Manchester City travel to Saint James’ Park on Sunday evening looking to continue their 100 per cent start to the season having beaten West Ham United and Bournemouth in their opening two games.The Citizens have enjoyed a good start and fate has also been kind on them as their main rival for the title, Liverpool are still without a win after two games while also have a number of first team players unavailable.Pep Guardiola will be hopeful of establishing an early lead in the title charge, to make it almost impossible for chasers to catch up once they are back…
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Manchester United are advancing well in what looked an impossible deal at start. The offer is so big the Brazilian is now think about it.Manchester United have offered massive wage, far above what the 30-year-old currently earns in Madrid and a player of his age, having won everything winnable for Los Blancos, the time might be right for a new challenge.Moving away from the futile midfield partnership of Scott Mctominay and Fred, which has only seen the club regressed in recent years, United will do almost everything possible to achieve this, even so after an underwhelming start to the season.A…
Again, Patrick Vieira showed his Crystal Palace side are not just pushovers for the top sides in the Premier League as the spoils was shared at Anfield, ending a run of 12 consecutive loses.Two wonderful strike, one for the visitors and later for the host, Crystal Palace were able to earn their first point against Liverpool since a 2-1 win on the same ground in April 2017.On a ground where almost everyone that comes walks away with nothing, Vieira was very clear of the game plan because a high pressing side like Liverpool are always going to have a good…
Real Madrid conceded in the sixth minute courtesy of former Manchester United Academy player Largie Ramazani, the earliest they have conceded on opening day since Sergio Aguero scored in the 58 seconds for Atletico in 2007.The defending Champions were behind for most part of the game albeit Lucas Vazquez had the ball in the net late in the second half but he was flagged offside before scoring the goal.The Spaniard would not not be denied one minute after the hour mark, reacting quick to fire home from close range after Vinicius Junior had been denied by goalkeeper, Fernando Martinez.Rodrygo Ely…
After only two games into the new season, Neymar Jr has already registered six goal contributions in the Ligue 1 following his two goals performance against Montpellier on Saturday, adding to his one goal three assists on opening day at Clermont Foot.The Brazilian doubled PSG lead from the spot two minutes from the end of the first half, after Falaye Sacko had given the host the lead with an own goal four minutes earlier.Neymar took over the penalty duty from Kylian Mbappé, who had missed one earlier in the game and the Brazilian did his trademark run before sending Jonas…
Premier League Gameweek two action kicked off at the Villa Park and ended at the Community Stadium in Brentford on Saturday as Manchester City and Arsenal made it two wins from two while Manchester United suffered another recorded breaking loss in London.Manchester City 4-0 BournemouthManchester City extended their superiority over Bournemouth in a 4-0 win at the Ethiad to make it 18 games of 16 wins without a defeat against the Cherries.Starting for the second this season, Ilkay Gundogan opens the scoring in the 19th minute of the match, exchanging pass with Erling Haaland, who teed him up for a…
The La Liga returns this weekend as games will be played between Friday and Monday in stadia across Spain.The curtain raiser will happen at the Estadio El Sadar in Pamplona, where Osasuna play host to Sevilla.Having finished fourth in the league last season, three points behind second place Barcelona, Julen Lopetegui will be hopeful of a positive start to the season against a team whom they are unbeaten in their last ten games.Osasuna finished a place better last season than in the previous season and also earned a point in a goalless draw in this fixture last season. Jagoba Arrasate…
For the first time in over five years, Chelsea finally beat Everton thanks to a Jorginho’s penalty on opening weekend after Abdoulaye Doucoure was condemned for a foul on Ben Chilwell.Despite playing without a striker following the suspension and injury of Salomon Rondon and Dominic Calvert-Lewin respectively, the Toffees were still able to cause the Chelsea defence a lot of troubles but unfortunately, were unable to beat Edouard Mendy.The test that awaits Chelsea this weekend against Tottheham Hotspur will be much different and challenging. Chelsea were able to beat Spurs in all four meetings last season without conceding a goal,…
Arsenal, for the first time in a very long time will have all their first team members available for a matchday following the recovery of Emile Smith Rowe, Takehiro Tomiyasu and summer signing, Fabio Vieira.The trio were pictured in full training on Tuesday having missed the preseason games as well as the opening weekend win at Crystal Palace, albeit Emile Smith Rowe did feature against Nuremberg in Germany, he was also sidelined in their tour of the US.This is a really big boost for the Gunners heading into not only the gameweek but the season given the poor injury record…
Desperate, Manchester United travel to the Community Stadium in Brentford on the back of a humiliating defeat in the opening weekend at home to Brighton, extending their number of consecutive losses in the league to three.The atmosphere around the Theater of dreams is not encouraging as the fans have also started a movement to boycott their next home game against Liverpool later in the month.Despite their poor end to last season, fans have become optimistic following the arrival of Dutch manager, Erik Ten Hag but so far, the former Ajax man has not done much to impress the fans safe…