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Manchester City must cut out mistakes, says Pellegrini

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini admitted his side must not repeat the defensive errors that marred their Champions League quarter-final, first leg with Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday despite the 2-2 draw giving them the edge. Away goals by Kevin De Bruyne and Fernandinho at the Parc des Princes mean City have the upper hand ahead […]

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Tickets on sale for Arsenal vs. Chivas Guadalajara game in Los Angeles

As of press time, less than one thousand tickets remain for the Arsenal vs. Chivas Guadalajara friendly that's scheduled to be played at the Stubhub Center outside Los Angeles on Sunday, July 31. Tickets for the game will certainly be sold out very soon. And for most Arsenal fans, the game will be the best […]

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Wolfsburg manager tells Real Madrid's Marcelo to 'cut the acting'

Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking has told Real Madrid defender Marcelo to "cut out the acting" following his antics during his team's 2-0 Champions League quarter-final first leg defeat in Germany. The Brazil left-back thrust his head towards Wolfsburg midfielder Maximilian Arnold's chest in the 69th minute of Real's shock defeat, then crumpled to the turf, […]

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Arsene Wenger plays down Jack Wilshere nightclub incident

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on Thursday played down a late-night scrape involving Jack Wilshere and revealed that the midfielder will make his long-awaited return to action this week. Wilshere, 24, was photographed speaking to police in the early hours of Sunday morning after reportedly being rejected from a nightclub in central London. The England midfielder […]

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s evolution has put him in the world-class bracket

There aren’t many forwards in world soccer who intertwine attributes as neatly and as devastatingly as Borussia Dortmund’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Soccer is full of players with searing pace, forwards with a strong running style and strikers who are unerringly composed when chances come their way. But to marry all these traits makes for a very […]

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Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp says Borussia Dortmund are favorites in quarter-final

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says there will be no place for sentimentality when he faces his former club Borussia Dortmund in Thursday's Europa League quarter-final, first-leg. "I want to beat them, even though they are all my friends here. No question," said the Liverpool boss who quit as Dortmund coach last May after seven years […]

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Claudio Ranieri hails 'horse' Jamie Vardy and battery-powered N'Golo Kante

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has described Jamie Vardy as a "fantastic horse" and says that his Premier League title-chasing players were "too small or too slow" for other clubs. A year ago, Leicester were six points from safety at the foot of the table, but Sunday's 1-0 win over Southampton left them seven points […]

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Real Madrid suffer shock first leg defeat at Wolfsburg [VIDEO]

Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid suffered a shock 2-0 Champions League defeat at Wolfsburg in Wednesday's quarter-final, first-leg to leave them on the verge of a European exit. Just five days after ending Barcelona's 39-game unbeaten run with a 2-1 away win in El Clasico, Real were humbled as Wolfsburg ignored their struggling mid-table form in […]

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Man City in driving seat after slapstick night against PSG

Away goals by Kevin De Bruyne and Fernandinho handed Manchester City a 2-2 first-leg draw at Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday to give the English side the edge in their Champions League quarter-final tie. On a night that will be remembered for some comical defending and a Zlatan Ibrahimovic penalty that was saved by City goalkeeper […]

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Swiss police raid UEFA headquarters in Panama Papers case

Swiss police on Wednesday searched UEFA's headquarters for contracts linked to a Champions League television rights deal revealed in the so-called "Panama Papers", which involves FIFA's new president Gianni Infantino. "UEFA can confirm that today we received a visit from the office of the Swiss Federal Police acting under a warrant," the European football confederation […]

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Leicester not getting carried away, says Kasper Schmeichel

Leicester City are staying grounded despite requiring just 12 points from their final six games to complete an extraordinary Premier League title triumph, according to goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel. A year ago, the east Midlands club were bottom of the table and six points adrift of safety, but Sunday's 1-0 win over Southampton left them seven […]

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Messi tax trial dates altered for Copa America

Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi's trial for tax fraud has been reset to its initial start date of May 31 after an earlier change in the schedule threatened his participation in June's Copa America in the United States. The initial decision to delay the start of the trial till June 7 would have seen […]

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Europa League games on TV: April 6, 2016

We're down to the final eight teams in the UEFA Europa League — a competition where this year, the winner gets an automatic qualification into next season's UEFA Champions League. For viewers in the United States, all of the Europa League quarter-final games will be shown live on television and live streaming. Here's the schedule: Thursday, […]

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Hillsborough jury retires to consider verdicts

Jurors at the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster retired to consider their verdicts on Wednesday, over two years since the hearings began. The jury of seven women and three men, which has been sitting since March 2014 at a purpose-built courtroom in Warrington, northwest England, will consider […]

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FOX Sports interrupts soccer game to show 15 minutes of FOX News election coverage

Soccer fans who tuned in to watch the Champions League game between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City on FOX Sports GO got a surprise Wednesday when the broadcast of the match suddenly switched to live coverage of FOX News. The mistake happened in approximately the 9th minute of the game. One second, viewers were watching […]