Football Previews

Tottenham and Manchester United will look to wrap up what has been a terrible season with a win in the Europa League final this Wednesday at Bilbao’s San Mamés. It’s the sixth European final to be contested between two English sides, and the third to involve Tottenham (W1, L1), who are chasing their first major trophy of any description in ...

Fresh from their heartbreaking loss to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final, Manchester City will look to bounce back when they face Bournemouth in their penultimate league game of the season. The loss means that Pep Guardiola’s side will go the season trophyless for the first time since the Spanish coach’s first season at the club. This is incomprehensible, ...

Premier League champions Liverpool will be looking to end their two-game winless run when they travel to the Amex Stadium to face European hopefuls Brighton in their penultimate game of the season. After a six-game winless run threatened to derail their season (D2, L4), the Seagulls have since turned things around with two wins and a draw in their last ...

Arsenal will look to seal their place in next season’s Champions League when they take on fellow top-five hopefuls Newcastle United in their penultimate Premier League game. Having once sat so comfortably in second place in the Premier League, the Gunners are now at risk of being knocked off their perch after winning just one of their last six league ...

Crystal Palace will look to hand Manchester City a second consecutive FA Cup final loss when both sides face off in this season’s final at Wembley this Saturday. This year’s final features a club that’s never won a major trophy in Crystal Palace, against the country’s most successful side of the last decade. Immortality could therefore await Palace boss Oliver ...

The Premier League returns this Friday with Chelsea hosting Manchester United in their penultimate league game of the season. Both sides have booked their place in European finals, but it is Chelsea who still have something to play for in the Premier League. The Blues are one of several teams still competing for a top five finish this season with ...

After putting Real Madrid to the sword last weekend, Barcelona will look to win the La Liga title this Thursday when they travel to the RCDE Stadium to play Espanyol. The home fans will certainly be dreading a repeat of the 2022/23 La Liga season when a 4-2 defeat in this fixture saw Barca win the title on their ground. ...

After suffering an embarrassing loss to Barcelona last weekend, Real Madrid will return to La Liga action on Wednesday when they host Mallorca for their 36th league game of the season. Despite going two goals up early in their last El Clasico outing, Carlo Ancelotti’s men succumbed to a 4-3 loss to their fierce rivals, effectively ending their hopes for ...

Sevilla return to La Liga action this Tuesday as they welcome fellow strugglers Las Palmas to the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán in their 36th game of the season. The hosts enter this tie in terrible form and with their top-flight status still not mathematically confirmed, given that they are just four points ahead of 17th-placed Leganes with three games still ...

Serie A in-form team AS Roma will continue their quest for a top-four finish this Monday when they travel to Bergamo to face Atalanta in their 35th league game of the season. The hosts come into this tie on a decent four-game unbeaten run (W3, D1). However, that uptick in form has come too late to revive their hopes of ...

Newly crowned Premier League champions Liverpool will receive their second guard of honour in as many games when they welcome previous title rivals Arsenal to Anfield this Sunday. The Reds beat Arsenal’s fierce rivals Tottenham 5-1 on this ground to secure their 20th league crown and their second in five seasons. But after an extended celebration period, they were unable ...

The Premier League returns this weekend with European hopefuls Aston Villa travelling to the Vitality Stadium to face Bournemouth. Like Villa, Bournemouth are also gunning for a place in Europe next season. They come into this round of games sitting eighth in the Premier League, a placing which will more than likely be enough to secure a spot in next ...

Struggling Wolfsburg will look to begin life after Ralph Hasenhuttl when they welcome fellow strugglers Hoffenheim to the Volkswagen Arena on Friday. Die Wölfe dismissed Hasenhüttl at the weekend after suffering a 4-0 thrashing by Borussia Dortmund. The loss was Wolfsburg’s sixth in the last eight games (D2), pushing them further away from mid-table. Current U19 coach Daniel Bauer will ...

Manchester United will look to make their progress to the Europa League final certain when they host Athletic Bilbao in the second leg of their semi-final tie. The Red Devils put themselves in a commanding position in this tie after taking a 3-0 lead in the first leg. Helped by the fact that Bilbao was reduced to ten men, Ruben ...

Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal will meet in the second leg of their semi-final tie in Paris as they will look to become one of the two sides that will play in this year’s Champions League final in Munich. PSG hold a slender one-goal advantage in this tie after winning 1-0 in the first leg at the Emirates. With the Ligue ...