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☆ Everton Saved Its Premier League Status. But for How Long?
  + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
LIVERPOOL, England — The announcement rang out around Goodison Park before kickoff, and then again ahead of the second half. In a clear, commanding voice, it informed Everton’s fans that they were not, under any circumstances, to invade the field or throw objects at the players on it. With Everton’s long-held place in England’s Premier League hanging by a fraying thread, it was reasonable to assume that Sunday afternoon would end in one of two outcomes: ecstasy or outrage. Leeds lost, Leicester won; both were relegated anyway. Everton, for the second time in two seasons, clung to its place in the elite by the quicks of its fingernails.
☆ At Manchester City, Clinical Success Leaves Outsiders Cold
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
MANCHESTER, England — All that remains, now, is to fill in the final few administrative details. Manchester City may not need to kick another ball to claim the Premier League title for the third time in three seasons, should its last rival standing, Arsenal, slump to defeat at Nottingham Forest on Saturday. Failing that, a single victory in City’s final three games should do it. Everything changed, he has said, with an impromptu meeting in the aftermath of a February draw with Nottingham Forest. That was the moment, the Manchester City manager either believes or wants to believe, that his players buckled down, took control, and bent the Premier League to their will.
☆ The Premier League Crucible Produces Something New: Ideas
  + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Manchester City had been in possession of the ball for a minute, no more, but to the denizens of the Santiago Bernabéu, it felt like an hour or more. Pep Guardiola’s team moved it backward and forward and then backward again. They would have known as they prepared for their Champions League semifinal that there would be phases when there was little they could do beyond watch City move the ball around. The idea that a visitor, no matter how talented, should come to the Bernabéu and look as comfortable as Manchester City did, in that spell on Tuesday night, was clearly one of them. Guardiola’s team looked so thoroughly at home that it might as well have had its feet on the coffee table and a wash in the machine.
☆ The New A.C. Milan Picks Up Where the Old One Left Off
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“This club is used to these moments, these emotions. It knows how to be a protagonist.”For Milan, this is the stage on which it belongs. The clubs have been here before: They were paired together in the semifinals in 2003, and again in the quarterfinals in 2007. And yet the rivalry’s return is not testament to how little has changed, but how much. It was still, recognizably, the team that Silvio Berlusconi had built, the fruits of the first modern superclub: experienced, authoritative, impossibly glamorous.
☆ Harry Kane and the End of the Line
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
One day last month, Levy, the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur, told the students of the Cambridge University Union that he hoped a statue of Harry Kane would stand outside the club’s stadium one day, possibly its greatest-ever striker immortalized in bronze. If he is to leave Spurs, then it is hard to escape the impression that it is now or never. Kane is the sort of forward who would slot easily into any team. He can play as a focal point, he can act as a poacher, but by inclination he is a playmaker, too. He is, in essence, a false False Nine.
☆ German Soccer Team Sets New Ticket Price: Free
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Fortuna Düsseldorf, a middleweight sort of a club based in Germany’s richest city and currently treading water in the country’s second division, does not make a likely crucible for a revolution. Free, for both home and away fans. “We think it is completely new,” Alexander Jobst, the club’s chief executive, said in an interview on Thursday. “We were trying to think about how we could do the soccer business completely different from before.”The solution he and his colleagues happened upon, he admitted, might seem just a touch “disruptive,” to use his word. Long before television and sponsorships, ticketing was the original pillar of the sports industry.
☆ Manchester City, Relentless and Ruthless, Strolls Past Arsenal
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Arsenal remains atop the Premier League, of course, 2 points ahead of Manchester City, but having played two more games. Arteta and Arsenal did not just lose to Manchester City on Wednesday night. The wild reverie that this might all end with a first Premier League title in almost 20 years was exposed as an illusion. The tendency both inside and outside Arsenal will, naturally, be to suggest that Arteta and his team brought this all upon themselves. Arsenal led by two goals at Liverpool, and drew.
☆ The Champions League Ventures Down Memory Lane
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Bayern Munich will not take this well. The club is unlikely to shrug its shoulders at being eliminated from not only the Champions League but the German cup, too, in the space of a few days. Thomas Tuchel, freshly installed as Nagelsmann’s replacement, should be safe for now, but all around him will be a blur of change. There was a sense, watching Manchester City hold Bayern at bay on Wednesday evening, of two clubs moving in opposite directions. Like Juventus and Barcelona before it, Bayern Munich will at some point bow to, or be bowed by, England’s economic primacy.
☆ Naples Starts to Believe
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Rory Smith | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Goals scored hundreds of miles away have a notable effect, too. “If tens of thousands of people jump up to celebrate at the same time, we see it,” Bianco said. Her colleagues know to disregard these bits of data, of course, and she has not noticed anything particularly unusual over the last few months. Napoli has scored more goals. It is emblazoned with the words “Napoli Campioni.” He barks out the price and stretches out his hand, impatiently, to take the bank note.
☆ Can You Tell a Country by Its Corner Kicks?
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Rory Smith | Allison Mccann | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +11 min
Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Argentina vs. Mexico 2022 World Cup Nov. 26, 2022 The play started here as a corner. Reid can, sometimes, tell where a team is from just from the way it attacks or defends its corner kicks.
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