Soccer

1:52 PM ET Nick JuddTransfer writer Liverpool‘s title defence continued to fall apart as they were humbled 4-1 by league leaders Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday. Ilkay Gundogan was at the heart of the drama throughout with his brace more than making up for a shocking penalty miss. Mohamed Salah had managed to pull

7:20 PM ET Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer endured a sour ending to his 100th Premier League game in charge saying his team was kicked in the teeth in a 3-3 draw with Everton on Saturday. United’s away league form has been outstanding this season, but simple errors unbecoming of title contenders have led

6:40 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — When referee Jon Moss blew the final whistle on Saturday, Victor Lindelof picked up the ball and punted it into the empty Old Trafford stands: The action summed up Manchester United‘s night. Having led 2-0 and then 3-2 with seconds remaining, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side managed to

12:31 PM ET Liverpool forward Diogo Jota is ranked world No. 1 on PlayStation’s FIFA Ultimate Team Champions leaderboard after finishing the weekend at 30-0. The 24-year-old joined Liverpool from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer and impressed with nine goals for his new club — including a run of six goals in four matches in

10:02 PM ET The Major League Soccer Players Association and MLS announced on Friday that they have reached a tentative agreement on a revised Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The CBA was approved by the union’s executive board and bargaining committee by a vote of 24-11, according to a source. The agreement will now be sent

9:19 AM ET The full-back position has typically been one of sturdy competence for the United States men’s national team. At right-back, you’ve been witness to the Steve Cherundolos and Timmy Chandlers of the world; the pickings have been a bit slimmer at times on the left, but players like DaMarcus Beasley and Fabian Johnson

9:11 AM ET Don’t look now, but after years of one-sided champions across the majority of Europe’s “big five” leagues — English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, Spanish Primera Division and French Ligue 1 — we’re staring at the very real scenario of new titleholders almost across the board. With the exception of

11:35 AM ET Artificial Intelligence can drive a car, curate the films and documentaries that you watch, develop chess programmes capable of beating grandmasters and use your face to access your phone. And, one company claims, it can also predict when footballers are about to suffer an injury. Off the field, football has gone through

6:28 PM ET Jose Mourinho was right: It is easy to manage Chelsea, especially if their opponents play like his Tottenham Hotspur team did in a 1-0 loss to the Blues. The Tottenham manager had a wry smile on his face when suggesting in the prematch press conference that “I don’t think it’s very difficult

5:52 PM ET West Ham United‘s new signing Jesse Lingard scored twice on his debut as they beat Aston Villa 3-1 at Villa Park to stay in touch with the top four in the Premier League on Wednesday. Villa had the better chances in the first half but it was West Ham who went ahead

9:00 AM ET Jurgen Klinsmann Jurgen Klinsmann won the World Cup and European Championship with Germany during a glittering career in which he played for Inter, Tottenham and Bayern, among others. As a coach, he led Germany to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup and managed the U.S. men’s national team from 2011-16.

6:23 PM ET It took Liverpool 30 years to end their wait to be champions of England, but Jurgen Klopp’s team are on the brink of surrendering their crown just seven months after lifting the Premier League trophy for the first time. In fact, fail to beat Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday and Liverpool

9:21 AM ET Chalk it up to the endless need to create “a thing,” but the all-time “record” (it’s in quotes for a reason) for most goals in a career that Cristiano Ronaldo is either chasing or has already broken — he scored his 760th goal on Jan. 21, which either beats Josef Bican’s 759

9:34 AM ET The pace of negotiations on a revised Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between MLS and the MLS Players Association (MLSPA) is accelerating, although it’s unclear where, or how, it will end. On Friday, MLS extended the existing negotiating window by one week until 11:59 p.m. ET on Feb. 4, but MLS also said

6:41 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — It was not just the margin of victory that was a surprise as Manchester United thrashed Southampton 9-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday. As well as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team emphatically ending their problems in front of goal with their biggest win since beating Ipswich by the

4:00 AM ET Let’s get one thing straight: this transfer window has been unlike any before as the spread of COVID-19 has limited travel and the economic impact of the pandemic has hit football clubs hard. 1 Related In January 2020, according to transfer tracking website Transfermarkt, Premier League clubs spent just over €242 million

2:47 PM ET Where to begin a recap of another great weekend in soccer? Lionel Messi shrugged off a news leak in the Spanish media to lead Barcelona to another big win, Arsenal and Man United split the points while learning plenty about themselves, and Mohamed Salah put in a star turn for Liverpool that

3:00 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic made the summer transfer window very different from its predecessors but, with football back on the agenda, the January window will open as normal for Europe’s top leagues. 1 Related Though clubs spent nearly €1.5 billion less ($1.9bn) in the summer than they did the previous year, according to