NYT Connections Soccer Edition Puzzle #52 — Answers for August 1, 2026
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🟨 A team running the clock down
DISRUPTS
FOULS
FRUSTRATES
TIME WASTES
🟩 French Clubs
ANGERS
LENS
METZ
NICE
🟦 England Head Coaches
CAPELLO
ERIKSSON
HODGSON
SOUTHGATE
🟪 HARRY ____
KANE
KEWELL
REDKNAPP
WINKS
🎯 Strategy Tips
Start by grouping the French Clubs and England Managers. Both are factual, trivia-based categories that can be solved with recall. This will leave the harder word-play (HARRY) and tactics (A team running the clock down) groups to be solved with more careful analysis of the remaining terms.
⚠️ Red Herring Warning: There were very few obvious overlaps. However, one potential red herring was the appearance of "LENS" which is both a French club and an English word for a piece of glass, making it a possible word-play tie to other groups that weren't there.