international

Arsenal could leapfrog Manchester City in an early-season showdown for the Premier League title on Sunday as crisis-hit Manchester United seeks some respite at home to Brentford. Tottenham has the chance to go on top when it travels to Luton on Saturday thanks to a controversial win over Liverpool last weekend. The Reds are looking […]

        Spain’s Women’s World Cup champions were given a rapturous reception as they played for the first time at home after their triumph, thrashing Switzerland 5-0 in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday in front of a record crowd. Captains Alexia Putellas and Irene Paredes presented the trophy to jubilant supporters in Cordoba and the […]

Spain forward Mariona Caldentey said Monday she hopes the women’s team can compete at the Olympic Games next year, as long as it is under “the conditions we think we deserve.” A players’ strike threatened to derail the team’s hopes of reaching the Paris Games in 2024, after Luis Rubiales, the disgraced former president of the Spanish […]

Once a giant of European soccer, Ajax is now mired in one of the deepest crises in its glittering 123-year history, 14th in the league, top officials fired, and the fans running riot. “The club is in flames,” screamed a headline on the supporters’ association website, describing the scrapping of Sunday’s ‘Klassieker’ against bitter rival […]

Inter Milan and Juventus are renewing an old Serie A title rivalry as Italy’s two most widely supported clubs head into a busy week leading the way. Top of the league with a perfect 12 points, Inter is two in front of second-place Juve ahead of the trip to pointless and goalless Empoli, which will […]

As if putting in its “weakest performance” in Diego Simeone‘s reign last weekend wasn’t enough — to use the coach’s own words — Atletico Madrid was also sucker-punched in the Champions League ahead of the Madrid derby on Sunday. Lazio goalkeeper Ivan Provedel scored a 95th-minute equalizer to deny Atletico an impressive win in Rome on Tuesday which […]

Manchester United faces old nemesis Vincent Kompany at Burnley this weekend in desperate need of a Premier League win while Arsenal hosts in-form Tottenham in a tantalizing north London derby. Struggling Chelsea takes on Unai Emery‘s Aston Villa and new-look Liverpool will look to make it five wins in a row against West Ham. Here are three talking […]

Bitter rivals Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille meet in Ligue 1 on Sunday with the build-up to French soccer ‘s biggest game overshadowed by a crisis engulfing the 1993 Champions League winners.Marseille is unbeaten five games into the Ligue 1 campaign and is a point ahead of reigning champion PSG before the teams clash in the […]

Rejuvenated Wolfsburg aims for a first Bundesliga win in over 10 years at struggling Borussia Dortmund on Saturday with Coach Nico Kovac describing the mission as “an endurance test.” Dortmund, which lost the title to Bayern Munich on the final day of last season, has started this season poorly by its standards and was a […]