Month: March 2024

Mar 12, 2024, 04:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The first-ever competition between the best women’s club teams in North and Central American and the Caribbean will begin later this year, Concacaf announced Tuesday. The Cocacaf W Champions Cup follows the inaugural W Gold Cup between the region’s best national teams, which concluded on Sunday

Mar 12, 2024, 05:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Al Hilal have broken the world record for consecutive wins after beating rivals Al Ittihad in the AFC Champions League for their 28th victory in a row. The Saudi Pro League team beat Karim Benzema‘s Al Ittihad 2-0 to surpass the 27 straight wins managed by

Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Mar 12, 2024, 08:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Xavi Hernández hit out at critics who he says called Barcelona the joke of the Champions League after leading the Catalan side into the quarterfinals of the competition for the first time since 2020. Fermín López, João Cancelo and Robert Lewandowski were

Arsenal survived a penalty shootout to scrape past Porto and reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time in 14 years after a tense last-16 duel had ended 1-1 on aggregate on Tuesday. The hosts coolly converted their first four penalties with Porto’s Wendell hitting the post before David Raya saved Galeno‘s

Open Extended Reactions Porto coach Sergio Conceicao accused Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta of insulting his family during Arsenal‘s shootout win over the Portuguese side that booked their place in the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2010. Asked to elaborate on what had happened, Conceicao said through a UEFA interpreter: “During the game

Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondentMar 12, 2024, 07:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BARCELONA — The last time Barcelona reached a Champions League quarterfinal, Lionel Messi still played for the club and the world was in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the four years since, there has been just one appearance in the round-of-16,

Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Arsenal‘s round-of-16 curse in the Champions League is finally broken. It required a penalty shootout at the end of a gruelling 120 minutes — in which FC Porto tested the Gunners’ patience in almost every conceivable way — but they’ve reached the quarterfinals for the first time since 2010. As