Erling Haaland is frequently portrayed as a lethal Scandinavian footballing machine whose sole purpose is to compute the most effective way to score goals. It is a tempting way to describe a 6ft 4in ...

Precisely 624 footballers are heading to Germany in the coming days for the 2024 European Championship. Among those 624 are the brightest, best and most gifted players that Europe has to offer. There ...

The English Premier League season is thirty-eight games long. For many years, it was axiomatic that, in order to prosper, teams needed a striker who could score twenty goals a season, a rate of a ...

Manchester City was in trouble until it wasn’t, riding a breakneck three-goal burst to a 4-1 win over Ipswich Town at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Erling Haaland scored three goals and Kevin De ...

Mark Ogden is a senior soccer writer for ESPN.com. Read his archive here and follow him on Twitter: @MarkOgden_. Two more Haaland goals in a 3-1 home win against Bournemouth lifted City to second in ...