Football Previews

The Premier League returns this Friday with Brighton & Hove Albion hosting Southampton in the first game of Round 13. Despite being under a new manager this season, Brighton have enjoyed a brilliant start to the season–their strongest start to a top-flight campaign (W6, D4, L2). A win over Bournemouth in the previous round means the Seagulls sit outside of ...

Tottenham Hotspur will welcome AS Roma to North London hoping to bounce back from their first defeat in the Europa League this season. Spurs went into the last international break in poor form after recording back-to-back defeats to Galatasaray and Ipswich. However, they bounced back after the break, recording a massive 4-0 away win over Manchester City which handed Pep ...

Liverpool will look to continue their impressive run of form when they welcome Real Madrid to Anfield for their fifth game of the 2024/25 Champions League. The Reds have enjoyed a brilliant start to life under Arne Slot. The Dutchman has overseen 18 games since taking charge at Anfield and he has won 16 of those, losing just once and ...

Champions League football returns this Tuesday with Bayern Munich hosting Paris Saint-Germain in the fifth round of the tournament’s league phase. Bayern Munich started this season’s Champions League well beating Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 to race to the top of the standings early. However, back-to-back losses against Aston Villa (1-0) and Barcelona (4-1) left them in danger of finishing outside of ...

Newcastle United will look to make it four competitive wins in a row when they welcome struggling West Ham to St. James Park this Monday. Newcastle suffered a dip in form early last month as they went three games without a win (D1, L2) but since then, they have won two league games in a row and now have the ...

Manchester United will begin life under Ruben Amorim this Sunday when they travel to Portman Road to face Premier League new boys Ipswich Town. The hosts have not had an easy start back in the Premier League, with just one win in their opening eleven games (D5, L5). However, that sole win came at the 11th attempt just before the ...

Manchester City will look to bounce back this weekend when they welcome Tottenham to the Etihad. City have recently endured a miserable run of form, losing four straight games in all competitions before the international break. Two of those losses came in the Premier League–a pair of 2-1 losses away to Bournemouth and Brighton–which left them trailing league leaders Liverpool ...

After a two-week hiatus for the international break, Bundesliga football returns for the last lap of 2024, with Bayern Munich hosting Augsburg for the 11th-round game this Friday. Bayern Munich has enjoyed a good four months this season, winning eight of their opening ten league games while remaining the only Bundesliga club yet to taste defeat. They are also on ...

Brazil will look to wrap up 2024 with a win when they welcome Uruguay to the Estádio Fonte Nova for their 12th game of the CONMEBOL qualification cycle for the 2026 World Cup. Brazil’s patchy form towards qualification for the tournament continued in their last outing as they were held to a 1-1 draw away to Venezuela. That result would ...

Group A1 leaders Portugal will look to wrap up their Nations League group stage campaign with a win when they travel to the Stadion Poljud to face Croatia. The hosts were last season’s Nations League runners-up but will enter this last group game still not entirely sure of their place in the quarter-finals of the current campaign. A shock 1-0 ...

Italy and France will renew their rivalry this Sunday when both sides meet at the San Siro for the last game of their Nations League Group (A2). Both sides have a history in competitive action having famously met in the FIFA World Cup final in 2006. Italy won that game thanks to a penalty shootout win that was arguably made ...

The Netherlands will return to Nations League action this Saturday when they welcome Hungary to the Johan Cruijff Arena. Ronald Koeman’s men and Hungary are battling for second spot in this group, with Germany already the outright group winners heading into the penultimate game. Both sides are tied on five points, so the winner of this clash will actually secure ...

Portugal will look to continue their impressive Nations League form when they welcome Poland to Porto this Friday. Both sides met just under five weeks ago in Warsaw, with Portugal recording a 3-1 win that ensuresthey enter the penultimate round of Group A1 game top of the table. This will be the 15th H2H between the sides and the seventh ...

Belgium will look to bounce back from their terrible run of form when they welcome Italy to King Baudouin Stadium for their Round 5  Nations League group-stage game. The hosts have endured a tough Nations League cycle, winning just one game out of four (D1, L2). As such, they come into this tie with a place in a relegation play-off ...

After their midweek exertions in Europe, Chelsea and Arsenal turn their attention to the Premier League where they both meet at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea enter this tie as the side in better form after winning three of their last five games in all competitions (D1, L1). The most recent in that sequence was an 8-0 home win over Noah in ...