Carlo Ancelotti claimed yesterday that Liverpool can no longer win the Barclays Premier League title, although such a dismissive attitude will not stop him seeking to follow their example when Chelsea face Manchester United on Sunday.
Chelsea can open a five-point gap at the top of table by beating United at Stamford Bridge and victory would put them 12 points clear of sixth-placed Liverpool, who host Birmingham City on Monday night. Click to continue reading...

Welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered, now with more national team content.

The U.S. men's national team has dominated October's batch of questions as you might expect, but this installment includes some interesting inquiries about the likes of Brad Friedel, Jeff Cunningham and yes, Freddy Adu.

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Welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered, now with more national team content.

The U.S. men's national team has dominated October's batch of questions as you might expect, but this installment includes some interesting inquiries about the likes of Brad Friedel, Jeff Cunningham and yes, Freddy Adu.

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Wenger revealed that Merida had agreed a new contract deal at Arsenal Football Club, but he has not yet signed it.
Major speculation loomed this week on the future of Arsenal's promising young midfielder, with his current contract expires next summer, and rumors has it that Atletico Madrid is keen to keen to bring Merida back to Spain. Click to continue reading...

Oh, Wolverhampton. When they're not passing off manual labor as a prize, they're trying to turn their players into subzero ice people.

The club's physio and masseur took midfielders Michael Kightly and Dave Edwards (pictured above, left) to a cryotherapy clinic earlier in the week. No, they weren't making plans to freeze their bodies after they die so they can one day fight in Walt Disney's unfrozen superhuman zombie army, they were actually there to freeze their living bodies at ungodly temperatures and all while wearing nothing but underpants and gloves.

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Robin van Persie now delivering the form that we always knew that he could provide as long as he stayed fit. With a goal in each of the last seven games� he is fast becoming a major threat to defences in the Premier league and Europe with his quick feet and eye for goal. He lacks only the perfection of his set pieces to truly become the player who alongside Fabregas can fashion a real charge at the premiership title.

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Manchester United went into yesterday's game against CSKA Moscow needing a point which was achieved but as usual it was done the hard way and once again the problems in the defence were apparent, and it was this problem which nearly led to an embarrassing defeat.

You cannot fault United's determination when they were 3-1 down, something which paid off, but while you can give credit to the midfielders and forwards for their tenacity, the defence was again, unfortunately, the problem.

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With the swine flu doubt cleared up, Paris Saint Germain picked up their first win since the 30th August on Sunday, beating Sochaux 4-1.

After years of struggling the Paris side finally had a good season last year, finishing 6th and only missing out on a Champions League place due to their� very poor form in the last league games, picking up only 4 points from a possible 15.

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One of the great disconnects in the Argentina World Cup qualifiers was the anemic performance of Leo Messi when compared to his stellar Barca exploits. It was as if there were two different performers inhabiting the same body.

Maradona might have come to the realization that Messi needs the sort of laissez faire environment that he enjoys at Barca where his creative genius alongside that of Iniesta and Xavi create parallel points of attack.

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University of Denver senior midfielders Mariah Johnston and Kelli Breidenbach combined for the only goal as the Pioneers shut out North Texas 1-0 on Saturday afternoon at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium.

In the 20th minute, Johnston dribbled from the right side of the field and fed Breidenbach inside the box for a one-timer from eight yards.

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Ahead of Sundays game at Birmingham I had the chance to catch up with Kev, who runs the Birmingham City blog 'Joys and Sorrows' to gage the mood ahead of the game and to pose one or two questions about how the season has been going so far.
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There's an unstoppable groin-pocalypse going on at Lyon right now and no one is immune to its devastation. From Reuters:

Olympique Lyon have been hit by a series of groin injuries with keeper Hugo Lloris, defenders Jean-Alain Boumsong, Aly Cissokho, Mathieu Bodmer, Cleber Anderson, Cris, midfielders Cesar Delgado, Jeremy Toulalan, Kim Kallstrom and striker Lisandro Lopez all suffering from the same problem before their trip to arch-rivals St Etienne on Saturday.

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The Gunners will have to find their way through the midfield shield of Wilson Palacios and Tom Huddlestone in the North London derby.
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He wasn't able to find away to stamp his quality over Arsenal's midfielders during a trial with the club two years ago but Wilson Palacios now has a chance to do just that for the Gunners' biggest rival.

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Argentine captain is focused on Anfield future.

Liverpool star Javier Mascherano has denied suggestions his form has been affected by transfer rumours linking him with Barcelona.

Mascherano was linked with a move to Barcelona in the summer with Pep Guardiola a big admirer of the defensive midfielder.

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Drury Panthers, Jessie Sanderson

Drury University placed three players sophomore forward Nicole Williams, junior defender Sarah Colvin-Fritz and junior keeper Jessie Sanderson (Jefferson City 2007) on the First Team as the All-Great Lakes Valley Conference Women's Soccer squads were announced by the league on Thursday. Click to continue reading...

Ten Panthers Named To All-GLVC Men's Soccer Teams;
Head Coach Ryan Swan Takes Home League's Coach Of The Year Honor

The best regular season in school history culminated in a big reward for Drury men's soccer on Thursday, as 10 Panthers earned All-Great Lakes Valley Conference recognition as the league announced its award-winners.

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Ten Panthers Named To All-GLVC Men's Soccer Teams;
Head Coach Ryan Swan Takes Home League's Coach Of The Year Honor

The best regular season in school history culminated in a big reward for Drury men's soccer on Thursday, as 10 Panthers earned All-Great Lakes Valley Conference recognition as the league announced its award-winners.

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If the Hammers think that coming back to draw with Arsenal represent the proverbial "turn the corner" then the good work must be continued with another fine display against Sunderland. Playing at the Stadium of Light is not an easy task as the Black Cats have very passionate fans which can prove to be the 12th man for the home side. Click to continue reading...

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With apologies to the LA SuperClasico series, there is perhaps no MLS playoff series this year more intriguing and more tough to call than the Houston Dynamo-Seattle Sounders series.

The two-time MLS Cup champion Dynamo take on the expansion Sounders in a young rivalry that showed plenty of promise during the season.

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With apologies to the LA SuperClasico series, there is perhaps no MLS playoff series this year more intriguing and more tough to call than the Houston Dynamo-Seattle Sounders series.

The two-time MLS Cup champion Dynamo take on the expansion Sounders in a young rivalry that showed plenty of promise during the season.

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Here are the facts (or as many facts as I can remember): The #1 and #2 ranked teams in the world are about to play a friendly in the future location of the 2011 Women's World Cup. Germany recently won the Euros by destroying England 6-2 and if you caught that one on the internets, I don't use the term "destroying" lightly.

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So Dopey officially called up 24 homensfor the selecao's upcoming friendly matches next month. Ooooh yes, we mean that exciting one against England in Qatar on the 14th and the other one against Oman in Muscat.

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This morning manager Pep Guardiola released the 16 man roster that will travel on Wednesday to take on third division side Cultural Leonesa.

The roster features mostly youth players with Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gerard Pique, Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Carles Puyol all being rested for this weekends match up at Osasuna.

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Join celebrated football pundit, author, radio show host and DJ Andy Brassell every Monday on the Soccerlens Show.

This week's episode focuses on the swine flu outbreak at Paris Saint-Germain, which led to a late postponement of the PSG-Marseille game that riled not only the supporters of both sides (and led to some unsavoury scenes between the two sets of fans) but also Marseille themselves, who were adamant that the match should have gone ahead.

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In what can be conservatively called a Bad season, Kansas City came back to tie D.C. United and kill their chances of moving into the playoffs.

Kansas City started with a different look using Kamara and Zoltan at the same time but kicking Kei off to the wing and leaving Zoltan up top with Josh Wolff; yes an improvement but not by much since Wolff did look slow on a couple of breakaways.

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Ancelotti makes January transfer plans...just in case!

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CHELSEA are considering an £18m move for Napoli's attacking midfielder Marek Hamsik as they prepare for a spending spree that could top £30m in the January transfer window — potentially their final opportunity to invest in new players until the summer of 2011.

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You can watch Sevilla v Espanyol Live online here.

Sevilla v Espanyol
La Liga
Saturday 24 October 2009
Kickoff: 22:00 CET

Third meets Eight in this late Saturday night La Liga kickoff, as Big Two pretenders Sevilla host Catalunia's real giants Espanyol.

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� Choosing the best players in MLS is never an easy task, but choosing the 2009 MLS Best XI is extremely tough when you consider the plethora of candidates at the forward position. Click to continue reading...

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� Choosing the best players in MLS is never an easy task, but choosing the 2009 MLS Best XI is extremely tough when you consider the plethora of candidates at the forward position. Click to continue reading...

It was a weekend dominated by beach balls, by petty squabbles and by surprise results. Defeats for Chelsea and Liverpool showed the world that the big four monopoly on the Premier League is far from permanent, whilst in Lancashire Blackburn and Burnley re-introduced the nation to their own, explosive rivalry.

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With World Cup qualification confirmed, U.S. coach Bob Bradley continues to evaluate players. ESPNsoccernet projects whom we think Bradley will choose as his 23-man U.S. roster for the 2010 World Cup.
Still in the mix...
Players are ranked from top to bottom in terms of how certain a lock they appear to be for the roster and their current perceived pecking order. Click to continue reading...

Just because you can do something, doesn't necessarily make it the best option. As Toronto FC head into their last gasp attempt at making this year's playoffs, that conundrum does indeed rise. The enigma that is this season's Reds are quite frankly lucky to even have the chance to qualify for the post-season but that is the reality of MLS parity. Click to continue reading...

Wow, we are having a great season. The stats show this is the best season for this team since 1995! We are currently enjoying a 6 game unbeaten run with 4 wins and 2 ties.

I have learned a tremendous amount this season so far and I am sure over the remaining 5 games of the regular season I will learn some more very valuable lessons.

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Last night was a lesson, a great one, and, luckily, it was one which didn't cost us anything. There were some serious freak results in the Champions League last night, and while we all know we should have won, when you see Barca getting beaten at home by Rubix Cube, Liverpool losing at home to Lyon after leading, and Rangers getting thrashed by Uzi or whatever they're called, a draw away at the home of the Dutch Champions doesn't seem too bad.

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Winning the World Cup twice on the trot is one of the hardest feats in sports and that's exactly what Italy are aiming to do next summer in South Africa.� Yesterday, we gave you the first two keys if Italy are going to pull off the historic double. Today, we present the final two.

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