Month: March 2024

Mar 17, 2024, 02:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester City will continue their pursuit of an eighth FA Cup when they play Chelsea in the semifinal stage of this season’s competition. In the other semifinal, Manchester United were rewarded with a tie against Championship side Coventry City, having edged past Liverpool in an exhilarating
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Open Extended Reactions Mauricio Pochettino has urged Chelsea fans to show “unconditional” support and trust his judgement after many supporters criticised his decision-making and the performance of Raheem Sterling during Sunday’s FA Cup quarterfinal win over Leicester City. Chelsea required two goals in stoppage-time to win 4-2 at Stamford Bridge as substitutes Carney Chukwuemeka and
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Christian Pulisic scored a fourth straight game as AC Milan earned a 3-1 win at Hellas Verona in Serie A on Sunday, moving three points clear of third-placed Juventus. Left back Theo Hernández opened the scoring just before half-time when he drilled the ball home from a tight angle before Pulisic doubled Milan’s lead at
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Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane bagged a record-breaking 31st league goal and Jamal Musiala added two more in the side’s 5-2 demolition of hosts Darmstadt 98 on Saturday that moved the champions provisionally to within seven points of leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. Kane put Bayern, who face Arsenal in the Champions League quarterfinals
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Mar 16, 2024, 04:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Tottenham captain Son Heung-Min said the players needed to “look in the mirror” after an “unacceptable” 3-0 loss at Fulham cast doubt on their Premier League top four credentials on Saturday. Victory would have put them ahead of Aston Villa into the guaranteed Champions League berths
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Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentMar 16, 2024, 09:19 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions FC Cincinnati temporarily revoked the press credential of local beat reporter Laurel Pfahler following a dispute over her reporting of some of the club’s player transactions, sources told ESPN.
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Mar 16, 2024, 09:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lionel Messi‘s leg muscle injury will be evaluated “week by week,” Inter Miami boss Gerardo “Tata” Martino said after the Argentine star sat out Saturday’s win at D.C. United. It was the second straight MLS game that Messi has missed. He was held out of Sunday’s
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Luis Suárez scored twice as a substitute in the second half to help Inter Miami overcome the absence of star Lionel Messi in a 3-1 victory over D.C. United on Saturday in Washington. Leonardo Campana collected a goal and an assist for Inter Miami (3-1-1, 10 points), who played their second straight MLS match without Messi.
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Jeff Kassouf Mar 16, 2024, 06:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Current ushered in the grand opening of CPKC Stadium, the first stadium built specifically for a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team, in style on Saturday, defeating the Portland Thorns 5-4 in a match that tied a
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Holders Manchester City became the first team in history to reach six consecutive FA Cup semifinals, thanks to two deflected strikes from Bernardo Silva that gave them a 2-0 win over a lacklustre Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. City took the lead in the 13th minute when a Silva shot took a wicked deflection
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Wrexham’s promotion hopes experienced a setback on Saturday as they succumbed to a 1-0 defeat to Tranmere Rovers at the STōK Cae Ras. The League Two club, owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, had been expected to beat their cross-border rivals but a combination of wasteful finishing and a heroic goalkeeping perfomance from Tranmere’s Luke
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Runaway LaLiga leaders Real Madrid continued their march towards the title with an easy 4-2 victory away at Osasuna on Saturday, with Vinícius Júnior scoring a brace. Madrid are alone at the league summit with 72 points, 10 ahead of second-placed Girona who face Getafe away later on Saturday. Osasuna are 10th with 36 points.
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Championship side Coventry City stunned Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 with two injury-time goals in their FA Cup quarterfinal on Saturday, as United States men’s national team forward Haji Wright‘s strike booked his side’s place in the semifinals for the first time since 1987. Coventry’s Ellis Simms opened the scoring at the Molineux Stadium in the 53rd
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Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Mar 16, 2024, 10:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández has said Paris Saint-Germain‘s finances make them favourites in their Champions League quarterfinal tie after the Spanish and French champions were pitted against each other in Friday’s draw. Barça will travel to Paris for the first leg on
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Associated Press Mar 16, 2024, 07:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions FIFA raised president Gianni Infantino’s base salary by 33% last year to make his total pay package worth more than $4.67 million, world football’s governing body said in its financial report released Friday. Infantino was re-elected unopposed in March 2023 to extend his presidency
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Associated Press Mar 15, 2024, 10:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HARRISON, N.J. — Alex Morgan scored in the 88th minute and the San Diego Wave won the Challenge Cup with a 1-0 victory over Gotham FC on Friday night in the National Women’s Soccer League. Morgan started the second half as a substitute. She
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