Athletic Club face Cádiz CF at San Mamés in a 13:00 kick off on Saturday the 17th of September for matchday five of the 2023-24 La Liga season. The two clubs are currently locked together on seven points in the La Liga table, in fifth and sixth places respectively, having experienced similar starts to the […]
Category: Football
Solid start for Athletic
Athletic Club have made a solid start to their 2023-24 La Liga campaign, winning two, drawing one and losing one match prior to the first international break of the season. The seven points that they have garnered thus far leave them in joint fourth place in the nascent league table. Their solitary defeat came in […]
Nicolás Tagliafico – Player Profile
In December 2022, Nicolás Tagliafico became only the second Olympique Lyonnais player to win the FIFA World Cup whilst at the club, following in the footsteps of Nabil Fekir in 2018. The Argentina left-back was an integral part of his country’s World Cup winning campaign in Qatar, featuring in all but one of their matches, […]
Brighton next up for United
Roberto De Zerbi’s high-flying Brighton and Hove Albion are the next test that Manchester United will face in the Premier League this season. The Seagulls are scheduled to visit Old Trafford for a traditional three o’clock kick off on Saturday the 16th of September, just after the international break. Brighton have started the season well, […]
Champions League draw: United face Bayern
Manchester United have learned the identity of their forthcoming opponents in the 2023-24 edition of the UEFA Champions League. Drawn into a tough looking Group A, United will be travelling to Germany, Denmark and Turkey to face Bayern Munich, FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray respectively. They begin with the toughest assignment of all, the trip to […]
Arsenal 3-1 Manchester United
Manchester United’s second away fixture of the 2023-24 Premier League season was another trip to North London and it had many parallels with the first, ending, as it did, in a defeat in which United had enough good chances to have won the game despite not playing particularly well. New signings Altay Bayindir, Sergio Reguilón […]
Johann Lepenant – Player Profile
Johann Lepenant is a diminutive, right-footed, defensive midfielder, who was signed by Olympique Lyonnais from Stade Malherbe Caen for €4.25 million in July 2022, aged just nineteen. Born in in the coastal town of Granville, Normandy, Lepenant began his journey in the youth ranks of local club US Granville, where his father was one of […]
Ernest Nuamah – Player Profile
Teen prodigy Ernest Nuamah is a graduate of the Right To Dream academy in his native Ghana, which is part of an ownership group that includes Danish Superliga club FC Nordsjælland, and his potential was such that he was fast-tracked into their squad aged just eighteen in early 2022. A fast, tricky and lively forward, who […]
Ainsley Maitland-Niles – Player Profile
Versatile midfielder-cum-right-back Ainsley Maitland-Niles joined Lyon in the summer of 2023 on a free transfer following the expiration of his contract at Arsenal. The Londoner had been with the Gunners for the best part of two decades since joining them as a schoolboy, but had never really established himself as a first team regular. Finally, […]
Corentin Tolisso
Corentin Tolisso is a dynamic and versatile midfielder who is best known for winning the FIFA World Cup with France in 2018, and for his club career with Bayern Munich and Olympique Lyonnais. Tolisso, son of a Togolese immigrant, hails from the small town of Tarare in the Rhône department, some twenty-eight miles outside Lyon, […]