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Vancouver Whitecaps are supposed to be playing hosts to Real Salt Lake in the MLS on Wednesday evening (the night between Wednesday and Thursday in Europe), but in reality, it will be the other way around. The match will take place at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, where the Whitecaps have been playing their home games due to the Covid-related travel restrictions imposed between the USA and Canada. It is the home of Real Salt Lake.
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The Whitecaps have been competing in the MLS since 2011, but in the decade gone by since, they ve never won it. The closest they got to the top was in 2015, when they finished second in the Western Conference and third in overall placement. Last season, they finished ninth in the…
Mikel Arteta has challenged Arsenal to improve and show they are the real deal again next season.
The Gunners ended a campaign of obvious progress with a 5-0 thrashing of Wolves on the final day, which meant they finished only five points behind champions Manchester City.
Arsenal had been top of the Premier League for 248 days before a run of two wins in eight fixtures during the closing weeks of the season saw their title quest end on the penultimate weekend.
Finishing as runners-up behind City means Champions League football will return to the Emirates for the first time since 2017 and, while Arteta was delighted to achieve their initial goal this season, he is well aware of the work required to kick on this summer.
“We wanted to bring the club back t…
Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Pedro Neto from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that Wolves are willing to sell Neto at the end of the season, and that the Wanderers want £80 million for him.
Neto has been on the books of Wolves since 2019 and has established himself as an important player in the first team. The Portugal international winger has had injury problems in recent times, but he is fit and available now. Neto has made 16 starts and one substitute appearance in the Premier League for Wolves so far this season, scoring two goals and providing nine assists in those games.
Tottenham are fifth in the Premier League table at the moment with 47 points from 25 matches, five points behind fourth-…
Diego Simeone has dismissed claims of negativity surrounding Atletico Madrid following their resounding 4-0 Champions League defeat to Benfica in midweek.
Los Colchoneros are unbeaten in LaLiga after eight matches, winning four and drawing four, sitting five points behind leaders Barcelona, ahead of Sunday s trip to Real Sociedad.
However, they were trounced by Benfica in their second match in the Champions League s new league phase on Wednesday, the first time they had shipped four goals in a Champions League group-stage game since October 2020 (0-4 at Bayern Munich).
I don t think that there is a negative climate. I believe our atmosphere is good and we are working towards the team we want to have, Simeone told reporters on Saturday.
There are players…
Milan earned their first win of this season s Champions League group stage, but were made to work for it by Dinamo Zagreb as the Italian champions secured a 3-1 victory at San Siro.
Goals either side of half-time from Olivier Giroud and Alexis Saelemaekers gave Stefano Pioli s men a strong lead.
They were made to sweat after Mislav Orsic – who scored the winner against Chelsea for Dinamo last week – pulled his team within one goal again with a fine finish just before the hour mark.
The Rossoneri appeared to tire in the closing stages of the game, but sealed the points when substitute Tommaso Pobega swept in a third for Milan s first home win in the Champions League since they beat Celtic in September 2013.
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Kevin De Bruyne became only the fifth player to reach 100 Premier League assists when he set up Manchester City s opener in their away match at Southampton on Saturday.
De Bruyne s teasing cross was headed home by Erling Haaland, taking him up to a century of assists.
The Belgium international is the quickest to reach that landmark, doing so in just 237 games, with Cesc Fabregas the next fastest having produced 100 in 293 appearances, while Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard are the three other players to have reached three figures.
All but one of De Bruyne s assists were in a City shirt, with the other coming during his time with Chelsea, who he played for between 2012 and 2014 before returning to the Premier League with the City in 2015 after a spell wi…
Harry Kane will miss Bayern Munich s final game of the Bundesliga season after leaving Germany to undergo treatment on a back problem.
Kane has scored 36 league goals in his debut campaign in Bavaria, though he will finish yet another season without silverware, with Bayer Leverkusen having clinched their first top-flight title.
He will end 2023-24 five goals adrift of Robert Lewandowski s single-season goal record of 41, set in 2019-20, after sustaining a back injury.
Ahead of Saturday s trip to Hoffenheim, departing Bayern boss Thomas Tuchel revealed Kane had been struggling before the second leg of their Champions League semi-final loss to Real Madrid.
Harry is being treated by his personal doctor and he is not here anymore, Tuchel said.
He w…
Andrea Pirlo was very, very close to signing for Real Madrid in 2006 and also held talks with Pep Guardiola s Barcelona.
Pirlo played for Milan between 2001 and 2011, winning two Serie A titles as well as a pair of Champions League trophies with the Italian giants.
But during this time, the Rossoneri were involved in the Calciopoli scandal as one of five teams accused of fixing Serie A matches.
This brought their future participation in Serie A and the Champions League into doubt as Pirlo won the 2006 World Cup with Italy, and a move to Santiago Bernabeu almost materialised.
The former midfielder told FourFourTwo: We had just won the World Cup, but we didn t know what would happen.
I was very, very close with Real Madrid. But then we got told tha…
Stefano Pioli is relishing Tuesday s meeting with old foe Antonio Conte as Milan prepare to host Tottenham in their first outing in the Champions League knockout stages since 2014.
Milan finished second to Chelsea in Group E to progress to the last 16 for the first time since the 2013-14 season, when they were hammered 5-1 on aggregate by Atletico Madrid.
Conte s Tottenham stand between Milan and a spot in the last eight, with the former Juventus and Inter boss one of five Italian coaches still present in the competition.
Conte has won eight of his last nine games against Milan (L1) in a run dating back to 2013, and he joins Pioli, Inter s Simone Inzaghi, Napoli s Luciano Spalletti and Real Madrid s Champions League specialist Carlo Ancelotti on an impressive lis…
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes it is scary the levels striker Darwin Nunez could reach.
The Uruguay international’s stunning winner in Wednesday’s Carabao Cup win over Bournemouth was his seventh of the season, having scored in his last three matches.
Nunez scored 15 times in what was a difficult maiden campaign both individually and collectively for the team following his £64million move from Benfica.
The 24-year-old did not speak English when he joined the club but that is developing and Klopp believes he will only got better.
“It is completely different now. The first year was hard for him and then hard for me as well because you see this incredible talent, massive potential, but it is difficult to unfold it,” he said.
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