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Liverpool will face their hardest challenge to date in the Europa League in the form of Atalanta, whom they face in the quarterfinals of UEFA s second-string competition. The first leg of the tie will take place at Anfield on Thursday evening.
While the Reds tore Sparta Prague in the round of 16, Atalanta got to this stage by edging out Sporting Lisbon, whose head coach Ruben Amorim is being heavily linked with Liverpool as Jurgen Klopp prepares to leave Merseyside at the end of the season.
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Some of Liverpool s forays away from home in the Europa League this term weren t great, but their finish at the top of the group containing LASK, Union Saint-Gilloise and Toulouse was never really in question, which means they di…
Inter star Romelu Lukaku said he owes Antonio Conte a lot after penning a heartfelt farewell message to the former Nerazzurri head coach.
Conte guided Inter to their first Serie A title since 2010 but the Italian boss remarkably departed less than a month on from the club s Scudetto triumph by mutual consent on Wednesday.
The 51-year-old, who had another year remaining on his contract after arriving from Chelsea in 2019, had been tipped to leave amid Inter s financial situation and a supposed dispute over salary cuts and player sales.
Lured to San Siro by Conte in 2019, Lukaku paid tribute to the outgoing boss.
Lukaku wrote via Instagram: 2014 we spoke for the first time and we have had a bond ever since. We had many moments to work together but only god …
Declan Rice deserves to be in contention for the Premier League s Player of the Season award and has proven to be the best signing of the campaign, says former Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour.
Rice joined Arsenal from West Ham in a £105million deal last July and has had a transformative impact, helping Mikel Arteta s side push Manchester City all the way in the title race.
On Thursday, Rice – alongside Arsenal team-mate Martin Odegaard – was named as one of eight nominees for the Premier League s Player of the Season prize, with the likes of Phil Foden, Erling Haaland and Virgil van Dijk also on the shortlist.
As well as helping Arsenal maintain the Premier League s best defensive record in 2023-24, Rice has carried the ball further than any other player in t…
Interim Manchester United manager Ralf Rangnick hinted there could be up to ten new signings following Tuesday s 4-0 demolition at the hands of Liverpool.
It was effectively game over after 25 minutes with Liverpool already up 2-0 by that point, and United simply were not capable of mounting a tangible fightback.
Following October s 5-0 trashing at Old Trafford, Tuesday s 4-0 loss at Anfield served as a microcosm of where the two clubs are at on and off the pitch.
Rangnick asserted the need for a disjointed United to take on a long-term overhaul in the same vein as Liverpool and Manchester City, who built squads over time on the basis of identity.
If you look at the two clubs who are currently dominating the Premier League, they did exactly that, he said…
Leicester owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who was killed in a 2018 helicopter crash, would “never have risked his life in this machine” if he knew safety processes had not been taking place, according to his son.
Mr Vichai and four others died when the Leonardo AW169 plummeted to the ground outside the club’s King Power Stadium on October 27, 2018, shortly after taking off from the pitch.
A report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) stated that the crash was caused by the pilot’s pedals becoming disconnected from the tail rotor as a component – a bearing – seized amid a build-up of pressure.
Investigators listed a series of contributory factors, such as Italian company Leonardo failing to share test flight results with the bearing manufac…
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The Premier League returns once again this weekend as we continue through the early stages of the campaign. The opening weekend provided us with plenty of noteworthy moments but with 37 matchday still left to be played, anything can happen between now and May and we ve only just gotten started. Today, we re going to preview what should be an intriguing clash between Nottingham Forest and West Ham.
Nottingham Forest
It s easy enough to write off a team as relegation favourites before the season even gets underway, and in reality, we should be focusing on the fact that a club as historic as Nottingham Forest are finally back in the big time after two decades away. They have work to do in the summer trans…
Robert Lewandowski can consider himself hard done by. The Bayern Munich striker would almost certainly have won his maiden Ballon d Or in 2020, only for France Football to decide not to hand out the award due to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, world football s most prestigious individual accolade is back up for grabs this year, with the ceremony set to take place on Monday.
Lewandowski, who scooped The Best FIFA Men s Player award for 2020 and has had another sensational year for Bayern, is among the favourites on a 30-man shortlist.
Will it finally be his time, or will old voting habits die hard to put Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi in pole position? Using Opta data, Stats Perform assesses the credentials of the Ballon d Or favourites.
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Callum Robinson is convinced the Republic of Ireland are heading in the right direction despite their disappointing Euro 2024 qualifying campaign.
Ireland will not be in Germany for next summer’s finals – barring an unlikely series of results elsewhere which could hand them a second chance via the play-offs – after taking just six points from their first seven Group B fixtures, with just a tough trip to the Netherlands next month to come.
That has left manager Stephen Kenny fighting for his job, but Cardiff striker Robinson believes the foundations the 51-year-old has put in place since succeeding Mick McCarthy in April 2021 could yet pay dividends.
Speaking after Monday night’s 4-0 victory over Gibraltar in Faro, the 28-year-old said: “There’s so muc…
In what was another Europa League classic on Thursday night, Manchester United booked their last-16 ticket after securing a 2-1 victory against Barcelona in their second-leg showdown
Despite entering the half-time break chasing a 1-0 deficit as Robert Lewandowski s penalty snuck past David de Gea, Erik ten Hag s side produced what has become a trademark turnaround on home soil.
Eventually clinching a stellar 4-3 aggregate victory after settling for a 2-2 draw at the Nou Camp last week, it was United s Brazilian duo who will still most of the headlines.
With Fred and second-half substitute Antony completing ten Hag s Europa League comeback, the Premier League giants also pilled more pressure onto a Barcelona side who are now enduring another public European strug…
Marc Skinner hopes Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s investment in Manchester United provides a “springboard” for success for the women’s team.
Ratcliffe last week completed a deal to purchase a 27.7 per cent stake in United that sees his Ineos company take control of football operations at the club.
United’s women’s side, relaunched in 2018 and managed by Skinner since 2021, achieved best finishes of runners-up in the Women’s Super League and FA Cup last term. They currently sit fourth in the WSL, 10 points adrift of leaders Chelsea.
Skinner told a press conference on Friday: “We (he and Ratcliffe) have not managed to meet yet, I know it’s on the horizon very soon.
“But we have our constant kind of feed through our bosses anyway in terms of kind of…