Manchester City (Soccer Team)
Premier League Preview: Has Arsenal Pulled It Together? Will United Fall Apart?
Somehow, it is that time again. Cue the dramatic music, crank up the content generator and get ready to absorb the hottest takes around: the Premier League season is upon us once again. Quite what form this edition of soccer’s great hubristic soap opera will take is, of course, not yet clear. That, after all, […]
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How Real Madrid Beat Manchester City
Pep Guardiola’s team is not the first to experience that, of course. It is hard to tell whether it is something about the Bernabéu that does it, or whether it is the effect of feeling like you are living in a self-fulfilling prophecy, but this place has an unrivaled ability to unsettle even the greatest […]
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Manchester City Fights Off Atlético Madrid in Champions League
MADRID — Many things happened at the Wanda Metropolitano in the final 10 or 20 minutes, the ones that seemed to stretch on and on, long past the final whistle, until they almost constituted another self-contained bonus game, a separate third installment of a scheduled two-part drama. There was some hair-pulling. There was quite a […]
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Soccer’s Richest Clubs Sidestep UEFA Salary Cap in New Cost Controls
The biggest reforms of European soccer’s financial controls in a generation will stop short of creating U.S.-style salary caps to restrain teams’ spending, and instead will enact rules that are unlikely to stop the continent’s richest clubs from buying up the best talent and winning the most coveted trophies. UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, has […]
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NYCFC Played the Long Game to Reach MLS Cup
PORTLAND, Ore. — The road, New York City Football Club executives had said from their team’s earliest days, was always supposed to lead here, to big moments, to finals, to trophies. It perhaps did not need to have so much drama, they knew, but this was always the plan. Victory arrived soaked in tension and […]
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