Football

1:48 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer If you pause the replay from Real Madrid‘s visit to Borussia Monchengladbach on Tuesday night and cast your eye over to the right side of the screen, away from the action, you can see the moment where Fede Valverde thinks that all is lost. As the ball travels through

12:16 PM ET The ghost of Bruce Arena continues to haunt the LA Galaxy. It has been almost four years since Arena stepped away from the club following the 2016 season to take up an ill-fated stint with the United States men’s national team. Following his departure, the Galaxy first turned to Curt Onalfo with

4:00 AM ET Ole Gunnar Solskjaer takes charge of his 100th game as Manchester United manager when Arsenal visit Old Trafford on Sunday. It has been a rollercoaster ride for the Norwegian since he replaced Jose Mourinho, initially on an interim basis, in December 2018. 2 Related There have been incredible highs, such as the

2:15 PM ET This year’s Champions League compressed group stage is a pedal-to-the-metal sprint — three straight midweek contests, two weeks off, then three more midweek affairs. The odds are shifting and swaying constantly, and they will do so again next week. One-third of the way through, let’s step back and see what has and

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5:54 PM ET Barcelona made it two wins from two in the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Juventus in Turin on Wednesday night. Juventus were without Cristiano Ronaldo, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 13, meaning a matchup pitting the Portuguese against Lionel Messi for the first time since 2018 would have

7:28 PM ET MANCHESTER, England — When Manchester United played in the Twilight Zone of the Europa League in recent seasons, Marcus Rashford never hid his frustration at being unable to display his talents on the biggest stage, the Champions League, but he is rapidly making up for lost time. A week after scoring a

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5:05 PM ET Ask Kylian Mbappe and he will tell you. He knows all his stats: how many goals he’s scored, when he scored them, how and where they came. He can recall everything. He even counts the goals he scores in training. He is extremely detail-oriented when it comes down to his figures, his

6:31 PM ET Tom Fenton Liverpool sealed a 2-0 win over FC Midtjylland on Tuesday night, though the game won’t exactly live long in the memory for all those who witnessed it. The Reds failed to spark into life for much of the game, with the Danish visitors having the best of the first-half chances

9:38 AM ET It was another dazzling, fun-filled week in Major League Soccer as the cream of the crop continued to separate itself in the final weeks before the playoff race. There were big, impressive wins for Philadelphia Union and Sporting Kansas City, some derby joy for LAFC against LA Galaxy on Sunday, and a

1:37 PM ET Real Madrid won their grudge match against Barcelona, Dortmund cruised to a win against their eternal rivals, Schalke, and two of the Premier League’s biggest clubs, Man United and Chelsea, played out a forgettable and needlessly defensive 0-0 draw. All in all, the soccer weekend was full of talking points. It’s Monday,

5:58 PM ET Son Heung-Min‘s prolific start to the season continued with his 76th minute header giving Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win at Burnley in the Premier League on Monday and moving Jose Mourinho’s side up to fifth. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Insider Notebook: No Sanchez-style pay bump for Pogba

6:00 AM ET This week, Mesut Ozil‘s exile at Arsenal has extended to unprecedented levels. The 32-year-old cannot play senior football again until January at the earliest after being left out of the Gunners’ Premier League and Europa League squads for what manager Mikel Arteta insisted on Wednesday night were solely footballing reasons. “My conscience

Only one of Arsenal and Leicester City started with a centre-forward on the pitch, but it says a lot about Alexandre Lacazette’s performance that you couldn’t really tell the difference. Mikel Arteta has made considerable progress in evolving Arsenal since taking charge last December, but Sunday’s 1-0 defeat was a slip back into the past

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4:05 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Managers Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Frank Lampard were keen to take the positives after Manchester United and Chelsea played out a 0-0 draw, but for anyone hoping to find out if either club can take advantage of what looks like the most-open Premier League title race in

3:53 PM ET We live in a world where it’s all about recycling — what can you do healthily, happily and usefully with what’s left over. A message which the two Clasico coaches interpreted absolutely differently during Real Madrid‘s 3-1 win over Barcelona at the Camp Nou, leaving Ronald Koeman looking out of date and