World Cup

3:44 PM ET The vibes are strange throughout the top of European soccer at the moment. The top teams in both the Premier League (Arsenal) and LaLiga (Barcelona) either didn't qualify or didn't advance to the Champions League knockout rounds, which begin just a week from now, and none of the

8:45 AM ETSophie Lawson Halfway through the 2022-23 Women's Super League season with Chelsea top of the table, is it too soon to declare them the winners after the Blues' closest rivals dropped points again over the weekend? The proposition for the teams at the top of the WSL will always be

2:12 PM ET Manchester City's Premier League title hopes were dealt a fresh blow on Sunday as Harry Kane broke Tottenham's all-time scoring record to give ten-man Spurs a 1-0 win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. - Report: Tottenham 1-0 Man City | How Kane became Spurs' top scorer Pep Guardiola's side remain five

11:39 AM ET Borussia Dortmund crushed 10-man Freiburg 5-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday, with forward Sebastien Haller on target for the first time since his return from cancer treatment, helping lift his side into third spot. The Ruhr valley club, who face Chelsea in the Champions League Round of 16 on

12:29 PM ET Union Berlin's Jordan Pefok thundered in an 84th minute goal to secure a 2-1 home victory over Mainz on Saturday and send them top of the Bundesliga with their fourth straight league win. Union moved to 39 points from 19 games, two ahead of Bayern Munich who can reclaim

6:01 PM ET LONDON -- Football fans can be brutal when they want to be. As Chelsea headed towards a 0-0 draw against local rivals Fulham on a night when £106.8 million signing Enzo Fernandez made his debut as the Premier League's costliest-ever transfer and £88m player Mykhailo Mudryk lasted just

8:26 AM ET Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann said on Friday he expected Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe to play against them in their Champions League round-of-16 first-leg tie on Feb. 14 despite having been ruled out with an injury for three weeks. PSG said on Thursday Mbappe would be out for

5:20 PM ET Every week, our own Luis Miguel Echegaray offers his latest thoughts from the world of football. You have the analysis; now comes LME's commentary. Welcome to The Tap-In. Mo' Money, Top Four Problems? When the late Christopher Wallace -- aka The Notorious B.I.G. -- released "Mo Money Mo Problems" alongside then-called

6:30 AM ETRob DawsonCorrespondent Erik ten Hag is fond of saying Manchester United are going "in the right direction" on the pitch since his arrival as manager in the summer, and the last 24 hours of the January transfer window were evidence that progress has been made off it as

9:05 AM ET At first glance, things haven't changed all that much since soccer's post-World Cup restart a month or so ago. Arsenal and Manchester City have averaged more than two points per game in Premier League play, just as they did before the break. Barcelona have dropped only two points and