Team News: Late Fitness Check GW35 Following a hectic seven days, the Premier League has a rather subdued feel to it. Everton, Manchester United, Watford and Crystal Palace are all involved in the FA Cup while West Ham and Norwich City are afforded the luxury of a free weekend. Liverpool welcome Villarreal to Anfield on Thursday in the Europa League and Manchester’s other half – City – take on … [Read more...]

Mesut Ozil wrongfully snubbed from PFA Team of the Year When the PFA Premier League Team of the Year was announced on Thursday there was quite an omission from the prestigious list of players. Arsenal midfielder Mesut Özil, despite nearing the Premier League record of assists in a single season, was overlooked by the voters. Instead of the Germany international, the PFA decided to go with West … [Read more...]

Weekly Picks: PL Predictions GW 35 Arsene doesn’t want to see it. And nor do the fans... Strange times at the top of the Premier League. We are used to Arsene Wenger not seeing things on the field – he has not acknowledged a foul by an Arsenal player since Patrick Viera left. But after Thursday’s West Brom match he seemed to be viewing the thousands of empty seats in the Emirates through the … [Read more...]

Rashford unlikely to make squad - Hodgson 10:47 PM GMT England manager Roy Hodgson has been "very impressed" by Marcus Rashford but has intimated it is unlikely the Manchester United teenager will go to Euro 2016. The 18-year-old's recent emergence has been astonishing, having gone from a relative unknown at United to become one of the country's most talked about players. Rashford has netted … [Read more...]

Chelsea mulling Lukaku swoop - sources 9:30 PM GMT Liam Twomey LONDON -- Chelsea remain very interested in signing John Stones and will make a fresh attempt to land him from Everton this summer, while a possible bid to bring Romelu Lukaku back to Stamford Bridge is being actively considered, sources have told ESPN FC. Stones was one of Jose Mourinho's priority targets in last summer's transfer … [Read more...]

Soccerwarz: An insider’s guide to the conflicts holding back US soccer Soccer is an outlier in the landscape of American sports in that the major debates shaping the sport are about the leagues themselves. In the other sports leagues, the debates are about the rules of the game or how players are perceived, but only among American soccer fans are the […] Soccer is an outlier in the … [Read more...]

Weekly Picks: Fuzzy Logic: Week 35 Rankings A-C-A. Always. Captain. Aguero...or at least Alexis Sanchez. Gameweek 34 lived up to the hype, and it continues to do so as of this writing with Arsenal currently playing West Brom to wrap up the week and Alexis Sanchez is already on a brace against the Baggies. There were many surprises in the team news, plenty of twists and turns, but a fantasy … [Read more...]

Manchester United’s Van Gaal angered by Old Trafford empty seats Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal reacted angrily to suggestions that his club’s supporters had voted with their feet by missing a 2-0 victory over Crystal Palace at Old Trafford. The Premier League side announced a near-capacity crowd of 75,277 for the win which maintained their bid to finish in […] Photo credit: AFP … [Read more...]

Most-watched live soccer games on US TV for weekend of April 15-18 The viewing figures are in for the soccer matches on US television from the weekend of April 15-18 where Chelsea against Manchester City was the biggest draw, netting almost 900,000 viewers across NBCSN and NBC Universo. Also impressive was the viewing figure of 676,000 who tuned in to watch Barcelona […] The viewing figures … [Read more...]

Liverpool boss Klopp trusts in squad 2:19 PM GMT Liverpool's squad has been given a vote of confidence by manager Jurgen Klopp, who believes every player can still do a job for him. Klopp is likely to need to utilise every resource available to him, however, as for the third successive week he has lost a senior player to injury. Captain Jordan Henderson (knee) and fellow midfielder Emre Can … [Read more...]