Manchester City are again without Sergio Aguero for the visit of Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Sunday.The striker is isolating after being identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.Centre-backs Aymeric Laporte and Nathan Ake are out with muscular injuries but Eric Garcia is available again after overcoming coronavirus.Palace will be without Mamadou S...Full Story »

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will assess Joel Matip in training before deciding whether to start him against Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday.The centre-back has missed three matches with a groin problem but is back with the squad. If he is not ready Klopp will have to choose between youngster Rhys Williams or Nat Phillips.Midfielder Naby Keita remains sidelined with a muscle problem whi...Full Story »

It’s really not clear exactly what the issue with Donny van de Beek has been at Man United, but there’s no chance that this was the plan when they signed him in the summer. He’s a 23 year old who played over 200 competitive games and played a huge role in Ajax’s Champions League run so he was too good to be a project type signing, but there was never an obvious place f...Full Story »

Phil Foden scored the only goal as Manchester City moved up to third in the Premier League with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Brighton at the Etihad Stadium.Foden netted his eighth of the season just before half-time – a superb low strike from the edge of the box – as City maintained their recent climb up the table with a fourth successive league win.It should have been more comfortable...Full Story »

Paul Pogba fired Manchester United to the top of the Premier League as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men ground out an important victory at Burnley.The Red Devils had won their previous four visits to Turf Moor and knew a positive result would move them top at this stage of the season for the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson bowed out as champion in 2012-13.Pogba’s second-half strike was ...Full Story »

Lawrence Shankland ensured Dundee United served up a fitting tribute to Jim McLean as his 50-yard stunner claimed a 2-2 draw with St Johnstone at Tannadice.McLean passed away on Boxing Day and this was the Tangerines’ first chance to honour their trailblazing former manager at the ground he brought so much success to.Both teams gathered for a minutes’ applause before kick-off, while ...Full Story »

Billy Sharp’s penalty secured Sheffield United a long-awaited first Premier League win of the season against 10-man Newcastle.The club captain, 34, came on as a second-half substitute and showed all of his experience to remain calm and score a 73rd-minute spot-kick as the Blades won 1-0 on Tuesday night.The goal ended a dismal run of 15 defeats in 17 Premier League matches during the 2020-...Full Story »

Holders Arsenal face a trip to either Southampton or Shrewsbury, while minnows Chorley face Premier League big guns Wolves Manchester United have been pulled out alongside Liverpool in the undoubted glamour tie of the fourth round of the FA Cup. The two sides will meet in the Premier League on January 17, before meeting in the FA Cup a week later. The FA took the decision to have the fourth...Full Story »

Sheffield United have a handful of concerns ahead of their return to Premier League action against Newcastle.Positive coronavirus tests and injuries have hit the Blades hard recently as George Baldock, Enda Stevens, Billy Sharp and Phil Jagielka all missed the FA Cup win against Bristol Rovers on Saturday, while Lys Mousset went off injured at the Memorial Stadium.Boss Chris Wilder expects all f...Full Story »

Burnley boss Sean Dyche expects to welcome back a number of players for the Premier League clash with Manchester United.The Clarets were without four players – believed to be Ashley Westwood, Josh Brownhill, Jimmy Dunne and Bailey Peacock-Farrell – for the FA Cup tie against MK Dons because they had either tested positive for coronavirus or were having to isolate as a close contact b...Full Story »

Bernardo Silva struck twice early on as Manchester City eased into the FA Cup fourth round with a comfortable 3-0 win over Championship side Birmingham.Phil Foden also netted in the first half as 2019 winners City began their latest cup quest with a routine victory at the Etihad Stadium.Birmingham, 18th in the Championship and without a win in their previous six games, rarely troubled the hosts ...Full Story »

The Arsenal great’s stash was snapped up for £7million by a US buyer in 2018 after his ex-wife failed to pay lock-up fees in Florida. Wrighty beamed as he was reunited with his coveted golden boot Credit: PA:Press Association The footie star won the boot as top scorer in 1992 Credit: PA:Press Association But UK company Classic Football Shirts negotiated a price to hand some of it b...Full Story »

Stand-in skipper Scott McTominay secured Manchester United’s safe passage to the FA Cup fourth round with an early header against Watford.Three days on from the galling Carabao Cup semi-final defeat to Manchester City, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made sweeping changes with crunch Premier League matches against Burnley and leaders Liverpool looming large.McTominay was one of two survivors from Wed...Full Story »

Chris Wilder claimed his 100th win as Sheffield United manager before insisting the FA Cup victory at Bristol Rovers was all about his team’s first success of the season, and not about him.Oliver Burke and Jayden Bogle added to an early Joe Day own goal as the Premier League’s basement club beat Bristol Rovers 3-2 at the Memorial Stadium.Alfie Kilgour and Max Ehmer had scored equalis...Full Story »

Sheffield United secured their first win of the season as they reached the fourth round of the FA Cup with a 3-2 victory at Bristol Rovers.Oliver Burke – with his first Blades goal since a September switch from West Brom – and Jayden Bogle added to an early Joe Day own goal as the Premier League’s basement club led three times.Rovers defenders Alfie Kilgour and Max Ehmer equali...Full Story »

Bristol Rovers defender Josh Grant is fit to feature in Saturday’s FA Cup third-round clash with Sheffield United.Grant sat out the last two games, a League One loss to MK Dons and victory over Blackpool, due to a hamstring problem.Anssi Jaakkola (Achilles) remains sidelined having missed the last three games.Fellow goalkeeper Joe Day has been brought in on loan from Cardiff until the end ...Full Story »

Dundee United will be without midfield pair Calum Butcher and Jeando Fuchs for the Scottish Premiership clash with St Johnstone.Butcher is expected to return from a hamstring injury the following weekend while Fuchs is waiting to see a specialist after a scan flagged up a knee problem.Marc McNulty and Ryan Edwards will return from injury while long-term absentee Logan Chalmers is back running af...Full Story »

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Pep Guardiola dedicated Manchester City’s Carabao Cup semi-final win at rivals Manchester United to the late, great Colin Bell.The blue half of the city could celebrate a derby victory on Wednesday evening as the visitors upped the ante after an entertaining first half at an empty Old Trafford.Rejuvenated centre-back John Stones’ first goal since November 2017 early in the second hal...Full Story »

Unlikely goalscorers John Stones and Fernandinho secured Manchester City’s shot at a fourth successive Carabao Cup crown as Manchester United lost their fourth consecutive semi-final.Pep Guardiola’s men have not tasted defeat in this competition since 2016 and will face Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham in the final on April 25 after edging past their neighbours at an empty Old Traffor...Full Story »