Manchester City returned to the FA Cup final for the first time since 2013 with a 1-0 last-four win over Brighton and Hove Albion at Wembley, keeping their quadruple bid alive.
Pep Guardiola s men have already won the EFL Cup this season and remain in the reckoning for the Premier League and Champions League titles. Unlike last season, when Wigan Athletic stunned City in the cup, they will return to the national stadium in May, too.
Gabriel Jesus appeared to set the tone for the five-time winners with a fine early header, although they were frustrated for the remainder of the first half.
The second period was then surprisingly uncomfortable for City, yet they came through unscathed with the help of one phenomenal Aymeric Laporte clearance to take a big step towar…
Ronald Koeman became the latest Dutch coach to find his Premier League stay cut short on Monday after Everton announced he had been discarded.
The 54-year-old presided over a woeful start to the season and Sunday s 5-2 humiliation at home to Arsenal was ultimately the final straw, with Everton dropping into the relegation zone as a result.
Koeman s dismissal comes 16 months after he left Southampton for Goodison Park, with the former Barcelona player building a strong reputation at St Mary s Stadium.
But after spending a reported £142million during the close-season, Koeman has paid the price for the Toffees underwhelming start to the campaign, making him the latest in a long line of Dutch coaches to get the boot in English top flight, with Guus Hiddink arg…
Everton and Liverpool played out a thrilling and controversial Merseyside derby on Saturday, while Pep Guardiola brought up his 500th managerial win.
Mohamed Salah and Dominic Calvert-Lewin both continued their scoring streaks in a dramatic encounter at Goodison Park, which finished 2-2 in contentious fashion.
Manchester City then saw off Mikel Arteta s Arsenal 1-0, after Chelsea had been pegged back to a 3-3 draw by Southampton, with Manchester United bouncing back from their 6-1 defeat to Tottenham with a comprehensive 4-1 win at Newcastle United in the late match.
Here, using Opta data, take a look at the key stats from Saturday s games.
19 Bruno Fernandes has been directly involved in 19 goals in his 18 Premier League appearances for Manchester Unite…
Paul Pogba felt Harry Maguire was wrongly denied a beautiful goal but hailed Manchester United for keeping cool heads to move top of the Premier League.
United captain Maguire thought he had headed United into a first-half lead against Burnley only for referee Kevin Friend to controversially adjudge he had fouled Erik Pieters in the process.
VAR backed that decision and for a while it looked like United would be frustrated in their bid for victory.
But Pogba connected sweetly with a Marcus Rashford cross 19 minutes from time and his volley beat home goalkeeper Nick Pope with the aid of a deflection off Matthew Lowton.
It gave United a 1-0 win that moves them three points clear of Premier League champions Liverpool ahead of the massive clash between the …
The second set of Champions League last-16 fixtures to take place this week is full of intrigue, with the continent s biggest-spending club of the January transfer window in need of a result.
Graham Potter s Chelsea forked out an estimated £291million to reshape their squad last month, but the misfiring Blues have won just one of their eight games this calendar year.
For all his struggles on the domestic front, Potter has yet to suffer a Champions League defeat with Chelsea, and maintaining that record at Borussia Dortmund would give them an excellent chance of reaching the last eight.
Potter is not the only under-fire English boss to take centre stage on Wednesday, with former Fulham and Bournemouth head coach Scott Parker overseeing Club Brugge s clash with B…
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Atletico Madrid are set to welcome Sevilla to their Wanda Metropolitano stadium on Tuesday evening, in a game which is officially a part of the fourth round of the 2020-21 season in La Liga, even though some of the teams in the Spanish top flight already have 19 matches behind them.
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At the moment, Atletico look to be on the right track to repeat the success of 2014 and break the domination of Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spanish football, at least for a while. They sit at the top of the table with 38 points, one more than Real in second and no less than three games in hand on their city rivals. In fact, with 15 matches played, they have at least one game in hand on all the teams in the league apart from Elche in 18th…
Georgina Nicholas was “devastated” to lose her job at Arsenal due to the coronavirus pandemic but will now join them in Europe in her role as chief executive of JD Cymru Premier club Haverfordwest.
Nicholas spent eight years at Arsenal after managing multiple retail businesses in London’s West End and being headhunted by the Premier League club to work as their retail operations manager.
The 38-year-old “loved my job” of overseeing five stores, 27 managers and 300 people, but her world was turned upside down in August 2020 when Arsenal responded to the Covid crisis by announcing plans to make 55 staff redundant.
Nicholas was among those to get the dreaded call to join a Teams meeting and hear the bad news as Arsenal publicly defended their actions by sa…
European Super League: Ranieri serves Leicester reminder as Ulivieri calls for Juve, Milan and Inter
Claudio Ranieri sneered at the prospect of a Super League as Italy s football coaches association boss Renzo Ulivieri called for Juventus, Milan and Inter to be thrown out of Serie A.
Ranieri used Leicester City s against-the-odds 2015-16 Premier League title march and subsequent involvement in the Champions League as an example of an underdog having its day.
He was manager of the Foxes as they rose to that unexpected prominence, and it is something he fears would be impossible under the new proposals, with the Champions League being seemingly imperilled by such a rival competition and the biggest clubs set to see their incomes soar.
The Premier League big six have confirmed their readiness to compete in the new Super League, along with Real Madrid, Barcelona…
Real Madrid are interested in signing Jamal Musiala from Bayern Munich in the summer of 2023, according to . The report has claimed that last season’s La Liga and UEFA Champions League winners Madrid are keen on bringing the 19-year-old Germany international to the Santiago Bernabeu.
Musiala has been on the books of Bayern since 2019 when he joined from Chelsea and has established himself as an important player in the team. The 19-year-old, who can operate as an attacking midfielder or as a winger, played for Germany at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Madrid are second in the La Liga table at the moment with 42 points from 18 matches, as many as eight points behind leaders and bitter rivals Barcelona, who have played 19 games. Meanwhile, Bayern currently find themselves at …
A goalscoring milestone, a red card (and maybe another that should have been), a key player off through injury and four goals. Oh, plus a late and controversial VAR call, too.
Yes, the 237th Merseyside derby pretty much had it all.
An early kick-off following an international break may have raised concerns of a sluggish return in the Premier League, yet it soon became apparent that there would be no easing back into domestic duties at Goodison Park.
Liverpool scored early through Sadio Mane but lost both Virgil van Dijk and their advantage not long after. Mohamed Salah did put the champions back ahead with a notable strike in the second half, but Everton once again responded to grab a draw.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin s towering 81st-minute header was f…