Inter Miami won their fourth straight MLS game as Julian Gressel provided another assist in the Herons 2-1 victory at Charlotte FC.
With Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez away on Copa America duty, Gressel has stepped up to help fill the void for Gerardo Martino s side.
And he delivered again as his brilliant cross teed up Benjamín Cremaschi for an 86th-minute winner.
Dean Smith s Charlotte team were subsequently reduced to 10 men when Patrick Agyemang, who had earlier cancelled out Robert Taylor s opener for Miami, saw red deep in stoppage time.
Miami stay top of MLS, two points ahead of FC Cincinnati, who they face next, in the Eastern Conference.
Charlotte, meanwhile, sit sixth in the same conference after suffering back-to-back defeats.
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France coach Didier Deschamps said it would have been pointless to leave a fatigued Kylian Mbappe on for the final 15 minutes of extra time against Portugal.
Mbappe was taken off at the interval in the added 30 minutes in Hamburg on Friday, with the score level at 0-0.
It remained that way 15 minutes later, though Portugal squandered two golden chances, with Joao Felix and Nuno Mendes failing to convert.
France ultimately got the job done in the end, though, triumphing 5-3 on penalties, with Felix missing the decisive spot-kick.
Mbappe had a game-leading five shots, though they accumulated just 0.17 expected goals (xG), but Deschamps believes it would have been foolish to leave the 25-year-old on any longer.
Deschamps said: He s tired, obviously. …
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believes Jarell Quansah underlined his potential by producing a “top game” in tricky conditions at Bournemouth.
The 20-year-old defender helped the much-changed Reds set up a Carabao Cup quarter-final against West Ham with an assured performance in Wednesday’s 2-1 success at Vitality Stadium.
The England Under-21 international was forced to contend with relentless rain and swirling winds on just his fourth senior start for the Reds as Storm Ciaran hit the south coast.
What a performance from Jarell tonight
— Liverpool FC (@LFC)
Manager Klopp praised his players’ professionalism in successfully battling the adverse weather and singled out centre-back Quansah for special praise.
“He was really good,�…
Antonio Conte has held talks with Roma, confirmed the club s director Francesco Totti, who says teams would do crazy things to appoint the coach.
Conte, who has been out of work since leading Chelsea to FA Cup glory last season, previously won three consecutive Serie A titles at Juventus before taking charge of Italy in 2014.
Bayern Munich and Inter have also been linked with Conte, but Totti is keen to bring the 49-year-old to Roma.
We see that in recent weeks there is a lot of talking about Conte, Totti said to Sky Sport Italia. We have Claudio Ranieri on the bench and we have to show respect.
Every club would do crazy things for him [Conte]. At the end of the season we ll decide if our coach will be Conte, Ranieri or somebody else. For now we are on…
Manchester United supporters forced the home match against Liverpool to be postponed in 2021. Games were being played in front of empty stands at the time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a group of United supporters broke into the Old Trafford stadium ahead of the match, breaking the safety bubble of the venue and the game could not be played that day.
United are set to host Liverpool again on Monday evening, and after a poor start to the season, protests have been announced once more.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp hopes the match goes ahead and believes it will, but he also feels that if it cannot, the three points should go to his team due to the fact that Liverpool have nothing to do with the situation at United and because the season is already jam-packed with the W…
British property developer Nick Candy is actively exploring the possibility of bidding for ownership of Chelsea.
The billionaire – a lifelong Blues fan – is looking to join up with another party or consortium to make a bid to buy the club after Roman Abramovich last week announced he was willing to sell.
Russia s invasion of Ukraine has led to calls for current owner Abramovich – and other Russian individuals and entities – to face sanctions from the British government, with the 55-year-old Russian oligarch having been photographed with president Vladimir Putin in the past.
Although a spokesperson for Abramovich claimed he was trying to help achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict, the billionaire later announced he had taken the incredibly diff…