FC Barcelona enter a demanding stretch of fixtures as club football resumes after the international break, with three of their next four matches set to be played against Atletico Madrid. Ahead of this ...

Being a defensive midfielder in soccer isn’t always the most glamorous job on the field. They’re rarely the ones scoring goals or grabbing headlines like strikers, gliding past defenders like elite ...

There are several terms for the player in the deepest midfield role. The defensive midfielder. The holding midfielder. The sitting midfielder. The anchorman. They all convey roughly the same kind of ...