PSV can shock Arsenal despite poor form – Perisic PSV Eindhoven play host to Arsenal in the Champions League tonight for the first leg of their last-16 match up. The Gunners hope to secure a win and take a crucial lead back to the Emirates for next week’s deciding leg. Mikel Arteta’s men have fallen … Read more
By rights these coming fixtures should represent the end of the Champions League road for Bayer Leverkusen. The hometown side of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical firms are hardly Bundesliga paupers, but among the European elite they are now rubbing shoulders with, they are in the group of comparative paupers. You have to go … Read more
Last relegated in 1986 ©TM/IMAGO For football fans of a certain generation, Valencia are a club associated with real pedigree. Not only were they Champions League finalists in 2001, where they devastatingly lost on penalties to Bayern Munich, but they also won LaLiga in both the 2001/02 and 2003/04 seasons under Rafa Benítez. Valencia also … Read more
If your main football sustenance every week is the Premier League, no doubt you already have Mohamed Salah down as your shoo-in for the Ballon d’Or. It is a safe prediction, but there is another formidable winger, who has had a blistering start to 2025 in particular, giving Salah a run for his money in … Read more
At the start of February, Arsenal thumped Manchester City 5-1 in a real statement of intent for the run-in. March, however, begins on a very different footing. Since that big win over Pep Guardiola’s side, the Gunners have been knocked out of the Carabao Cup, lost their only available striker to a season-ending injury and … Read more
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Expert insight from Belgium ©TM/IMAGO Although Aston Villa’s form in the Premier League this season has been anything but consistent, Unai Emery’s side have done remarkably well in the Champions League. Not only did the club qualify for the Last 16 of the European tournament through the league stage, but they did so after picking … Read more
After a week of build-up like no other with fans adorning the streets of Las Vegas in their thousands, Super League has had a well-known fact reinforced: Nobody does it on the big stage like Wigan Warriors. The storyline by many was pre-written as the back-to-back Grand Final champions took on Warrington Wolves in Sin … Read more
Wigan Warriors scored eight tries in a 48-24 rout of Warrington Wolves in an historic Super League game at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. With over 50,000 fans set to pack into the event as the NRL, Super League and international women’s rugby league combined, it was Warrington and Wigan who got the party … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more