Nottingham Forest have won just one of their last seven Premier League games against Chelsea (D3 L3), beating them 1-0 at Stamford Bridge in September 2023. Chelsea won this exact fixture 3-2 last season. Only once have they won consecutive away league games against Nottingham Forest, beating them 3-2 in February 1912 and then 4-0 … Read more
Maxi Hughes says he’s giving Shakur Stevenson the edge in his fight against William Zepeda on July 12th at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York. However, Hughes isn’t sure if the WBC lightweight champion Stevenson (23-0, 11 KOs) can hold off Zepeda (33- -0, 27 KOs) with his brittle hands and lack of punching … Read more
Manchester United have won 40 Premier League games against Aston Villa – only the Red Devils themselves have beaten an opponent more often (42 vs Everton). Aston Villa have earned eight points from their last seven Premier League games against Man Utd (W2 D2 L3), as many as they had in their previous 31 (W1 … Read more
The BBC will be across all the drama as the Premier League concludes on Sunday, 22 May with all 10 matches kicking off at 16:00 BST. BBC One starts the day’s coverage with an hour-long episode of Football Focus at 12:00 BST on Sunday, while you can follow updates on all the games from 17:00 … Read more
Nick Ball says Daniel Dubois can “potentially take out” Oleksandr Usyk if he hits him to the body in their rematch on July 19th at Wembley Stadium in London. Ball states that he felt the right-hand shot that Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) dropped Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs) with in the fifth round of their first … Read more
Bryan Mbeumo (captain), Brentford, £8.2m – Wolves (a) Mbeumo has six returns in his past five games and would have hauled more if not for a rare penalty miss last week. He takes on a Wolves side who have conceded seven goals in the previous three games. At this point, Mbeumo might be the most … Read more
Bill Haney released his 10-fighter hit list for his son, Devin Haney, to fight, and fans view it as overly ambitious. Most of the fighters on the list would be too good for the shell-shocked Haney (32-0, 15 KOs) in his present form, particularly Jaron Ennis, Gervonta Davis, and Teofimo Lopez. Bill views Teofimo as … Read more
Qualification for the premier club competition in European football is unfortunately the bare minimum for the modern Manchester City side, a reflection of the sensational standards set by Pep Guardiola since his arrival in 2016. That is not of course to undermine the achievement of qualifying via a top-five finish this season. And yes, it … Read more
Teddy Atlas believes that Terence Crawford has got that Sugar Ray Leonard element to his game that will enable him to move up to 168 to defeat undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on September 13th. Atlas views Crawford as “special,” and he thinks that he’s catching the 35-year-old Canelo (63-2-2, 39 KOs) at the … Read more
Al Jazeera takes a look at financially-troubled Manchester United’s expensive Europa League final defeat by Spurs. Manchester United’s decline on and off the field has been laid bare for a number of years but was placed in even sharper focus with their defeat by Tottenham in the Europa League final. It was a zero-sum game … Read more