Month: September 2020

3:15 AM ET Manchester City have reached an agreement to sign defender Ruben Dias from Benfica for €68 million plus add-ons, the Portuguese club have announced. Benfica also said that City defender Nicolas Otamendi will go the other way in a separate transfer for €15m. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Play
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3:30 PM ET Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has criticised Leicester’s tactics after seeing his team suffer a 5-2 home defeat. City dominated after former Leicester midfielder Riyad Mahrez gave them an early lead but their game plan crumbled after Jamie Vardy netted a 37th-minute penalty. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)–
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4:13 PM ET Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has said he rejected multiple offers to leave Arsenal this summer, including one from Barcelona, but was convinced to stay by manager Mikel Arteta and his relationship with the club’s supporters. Aubameyang ended months of speculation by signing a bumper long-term contract with Arsenal earlier this month. Sources told ESPN
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7:17 PM ET Teenager Ansu Fati offered Barcelona a glimpse of what life may be like without Lionel Messi with a starring role in Sunday’s 4-0 win against Villarreal. Fati, 17, helped Barca put a tumultuous summer behind them with two goals as Ronald Koeman’s side made the perfect start to the new La Liga
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10:01 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has had a dig at Manchester United‘s penalty record after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer teased him in his post-match interview on Saturday. Mourinho had complained that the goals were too small ahead of his side’s Europa League qualifier against Shkendija on Thursday.
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1:23 PM ET A Jamie Vardy hat trick and goals from James Maddison and Youri Tielemans helped Leicester City beat Manchester City 5-2 on Sunday. Ederson could do little in the City goal as Vardy and Tielemans fired three penalties past him. Vardy and Maddison added two from open play while goals from Riyad Mahrez
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7:11 AM ET Eredivisie side FC Emmen will play the 2020-21 season with a company that sells sex toys as their shirt sponsor after a request was accepted by the Dutch FA (KNVB). Initially, the idea was rejected by the KNVB on the grounds that it was against their “code of values,” but Emmen will
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11:55 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho has said he doesn’t want to speak about the last minute VAR penalty decision which saw Newcastle United earn a point against his side. Eric Dier was judged to have handled the ball in the box in the dying moment of the game after Andy Carroll‘s header
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4:40 AM ET Schalke 04 have fired their coach David Wagner following an unprecedented run of 18 matches without a win. Wagner was let go after his side lost 3-1 at home to Werder Bremen on Saturday (stream the replay on ESPN+ in the U.S.), meaning their last win in the Bundesliga came in January.
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1:54 PM ET The Colorado Rapids‘ Major League Soccer clash with Sporting Kansas City originally scheduled for Sunday has been postponed due to a high number of positive coronavirus cases for the hosts. In a statement, MLS staid that one Rapids player and three staff members had tested positive, and that the Sunday’s game is
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7:52 PM ET The combination of Real Madrid and VAR was too much for Real Betis to contend with in Saturday’s 3-2 home defeat, coach Manuel Pellegrini said after his team came away empty-handed despite outplaying the La Liga champions for parts of the game. Betis overcame an early goal to take a 2-1 lead
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8:03 PM ET English third-tier side Oxford United had to hire taxis or jump into their own cars to get to their match on Saturday after their team bus was brought to a halt by an alcohol-based anti-COVID-19 spray. – Stream LIVE games and replays on ESPN+ (U.S. only) Head coach Karl Robinson said the
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5:53 PM ET USL Championship side LA Galaxy II, the reserve team of the LA Galaxy, announced on Saturday that it had “mutually agreed to part ways” with defender Omar Ontiveros in the wake of an on-field racist incident involving the player. The incident took place in the 71st minute of Wednesday’s 1-1 draw between
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