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Liverpool can move ten points clear at the top of the table this evening when they take on Aston Villa, live on talkSPORT.

However, Arne Slot's men have been dealt a couple of injury blows, while Mohamed Salah has now received a contract offer from Saudi Arabia.

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Friday, February 14

Brighton 3-0 Chelsea

Saturday, February 15

Leicester 0-2 ArsenalAston Villa 1-1 IpswichFulham 2-1 Nottingham ForestManchester City 4-0 NewcastleSouthampton 1-3 BournemouthWest Ham 0-1 BrentfordCrystal Palace 1-2 Everton

Sunday, February 16

Liverpool 2-1 WolvesTottenham 1-0 Manchester United

Wednesday, February 19

Aston Villa vs Liverpool - 7:30pm, live on talkSPORT

18th Feb 2025, 22:30By Jack Johnson

Takehiro Tomiyasu is the latest Arsenal star to undergo surgery with the defender seemingly ruled out for the rest of the season.

The 26-year-old's time in north London has been blighted by several injuries since joining from Bologna in 2021.

There has been much confusion surrounding the severity of Tomiyasu's latest issue and whether he would return during the second half of this campaign.

But he has now broken his silence regarding his issue, where he has stated he has gone under the knife in an attempt to end his injury nightmare.

Sharing an image of himself post-surgery on crutches on Instagram, he said: "I’ve had a surgery on my knee few days ago.

"I’ve already started my rehab to do what I love the most again.

"It has been the toughest period in my career for sure and it carries on a bit more but I won’t give up.

"Thank you for your support and see you again."

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18th Feb 2025, 21:55By Jack Johnson

Celtic suffer heartbreak.

It leaves Milan with ten men for the remainder of their second leg and they still need another goal with the aggregate score at 1-1.

He'll now be suspended for a potential clash with Arsenal in the round of 16 should the Italians progress.

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18th Feb 2025, 18:33By Jack Johnson

AC Milan lead 1-0 at half time in the second leg of their Champions League knockout phase play-off against Feyenoord.

And their goal came after just 36 SECONDS.

It was Milan's earliest in a UCL match since September 2011, when Alexandre Pato scored after 24 seconds against Barcelona.

Santiago Giménez, who headed home the opener, became the first player to both score for and against the same team (excluding own goals) in a single Champions League campaign.

Gimenez moved from Feyenoord to AC Milan last month after already netting in the competition for the Dutch side.



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18th Feb 2025, 17:40By Jack Johnson

Aston Villa are playing more games than they have in a long time this season, featuring in Europe and the Premier League.

And that has seemingly led to many injury issues, with seven players all sidelined with issues at the moment.

"We will try to get better in everything."

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18th Feb 2025, 17:15By Jack Johnson

talkSPORT understands that Championship side Swansea could turn to Ryan Mason in their hunt for a new manager.

Tottenham assistant coach Mason was high on the Swans’ wanted list before they appointed Luke Williams in January last year.

And after deciding to give Williams the boot following a run of eight defeats from their last ten games, the ex-England midfielder still has admirers among the Welsh club's hierarchy.

Mason also held talks with Anderlecht in October before deciding to stay at Spurs, so it remains to be seen if he is willing to leave now.

As talkSPORT reported on Monday, former Oxford boss Des Buckingham is also among the front-runners to replace the sacked Williams.

However, Russell Martin has no interest in a return to Wales.

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18th Feb 2025, 16:25By Jack Cunningham

West Ham's dire season has reportedly gone from bad to worse because Lucas Paqueta has suffered an ankle injury in training.

The Evening Standard state the Brazilian limped off during first-team practice and was apparently devastated.

The issue will now be assessed by the West Ham medical team, while Graham Potter will be hoping it is nothing serious.

The news follows an update from Tim Vikery around his potential ban for spot-fixing.

The South American football expert revealed that some new evidence has some to light regarding the yellow cards he is alleged to have picked up on purpose and his future in football is looking pretty bleak.

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18th Feb 2025, 15:08By Jack Cunningham

Manchester United midfielder Casemiro has claimed that his first season at Old Trafford was his best as a player.

Now, by this he didn't mean the best as a collective because he was part of Real Madrid sides that won Champions League titles.

Instead, he is talking about as an individual and his own performances.

After leaving Real Madrid in the summer of 2022, he joined Man United and is on £350,000 a week.

However, in his first year, Casemiro was very good and scored a goal in the Carabao Cup final win over Newcastle United.

His displays were regularly praised, but it's still hard to believe that he didn't perform better at any other point in his career than that year.

But that is what he believes, as he told Spanish publication AS.

He said: “Individually, my best season as a footballer was the first with Man United.

"I'm not saying collectively in terms of titles.



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17th Feb 2025, 20:46By Jack Cunningham

It is the first game at the new Bramley Moore Dock stadium tonight as Everton Under-18s take on Wigan.

Toffees fans have been invited in to see their new ground, and things couldn't be going much worse.

The young Everton side are trailing 2-0 with not long to go, and the first goalscorer at the new ground was Harrison Rimmer.

And after scoring, he held up six fingers in the direction of the Everton fans.

This is of course the number of European trophies that Liverpool have won, so it was a not-so subtle dig at the Toffees.

Is the new ground cursed already?

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17th Feb 2025, 19:49By Jack Cunningham

Thomas Tuchel is reportedly missing some Premier League games because he is working from home.

The former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss was announced as Gareth Southgate's permanent successor in late 2024 after a secretive process from the FA.

He didn't officially start as new Three Lions boss until January 1 this year, and he has missed the last three rounds of Premier League and cup games because he is being allowed regular trips back to Germany, according to The Times.

His family are still based in the country of his birth, so Tuchel is regularly returning and working from home.

Tuchel is set to earn £ 5million a year while in charge of the Three Lions, and he will manage his first game next month.

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17th Feb 2025, 18:48By Jackson Cole

Arsenal have been fined £65,000 by the Football Association after their players confronted referee Michael Oliver in the 1-0 victory over Wolves last month.

Myles Lewis-Skelly was controversially sent off for a challenge on Matt Doherty which prompted the Arsenal players to surround Oliver.

The red card was subsequently overturned following an appeal.

The club later accepted the charge and the FA said in a statement: "An independent regulatory commission has imposed a £65,000 fine on Arsenal in relation to the Premier League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, January 25.

"It was alleged that Arsenal failed to ensure their players did not behave in an improper way around the 43rd minute, and the club subsequently admitted to this charge."

Lewis-Skelly was shown a red card for the late tackle, which was ratified by VAR, but an appeal hearing later ruled it should not have been deemed "serious foul play".

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was infuriated by the decision, which sparked debate between pundits as to whether it should have been a sending-off or not.

The FA also released the written reasons for the fine, with the aggravating factors including: "When the red card was shown, only two Arsenal players were in relatively close proximity to the referee, with none in his immediate vicinity.
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