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Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Arsenal found a way. Sunday’s 3-2 win at bitter North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur came through a combination of hard work, quality and a little luck, but Mikel Arteta’s side earned the victory they needed to keep Manchester City honest during the Premier League title run-in. The Gunners are determined

Lyon grabbed a superb 2-1 win at Paris Saint-Germain in their all-French women’s Champions League semifinal second leg on Sunday to complete a 5-3 aggregate win that secured them a final showdown against Barcelona in Bilbao on May 25. With Lyon having overturned a 2-0 deficit to win the first leg 3-2 after a thrilling

Apr 27, 2024, 10:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mohamed Salah has refused to reveal the reasons behind the touchline disagreement he had with manager Jurgen Klopp during Liverpool‘s 2-2 draw with West Ham at the London Stadium on Saturday, saying: “There is going to be fire today if I speak.” Klopp and Salah appeared

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentApr 27, 2024, 02:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United drew 1-1 with Burnley at Old Trafford on Saturday, but results are no longer the only thing that matters for manager Erik ten Hag. We’ve reached the point where everything is viewed through the prism of the Dutchman’s future;

Adam Brown Apr 27, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Liverpool‘s remaining hopes of winning the Premier League title dwindled further on Saturday with their 2-2 draw against West Ham United at the London Stadium. A quiet first half produced little by way of chances until Luis Díaz hit the post after some positive

Ian Darke, ESPN.com writerApr 26, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most

Open Extended Reactions Liverpool have moved a step closer to appointing Arne Slot as manager at Anfield after reaching an agreement with Dutch club Feyenoord for the highly-rated coach, sources confirmed to ESPN. Slot, 45, confirmed on Thursday that he was keen to move to Liverpool after being identified as the Premier League team’s preferred

Open Extended Reactions What happens next at Manchester United? It is a question that has hovered over Old Trafford since Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos group purchased a minority stake in the club in February. That 27.7% share secured control of football operations at the Premier League‘s biggest, and most underperforming team. The only certainty at

Jeff Kassouf Apr 25, 2024, 08:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Sophia Smith of the Portland Thorns was the NWSL’s MVP in 2022. Is she on track for another MVP-worthy season this year? Troy Wayrynen/USA TODAY Sports The 2024 National Women’s Soccer League season is five matchweeks old. Too early to start talking about contenders for

Open Extended Reactions The timing was impeccable. Just 48 hours after Nottingham Forest‘s outrageous social media statement called the impartiality and integrity of Premier League referee Stuart Attwell into question, after they were denied three penalty appeals against Everton, UEFA announced that Attwell had been appointed as a VAR for Euro 2024. It perfectly illustrates

Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondentApr 25, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions With everything that’s going on with Barcelona at the moment — still reeling from their loss in El Clasico at the weekend and their manager doing a U-turn over his decision to leave this summer, all amid their continued financial peril — the

Open Extended Reactions Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool need a “crisis” at Arsenal and Manchester City to revive their Premier League title hopes after a 2-0 defeat in the Merseyside derby at Everton left his side three points off top spot with four games left to play. Goals by Jarrad Branthwaite and Dominic Calvert-Lewin sealed Everton’s

Open Extended Reactions Jurgen Klopp hugged Everton manager Sean Dyche, patted his Liverpool players on the back and then disappeared down the players’ tunnel with 38,000 Evertonians singing “You lost the league at Goodison Park” at full volume. Klopp didn’t need the reminder. The manager knew it was all over for him and for Liverpool.

Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Apr 24, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions On Sunday, Barcelona lost to Real Madrid in the 256th edition of El Clásico. It was a close game — Barça twice took the lead, only for Madrid to roar back and win 3-2 on Jude Bellingham‘s injury time goal — and

Open Extended Reactions Mauricio Pochettino admitted Chelsea “gave up” in Tuesday’s 5-0 thrashing at Arsenal, but sought to defend his players by insisting some of the game’s greats had similar off days. Leandro Trossard‘s fourth-minute strike opened the scoring before four goals in 18 second-half minutes — two each from Ben White and Kai Havertz

Open Extended Reactions LONDON — What should embarrass Chelsea most is Arsenal are everything that they are not. Tuesday’s 5-0 thrashing at Emirates Stadium showcased the Gunners’ shrewd spending and stylish structure, a combination which threatens to push Manchester City the distance in the Premier League title race. Mikel Arteta’s side have played two games

Graham Hunter, Spain writerApr 23, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Close Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Open Extended Reactions As any of you who love chess will already have deduced, Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández and the LaLiga club are currently engaged in

ESPN News Services Apr 22, 2024, 04:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Milan beat city rivals AC Milan 2-1 on Monday to clinch the Serie A title, the 20th time the club has lifted the trophy in its history. Goals either side of half-time by Francesco Acerbi and Marcus Thuram set Inter on their