Toni Kroos

There are penalty kicks and then there are Statement Penalty Kicks. Even the best players approach this trial from 12 yards with a binary sense of dre(...)

Three games from the summit: now for The Cartel. It is a key element of elite football’s febrile brand of double-think that the richest club in the wo(...)

“It is one of the biggest challenges to perform as the away team at the Bernabéu and it is even more difficult if you have to earn a certain result,” (...)

Chelsea 1 Real Madrid 3 Sometimes the old ones are the best. By the end, the notion that Chelsea would blow Real Madrid away felt utterly preposterou(...)

In June 2020, Noelia Romera was fired by Barcelona because she was doing her job. Romera was the club’s compliance officer. Week after week, she wen(...)

Even on the night that Real Madrid may have wrapped up La Liga, it was all about Europe. On Saturday, the day that Paris Saint-Germain were losing 1-0(...)

Barcelona 1 Real Madrid 2 When the goal that finally settled this match was scored, Gerard Piqué was lying on the floor in one penalty area and Lucas(...)

Hindsight reveals that Saturday’s match peaked on six minutes. As the crowd stood up for the boys in green, Séamus Coleman found Adam Idah, who thrill(...)

In another timeline England played Germany yesterday in Dublin, where Jack Grealish and Declan Rice were booed every time they touched the ball by a c(...)

Germany 2 Hungary 2 What a white knuckle ride this was and how fortunate, in the end, Germany can consider themselves to have reached the last 16. Th(...)