West Brom manager Slaven Bilic told BBC WM 95. In the first half we were very dominant, we just lacked quality in the final third and I told the guys just raise the tempo and be patient. In the second half Preston improved and had their moments but the game changed in the final 20 minutes and we camped in their half of the pitch, and if any team deserved to win it was us. You can't imagine how big a result this is for us because Preston is a very difficult place to come and play.
United will have Fred and Nemanja Matic available for the FA Cup tie against Wolves at Molineux. There had been talk about Matic leaving Old Trafford during the current transfer window but Solskjaer has ruled that out and it is understood midfield is one of the areas the club are trying to strengthen. Their problem is that while players in that position are available - former Liverpool player Emre Can is surplus to requirements at Juventus - the club do not want to get bounced into either paying too much for a player they do want or signing someone as a short-term measure, even if the consequence is continued on-field inconsistency.
Manchester United have triggered a clause to extend midfielder Nemanja Matic's contract by one year. The 31-year-old, whose three-year contract was due to expire this summer, is also in talks with the club over lengthening the deal even further. Matic's recent form has encouraged United to extend his stay to 2021 and the Serb could remain beyond that. Matic has made 109 appearances for the Old Trafford club since joining from Chelsea in a £40m deal in 2017.
It was Espanyol who opened the scoring after 24 minutes when Raul de Tomas’ flicked finish was turned into his own net by the unfortunate Stefan Savic. The hosts could have doubled their advantage soon after, with Victor Sanchez smacking a long range strike off the crossbar. Atleti emerged for the second half with renewed vigour and drew level just two minutes later when Saul Niguez struck a stunning volley past Diego Lopez.
It is Spurs who I am expecting to see a response from here, but Jose Mourinho will have to sort his midfield out for that to happen. Lawro's prediction: 3-0Richard's prediction: 3-1 Aston Villa v Norwich CityIt was worrying to see Aston Villa shipping goals the way they were in Saturday's defeat by Southampton. Dean Smith's side have now lost four games in a row, and John McGinn's injury is another blow for them.
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane is unsure whether injured forward Eden Hazard will play again this season. Hazard, 29, who joined Real from Chelsea in June in an initial deal worth £89m, suffered a fractured ankle during his side's 1-0 La Liga loss to Levante on Saturday. The Belgian was only playing his second game back after a similar injury. I don't know if his season is over, I don't know but I hope not," said Zidane.
I've lived in this town since 1986 and the football club is different to other clubs," said Pulis on BBC Radio 5 Live at the end of January. There's no way he would still be in a job elsewhere but this club knows they owe Eddie a massive favour in the way he's brought them forward and turned them around. Look at the stadium compared to when I played, the training ground, he's built something special and people in the town understand he's done a wonderful job.
Ajax average 3.00 points per home game and Willem II average 1.43 points per away game, and with the hosts averaging 4.00 goals scored per home game and concede an average of just 0.29 goals and their guests scoring an average of 1.57 goals per away game and conceding an average of 2.00 goals, you can see why a 3-1 home win looks a realistic possibility on Friday.
Schalke 04 are winless in the last 7 games and last week they lost the derby to Borussia Dortmund with 0-4. However, at home Schalke 04 have not been bad so far this season with a 5-6-2 record with the only 2 defeats against teams out of the top 5.
And after an executive committee meeting on Thursday, European football's governing body has clarified its stance. Champions League and Europa League likely to be played in AugustAberdeen want delay on ending seasonParked cars & cyber season tickets - how might football cope without fans?Fans at football 'unlikely' any time soon - SturgeonUefa still urged associations to use their "best efforts" and explore all possible options, including a different format, to complete domestic competitions before the Champions League and Europa League resume, which they hope will be August.
The home side is playing very good in this season. They have won their last 5 matches and seems unstoppable right now. They are coming off a victory against Dover Athletic by 3-0 goals. They sit on 3rd spot in the league 1 table and are eyeing for the promotion.
Arsenal defender Kieran Tierney will be out for three months after dislocating his shoulder. Scot Tierney, 22, was forced off in Monday's Premier League win at West Ham and will have surgery next week. The injury was sustained in Tierney's third Premier League start since his £25m move from Celtic in August. It means the left-back is a major doubt for Scotland's Euro 2020 play-off against Israel at Hampden Park on 26 March.
He added: "He still has 15 months to go. Until then, he will stay at Arsenal, for sure. He will stay until the end of his contract. There’s no chance he’ll leave. The prospect of Ozil leaving North London has been the subject of much speculation for several year's now, though he signed a new contract with the club in 2018.
You can never say Club Bruges don't know how to celebrate. In fact they enjoyed their late equaliser at Galatasaray so much that they had two men sent off. When Krepin Diatta curled home from outside the box deep into injury time to make it 1-1 in Istanbul, you might have expected the drama to be over. He took his shirt off to celebrate, as modern footballers love to do. Unfortunately he appeared to forget he had already been booked so was shown a second yellow card and a red.
Moreirense have won four of their last five matches against Aves and four of the pairs’ last five encounters have ended in a win to nil, so you can start to see just why we have backed Moireirense to win 2-0 this weekend.
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Crystal Palace will be at home against high riding and the best in the Premier League Liverpool. Palace are 12th in the league with 15 points from 12 matches, scoring 10 goals against 16. They dropped form recently that saw them with 3 lost game from the last 4 games played. After the victory against West Ham away and against Norwich at home, things looks better but with the current form and Liverpool is calling, it's not going to be easy to tackle the opponent at the moment. Liverpool and incredible at the moment both in domestic league and Champions League the brought them as leader with 34 points from 12 matches, scoring 28 goals against 10. I believe them to win here to keep the points more far available.
Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante has resumed full contact training having trained alone because of his concerns about contracting coronavirus. Kante, 29, was initially allowed to train from home while his team-mates returned to limited training at Cobham. He returned to train on his own at Cobham at the end of last month. The France player caused concern among team-mates in 2018 when he fainted after a training session.
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That was under three weeks ago, but after a humiliating 2-0 defeat to bottom of the table Watford, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer finds his team sitting a disappointing 8th in the Premier League table – their worst position at this point of the season since 1989.
Eintracht Frankfurt and Augsburg will face each other in the upcoming match in the Bundesliga. Eintracht Frankfurt this season have the following results: 7W, 4D and 9L. Meanwhile Augsburg have 7W, 5D and 8L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring.
The reaction has been phenomenal - although, possibly, getting more out of Christian Eriksen might be a bit trickier given the Dane's contract runs out at the end of the season. Yet, while he spent nearly £400m on new players during his time at Old Trafford, Mourinho seems to have inherited a more rounded squad than he ever managed to put together in Manchester. In Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Davinson Sanchez, he has three effective options in central defence, the position he was blocked from strengthening in his final year at United.
They are third in the group and need to get a better result than Valencia or win this game and see the Spanish side beat group leaders Ajax. It's going to be a tense night and could change a fair few times during the night. What is for certain is that Lille will finish bottom of the group. Chelsea are still fourth in the Premier League but their current form is not good.
Belshina closes the standings experiencing problems in both attack and defense. A weak center of the field and as a result of 6 goals scored in 8 games and 15 conceded. Vitebsk has a slightly better situation. With a weak attack, the team gains momentum and this is noticeable. I do not think that “Belshina” will find its game in this match, therefore, I do not expect effective football. I consider the 0-1 goal for such a match to be the ceiling. Belshina is an absolute outsider of the championship and today a strong guy from Vitebsk will come to them, Vitebs plays very well against a team that should not win so much in defense even with a minimum score!
The Lakers (49-14) were the only team in the conference to have clinched a playoff spot, and they still had 19 regular-season games remaining. I can (hopefully) have some satisfaction on what our team has been able to do this year," James said. Having a first-year coach, first-year system, a whole new coaching staff, I honestly didn't think that we'd be able to come together as fast as we did.
Pulisic sustained the injury in Chelsea's 2-0 Premier League victory over Crystal Palace earlier this month and missed the United States' CONCACAF Nations League matches against Canada and Cuba during the international break. The 21-year-old former Borussia Dortmund player has been in superb form for third-placed Chelsea after a slow start to his career at Stamford Bridge, scoring five goals in his last three league matches.
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The 1974 World Cup - what do you think of? West Germany, total football, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer? No? Perhaps just one team remaining unbeaten during the tournament, only to be knocked out in the first round having conceded just a single goal?Scotland were the only team from the British Isles to make it. What's more, it was the first time they had qualified since 1958. The official World Cup song was called Easy, Easy - but it wasn't conceit or hubris that was their downfall, it was goal difference.
Dinamo is having one of their worse begin in the recent history, and they did lost two first matches from Rush and FC Minsk. They played with five goals and the red card against local rival. Also Dinamo did have some high scoring games in Cup, against BATE, when also lost.
Assisted by George Honeyman. Posted at 88' Foul by Marcus Tavernier (Middlesbrough). Posted at 88' Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Hull City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 83' Patrick McNair (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Posted at 83' Foul by Kevin Stewart (Hull City). SubstitutionPosted at 82' Substitution, Hull City. Tom Eaves replaces Josh Magennis. SubstitutionPosted at 82' Substitution, Hull City.
Dele Alli, Lucas Moura and Son Heung-min are preferred in attacking midfield as the Portuguese boss seeks a winning start at West Ham in the early kick-off. Harry Kane leads the line as captain, with Eric Dier and Harry Winks forming a central midfield partnership. Toby Alderweireld returns to the centre of defence alongside Davinson Sanchez, supported by full-backs Serge Aurier and Ben Davies.
In this clash, Shakhtyor will face Slutsk and it will be a really interesting match on Friday in Belarus. The hosts were one of the strongest teams in the previous season but in this one, they struggle and fail to win against teams which are much weaker than they are. Slutsk lost only against Dinamo Brest in this season and it was 0:1. After that, they won 2:3 on away and draw 1:1 with Vitebsk. Shakhtyor lost against Zhodino and scored only two goals in four games. My bet here is an Asian handicap for Slutsk. They should not lose this match by more than 1 goal
Carlo AncelottiGetty Images On the same day Arteta moved a step closer to the Arsenal job, Everton entered talks with Ancelotti, who landed on Merseyside on Monday afternoon, according to Sky Sports News. The Italian has won it all, taking home domestic titles with AC Milan, Chelsea, PSG and Bayern Munich, and winning the Champions League with Milan (twice) and Real Madrid.
Benfica is the current leader and they can't waste any points if they want to keep a good distance to their main rivals in the title contest, Porto. On this contest they will travel to Guimaraes to face Vitória SC, a very tough and well organized team but overall Benfica has a better team and should be able to get the win in the end. Benfica has a perfect record so far on the road and should continue here with a victory on this match, which makes their -0.5 Asian Handicap the best line to take on this match here.
This Tuesday’s clash between these two sides is a meeting of two in form sides who know the importance of three points. Both are likely to approach the match in a positive mindset and we think this attacking intent should lead to goals at both ends of the pitch. With this in mind, backing both teams to score looks to be the way to go.
Norwich City have avoided defeat in back-to-back Premier League matches for the first time this season. Since his Premier League debut in February 2018, Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored 27 goals in games played on Sundays - more than any other player has scored on a day of the week in that time. Norwich City's Teemu Pukki ended a run of 18 shots and 773 minutes without a Premier League goal, scoring his first league goal since September against Manchester City.
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Raul Jimenez scored a stunning winner as Wolves came from behind to beat Tottenham to leapfrog Jose Mourinho's side in the table and move to within three points of the Champions League spots. See alsoMATCHCAST: FULL MATCH STATS AND COMMENTARY In a battle that had the potential to be defining in the race for the top-four, Tottenham broke the deadlock with 13 minutes on the clock through Steven Bergwijn, who reacted quickest after Dele Alli's shot was saved by Rui Patricio.
Full TimeSecond Half ends, Cardiff City 0, Fulham 2. SubstitutionSubstitution, Fulham. Denis Odoi replaces Neeskens Kebano. Goal!Goal! Cardiff City 0, Fulham 2. Neeskens Kebano (Fulham) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner. Post updateTom Cairney (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Post updateFoul by Sean Morrison (Cardiff City). Post updateFoul by Michael Hector (Fulham).
Gennaro Gattuso was looking for a reaction from his side after they fell to a shock 3-2 defeat at home by Lecce last weekend, and Mertens’ curling shot on the 65th minute was enough to edge them to victory. The Belgian's goal was a rare moment of quality in a keenly contested encounter, and moved him to within one goal of Marek Hamsik's club record tally of 121 strikes for the club.
Napoli host Genk in the final match of the group stage in CL. The task is quite clear. Napoli have to win this match. But they have concerns in the squad, and above all, it is a crack between coach Ancelotti and the management. The results have not gone their way in the league and the press is pressuring them. They will win this match and must need to win. I don't expect an explosion here but rather a cynical game that is about not losing. 0-0 was the last team met, so, expect 2 or more goals from Napoli here.
Moroccan striker Abderazzak Hamdallah will lead the charge for coach Rui Vitoria's side, with the former Guangzhou R&F forward's strike rate of 49 goals in 34 games in Al Nassr's domestic title win sure to cause opposing defences significant concern. He's so good," says Ali of his prolific team mate.
Leicester will believe they are fresher after the travelling Liverpool have done in the past few days, and seeing the Reds play extra-time in the Club World Cup final. They can try to make the most of that with a high tempo and aggressive attacking approach. The home side's flexibility is going to be an asset for them here, because they have the ability to use different formations depending on where Rodgers thinks they can get at the Reds.
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