Month: April 2022

10:46 AM ET D.C. United announced it has fired manager Hernan Losada just six games into the season. Losada’s assistant, Chad Ashton, will take over as manager on an interim basis and sources tell ESPN that he is expected to see out the remainder of the current season. Losada finishes his tenure with a record
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8:17 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United have confirmed that senior scouts Jim Lawlor and Marcel Bout have left the club. Lawlor will step down from his role as chief scout in the summer after 16 years at Old Trafford while Bout, who arrived under Dutch manager Louis van Gaal in 2014, has ended his
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7:28 AM ET Adriana Garcia Gerard Pique has been accused of acting as an intermediary in between the Spanish FA and a public Saudi Arabian sports marketing company. Joan Valls/Urbanandsport /NurPhoto via Getty Images Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales has vehemently denied that a conflict of interest exists with Barcelona defender Gerard Pique‘s company in
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3:09 PM ET Fans at Tuesday’s Premier League match between Liverpool and Manchester United honoured Cristiano Ronaldo following the death of the player’s newborn son. Ronaldo and his partner, Georgina Rodriguez, announced on social media on Monday that one of their newborn twins had died. Manchester United confirmed that Ronaldo would not travel to face
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6:32 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent LIVERPOOL, England — Ralf Rangnick insists that he believes Manchester United might only be two or three transfer windows away from catching Liverpool but judging by the latest thrashing at Anfield, the gap looks more like two or three thousand light years. After Liverpool’s 4-0 victory on Tuesday, the Premier
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7:35 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ralf Rangnick branded Manchester United‘s performance in their 4-0 defeat to Liverpool as “embarrassing, maybe even humiliating” and said as many as 10 new players might have to arrive in the club’s rebuild. United were hammered at Anfield on Tuesday night, just six months after Liverpool won 5-0 at Old
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9:45 PM ET The United States will play Mexico, Jamaica and Haiti in Group A at the CONCACAF W Championship this summer, which will determine qualifiers for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago were drawn Tuesday into Group B of the North and Central American and Caribbean tournament,
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8:39 AM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Real Madrid have a 15-point gap at the top of LaLiga with just six games remaining. Fran Santiago/Getty Images Carlo Ancelotti has said Real Madrid are “close” to winning LaLiga but insisted the race “isn’t over yet” and denied that he is thinking about the opportunity to clinch the
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5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Pep Guardiola has revealed Manchester City‘s hectic schedule is taking its toll on his players after club medical staff had to treat 71 different injuries last week. Guardiola is preparing his team for Brighton’s visit to the Etihad on Wednesday and speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, the City
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4:54 PM ET Liverpool thoroughly outclassed Manchester United at Anfield on Tuesday night, with their 4-0 win seeing them move into first in the Premier League ahead of Manchester City. The win puts Jurgen Klopp’s side on 76 points from 32 games, two ahead of Pep Guardiola’s Man City, who play their game in hand
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4:50 PM ET Fulham achieved promotion back to the Premier League on Tuesday with a 3-0 home win over Preston North End which guaranteed the London side a top-two finish in the second-tier Championship. – ESPN+ viewers’ guide: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, FA Cup, more League leaders Fulham — who were relegated from the top flight
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8:02 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said the club is not to blame for the ticket fiasco against Eintracht Frankfurt and criticised a group of supporters for re-selling their seats to German fans. Around 30,000 Frankfurt fans gained entry to Camp Nou last Thursday despite only officially receiving 5,000
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9:39 AM ET Mikel Arteta is hoping to guide Arsenal to their first Champions League qualification since 2017. Robin Jones/Getty Images Mikel Arteta has said Champions League qualification would be a “game changer” for Arsenal and insisted they can still seal a top four spot despite a dismal run of three successive defeats. Arsenal travel to
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