Football

5:00 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent PERTH, Australia — The final act of Manchester United‘s summer tour of Thailand and Australia didn’t reflect how positive the trip had been. Eric Bailly sent a plastic chair hurtling across the turf as he walked off the pitch at a sodden Optus Stadium, while David De Gea marched through

2:00 PM ET Ryan Rosenblatt The Chicago Fire were left for dead, but guess who’s back in the playoff race? That’s right: Xherdan Shaqiri & Co. The New England Revolution, too. Now Toronto FC has a pair of superstars that make the Reds look frighteningly good, and all of a sudden the Eastern Conference has

9:54 AM ET Everton supporters invaded the pitch at Goodison Park during their victory over Crystal Palace last season. MB Media/Getty Images England’s Premier League and Football League have announced tough new sanctions for pitch invasions and the use of smoke bombs and pyrotechnics. Last season saw an increasing number of pitch invasions at the end

4:30 AM ET Lucy Bronze knows the pain of losing a semifinal in a major international tournament all too well. She was there for England‘s last three “Final Four” knockouts. So, having experienced the expectation and then the heartbreak, it’s easy to see why she was a little withdrawn after their 2-1 quarterfinal win over

12:00 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent PERTH, Australia — Manchester United‘s players and staff landed back at Manchester Airport on Sunday after nearly three weeks away in Thailand and Australia to begin the final run-up to the start of the Premier League season. 2 Related Erik ten Hag has two weeks to make any final decisions

9:39 AM ET Barcelona president Joan Laporta has told ESPN that Lionel Messi‘s “chapter” at the club is “not over” and considers it his responsibility to ensure the forward has a “more beautiful ending” at the Camp Nou. Messi ended his 21-year spell at Barca when the club could not afford to renew his contract

10:31 AM ET Three years into his Real Madrid career, it feels as though Eden Hazard still hasn’t really got started. Signed from Chelsea in 2019 as arguably the Premier League‘s best player, and fully expected to fill the void left by Cristiano Ronaldo‘s departure a year earlier, the Belgium international has instead become an

6:40 PM ET Sophie Lawson ROTHERHAM, England — Ahead of the start of Euro 2022 this summer, Dutch midfielder Jill Roord had made headlines at home when she called new manager Mark Parsons, in a word, boring. Team meetings lasted too long and were unnecessary, she said, failing to hold the players’ interest. Although she

Jul 22, 2022 Sid LoweSpain writer The end comes fast. A moment and it’s all over. There’s something strange, slightly unreal about the moment when a team is knocked out of a tournament, however many times you experience it. On Monday night, as the sun set on Bisham Abbey and the media made its way

6:18 AM ET Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel has said he is annoyed with Barcelona over their pursuit of Cesar Azpilicueta and suggested he may not sanction the Spain international’s move to Camp Nou. Azpilicueta, 32, has one year remaining on his contract at Stamford Bridge. ESPN reported last November that Barca wanted to sign the

6:12 PM ET Kathleen McNamee LEIGH, England — On a wet and cold Friday night in Leigh, it took Sweden — the highest ranked team in Euro 2022 — 92 minutes and 33 shots to score in what was a wholly frustrating evening for them against Belgium, a last-gasp 1-0 win. Few had given Belgium

9:31 AM ET Cesar Hernandez A dark period of time has enveloped Mexican fútbol. Within a span of 13 months, we’ve seen: The Mexico men’s senior national team fail to win the CONCACAF Nations League and Gold Cup, four consecutive games without a victory against their U.S. rivals, the men’s U20 squad unable to earn

3:18 PM ET New Liverpool signing Darwin Nunez scored four times in the Premier League side’s lopsided 5-0 win over RB Leipzig on Thursday. Nunez, who came on for Roberto Firmino at half-time, scored from the penalty spot before adding three more goals from the run of play in Liverpool’s easy victory over Bundesliga club

2:45 PM ET Nottingham Forest have signed former Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard on a free transfer, the promoted Premier League club said on Thursday. Lingard, a United academy graduate, ended his 22-year association with the Old Trafford club following the expiry of his contract last month. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S.

11:01 AM ET What you’re about to read is pure speculation. It’s an exercise in what might happen, in trying to find logic in a game (football) that has little and a summer rite of passage (the transfer market) that often has even less. With Cristiano Ronaldo‘s future seemingly up in the air with few

6:18 PM ET BRIGHTON, England — There’s something about this England team. They simply don’t know when they’re beaten. For so much of Wednesday’s Euro 2022 quarterfinal they were outclassed by Spain. But when the pressure eventually proved too much for those in red shirts and the big moments presented themselves, England didn’t blink, eventually

5:35 PM ET Hosts England came from behind in dramatic fashion to beat Spain 2-1 at the 2022 Women’s Euro on Wednesday night to advance to the semifinals. A late second-half goal from Ella Toone and a sumptuous winner by Georgia Stanway in extra time fueled the comeback past a resilient Spain side in their

1:22 PM ET The summer transfer window is here, and there’s plenty of gossip swirling about who’s moving where. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings and goings and, of course, done deals! TOP STORY: Bayern eye Leipzig’s Laimer Bayern Munich are confident that they can follow up the signing of