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Without a Premier League victory since November, Southampton boss Mauricio Pellegrino will know that his Saint s side are now firmly at the heart of a relegation battle. With only one Premier League away win to their name all year, Southampton will travel to London to face a Watford side who are also enduring their own poor run of form.
Watford
After starting the season brightly under Marco Silva, Watford ended 2017 on a poor run of form. Picking up just one win out of their last nine appearances, Watford will be looking to get back to winning ways after a difficult festive period. Bouncing back to secure a 3-0 win over Championship side Bristol City last weekend, the Hornets were able to make amend…
Bayern keen on Corchia
Bayern Munich are pondering a summer bid for Sochaux defender Sebastien Corchia, .
The Bavarians officials have been disappointed by the standard of performances of Rafinha, who has failed to challenge Philipp Lahm for a starting berth on the right flank.
They, therefore, plan to get rid of the Brazilian at the end of the current campaign and sign a new right-back.
French daily L’Equipe understands that Bayern have made Sochaux starlet Sebastien Corchia their number one target for the summer transfer window.
Corchia, 22, has a contract until June 2015 at Stade Auguste-Bonal and would probably jump at the opportunity to join such a high-profile club.
The talented full-back joined Soxhaux from Le Mans in th…
Bologna sporting director Marco Di Vaio has warned Manchester United off a move for priceless forward Marko Arnautovic.
United are widely reported to have made an approach to try and bring Arnautovic back to the Premier League, where he previously represented West Ham United and Stoke City.
Erik ten Hag is short of options to lead the line, with Cristiano Ronaldo s future uncertain and Anthony Martial injured, but luring Arnautovic from Bologna will not be an easy task.
Speaking ahead of the Coppa Italia clash against Cosenza, Di Vaio made it clear that the Serie A club are not willing to negotiate over a deal.
It is not easy to play in the market phase, there is a lot of talk, our will is to retain Marko. He is at the centre of our project, he told…
Chris Waddle believes Roy Hodgson will have earned the right to lead England into World Cup qualifying if he guides the country to the quarter-finals at Euro 2016.
England line up alongside Russia, Slovakia and Wales in Group B in France, kicking off their campaign in Marseille on June 11.
Hodgson finalised his 23-man squad on Tuesday and will be hoping to turn in a better performance than at the 2014 World Cup, when England crashed out of the group stage.
And Waddle says Hodgson s future rests largely on England s performance over the course of the tournament.
Well you re judged on tournaments, Waddle, who was speaking at The Three Lions pub as part of Carlsberg’s Pubstitutions campaign, told Omnisport. When the group was done for qualifying, you knew…
that Marseille have rejected a £5 million bid from Chelsea for defender Cesar Azpilicueta.
The French giants have found themselves in a difficult financial situation and they now need to sell several first team regulars in order to balance the books.
Spanish defender Cesar Azpilicueta is widely tipped to be the first high-profile player to leave Velodrome, with Chelsea very serious in their attempts to lure the full-back to Stamford Bridge.
The Sun claims that Marseille have rejected a £5 million bid for the 22-year-old, as they hold out for £8 million.
Given that the Blues are really short of cover at right-back and that Azpilicueta is regarded as one of the most talented full-backs in Europe, there is every chance that the two clubs will soon reach…
Lyon Women have announced coach Reynald Pedros has left the club after winning back-to-back Champions League trophies in his two seasons in charge.
Former France international Pedros won five pieces of silverware in total, including successive league titles and a treble in 2018-19 following his first Coupe de France success.
However, the club said in a statement that they had ended their collaboration by mutual agreement .
A section of the statement said: The club and coach felt it was necessary to change the technical organisation of the women s team to stimulate a new dynamic, allowing different methods and approaches to help the team continue to improve.
Pedros led Lyon to their sixth Champions League triumph in Budapest last month as Ada Hegerberg,…
Carlos Tevez has come out in defence of compatriot Lionel Messi after the Argentina captain announced he is retiring from international football.
Messi shocked the world of football after revealing he will quit internationals, having suffered another defeat in a major tournament.
Sunday s penalty shoot-out loss to Chile in the Copa America Centenario decider was the fourth time Messi had tasted defeat in a final representing Argentina.
Following losses in the 2007 and 2015 Copa finals, as well as the 2014 World Cup decider, Messi claimed he was tired of the national team.
However, Tevez, among others, believe the decision was partly due to his fledging relationship with the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
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ina midfielder Borja Valero says he is still bitter about not being given a chance to succeed at Real Madrid.
The 2010 Spanish Player of the Year joined boyhood side Real at 11 years of age but only made two substitute appearances for the first team before being sold to Mallorca.
He later joined West Bromwich Albion and Villarreal, before arriving at Fiorentina in August.
Capped once by Spain at full international level, Valero feels he was never given a chance to prove himself at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.
They made it impossible for me, he told El Pais.
I made progress since I was 11 years old and when you reach the top floor and they tell you that you cannot go higher, you have to find somewhere else to keep developing.
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This North West Province town is barely more than a decent throw-in away from Sun City but not even the most adventurous of risk takers at the gamblers paradise would have dared put a dime on the United States making it to the Confederations Cup semi-finals.
Bob Bradley s Stars and Stripes turned up for their last Group B fixture against African champions Egypt here Sunday as such massive outsiders midfielder Clint Dempsey only realised they could still grab the runners-up spot and with it a ticket to the last four 24 hours before kick-off.
Lopsided defeats to Brazil and world champions Italy, losses compounded by having a player sent off in each game, had seemingly left them facing an early trip home.
But Dempsey s 71st minute header coming on top of goals fro…
Celtic battled to a 4-2 victory over Jablonec in the first leg of their Europa League third qualifying round tie despite leaving star forward Odsonne Edouard on the bench.
The win represented Ange Postecoglou s first competitive success since his appointment in June, with strikes from Liel Abada, Kyogo Furuhashi, James Forrest and Ryan Christie putting the Hoops in firm control of the two-legged encounter.
Having suffered another Champions League mishap against Midtjylland, Celtic asserted their authority early as Abada converted on the follow-up from his initial effort to open the scoring.
Furuhashi, on his first Celtic start, doubled the visitors lead with a delicate dink just four minutes later, but Vaclav Pilar instantly responded to halve the deficit, sm…