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Sky Sports FootballSpain show their class as errors cost England in Nations League loss
Spain showed why they are the best national team in the world by emerging 3-2 winners from a thrilling, chaotic Nations League clash at Wembley, in which England's flaws undermined their exciting attacking play.
BBC SportTuchel rues 'big mistakes' - did Man City charges have impact?
England's loss to Spain was decided by uncharacteristic mistakes, with two Man City players making errors - so did club news affect performances for country?
BBC SportEngland embrace the chaos - but control also needed to win big prizes
England embrace the chaos, but superb Spain show it will never win big prizes, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.
The Guardian FootballOyarzabal earns Spain Nations League win as England pay for Kane penalty miss
It was another high-profile game when Thomas Tuchel’s England let a lead slip in the second half and went on to lose. But unlike the last time, it was not one for recriminations. The England support can accept losing when their team plays with cut and thrust. More to the point, they can accept losing to Spain who, at times, played football from a different stratosphere. England were game. They were driven by Jude Bellingham, who ran on adrenaline and played to the point of maximum expression. They had positive surges either side of the interval, especially the one towards the end of the first half when goals from Anthony Gordon and Harry Kane put them in charge, hauling them back after Lamine Yamal’s second-minute goal. Continue reading...
ESPNIs Cavan Sullivan the next Michael Olise? Comps for USMNT's top young stars
With the USMNT welcoming a new class of debutantes during this international break, ESPN dives into the numbers of the United States' next prodigies.
BBC SportWho made an uncharacteristic error? England player ratings v Spain
England were beaten 3-2 in an entertaining game by world champions Spain in the Nations League - here's how BBC Sport rated the Three Lions' players.
ESPNSpain are reigning world and European champions. They're just getting started
Winning the next four tournaments -- two Nations Leagues, Euro 2028 and the 2030 World Cup -- is something Spain will be aiming for, and it's within their potential.
The Guardian FootballLamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’
Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won World Cup and European Championship but says there are no limits for his career Like the kid he is, Lamine Yamal just wanted to keep playing. This wasn’t Plaça Joan XXIII, wasn’t El Parque de Rocafonda either; it wasn’t the Mataró neighbourhood where it all began, but it might have been. “We’re in a World Cup final and I wanted to carry on,” he says, and there’s the smile again, the braces. Really? “Yes”. No nerves? “No. I never thought: ‘Just blow the whistle’. I was enjoying it.” No fear, just fun: 19 July, New Jersey and he knew: this 19-year-old who had happily been asleep on the bus to the biggest match of his life. And now he sits in a first-floor office in Las Rozas, surrounded by tactics boards and stats sheets. There’s a Spain keyring hanging from the door and a second star on his shirt. In the corridor, crates loaded for London. Son of Mounir and Sheila, named after the family friends who helped them, “ touched by God’s wand ” in the words of the coach whose office is next door, there’s something about Lamine Yamal. He turned 17 the day before the final of Euro 2024 , a schoolboy sitting exams, and 19 the day before the semi-final of the World Cup. Asked what he wanted, he said a trip to New York, so there he was, about to be a champion again. Continue reading...
BBC SportEducation, Barcelona & Basque culture - why Spain are dominating football
Spain go into Saturday's Nations League match against England on a 38-match unbeaten run - and with a host of honours to their name. Why are they so good?
BBC SportHow PSG's Ballon d'Or duo are pushing each other on
While there can only be one winner, team-mates Ousmane Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia are backing each other to win the Ballon d'Or.
The Guardian FootballRaphinha: ‘In my head I was leaving Barça, but a few small words can change you’
Two years ago the Brazilian thought his time at Barcelona was ending but, two La Liga titles later, he is now captain and the most potent No 9 in Europe For once, Raphael Dias Belloli puts the brakes on. The man who seems to be in perpetual motion, a footballer forever on fast forward, pauses, goes quiet for a moment and then, softly, utters something that says so much: “I think maybe people saw in me something I didn’t realise was there.” He did not know he was a leader, but he likes it. He did not know he was a captain, but according to his manager he is the “perfect captain”. And he did not know he was a No 9 either, but right now he is the best No 9 there is. In Barcelona or anywhere. There was a time when Raphinha did not know whether he would be in Barcelona, when, feeling unwanted, he had accepted it was over, but this week he extended his contract to 2030. He will be 33 then: he would like to retire here and they would like him to retire here, too, a legend built on empathy and affection. “This is the best decision the club has made,” said Hansi Flick, the head coach Raphinha says changed his life. Sometimes you cannot get what you want so you have to settle for the best. Continue reading...
ESPNInternational break preview: USMNT's next generation, Messi's farewell, more
There's a lot happening in international soccer: from the U.S. youth movement to Lionel Messi's farewell.
Football ItaliaLamine Yamal adamant Inter wouldn’t win epic 4-3 Barcelona semi-final again
Lamine Yamal insists Inter’s 4-3 Champions League semi-final victory over Barcelona was a fluke. ‘If...
ESPNYamal: Ballon d'Or not based on 'number of goals'
Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal says the Ballon d'Or should go to the player that makes people smile the most, not whoever has scored the most goals.
ESPNBarcelona follow Real Madrid in breaking $1B revenue barrier
Barcelona have announced revenue topped €1 billion ($1.04 billion) last season, which would make them the second club in Europe to break through the billion-euro-barrier after Clásico rivals Real Madrid.
The Guardian FootballFlorian Wirtz does not look like a £116m player but it’s too early to write him off
The 23-year-old playmaker has been disappointing for Liverpool but has he really been that bad? By Opta Analyst When Florian Wirtz signed for Liverpool in the summer of 2025, there was only one logical assumption. The Premier League champions at the time had recruited one of the hottest young talents in world football – a key player in the Bayer Leverkusen team that had won the double in 2023-24 and a star in the Germany team. An exciting and productive young attacking midfielder being added to the best team in England? How could this not work? Football has a habit of flipping the script, though. Last season was difficult for Liverpool for several reasons, and Wirtz, along with other new arrivals, struggled to make the impact expected of a player costing up to £116m. There were conversations among fans this summer about how long he and his fellow nine-figure signing Alexander Isak should be given before difficult questions needed be asked. The consensus was until Christmas. Continue reading...
BBC SportFrom leaving Rangers to La Liga - Scotland is next step for Ure
Robbie Ure has made it all the way to Sevilla since failing to break through at Rangers and now a first Scotland cap awaits the striker, writes Tom English.
ESPNIs it time to give up on Wirtz, or is he Liverpool's superstar-in-progress?
Liverpool spent a then-club record fee to sign Florian Wirtz, but his low stats have many writing him off. Is it too soon, or should Liverpool move on?