Soccer

Jul 22, 2022 Sid LoweSpain writer The end comes fast. A moment and it’s all over. There’s something strange, slightly unreal about the moment when a team is knocked out of a tournament, however many times you experience it. On Monday night, as the sun set on Bisham Abbey and the media made its way

6:12 PM ET Kathleen McNamee LEIGH, England — On a wet and cold Friday night in Leigh, it took Sweden — the highest ranked team in Euro 2022 — 92 minutes and 33 shots to score in what was a wholly frustrating evening for them against Belgium, a last-gasp 1-0 win. Few had given Belgium

6:33 PM ET Sweden defender Linda Sembrant was relishing taking on hosts England in the Women’s Euro semifinal after her late winner against Belgium on Friday kept her country’s dream alive of winning their first major title since the 1984 Euros. Currently ranked second in the world, the Swedes have come agonisingly close in the

9:31 AM ET Cesar Hernandez A dark period of time has enveloped Mexican fútbol. Within a span of 13 months, we’ve seen: The Mexico men’s senior national team fail to win the CONCACAF Nations League and Gold Cup, four consecutive games without a victory against their U.S. rivals, the men’s U20 squad unable to earn

3:18 PM ET New Liverpool signing Darwin Nunez scored four times in the Premier League side’s lopsided 5-0 win over RB Leipzig on Thursday. Nunez, who came on for Roberto Firmino at half-time, scored from the penalty spot before adding three more goals from the run of play in Liverpool’s easy victory over Bundesliga club

2:45 PM ET Nottingham Forest have signed former Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard on a free transfer, the promoted Premier League club said on Thursday. Lingard, a United academy graduate, ended his 22-year association with the Old Trafford club following the expiry of his contract last month. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S.

11:01 AM ET What you’re about to read is pure speculation. It’s an exercise in what might happen, in trying to find logic in a game (football) that has little and a summer rite of passage (the transfer market) that often has even less. With Cristiano Ronaldo‘s future seemingly up in the air with few

6:18 PM ET BRIGHTON, England — There’s something about this England team. They simply don’t know when they’re beaten. For so much of Wednesday’s Euro 2022 quarterfinal they were outclassed by Spain. But when the pressure eventually proved too much for those in red shirts and the big moments presented themselves, England didn’t blink, eventually

5:35 PM ET Hosts England came from behind in dramatic fashion to beat Spain 2-1 at the 2022 Women’s Euro on Wednesday night to advance to the semifinals. A late second-half goal from Ella Toone and a sumptuous winner by Georgia Stanway in extra time fueled the comeback past a resilient Spain side in their

11:43 AM ET The summer transfer window is here, and there’s plenty of gossip swirling about who’s moving where. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings and goings and, of course, done deals! TOP STORY: Bayern eye Leipzig’s Laimer Bayern Munich are confident that they can follow up the signing of

5:11 PM ET England have just three non-white players in their Euros squad, with the team that’s dominating the tournament largely lacking in representation, something the FA is already trying to address. Alex Pantling – The FA/The FA via Getty Images They have been the outstanding team of Euro 2022 so far with three straight wins,

1:16 PM ET Two weeks into the 2022 European Championship, we’re still waiting for the first big name to fall. We won’t have to wait much longer. Six teams entered the 16-team tournament with title odds significantly better than the rest of the field, and all six advanced as expected to the knockout rounds. With

7:00 AM ET An incredible era has come to an end at Bayern Munich with the news that one of the Bundesliga club’s greatest-ever goal scorers, Robert Lewandowski, has left to embark on a new challenge at Barcelona in LaLiga. 2 Related Eight trophy-laden years after joining on a free transfer from Borussia Dortmund, Lewandowski

12:06 AM ET Alex Morgan scored a penalty late in the second half to guide the United States to a 1-0 victory over Canada in the CONCACAF W Championship final in Monterrey, Mexico, on Monday night. The game was a rematch of last summer’s Olympic semifinal game, which Canada won 1-0 before going on to

7:32 PM ET Sophie Lawson ROTHERHAM, England — Despite France having a deeper footballing pedigree (and a population over 174 times bigger) than Iceland, the play between them in Monday’s 1-1 draw was surprisingly comparable. The approach of the two teams was similar, and their failings aligned on the night at New York Stadium, yet

10:00 AM ET Christian Pulisic understands the perception: The idea that the United States men’s national team can win the World Cup isn’t worth considering. There isn’t anything about the team’s history to suggest otherwise. For outsiders, that’s fine. It doesn’t matter. For him, going to the World Cup with a defeatist mindset would defy

Jul 14, 2022 Cesar Hernandez Canada will take on the U.S. in the much-anticipated, and much-expected, final at the CONCACAF W Championship. Azael Rodriguez/Getty Images MONTERREY, Mexico — Canada‘s women’s national team defeated Jamaica 3-0 in the second CONCACAF W Championship semifinal of the evening Thursday, setting up the defending Olympic gold medalists in a much-anticipated

5:30 PM ET Matt Turner insists he has not gambled his USMNT starting spot by joining Arsenal. The 28-year-old moved to the Gunners from the New England Revolution in a deal worth up to $10 million and started the club’s first preseason friendly on their U.S. tour in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Everton in Baltimore.