Football Previews

Newcastle United will kick off their 2023/24 Premier League season with a home game against Aston Villa this Saturday. The Magpies enjoyed the 2022/23 PL edition as it ended with them finishing in the top four for the first time in nearly two decades so they come into this new season with a spring in their step. Their triumph in ...

Premier League football returns this weekend with 2022/23 PL champions Manchester City facing 2022/23 Championship winners Burnley at Turf Moor Stadium on Friday. After dropping to the Championship in the 2021/22 season, Burnley, ably led by Man City legend Vincent Kompany instantly returned to the higher echelons of English football by winning the Sky Bet Championship last season with an ...

Greek heavyweights Olympiakos will welcome Belgian side Genk to the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in the first leg of their Europa League third round qualifier match. The hosts welcome Genk to Piraeus on the back of a 2-0 loss to Norwich City in their last pre-season game. But before losing to the English Championship side, the Greek side went unbeaten in ...

Marseille will travel to Greece this Wednesday to take on Panathinaikos in the third round of the Champions League qualifying round. The hosts booked their place in this round courtesy of a 5-3 aggregate win over Dnipro-1 in the last round. Their aggregate win was the first time since 2012/13 that the Greek side had notched up five goals in ...

Austrian football club side Sturm Graz will travel to the Netherlands this Tuesday to face PSV Eindhoven in the third round of the Champions League group stage qualifiers. The hosts are looking to return to the Champions League group stages for the first time since 2018/19. Although the Farmers have now played in the competition proper, they have not reached ...

Bayern Munich will wrap up their pre-season games with a match against French Ligue 1 side As Monaco on Monday. The Bavarians have enjoyed a strong pre-season so far, winning three out of their four games, including a dramatic 4-3 win over Liverpool in their last outing. While Thomas Tuchel would have been displeased with some of Jo’s side’s defending ...

The 2023/24 Premier League season will kick-off, albeit unofficially this Sunday when Premier League runner-ups Arsenal face Champions Manchester City at Wembley. City come into this tie looking to begin their new season on a high note, two months after meeting Inter Milan to win the Champions League title. Pep Guardiola’s side have not had an easy summer, with two ...

West Ham will travel to Germany this Saturday to face Bayer Leverkusen in a club friendly. The German Bundesliga side has had a poor pre-season losing to Real Sociedad (1-0) and Paderborn (2-1) before securing a narrow 2-1 win over Marseille last time out. They will now hope to make it two consecutive pre-season wins in this game with Xabi ...

Switzerland side FC Basel will travel to Kazakhstan this Thursday to face Tabol Kostanay in the second leg of their Europa Conference League group stage qualifier playoff. The hosts come into this tie in a strong position after a 3-1 win over Basel in the first leg. Despite falling one goal behind in the first half of the game in ...

Danish club side FC Copenhagen will welcome Icelandic club Breidablik to Parken Stadium this Wednesday for the second leg of their Champions League group stage qualifier. The hosts come into this tie in a strong position after a 2-0 win over Breidablik in the first leg. In a broadly even game, it took two early goals from Jordan Larsson and ...

Greek football club Panathinaikos will welcome Ukrainian side SC Dnipro-1 to Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium this Tuesday for the second leg of their Champions League qualifier. The hosts welcome the Ukrainians to Athens with the advantage having won the first leg at the Kosicka futbalova arena 3-1 courtesy of goals from Andraz Sporar, Filip Djuricic and Fotis Ioannidis. They come into ...

2023 Women’s World Cup co-hosts Australia will look to record their second win in the competition when they welcome Canada to the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium. After opening their World Cup group stage with a narrow 1-0 win over Ireland, Australia were expected to seal progression to the next round when they faced Nigeria in their second game. But a 3-2 ...

Manchester City will continue their Asian tour with a game against Atletico Madrid on Sunday. This time, the Cityzens travel to Seoul and will face Diego Simeone’s side at the Seoul World Cup Stadium. Pep Guardiola’s side continued from where they left off last season, opening their pre-season games with wins against Yokohama F. Marinos and Bayern Munich. Both games ...

Barcelona and Real Madrid will renew their rivalry, albeit in a friendly game this Saturday when they meet at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Spanish giants have both enjoyed a successful pre-season tour in America, with Real Madrid facing Manchester United in their last game, while Barcelona faced Arsenal. Los Blancos won their game against the Red Devils 2-0 ...

England will play their second 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup game this Friday when they face Denmark at the Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney. The Three Lionesses opened their group stage game with a narrow 1-0 win over minnows Haiti with Georgia Stanway’s retaken penalty proving the difference. Although the performance in that win was far from their best, it ...