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Antonee Robinson scores the Americans’ only goal US open World Cup on 12 June against Paraguay World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Get the app Ready or not, here comes the group stage. The US men concluded their pre-World Cup preparations with a 2-1 loss against Germany on Saturday at Soldier Field, in front of a lively sellout crowd of 63,636. The fans made their way to the historic venue on …

Yengi cancels out Dan Ndoye’s opener in 1-1 draw in San Diego Fellow Australia debutant Cristian Volpato makes little impact Striker Tete Yengi marked his Socceroos debut with a goal, as Australia salvaged a 1-1 draw with Switzerland in their final World Cup warm-up in San Diego in a match that leaves coach Tony Popovic with more than one selection quandary. The coach turned to a largely second-c…

England’s heaviest defeat for decades does not signal the end for Sarina Wiegman’s European champions It was a tough night for Sarina Wiegman and her charges at the Estadi Mallorca Son Moix. England’s biggest loss since a 6-2 defeat by Germany in the Euro 2009 final and their first loss in a qualifier since 2002 shattered their ambition of securing top spot in their 2027 World Cup group and autom…

The New York City mayor sat down with the Guardian and, using our World Cup Bracketology game , made a historic prediction for this summer • World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Download the app New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked confidently across the City Hall lawn on Thursday, sat down, and admitted that he had not had time to do much research into who he thought was going to win this…

After living in the Argentina idol’s shadow, the 39-year-old star of 2022 is still capable of a final glorious chapter Lionel Messi in Qatar felt like the perfect story. It was the great finale. He is doomed always to be compared with Diego Maradona and, placed alongside a life of operatic ups and downs, of injury and addiction, drugs bans and organised crime, the highest highs and the lowest low…

Pre-World Cup friendly updates from 9pm UK time Who might England play if they reach final? You can email Scott with your thoughts … so having talked about not getting too far ahead of ourselves too soon, here’s a piece about England’s route to glory, as determined by Opta and their big calculator. Hey, we’re nothing if not a broad church. Let’s be honest with ourselves and each other: this reall…

Minute-by-minute updates from 9pm UK time Essential guide to all 1,248 World Cup players You can email John | Sign up for Football Daily Ewan also wrote our Scotland preview. Clarke is pragmatic in approach but it will be a shock if he does not start with two strikers for game one against Haiti. Victory there and Scotland have a genuine chance of progression from the first round for the first tim…

Move to replant the playing surface by 2028 is latest effort to repair the embarrassment caused by its variable bounce It was turn-around weather in London, the sort where your first fresh breath makes you think twice about stepping out for air and your second sends you back inside for another cuppa. A great bank of wet grey cloud stretched overhead to the horizon and the idea that New Zealand’s …

1st Test, D3: England, 140 & 226; New Zealand, 113 & 55-5 Ravindra and Mitchell both fall to Robinson for second time in match Just 58 legal deliveries – plus one no ball – were bowled as rain dominated the third day here. It was an unsatisfyingly brief glimpse of action that nevertheless allowed England to upgrade their chances of victory in the first Test after their post-Ashes reset from proba…

Prem Rugby: Exeter 32-12 Saracens Mark McCall’s 15-year Sarries tenure comes to an end Not since 2021 have Exeter finished in the Prem top four, hence the heartfelt Devon roar at the final whistle. To beat their old rivals Saracens to a playoff place made this result all the sweeter for the hosts, if not for their downcast, deflated visitors. It will be the Chiefs who progress to the semi-final s…

Bath 24-22 Leicester Cokanasiga also scores try for hosts in frantic first half Bath-Leicester is about as earthy a rivalry as it gets, and, boy, in this era of free-flowing, almost surreal, rugby, here we had a proper throwback to times past. Brutal. And with this hardest of wins, Bath the champions have chiselled out the right to play at home in next weekend’s semi-finals. You think Bath-Leices…

Winner never looked in danger after turning into straight Officials make move after Benvenuto Cellini had hoof stuck Christmas Day won the Derby at Epsom for the trainer Aidan O’Brien, revelling in the rain-soaked soft ground to give his handler a 12th win in Britain’s premier Classic. The 7-1 shot was up with the pace from the start and the result never looked in danger soon after entering the s…

Russian, 19, beats world No 114 6-3, 6-2 for first slam title Maja Chwalinska fails to emulate Emma Raducanu’s feats Twenty minutes into the first grand slam final of her young career, it looked like Mirra Andreeva’s head was already in danger of exiting Court Philippe-Chatrier. Between the weight of the occasion, the windy conditions and a resourceful opponent seemingly built to cause her maximu…

Mercedes driver goes just 0.043 quicker than Red Bull rival Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton third quickest for second-row start Mercedes’s Kimi Antonelli snatched pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix with an exceptional lap around the streets of Monte Carlo. In a gripping qualifying, the 19-year-old Italian was flawless in edging out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton and Charles Lec…

Knicks edge Spurs 105-104 to take 2-0 NBA finals lead Wembanyama made costly turnover in final seconds No team has won finals after losing first two at home San Antonio star Victor Wembanyama could barely remember the details of the late-game miscues that cost the Spurs in their agonizing 105-104 loss to the New York Knicks in Game 2 of the NBA finals on Friday. The Spurs used a 14-0 scoring run …