Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Dec 11, 2023, 08:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona will be without eight first-team players for Wednesday’s final Champions League group stage fixture against Antwerp in Belgium. Robert Lewandowski, Frenkie de Jong, Ilkay Gündogan and Ronald Araújo will all be rested for the match with qualification to the round of
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentDec 11, 2023, 07:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Scott McTominay has said the Manchester United players are fully behind manager Erik ten Hag ahead of their make-or-break Champions League clash with Bayern Munich on Tuesday. McTominay said that the atmosphere in the dressing room has been “toxic” under former managers but says
Dec 11, 2023, 04:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen has been named African Footballer of the Year after beating Mohamed Salah to the award at a ceremony in Marrakech on Monday, with compatriot Asisat Oshoala winning the top prize in the women’s category. Osimhen, 24, netted 26 goals as he helped
Dec 11, 2023, 01:58 PM ET Sevilla lodged an appeal with French authorities over a ban on their supporters attending Tuesday’s Champions League game at Lens, which has been imposed after a fan was killed ahead of a Ligue 1 game earlier this month, the LaLiga club said on Monday. On Dec. 2, a Nantes
Rob Dawson Dec 11, 2023, 01:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jamal Musiala sent a warning to Manchester United ahead of their crucial Champions League clash against Bayern Munich by insisting the German champions need to bounce back from the heavy defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt by winning at Old Trafford. United need to beat Bayern
Over 150 players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup received targeted abuse on social media, with a FIFA report showing that the United States women’s national team squad received more than twice the number of discriminatory or threatening posts than any other competing nation. Two unidentified players — who FIFA has chosen not to name
Turron Davenport, ESPNDec 11, 2023, 06:00 AM ET Close Turron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN. Turron is a former collegiate football player at Cheyney University and is a native of Philadelphia, and he has authored/co-authored four books. You can catch Turron on ESPN Radio on his show “Talking with TD” and you can
Associated Press Dec 11, 2023, 02:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Iga Swiatek‘s second consecutive season-ending No. 1 ranking helped her collect a second consecutive WTA Player of the Year award Monday, making her the first woman since Serena Williams to claim that honor twice in a row. Williams, who retired
Open Extended Reactions Unai Emery knows better than most the suffocating pressure that comes with managing some of the biggest clubs in Europe, so the Aston Villa coach will know perfectly well what Mauricio Pochettino and Erik ten Hag are enduring at Chelsea and Manchester United respectively. Two of the Premier League‘s most successful clubs,
Field Level Media Dec 11, 2023, 12:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson will have surgery this week on his left ankle, the team said Monday. The operation will take place at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery and he will be re-evaluated in 8-10 weeks. He was hurt in