As a Newcastle United supporter, I’ve spent a large portion of my life telling anyone and everyone how Martin Dúbravka is the most underrated goalkeeper in the Premier League. The 32-year-old Slovak is a world-class shot stopper, but most of those keepers come with the caveat of “prone to the odd howler.”
Not Dúbravka.
At least not until Wednesday when Slovakia met Spain in its Euro 2020 Group E finale.
SEVILLE - Spain's Euro 2020 had been turbulent before it began due to COVID-19 complications, but now the crisis is on the pitch where players lack spark, confidence or cutting edge — and are in serious danger of a shock group stage exit.
Saturday's 1-1 draw with Poland was a step back performance-wise from the opening 0-0 draw with Sweden and left Spain in the unexpected position of third in an unimposing Group E and needing to beat Slovakia in their last game to go through.
Álvaro Morata is always in the right areas as a striker. He just can’t quite figure out the finishing when his team needs it most.
Morata, who misses more chances than most players ever create, will rue a missed opportunity on a rebound off the post as Spain huffed and puffed to a second straight draw at Euro 2020, this a 1-1 with Poland on Saturday. Not even a first-half goal from Morata will help us forget this latest miss.
BUDAPEST — France striker Antoine Griezmann says he would like to see out his playing days in Major League Soccer to realize a long-held desire to live in the United States.
Griezmann, who is set to make his 50th consecutive start for France in Saturday's Euro 2020 game against Hungary, has long been fascinated with life stateside and is a keen basketball fan, often travelling to NBA games when he has time off.
Week 1 of 4 of Euro 2020 brought plenty of goal-mouth action, but also some disappointing performances — especially from some tournament favorites.
While we're only just starting the second matchday of the group stage, it is never too early to make some broad and definitive conclusions about the action that has taken place thus far.
Here are the biggest things I noticed from the opening week of the Euros.
The pre-tourney favorites have been underwhelming — except for Italy (and maybe Belgium)
Llegó en 2005 desde el Sevilla a cambio de 27 millones de euros y hoy se va como uno de los mejores jugadores en su historia. Sergio Ramos y Real Madrid anunciaron hoy de manera oficial que seguirán caminos diferentes en la temporada 2021-22.
Los merengues lo comunicaron escuetamente en sus redes sociales.
Comunicado Oficial.#RealMadrid
News broke on Wednesday that Sergio Ramos is leaving Real Madrid. Ramos plans to have a farewell press conference on Thursday.
Official. Sergio Ramos LEAVES Real Madrid, just been confirmed by the club. #SergioRamos #Ramos
FC Barcelona released new home kits for the 2021-2022 La Liga season and they're chaotically terrible. The new shirts appear as if the creators never agreed on a set design and continued the fight throughout the process.
With Barcelona being in severe debt, we should have assumed the new kits would be this bad. They feature verticle traditional blaugrana stripes and a new design inspired by the team crest. With tons of stripes and lots of colors, these kits fail to impress.
Spain absolutely dominated Sweden on Monday. With 85 percent possession, I had nearly as many touches as Sweden’s attackers. And yet, striker Marcus Berg nearly stole a win with one of his team’s few forays forward. Instead, he scuffed his chance, and teammate Emil Forsberg’s theatric reaction summed up the feelings of a nation who for a half second believed they might take down the three-time European champion.
Soccer's European Championship kicks off on Friday with the 24 teams' battle for glory accompanied by off-field conflict over the anti-racism gesture of "taking the knee".
England were booed by some of their fans in two friendlies while Ireland were jeered in Hungary for kneeling before kickoff in a move borrowed from American NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and popularised by the Black Lives Matter movement.