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The UEFA Champions League quarterfinals draw takes place on Friday in Nyon and the semifinals and final routes will be mapped out for the eight remaining clubs. Wednesday saw Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund complete the field for Friday’s draw after Arsenal and Barcelona had joined the previous week’s winners on Tuesday. Bayern Munich, Manchester […]

While the endlessly entertaining 2023 NWSL season was still playing out, the free agency list that dropped that September teased an equally dramatic offseason that lived up to the hype. A sizable number of high-profile players moved from one club to another during the league’s second-ever free agency period, showcasing the impact that freedom of […]

Rangers and Benfica will face off once more in the second league of the 2024 UEFA Europa League Round of 16 on Thursday on Paramount+. Benfica were heavily favored to win the first leg in Lisbon, but the opponents battled to a 2-2 draw. The action now heads to Ibrox, where the Scottish side has an […]

Getty Images PARIS — Luis Enrique is starting to see a return on his treatment of Kylian Mbappe after the France international scored in a 3-1 Paris Saint-Germain win over OGC Nice to reach the Coupe de France semifinals. Mbappe, Fabian Ruiz and Lucas Beraldo all tallied to render Gaetan Laborde’s effort nothing more than […]

Borussia Dortmund and PSV Eindhoven will fight it out for a UEFA Champions League quarterfinal berth Wednesday in the second leg of their round of 16 tie which is currently 1-1 after the opening leg in the Netherlands. Luuk de Jong canceled out Donyell Malen’s opener at Philips Stadion and both sides will be keen […]

Inter Miami will quickly have a chance to bounce back from their first loss of this young season when hosting Nashville SC at home with a spot in the last eight of Champions Cup on the line. As a result of the two teams drawing the first leg 2-2 in Nashville, due to away goals […]

LONDON — They might call it a lottery but when Arsenal players strode towards the North Bank they had the look of men who knew they had the winning ticket in their back pocket. No one could have blamed them if 14 years without a Champions League quarterfinal weighed heavily on jerseys sodden with sweat […]

It took a penalty shootout for Arsenal to advance past Porto in the Champions League to punch their ticket to the last eight, and during that shootout, goalkeeper David Raya got his hand to three penalties, saving two of them while capping off an impressive night. Arsenal would win the shootout 4-2 after Leandro Trossard’s […]

Liverpool announced a restructuring of their soccer operations on Tuesday, including the return of highly regarded ex-sporting director Michael Edwards in a new role as Fenway Sports Group’s CEO of football. Edwards’ re-hiring comes after a lengthy back-and-forth in negotiations, in which FSG continued to insist he was the main candidate to lead their vision […]

The UEFA Champions League resumes on Tuesday as the round of 16 draws to a close. After some lopsided affairs last week saw Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain coast into the quarterfinals this week’s action could be considerably closer. On Tuesday, Arsenal seek to overturn a one goal deficit at home […]