14 May 2018
In-form River Plate hosts their city rivals San Lorenzo in this match that is expected to set the city on fire. The home side would feel they need the points more than their visitors and should pick all of them up here. River are looking to qualify for next season’s Copa Sudamericana, however, they also have the chance to qualify for the Libertadores by the end of the season if they can finish…
11 May 2018
This game is one of the biggest derbies in Brazilian football league, and the hosts who have been in the better form would be looking to show that they are superior over their visitors in this game. After beating Internacional on their way to winning the Campeonato Gaucho, and having won the Continental trophy last year while their visitors were playing in the second tier, Gremio would feel like…
11 May 2018
Both of these teams were promotion favourites and they would have been keen to avoid each other in the playoffs, however, a stoppage-time goal from Patrick Bamford set up this tie and they would both be looking to get ahead of each other and book a place in the Playoff finals. There has been huge transfers between this sides in recent season and this game could be what decides which club got the…
9 May 2018
Lee Bowyer has done a good job in securing a top-six finish for Charlton after he was tasked to replace Karl Robinson with six weeks left in the season to play for. They have been around the top six all season and their win over eventual runners-up on matchday 37 has helped them reach the playoffs. Shrewsbury spent most of the season flirting with automatic promotion. From the word go, it was…
9 May 2018
Atlanta United are finally at the top of the MLS Eastern conference league table after their 2-1 win over Chicago Fire in Illinois. They had been threatening the dominance of NYCFC over the past couple of weeks, and after NYCFC’s loss to New York Red Bulls the last time out, they are now two points ahead with a game in hand on City. Atlanta are now unbeaten in 8 games heading into this encounter.…
9 May 2018
West Ham’s 2-0 win over Leicester City in their last league game has strengthened their bid to escape the drop this season. That win has helped them to build a five points cushion on the drop zone with two games left to play, so they can start planning for next season. The Hammers were on a run of four games without a win before that win over the Foxes, and two of those games ended in 4-1 losses,…
7 May 2018
These two sides are looking to be the team that finishes second behind the indomitable Celtic and this game would go a long way to prove which team is the second best in the division. Aberdeen have been the best second to Celtic for the past three seasons, but Rangers are gradually finding their feet as they look to overtake Celtic yet again as Scotland’s best team. Steven Gerard would be taking…
7 May 2018
The race for who would not be relegated from the Premier League this season has been more interesting than the race for the division’s winner since Manchester City proved that they are head and shoulders above the rest of the top six, and this game brings two of the bottom four together in what could be a relegation shootout. When Carlos Calvahal was named as Swansea manager, their results…
5 May 2018
This is one of the rare occasions that these two teams would square up against each other and the La Liga title is not on the line, but that still doesn’t make this game insignificant. The Catalans have just completed a domestic treble, but they are still unbeaten this season and this game remains their only major threat to going the whole season unbeaten. They would hope to at least a point here…
5 May 2018
Chelsea were crowned Premier League Champions at this stage last season, this season they have surrendered their league crown to the dominant Manchester City and are even at risk of missing out on the top four entirely. They come into their final three games of the season 5th on the league table with a five-point deficit on Tottenham who are 4th. While they chase a Champions League spot, they…
2 May 2018
This season’s Europa League offers Arsene Wenger his last chance to win a European trophy as an Arsenal manager and also the last chance to win a trophy for the Gunners as he steps down from his role at the end of the season, yet the Gunners made the job of getting to the final more difficult for themselves last Thursday. Atletico Madrid had been reduced to ten men in the first half and Alexandre…
2 May 2018
There were two Red Bull sponsored teams in European competitions this season and many expected RB Leipzig to be the best among them. However, that wasn’t to be so as the Germans were eliminated from the Europa League at the last round by no other team than the Dmitri Payet inspired Marseille. If the French men eliminated Salzburg here, they would surely not be friends with the popular energy…