Rob Dawson, CorrespondentMar 16, 2024, 04:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City head into the final straight of the Premier League title run-in after the international break, and the ease of their FA Cup quarterfinal win over Newcastle United should be enough to worry both Arsenal and Liverpool. City won 2-0
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Jeff Kassouf Mar 16, 2024, 06:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Current ushered in the grand opening of CPKC Stadium, the first stadium built specifically for a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team, in style on Saturday, defeating the Portland Thorns 5-4 in a match that tied a
Mar 16, 2024, 09:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lionel Messi‘s leg muscle injury will be evaluated “week by week,” Inter Miami boss Gerardo “Tata” Martino said after the Argentine star sat out Saturday’s win at D.C. United. It was the second straight MLS game that Messi has missed. He was held out of Sunday’s
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentMar 16, 2024, 09:19 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions FC Cincinnati temporarily revoked the press credential of local beat reporter Laurel Pfahler following a dispute over her reporting of some of the club’s player transactions, sources told ESPN.
Mar 16, 2024, 04:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Tottenham captain Son Heung-Min said the players needed to “look in the mirror” after an “unacceptable” 3-0 loss at Fulham cast doubt on their Premier League top four credentials on Saturday. Victory would have put them ahead of Aston Villa into the guaranteed Champions League berths
Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane bagged a record-breaking 31st league goal and Jamal Musiala added two more in the side’s 5-2 demolition of hosts Darmstadt 98 on Saturday that moved the champions provisionally to within seven points of leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. Kane put Bayern, who face Arsenal in the Champions League quarterfinals
Holders Manchester City became the first team in history to reach six consecutive FA Cup semifinals, thanks to two deflected strikes from Bernardo Silva that gave them a 2-0 win over a lacklustre Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. City took the lead in the 13th minute when a Silva shot took a wicked deflection
Vanessa DiBernardo scored the first goal for Kansas City in its new stadium and the Current held off the Portland Thorns 5-4 on Saturday in the regular-season opener for the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). Debinha‘s rebound shot deflected off Thorns goalkeeper Shelby Hogan and fell to DiBernardo, who scored in the 22nd minute. Rookie
Championship side Coventry City stunned Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 with two injury-time goals in their FA Cup quarterfinal on Saturday, as United States men’s national team forward Haji Wright‘s strike booked his side’s place in the semifinals for the first time since 1987. Coventry’s Ellis Simms opened the scoring at the Molineux Stadium in the 53rd
Fulham put a sizeable dent in Tottenham‘s Champions League qualification hopes as in-form Rodrigo Muniz‘s double earned them an impressive 3-0 victory at Craven Cottage on Saturday. Tottenham could have moved above Aston Villa into fourth place in the table with a win but apart from a brief spell before halftime were lackadaisical and could