Old hands like Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Gerard Pique, Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos and Sergio Ramos will be on display, but a new twist to the rivalry comes with expected first El Clasico starts for two dynamic midfielders whose personal battle could help define this fixture for years to come. Here is how 22-year-old Dutchman Frenkie de Jong has joined Messi as one of the first names on the Barca teamsheet, and why 21-year-old Uruguayan Federico Valverde has subdued talk of Paul Pogba heading to Real.
Having got the better of Tigres in the quarter-finals of the Aperutra play-offs, Club America bring a psychological advantage into the game but will also be aware of the strength of the visitors. Indeed, Club America lost the home leg of said play off tie 2-1 but managed to turn things around with a 4-2 away win; results that also shows this fixture tends to be an exciting one.
Alli’s career is now in the hands of a manager that could unlock all his thrilling potential. MAN OF THE MATCH Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur). It was close between Alli and Son for man of the match, but for his goal and his superb assist for Moura the South Korean international just about gets the verdict.
Cardiff move into the top six, three points ahead of Derby and Preston. Just six points separates fifth-placed Nottingham Forest and Bristol City, who are 12th. Huddersfield Town, who have dropped into the bottom three, are away against Forest on Sunday. Five of the last six Brighton and Hove Albion home league fixtures have seen under 2.5 goals scored.
I know how different these games are. Of course, Liverpool are favourites but in a derby you never know what will happen," Ancelotti added. The fact that it's the oldest competition gives it a real special atmosphere. There are a lot of surprises. We're excited about the game. The last time I was in this tournament (as Chelsea manager in 2009-10), I won so it can be good luck for us.
The move follows positive and constructive discussions. In these conversations there has been a clear appreciation of the gravity of the current situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and a strong desire for players and staff to show their backing for the Arsenal family. We are proud and grateful to our players and staff for pulling together to support our club, our people and our community in these unprecedented times which are some of the most challenging we have faced in our history.
Chelsea could welcome back centre-back Antonio Rudiger for their "knockout" Champions League tie with Lille. Rudiger recovered from knee surgery to play 45 minutes of the Premier League victory at Wolves in September, before suffering a separate groin injury. Chelsea must beat Lille to ensure qualification for the knockout stages and manager Frank Lampard says there is a "chance" the German could feature.
Kopetdag Asgabat will host FC Asgabat in the local derby on Monday. FK Kopetdag Asgabat has made a good start to the season and currently sits third in the Turkmen Yokina Liga. He earned a 1–1 draw at Altyn Asyr before Ahl's 1–0 home defeat.
Not only that, but Guardiola’s side have already lost to Wolves this season, falling to a 2-0 defeat at home to them back in October. In fact, Wolves have lost only one of their last four competitive meetings with them, so they will fancy their chances on Friday.
They had to show a degree of patience to find chinks in the purple wall of Hibernian's rearguard and the first time they did that with a sense of purpose, Olivier Ntcham stung the gloves of Ofir Marciano from no more than 10 yards out. Hibs have not won at Celtic Park for almost a decade but served warning of their own intentions as Martin Boyle cut in from the left and had Fraser Forster diving to his left with a curling shot that the goalkeeper may have got the faintest touch to.
There were big wins for both Tottenham and Reading, who both dispatched their respective opponents Barnsley and London City 5-0, while Birmingham ran out 3-0 winners over Championship high-flyers Sheffield United. Durham will not be repeating last year's feat of reaching the fifth round after succumbing to a narrow 1-0 loss to Bristol City, while Brighton booked their place in Monday's draw by beating Aston Villa 3-2.
Southampton v Brighton (20:15 BST)The four points that Brighton picked up against Arsenal and Leicester last month have been huge in terms of keeping them out of trouble, but they are not safe yet. The Seagulls are still looking over their shoulder, especially after losing their previous two games, and they will just be hoping that Bournemouth and Villa do not pick anything up in midweek to close the gap further before they play Saints.
EA Guingamp will engage SM Caen in French League 2 taking place in Stade du Roudourou in Guingamp. Bookers put the host as the main factor here and the Visitors as Underdogs, but current form Shows that the Visitors eager to leave Relegation area are doing everything to improve their success with every game.
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United head for the Etihad Stadium next looking for another big performance. Their recent form against the Premier League's heavyweights suggests they will find one. City will keep the ball, but United can create chances' Media playback is not supported on this device Ole Gunnar Solskjaer pleased with performance Solskjaer's side are yet to lose against a team that finished in last season's top six, and they are one of only two teams to get the better of Leicester in 2019-20 too.
The visitors were held on Boxing Day, drawing 1-1 with Birmingham at Ewood Park. That result suggests that Rovers could be slowing down, having gone eight games without defeat in the Championship. That run has taken them up the division, but they’ve failed to keep up their brilliant winning run. The visitors have drawn three of their last four matches.
Premier League shirt names have been replaced with 'Black Lives Matter' and players have been taking a knee before games in support of racial equality. We are at the beginning of something," the 46-year-old said. It is very difficult to change culture and very difficult to change feelings. Nuno, who is the only black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) manager in the top flight, added: "A lot of people are changing, which is a good sign.
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It is to be expected that some teams will return from the hiatus rustier than others. If we were to pick the likeliest game to be low on goals, it would be between two teams that have struggled to score them all season. Bet on a low-scoring encounter.
Belshina reserves and Slavia Mozyr reserves will face each other in the upcoming match in the Reserves league. Belshina reserves this season have the following results: 2W, 3D and 5L. Meanwhile Slavia Mozyr reserves have 2W, 1D and 7L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring.
RICARDO CHANCE - Ricardo slaloms into the box, slapping the ball around Jonny, ducking to the byline and skying a rising shot at the near post. RED CARD! Choudhury is off! The Leicester player receives the ball in midfield, slips, and Dendoncker races away towards goal. Instinctively Choudhury sticks out a leg to bring him down, and gets a second yellow.
The FA said on their website that the postponement of league football, "will also apply to all England team fixtures at every level and all FA competitions including the Emirates FA Cup and the Women’s FA Cup, along with academy and youth-team matches. English league football suspended "With respect to the senior men’s fixtures against Italy and Denmark at Wembley Stadium, refunds will be processed to all ticket buyers within 14 working days.
The SPFL have not offered an explanation as to why that rule could not be changed. The Rangers resolution asked for loans to be given as an advance, not as a final payment, to get cash-strapped clubs through the coming days, weeks and months. Can that be pushed through? Edinburgh City are the latest club to back a similar premise. No questions have been answered on this, but as time goes on and bank balances start to dwindle further, clubs around the country will be begging the question.
Considering the gulf in class between the sides and Mallorca's record of six defeats from six on the road this season, Vicente Moreno's team were hardly expected to get anything against Barcelona at Camp Nou last weekend and the game panned out pretty much as anticipated.
GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Everton. Jesus scores - Mahrez rolls a pass between defenders to Jesus, who lets the ball run across him to then drill his shot low and past Pickford at the near post. GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Everton. Richarlison scores - A poor pass out rom Bravo runs to Keane. He lays it off to Walcott, whose shot comes off Mendy and to Richarlison at the back post to tap in.
Wealdstone steps into this match as big favorites. I think many will play the straight one in this match, but I have a feeling that there will be many goals in this match and that the match will be significantly smoother than many people think. I will instead look at the over 2.75 goals. I think the home team will dominate the match but have trouble scoring goals in this match. Therefore, it feels natural to play the subgame because we will see at least three goals in this match. So, I am going for over 2.75 goals to be scored.
After seeing off Fleetwood Town in their play-off semi-final, they got the better of their neighbours from just up the M40 in what was a pulsating affair. Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth is the longest-serving manager in the top four divisions of English footballChairboys make fast startWycombe took the lead from their first corner of the game as left-back Jacobson caused panic in the Oxford defence, his left-footed inswinger catching out goalkeeper Eastwood who was unable to punch it clear.
There has been a "spike" in the number of footballers in England seeking mental health support since the start of the coronavirus lockdown. In the first quarter of this year, the Professional Footballers' Association said 299 players had accessed support, compared to 653 in the whole of 2019. PFA director of player welfare Michael Bennett said he is "worried" now the situation has "hit home" for players.
I was totally unimpressed with Lori having a bet on them to win last round against Alashkert at home and I see them coming into this game with poor morale and their short keeper conceded another weak goal the 2nd goal scored by Alashkert with a long shot but high shot near the center of the goal which the keeper could only push in the back of the net. And given the fact that Lori also did not really create any threat in attack to the Alashkert defense I am really puzzled why they should be so big favorites to be winning this game as their defense was really poor in that last game.
Our recruitment process focuses on analysis and selection of players over the course of a season, with a view to the following summer transfer window. As part of the rebuild we see this coming summer as an important opportunity. There has been no shortage of investment in players over the past few years, with over £200m spent since Ole became manager.
Former Italy midfielder Conte is now coaching Serie A side Inter Milan. Exceptional items in the previous year of 6. The accounts also showed Chelsea received 247 million pounds of increased funding from Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovich in the year covered. The company has received confirmation from its parent undertaking that sufficient funds will be provided to finance the business for the foreseeable future," the accounts added.
Cavese will host Ternana for this fixture of the league. I believe, the visitors have better team than their opponent. Yeah, Ternana is favorites in this game. Ternana are more ambitious team in this league. However, I do not think the visitors have big advantage in this match. Also, the visitors have a not very good results in the last mutual matches. In any case, I expect another one tough match for both sides. Also, I believe, Cavese is better team at home. I think, the hosts will try to remain unbeaten on the home ground. My pick - Cavese to win.
Overall this term, despite some encouraging results, some of which have come as a result of good fortune, Rovers have been a bit disappointing going forward on their travels. They've scored 12 goals but rank as one of the worst teams in the league when it comes to both shots and shots on target for away from home.
Watford of course, put Man Utd to the sword at the same venue last month, and the Red Devils away day woes continued in mid-week when they were turned over by a re-energised looking Arsenal at the Emirates.
Since then, they have been in top form winning seven out of eight games, the other being drawn. The goals have been flowing for sure with 14 in the last four, scoring at least three in each match. They have won this competition three times and lost in five finals. On their way to this final, BATE haven't had the easiest of rides.
Liefering is just a couple of points above the relegation places at this moment actually both clubs are, but in the ending of last year Liefering was really high scoring and won plenty of games, for example they won 4-2 away at BW Linz, won 5-1 at home against BW Linz in their last two league games so scoring 9 goals in those two games is quite something.
City lead the race for Martinez Manchester City are heading the pack to sign Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez. The 22-year-old Argentine striker has a £97. Inter can't persuade him to sign a new deal. Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelona are all interested but can't afford to sign him at that price. Pep Guardiola sees him as Sergio Aguero’s replacement, the Sun claims.
hednesford fc as the host, and the team Nuneaton fc as a guest will meet as part of the new round of the English football northern league, one of the lower ranks of the competition, but the professional league is at stake. An interesting match is expected, as usual when it comes to this league, which offers us a handful of such matches during the season and bookmakers offer good odds and an opportunity to make money or profit.
He is 100% ruled out of the Super Cup, when we get back (from Saudi Arabia) we hope we'll be able to get him back little by little," Zidane told a news conference ahead of Real's game away to Getafe in La Liga on Saturday, their first match back after the winter break. Hazard had a slow start at Real after a 100-million-euro ($111 million) move from Chelsea but was in brilliant form when he injured his ankle in a 2-2 draw with Paris St Germain in the Champions League on Nov.
This game is a big test for Steve Bruce, the Newcastle manager fighting off a bad run of form after a bright opening half of the season. Prior to their midweek FA Cup replay against Rochdale, Newcastle had failed to win any of their last five matches in all competitions. Taking only one point from an available 12 has seen Newcastle slide from ninth place to the cusp of a relegation battle.
A-League clubs. The FFA will review this situation in the coming weeks and a further status assessment is now scheduled for April 22. Australia has now suspended all of its major sports competitions, with Australian Rules football, the National Rugby League and Super Rugby all calling off their seasons in recent days.
