Alex Kirkland, ESPN FCSep 26, 2024, 11:09 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The best Atlético Madrid teams of the past 20 years all had a great No. 9. Think of Luis Suárez, scoring 21 league goals to fire Atlético to the title in 2021, fueled by a burning desire to prove Barcelona wrong for letting
Month: September 2024
Adriana Garcia Sep 26, 2024, 09:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A Mallorca fan who used racists insults against Real Madrid forward Vinícius Júnior and Villarreal’s Samuel Chukwueze has been handed a 12-month suspended sentence by a Spanish court. LaLiga, Real Madrid and Villarreal filed a lawsuit against the supporter, who had racially insulted Vinícius
Open Extended Reactions Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said he would “say yes every day of the week” if asked by Manchester United to return to Old Trafford as manager. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Solskjaer, 51, has been out of management since being fired by United in November 2021 after almost three years in charge having
Multiple Contributors Sep 26, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There was a time when set pieces were seen as the refuge of the damned: a shortcut to competitiveness for inferior teams seeking a goal threat to supplement their defensive gameplan. Elite sides considered them an afterthought, an addendum to their footballing philosophy. Now,
ESPN News Services Sep 25, 2024, 05:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Premier League champions Manchester City will travel to Tottenham Hotspur for their fourth-round Carabao Cup clash, while 10-times champions Liverpool visit Brighton. Following the conclusion of Arsenal‘s and Liverpool’s 5-1 home victories against Bolton and West Ham respectively, the fourth-round draw revealed the
Adriana Garcia Sep 26, 2024, 04:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Dorados de Sinaloa defender Luis Ruiz has been suspended for three months by Mexico’s Football Federation (FMF) for causing a serious injury to Atlante player Christian Bermudez. The Atlante attacking midfielder suffered a double fracture in his right lower leg following Ruiz’s violent tackle
LAFC celebrate with the US Open Cup trophy. Michael Owens/USSF/Getty Images for USSF Omar Campos and Kei Kamara scored in extra time and Los Angeles FC won the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup for the first time with a 3-1 win over Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday night. Olivier Giroud also scored for LAFC, which
Sep 25, 2024, 07:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Getafe‘s Nigerian midfielder Christantus Uche has criticised LaLiga referees for failing to address the harsh treatment he’s received from opposition players and hit out at racist insults he said he’s been subjected to from fans. Uche, 21, is in his first season in LaLiga after joining
Lizzy Becherano Sep 26, 2024, 12:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Columbus Crew head coach Wilfried Nancy questioned the validity of Malte Amundsen‘s missed penalty kick in the Campeones Cup loss against Club América, after referee allowed the attempt to stand despite goalkeeper Luis Angel Malagón being off the goal line. “The referee did a
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentSep 25, 2024, 06:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Erik ten Hag questioned his players’ mentality after Manchester United‘s 1-1 draw with FC Twente in the Europa League by saying that the Dutch side “fought for every yard and we didn’t.” United led through Christian Eriksen‘s first-half goal, but were pegged back in
Néstor Araujo scored the deciding goal for América in a 5-4 penalty shootout victory over the Columbus Crew after a 1-1 draw in the Campeones Cup final on Wednesday night. After the Crew’s Malte Amundsen hit the crossbar with his attempt, goalkeeper Patrick Schulte couldn’t stop Araujo and América prevailed. Víctor Dávila scored in the
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Sep 25, 2024, 06:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique said Xavi Hernández’s Barcelona side played “long ball football like Eibar” in a new documentary which follows his first season in charge of the French champions. PSG played Barça in the Champions League quarterfinal last season, losing
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentSep 25, 2024, 06:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United like to think of themselves as one of Europe’s elite. A club that not only should be competing in the UEFA Champions League, but challenging to win it. Yet this season — again — they’re in the UEFA Europa
Sep 25, 2024, 02:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Fenerbahce coach Jose Mourinho said Wednesday that he did not attend the postgame news conference after Saturday’s 3-1 Istanbul derby loss to Galatasaray because he “felt disrespected” being made to wait more than an hour to speak to journalists. The loss was Fenerbahce’s first Super Lig
Sep 25, 2024, 04:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FIFA on Wednesday cautioned fans against purchasing tickets to the 2026 World Cup from “unofficial ticketing sites” in response to a request for comment from ESPN about speculative ticketing from resale ticket websites in the United States and Mexico. Individual tickets for the upcoming World Cup
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Sep 25, 2024, 11:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Former Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny has said he will listen to Barcelona‘s offer to come out of retirement after the Catalan club made him their top target to replace the injured Marc-André ter Stegen. ESPN revealed earlier this week that Barça would
Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterSep 25, 2024, 12:03 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions WREXHAM, Wales — The football club started and continues at The Turf. It is where
Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterSep 25, 2024, 04:54 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Varane suffered a knee injury on his debut for Serie A side Como. Image Photo Agency/Getty
Gabriele Marcotti, Senior Writer, ESPN FCSep 25, 2024, 09:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Two things are pretty obvious when it comes to the question of whether top footballers play too many games, and whether they ought to consider strike action. One is that this isn’t “workers vs. owners” or “us vs. them” — it’s
Sep 25, 2024, 03:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester City have confirmed that midfielder Rodri suffered a “ligament” injury in his right knee during Sunday’s draw with Arsenal. As reported by ESPN on Monday, initial scans pointed towards an ACL tear that would likely rule the Spain midfielder out for the rest of the
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