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
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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
2:03 PM ET Tom Fenton Liverpool beat West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League 2-1 on Sunday after a remarkable late header from goalkeeper Alisson. West Brom raced into a shock lead after just 15 minutes, when the returning Hal Robson-Kanu capitalised on an error from Rhys Williams to curl the ball into the far
1:13 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Just after midnight on Tuesday night, Barcelona‘s players silently boarded a bus waiting outside the Ciutat de Valencia, knowing it was over, another opportunity wasted. Just before midnight on Wednesday night, fireworks exploded in the sky outside the Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid fans who had followed the game from the
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
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10:50 AM ET Coaches Thomas Tuchel and Brendan Rodgers will battle it out to try to win their first trophy in English football when Chelsea and Leicester City meet in Saturday’s FA Cup final at Wembley (12.15 p.m. ET, stream live on ESPN+, U.S. only). It’s a game that will see two of the Premier
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
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
4:00 AM ET In this week’s ESPN Insider Notebook, Paris Saint-Germain eye Mohamed Salah to replace Kylian Mbappe, while Manchester United look to agree a fee for Jadon Sancho. Jump to: Man Utd in pole position for Sancho | Porto UEFA’s third choice | Ligue 1 manager musical chairs | Salernitana fans issue threats |
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.
5:00 AM ET Last week was an interesting one for Neymar, with one big high and two huge lows. The high, of course, is the announcement of his contract extension at Paris Saint-Germain, made official on Saturday by the club despite it being in the works for three months, as previously reported. The Brazilian star
6:51 PM ET A short run of success can be extremely misleading. And when you make a few huge decisions based in part on a really short run of success, it can set you back for quite a while. Last summer during Project Restart, Arsenal beat league champions Liverpool and took down both Manchester City
6:36 PM ET LONDON — Perhaps Chelsea felt they didn’t have enough to play for as it is. Either side of this weekend’s FA Cup final and the Champions League final at the end of the month, the Blues now face a needlessly nervous end to their Premier League campaign after slipping to a 1-0
7:00 AM ET The Super League may have come and gone already, from its introduction on April 19 to its collapse on April 20, but the lingering question remains as to when, not if, the game’s biggest clubs will try again. In fact, three of the teams — Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid — are
4:00 AM ET Joe Bryan can’t remember how he felt during the best moments of his career. He only recalls those two goals he scored against Brentford in the 2020 Championship playoff final, which earned Fulham promotion to the Premier League and a £170m windfall, through watching highlights. Nor can he remember the emotions of
4:13 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United lost at home to Leicester to confirm Manchester City as champions, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer left Old Trafford far from disappointed. For much of the 90 minutes, played in everything from bright sunshine to torrential rain, he watched a reserve XI match one of the