Liverpool‘s hopes of qualifying for the Champions League were dented on Saturday afternoon as Jurgen Klopp’s side drew 1-1 with Newcastle at Anfield in the Premier League. The Reds got off to the perfect start when Mohamed Salah swivelled and smashed the ball home inside the near post. But Newcastle reacted strongly, with Allan Saint-Maximin
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4:00 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Sunday night/Monday morning: It was 5 a.m. and 12 clubs finally stumbled out of the bar into the breaking day, drunk on selfishness and a lack of solidarity. That was the cartoonish portrait painted by Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga who had been waiting for this moment
3:38 PM ET The Super League debacle is over but the recriminations have only just begun. Twelve clubs who sought to shatter the existing structure of European football now face retribution from the organisations they tried to leave behind. UEFA, the national associations and the leagues are each exploring options open to them, both in
5:26 PM ET Friday’s 1-0 defeat against Everton is precisely the sort of mediocrity the Arsenal fans outside of Emirates Stadium were protesting about. If given their right of reply, the Kroenke family might counter that these mid-table affairs would have become a thing of the past had the Super League they signed up to
6:02 PM ET Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta slammed his side’s home form as “terrible, unacceptable” after they slumped to a 1-0 Premier League defeat by Everton on Friday to fall even further behind in the chase for European football next season. Arsenal had plenty of chances in the second half and a penalty decision reversed
3:00 PM ET Sebastian Lletget has been given a two-game suspension for using an anti-gay slur. Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports Major League Soccer has suspended LA Galaxy midfielder Sebastian Lletget for two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for using a anti-gay slur on Instagram. In a video Lletget posted to Instagram on April 9,
2:51 PM ET Associated Press The Spanish and Italian clubs still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin told The Associated Press on Friday. Although the Super League imploded this week after being rapidly abandoned by most participants, Real Madrid, Barcelona,
11:16 AM ET Manchester City have announced a deal to sign Kayky from Fluminense at the end of the season. Sources have told ESPN the teenage forward will move to City for €10m plus add-ons and is likely to be loaned out next season. City confirmed the news in a statement. “We are delighted to
8:08 AM ET Zinedine Zidane has dismissed talk of Real Madrid being thrown out of the Champions League over the club’s involvement in the Super League as “illogical” and “absurd.” UEFA’s executive committee discussed the proposed breakaway league on Friday, confirming that it was looking at “the options available to UEFA and the steps it
9:57 AM ET Chelsea midfielder Jorginho has told ESPN Brasil that former manager Frank Lampard “wasn’t ready” for the managerial job because he “skipped a few steps.” Lampard took charge at Stamford Bridge in 2019 to replace Maurizio Sarri and led the club to a top four finish and an FA Cup final during his