The home of the San Francisco 49ers and future venue for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Levi’s Stadium was the setting as San Jose Earthquakes took on LAFC. Coming off of their 2022 MLS Cup victory, LAFC are off to a strong start to this league campaign as well and…

Oakland Roots are enduring their worst run of form in this young season. After beating Indy Eleven 3–0 in the Midwest, the Roots lost 2–1 at home to Hartford Athletic before dropping road games in the league to Loudoun United and in the US Open Cup to Sacramento Republic. Hosting…

The quest for Champions League glory has come to an end for four more clubs, with a Europa League journey coming to a particularly abrupt end for another. This gives us an opportunity to take a look at where these clubs are at going into the end of this current…

The UEFA Champions League garnered most of the attention but there was plenty of other action this week. The highlight of that subset was the Europa League clash between Manchester United and Sevilla. After taking out two consecutive Spanish opponents in the knockout stage, have Manchester United acquired an immunity…

Many notable clubs can get out of a UEFA Champions League group, especially if they had an easy draw. However, once you take down another decent opposite in a knockout tie, you are a legitimate threat. There are still stronger contenders than others, but typically the quarterfinals of the Champions…

Before continuing with the rest of the article, I join the rest of the soccer community in condemning the racist actions committed by Dante Vanzeir during the New York Red Bulls/San Jose Earthquakes game. I address it later in this article as well, but I felt that acknowledgement was important…

Prior to last Tuesday night, the last US Open Cup game I attended was six years ago during my undergraduate program at UC Davis. I witnessed the Sacramento Republic upset Real Salt Lake (albeit with a number of Real Monarchs players involved) 3–1. This time, Hayward was the setting as…

Manchester United? More like Multitasking United. (Crowd Boos) The first of nine games in a busy April didn’t go so well to say the least. St. James’ Park: Newcastle United 2–0 Manchester United 1–0 Joe Willock (Allan Saint-Maximin) 2–0 Callum Wilson (Kieran Trippier) NEW XI: Nick Pope; Kieran Trippier(c), Sven…

Welcome to the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League Retrospective. With the Round of 16 over, I wanted to take a look at the eight eliminated clubs and rank them based on their outlook for 2023–24. Which clubs could shake off this disappointment and contend next season? Which clubs will be in…