Football

Wolves welcome Leeds United to Molineux on Friday night. Wolverhampton Wanderers will try to make it back-to-back wins in the Premier League. On the back of a 2-1 win at Southampton on Sunday, Nuno Espirito Santo's side will enter the contest. While Leeds suffered a 4-2 loss to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on the same afternoon. Nuno's team will enter this game on Sunday from the back of a moral-boosting win over Southampton. Goals from Ruben Neves and Pedro Neto turning the contest around in the second period was indeed a morale boosting match. And for the first time since October, the hosts will now be looking to make it successive league victories. In all competitions, Wolves have actually won their last four games with Leeds. This includes a 1-0 success in the reverse fix...

Liverpool welcome Everton to Anfield for the 289th Merseyside derby. Match comes with just one spot and three points in the Premier League table separating the two sides. After a dramatic dip in form over the last two months, the champions have plummeted to sixth place. Liverpool dip in form has given their neighbors the opportunity to move level on points with them this weekend if they can end their long Anfield hoodoo. So far this calendar year, the Reds have won just two of their eight top-flight outings. They have lost five of them-incredibly already suffering as many league defeats in 2021 as they did from 72 matches combined in both 2019 and 2020. Liverpool have now lost their last three. They are also winless in their last five after going 68 league games without defeat a...

Man Utd won 4-0 away victory over Real Sociedad in their round-of-32 first leg on Thursday. This tie took place in Turin, due to travel restrictions in Spain. Remiro clattered into defender Robin Le Normand, United opened the scoring on 27 minutes. Fernandes scored a tap in from close range and net his 20th campaign goal in all competitions. La Real finished the half the stronger, but the "home" side failed to take advantage, despite some shaky United defending. Adnan Januzaj, a former United Academy graduate, was up against his old side for the first time since leaving for Spain in 2017. Fernandes made it 2-0 on 57 minutes. The target was initially ruled out for offside, but the original decision was overruled by a VAR review and the goal was awarded by referee Sandro Scharer. ...

Plans for a new 52,000-seater stadium have been approved by Everton FC for approval. Everton hopes to play games as early as 2024 at the Bramley-Moore Dock site. A report by the Liverpool City Council recommended that planning authorization be given at a meeting on 23 February. Everton, who have been at Goodison Park since 1892. They said in the Council report that he needed a new ground to "keep pace with Premier League competitors and prosper". With almost all of the other competitors having new stadiums or increased seating capacity stadiums, Everton had felt they weren’t keeping upto the pace. Under the plans, up to four pop concerts a year as well as weddings, funerals, Christmas parties and conferences will be held on the 52,888-seater site, which will cost an estimated £ ...

Kylian Mbappe scored a brilliant hattrick against Barcelona in the first leg of Champions League RO-16. PSG won 4-1 where Moise Kean scored the other and Lionel Messi getting the consolation goal. Icardi should have put PSG in front but he scuffed his shot. But Frankie De Jong was tripped by Kurzawa and Barcelona got a penalty. Lionel Messi took the lead for Barcelona as he blasted a penalty in the first half. Only 5 minutes later cool finish from Mbappe levelled it for PSG. Barcelona had another moment in which they could have scored but Girezmann shot wide. Mbappe had not scored two years before Tuesday in the Champions League knockouts. He got another one as he smashed PSG into the lead in the 65th minute. While Moise Kean took advantage of some woeful Barca marking to lea...

Two second-half goals from Salah and Mane gave Liverpool an emphatic away win against Leipzig in Round of 16 clash. The match was played at Budapest as concerns arose regarding Corona Virus restrictions. Liverpool were the better side in the first half but couldn’t score. This competition has come to feel like their last shot at glory with their Premier League title defense having crumbled. At the beginning of the second half, there was a big moment when Alisson aced off his line to thwart Christopher Nkunku in a one-on-one contest. It would prove to be a turning point because Liverpool had struck twice within 10 minutes or so. All the action came in second half as newly signed hyped defender Upamecano’s wrongly timed challenge made Mane to run through and put Liverpool 2-0 up. ...

Everton host a seemingly invincible Manchester City at Goodison Park in the Premier League. In their most recent outing, the Toffees were put to the sword by relegation-threatened Fulham 2-0. And Man City made it 16 wins with a resounding 3-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on the trot. Even in the absence of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Carlo Ancelotti opted against handing Joshua King his first Everton debut. And it didn't take long for the illustrious Italian to come under fire for his team selection against Fulham. Just a few days ago, the Toffees had put five past Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup. But they could not break down the resolute Fulham outfit of Scott Parker. Everton's top-four hopes are shrouded in doubt after winning only one of their last five Premier League matches n...

Highly coveted coach Marco Rose of Borussia Moenchengladbach will take over Bundesliga rival Borussia Dortmund by the end of the season. "We have had a lot of discussions about Marco's future in the last weeks. Sadly, he has decided that he would like to join Dortmund in the summer," Gladbach sporting director Max Eberl said in a statement. "Until then, we will give everything to reach our goals this season together with Marco," he added. He guided them to a top-four finish in his first year after joining Gladbach in 2019. He also lead them to the Champions League knockout stages for the first time in their history this season. Rose previously spent two years at Red Bull Salzburg, the Austrian club, where he won back-to-back league titles. He was also linked to the Manchester...

Neymar had been targeted once in the game already and Pochettino was about to take him off. The Paris Saint-Germain boss put an arm around the Brazilian but there was no relief. He left with his head down. Thursday's scans revealed Neymar had sustained a groin injury and is likely to be out for a month. He will miss Tuesday's meeting in the Champions League with his former club Barcelona and, most likely, the second leg in Paris. His career has been disrupted by more than two dozen injuries. Neymar has missed a quarter of the PSG Champions League games, and this will be the third time he won't play in the last 16 rounds. He missed Real Madrid's second leg in 2018; all games against Manchester United in 2019; and now against Barcelona. PSG has been knocked out each time. Last ...

In the summer, Atlético Madrid succeeded in convincing Luis Suárez to join the team. The most charismatic signing was the Uruguayan, but an important clause to reassure him was in place. 'Marca' revealed that Atlético Madrid included an option which means that at the end of the first season, 30 June 2021, the Uruguayan could leave the club. For now, in the Atlético ranks, Suárez is under no pressure. Under Diego Simeone, he feels that he is an important part of the team. The striker focuses on the remainder of the season, with a real chance of winning the league and the last 16 in the Champions League. 'Marca' revealed that Atlético Madrid included an option which means that at the end of the first season, 30 June 2021. The Uruguayan could leave the club after that. Thus, wit...