Football Previews

Northern Ireland club Linfield will welcome Welsh side The New Saints to Windsor Park on Wednesday night in the second leg of their Champions League group stage qualifier. Both sides come into this game aiming to reach the next stage of the Champions League, having already met in the first leg, which the visitors won by 1-0. In a disappointing ...

Hibernians will welcome Shamrock Rovers to MFA Centenary Stadium this Tuesday for the second leg of their Champions League first-round qualifying fixture. The hosts looking are looking to reach the second round of Champions League qualifying for the first time since the 2017-18 season. However, after being beaten 3-0 in the first leg in Ireland, they have a tough job ...

Northern Ireland club side Derry City FC will welcome Latvian side Riga FC to the Brandywell Stadium for the first leg of their 2022/23 Europa Conference League group stage Qualifiers. The hosts come into this tie unbeaten in their last five games (W3, D2). However, they have failed to win any of their last five home games (D4, L1) and ...

2021/22 Champions League surprise package Sheriff Tiraspol will travel to Mostar this Wednesday to face Bosnia and Herzegovina side HSK Zrinjski Mostar in the first leg of the 2022/23 UCL group stage qualifying round. The hosts won the Bosnian Premier League last season with 26 wins, six draws and only one defeat to their name. They were the nation’s unstoppable ...

Gurban Gurbanov and his Qarabag side will travel to the Poznań Stadium this Tuesday to face Polish club Lech Poznan for the first leg of the 2022/23 Championship League group stage qualification round. Both teams will look to win this first leg to give them the advantage ahead of the return leg. The winner of this two-legged tie will face ...

Germany will play host to Italy this Tuesday with both nations looking to pick up the three points that will keep them close to the top of their Nations League (UNL) table. Germany are in dire need of a win having not won any of their opening games (D3). Their last outing was a 1-1 draw with Hungary leaving them ...

Nations League (UNL) holders France will play their fourth group game of the 2022 edition of the Nations League when they welcome Croatia to the Stade de France on Monday. The hosts have begun the defence of their title poorly having failed to win any of their opening games so far (D2, L1). They needed an 83rd-minute equaliser to salvage ...

Spain will look to continue their unbeaten start to their Nations League (UNL) campaign when they host the Czech Republic at the Estadio La Rosaleda in Málaga this Sunday. Luis Enrique’s side have not tasted defeat in the UNL this season following draws against Portugal (1-1) and the Czech Republic (2-2), before a late 1-0 win over Switzerland last time ...

England will look to avenge their 2021 European Championship final loss to Italy when they welcome the Azzurri to Molineux Stadium this Saturday for the third game of their Nations League campaign. The Three Lions have had a poor start to this UNL campaign as they have taken one point from their opening six, having lost their opening game to ...

Nations League (UNL) defending champions France will travel to the Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna this Friday to face Austria in the third group round of the new campaign. The hosts opened this UNL campaign with a surprising 3-0 win over Croatia before succumbing to a narrow 2-1 loss to Denmark in their last game, leaving them sitting in second ...

Spain will travel to the Stade de Genève in Geneva to play Switzerland in their third group game of the 2022/23 Nations League (UNL). The hosts opened their UNL campaign with a demoralising 4-0 loss to Portugal before losing 2-1 to the Czech Republic in their second game. Those two results mean that the ‘Red Crosses’ are without a win ...

Belgium will play their second Nations League game this Wednesday when they welcome Poland to the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels. The hosts will look to get back to winning ways when they host their European counterparts as they come into this tie off the back of a 4-1 loss to the Netherlands last time out. In a lackluster performance ...

Germany and England face off as two of Europe’s heavyweights meet to get their first Nations League win of the season. The Germans were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy in their last game, a result that didn’t please their manager, Hansi Flick. England lost 1-0 at Hungary, a shocking result, but it was one that their flat performance ...

Reigning Nations League champions France will travel to Split this Monday to face Croatia in their second Nations League game of the campaign. The hosts opened their UNL campaign with a disappointing 3-0 loss to Austria at the Stadion Gradski vrt in Osijek. In the first game, Austria were playing under former Manchester United boss Ralf Rangnick, goals from Marko ...

The Czech Republic will welcome Spain to Eden in Prague this Sunday in the second round of the Nations League. The hosts opened their 2022 Nations League campaign with a 2-1 win over Switzerland last time out, taking their unbeaten tally to eight games. They are currently top of the Group 2 table that also has 2019 Nations League winners ...