Category: Football

Sometimes, football makes fools of us all. After 26 minutes at Molineux, Wolverhampton Wanderers had been comfortably the better side. After 30, they were two goals down to Tottenham. There wasn’t a person in the ground who saw that scoreline in the game’s future. Spurs had struggled. Mousa Dembele had limped off in the opening minutes, leaving Mauricio Pochettino to hastily reassemble his midfield.…

UEFA Champions League preview – Group C: Red Star Belgrade vs Liverpool – November 6, 2018 – Rajko Mitic Stadium – 17:55 hrs BST Red Star Belgrade vs Liverpool Tips: Red Star Belgrade 1-1 Liverpool 14/1  Red Star Belgrade 1-2 Liverpool 7/1 Bookmaker odds correct as of 05/11/2018 and subject to change. After a satisfying showing against Arsenal in a 1-1 draw played out in…

When Cristiano Ronaldo joined Juventus in the summer, it sparked a knock-on effect that would have repercussions for the race to finish top scorer by the end of the 2018/19 campaign. His arrival in Turin allowed Gonzalo Higuain to join AC Milan, a move that would never have happened if it wasn’t for the desire of CR7 to try a different challenge in Italy.…

Never before has a flight from Egypt to Madrid take so long. It was widely reported that Antonio Conte would make that trip on Sunday evening in anticipation of Julen Lopetegui’s sacking as Real Madrid manager the next morning. Of course, that materialised, with Lopetegui dismissed after just 139 days and 14 games in charge, but Conte has not yet been named his successor.…

Gary Neville is owed a debt of gratitude from nearly every sports news outlet in the country. Following his spiel on Monday Night Football, in which he made several close-to-the-bone remarks about Tottenham's footballing culture over the years, Neville drew plenty of anger. The froth and counter-froth seems to have sustained an entire industry for three days. Of course, chief among those triggered was…

Saturday evening, and a real test of Liverpool’s credentials. There’s a sense that nobody quite knows how good Arsenal are, but they’re still unbeaten since August and Unai Emery has certainly altered the mood around the Emirates. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette will certainly provide a challenge to Jurgen Klopp’s defence and in Mesut Ozil, reborn since his international retirement, Emery has one on…

Nottingham Forest will be looking to bounce back from their mid-week Carabao Cup exit, when league leaders Sheffield United visit the City Ground on Saturday. The visitors will go into this one as 11/8 favourites, after winning 5 and drawing 1 of their last 7 Championship matches, however, Reds’ fans will be hoping their side can prove the bookies wrong – 2/1 may well…

On Sunday, Chelsea dispatched Burnley with comparative ease to maintain their hugely impressive unbeaten start to the season. A 4-0 victory left them breathing down the necks of joint Premier League leaders Manchester City and Liverpool, and in a position few predicted before the action got underway in August. Whether the Londoners can sustain a title challenge is another question, but for now, the…

They may be the champions of Europe, but Real Madrid are ninth in the LaLiga table and wouldn’t even qualify for the Europa League if the season was to finish today. Therefore, it was about as surprising as the rising of the sun when the capital city club fired Julen Lopetegui on Monday, with the Basque departing the club after just 137 days in…

With Newcastle United and Huddersfield Town unable to claim a single victory from their opening ten games and their fellow bottom-three resident Fulham having shipped in a staggering 28 goals already it is a small – and very welcome – wonder that the beleaguered trio have yet to resort to the sacking of their coach. After all, in the last ten years alone 13…

Nottingham Forest were unlucky not to take all three points away from Elland Road at the weekend but will head into this evening’s last sixteen Carabao Cup tie against Burton Albion full of confidence after a solid League performance against the (then) league leaders. On the back of a solid run and the fact that The Reds are in the league above Burton Albion,…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! As we head into WEEK ELEVEN in Premier League we’ve another full set of fixtures that get going on Saturday lunchtime with Bournemouth entertaining Manchester United at 12:30pm. Then at 3pm we’ve four more games to take in that include West Ham vs Burnley, plus Everton hosting Brighton,…

Can you remember football before Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo? It was a more quant time when scoring 20 goals in a season was deemed to be the mark of a world class forward, when netting more than 50 goals in a single campaign was only accomplished by FIFA gamers playing at too easy a level. Messi and Ronaldo warped everything, including a rivalry…

Jose Mourinho needs a good result. The two-all draw at Stamford Bridge was encouraging, but the Juventus defeat in midweek was a further few steps back, with United dominated almost from first whistle to last. This then, against an Everton side who have won three in a row, is really a must-win and, you suspect, a game which has to bring a certain level…

Nottingham Forest’s phenomenal 3-0 away win at Bolton during the week sets them up perfectly for the weekend, where Aitor Karanka’s side will arguably face their toughest test so far this season when they travel to Elland Road to play top of the table, Leeds United, at 5.30pm. Leeds United go into this fixture as favourites with BetBright, however, Forest fans could well feel…