Hodgson's side still face a tough run-in with six of the current top seven sides to come in their remaining games, but their recent form means they can now afford to enjoy those challenges. Watford unable to build on stunning Liverpool winWatford recorded the shock of the Premier League season so far as they produced a magnificent performance to end leaders Liverpool's unbeaten campaign in stunning style and provide a significant boost to their survival prospects last weekend.
The club updated an early message: "The bomb has now been exploded. It wasn't the last of the incendiary stuff in Scottish football. A few more (verbal) bombs were detonated once the SPFL set in motion the resolution that brought an end to the season. West HammeredWhen West Ham published their financial accounts, Maryhill FC's riposte instantly became a contender for social media missive of the season.
Premier League to pursue home and and away games if possibleNew era for academy players?Victor Orta is director of football at Leeds United, who are a point clear at the top of the Championship with nine games to play and so are yet to discover if they will be recruiting with a Championship or Premier League budget. We've been using this time to do more video analysis of players," he said. In a normal situation this happens, just not in May because we normally know where we are.
Posted at 63' Offside, RB Leipzig. Patrik Schick tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside. SubstitutionPosted at 62' Substitution, RB Leipzig. Patrik Schick replaces Yussuf Poulsen. Posted at 60' Foul by Thorgan Hazard (Borussia Dortmund). Posted at 60' Marcel Sabitzer (RB Leipzig) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Goal!Posted at 55' Goal! Borussia Dortmund 3, RB Leipzig 2. Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.
I don't think the Premier League has much choice about going behind closed doors, if they want to get the season finished. If that is the case, it will be very weird. Of all the times when Everton would want the backing of their supporters, it could be that this game is played in an alien environment. If the fans are allowed in, Goodison Park will be rocking for two reasons - firstly, Liverpool are the enemy, but also because Everton have their own point to prove after losing 4-0 at Chelsea on Sunday.
Rennes will also be fancying themselves here though as they travel to Lyon. Julien Stéphan's men have been in great form recently with four wins on the trot bringing smiles back to the fans' faces. Their most recent victory came on Thursday as they beat Lazio 2-0 in the Europa League and they'll be looking to put in a similarly impressive performance here.
Brighton have not won in their last five matches to sit 15th while 19th-placed Watford are looking to avoid a third straight defeat. Brighton have let in three goals in each of their last two games, losing at Bournemouth and drawing with West Ham United. Sunday, Feb. Sheffield United v Bournemouth (1400) *Bournemouth have lost six of their last seven away matches (W1) and failed to score in their last three away fixtures.
Another factor is that 30 June is viewed as the final date for seasons to conclude across Europe without having a significant impact on the following campaign. With a short break, clubs could have a three-week pre-season and be ready to go again in August. Under the circumstances, it is inconceivable any of the big clubs would be arranging the kind of extensive summer tours that have become the norm, so, more likely, they would have a couple of friendlies before starting again.
Talks are ongoing between the sides. Paper Round’s view: £20 million is probably an optimistic price if there is only one serious price, but if they can start a bidding war between a few clubs then they might get the bulk of that sum. However, Inter can comfortably run down the transfer window to increase their leverage, and they are on course for a Champions League finish regardless of signing Eriksen.
Defensively they have clearly got some problems too, although I think you have to give credit to United for the way they played on Saturday. Yes, City left them too much room and they had all those chances, but United were so effective with their pace and power that meant they could attack so quickly. Guardiola's worst return - the statsGuardiola has enjoyed a trophy-laden managerial career, winning titles in Spain, Germany and England.
Ibrahimovic hit the post with a late header as Milan pressed for an equaliser, but Antonio Conte’s side sealed the win in stoppage time through a Romelu Lukaku header. Inter move into first place on goal difference, after catching Juventus on 54 points following their 2-1 defeat by Hellas Verona on Saturday, while Milan are 10th with 32 points.
Richarlison (Everton) with an attempt from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Alex Iwobi with a cross following a set piece situation. Posted at 63' Attempt missed. Mason Holgate (Everton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a set piece situation.
Antonio Conte has already made history as the only manager to win 12 of the first 14 Serie A games with two different sides. Meanwhile, he’s revolutionised their forward line to make them challengers. Club record signing Romelu Lukaku has competition despite scoring 10 goals in Serie A this term. Since the start of October, only Ciro Immobile (14) has scored more goals in all competitions than Inter forward Lautaro Martínez (12) among Serie A players.
Rangers began their Scottish Cup campaign with a routine victory over Stranraer at Ibrox to ease into the fifth round. Scottish League One's bottom club held out until Scott Arfield poked home on the cusp of half-time. Jermain Defoe doubled the lead from the spot as Rangers, showing seven changes from their Old Firm derby triumph, made a winning return from the winter break. Steven Gerrard's side are the first club into Sunday's last-16 draw.
SUPER BOBBY" Firmino scored Liverpool's winning goal at MolineuxGetty Images Roberto Firmino won it for the Reds with a late strike from inside the box. It was a super, super, super goal from Bobby. I'm really, really pleased as you can imagine," said Klopp. As for Jordan Henderson's early goal, off his shoulder from a corner, Klopp was delighted with his captain's evolution.
There, however, was no stopping Lolley's second as the forward cut in off the right wing before unleashing a swerving shot that left Luton facing a 10th successive league defeat away from home. Lewis Grabban then took his goal tally to 15 for the season, adding a late third from the penalty spot after Sonny Bradley blocked a Tiago Silva free-kick with his arm. Relive Forest's win over LutonForest's fourth win in a five-game unbeaten run took them to fifth in the table, equal on points with fourth-placed Brentford.
Despite her time away from the WSL, she is joint eighth in the division's all-time goalscorer standings, having netted 36 WSL goals, and she added 15 league goals over 18 months in Serie A. Arsenal to bolster squad for Champions League? Arsenal have been widely linked with a move for Australian World Cup star Caitlin FoordWSL leaders Arsenal are England's last-remaining representatives in Europe this season and will meet French giants Paris St-Germain in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Oxford City has conceded 19 goals in the 10 games at home so far this season and only 2 teams have conceded more goals at home. However, they are also scoring goals easily in the last weeks with a total of 19 goals in the last 7 games. At home they have failed to score only once in the last 10 games.
In the round 4 of the Bolivian Apertura, Real Santa Cruz hosts San Jose. The newcomers in the league don`t play this match at their own stadium but in Montero. Still, they have the advantage as they play on 400 meters above the sea while San Jose plays in Oruro on 3,800 m. Santa Cruz played 3 matches so far and got one big win over Strongest 3:2. They played a draw with Blooming while they lost like idiots against Real Potosi. Just after scoring the goal, the scorer got the straight red card and the game was lost.
So to Anfield, with both sides confident of doing the necessary; Liverpool will expect to play better, Atleti will expect to score, and everyone else will expect something serious. TALKING POINT Liverpool are still too dry in midfield. Jurgen Klopp knows Liverpool lack creativity in midfield; he tried to sign Nabil Fekir the summer before last - had the deal gone through, the likelihood is that Liverpool would have won the title - and now he has Takumi Minamino.
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Raheem Sterling was "slightly wrong" in comparing the managerial roles afforded to former players of different races, says Chelsea boss Frank Lampard. Manchester City's Sterling called for more black managers in football while speaking about racism in the aftermath of the death of American George Floyd. He compared the jobs given to Lampard and Rangers boss Steven Gerrard with those of Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole.
Croatia were due to feature alongside Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland from March 26-30 in preparation for the Euro 2020 finals to be staged in 12 venues across Europe starting in June. Due to current the situation worldwide, the Qatar Airways International Tournament in Doha has been cancelled," a CFF statement said.
United’s head of global scouting Marcel Bout was said to be in Austria for the clash, which ultimately saw Haaland fail to score for the first time in a Champions League group game this season. The Norwegian has scored 28 times this season, including eight goals in Europe, but he was unable to help his side reach the last 16 as Liverpool and Napoli advanced.
His total of 50 points saw him lose to British snowboarder Katie Ormerod. She scored 20 points in the first part of the winter break, and a further 40 in the second part after getting four more correct results, with no exact scores, giving her a total of 60 points. Manchester United were held 1-1 at Club Brugge and Getafe pulled off a surprise 2-0 home win over last year's Champions League semi-finalists Ajax in other round-of-32, first-leg ties.
He [Mourinho] wants to win. He's a proven winner. I've made it clear that I'm at the stage of my career where I want to win trophies. I've made it clear I want to win them here and it's a big year for us. Realistically we look at the Champions League and the FA Cup this season to try to do that, so we'll see how that goes and then from my point of view I'll keep doing what I'm doing, keep fighting for this club on the pitch.
Until you give young people an opportunity, you never know if they can step up. That's what we're going to do at the SheBelieves Cup," said Neville. The Lionesses open their campaign against the USA on Thursday in a game you can watch on BBC Two - and the whole tournament can be watched across the BBC. So who are the new faces? Why have they been included? And should they be given an opportunity?From 'not fitting in' to England's in-form strikerHow to watch England in the SheBelieves CupThursday, 5 March - USA v England (BBC Two & BBC iPlayer, 23:45 GMT)Sunday, 8 March - Japan v England (BBC Four & BBC iPlayer, 19:00 GMT)Wednesday, 11 March - England v Spain (BBC Four & BBC iPlayer, 21:00 GMT)Chloe KellyClub: Everton Caps: 1Everton striker Kelly's inclusion is no surprise given her form in the Women's Super League this season.
CSM Politehnica Lasi would be facing FCSB this evening in Romania Liga 1 games. CSM Politehnica Lasi are unbeaten in their previous last 2 home matches. They have scored at least one goal in their last 2 home matches. FCSB have won their last 5 away matches, and they have equally scored at least one goal in their previous last 7 matches. FSCB has also scored 1 goal in their last 5 away games. The match between this two teams is very strong and tough, for me the final results for this match could be a draw or a win for the visiting team.
Stuttgart Will Host Hamburger SV in the 2. Bundesliga of Germany on Thursday. Stuttgart is not in fine form recently. They are unbeaten from last four Matches and lost three of the last four. Both the teams scored in all the last three Matches of Stuttgart. While last two matches of Hamburger SV finished in Draw. They scored two goals each in two of the last three games. Hamburger SV also scored in 10 of the last 11 away matches. Also both the teams scored in all the last 7 head to head matches across all competitions. So Both teams likely to score .
Paper Round's view: It’s a nightmare for Arsenal if they can’t spend money in this transfer window. The club desperately need to improve their current position in the Premier League table and could genuinely compete for a trophy if they added some quality to their squad. The Gunners are still in the Europa League and have reached the latter stage in the past two seasons, finishing as runners-up last May.
Meppen and Munster will face each other in the upcoming match in the 3. Liga in Germany. Meppen this season have the following results: 6W, 6D and 5L. Meanwhile Munster have 2W, 7D and 8L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring.
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Assisted by Adam Webster. Posted at 50' Attempt saved. Ayoze Pérez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harvey Barnes. BookingPosted at 48' Dale Stephens (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card. Second HalfPosted at Second Half begins Brighton and Hove Albion 0, Leicester City 0. Half TimePosted at 45'+2' First Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 0, Leicester City 0.
Argentino de Merlo will host Excursionistas for this fixture of the league. I expect, this will be a very interesting match. I expect, this will be a very tense match. I think, both teams want to get a positive result. Of course, the hosts will try to make a positive result on the home field. However, they are not convincing team. They have only 1 victory in their last 5 matches. Also, we have Excursionistas who's is more ambitious team in this season. Also, Excursionistas are in better shape. They have three consecutive victories. I think, this will not be an easy task. Nevertheless, the visitors will try to get the victory on the opposite stadium.
You have to give a lot of credit to the players, who have been outstanding, but ultimately we all follow the manager," Henderson said. From day one since he came into Melwood, what he's done has been unbelievable, from inside the club to outside [it]. I can't express enough how much he has done for this football club since he's been here. Hopefully he's here for a long time yet and we can continue this journey together.
Sheffield United continue their hunt for a European spot when they welcome Everton to Bramall Lane for Premier League action on Monday night. The Blades, eighth in the table, are no longer in contention for a Champions League place with fourth being eight points away and there being only two rounds to play.
Stevenage have picked up points in five of their last six meetings with Crawley and both teams have scored in five of the pairs last six encounters. Both teams scored in five of Crawley’s last six matches in all competitions and under 2.5 goals were produced in each of Stevenage’s last six matches, so you can start to see why we have backed a 1-1 draw between the pair this weekend.
Manchester United defender Harry Maguire is set for an extended period out after suffering a hip injury. The number of matches Maguire will miss is unknown. But the concern for United is that his absence proves far longer than suggested on Tuesday by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who said the injury was "not a long, long-term one". Maguire suffered the injury during last Saturday's goalless FA Cup third-round tie against Wolves.
Mouloudia will be meeting with Rapid and the sgame we have seen that giving it an under of 2.5 total goals is a very sure prediction as this two team looking at the last meeting they are very used of scoring under of 2.5 total goals and this making us to be very sure with this prediction
He was our chief scout, and a man who definitely liked to see commitment from his players. Let's just say he was very vocal about it, and pretty volatile! Lots of his encouragement was related to the use of a bayonet. His voice could always be heard even when there was a crowd there and, that night, I am sure his cries of 'get stuck in' would have been heard from a long way away. Applauding policemen - but no players' wives TV cameras were allowed into Upton Park but live coverage was not allowed and Uefa turned down requests to show the game via 'beamback' at local cinemas and Leyton Orient's Brisbane Road ground.
Shakhtyor fc is coming from a goalless draw against Vitebsk fc and that was an away game so they are going to host Slavia Mozyr fc which comes from a a goalless draw when they were at home against Torpedo Zhodino.
Path D The winner of Georgia v Belarus will host the winners of North Macedonia v Kosovo. Path B The winner of Bosnia-Herzegovina v Northern Ireland will the host winners of Slovakia v Republic of Ireland. Path A Iceland v Romania and Bulgaria v Hungary. The winner of Bulgaria v Hungary will host the winners of Iceland v Romania.
Rotherham vs Peterborough predictions for Sunday’s League 1 fixture at New York Stadium. The hosts look for more of the same after a happy Boxing Day. Read on for our free League 1 predictions and betting tips.
Scunthorpe United will host Port Vale for this fixture of the league. Hosts probably are small favorites in this game. Scunthorpe have advantage at home stadium. However, Scunthorpe is very average team in this season. I believe, they have less ambitious in this campaign. Yeah, the hosts are undefeated in their last 4 matches. Nevertheless, this will not be an easy task for the hosts. Also, we have Port Vale who's is also very average team in this league. However, Port Vale are more ambitious team in this season. I think, the visitors have a great motivation to fight for all three points. Visitors with the victory can go one of seven places in the top of the table.
Their drawing habit continued as they needed extra time to get past UCAM Murcia in round two. Lo and behold, it happened again in the last 32 but this time they caused a surprise when beating La Liga strugglers Celta Vigo 2-1 at home. They come into this game unbeaten in their last 12 home matches but have only won one of their last five home games in this competition.
Posted at 86' Foul by Charles de Ketelaere (Club Brugge). Posted at 86' Jean Michael Seri (Galatasaray) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 85' Éder Balanta (Club Brugge) wins a free kick on the right wing. Posted at 85' Foul by Adem Büyük (Galatasaray). BookingPosted at 85' Yuto Nagatomo (Galatasaray) is shown the yellow card. Posted at 82' Siebe Schrijvers (Club Brugge) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
I hate the term 'must-win' but in terms of their season, this result will be crucial to them, and where they go from here. Lawro - who also takes a look at Sunday's Carabao Cup final between Aston Villa and Manchester City - is making predictions for all 380 top-flight matches this season, against a variety of guests. This week he is up against British Formula E driver Sam Bird. Bird is sixth in the Formula E driver championship, but could he have been a professional footballer instead? He explained: "I was a keen footballer and there was a point in my childhood where I had to choose whether to go down the football route or the racing route - but I believe I made the right choice.
