Soccer

5:56 PM ET LONDON — Imagine how good Arsenal could be if Mikel Arteta gets the financial backing he called for this week. The Spaniard used the buoyancy created by Wednesday’s unexpected victory over Premier League champions Liverpool to highlight an “enormous” gap to the top two in England, suggesting “there is no magic” to

3:58 PM ET Major League Soccer announced on Friday it is delaying the inaugural seasons of three expansion teams — Charlotte, Sacramento Republic FC and St. Louis — by one year due to the impact of COVID-19. – MLS is Back Tournament group standings– Stream MLS Is Back LIVE on ESPN networks, ESPN app (U.S.

Jul 17, 2020 The FA Cup returns to its spiritual home this weekend, with both semifinals being played at Wembley, but in a place so laced with nostalgia, echoes of past glory and passion, it will be eerie to hear the venue silent as the four clubs chase a spot in the final. But fear

10:07 AM ET In LAFC‘s two years of existence, the club has quickly become one of the most important in Major League Soccer. From its downtown stadium and raucous atmosphere to its appealing style of play and single-season MLS points record, the club has been an unmitigated success. Those facts don’t exactly drum up much

11:00 AM ET Mikel Arteta is perhaps the perfect man to try and drag Arsenal out of Manchester City‘s shadow, given he is embarking on the same journey in his own managerial career. The Gunners face City in an FA Cup semifinal at Wembley on Saturday (stream LIVE on ESPN+ at 2:45 p.m. ET in

4:49 AM ET Welcome to ESPN’s Insider Notebook, featuring contributions from our reporters across the top leagues around the world. In this edition, Mesut Ozil and Arsenal’s strained relationship is in the spotlight. Plus: Liverpool are keen on USMNT star Weston McKennie. Jump to: USMNT’s McKennie a man in demand | Martinez to Barca gets

6:29 PM ET Real Madrid celebrate their La Liga title on Thursday. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said his side’s La Liga title win on Thursday tastes sweeter than any of the three Champions League crowns he has led them to. Real clinched their 34th league title with a 2-1 victory

7:00 AM ET English football featured successful Americans before Christian Pulisic joined Chelsea. Tim Howard put in more than a decade of top-class work as Everton‘s goalkeeper after a spell at Manchester United, and Brad Friedel logged 450 league appearances in the net for Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur. Further up the

4:48 AM ET Liverpool will be presented with the Premier League trophy on a special podium built on the Kop stand at Anfield following their clash with Chelsea on July 22. Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool secured their first top-flight title in 30 years last month and will receive the trophy after their final home game of

6:07 PM ET Jurgen Klopp was right: records don’t inspire Liverpool. A sense of embarrassment almost did after uncharacteristically gifting Arsenal their two first-half goals, but they failed to rally sufficiently and this 2-1 defeat ends any chance of surpassing Manchester City‘s record 100-point mark this season. Nobody should be too hard on Liverpool after

7:24 AM ET Manchester United are a year away from being a serious challengers for the Premier League title. That’s not an opinion based on the progress made by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with his squad in recent months, but a reality borne out by the numbers that tell you when a team is ready

11:43 PM ET Major League Soccer‘s MLS is Back Tournament has seen two teams drop out and some concern about its viability, but recorded zero new coronavirus cases over July 12 and 13. The news of no new COVID-19 cases over the last two days comes as the tournament enters its second week on Wednesday,

7:01 PM ET With reporting from Stefano Fusaro in Orlando, Florida. Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley woke just before 6 a.m. on Sunday, ahead of a 9 a.m. kickoff against D.C. United, to find an email asking players to join a Zoom call with the league. Toronto was informed that a player in its squad

7:24 AM ET Pep Guardiola has never encouraged Manchester City‘s supporters to boo and jeer the Champions League anthem during the stand-off with UEFA during his four years in charge as manager at the Etihad Stadium. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach has instead urged the fans to focus their energy on backing the

5:04 PM ET Manchester United dropped the chance to vault into third place of the Premier League standings after giving up a stoppage time goal in a 2-2 draw with Southampton on Monday. Goals by Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial seemed to have ensured United’s place ahead of Chelsea and Leicester City, but Michael Obafemi‘s

6:20 PM ET MANCHESTER, England — What a strange day in Manchester. It started with one club, Manchester City, worrying about their Champions League fate and ended with the other, Manchester United, in a state of anxiety about their own prospects when everybody else expected it to be the other way around. City’s success in

9:28 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said he intends to leave the club at the end of his contract in 2024. Klopp became Liverpool boss in 2016 and has guided them to the Champions League and Premier League title in consecutive seasons. It is the first

4:33 AM ET Manchester City will play in the Champions League next season. Getty Manchester City have won their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over alleged financial fair play (FFP) violations and are free to play in the Champions League next season, it was announced on Monday. City were originally banned from