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Lionel Messi’s every move was on display in his Major League Soccer playoff debut.
Every touch. Every shot attempt. Even when he wasn’t doing anything at all, it was shown.
Continue reading...Josh Windass and Michael Smith returned to the Sheffield Wednesday lineup to spark a turnaround 2-1 victory over bottom-placed Portsmouth.
Smith was making only his second start of the campaign, having found himself behind Jamal Lowe in Danny Rohl’s pecking order, while Windass has missed recent matches.
Continue reading...Former United manager José Mourinho was sent to the stands during a topsy-turvy game that ended fairly with honours even
1 min: There is some proper bedlam going on at the Şükrü Saracoğlu. What a noise! Good luck thinking.
The hosts get the ball rolling. It’s exactly one year to the day since United’s last win in European competition, that 1-0 Champions League victory over Copenhagen at Old Trafford.
Continue reading...Philippe Clement insists Rangers’ desire and hunger in their convincing 4-0 Europa League win over FCSB at Ibrox was fuelled by being “sick of losing”. The manager came under enormous pressure after the 1-0 defeat at Kilmarnock on Sunday left the club six points off the top of the Scottish Premiership and the previous European game at Ibrox ended in a 4-1 win for Lyon.
There was an early reprieve when the Romanian side – formerly known as Steaua Bucharest – had the ball in the net only for a foul to be called. But Tom Lawrence opened the scoring in the 10th minute and the winger Vaclav Cerny fired in a double, one either side of half-time, before the second-half substitute Hamza Igamane scored his first goal for the club to wrap the game up.
Continue reading...Richarlison scored the only goal of the game as Tottenham earned a deserved third win of the competition
6 mins: Werner whips the ball towards the back post from the left. Moore makes a clever run but he does not make sufficient contact and the ball flashes wide.
Maddison chases a ball over the top … he almost gets there but he is beaten by the pace on the pass and the goalkeeper collects.
Continue reading...Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi earned more than the entire payrolls of 22 other Major League Soccer teams, and Olivier Giroud has $3,675,000 in annualized total compensation under the contract he signed to join Los Angeles FC in July.
The Major League Soccer Players Association released its salary update on Thursday and Messi’s $12m base salary and $20.4m in total compensation from Inter Miami remained the same as in the initial listing in May.
Continue reading...Luton have reported a racist comment sent to forward Elijah Adebayo on social media during Wednesday night’s Championship match against Sunderland.
The Hatters player had been subjected to racist abuse online last season while playing in the Premier League, which at the time left Adebayo “tired” and contemplating not reporting the matter over his disillusionment.
Continue reading...Sunderland moved three points clear at the top of the Championship with a 2-1 win at Luton.
Carlton Morris’s first-half strike was controversially ruled out for offside and the home side were left to rue other missed chances when the visitors took the lead early in the second half.
Continue reading...Leeds moved up to second in the Championship as two goalkeeping blunders by Watford’s Daniel Bachmann helped them to a 2-1 win at Elland Road. The Austria goalkeeper was at fault for both Leeds’ goals as they raced into a 2-0 lead inside the opening seven minutes through Largie Ramazani and Brenden Aaronson.
Kwadwo Baah pulled one back for Watford, who were much improved in the second half, but Leeds held on for back-to-back home wins in the space of five days. Daniel Farke’s side extended their unbeaten league run to six matches and have now lost one of their first 11, while Watford slipped to a fifth straight league defeat on the road.
Continue reading...A surprise signing from Genoa, the striker has immediately integrated in Bergamo thanks to his manager’s brilliance
Mateo Retegui is not afraid to make a snap decision. When Roberto Mancini phoned to ask if he would consider representing the Italian national team last March, the striker “didn’t have to think about it. I just said yes right away”. Born and raised in Argentina, he had never lived in Italy nor did he speak the language, yet within days he marked his international debut with a goal against England in Naples.
A choice that shifted his whole life’s trajectory. Twenty-three years old and playing for Tigre on loan from Boca Juniors, Retegui was hardly at the forefront of most European scouts’ minds. He scored 23 goals across all competitions in 2022, yet domestically there were doubts as to his ceiling. His parent club had declined their option to bring him back at the end of the year, while the Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni was indifferent to Retegui declaring for Italy.
Continue reading...Hull City’s head coach, Tim Walter, revealed that the referee Robert Madley apologised to him for his inadvertent role in Sunderland’s winner that helped the Black Cats to return to the top of the Championship table.
Wilson Isidor’s third goal in four matches, in which the on-loan Zenit St Petersburg striker ran half the length of the field and lifted the ball over Ivor Pandur, sealed a 1-0 win for Sunderland at MKM Stadium.
Continue reading...After clinching MLS playoff berths with regular-season-ending wins on Saturday, CF Montreal and Atlanta United will square off in the Eastern Conference’s wild-card match on Tuesday.
The winner of the contest in Montreal draws a tough assignment in East’s quarter-finals: a best-of-three series against Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, who set the league’s single-season point record. A hat-trick from Messi lifted Miami past the New England Revolution on Saturday, giving Miami a 22-4-8 mark, good for 74 points.
Continue reading...Lionel Messi and Inter Miami have put together the best regular season in Major League Soccer history.
Messi had three goals and an assist in the second half alone, Luis Suárez had a pair of first-half goals and Inter Miami beat the New England Revolution 6-2 on Saturday night, finishing the season with an MLS-record 74 points – one more than the Revolution had in 2021.
Continue reading...Wayne Rooney bemoaned a “difficult” afternoon after watching from the stands as his Plymouth side were hammered 5-0 at Cardiff.
Michael Obafemi spurned a glorious chance for Plymouth early on, and it was all downhill for the visitors after that, with goals from Alex Robertson, Rubin Colwill, Anwar El Ghazi, Callum Robinson and Chris Willock. Ibrahim Cissoko was sent off five minutes before the break after reacting to an incident with Perry Ng.
Continue reading...Jürgen Klopp has been criticised by fans of his former club Mainz for his decision to join the energy drinks company Red Bull and oversee its network of clubs. Mainz supporters held banners during their team’s Bundesliga game against Leipzig – a Red Bull-backed club – in which they addressed their former hero.
“Have you forgotten everything we gave you?” asked one huge banner behind one of the goals, referring to Klopp’s tearful farewell speech when he left the club after 18 years as a player and coach in 2008.
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