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Real Sociedad and Barcelona will face each other in La Liga this weekend. The match will be held at the Anoeta Stadium and is scheduled to kick off at 9pm UK time on Saturday.
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Real Sociedad are sixth in the La Liga table at the moment with three points from one match. La Real kicked off their 2022-23 La Liga campaign with a 1-0 win against Cadiz away from home in the league. Takefusa Kubo scored the only goal of the match in the 24th minute.
Sociedad finished sixth in the La Liga table last season. For a while it looked like the Basque club would end up in the UEFA Champions League places, but eventually they could only clinch in a spot in the UEFA Europa League.
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Michael O Neill will call upon his experience of attempting to shackle Cristiano Ronaldo when Northern Ireland face Gareth Bale and Wales in the last-16 of Euro 2016.
Wales are favourites to progress from this Battle of Britain in Paris, largely down to the supreme capabilities of Bale the Real Madrid star having scored three goals in as many games on the way to securing top spot in Group B.
O Neill twice pitted his wits against Ronaldo during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, leaving Bale s club team-mate goalless on his 100th cap a 1-1 draw in Porto before being on the receiving end of a hat-trick in a 4-2 Belfast loss.
Gareth Bale s a huge player for Wales, he s shown that in the tournament already and he s shown that in qualification, O Neill told a pre-…
Steve Harper has called on Hull City s owners to hand Mike Phelan the manager s job on a permanent basis after their unbeaten start to the Premier League season.
Phelan took temporary control at the KCOM Stadium after Steve Bruce resigned three weeks before the start of the campaign due to frustrations at the lack of transfer activity at the club.
A host of names were linked with the role, including Gianfranco Zola and Belgium boss Roberto Martinez, however an appointment was not forthcoming, leaving Phelan – Bruce s assistant – to start the season in charge.
Goals from Adama Diomande and Robert Snodgrass gave Phelan a winning start as champions Leicester City were beaten 2-1 on the opening weekend, and the 53-year-old made it two from two with Saturday s 2-…
Arsenal in talks for Rabiot
French daily newspaper that Arsenal have established initial contact with Paris Saint-Germain for talented midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
The Gunners have been keeping close tabs on the 19-year-old for a while now, and they decided to act after AS Roma and Tottenham Hotspur made their moves.
Arsenal officials took advantage of yesterday s Champions League draw in Monaco to meet with their PSG counterparts and it is believed the two sides are close to reaching an agreement.
The Saints want between €10m and €12m for the player whose current deal at Parc des Princes is due to expire next summer.
Rabiot is determined to leave PSG in search of first team football, but it remains to be seen whether he would be interested in …
Uruguay international midfielder Gaston Ramirez cannot wait to get started at the KC Stadium following a deadline day move to Hull City.
Ramirez, 23, joined the Tigers on a season-long loan deal from Southampton on Monday night.
The former Penarol star joined the Saints from Italian Serie A side Bologna for a then club-record fee of £12 million in August 2012, but was dropped in favour of Northern Ireland international Steven Davis last season.
Davis, 29, has kept his starting-place in 2014/15, with Ramirez having done very little to impress new manager Ronald Koeman.
I m so happy to be here and I m eager to get started, Ramirez told the Tigers official website.
I want to show the Hull City fans what I can do. It was a quick …
Real Madrid s Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy, out injured since last November, says he hopes to play next season, although the team s prospective new management may have other ideas.
I have another year left on my contract and I am very happy. There isn?t a doubt in my mind that I will stay. I will get better and I will play again at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, he said on the club s website.
The team?s pre-season begins around the middle of July, and if everything goes as planned I hope to be back in action with the squad in August. I am so anxious to return.
Van Nistelrooy, who turns 33 in July, underwent an operation in November 2008 on his right knee. The club said he would be out for six to nine months.
The Dutchman, transferred from Manches…
Tottenham defender Steven Caulker wants revenge against Arsenal after suffering a 4-1 defeat in the only north London derby he has played in.
The centre-back played 90 minutes of the heavy loss at White Hart Lane in a third-round League Cup tie back in September 2010.
And Caulker, who scored his first goal for England in midweek, is relishing his first ever Premier League north London derby after stepping up to the Tottenham first team this season.
It will be very surreal knowing that in the space of two years I will be playing them again in a Tottenham shirt in a league game, he told the Spurs website.
Caulker tasted victory against Arsenal in a 3-2 win with Swansea while on loan last season, and is keen for a repeat outcome on Saturday.
That …
Liverpool expect to have 57,000 fans in attendance for the visit of Manchester United providing the new Anfield Road Stand receives a safety certificate this week.
A test event on Monday evening is set to be attended by 7,500-plus supporters, who will watch a LFC Foundation mini-game and listen to a question-and-answer session from manager Jurgen Klopp.
If everything runs smoothly then on Sunday 7,000 seats in the upper tier will be filled for the visit of their arch-rivals, leaving only facilities for 2,000 hospitality guests and some minor work on the lower tier to be completed next month to bring the capacity up to 61,000.
Work on the £80million upgrade was due to be completed for the start of the season but an initial delay was complicated by contractors Buc…
USA striker Mallory Swanson looks set to miss the Women s World Cup after suffering a torn patella tendon in a friendly against the Republic of Ireland.
The defending champions intended to include Swanson prominently in their plans for the tournament in Australia and New Zealand, which spans July and August.
However, the Chicago Red Stars forward was hurt in Saturday s 2-0 win over Ireland in Austin. She was taken off on a stretcher after suffering the blow shortly before half-time and taken to hospital.
Tests have revealed the extent of the injury, with a team statement announcing her squad place would be taken by Alyssa Thompson for Tuesday s game in St. Louis, also against Ireland.
The statement added: Swanson tore the patella tendon in her left knee i…
The Guardian understands that Leicester City have completed the permanent signing of Youri Tielemans from Monaco.
The fee, thought to be in the region of £40m and sees the club smash their transfer record for the second time in a week after securing the services of striker Ayoze Perez just four days ago.
Tielemans spent the second half of last season on loan at the King Power Stadium, and impressed with three goals in twelve appearances.
In one-and-a-half-years with Monaco, the twenty-two-year-old racked up sixty-five appearances in all competitions, scoring six goals having spent four seasons in the first team of Anderlecht the club where he began his career.
He has been capped twenty-three times for Belgium and was part of their squad that finis…