UEFA has confirmed the top Premier League top four will automatically qualify for the Champions League group stages starting from next season. The changes also affects the top four sides in Spain, Italy and Germany with them also skipping the qualifying rounds. The fourth-placed teams in these leagues previously had to go through a two-legged […]
Antonio Conte has emerged as Italy’s first choice to become new coach in a role he left just in 2016. The Italian coached his team for two years between 2014 and 2016 and even guided them to a quarter-final finish at the Euros. Conte joined Chelsea where he won the Premier League title in his […]
Paris Saint-Germain have Confirmed that Neymar will not be available for their second leg clash against Real Madrid in the Champions League and the Brazilian faces a month on the sidelines with an ankle injury. The Brazilian suffered a late injury in Sunday’s Ligue 1 clash with Marseille, in which PSG won 3-0. Neymar was […]
Chelsea’s Eden Hazard is the best dribbler in Europe’s top five leagues, ahead of Neymar and Lionel Messi, according to the recent research by the CIES Football Observatory. The Belgium international was on top when calculations were made that multiplied the average number of dribbles per game with the percentage of successful dribbles. According to […]
Zinedine Zidane has hit back at Morata after the Spaniard said he moved to Chelsea due to lack of enough playing opportunities for high-profile games at Real Madrid. Earlier this month, Morata talked on why he left Madrid, saying: ‘I played lots of games but always with the second choice side. I never asked to […]
The Belgium international has been in spectacular form for Manchester United this season but thinks the criticism he receives is too much. Romelu Lukaku feels he has proved himself as a striker and believes he deserves more respect for his goalscoring record. The 24-year-old has netted 22 goals in 40 games in all competitions for […]
Neymar has posted a picture of his injured right ankle after Paris Saint-Germain’s win over Marseille on Sunday evening. Paris Saint-Germain sealed a comfortable victory with goals from Kylian Mbappe, Edinson Cavani and an own goal from Rolando. But PSG suffered a scare in the closing stages of the match as Neymar was forced off […]
Jose Mourinho has aimed a sly dig at Chelsea after Manchester United’s 2-1 win at Old Trafford on Sunday. Willian had given Chelsea the lead but Lukaku leveled the game before half-time. However, United took the lead with 15 minutes to go through Jesse Lingard. After the win, Mourinho appeared to question how Chelsea won […]
Antonio Conte admits that he regrets allowing Nemanja Matic join Manchester United in the summer transfer window. Nemanja Matic was part of the Chelsea team that won the Premier League title last season but he was allowed to join United in a £40m deal. The Serbia international is expected to start against Chelsea at Old […]
Arsene Wenger has responded to Roy Keane’s criticism of Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere after his poor performance in the Europa League. Speaking to ITV following Arsenal’s home defeat to Östersunds FK in the Europa League, Keane calles Wilshere the ‘most overrated player on the planet’. ‘Where do I start? I think Arsenal are a great […]
