Opening day of the NASL season. It should be the point in the season when players are full of vigor and making sprinting runs across the pitch. But in Fort Lauderdale's opening game of the 2016 season in its home derby against Miami FC, the Strikers looked lethargic, uninspired and lacked any creativity. It was […]

Celtic manager Ronny Deila says it will be hard to leave Patrick Roberts out of his side for the title run-in after the teenager's double inspired his side's comeback in a 3-1 win over Hearts on Saturday. The 19-year-old, in only his second start for the Hoops, helped set up Gary Mackay-Steven to cancel out […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger vowed that his side will not give up on the Premier League title after closing the gap on leaders Leicester City to eight points. Saturday's 4-0 victory over Watford came on the back of a win at Everton before the international break and maintained the pressure on Leicester, who host Southampton […]

AC Milan led Serie A tributes to former defender and club legend Cesare Maldini, who died on Sunday at the age of 84. Maldini, the father of 1990s club icon Paolo Maldini, made 412 appearances with the Rossoneri between 1954 and 1966, winning four league titles including a "scudetto" in his first season with the […]

United States international Clint Dempsey scored the game's only goal as the Seattle Sounders finally bagged their first Major League Soccer win of the season with a 1-0 victory over a depleted Montreal Impact. Dempsey headed home from a corner on 79 minutes to settle a hard fought encounter against a Montreal side still missing […]

Arsenal, Chelsea and Premier League leaders Leicester City on Sunday rejected claims made by a British newspaper that a doctor who prescribed performance-enhancing drugs treated their players. The three teams were cited in a Sunday Times report in which British doctor Mark Bonar was secretly filmed talking about providing professional athletes with banned substances. All […]

Franck Ribery's spectacular bicycle kick sealed Bayern Munich's 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday as the Bundesliga leaders warmed-up for their Champions League quarter-final, first leg against Benfica. The 32-year-old Ribery produced a magic moment on 20 minutes by drilling his overhead kick into the top corner of the Frankfurt net at Munich's Allianz […]

Manchester United host Everton on Sunday (at 11am ET) with the Red Devils looking to build on their 1-0 victory over Manchester City in the last game before the international break. Louis Van Gaal’s men are just four points off the Champions League places and only a win will do if they are to keep […]

Cristiano Ronaldo struck the winner as 10-man Real Madrid came from behind to end Barcelona's 39-game unbeaten run 2-1 in El Clasico at the Camp Nou on Saturday. Gerard Pique's towering header put the hosts in front on the night they honored legendary former player and coach Johan Cruyff. Yet, Karim Benzema quickly leveled before […]

Relegation is not for the faint of heart. It can be a cruel mistress. But, for the neutral, it's a fascinating part of the world's most beautiful sport that adds so much suspense in the final weeks of a season. Not surprisingly, NBC Sports Group has latched on to the interest in the race to […]

Barcelona will honor legendary former player and coach Johan Cruyff as they look to inflict more misery upon eternal rivals Real Madrid in the Clasico on Saturday. The most watched game in world football is Barca's first since Cruyff passed away last week at the age of 68 after a short battle with cancer. A […]

The team selected by Rafael Benitez for his ever Clasico earlier this season wasn’t in line with his standard managerial blueprint. While Barcelona made tactical sacrifices, bringing in the altruistic Sergi Roberto into the side in place of Munir El Haddadi on the right flank, Los Blancos were cavalier. Danilo was drafted in at right-back […]

A trip to Bournemouth on Saturday will inspire thoughts of what might have been for Manchester City, who have not recorded back-to-back Premier League victories since crushing the Cherries 5-1 in mid-October. Manuel Pellegrini's side led the league then and felt certain they would be in contention for a third title in five years, but […]

The first el Clásico of 2016 between Barcelona and Real Madrid kicks off this weekend as hundreds of millions of viewers from around the world tune in to watch the most popular club soccer game on the planet. The 172nd meeting between the two teams will be played at Camp Nou in Barcelona. Here are […]

Bayern Munich midfielder Sebastian Rode says Pep Guardiola's side can ill afford any slip-ups in the Bundesliga title race against his former club Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday. Bayern host relegation-threatened Frankfurt and Rode insists the Bavarians have not given a second's thought to playing Benfica at home four days later in the Champions League quarter-final, […]