After Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez both suffered season-ending injuries within the span of two weeks this past fall, Liverpool's title defense appeared to be over.
Joel Matip was left as the only healthy first-team center back, but soon the Cameroonian — who himself battled his share of injuries in the first half of the campaign — succumbed to a season-ending groin injury in January.
Watch out NWSL: Alex Morgan is on fire and the league’s long-dormant potential powerhouse is awakening. There might be no stopping the Pride — at least until the Olympics roll around.
Before the NWSL match between N.C. Courage and Orlando Pride on Saturday, Courage coach Paul Riley said his Pride counterpart was still adjusting to the American league. Marc Skinner arrived in Orlando from England, where Riley said the pace is far slower.
Se juegue en Argentina, Estados Unidos o en el País del Nunca Jamás, la Copa América está a la vuelta de la esquina. Uno de los partidos más atractivos de la fase de grupos será el que mida a la selección anfitriona con Chile, el próximo 13 de junio, en el Monumental de Buenos Aires. El duelo aún trae esquirlas de las ediciones 2015 y 2016 y tendrá a Messi enfrentando a uno de los peores demonios que viven en su cabeza.
Group D favorites England and Croatia face off in a highly-anticipated clash on June 13th. Here's everything you need to know about the opening weekend clash between a pair of European powerhouses:
The Netherlands will face off against Ukraine in the first table match of the 2020 UEFA Football Championship at 3:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, June 13th at the Johann Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam. Below we go through how to watch the Netherlands vs. Ukraine match and how to prepare.
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For just the third time this season, fans were allowed inside Vitality Stadium for the first leg of Bournemouth's Championship Playoff Semifinal against Brentford.
Well-partitioned, socially-distanced pods of mask-wearing Cherries fans dotted the stands like freshly planted plots of seeds in a garden, and while they only numbered about 2,000, the Bournemouth supporters came ready to make some noise.
Every Premier League fan has those few players they believe should be banished from the league, whether it be a starter on their team that regularly makes costly errors, or the bench player who has as many first team appearances as loan spells.
When it comes to evaluating the worst players of the Premier League, one soon realizes there is a problematic paradox that arises. I refer to it as the mediocrity paradox:
BRUSSELS - Belgium’s Axel Witsel was included in the squad for next month’s European Championship with coach Roberto Martínez gambling the influential midfielder will be fit in time for the tournament.
Witsel, 32, had surgery on an Achilles tendon injury suffered with Borussia Dortmund in January and has not played since but has been a key part of Belgium's lineup, winning the last of his 110 caps against England last November.
“Witsel is recovering well and working really hard to be completely fit and is ahead of his recovery schedule," Martínez told reporters on Monday.
El corazón americanista está herido. Sus opciones de convertirse en campeón de la Liga MX están en peligro, luego de la derrota 3-1 que sufrió ante Pachuca, en el duelo de ida de los cuartos de final del Guard1anes 2021. Fue un resultado contundente y que también se antoja difícil de revertir en la revancha de este domingo en el Estadio Azteca.
Nada es imposible, por cierto, y aquí hay algunas cosas que el equipo de Santiago Solari debe/puede hacer para conseguirlo.