5:00 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Manchester City‘s Kevin De Bruyne has won the Premier League Player of the Season award after equalling the division’s assists record of 20 during the 2019-20 campaign. De Bruyne helped City finish second in the Premier League but they finished a distant 18 points behind
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6:53 PM ET Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said his side lost 3-1 to Lyon to exit the Champions League in the quarterfinals because they lacked the perfection needed in Europe’s top competition. City fell behind to Maxwel Cornet‘s strike in a sloppy first half and although they looked like their usual selves after the
11:40 PM ET Manchester United‘s Bruno Fernandes has played down comparisons to Eric Cantona after a blistering start to his career at Old Trafford, insisting he needs trophies on his resume before he can begin to reach the Frenchman’s status. Fernandes has made an instant impact since arriving from Sporting Lisbon in January, scoring 11
5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Harry Maguire has said Manchester United‘s season cannot be considered a success unless they lift the Europa League trophy. United have secured their return to the Champions League with a third-place finish in the Premier League and reached the semifinals in both the Carabao Cup and FA Cup during a
3:57 PM ET Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui believes Manchester United are back to their best ahead of Sunday’s Europa League semifinal, where the Spaniards will be targeting their fourth appearance in the competition’s showpiece in the last seven years. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side may have laboured to a 1-0 extra-time win over Copenhagen to reach
7:26 PM ET Is there another manager who turns the Champions League knockout stages into an existential battle for his soul quite like Pep Guardiola? The only time Manchester City appeared likely to win Saturday’s quarterfinal against Lyon was when they looked like themselves: A dominant 20-minute, second-half spell which coincided with Guardiola abandoning an
5:00 PM ET Lyon celebrated a famous victory over Manchester City on Saturday. FRANCK FIFE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Lyon stunned a mistake-prone Manchester City 3-1 in Lisbon on Saturday to reach the club’s first Champions League semifinal since 2010. The unlikely victory sets up a last-four clash on Wednesday with Bayern Munich, who destroyed Barcelona 8-2
10:00 AM ET You have to hand it to Barcelona. They’ve put years of the same effort, consistency, doggedness and imagination into careering downhill toward their 8-2 humiliation and self-flagellation against Bayern Munich as they once did into carefully building up to what’s widely acknowledged as the greatest Champions League final performance of all time
11:41 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United head coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said it is time for his “big players” to step up and get the club into the Europa League final. United face Sevilla in Cologne on Sunday with a place in the final up for grabs and ahead of the game Solskjaer
8:56 AM ET Stephan UersfeldGermany correspondent Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Borussia Dortmund are set to sign Real Madrid youngster Reinier Jesus on a one-year loan with an option for another season, sources have told ESPN. The 18-year-old joined Real Madrid in a €30 million transfer from Flamengo in January but has yet to