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Mar 12, 2024, 12:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Champions League soccer is back for the round of 16! Europe’s premier club competition returns with two high-stakes matches on Tuesday, providing exciting matchups, top talent and drama. Enjoy the play-by-play from both of the matches as Arsenal look to turn a 1-0 deficit to Porto

Mar 11, 2024, 02:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester City defender Kyle Walker has praised the “character” of referee Michael Oliver for not awarding Liverpool a late penalty during Sunday’s 1-1 draw between the title rivals. City winger Jérémy Doku kicked Alexis Mac Allister in the chest while clearing the ball in the 99th

Open Extended Reactions Cole Palmer of Chelsea (R) celebrates with teammate Enzo Fernandez after scoring their second goal during the Premier League match against Newcastle United on March 11. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images) LONDON — It’s that time of year when the conversation turns to assessing the Premier League‘s signing of the season and it

Open Extended Reactions Video Assistant Referee causes controversy every week in the Premier League, but how are decisions made, and are they correct? After each weekend we take a look at the major incidents, to examine and explain the process both in terms of VAR protocol and the Laws of the Game. – How VAR

Cesar Hernandez Mar 11, 2024, 12:53 AM ET Open Extended Reactions United States interim coach Twila Kilgore said the women’s national team is “just getting started” after winning the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup through a 1-0 victory over Brazil in Sunday’s final. “This is a group that’s moving forward together, that still wants more

Lindsey Horan scored the game’s only goal as the United States women beat Brazil 1-0 on Sunday night to claim the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup in front of a sellout crowd at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. The U.S. broke through at the end of an evenly played first half when Horan outmaneuvered her defender

Open Extended Reactions Jurgen Klopp has said Liverpool were denied a “100% penalty” and questioned what VAR official Stuart Attwell “had for lunch” after Alexis Mac Allister was subjected to a 99th minute chest-high challenge by Manchester City’s Jérémy Doku in Sunday’s 1-1 draw at Anfield. Mac Allister’s second-half penalty, following a foul by City

Open Extended Reactions Brentford boss Thomas Frank believes Kai Havertz should have been sent off before scoring the winning goal in Arsenal‘s 2-1 win at Emirates Stadium on Saturday. Havertz’s 86th-minute header settled a fiery contest thsat saw Declan Rice open the scoring only for Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale — recalled to the side due

Mar 9, 2024, 04:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions On a Saturday in which Arsenal looked like they might lose pace with the Premier League‘s title protagonists, they dug deep to steal a vital result. Barcelona, too, kept their title hopes alive — if only just. Inter Milan already have one hand and four fingers

Harry Kane scored a hat trick in Bayern Munich‘s 8-1 demolition of Mainz on Saturday to set a Bundesliga record as the champions cut the gap on leaders Bayer Leverkusen to seven points. Kane, who joined this season for a league record €100 million ($109m) from Tottenham, became the first player to score at least twice

Open Extended Reactions Jurgen Klopp has said his decade-long battle with Pep Guardiola is a “not a rivalry” and that the Spanish coach is the “outstanding manager” of his lifetime as he prepares to face the Manchester City man for the final time in a Premier League game as Liverpool boss. Klopp announced he will

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentMar 8, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions Two weeks into the MLS regular season, and one of the biggest stories has nothing to do with Lionel Messi‘s star-studded Inter Miami CF, the seemingly revived LA Galaxy

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentMar 8, 2024, 01:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Sir Jim Ratcliffe favours building a new stadium for Manchester United rather than redeveloping Old Trafford, a source has told ESPN. The club have put together a task force to assess options for “regenerating the Old Trafford area of Greater Manchester,” including Manchester mayor

Luis Suarez struck in stoppage time and Lionel Messi scored shortly after half-time to help Inter Miami tie Nashville 2-2 Thursday night in the Concadaf Champions Cup. The teams will meet Wednesday night in Miami for the second leg of the home-and-home portion of the round of 16, with Miami holding a decisive edge thanks to the

Cesar Hernandez Mar 7, 2024, 08:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAN DIEGO — Closer to water polo than a game of soccer, Wednesday’s Concacaf W Gold Cup semifinal win for the United States women’s national team over Canada played out as a bizarre rainy spectacle at Snapdragon Stadium. With stormy weather impacting a waterlogged

Ryan Rosenblatt Mar 7, 2024, 09:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions From left to right, Abby Dahlkemper, Naomi Girma and Alex Morgan show off San Diego Wave FC’s new 2024 primary kit, which gets its inspiration from the beaches of the Southern California locale. San Diego Wave FC It’s a big year for NWSL kits. Not

Alyssa Naeher saved three penalty attempts and made one herself as the United States beat Canada in a shootout to earn a hard-fought win at rain-soaked Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego on Wednesday night to set up a showdown with Brazil in the Concacaf W Gold Cup final. Heavy rains before kickoff left the field

Alex Kirkland, ESPN FCMar 6, 2024, 05:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MADRID — If Kylian Mbappé‘s Champions League masterclass for Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday had Real Madrid fans dreaming about the future, Madrid’s limp 1-1 draw with RB Leipzig a day later — narrowly scraping through to the quarterfinals 2-1 on aggregate — brought