Football Previews

After a two-week hiatus, European club football returns this Friday with Borussia Dortmund and Bremen opening Round 8 of the Bundesliga season at Signal Iduna Park. The hosts welcome Bremen to Dortmund with a sense of regret and vengeance after their 3-2 loss to the visitors last season contributed to their title collapse. That loss came despite them holding a ...

Greece will battle the Netherlands for maximum points on Monday when both sides meet at the OPAP Arena for the Seventh Round of the 2024 European Championship qualifiers. Both sides come into this tie with an equal chance of featuring in Germany next year, but it is the hosts who have the advantage, having won more points than the Netherlands, ...

Norway’s attempt to feature in the 2024 European Championship in Germany continues this Sunday as they welcome Spain to the Ullevall Stadion for a must-win qualifier game. The hosts come into this tie sitting third in Group A, two points behind Spain so this is a crucial game for them as anything short of a win will see them fail ...

Denmark will continue their quest for a place in Germany’s European Championship next year when they welcome Kazakhstan to the Parken Stadium this Saturday. The hosts are one of the most consistent teams in the European Championship, only missing twice in the last ten tournaments however the 1992 winners still have work to do to book their place in Germany ...

The Netherlands will resume their quest for a place in the 2024 European Championship when they welcome France to the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam this Friday. Since their crushing loss in the Nations League semifinal in June, accompanied by a loss to Italy in the third-place playoffs, the Oranje have been in good form in their qualifiers. Ronald Koeman’s ...

Spain will resume their quest to play next year’s European Championship this Thursday when they welcome Scotland to the Estadio de La Cartuja for Round Seven of the Euro 2024 qualifiers. La Roja will head into this fixture with revenge on their minds after they were beaten 2-0 in Glasgow and left furious at their hosts’ style of play. But ...

Premier League leaders Manchester City will look to keep their place at the top of the league table this Sunday when they travel to London to face fellow title contenders Arsenal. The Gunners have made an unbeaten start to the Premier League season, taking 17 points from the available 21 (W5, D2). But they were beaten in midweek by Ligue ...

After their midweek exertions in the Champions League, Manchester United will return to the Premier League this Saturday as they take on struggling Brentford at Old Trafford. The Red Devils, who are facing a difficult time, come into this tie looking to get back to winning ways after back-to-back defeats to Crystal Palace and Galatasaray in the Champions League. Against ...

La Liga returns this weekend with Athletic Bilbao hosting Almeria at the Estadio San Mamés. The hosts suffered an embarrassment last weekend as they saw their six-game unbeaten start to the season ended with a 3-0 defeat in the Basque derby against Real Sociedad. Athletic Club boss Ernesto Valverde felt it was an even contest despite the result, putting it ...

European football returns to Anfield for the first time this season when Liverpool welcome Belgian side Union Saint-Gilloise to the second round of group-stage games of the 2023/24 Europa League. Not since 2016, against Borussia Dortmund, have Anfield witnessed Europa League football. So despite Liverpool missing out on Champions League football last season, this game marks a special event in ...

Manchester City will resume their Champions League title defence this Wednesday when they travel to Germany to face RB Leipzig. Leipzig are the favourites to finish second in Group G ahead of Young Boys and Crvena Zvezda, so this game against City represents a battle of the top two sides in the group–a battle which the hosts will be keen ...

Champions League royalty Real Madrid will look to continue their winning start to the 2023/24 UCL season this Tuesday when they travel to Naples to take on reigning Serie A champions Napoli. The hosts are battling for Group C supremacy with their Spanish counterparts, with Union Berlin and Braga in the group seen as outsiders. They have started well, beating ...

After finally scoring their first competitive goal in September, Chelsea will look to get their first league goal since August when they make the short trip across London to face Fulham. The hosts have started the season inconsistently, with two wins, two draws and two losses from their opening six games. But having beaten Luton town 1-0 in their last ...

Atletico Madrid will return to La Liga action this Sunday when they take on Cadiz at the Wanda Metropolitana. Diego Simeone’s side find themselves as part of a group of teams chasing surprise early leaders Girona ahead of the eighth round of league games. They, however, enter this game in high spirits after their 3-1 victory over arch-rivals Real Madrid ...

The Premier League season resumes this Saturday with Tottenham and Liverpool facing off in north London on matchday seven. Tottenham continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 2-2 draw against their bitter rivals Arsenal the latest in that sequence. That result not only preserved their unbeaten start to this Premier League season (W4, D2), but also opened up ...