We’ve done the hard bit, so you don’t have to! After searching through the app, here are all the games you should be following over the next three days.
? Your Friday Appetisers
To ease you in, we’ve picked out a few tasty morsels for you to get stuck into before the real action starts tomorrow.
?? First up, keep an eye on the Eredivisie game at Utrecht. Relegation threatened Den Haag have brought in English coaches Alan Pardew and Chris Powell to save their season. Last week, the fans welcomed them with an eye-catching tifo. It seemed to work, but will lightening strike twice?
?? We’ll also have a vested interest in the evening’s big Bundesliga clash, what with Norway’s next big hope, Erling Haaland set to make his home debut as Dortmund host FC Köln.
After his hat-trick, from the bench in his first Dortmund game last weekend, you better believe the hype is real!
Elsewhere, there are interesting contests in Serie A and Ligue 1 whilst the FA Cup 4th Round gets underway in England – we’ve gone for the all-Championship tie as the stand-out fixture.
? Saturday
??????? There’s 10 games in the FA Cup, with 5 featuring Premier League clubs up against sides from outside the top flight.
Oxford United, who’ve already enjoyed a run to the quarter-finals of the League Cup this season will see if they can repeat the trick as they take on Newcastle United.
And Coventry City vs. Birmingham City should have a strange atmosphere. With Coventry groundsharing at St Andrews this season, that means the Birmingham fans will be in the away end at their own ground! ?
?? In La Liga, just a few days after playing Ibiza in the Copa, Barcelona are on their travels again, as they go to Valencia hoping to cement their place at the top of the table.
?? Meanwhile, the top three are all in action in Germany – RB Leipzig play away in Frankfurt, Gladbach host Mainz and perhaps in the toughest test of the day – Bayern welcome Schalke to the Allianz Arena.
?? Further afield, the Argentine Superliga is back in full swing after their summer break, and tonight could see Javier Mascherano play his first game on home soil since leaving the league back in 2005 as his new club, Estudiantes travel to San Lorenzo.
?? Lastly, the game in the Belgium that always seem to confuse non-Belgians! Just ask the Liverpool fans who booked travel and accommodation to Genk, when their side were playing Gent in the Champions League earlier this season!
? Sunday
?? All eyes on Italy today, where the Serie A fixture computer has thrown out some great games.
There’s the small matter of the Derby della Capitale as the two Roman giants clash in their shared Stadio Olimpico home.
Can Serie A’s top scorer make the difference? ?
Then, in the final game of the day – Maurizio Sarri returns to Napoli with his new side, Juventus. That will be a quiet night at the library. ?
Did you know… Maurizio Sarri is the manager with the best points average with a single team in the 3 points era in Serie A (2.55 with Juventus). In addition, the current Juventus coach has the best average with Napoli during the same period (2.27).
??????? In our final pick of the weekend, watch out for the Shrews!
One of the lowest ranked side left in the FA Cup, Shrewsbury Town face the daunting task of welcoming Liverpool to their New Meadow home.
Amazingly, the sides have only met once before, in any competition – with that being an FA Cup tie at the same stage back in 1996. Liverpool won 4-0 that day, with Stan Collymore, Jason McAteer, Robbie Fowler and an OG registering on the scoresheet. That was the year they went all the way to the final, wore white Armani suits to Wembley… and lost.
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