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We’ve got a Chelsea v Leicester shoot-out for the top four, Everton’s effort to avoid a record low, EFL play-offs, and finals in France and Italy… Game to watch – Chelsea v Leicester The FA Cup finalists meet again, three days after Leicester joyously claimed victory at Wembley in what, regardless of whatever any […]
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It will be all eyes on a Jose Mourinho-less Tottenham, who could be set free like Sam Allardyce’s Baggies in another Big Midweek… Game to watch – Aston Villa v Manchester City The narrative goes that Aston Villa have fallen apart due to the absence of Jack Grealish. They’ve won just two of the eight […]
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Game to watch – PSG v Bayern Munich The first leg was no different to dozens of other games Bayern have played and won comfortably in the last two seasons, save for two anomalies – Kylian Mbappe and Robert Lewandowksi. If the latter was playing, Bayern would have won; if the former wasn’t playing, Bayern also […]
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Real Madrid v Liverpool, is it? Bring it on. This week looks sodding brilliant. Just brilliant. Game to watch: Real Madrid v Liverpool Because of course it is. They’ve won four of the last five and five of the last seven Champions League titles between them, and this is their first meeting since the […]
Read More… from Big Midweek: Madrid v Liverpool, Haaland, Solskjaer, Chelsea
Chelsea look to make a long-awaited mark on the Champions League and Solskjaer must force the issue at the San Siro… Game to watch – Chelsea v Atletico Madrid Chelsea haven’t won a Champions League knockout tie since Frank Lampard, John Terry et al beat Galatasaray in the last 16 and PSG in the […]
Read More… from Big Midweek: Chelsea v Atletico, Solskjaer, Bayern, Mahrez
Game to watch – Man Utd v AC Milan This sounds more like a Champions League clash than three of the four ties in the main event this week and this first Europa League meeting between England and Italy’s second-placed sides could be a Thursday night treat. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s absolute head-f*** of a team […]
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Game to watch – Liverpool v Chelsea Thomas Tuchel has got a bit of a rotten record against Jurgen Klopp: a manager he has faced more than any other. The 14 meetings between the two have seen Tuchel come out on top just twice, with Klopp winning nine. The majority of those clashes were between […]
Read More… from Big Midweek: Liverpool v Chelsea, Bale, Allardyce, Villa
Game to watch – RB Leipzig v Liverpool “They [Liverpool] are not in a mega-crisis and will certainly be stable against us,” Julian Nagelsmann said, but surely doesn’t believe to be true. “Stable” is not the word to describe Liverpool right now. Antonyms would come closer to the truth: mercurial; volatile; shaky; erratic. A team […]
Read More… from Big Midweek: Leipzig v Liverpool, Dortmund, Poch, Silva
Game to watch – Everton v Tottenham Not since Leiria in 2001 has Jose Mourinho managed a team with less hope of winning a trophy. Carlo Ancelotti has never managed a team with less hope of winning a trophy. These are giants of European football, not slumming it per se, but attempting to prove they […]
Read More… from Big Midweek: Everton v Spurs, Van de Beek, Chelsea