Month: December 2020

12:12 PM ET Swedish league champions Kopparbergs/Goteborg FC have announced they are going to fold their senior squad just one month after they won their first league title. The announcement means that all players, including nine internationals, will be released from their contracts. – Stream FC Daily on ESPN+ The side recently lost to Manchester
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3:04 PM ET Barcelona were held to a disappointing draw with Eibar in La Liga on Tuesday as Lionel Messi watched from the stands at the Camp Nou. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) Ronald Koeman’s side went into the game without the services of Messi, who was granted an extended holiday
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2:51 PM ET Super substitute Alexandre Lacazette provided the only goal of the game as Arsenal beat Brighton 1-0 on Tuesday to create more space between them and the relegation zone. Lacazette was the only casualty from the squad that beat Chelsea 3-1 on Dec. 26, with the France international making way for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang,
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2:48 PM ET The Premier League does not have a plan in place for a curtailment of the 2020-21 season if an escalation in positive COVID-19 tests leads to the campaign being halted, sources have told ESPN — a situation described as ’embarrassing’ by a source at one top-flight club. Concern is growing within the
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3:00 PM ET Austin LindbergESPN FC Major League Soccer has informed the MLS Players Association that it will invoke a force majeure clause that obligates the parties to negotiate modifications to the existing collective bargaining agreement in good faith for 30 days, a source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN on Tuesday. If the
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6:11 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been keen to play down Manchester United‘s chances of challenging for the title but he will know better than most that it is results like this scrappy 1-0 win over Wolves that mark out teams capable of winning championships. Having won six titles
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12:52 PM ET Club America announced on Tuesday that it has hired former Real Madrid manager Santiago Solari to fill the team’s vacant manager position. The Liga MX giants fired Miguel Herrera on Dec. 21 after the club crashed out of the Liga MX playoffs against bitter rival Chivas and then fell to LAFC in
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9:14 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur forward Gareth Bale will miss the next “few weeks” after he sustained a calf injury in their League Cup quarter-final win against Stoke City last week, manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed. Bale, who is on loan from Real Madrid, started and scored in the 3-1 win but was withdrawn at
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7:27 AM ET Alex Kirkland Diego Costa has left Atletico Madrid after the striker’s contract was terminated by mutual consent. The club announced on Tuesday that Costa’s deal — which only had six months left to run, until June 2021 — had been rescinded. – Stream LIVE games and replays on ESPN+ (U.S. only) It
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4:08 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed that manager Thomas Tuchel has left the club after a poor start to the season. Sources told ESPN on Dec. 24 that PSG decided to sack Tuchel on Christmas Eve and former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is set to replace him. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+
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8:30 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said the club have every intention of extending Edinson Cavani‘s contract at Old Trafford. Cavani signed a one-year deal in October with the option of another season — and the 33-year-old has impressed Solskjaer so much that the club are already exploring the possibility
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4:43 PM ET Chelsea coach Frank Lampard said his team was missing the creativity of injured winger Hakim Ziyech who might make his return in the Blues’ next scheduled game against Manchester City on Sunday. – Hamilton: Chelsea, Lampard are running short on time Ziyech went off with a hamstring injury during Chelsea’s win over
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8:14 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar will host a New Year party for 150 people which will be subject to strict health rules to try to prevent the spread of COVID-19, organisers said. The Brazil international has come under heavy criticism since details of the event were revealed in a Rio de Janeiro newspaper
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