Month: October 2023

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admitted Bukayo Saka‘s latest injury setback is a “worry” but insisted he had no regrets over starting the winger in Tuesday’s 2-1 Champions League defeat at Lens. The 22-year-old had limped out of the Gunners’ previous two Premier League matches with knocks but was named in the lineup at Stade Bollaert-Delelis,

Liam Wheeler Oct 3, 2023, 05:17 PM ET Onana, left, and Hojlund, right, were the worst and best performers on a chastening Champions League night for Man United. Michael Regan/Getty Images Manchester United‘s woes continued as the Red Devils were beaten 3-2 by Galatasaray in the Champions League, on a miserable night in the Manchester rain

Lens‘ Elye Wahi scored one goal and set up another in a sterling performance to secure a 2-1 home win against Arsenal and put his side top of Champions League Group B on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Wahi got the winner in the 69th minute after feeding Adrien Thomasson for the first-half equaliser following Gabriel Jesus‘s

Manchester United‘s miserable season continued as they slumped to a 3-2 defeat at home to Galatasaray on Tuesday to leave them bottom of Champions League Group A and in all kinds of disarray. Looking to put a fourth Premier League defeat of the season against Crystal Palace on Saturday to the backs of their minds,

Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Oct 3, 2023, 02:55 PM ET Xavi warned against comparing Lamine Yamal with Lionel Messi after the 16-year-old signed a new long-term contract with Barcelona on Monday. Barça face Porto in the Champions League on Wednesday at the Estádio do Dragão, the stadium where Messi made his non-competitive debut for the

Oct 2, 2023, 04:17 PM ET Champions League soccer is back for matchday two! Europe’s premier club competition returns for 2023-24 with eight matches on Tuesday across the continent, providing exciting matchups, top talent and drama. Enjoy the play-by-play from all the matches as Manchester United kick off against Galatasaray, Arsenal face Lens and Real

PGMOL has admitted “standards fell short of expectations” after releasing audio of the VAR discussion that led to a Luis Díaz goal for Liverpool being incorrectly ruled out for offside. The audio was released in full on the Premier League website, along with a full account of what went wrong and a lengthy statement from

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentOct 3, 2023, 12:42 PM ET Pep Guardiola says referees and VARs are in danger of taking centre stage while encouraging officials to “step back” following the controversy during Liverpool‘s defeat to Tottenham on Saturday. Premier League officiating is under the spotlight after Luis Díaz‘s goal for Liverpool at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Graham Hunter, Spain writerOct 3, 2023, 11:44 AM ET Close Graham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team. Most of you will have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, that at the tender age of 22, Takefusa Kubo is already with the eighth club of

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentOct 3, 2023, 08:38 AM ET Manchester City have been hit by travel disruption ahead of their Champions League trip to RB Leipzig. Pep Guardiola and his squad were due to land in Leipzig on Tuesday afternoon but their departure from Manchester airport was delayed because of a severe wind warning. – Stream

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentOct 3, 2023, 09:24 AM ET Qatari businessman Sheikh Jassim remains committed to buying 100 percent of Manchester United, according to a source, while British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe is considering an offer to purchase only a minority stake. Ratcliffe, through his chemical company INEOS, has offered to buy a majority shareholding in

The audio of the VAR discussion which led to a Luis Díaz goal being incorrectly ruled out for offside is set to be released once PGMOL has completed its internal review and shared the findings with Liverpool. Díaz thought he had put Liverpool in front in the 34th minute of Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Tottenham

Adriana Garcia Oct 3, 2023, 07:50 AM ET Inter Miami managing owner Jorge Mas has said he is open to his team playing a game at Barcelona to allow Lionel Messi to bid farewell to his fans. Since Messi left Barca for Paris Saint-Germain free agent in August 2021, there has been talk of a

Oct 3, 2023, 06:50 AM ET Former Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said the Premier League club’s struggles this season have not taken him by surprise. Former Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino took over at Chelsea in July after they finished 12th the previous season, during which Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Lampard were in charge

Oct 3, 2023, 06:10 AM ET Celta Vigo‘s Rafa Benitez has become the latest high-profile manager to hit out at VAR after his side had a goal ruled out in their 2-1 LaLiga defeat at Las Palmas on Monday. The visiting side thought they opened the scoring in the first half through Jørgen Strand Larsen

Connor O’Halloran Oct 2, 2023, 07:01 PM ET LONDON — There was a point on Monday, as a Dominos pizza truck parked up next to Craven Cottage in the build-up to the game, when it became clear Chelsea‘s woeful form in front of goal was beginning to transform from a persistent narrative to a point