Premier League leaders Liverpool needed Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s second-half equaliser to secure a 2-2 draw at Aston Villa on Wednesday that lifted them eight points clear at the top. Liverpool had the incentive of opening up a 10-point lead with a victory and led through Mohamed Salah‘s 28th-minute opener before Villa turned the game on its
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Inter Miami CF kicked off its 2025 campaign with a 1-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City in the first leg of the first round of the Concacaf Champions Cup at Children’s Mercy Park. Though Concacaf postponed the game by 24 hours to Wednesday night because of the winter storm that brought heavy snow to Kansas
Kylian Mbappé said he wants to “define an era” at Real Madrid after scoring a hat trick in their 3-1 Champions League win over Manchester City on Wednesday, but insisted his season should be judged on trophies, not goals. Mbappé opened the scoring in the fourth minute at the Santiago Bernabéu before adding a second
Real Madrid beat Manchester City 3-1 with a Kylian Mbappé hat trick on Wednesday in their Champions League playoff second leg at a raucous Santiago Bernabeu stadium, earning them a 6-3 aggregate victory and a place in the last 16. Last year’s champions will face either Bayer Leverkusen or city rivals Atletico Madrid, depending on
Open Extended Reactions Manchester United‘s co-owners INEOS are in talks with Tottenham Hotspur to end their sponsorship agreement with the club earlier than planned, sources have told ESPN. The petrochemicals giant – which owns 28.9% of United – signed a five-year deal with Spurs in 2022 to promote a 4×4 Grenadier car with the company’s
Open Extended Reactions Last Tuesday night, after Paris Saint-Germain wrapped up a convincing 3-0 win over Brest in their UEFA Champions League knockout phase playoff first-leg at Guingamp, Ousmane Dembélé, who had just scored a brace in the game, was still a bit grumpy. When I bumped into him right by the PSG dressing room,
Feb 19, 2025, 08:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ademola Lookman has hit back at Gian Piero Gasperini’s criticism of his penalty miss during Atalanta‘s 3-1 Champions League defeat to Club Brugge, saying that being singled out by his coach “not only hurts but feels deeply disrespectful.” Lookman, who scored Atalanta’s only goal on the
Feb 19, 2025, 03:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Raphaël Varane had a tense relationship with former Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag. Getty Raphaël Varane has said he was “surprised” by the Manchester United‘s hierachy’s decision to offer Erik ten Hag a new contract last summer as his bond with the squad was deeply fractured
Associated Press Feb 18, 2025, 07:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A kiss and a gesture to the badge. Alphonso Davies finally showed Bayern Munich some love on Tuesday when his goal sent the Bavarian powerhouse into the last 16 of the Champions League. The Canada wing back bundled the ball over the line in
ESPN News Services Feb 18, 2025, 05:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AC Milan looked to be in control of their Champions League destiny at home to Feyenoord on Tuesday before the sending off of Theo Hernández turned the playoff on its head although coach Sérgio Conceição refused to blame the defender for their exit.
Open Extended Reactions Pep Guardiola has hinted he has little sympathy for Jude Bellingham and Real Madrid after the midfielder’s LaLiga sending off for swearing, claiming that referees should be “left in peace.” Bellingham scored the winning goal in Madrid’s 3-2 win against Manchester City in last week’s Champions League playoff tie at the Etihad
Feyenoord knocked AC Milan out of the Champions League as they recovered to draw 1-1 with a goal by Julián Carranza on Tuesday for a 2-1 aggregate playoff win to earn a place in the Champions League round of 16, with the hosts having Theo Hernández sent off. Milan took less than a minute to
Lizzy Becherano Feb 18, 2025, 12:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Miami‘s Major League Soccer season opener against New York City FC will now be played on Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. ET at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after originally being scheduled to kick off at 2:30 p.m. ET. The decision to
Graham HunterFeb 18, 2025, 05:00 AM ET Close Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Open Extended Reactions A great deal of the past few days in LaLiga has been taken up with the subject of Real Madrid‘s Jude Bellingham and how to
Feb 18, 2025, 03:16 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Club Brugge coach Nicky Hayen has said he would be talking to his dead mother before Tuesday’s second leg of their Champions League playoff against Atalanta, keeping up a pre-match ritual he feels helps him. “Before the match I always talk to my mother, who passed
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Feb 18, 2025, 12:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has said that coach Carlo Ancelotti has lost his temper with the team “a few times” during their rollercoaster season so far. Madrid are second in LaLiga — level on points with leaders Barcelona — and face
Open Extended Reactions If you don’t shoot, you don’t score. It’s a basic mantra you probably heard from your under-8s coach. Well, there are 139 players in the Premier League alone who shoot more than the center forward of Manchester United. That’s right: One hundred one footballers who have played as many minutes or more
Adriana Garcia Feb 17, 2025, 08:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mexico forward Santi Giménez has said he is playing well because of the confidence the coaching staff, teammates and fans at AC Milan are giving him. Giménez, 23, scored for the second league match in a row in Sunday’s 1-0 win against Hellas Verona.
Feb 17, 2025, 02:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FC Cincinnati acquired All-Star Brazilian midfielder Evander from the Portland Timbers on Monday in exchange for $12 million. The Timbers retained a future sell-on and trade percentage and could receive up to an additional $150,000 if certain performance metrics are reached. Evander, 26, recorded 15 goals
Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Feb 17, 2025, 09:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Real Madrid executives met with the head of Spain’s refereeing body on Monday, after the club filed a formal complaint over the referee’s decisions in their 1-0 LaLiga defeat at Espanyol earlier this month. Madrid were furious at referee Alejando Muñiz Ruiz