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Premier League fixtures this week

Tuesday, February 25



Brighton vs Bournemouth - 7:30pm - talkSPORT AppCrystal Palace vs Aston Villa - 7:30pm - talkSPORT 2 Wolves vs Fulham - 7:30pm - talkChelsea vs Southampton - 8:15pm - talkSPORT

Wednesday, February 26

Brentford vs Everton - 7:30pm - talkSPORT AppTottenham vs Manchester City - 7:30pm - talkSPORT 2Manchester United vs Ipswich - 7:30pm - talkSPORT AppNottingham Forest vs Arsenal - 7:30pm - talkSPORT Liverpool vs Newcastle - 8:15pm - talk then talkSPORT

Thursday, February 27

West Ham vs Leicester - 8pm - talkSPORT

8 minutes agoBy Jack Cunningham

Okay, today is the start of the Premier League midweek action, and you can catch it all across the talkSPORT network.

We have four games for you this evening as Chelsea look to re-start their bid for Champions League football against basement boys Southampton.

Crystal Palace welcome Aston Villa, with the Eagles looking to win just their third home game of the season, while Villa are in the hunt for European football.

Wolves are starting to build a gap to the bottom three and host Fulham, while Brighton and Bournemouth meet in a south coast derby that should be extremely entertaining.

Plus, we have a whole host of press conferences ahead of the matches tomorrow and on Thursday.

This is what the day looks like.

Games

Brighton vs Bournemouth - 7:30pm - talkSPORT AppCrystal Palace vs Aston Villa - 7:30pm - talkSPORT 2 Wolves vs Fulham - 7:30pm - talkChelsea vs Southampton - 8:15pm - talkSPORT

Press conferences

Liverpool press conference - 9amNewcastle press conference - 9amArsenal press conference - 9:30amEngland Women’s senior press conference - 11:30amMan City press conference - 12:30pmTottenham Hotspur press conference - 1pmManchester United press conference - 1:15pmLeicester press conference - 1:30pmNottingham Forest press conference - 1:30pmLeicester press conference - 1:30pmWest Ham press conference - 1:30pmCopied

24th Feb 2025, 22:44By Jackson Cole

Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca said he is 'more sure' than ever that his side are on the right track despite their chastening slump down the Premier League table.

Tuesday's meeting with Southampton at Stamford Bridge sees them seeking just a third league win in 11 matches that would, for 24 hours at least, hoist them back into the top four and give the 45-year-old room to breathe.

The manner of Chelsea's last three defeats has been particularly dispiriting.

Good luck MO you little dancer."

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24th Feb 2025, 20:20By Joe Brophy

Rapper AJ Tracey phoned talkSPORT after Darren Bent claimed Mohamed Salah has been better in the Premier League than Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Spurs-mad musician couldn't believe what he was hearing on Monday's edition of Drive from the former England striker.

However, talkSPORT's Benty did appear to get Tracey around to his way of thinking by the end of the exchange.

Check it out in full below...

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24th Feb 2025, 19:23By Joe Brophy

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has claimed he is not concerned by Cole Palmer's form or body language.

The 22-year-old England star has not scored in any of his past six matches in all competitions.

He has also not registered an assist in any of his past 13 matches.

That has coincided with Chelsea's run of two wins in 10 matches in all competitions, but Maresca has insisted he is unfazed.

Ahead of the Blues' clash with Premier League strugglers Southampton, he said: "No, I am not concerned about him.

"I am always concerned about general performances but not Cole because Cole is a human being and always during a season he can have some moments where he struggles a little bit more.

"Every game we expect a goal or an assist, but it is difficult.

It is nothing more than that."

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24th Feb 2025, 18:05By Joe Brophy

Mohamed Salah is on track to achieve the best individual Premier League season in history.

The Liverpool talisman continued to rewrite the record books by matching a Lionel Messi feat in a 2-0 win over Manchester City.

The Egyptian was directly involved in both goals at the Etihad, which marked the eleventh Premier League match this campaign in which he's both scored and assisted.

This is the most by a player in a single season in one of Europe's big five leagues since Messi for Barcelona in the 2014/15 season, also on 11.

Overall, Salah already has 41 goal contributions in the English top-flight alone this term and has another 11 games to break all records.

Alan Shearer and Andy Cole share the mantle for the most goal contributions in a single Premier League season with 47.

The former achieved the feat in Blackburn's title-winning campaign in 1994/95, with Cole having done for Newcastle the year before.

However, an important distinction is that both of those achievements came in a 42-game season when the Premier League had 22 teams.

Since the introduction of a 38-game season in 1995/96, Thierry Henry and Erling Haaland share the record with 44 goal contributions each.

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24th Feb 2025, 17:09By Joe Brophy

Joao Felix has been brutally slammed with the Chelsea forward enduring a difficult start to his AC Milan loan spell.

The Portugal international played 70 minutes in his side's 2-1 away defeat to Torino on Saturday before being replaced by Riccardo Sottil.

The result leaves Milan seventh in the table, eight points adrift of the top four.

With the club currently missing out on European qualification, Italian journalist Fabio Ravezzani has slammed Felix on social media.

He also took aim at manager Sergio Conceicao, who replaced Paulo Fonseca as boss in December on an 18-month deal.

In a post on X, Ravezzani wrote: "Everything is going wrong at Milan.

"Joao Felix is ??as handsome as he is useless, [Malick] Thiaw is no better than Fikayo Tomori and taking off [Rafael] Leao, unless he is injured, is foolish.

"Conceicao is causing more damage than hail.

"But no, nothing's changed."

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24th Feb 2025, 16:00By Jack Johnson

Kieran McKenna is heading back to Old Trafford.

The Ipswich boss is a former Man United coach and his side travel to Manchester for a huge game on Wednesday.

He has discussed the clash and what it's going to mean to him and his players who are fighting for Premier League survival.

"Now we have a big game to focus on on Wednesday," McKenna said in his pre-match press conference.

"There's a great energy around the training ground, everyone is really excited.

"There's a lot of debate that this is the best team in Premier League history, it's patently not.

"You've got to look at Arsenal's Invincibles, the two or three iterations of Sir Alex Ferguson's teams, the 93/94 double winners there, the 1999 treble winner - they're exceptional teams.

"But the fact is, Arne Slot, with only around £10m in investment in Federico Chiesa, has taken Jurgen Klopp's very good squad and turned them into this ferocious team.

"He's tweaked the midfield, tightened the defence and he's obviously got the best player in the world at the moment in Mo Salah.

"They're just rolling, but it's the momentum that makes the great teams and it's about doing it season in, season out."

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24th Feb 2025, 09:10By Jack Johnson

Erling Haaland was a big loss for Man City yesterday.

It is so tight with four or five teams and Nottingham (Forest), Newcastle, Aston Villa are so good.

"It's not enough, but I recognise my team in the last two games in the Premier League - they were brilliant against both Newcastle and Liverpool.

"The pace today, the rhythm, the pressing, the solidarity for most of them playing in difficult positions, I approve it and it was really good."

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23rd Feb 2025, 22:30By Jackson Cole

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot refused to consider the prospect the Premier League title was theirs to lose after a 2-0 victory over Manchester City sent his side 11 points clear the top.

First-half goals from Mohamed Salah, his 30th of the season, and Dominik Szoboszlai were followed by a disciplined defensive performance after the break to secure a first league victory at the Etihad Stadium since November 2015.

Although second-placed Arsenal have a match in hand, Slot's team would have to lose three times - they have suffered one league defeat all season - in their last 11 matches to even offer the chance of being overtaken, and then only if Mikel Arteta's side were able to win every game.

But Slot is refusing to look beyond Wednesday's visit of Newcastle despite joyous fans singing about winning the league at the final whistle.

"The fans can sing whatever they want, but we know as a team how hard we have to work for every single win," he said.

"It is only three days ago someone asked me if we had a dip on Wednesday (in a 2-2 draw with Aston Villa).
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