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Chelsea will host Brighton on Tuesday after declared as one of the founding members of The Super League. Chelsea currently are 5th and a win at Stamford bridge will take them to top 4 in the Premier League table. Chelsea will play this match on back of a FA cup semi-final win against Manchester City. Hakim Ziyech scored the only goal of the match and are now through to the final. Just Manchester City and Manchester United seem to be certain of a place in the Champions League spots, making the chase for the top four exciting. Chelsea has won just seven of their 15 home league games this season. But they have a strong record against Brighton, having won 12 of their 14 matches in all competitions against them. Brighton are coming off a goalless draw against Everton in this match. Th...

Six Premier League clubs have agreed to join the Super League, including Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham Hotspur. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Juventus have also joined the league. But other 14 clubs of current Premier League have discarded the idea of Super League. These 14 clubs held a meeting on Monday and came to this decision. Apart from these teams Premier League themselves have rejected the idea and have hinted they will try to stop it. Premier League released a statement that said “The Premier League, alongside the FA, met with clubs today to discuss the immediate implications of the Super League proposal. The 14 clubs at the meeting unanimously and vigorously rejected the plans for the...

Tottenham Hotspur boss José Mourinho has been fired today. Mourinho was under intense pressure after a poor run of form. Tottenham are out of Europa League, FA cup and technically out of PL race. Only cup competition they are in is Carabao Cup in which they face Manchester City. They are seventh–and perform poorly in general. “The club can today announce that José Mourinho and his coaching staff João Sacramento, Nuno Santos, Carlos Lalin and Giovanni Cerra have been relieved of their duties,” read a statement released by Tottenham just before 11am on Monday. Levy added “José and his coaching staff have been with us through some of our most challenging times as a club. José is a true professional who showed enormous resilience during the pandemic. On a personal level I have enjoye...

Twelve clubs from top European Leagues have decided to enter a proposed European Super League, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur called the European Super League (ESL). These 12 clubs will be the founding clubs and have decided they will have modern midweek rivalry with teams continuing to "compete in their respective national leagues. Other teams of founding members include Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Inter and Juventus. The league will have 20 teams, including the 12 founding members and three undisclosed clubs that are expected to revealed soon. And five teams will qualify annually based on their domestic achievements. ESL season will begin in August every year in midweek. The teams will be ...

Barcelona have won the Copa Del Rey for the 31st time in their history. Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 0-4 to win the cup as Lionel Messi scored twice and one each coming from De Jong and Griezmann. Barcelona who lost to Real Madrid last weekend didn’t look like the same side. Barcelona had most of the possession in the first half and looked threatening. De Jong and Messi even took their chances but shot wide. Simon pulled some excellent saves as Bosquets and Pedri also tried to break the deadlock. Griezmann finally broke the deadlock as he scored from a De Jong cross. Minutes later De Jong doubled the lead. Few minutes later Messi trebled Barcelona’s lead as he floated past defenders dribbling making one touch passes and finally slotting it home. Four minutes later he scored ag...

Chelsea ended Mancester City’s quadriple dream as they beat Man City 1-0. Chelsea are now in the final and will face wither Leicester City or Southampton who are yet to play the semi-final match. Chelsea nearly went ahead a Ziyech scored but was ruled offside as Werner was offside in the buildup. Ben Chilwell tried his luck too but couldn’t give Chelsea the lead. First half was dominated by Chelsea but didn’t look convincing enough. Manchester City suffered a major injury blow as Kevin De Bryune limped off injured. After few minutes. Chelsea scored which was the only score of the game. Werner set up ZIyech as he put the ball home in an empty net and won the game for the Blues. Ziyech nearly scored another but Steffan made a wonderful save to keep Man City in the game. Ruben Dias...

Football documentaries have been increasingly popular on streaming platforms in recent years. It’s another documentary time as Paul Pogba has signed a deal with Amazon to produce his life in digital medium. A video called “The Pogmentary” about his life will be released in 2022. The World Cup winner will collaborate with Black Dynamite on the documentary, which will provide an insight into the life of one of the world's most famous footballers. Georgia Brown, Amazon Studios' head of European originals, announced that they'll be given unparalleled insight into the life of the United star. This will also give the chance to share his story to the rest of the world. “We all know Paul for what he can do on a football pitch, but his influence reaches much further and he is without dou...

West Ham United's dreams of finishing in the top four were dashed. Diop and Lingard scored one each to cancel Newcastle’s two goal lead but Joe Willock's late header gave Newcastle United a 3-2 victory in a tense match. West Ham are flying this season as they are pushing for the top 4 spot but had to deal with a blow this weekend. West Ham went down via Issa Diop’s own goal. Criag Dawson was sent off in the 36th minute as well and West Ham’s problems rose. 5 minutes later in the 41st minute West Ham went two goals down as Fabianski made a mistake and Joelinton capitalized to make it 2-0. Issa Diop who had scored the own goal, scored on the other side to bring back the hammers. Minutes later Jese Lingard converted a penalty and brought West Ham back in the game. But Newcastle had...

PSG have reached the semi-finals of the UCL Champions League 2020-2021 season even though they lost to Bayern Munich. PSG held Bayern 3-3 in aggregate over two legs and were through as they had 3 away goals to Bayern’s one. PSG were in control of the first half and looked the more threatening team. Neymar hit the bar twice in the first 40 minutes but couldn’t break the deadlock. However, Bayern scored first via Chupo-Moting as he scored from a rebound from keeper Keylor Navas. Neymar again came close in 57th minute but he couldn’t tap in a delightful ball from Di Maria. Mbappe thought he scored the leveler but he was flagged offside in the 79th minute. Bayern tried to snatch the tie with so many attempts but the home side held on. PSG will now play either Man City or Borussia Do...