Anurag's Match of the Day

Saturday 27 January 2024 Emirates FA Cup, round 4, Game 4 Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 782 High Rd, London N17 0BX   Nathan Ak é the hero as Manchester City seal narrow win to break the curse. Nathan Aké celebrates after scoring the winner on 87 minutes. MATCH PREVIEW: The tie of the weekend, Tottenham Hotspur welcome holders Manchester City to the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, for the FA Cup Round of 32 tie, where the Cityzens have not had a good time. They are winless in their past 6 visits to North London against the Lilywhites, and they have also not scored at all. The last time these two met at this stadium, it was Harry Kane who netted his milestone goal last year to seal a narrow 1-0 victory, despite Cristian Romero receiving two bookable offences to be sent off. Now, this is different. It is 2024, and both teams are in good form coming into this game. Manchester City scraped past Newcastle at St James' Park, thanks to Oscar Bobb's last-gasp winner, courtesy of the r...

  Sunday 21 January 2024 La Liga EA Sports (Spanish Topflight League) Real Madrid Vs UD Almer í a Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Av. de Concha Espina, 1, Chamartín, 28036 Madrid, Spain Jude Bellingham stars as Real Madrid avoid home upset with late winner Dani Ceballos, Fran García, Joselu, Vini Jr, and Daniel Carvajal celebrated their narrow home win at FT.   MATCH PRVIEW: This game was a chance for Real Madrid to continue their dominance in La Liga as they welcomed rock-bottom and winless Almería to the Bernabéu for a tasty encounter. Both teams had mixed results before this encounter. Real Madrid were knocked out of the Spanish Cup on Thursday as they lost to their cross-town rivals, Atlético Madrid by 4-2. Thanks to goals from Antoine Griezmann and Rodrigo Riquelme in extra time, the red side of Madrid progressed to the quarter finals. Whereas visitors Almería shared a goalless draw at home to 10-men and title contending Girona (CFG based team). Can Almer...

Monday 15 January 2024 Final: La Supercopa de España PJCC+JXP, King Saud University, Riyadh 12372, Saudi Arabia Real Madrid Vs FC Barcelona REAL MADRID BEAT BARCELONA FOR FIRST TROPHY OF 2024 Nacho Fernandez and his team lift the Spanish Super Cup after the Madristas won the final.   MATCH PREVIEW: One of the biggest rivalries in world football, El Clásico, as Real Madrid face off against Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup final in Saudi Arabia this year. Both teams won their respective games. Barcelona comfortably saw off CA Osasuna with a 2-0 win thanks to goals from Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal as the holders faced off their arch-rivals once again. Real Madrid also won their semi-final clash in a fierce 8-goal thriller against their city rivals, Atlético Madrid. The Los Blancos needed extra time to see off Atlético Madrid, as they won 5-3 thanks to goals from Antonio Rüdiger, Ferland Mendy, Dani Carvajal, Joselu, and Brahim Díaz for Real, and Mario Hermoso, An...

Monday 8 January 2024 FA Cup, Round 3 Etihad Stadium, Ashton New Rd, Manchester M11 3FF KDB RETURNS AS 5-STAR CITY EASE INTO NEXT ROUND Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy Doku prepare to come onto the pitch. MATCH PREVIEW: The return of the champions back at home. After a staggering 5 trophies in 2023, Manchester City will look to begin 2024 on the front foot as they welcome struggling Huddersfield to the Etihad Stadium. This is the first meeting between the two teams, since the Terriers got relegated to the Championship in 2019 and last season, they just about survived relegation. With Neil Warnock leaving them, new head coach Darren Moore will hope to find a way to stun the 7-time FA Cup winners and go into the next round of the FA Cup. With 4 straight victories in all competitions, can the defending champions cruise into the 4 th round? TEAM NEWS: There were speculations of whether Rodri will not play due to personal reasons, but he is fine and is on the subs bench as Manch...

Sunday 7 January 2024 FA Cup, round 3 Emirates Stadium, Hornsey Rd, London N7 7AJ RESILIENT LIVERPOOL KNOCK WASTEFUL ARSENAL OUT OF FA CUP Luis D í az and the Liverpool players celebrate their victory over Arsenal MATCH PREVIEW: One of the games of the weekend as Arsenal and Liverpool meet again within the space of 2 weeks. The last time they met in all competitions, was at Anfield, where they shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw, thanks to goals from Arsenal CB Gabriel and Liverpool’s superb Mohammed Salah before Christmas Day 2023. Now, this is a different fixture. Arsenal are hoping to recover following back-to-back defeats in the Premier League and they host Liverpool in the FA Cup, looking to make it through to the next round. Liverpool will hope to continue their good form in all competitions, as they started 2024 with a superb 4-2 home win over Newcastle thanks to goals from Mohammed Salah (x2), Curtis Jones and Cody Gakpo for J ü rgen Klopp’s Reds and Alexander Isak and Sven...