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Two sides who will turn their attention back to EFL Cup duties in midweek, Mansfield will welcome Port Vale to Field Mill on Tuesday night.

Starting with the hosts, while Mansfield might have eventually been left heartbroken last season as they missed out on the chance to claim a play-off ticket, Nigel Clough’s side have come roaring back this time around. Battling it out at the top of the League Two standings and gaining plenty of recent praise, the Stags should find the mood in their camp at a red-hot high. Keeping up their recent flurry over the weekend as they secured a 2-1 win at home against Walsall, the Nottinghamshire-based outfit have won each of their previous four straight appearances. With their extended purple p…

Wolfsburg will be out to maintain a formidable home record when they welcome CSKA Moscow to the Volkswagen Arena in Tuesday s UEFA Champions League action.

Dieter Hecking s men have lost only once at home in 2015, as well as making a strong start to the new domestic season, picking up eight points from their first four games.

Hecking will be looking for an improvement on his side s most recent performance, however, when they were held to a 0-0 home draw by newly promoted Ingolstadt, a game in which new recruits Julian Draxler and Dante both made their club debuts.

Wolfsburg did of course lose the services of key men Kevin De Bruyne and Ivan Perisic during the transfer window, but Dutch striker Bas Dost has been in impressive form and former Arsenal man Nicklas Be…

Carlo Ancelotti believes Karim Benzema is capable of winning another Ballon d Or after netting back-to-back hat-tricks for Real Madrid.

Benzema followed up his treble in last week s 6-0 LaLiga win over Real Valladolid with three more goals in Wednesday s 4-0 Copa del Rey semi-final second leg at Barcelona.

It marks the first time the former France international has scored successive hat-tricks in a Madrid career spanning 14 trophy-laden seasons.

Having won the Ballon d Or for the first time in 2022 on the back of a superb year for Los Blancos, Ancelotti has backed Benzema to challenge for the individual accolade again.

Why not? Ancelotti said following his side s 4-1 aggregate victory against Barcelona. He remains one of the best players in the world –…

Sky News has confirmed this morning that Cardiff City Football Club are investigating reports that Emiliano Sala was on board a light aircraft that went missing in the English channel. The plane was flying from France to Cardiff, with Sala believed to be on his way to completing his £15 million move to South Wales. Fans from clubs up and down the country have taken to social media in order to send their best wishes to both the Bluebirds and Sala s family as they await more news.

The 28 year old s move from Nantes would break the £11 million total they paid for Gary Medel back in 2013. Sala was with Nantes for four years and during that time, he was able to establish himself as a firm fan favourite.

This is a developing story as fans and media members alike continue to…

Paris Saint-Germain are poised to complete the signing of Renato Sanches, with coach Christophe Galtier hailing the explosive qualities of the Lille midfielder.

Speaking in a news conference on Thursday, Galtier said Sanches would give him fresh options in midfield, believing the 24-year-old Portugal international will bring added dynamism.

Italian champions Milan were also keen on Sanches, but a deal with PSG appears to be all but over the line.

It will mean the former Benfica, Bayern Munich and Swansea City player comes in as PSG look set to offload Georginio Wijnaldum to Roma and Idrissa Gueye to Everton.

Head coach Galtier said: Renato Sanches is a player with qualities that others do not have, particularly if I compare him with Marco Verratti and …

Julian Nagelsmann has revealed Leroy Sane is unhappy with his lack of game time at Bayern Munich, but the coach sees no reason to change his team following a flying start to the Bundesliga season.

Nagelsmann s side have begun his second season at the helm in stunning fashion, beating RB Leipzig 5-3 in a thrilling DFL-Supercup before racing to a 6-1 win at Eintracht Frankfurt in their Bundesliga opener last week.

Bayern were 5-0 up before half-time as they tore the Europa League winners apart last Friday, the biggest half-time lead a team have ever had in their opening Bundesliga game, while only one side have ever netted more than their six goals on matchday one – also Bayern in an 8-0 thrashing of Schalke in 2020. 

The Bundesliga champions terrific start…

Football fandom s unofficial laws dictate you must feel a sense of optimism however unrealistic they may be.

But surely even Arsenal supporters were just hoping to keep the score down at the Etihad Stadium before kick-off?

After all, history provided very little cause for positivity given they d lost their previous six games against whichever team were the Premier League s defending champions and been defeated in each of their past eight top-flight meetings with City.

And, true to form, it happened again.

This 5-0 embarrassment made it nine successive losses to City, a new Arsenal record for the most consecutive defeats to the same opposition in league competition.

While Arsenal and Mikel Arteta relieved the pressure slightly in midweek with their…

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Hoping to find a route to the top of the Western Conference table, Los Angeles will travel to Lumen Field when they meet Seattle in the early hours of Sunday.

Seattle Sounders

Starting with the hosts, while Seattle might have opened up the 2024 campaign in the midst of a real struggle, the Sounders have come roaring back in a sensational fashion. Putting in another eye-catching performance earlier in the week as they secured a routine 2-0 victory against St. Louis, Brian Schmetzer’s men find the mood in their camp at a red-hot high. Extending on their US Open Cup adventure on July 10th as they claimed a 2-1 win away at USL outfit Sacramento Republic, the Washington-based outfit are riding quite the wave of momentum. Signing off June…

Christian Eriksen is confident Manchester United are on a good road and praised the qualities of his fellow Red Devils midfielders. 

Although United lost to Real Sociedad in the Europa League last time out, their Premier League fortunes have seen a vast improvement since Erik ten Hag lost his first two games in charge last month.

A 3-1 home win over Arsenal last Sunday made it four successive league victories for United – their best winning run since April 2021.

Eriksen created a team-high three chances and recorded 33 successful passes (also a team-high) against the Gunners, as well as teeing up Marcus Rashford s second goal.

Only Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes (both 10) have created more Premier League chances than Eriksen for United this campaign (…

Rangers are interested in Sheffield United midfielder John Lundstram, according to . The Scottish Premiership club wanted to sign the midfielder in the summer of 2020, and the Gers retain an interest in the Englishman.

Lundstram has been at United since 2017, and although he has done well over the years, the 26-year-old midfielder’s importance has dwindled this season. According to , the 26-year-old midfielder made 26 starts and eight substitute appearances in the Premier League last season, scoring five goals and providing three assists in the league. So far this season, the English midfielder has made nine starts and three substitute appearances in the Premier League for Chris Wilder’s side, according to .

Rangers are at the top of the Scottish Premiership table…