Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring his side’s opening goal from the penalty spot during the Spanish La Liga match against Celta Vigo on Sunday, November 9, 2025. | Photo: AP/Lalo R. Villar Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring his side’s opening goal from the penalty spot during the Spanish La Liga match against Celta Vigo on…
Serie A leaders Napoli, depleted by injuries to Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku, head to fifth-placed Bologna on Sunday with a trio of rivals just a point behind and hoping they can take advantage of any slip-up by Antonio Conte’s side. This weekend’s European action also includes a historic derby in the Rhine region…
Real Madrid backup goalkeeper Andriy Lunin will serve a one-match suspension after the red card he saw following the altercation during the last minutes of El Clásico between Los Blancos and FC Barcelona, which ended in a 2-1 win for Alonso’s men. Real Madrid had appealed the red card but the allegations have been rejected…
Player protests across La Liga this weekend were not widely broadcast after the Spanish league asked TV companies not to show them, according to multiple people familiar with the request. La Liga sides did not start play for the opening 15 seconds of matches after the Spanish Footballers’ Association (AFE) said on Friday the players…
Cristhian Mosquera was the coolest man inside Anfield when William Saliba came off with an ankle injury five minutes into Arsenal’s visit to champions Liverpool in August. “It was crazy,” says Mosquera, who replaced Saliba for only his second appearance in the English top flight. “I hadn’t played there in the Premier League before, but…
Barcelona 1-2 Paris Saint-Germain Barcelona have lost for the first time this season, with Paris Saint-Germain emerging victorious in their eagerly-anticipated Champions League clash at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys in Montjuic. Advertisement It was an excellent start to proceedings from the Catalans, who asserted their dominance against Luis Enrique’s injury-hit side. Ferran Torres missed…
Sunday, 28 September 2025, 19:01 | Updated 19:27h. Spain’s state meteorological agency (Aemet) has updated the weather warning for extreme risk of rainfall to red level in the provinces of Valencia and Castellón from this Sunday evening, 28 September. The new forecasts indicate that heavy downpours of rain could continue until Tuesday morning. In fact,…
A long-running debate over La Liga’s salary rules was reignited during the summer transfer window. Barcelona were the most high-profile of the many clubs to struggle with the constraints, which are widely seen as the tightest in any top European league. Essentially, they limit how much teams can spend on wages, with each club’s limit…
After three weeks on the road to start the La Liga season champions Barcelona play their first home match on Sunday, although it won’t be the glorious return to the rebuilt Spotify Camp Nou they had hoped for. The Catalan giants will host Valencia at their 6,000-capacity Johan Cruyff training ground stadium as they bid…
MADRID (AP) — Barcelona approaches its first home game in La Liga missing a few injured players — and a proper stadium. Among a few off-field problems for unbeaten Barcelona, the biggest is its inability to get the newly renovated Camp Nou stadium reopened. Advertisement The permits to return to the Camp Nou have not…