Arsenal head coach Jonas Eidevall believes the continued growth of the Women s Super League should lead to an English team winning the Women s Champions League soon.
The Gunners won the UEFA Women s Cup in 2006-07, but no English side has lifted the trophy since the inception of the Champions League format in 2009, with Chelsea losing to Barcelona in the final in 2020-21.
Ahead of Arsenal s quarter-final second leg against Bayern Munich, with the German outfit leading 1-0 from the first leg, Eidevall expressed his optimism for WSL teams in Europe in future.
It s natural that the clubs who have invested the most have also been the most successful ones, the Swedish coach said. If you see how the WSL has grown this year with more games played at bigger stadiums, go…
Liam Cooper is expected to leave Leeds United in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has noted that Cooper is out of contract at Leeds. The West Yorkshire club want the defender to stay and have offered him a one-year contract, but the Scotland international centre-back is holding out for a two-year deal.
Cooper has been on the books of Leeds since 2014 when he joined from Chesterfield. The 32-year-old has been superb for the Whites over the years and is a leader for the team. However, the two parties cannot agree on a new contract, and there could be a parting of the ways soon.
Leeds reached the Championship playoff final last season and went down to Southampton in the big finale at Wembley Stadium in London. Daniel Farke’s side will be determined t…
Erik ten Hag questioned Manchester United s mentality after starting their Europa League campaign with a 1-1 draw against FC Twente on Wednesday.
Christian Eriksen s stunning opener was cancelled out by Sam Lammers 68-minute strike, with United s Danish midfielder losing possession cheaply in the build-up.
It means the Red Devils have now failed to win their opening major European match in each of the last four seasons, losing in 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 and now drawing on Wednesday.
Ten Hag s side have also struggled when scoring the first goal in Europe, winning just one of their last six matches in the Champions League and Europa League when opening the scoring.
It was a contest dominated by the hosts, with United recording 19 shots to their opp…
Manchester United halted their two-game losing run with a 3-0 victory over 10-man Southampton at St Mary s, with Matthijs de Ligt, Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho on target.
United emerged from the first international break of 2024-25 14th in the Premier League table following defeats to Brighton and Liverpool, but they got back to winning ways after surviving an early scare on the south coast.
Making his first Premier League start, Tyler Dibling won a penalty for Southampton in the first half, but Andre Onana kept out Cameron Archer s tame kick and the momentum shifted from there.
De Ligt headed in his first United goal just two minutes later, then an excellent Rashford strike, curled into the bottom-right corner from the edge of the box, gave them breath…
Gareth Southgate plans to stay on as England manager for the 2022 World Cup if he feels there is warmth for him to continue, though he acknowledged that could depend on his side s performance at Euro 2020.
England secured their place at next year s finals with a 7-0 rout of Montenegro last week, before rounding off their qualification campaign in style by beating Kosovo 4-0.
After reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, the last four of the UEFA Nations League and qualifying for Euro 2020 comfortably at the top of Group A, Southgate conceded his side will now be singled out as one of the teams to beat in the tournament.
And the former Middlesbrough manager is aware how his position could change should England fail to impress next year.
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Germany have an early chance to underline their title credentials at Euro 2012 when they face Portugal in Lviv on Saturday.
Joachim Loew s men are one of the pre-tournament favourites in Poland and Ukraine, but face a stern test first up in Group B.
With a clash against the Netherlands to follow before a meeting with Denmark, a strong start is a must for Germany in what has been labelled the Group of Death .
The return to fitness of Bastian Schweinsteiger is a boost for Loew s team ahead of the opener, with the Bayern Munich midfielder returning from a calf injury.
Portugal are expected to be heavily reliant on Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo if they are to be successful in a tough group.
The attacker was their top-scorer in qualifying and wil…
Spain laboured to a 1-0 Euro 2008 warm-up victory over the USA here on Wednesday night, badly missing injured striker David Villa and midfielder Andres Iniesta.
Xavi Hernandez scored the only goal of the game in the 78th minute for a side which lacked ideas, particularly in the playmaking role in which Iniesta excels and up front where Valencia s Villa would have made a difference.
Villa is suffering from a right quadriceps injury after a training ground incident on Tuesday and tests revealed a major bruise. Iniesta missed the match because of food poisoning.
Aragones almost fielded the same side which had trouble beating Peru 2-1 last Saturday, though Santiago Cazorla and Cesc Fabregas came in for Iniesta and Villa against Bob Bradley s American side.
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Christmas is a time for giving, and we think football should be no different.
Generosity on the pitch is at the very heart of the game, whether it be in the form of scoring crucial goals, giving the ball to your team-mates, or even gifting the odd free-kick to the opposition.
With the spirit of the (football) season very much at its peak in late December, we have decided, with a little help from Opta, to compile the most munificent players in Europe s top-five leagues in 2018-19. This is for league football only, mind you. Christmas is all about being close to home.
To offer some balance to this most extravagant time of year, we are including both positive and negative aspects of football s gift-givers. Be they kings of the assist or a little too eager to hand o…
Sunday May 15, 2004 will go down as one of the most significant dates in English football s rich history.
That was, of course, the day Arsenal beat Leicester City 2-1 to become the first team to go an entire league season unbeaten since Preston North End in 1888-89.
When Arsene Wenger hoisted aloft his third Premier League title in seven seasons on that sunny Sunday at Highbury, nobody would have predicted that, 11 years later, the Frenchman would still be awaiting number four.
There have been near misses since.
Wenger often cites Arsenal s failure to last the course in 2008 when they were five points clear at the top in late February, but fell away as the psychological impact of Eduardo s horrific leg break at Birmingham City took its toll as a source…
Spanish midfielder Xavi was named player of Euro 2008 by UEFA on Monday.
The 28-year-old Barcelona dynamo scorer of eight goals in 63 internationals was judged to be at the heart of Spain s triumphant campaign which saw them top it with a 1-0 victory over Germany in Sunday s final ending a 44 year title drought.
It was him (Xavi) who gave the team its tempo, said UEFA technical director Andy Roxburgh.
Xavi scored once in the tournament and also created the goal for Fernando Torres in the final.
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