4:44 PM ET LONDON — A club’s fanbase doesn’t usually side with their star striker when he asks to leave, but this is precisely the mess Tottenham have got themselves into now. Harry Kane had to wait just over 70 seconds into this 2-1 home defeat to Aston Villa to hear the 10,000 fans assembled
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Graham Hunter’s view Whether this season of remarkable discoveries (Pedri, Ilaix Moriba, Ansu Fati) and remarkable evolutions (Frenkie De Jong, Oscar Mingueza, Ronald Araujo and Ousmane Dembele) has been enough to convince Messi to stay at Barcelona is a hot topic. And a confusing one. Is he keen to leave? No. Will his family be
May 18, 2021 Andrew Cesare Richardson Italy has long been seen as one of the fashion capitals of the world and the country’s top soccer league, Serie A, has produced some of the most aesthetically pleasing kits ever seen in the game. Football’s history is illustrated with many iconic images of Italian teams and star
It may seem an unusual conclusion to draw when the other game was an FA Cup Final, but this Premier League clash was the more important of Chelsea‘s two successive meetings with Leicester City for Thomas Tuchel. The Blues are programmed to win silverware and a trophy at Wembley last weekend certainly would have been
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4:00 AM ET If there’s one man to speak to about the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) project, it’s Howard Webb. A former FIFA World Cup final and Premier League referee, Webb has been involved since the beginning when Major League Soccer became one of the first leagues in the world to use it. 2 Related
9:48 AM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. The Sounders look unstoppable, FC Cincinnati opened their brand-new stadium with a familiar defeat, and the New
11:36 AM ET Manchester City, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich may have wrapped up the Premier League, Serie A and Bundesliga titles respectively, but the races in La Liga and Ligue 1 are going down to the final weekend as Luis Suarez starred for Atletico Madrid and PSG closed the gap on Lille. Elsewhere we
5:30 PM ET The business end of the season is the wrong time for questions to be asked regarding a team’s ability to get the job done, but that is precisely the scenario that Chelsea find themselves in after Saturday’s FA Cup Final defeat against Leicester City. – Highlights: Leicester win first-ever FA Cup with
3:00 PM ET Alex Kirkland Nacho scored as Real Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 1-0 on Sunday to keep their La Liga title hopes alive until the final day of the season. The first half at San Mames saw not a single shot on target, as Athletic’s defence kept Madrid at arm’s length. The visitors were
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4:36 PM ET Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said his side had simply not had fortune on their side as they suffered a 1-0 loss to Leicester City in the FA Cup final on Saturday. “We are disappointed and not angry with our performance from the boys, I think the performance is enough to win it,”
4:11 PM ET LONDON — Stretched above the majority of Leicester supporters, housed in a semi-circle behind the Wembley goal into which Youri Tielemans unleashed a majestic 25-yard strike to beat Chelsea 1-0 in the FA Cup final, was a banner bearing the image of the club’s deceased owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Thirteen words accompanied his
11:53 AM ET Mohamed Elneny has shown his support for Palestine on Twitter. Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images A team sponsor has voiced its concern to Arsenal over midfielder Mohamed Elneny‘s support for Palestine on social media, sources told ESPN. Throughout the week, violence have escalated between Israeli and Palestinian groups in the
1:48 PM ET There’s a word Christian Pulisic reaches for instinctively when contemplating Saturday’s FA Cup Final: redemption. Chelsea will contest the Wembley showpiece against Leicester City — stream LIVE on ESPN, May 15, 12:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+ — a little over nine months on from losing last season’s rescheduled final to Arsenal, a match
10:05 AM ET The most notable aspect of Jesse Marsch being hired as manager of RB Leipzig is how unsurprising the appointment was. Marsch has been inside the Red Bull soccer family for six years, from the New York Red Bulls to his position as an assistant with Leipzig to the managerial post at FC
8:09 AM ET Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he will speak to Sadio Mane to address the forward’s handshake snub following Thursday’s 4-2 win at Manchester United in which the player was dropped to the substitutes’ bench. Mane was a 74th-minute substitute for Diogo Jota, who scored Liverpool’s opening goal at Old Trafford after
6:29 PM ET It has been a season to forget for Liverpool, but they are now just three wins away from making it a finale to remember. Thursday’s 4-2 victory against Manchester United means last season’s champions are now firmly in the hunt for the top-four finish that had seemed beyond them for so long.