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April may be upon us but Manchester United still have a sizeable chunk of their marathon season left to tackle. By defeating Fulham in the FA Cup quarter-final, United are guaranteed to play more than 60 competitive games in the same season for just the fifth time in the club’s history. Erik ten Hag’s side already have this year’s Carabao Cup in their trophy cabinet and remain in three other competitions. The Red Devils will grace all three tournaments in the next six matches as they wearily steel themselves for an exhausting conclusion. Cristiano Ronaldo was still at the club when Manchester United lost 4-0Read More →

Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly is standing firm in his decision to stand by under-fire head coach Graham Potter, sources have told 90min. The Blues chief picked Potter as a replacement to fan favourite Thomas Tuchel back in September, but they have endured a rather miserable 2022/23 season. After losing 2-0 to Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge on Saturday – during which home fans taunted Potter with chants of ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ and ‘you’re getting sacked in the morning’ – Chelsea now sit in the bottom half of the Premier League table in 11th. 90min understands that some within the club’s hierarchy areRead More →

After four years, two seasons of European football and the club’s first-ever FA Cup trophy, Brendan Rodgers’ tenure at Leicester City has come to a bleak conclusion. Ever since the Foxes let a two-goal lead slip against Brentford on the opening weekend of the season, Leicester have been fighting an uphill battle. The club were in the relegation zone for much of the pre-World Cup portion of the season and slipped back beneath the dotted line after what proved to be Rodgers’ final match at the helm as another lead was lost against Crystal Palace. With huge six-pointers against fellow strugglers fast approaching, here’s whatRead More →

Liverpool returned to the WSL in 2022 after a two-year absence from the top flight, with the Reds back where they belong having previously been crowned top flight champions twice almost a decade earlier. Notoriously, only one promotion place is available in the Women’s Championship and the Reds had fallen short in their pursuit of it in 2020/21. But there was to be no such repeat in 2021/22 as Matt Beard’s side finished 11 points clear of the rest to secure a place in the WSL. Most wins, most goals scored, fewest conceded and best goal difference tells you plenty about the dominant nature ofRead More →

Tottenham confirmed on Friday that managing director of football Fabio Paratici will step back from his role following FIFA’s decision to uphold a worldwide ban from the sport. It’s always a great sign when a senior member of a club’s setup is even in earshot of such trouble, let alone the centre of attention, right? This was a scenario which both should never have happened and yet was completely conceivable. Paratici arrived in 2021 as the man to take away football power from chairman Daniel Levy, but amid a haze of confusion at how his long-term spell with Juventus petered out and the Turin sideRead More →

Manchester United’s all-time record scorer Wayne Rooney has compared current forward Marcus Rashford with summer transfer target Harry Kane. Rashford is enjoying his best season in a United shirt to date, already racking up 27 goals in 44 games across all competitions and leading them to Carabao Cup glory. He has, however, had to shoulder the majority of the Red Devils’ scoring load – Bruno Fernandes (10) is the only other player in the squad to have reached double figures for goals this term. 90min understands that a new centre forward is on United’s wishlist for the summer transfer window, with Kane – now EnglandRead More →

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has warned Newcastle that the ability to spend vast sums of money does not mean they will become successful. The Magpies were taken over by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund at the end of 2021 and are now able to compete financially with some of the world’s biggest and best teams. In their first full season under PIF’s majority ownership and Eddie Howe’s management, Newcastle look shoo-ins to qualify for Europe and are still in with a good chance of reaching the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 2003. But ahead of United’s trip to St James’Read More →

Chelsea head coach Graham Potter has once again claimed that his side played well in a game that they were expected to win but fell to defeat. The Blues were beaten 2-0 by Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening, slipping out of the Premier League’s top half and dropping to 11th following the loss. Ollie Watkins took advantage of an error by Marc Cucurella to put the visitors ahead in the first half, before a rocket from John McGinn sealed the points for Villa in the second. Home supporters seemed to turn on Potter, with chants of ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’Read More →

Barcelona continued their push towards the La Liga title with a comfortable 4-0 victory over the division’s bottom side Elche on Saturday. It wasn’t a particularly inspiring performance from Xavi’s side but the gulf in quality between the two sides ensured it never needed to be, with Robert Lewandowski scoring twice and both Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres getting in on the action in the second half. Elche made a bright start but soon reverted to type, backtracking and sitting deep in an attempt to frustrate Barcelona – doing so fairly successfully for the first 19 minutes before Lewandowski opened the scoring. Ronald Araujo knockedRead More →

The Premier League season is building towards a thrilling crescendo as the two leading protagonists hit their stride with the finish line hurtling into view. However, gluts of good form are not reserved for the Premier League’s elite. While the title race naturally catches the eye, the relegation dogfight includes as many as nine clubs chiefly because sides at the foot of the table have scrambled some points together. Here’s how the form of each team is shaping up as we enter the final quarter of an enthralling season. Position Team Won Drawn Lost Points 1 Arsenal 6 0 0 18 2 Man City 5Read More →