Month: September 2023

LONDON — Jurgen Klopp has spent recent years talking about Liverpool‘s “mentality monsters,” but Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham are emerging as the Reds’ rival for the billing as the team with the greatest fighting spirit in the Premier League. Make no mistake: Liverpool still possess the formidable never-say-die attitude that has seen the team win every
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Tottenham Hotspur left it late to down nine-man Liverpool 2-1 and had an own goal by Joel Matip to thank for their stoppage-time win as the defender turned the ball home to leave Spurs second in the Premier League behind Manchester City on Saturday. Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool had gamely battled to try to take home
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Hwang Hee-chan scored the winner as Wolves ended champions Manchester City‘s perfect start to the Premier League season with a shock 2-1 home win on Saturday. The defeat at Molineux was City’s second loss in five days, after Newcastle United dumped them out of the Carabao Cup, and dashed the leaders’ hopes of stretching their
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Manchester United slumped to their fourth defeat of the Premier League season as an early Joachim Anderson strike earned Crystal Palace a 1-0 win at Old Trafford on Saturday. Having tasted defeat in their previous home league match, against Brighton, the below-par hosts again found themselves behind in the 25th minute as Anderson arrowed into the
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A hat-trick from England forward Ollie Watkins fired Aston Villa to a sensational 6-1 thrashing of high-flying Brighton in the Premier League on Saturday. Brighton travelled to the Midlands having only lost once in the league all season, but they were put to the sword by a rampant Villa side in the first half, with a
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Sep 30, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Chelsea have confirmed a shirt sponsorship deal with sports technology company Infinite Athlete until the end of the 2023-24 season in a deal worth a reported £40 million ($49m). The west London club started the campaign without a shirt sponsor following the expiry of a deal with telecoms group
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Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou has said that Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp revolutionised English football by taking the Premier League‘s intensity to another level. The new Spurs boss prepares to host Klopp’s Liverpool team on Saturday, aiming to extend a promising unbeaten run which has seen them take 14 points from their opening six league games.
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Sep 29, 2023, 09:45 AM ET Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino has said that defender Ben Chilwell suffered a “bad injury” during the team’s Carabao Cup win against Brighton on Wednesday. The west London club, who have won just once in the Premier League so far this season, secured a much-needed victory in the Carabao
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Sep 29, 2023, 06:50 PM ET Jamaican women’s national soccer team coach Lorne Donaldson will not renew his contract with the team, the country’s football federation said on Friday. Jamaica‘s ‘Reggae Girlz’ reached the knockout phase for the first time in their second appearance at the tournament in Australia and New Zealand but lost to
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Barcelona moved provisionally top of LaLiga with a 1-0 home win over Sevilla on Friday after veteran defender Sergio Ramos accidentally bundled the ball into his own net in the second half. Ramos, a former Real Madrid captain playing his old rivals Barcelona again for the first time since 2020, was helpless when he attempted
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Associated Press Sep 29, 2023, 06:18 PM ET RB Leipzig parted ways with its sporting director Max Eberl on Friday citing a “failure to commit to the club” amid speculation linking him with Bayern Munich. The decision came a day before Leipzig plays Bayern in the Bundesliga. Leipzig said Eberl had been “relieved … of
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Rob Dawson, CorrespondentSep 29, 2023, 05:30 PM ET Erik ten Hag has admitted Lisandro Martínez played when he “was not 100% fit” before the Manchester United defender suffered a recurrence of the foot injury which cut short last season. Martinez missed the end of last season after fracturing a bone in his right foot in
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Rob Dawson, CorrespondentSep 29, 2023, 08:19 AM ET Manchester United defender Lisandro Martínez is expected to be out for around two months after suffering a recurrence of the foot injury which he originally picked up in April. Martinez missed the end of last season with the injury and re-aggravated the problem in defeats to Brighton
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Cesar Hernandez Sep 29, 2023, 02:39 PM ET Inter Miami star Lionel Messi leads the list of the highest-selling MLS jerseys in 2023, the league announced on Friday. The list was based on sales made on MLS’ online store from Jan. 1 through Sept. 12, with the 36-year-old World Cup winner coming out on top
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Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Sep 29, 2023, 12:54 PM ET Sevilla‘s directors will boycott Friday’s LaLiga match against Barcelona on Friday after the Catalan club were charged with suspected bribery. The charges relate to payments worth more than €7 million ($7.3m) made to companies linked to the former vice president of the refereeing committee, José
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Ross Devonport Sep 29, 2023, 09:59 AM ET FORT LAUDERDALE — Lionel Messi trained Friday morning but will be a game-time decision once again for Inter Miami due to a nagging leg injury as it faces a key home MLS matchup Saturday against New York City FC. Assistant coach Javier Morales also said Friday that
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Tor-Kristian Karlsen, ESPNSep 29, 2023, 04:00 AM ET Warren Zaire-Emery has made himself a regular first-team player at PSG now. Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty Images Welcome back to the ESPN FC hotlist, which each month highlights some of the most in-form talent aged 23 or under across Europe. Generally, young but established stars like Manchester City‘s Erling
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