Morocco – Spain, Round of 16: 0 [3] – 0 [0]
Morocco’s victory over Spain was the most engaging match of the Round of 16, and one of the best of the tournament. After a group stage that saw numerous upsets, […]
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Morocco’s victory over Spain was the most engaging match of the Round of 16, and one of the best of the tournament. After a group stage that saw numerous upsets, […]
Ligue 1’s most exciting fixture opening weekend featured Jorge Sampaoli’s Marseille in a come-from-behind 3-2 victory at Montpellier, and this weekend they had an equally exciting, if less successful, 2-2 […]
The Hard Truth of Football The quarterfinal of this year’s condensed Champions League, hosted in Lisbon last week, was nothing short of extraordinary. It seems likely that the combination of […]
With the Women’s World Cup kicking off in France and the U-20 World Cup beginning its quarterfinal round yesterday, the summer soccer season felt like it was kicking off in […]
The Unites States find themselves in a must-win game against Nigeria today after losing 2-1 to Ukraine in their opening game of the Under-20 World Cup. The loss came despite […]
The U-20 World Cup kicked off with games from Groups A and B. The latter of those offered the more interesting fixtures. There is no such thing as a group […]
Mexico upset tournament favorites Germany in a game that was as tactically interesting as it was viscerally exciting. Joachim Löw’s Germany set up in their anticipated 4-2-3-1, though with Marvin […]
The first major game of the 2018 World Cup more than lived up to expectations, as the 36th Iberian derby produced a thrilling and high-quality match of that will be […]
Russia produced a dominating win over Saudi Arabia in this opening match of the 2018 World Cup in a game that was more exciting than skillful. Much of the pre-game […]
At the beginning of last season, I wrote an analysis of the first Guardiola-Mourinho Manchester derby, a game that now seems remarkably distant, a relic of a bygone era. The […]