3:14 AM ET Will Bruin scored off a corner kick in second-half stoppage time as the Seattle Sounders rallied for a 1-1 draw with the visiting Portland Timbers on Thursday night. The Sounders (9-4-5, 32 points) and Timbers (9-5-5, 32 points) remained tied for first place in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference. Seattle is technically
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3:35 PM ET Tom Fenton Arsenal mounted a second-half comeback to secure a 2-1 win over Rapid Vienna on Thursday night. The away side went a goal down just after the break, following a dreadful mix up between David Luiz and Bernd Leno, which allowed Taxiarchis Fountas to slot home with ease. — Stream ESPN
5:23 PM ET Liam Wheeler A much-changed Tottenham team got their Europa League campaign off to the perfect start as strikes from Lucas Moura and Son Heung-Min either side of an Andres Andrade own goal secured a 3-0 win over Austrian Bundesliga side LASK Linz. – Stream LIVE games and replays on ESPN+ (U.S. only)
2:50 PM ET Arsenal defeated Rapid Vienna 2-1 in their Europa League group stage opening match on Thursday, rallying on second-half goals from David Luiz and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Taxiarchis Fountas gave the Austrian side the initial lead six minutes after halftime but the Gunners came from behind to snatch the win. Luiz scored in the
4:23 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. The Portland Thorns have acquired World Cup winner and former NWSL MVP Crystal Dunn in a series of moves that also involved the North Carolina Courage and OL Reign, the club announced
4:53 PM ET Tottenham Hotspur handily beat LASK Linz 3-0 in their Europa League group stage opener on Thursday night in north London. Spurs started brightly and found their opener shortly before the 20-minute mark when debutant Carlos Vinicius squared for his Brazil countryman Lucas Moura, who beat LASK keeper Alexander Schlager for the early
1:28 PM ET The Champions League began on Tuesday and if we’re being honest, we know who’s probably going to win. Through one-sixth of the group stage, FiveThirtyEight gives defending champion Bayern Munich a 26 percent chance of repeating, followed by Manchester City (15 percent), Barcelona (9 percent), Liverpool (8 percent) and PSG (8 percent).
5:16 PM ET It wasn’t pretty, but Liverpool will care not one bit. Their 1-0 win at Ajax Amsterdam on Wednesday can be marked down as job done for Jurgen Klopp’s side as they navigated a tricky opening Champions League tie and took a firm step forward in a season when they will be forever
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8:04 AM ET Spanish newspaper ABC has issued an apology to Barcelona star Ansu Fati after their match report compared his pace to that of a “black street vendor fleeing the police.” The 17-year-old put in an impressive display in Barcelona’s 5-1 victory over Ferencvaros in the Champions League on Tuesday night, scoring their second.