AFPMan Utd, Inter favourites for Europa League in unique German finale
Manchester United, Inter Milan and Sevilla headline a quintet of former champions travelling to Germany for a remodelled eight-team straight knockout tournament that will crown the winner of a Europa League campaign heavily disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. All games from the quarter-finals onwards in this season's competition will be played behind closed doors as one-off ties across four venues -- Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Gelsenkirchen -- following a five-month interruption.
LA TimesMLS season to resume with LAFC and Galaxy meeting twice in five games
Major League Soccer will resume its regular season Aug. 12 with its 26 teams playing in their home markets, possibly in front of fans.
AFP'Enormous anticipation' as Bayern plot Barcelona defeat in Champions League
Treble-chasing Bayern Munich are relishing their Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona in Lisbon after Robert Lewandowski netted twice to seal a 4-1 home win over Chelsea on Saturday in the last 16, return-leg tie. Lewandowski, the Champions League's top-scorer, bagged his 12th and 13th goals in Europe this season and played a part in all four Bayern goals in Munich on Saturday.
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- Messi's brilliance pushes Barcelona into Champions League quarterfinals
- Bayern cruises past Chelsea, reaches Champions League quarterfinals
- Andrea Pirlo named new Juventus coach after Maurizio Sarri was fired
- MLS will resume games in its own stadiums, with some fans, on Aug. 12
- UCL: Ronaldo and Juve knocked out by Lyon; Man City ousts Real Madrid