Urawa Reds cut Kawasaki Frontale’s lead at the top of the overall J. League table to two points after coming from behind to beat FC Tokyo 3-1 on Saturday. Frontale, kicking off one hour before Urawa took on Tokyo, conceded an 89th-minute goal to ...
Liverpool ended Chelsea’s unbeaten start in the English Premier League with a rousing 2-1 win on Friday. Keen to establish a high level of consistency, Liverpool backed up a 4-1 win over titleholder Leicester by outclassing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, where the visitors posted ...
Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem before a U.S. women’s national team match against Thailand on Thursday night. Rapinoe first knelt during the anthem Sept. 4 before a game with her National Women’s Soccer League team, the Seattle Reign. She said she wanted ...
Colorful Rangers midfielder Joey Barton has apologized unreservedly after being banished from the Scottish Premiership club’s training ground for what he called “inappropriate” comments. Barton’s future with the Glasgow giants was thrown into doubt after he was sent home on Tuesday following a reported ...
It cost Everton £10 million ($13.2 million) to fire manager Roberto Martinez after three years in charge in May. It then cost the Merseyside club £5 million in compensation paid to Southampton to appoint Ronald Koeman. Everton, which has made its best start for ...
Feyenoord stunned Manchester United 1-0 in the Europa League on Thursday, handing the English giant a second loss in less than a week. For Feyenoord, it was just more of the same — Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s team has won all five of its Dutch ...
Japan dropped seven places to 56th in the world according to the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday. After losing to the United Arab Emirates at home on Sept. 1 to start the final round of World Cup qualifying, Japan is now the sixth-highest ...
Cristiano Ronaldo and Alvaro Morata scored very late goals as Real Madrid came from behind to beat Sporting Lisbon 2-1 and avoid starting the defense of its Champions League title with a shock defeat on Wednesday. Ronaldo equalized from an 89th-minute free kick against ...
Barcelona’s lethal MSN — Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar — dissected Celtic 7-0 while a deluge washed out Pep Guardiola’s eagerly awaited first Champions League game in charge of Manchester City on Tuesday. There was no rain but there was a flood of ...
Fifteen-year-old former Barcelona prodigy Takefusa Kubo will be cleared to play for FC Tokyo’s top-flight team, which could make him the youngest ever to appear in the J. League’s first division, a club source said. Kubo is currently 15 years, 3 months old. Former ...
Romelu Lukaku fired an 11-minute hat trick to end his 11-game Premier League scoring drought in style as Everton beat Sunderland 3-0 on Monday. The Belgium striker struck with 60th and 68th-minute headers and then completed his hat trick with 19 minutes remaining at ...
Genki Haraguchi put in a man-of-the-match performance, setting up both goals as Hertha Berlin won 2-0 away to Ingolstadt on Saturday to make it two out of two in the new German Bundesliga season. The 25-year-old attacker, who scored the opening header in Japan’s ...
