W2W4 previews the weekend’s Premier League action by highlighting its most compelling storylines …
Who’ll recover the quickest from the Champions League drama?
On Saturday, Man City and Tottenham will reconvene at the Etihad Stadium, ostensibly for a football match. But what we’ll really be watching is a contest of emotional recovery, a struggle to see who can compose themselves first after the extraordinary events of Wednesday night.
It’s tough to work out who is better placed: the team who…
PORTO, Portugal — If the apocalypse comes and all life is wiped out, Liverpool will be right there next to the cockroaches.
They’re the side that won’t go away. The side that in the space of a year has turned from a reckless teenager into a furrowed-brow 30-something, from a side just as liable to blow teams away as explode, into one that wins by any means necessary, grinding out results where you didn’t think them possible.
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A 4-1 win at Porto might sound like the sort of freewheeling performance…
ESPN FC’s Craig Burley and Mark Donaldson square off in predicting who will advance to the Champions League semifinals.
Following Mohamed Salah’s goal-of-the-season contender, ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol explains why the Liverpool forward cannot be underestimated.
James Milner says Liverpool must win something before they can live up to Porto head coach Sergio Conceicao’s assertion that they are sometimes “the best team in the world.”
Liverpool take a 2-0 lead into the second-leg of their Champions League quarterfinal at the Estadio Dragao on Wednesday, and speaking ahead of the game, Conceicao said he is a fan, to say the least, of Jurgen Klopp’s side.
“Liverpool are all about the way that I think about football,” the Porto head coach said. “I like Liverpool’s…
Nick Miller recaps another wild weekend in the Premier League, as Mohamed Salah ensured Liverpool held their nerve, but Chris Hughton’s Brighton lost theirs.
Goal of the weekend
There was a the briefest fraction of a second where Kepa Arrizabalaga might have thought he could get to Mohamed Salah’s rocket, but then the ball seem to swerve late and enough to give him no chance.
Salah still occasionally shows signs that he’s trying too hard to score, but if that’s what comes of those efforts then nobody…
The ESPN FC panel agreed with Maurizio Sarri’s squad selection in the Europa League, saving Chelsea’s big guns for Liverpool on Sunday.
Liverpool and Chelsea’s heavyweight matchup headlines this weeks Premier League predictor, with league title hopes on the line.
Fantasy guru Mark Donaldson gives the rundown on must-own players for gameweek 34 in the English Premier League.
W2W4 previews the weekend’s Premier League action by highlighting its most compelling storylines …
Will Liverpool have the emotional energy to beat Chelsea?
Jurgen Klopp could hardly have asked for a better result from Liverpool’s Champions League tie with Porto on Tuesday, ahead of their game against Chelsea this weekend. It was a straightforward 2-0 win without much drama, which is the sort of thing they needed given some of their previous games: even the 3-1 victory over Southampton the previous…
Super-sub Gerard Deulofeu made all the difference for Watford as the Hornets overturned a two-goal deficit to defeat Wolves and advance to the FA Cup final.
LONDON — With about 15 minutes remaining and the score at 0-2 in their FA Cup semifi…
Nick Miller recaps a topsy-turvy weekend, with Premier League and FA Cup semifinal action serving up another football feast.
Jump to: Klopp’s Hendo love | Arsenal’s travelling woes | Subbed to the Wolves | Team of the Week | Deulo delight | Deeney’s Jimenez smackdown | Brighton back to business | How disappointing are Burnley?
Expectation-quasher of the weekend
How seriously should we take Pep Guardiola’s assertion that it’s “almost impossible” to win the Quadruple?
Naturally, Guardiola’s proclamation…
Two goals in the last 10 minutes gave Liverpool a vital 3-1 win at Southampton that sees them move back to the top of the Premier League.
Two goals in the last 10 minutes gave Liverpool a vital 3-1 win at Southampton that sees them move back to the top of the Premier League.
Two goals in the last 10 minutes gave Liverpool a vital 3-1 win at Southampton that sees them move back to the top of the Premier League.
Following Liverpool’s crucial win at Southampton the ESPN FC crew break down the performance of Mohamed Salah who scored his first goal in nine games.
SOUTHAMPTON, England — Jurgen Klopp told us not to worry about Mohamed Salah.
A full 55 days after his 49th league goal for Liverpool, Salah scored his 50th to turn what had looked like a nervous, near-title-challenge-ending draw with Southampton into a 3-1 victory Friday that will put them on top of the Premier League for at least another nine days.
Salah had looked jittery all night. Nothing he seemed to try was quite right: passes a little off, stumbling here and there, the ball seemingly…
Two points separate the Premier League’s title contenders, while three points cover the four clubs fighting for the last two Champions League places. The FA Cup is into the semifinals and the business end of the season is upon us — Nick Miller lays out the weekend’s biggest storylines.
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Is this Liverpool’s trickiest remaining fixture?
They may sit two places above the relegation zone and aren’t safe just yet, but Southampton has proved a tricky place for some of the big boys to visit…
The Premier League is cming to an exciting conclusion and the FA Cup has reached the semifinal stage. With the business end of the season upon us, Nick Miller lays out the weekend’s biggest storylines.
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Arsenal need to sort out their away form
There’s an air of cautious optimism around Arsenal at the moment. They have already matched last season’s points total and have a strong chance of making the top four after two seasons out of it. Tottenham look tired, Manchester United are wobbling…
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