Soccer

5:26 PM ET Mexico scored three goals in a little over three second-half minutes to come from behind to defeat South Korea 3-2 in Austria on Saturday, in a game which was at risk of being canceled after six South Korean players recorded positive COVID-19 results in the hours leading up to the match. Hwang

7:10 PM ET Danny Lewis The coronavirus pandemic made the summer transfer market unlike any before it, but there were still plenty of deals done, and you can check out the major ones here. The window might be closed across the top leagues in Europe, but here are the best rumours from around the globe.

7:50 AM ET FOR AMERICAN SOCCER FANS, Oct. 10, 2017, still lives in infamy. In front of roughly 1,500 spectators at a slapdash pitch in Trinidad, the U.S. men’s national team failed to qualify for a World Cup for the first time since 1986. The Americans had advanced from the group in three of the

9:00 AM ET Austin LindbergESPN FC On Thursday, the United States men’s national team played its first match since February and gave fans a solid look at the Yanks’ future. Head coach Gregg Berhalter gave debuts to six players — including a pair of 17-year-olds, Yunus Musah and Giovanni Reyna (who turned 18 on Friday)

Oct 22, 2020 BARCELONA — Let me remind you of a Clasico-related statistic which is absolutely jaw-dropping and seems to be barely mentioned. Real Madrid are, pound for pound, the most successful and prestigious club side in the history of football. No doubt about it. Not because they’ve won the most Spanish league titles by

4:21 AM ET Paul Pogba’s Manchester United future is the subject of this week’s ESPN’s Insider Notebook. PLUS: Axel Tuanzebe shows captain material. Jump to: Tuanzebe a United captain in waiting | Fabinho set for new Liverpool deal | Hazard warning for Madrid | Tuchel wanted Suarez, PSG said no | Bale’s golf course bail

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).

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

5:16 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

5:16 PM ET It wasn’t pretty, but Liverpool will care not one bit. Their 1-0 win at Ajax Amsterdam 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 where they will be forever reminded of

11:18 AM ET It’s probably not a coincidence that reports of a breakaway European Super League resurfaced just as the Champions League returns. This is the classic story that won’t go away and, at its heart, is about pitting the world’s biggest football clubs against each other on a regular basis, or, at least, a

6:33 PM ET It took until 62 minutes into Chelsea‘s eighth game of the season, but Frank Lampard finally got what he wanted. Once Hakim Ziyech replaced Mason Mount just after the hour mark, the Blues had all six major summer signings together on the pitch for the first time. The concern will be, however,

6:02 PM ET It has been a while since Marcus Rashford was making headlines for his day job, but the Manchester United forward likes nothing more than a late goal in Paris to remind people of what made him famous in the first place: His ability on a football pitch. It was deja vu all

11:18 AM ET A breakaway European Premier League tournament, which would effectively replace the Champions League, could be doomed to failure as it would struggle to get crucial approval from governing bodies, sources have told ESPN. Sky News reported on Tuesday that a $6 billion (£4.6 billion) funding package had been put in place for

6:02 AM ET RB Salzburg boss Jesse Marsch has said Frank Lampard did not rate Christian Pulisic at the start of his Chelsea career because he was American. Pulisic struggled for regular game time after his £58 million move from Borussia Dortmund and said he was “frustrated” at the time. – Stream FC Daily on

2:43 PM ET A weekend full of big derbies delivered plenty of talking points, from Liverpool‘s costly 2-2 draw at Everton that saw Virgil van Dijk seriously injured (and Jordan Pickford unpunished), to AC Milan‘s win over rivals Inter thanks to a certain Zlatan Ibrahimovic. There were also sub-par performances from Barcelona and Real Madrid

10:07 AM ET Toronto FC remained on top of the heap, and the playoff picture in the Eastern Conference came into focus as the top four sides clinched postseason berths. Yet it’s still wide open in the Western Conference, with no playoff participants yet to punch their tickets and three teams — Seattle Sounders, Portland

6:55 AM ET When Virgil van Dijk limped out of Liverpool’s Merseyside derby clash with Everton on Saturday just five minutes into the 2-2 draw, following a shocking challenge by goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, it brought an incredible personal record to an end. In between an injury-enforced substitution against Southampton at Anfield in September 2018 and