Leagues

Feb 17, 2025, 02:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Nabil Bentaleb suffered a heart attack in June. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images Nabil Bentaleb could not have scripted his comeback any better after the Lille midfielder marked his return to the side following a heart attack last year with a goal in Sunday’s 2-0 win at

Open Extended Reactions On loan Manchester United winger Antony scored for the third consecutive game to continue his excellent start to life in Spain as Real Betis beat nine-man Real Sociedad 3-0 on Sunday. The 24-year-old followed up strikes against Celta Vigo and Gent with a brilliant volley from just inside the box to open

Feb 16, 2025, 04:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A title race is heating up in LaLiga. With Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid both dropping points on the weekend, can Barcelona take advantage to go top of the table in Spain? In the Premier League, Mikel Merino was the unexpected hero for an Arsenal side

Open Extended Reactions LONDON — There was a time when Manchester United chancing their luck on a rookie striker would create a moment of folklore. Most famously, think Federico Macheda against Aston Villa in 2009. Or Danny Welbeck against Stoke City two years earlier. And then there was Marcus Rashford‘s stunning full Premier League debut

Feb 16, 2025, 02:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has insisted he is not worried about the safety his job despite the team slumping to a 12th Premier League defeat of the season at Tottenham Hotspur and languishing in 15th. James Maddison‘s first-half rebound proved enough for Spurs to overcome

Liverpool extended their lead on top of the Premier League to seven points with a trickier-than-expected 2-1 win over lowly Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday courtesy of goals from Luis Díaz and Mohamed Salah. The Reds looked to be cruising at 2-0 after Diaz bundled in on 15 minutes and won a penalty later in the

Feb 16, 2025, 06:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ruben Amorim has said he and the first team “cannot ignore” job cuts at Manchester United and that it is their “responsibility” to improve results to help staff and prevent ticket price hikes. United made 250 employees redundant over the summer as part of cost-cutting measures

Record signing Sam Smith scored his first goal for Wrexham as the League One promotion hopefuls strolled to a 2-0 victory over Northampton Town on Saturday. Smith, who had failed to score in his two previous appearances for the club since joining from Reading in a deal reported to be worth more than £1 million

Fabián Ruiz‘s second-half strike secured a 1-0 win for Paris Saint-Germain at Toulouse on Saturday, extending the visitors’ unbeaten run as well as their lead at the top of Ligue 1. PSG, who have not lost in the league all season, top the table with 56 points from 22 games, 10 clear of second-placed Marseille,

Open Extended Reactions Amad Diallo has suffered an ankle ligament injury in training with Manchester United and could miss the rest of the season, sources told ESPN. Amad, 22, United’s six-goal Premier League leading scorer, has been ruled out of Ruben Amorim’s squad for Sunday’s clash with Tottenham Hotspur and faces a scan to assess

Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER, England — Omar Marmoush might just be the missing ingredient for Manchester City and manager Pep Guardiola — but the forward’s 14-minute hat trick in a 4-0 win against Newcastle on Saturday only highlighted how long the club had been in need of reinforcements and how slowly a solution arrived. Marmoush,

Open Extended Reactions Pep Guardiola said he is hopeful Erling Haaland will be fit for Manchester City’s Champions League second-leg against Real Madrid on Wednesday after admitting to being “scared” by the forward’s second-half injury against Newcastle. Haaland, who captained City for the first time in a Premier League game against the Carabao Cup finalists,

Midfielder Mikel Merino scored two late goals to keep Arsenal’s Premier League title hopes alive with a 2-0 victory at Leicester City on Saturday, after the Spaniard was thrust into a makeshift centre-forward role by his club’s injury crisis up front. Arsenal move to 53 points from their 25 matches, four behind leaders Liverpool having

Feb 15, 2025, 06:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mikel Arteta has revealed that Arsenal defender William Saliba has offered to play up front to ease the north London club’s injury crisis. Arsenal have lost strikers Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz for the season while wingers Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka are also sidelined through

Associated Press Feb 14, 2025, 02:57 PM ET Hwang Ui-Jo leaving the court in Seoul after the guilty verdict on Friday. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images Former South Korea international Hwang Ui-jo was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence on Friday for filming sexual encounters with a woman without her consent. Hwang, 32, was dropped from

Lizzy Becherano Feb 14, 2025, 10:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Miami concluded the 2025 preseason with a 2-2 draw against Orlando City at Raymond James Stadium in front of a crowd of 42,017 in Tampa, Florida, The team won the first four preseason games before drawing the fifth and final game on Friday

Feb 14, 2025, 05:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Enzo Maresca cut a frustrated figure on the touchline as Chelsea struggled at Brighton. GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca has said “everything” went wrong as his team succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at Brighton on Friday, describing it as the worst performance

Ryan Rosenblatt Feb 14, 2025, 01:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions It’s a new year in MLS, which means new kits. All 30 teams got a new jersey, with San Diego FC getting two of them for their expansion season and Inter Miami getting a fresh pair too because, well, that Lionel Messi guy sells

Open Extended Reactions Paris Saint-Germain are keen to sign Liverpool defender Ibrahima Konaté in the summer and the player is interested in a move to the Ligue 1 club, sources have told ESPN. The perennial French champions are seeking to bolster their defensive line and find a long-term partner for Marquinhos at centre-back. The acquisition

Mohamed Mohamed Feb 14, 2025, 08:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Yamal is the latest phenom to break into the soccer world, but just how far can he go? David Ramos/Getty Images In the history of the beautiful game, numerous young talents have been bestowed with the phenom label. It’s a tag that carries the gravitas