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Sunday in the Premier League will bring a highly anticipated match as Manchester City hosts Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium. The two teams were separated by only two points en route to City winning the title last season, so it’s a match that despite being early in the season will have massive late season implications. […]

NEW YORK – The sights and sounds of an Inter Miami away trip are familiar a year into the Lionel Messi experience. There’s pre-match discussion about ticket prices and attendance records being set. Fellow travelers on the subway ask Messi jersey-sporting strangers when and where he’s about to play. Fans clad in Inter Miami pink […]

La Liga’s big game of the weekend is Barcelona’s trip to face Villarreal on Sunday at Estadio de la Ceramica. The Yellow Submarine finished eighth last season and off the pace that they had set in previous years with two fifth and two seventh-placed finishes. One of four sides unbeaten and within four points of […]

With the Champions League and other European competitions getting under way, it also means that for teams around the world, we’ll be entering rotation season. It’s a big chance for American players who haven’t been getting much playing time at clubs such as Gio Reyna to show why they need to be more involved moving […]

The beginning of each UEFA Champions League season restores the true rhythm of a European campaign, in which the continent’s top teams mix in competition against each other and undergo new litmus tests as they aim to answer one question: Does their ambition match the ability to pull off their goals? For Matchday 1 in […]

Well, what a week that was. Three days, 18 games, a boatload of high-grade performers: there really hasn’t been a shortfall of options for our first Champions League team of the week. We’ll be playing 4-4-2 this time, partly because it’s the formation that lets you get the broadest sweep of options into your XI […]

Getty Images New U.S. men’s national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino said he aims to take the team to the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup on home soil, a feat they haven’t accomplished since 2002. Pochettino suggested the target is not just his but also shared by U.S. Soccer’s higher-ups, who have long hoped […]

Barcelona enter Champions League play in good form under new manager Hansi Flick, and they’ll look to get off to a hot start Thursday against AS Monaco. Flick has gotten Barcelona back to the top of La Liga with an eye popping 17 goals scored in only five games, and while Robert Lewandowski has led […]

The first week of Champions League football comes to an end on Thursday night with the Europa League champions Atalanta welcoming Arsenal to Bergamo in the midst of a pivotal week for the Gunners. Having ground out victory at Tottenham on Sunday, Mikel Arteta’s side begin their European campaign with half an eye on Sunday […]

A first goalless outing in 18 European matches might immediately catch the eye where Manchester City, held goalless by Inter at the Etihad Stadium, are concerned but Pep Guardiola will know that his greater worries are less what happened in the final third than what might have happened at the other end. There were flashes […]