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Getty Images Arsenal started the weekend top but will have to beat Aston Villa on Sunday evening to move back into first place in the Premier League. Former Gunners boss Unai Emery has, however, struggled of late to keep his Aston Villa side at the level they reached in early December when they beat both […]

Bournemouth look to complete a sweep of the season series when they host Manchester United on Saturday in a 2023-24 English Premier League showdown. Bournemouth (11-8-12) were outscored 4-0 while losing both meetings with Manchester United last season but posted a 3-0 victory at Old Trafford earlier this campaign. The Cherries had their five-game unbeaten […]

Welcome to the weekend! Jonathan Johnson here to get you set for another feast of top soccer action ahead of a Friday to Sunday run which could see Bayer Leverkusen seal the Bundesliga title as Xabi Alonso’s men remain invincible. Arsenal vs. Aston Villa in the Premier League is another matchup with big potential implications […]

The Premier League and I have something in common: neither of us can do anything right in European competition right now. The Leagues Champion, Europa, and Conference resumed this week, and it didn’t go well for the best league in the world. Five Premier League teams played their first legs of a quarterfinal, and only […]

Lazio and Salernitana will face off for the second time this season in an Italian Serie A clash on Friday on Paramount+. The visiting Salernitana squad sit at the bottom of the Serie A table and have only two wins on the season, but one of those was a 2-1 decision against Lazio in the reverse […]

For most of his career, the way to describe United States international Josh Sargent’s game has been, “He’s doing the right things, but if only he put the ball in the back of the net, he’d be a complete striker.” Now coached by German-American David Wagner at Norwich City, Sargent is doing just that and […]

The first leg of the UEFA Europa League quarterfinals were far from smooth sailing for the favorites with the likes of Liverpool and AC Milan kicking things off with a loss and Bayer Leverkusen needing two goals in the final 10 minutes to acquire the advantage. It leaves the tournament’s most high-profile sides in different […]

When Inter Miami signed Lionel Messi last summer, the goal was not only to dominate Major League Soccer but also to announce themselves on a global scale. While they’ve done that from a commercial standpoint, Wednesday’s loss to Monterrey in the Concacaf Champions Cup shows just how far the soccer side of things has to go. You […]

Getty Images The Premier League will introduce semi-automated offside technology from the early stages of next season, the competition announced on Thursday. The new technology is expected to be introduced in September or October after receiving the unanimous backing of the competition’s 20 clubs at a shareholder meeting. Offside decisions made by linesmen are currently […]

Olympique de Marseille’s UEFA Europa League quarterfinal clash with SL Benfica on Thursday (3 p.m. ET on Paramount+) is the latest in a long line of big European nights for the French soccer powerhouse. OM are famed as the only French club to have won the UEFA Champions League despite Paris Saint-Germain’s best attempts but […]