Soccer

7:08 PM ET Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez scored twice as the LA Galaxy defeated the host Portland Timbers 3-1 on Sunday afternoon in a match in which both teams finished with 10 men. Goalkeeper Jonathan Bond made three saves for the Galaxy (3-2-0, nine points), who snapped a two-game losing streak. Bill Tuiloma scored for the

6:08 PM ET What a weekend! With Premier League title chasers Liverpool and Man City winning, Man United were again left frustrated in their chase for fourth place. Elsewhere, Real Madrid rebounded from their Clasico defeat to stay in charge of LaLiga’s title race, though Pedri‘s brilliant goal pushed Barcelona into second. There was also

1:31 PM ET LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur moved into the Premier League top four after a second-half blitz of goals from Matt Doherty, Son Heung-min, Emerson Royal and Steven Bergwijn fired them to an emphatic 5-1 win over Newcastle United at home on Sunday. Much of the first half was played in

12:55 PM ET LONDON, England — In the space of 10 minutes, Chelsea went from being in the familiar position of a goal to the good at home, to wondering if their season is going to unravel. Antonio Rudiger‘s wondergoal at the start of the second half brought relief at Stamford Bridge, but it was

3:55 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — If Erik ten Hag or Mauricio Pochettino want to know how big a job it will be to turn Manchester United around, they need only watch a replay of the 1-1 draw with Leicester City. For the Old Trafford club, this has become a season drifting towards

11:53 AM ET Manchester City responded to momentarily losing top spot in the Premier League by returning to the summit courtesy of a 2-0 win at Burnley. Liverpool cranked up the pressure on City with a 2-0 win over Watford in Saturday’s early kickoff but City took just five minutes to find their stride at

3:44 PM ET Gabriele Marcotti Mark Ogden Get ready for some heavyweight clashes, a renewal of old rivalries and the chance for some teams to avenge bitter defeats after the draw for Qatar 2022 offered some box office match-ups in the group stage of this year’s World Cup. The leading nations can now plot their

5:49 PM ET As World Cup draws go, the United States men’s national team didn’t get the toughest assignment for the 2022 World Cup, but it’s also far from easy. The U.S. finds itself in Group B with England, Iran and the winner of the playoff in UEFA that still involves Wales taking on the

11:55 AM ET Follow the draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup live with ESPN, starting with all the build-up before the ceremony itself begins at 4 p.m. GMT, midday ET. LIVE BLOG NB: Please refresh the page to get the latest updates….. 11.52 ET / 15.52 GMT: Looking at possible draws…. how about a

5:00 AM ET Bruno Fernandes has signed a contract extension until 2026 at Manchester United, the club have confirmed. The deal includes the option of extending it a further year to 2027. The Portugal international, who scored twice to seal his club’s passage to the World Cup in midweek, will be among United’s top earners

1:13 PM ET DOHA, Qatar — For Qatar, the World Cup draw Friday is the bell signaling the last lap of a race that began more than two decades ago. That’s when the Gulf state — poor in square miles, population and (back then) name recognition, but rich in per capita GDP and ambition —

5:00 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer BARCELONA, Spain — This time, the Queen bowed before them. An image of Barcelona‘s Alexia Putellas stands 50 feet tall on the outside of Camp Nou; now the actual thing stood even taller right there, before them, on the inside of Camp Nou. Ballon d’Or winner, the world’s best

4:00 AM ET SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A raucous, celebratory atmosphere inside the Costa Rica National Stadium dictated the mood. Los Ticos had just finished off a 2-0 win to remain undefeated all time against the United States men’s national soccer team in San Jose. There were even fireworks, despite the fact the home

6:00 AM ET SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Inside a luxury hotel roughly nine miles from the site of the final game of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, United States men’s national team coach Gregg Berhalter was at ease Tuesday. Six days earlier, he called the forthcoming week the most important of his coaching career and

Mar 29, 2022 Caroline Graham Hansen was 14 when she first found out there was a women’s national team in Norway. It was only then, after 10 years of playing football for three hours every day — however cold or wet the weather would get in Oslo — that she realised the game she enjoyed

Mar 28, 2022 The race to the 2022 World Cup is drawing to a close, with four games to be played on Wednesday to decide which nations from the CONCACAF region will head to Qatar in November. – World Cup 2022 qualifying: How it works around the world How many CONCACAF nations qualify for the

5:53 PM ET PORTO, Portugal — Cristiano Ronaldo is heading to Qatar, but Mohamed Salah isn’t and neither is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose dream of becoming the first outfield player to bridge a 16-year gap between appearances at the World Cup fizzled out in a late, fruitless substitute rescue act for Sweden in Poland. Every World

8:00 AM ET The countdown to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will begin in earnest when the draw for the group stage takes place in Doha on Friday. From that point on, each team can work out how it will navigate its path to the final on Dec. 18. But the tournament promises to