – MLS on ESPN+: Stream LIVE games, replays–
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8:17 AM ET Teams from Liga MX, Major League Soccer (MLS) and the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and others have formed a coalition to eliminate anti-gay abuse from soccer, the group said on Friday. Play Proud United will bring together Angel City FC, Chicago Fire, Philadelphia Union, San Diego Wave FC and Tigres to
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10:18 AM ET Cristina Alexander Virginia Torrecilla’s first game back was a heavy defeat to Barcelona, but neither team cared about the result. They were just happy to see the Atletico midfielder back on the field. Angel Martinez/Getty Images Two years ago, Virginia Torrecilla, now 27, was living life to the fullest as a professional soccer
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6:14 AM ET Jurgen Klopp has likened Liverpool‘s rivalry with Manchester City to the competition between tennis legends Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal. Liverpool meet City on Sunday in a top-of-the-table Premier League clash that will likely play a key role in deciding the outcome of the title race. A City victory would give them
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7:25 AM ET AS Roma captain Lorenzo Pellegrini said that Bodo/Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen attacked a member of his club’s staff after the Italian side’s 2-1 Europa Conference League defeat in Norway on Thursday. After the quarterfinal first-leg defeat, on the ground where Roma suffered an humiliating 6-1 loss in the group stages back in
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6:02 PM ET Cesar Hernandez Despite being friends with LAFC‘s Carlos Vela since their academy days with Chivas, the LA Galaxy‘s Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez won’t hold back against his countryman in Saturday’s El Trafico. “I love him, I admire him, but then when the whistle goes, he’s no one for me,” said Hernandez in a
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12:58 PM ET A group of U.S. cryptocurrency investors, including Philadelphia 76ers’ president of basketball operations Daryl Morey, have completed a takeover of English fourth-tier club Crawley Town, currently 13th in League Two. WAGMI United, led by co-founders Preston Johnson — a former ESPN gambling analyst — and Eben Smith — a former derivatives trader
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3:16 PM ET Wayne Rooney has responded after his former Manchester United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo called him “jealous” following Rooney’s criticisms of Ronaldo’s return to Old Trafford during an appearance on Sky Sports earlier this week. Rooney’s response: Who isn’t jealous of the five-time Ballon d’Or winner? “There’s probably not a football player on the
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