Football Blog (Page 126)

[ad_1] Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola spoke to the media on Tuesday afternoon ahead of his team’s Carabao Cup quarter-final tie against Premier League strugglers Southampton. Guardiola has won the competition with City on four previous occasions, with the most recent coming in 2021 and will fancy his team’s chances of securing the first major silverware of the 2022/23 English season if they carry on progressing through the rounds. Here’s a summary of the key talking points from his pre-match press conference… “He’s always ready. Of course, he needed time for some aspects but he’s ready and we are delighted about that. We have to see [ifRead More →

[ad_1] While two Hollywood stars run things off the pitch, the men representing Wrexham on the grass are currently basking in the limelight themselves. With an incredible hike in global interest and fandom have come exciting times on the field for the Welsh club and, alongside their push for a return to the Football League, Wrexham, with their famous heritage in the competition, are gunning on the FA Cup front too. A typically magnificent FA Cup third-round tie saw them overcome Coventry – a side three divisions above them – 4-3 away from home and seal their place in the fourth round for the firstRead More →

[ad_1] No Premier League title is ever handed out in December, but it’s still interesting to look at who has won the most points over a calendar year. Ancient civilisations each established their own concepts of time and when history definitively began. Their calendars, meanwhile, also differed. Most, including the Romans, followed a lunisolar calendar before those wise 13th-century Chinese folk laid the foundations for the calendars that the vast majority of modern societies use today. For Premier League lovers, August to May is the only period of time that appears consequential: the football calendar. Your typical football season occupies two years, but imagine, inRead More →

[ad_1] RB Leipzig attacker Dani Olmo has spoken about his desire to play in Spain in the future, specifically describing Barcelona as somewhere that will ‘always be a home’. Olmo has become a key member of the Spanish national team since 2021, playing 21 times for his country in the last two years alone. But, having moved to Croatia to at the age of 16 to start his senior career with Dinamo Zagreb, he has never played professionally in his homeland. The 24-year-old swapped Zagreb for Leipzig in January 2020 and has since played over 100 times for the German club. He has been linkedRead More →

[ad_1] Borussia Dortmund are struggling to reach an agreement with Youssoufa Moukoko over a new contract, and 90min sources believe it is increasingly likely that he will leave the club this summer. The Bundesliga giants have been holding contract extension talks with Moukoko, who has come through the youth system at Signal Iduna Park after joining as an 11-year-old, in the hope of tying him down long-term. But talks are not progressing as Dortmund would like, and as it stands Moukoko is free to leave the club this summer once his current deal comes to an end. Sources believe that the teenage forward wants aRead More →

[ad_1] Liverpool are among the sides to have scouted Atalanta midfielder Teun Koopmeiners, 90min understands, but the Reds have not taken their interest any further at this point. Bolstering in midfield is among Liverpool’s top priorities for the coming months and 24-year-old Koopmeiners is one of a number of potential targets. Liverpool are also interested in Fiorentina’s Sofyan Amrabat and have been offered the chance to sign beaten World Cup finalist Adrien Rabiot from Juventus. Thus far, Liverpool’s interest in Koopmeiners hasn’t been formalised and the Atalanta man has also played down talk of a move – although he did admit in a recent pressRead More →

[ad_1] Chelsea’s next attempt to end their slump comes on Thursday as they make the short trip over to Fulham for some Premier League action. Sections of the Blues supporters turned mutinous as Graham Potter’s side fell to their sixth defeat in their last nine games against Manchester City at the weekend, and another poor result against their local rivals, who are already ahead in the table, could tip things over the edge. With an unrelenting injury crisis to contend with, here’s the lineup Chelsea could opt for. Zakaria has been a rare positive / Sebastian Frej/MB Media/GettyImages GK: Kepa Arrizabalaga – With Edouard MendyRead More →

[ad_1] Arsenal struggled to live up to their billing as Premier League leaders as they made hard work of League One’s Oxford in the FA Cup third round on Monday. The Gunners were lifeless for the first hour of the game but finally flexed their quality as a Mohamed Elneny header and a double from Eddie Nketiah saw Mikel Arteta’s side through to the fourth round with a scoreline that undeniably flattered their performance. It was an even, albeit uninspiring start to the game, with the chants of ‘boring, boring Arsenal’ from the home fans summing up the early stages as the Gunners knocked fruitlesslyRead More →

[ad_1] Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has confirmed his retirement from international duty. The 36-year-old captained Les Bleus at the World Cup in Qatar, playing every minute of the knockout stages and becoming the team’s record appearance-maker en route to falling to Argentina in the final. Now, with 145 caps to his name, Lloris has chosen to walk away from his national team. “It’s not easy to announce, but after 14 years defending the shirt which I wore with great pleasure, pride, duty and a sense of responsibility, I believe I have reached the end,” Lloris told L’Equipe. “I have decided to end my international career,Read More →

[ad_1] Paris Saint-Germain will expect a return to winning ways on Wednesday when they host a struggling Angers side at the Parc des Princes. Christophe Galtier’s side fell 3-1 to high-flying Lens last time out in Ligue 1 and came perilously close to a Coupe de France scare against third-tier side Chateauroux, needing two late goals to eke out a victory. By the Parisians’ high standards, the past week has not been good enough and they’ll plan to take their frustrations out on an Angers side who sit bottom of the table with just eight points to their name after 17 games – 36 behindRead More →