A big Football Sunday is ahead of us, as many top clubs are returning to their domestic championship following either Champions league or Europa league games this week.
From Premier league to La liga, over Bundesliga and Serie A we will cover what games you should watch, so sit back on your couch visit our Live Streams section, and enjoy in Super Sunday Football.
In Premier league Manuel Pellegrini’s men are on tour at Villa Park looking to keep the first place while on the other side, the Villans who have appointed a new boss, the French Remi Garde are hoping that he’s the man who could help the Villains to avoid Premier league drop.
Team Probable lineups
Aston Villa: Guzan – Hutton, Richards, Lescott, Amavi – Veretout, Westwood, Gueye – Gestede, Sinclair, Grealish
Out: Gardner, Gueye (?), Traore (?), Agbonlahor (?).
Man City: Hart – Sagna, Kompany, Otamendi, Kolarov – Toure, Fernandinho – Navas, De Bruyne, Sterling – Bony
Out: Agüero, Zabaleta, Nasri, Silva, Clichy (?), Delph (?).
Later on following three straight consecutive wins, in three different competition, Premier league vs Chelsea 3-1, League Cup vs Bournemouth 1-0 (home) and Europa league vs Kazan 1-0, Klopp will try to get a taste of his first Premier league home win as Alan Pardew’s men who sit on the 10th place having just one point less than the Reds are coming to Anfield.
Team probable lineups
Liverpool: Mignolet – Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno – Can, Lucas – Milner, Coutinho, Lallana – Benteke
Crystal Palace: Hennessey – Kelly, Dann, Delaney, Ward – Cabaye, McArthur – Zaha, Puncheon, Bolasie – Gayle
At the same time, a big North London derby game is on schedule in which Arsenal after getting humiliated in Germany vs Bayern Munich 5-1 despite many injury problems will try to bounce back and to concentrate on Premier league where the Gunners are doing a much better. Arsenal earlier in the season in the Capital One Cup has already defeated Tottenham, but since then, the Spurs are doing fine and are on 10 games unbeaten run in Premier league. Gunners from the last 18 games vs Tottenham have lost only twice, can Spurs taken an advantage of injury problems which Wenger does have, and put more misery on Arsenal?
Arsenal vs Tottenham Match Preview
In Serie A
The fifth placed AC Milan played on Saturday against Bologna at San Siro, a goalless draw, but the real Serie A action is on schedule this Sunday as the top four are returning to action.
The league toppers, Inter who share the first place with Fiorentina are opening the Serie A Sunday’s action in Torino, who lost the last derby game vs Juventus 2-1, while in the same round Inter celebrated a minimum 1-0 win over Roma. And while the host have many injury problems, Roberto Mancini can not count only on Guarin, and while other top placed teams played European competition games, Inter rested ( did not secure any last season).
Team probable lineups
Torino: Padelli, Moretti, Glik, Pryima, Molinaro, Baselli, Vives, Benassi, Peres, Maxi Lopez, Quagliarella
Out: Bovo, Farnerud, Jansson, Maksimović, Obi, Avelar
Inter: Handanović, Telles, Murillo, Miranda, D’Ambrosio, Kondogbia, Medel, Felipe Melo, Perišić, Icardi, Jovetić
Out: Guarin
Empoli host the reigning Champions, Juventus, who is still struggling this season in Serie A, but the Bianconeri this week in Germany snatched important point in their Champions league encounter vs Borussia M. As for Serie A competition, Juve with some luck enrolled the last two home wins, but if Allegri’s men want to return to the top four, they have to start winning some away games. To say it, it’s one thing, to do it, it’s another thing. In their last trip in 2014 to Empoli, Juve won 2-0, but the host are doing fine currently, losing only away to Roma in the last five games.
Team probable lineups
Empoli: Skorupski, Mario Rui, Costa, Tonelli, Laurini, Buchel, Maiello, Zielinski, Saponara, Livaja, Pucciarelli
Juventus: Buffon, Evra, Bonucci, Barzagli, Lichtsteiner, Pogba, Marchisio, Lemina, Hernanes, Mandžukić, Dybala
The biggest game due to history most likely is the one which is on schedule at the same time (3pm) in Rome as the Gialarossi welcome their bitter city rivals, Lazio in the 143rd Derby della Capitale. Both team have played in European competition this week, Roma snatched a 3-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen while Lazio with 2-0 was better than Rosenborg (away)
Later on the fourth placed Napoli following a series of good results, four wins from the last five games in all competitions, host Udinese, hoping to repeat the last season win, and to keep the Serie A race On. On the other side, Udinese will look to get some away points, which could help even further to move them more to the middle of the table.
Team probable lineups
Napoli: Reina, Ghoulam, Koulibaly, Albiol, Hysaj, Hamšik, Jorginho, Allan, Insigne, Higuain, Callejon
Udinese: Karnezis, Felipe, Danilo, Wague, Edenilson, Iturra, Lodi, Badu, Widmer, Fernandes, Thereau
Out: Guilherme, Merkel, Zapata, Kone, Domizzi, Di Natale
The last game on Sunday’s schedule is the one between Sampdoria who sit on the 9th and the league toppers Fiorentina, who on Thursday in Poland with somewhat mixed team, secured the Europa league progress. Fiorentina won the last two Serie A games, while the host ended both with 1-1. The last time Zenga’s men celebrated over Sampdoria away was back in 2013, while last season both teams celebrated at home.
Team probable lineups
Sampdoria: Viviano, Regini, Zukanović, Silvestre, Cassani, Barreto, Fernando, Soriano, Eder, Muriel, Carbonero
Fiorentina: Tatarusanu, Astori, G.Rodriguez, Roncaglia, Alonso, Badelj, Vecino, Blaszczykowski, Rossi, Borja Valero, Kalinić
In La Liga
From the top clubs, Barcelona are the one to open super Sunday action in Spain. Without Messi, Suarez and Neymar are the ones who keep Barca in race with Real Madrid. At the Camp Nou, Villarreal arrives, and the games between these two sides are always very interesting, with a lot of goals despite last six consecutive wins of Barca both home and away. Both teams have played in European competition this week, and both have secured important wins.
Team probable lineups
Barcelona: Bravo, D. Alves, Pique, Mathieu, Alva, Roberto, Busquets, Iniesta, Munir, L. Suarez, Neymar
Out: Rakitić, Messi, Douglas, Rafinha
Villarreal: Areola, J. Costa, V. Ruiz, Bonera, Mario, D. Suarez, Bruno, Pina, J. Dos Santos, Bakambu, Soldado
Out: Bailly, Adrian, Leo Baptistao, Asenjo, Musacchio
Diego Simeone’s men following a not-so-good 0-0 draw against Astana, return to La liga action, looking to secure what on the first hand looks like an easy win. But Sporting Gijon’s football is on the good level currently, and Atletico might have some problems there. A win for the home side is important to keep the race with Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Team probable lineups
Atletico Madrid: Oblak, Juanfran, Savić, Godin, Filipe Luis, Koke, Gabi, Tiago, Carrasco, Griezmann, J. Martinez
Out: Vietto, J. Gimenez
Sp.Gijon: Cuellar, A. Menendez, Bernardo, L. Hernandez, Lora, Cases, S. Alvarez, Jony, Halilović, Fraile, Guerrero
The league toppers, Real Madrid after snatching a lucky winner in Champions league game vs PSG, travel to Sevilla and at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán will look to repeat the last season win. The host currently sit on the 13th place and have entered only one win, at home 2-0 vs Getafe from their last five games in all competition, but the games between these two sides were always entertaining.
Team probable lineups
Sevilla: Rico, Coke, Rami, Kolodziejczak, Tremoulinas, Iborra, Krychowiak, Banega, Konopljanka, Vitolo, F. Llorente
Out: Beto, Gameiro (?), Pareja, Carrico
Real Madrid: Casilla, Danilo, Varane, S. Ramos, Nacho, Casemiro, Modrić, Kroos, Lucas, Je. Rodriguez, Ronaldo
Out: Carvajal, Marcelo, Je. Rodriguez (?), K. Navas
In Bundesliga
The last but for sure not the least amazing game, will be played in Germany as Borussia Dortmund after trashing Gabala in Europa league 4-0 welcome Schalke who sit on the good fifth place but Andre Breitenreiter’s men are without win in any competition for the last five games. On the other side, Dortmund not only won in the last five games, but Tuchel’s men have scored 21 goals in the process.
Team probable lineup
Borussia Dortmund: Bürki – Ginter, Sokratis, Hummels, Schmelzer – Weigl, Gündogan – Castro (Januzaj), Kagawa, H. Mkhitaryan – Aubameyang
Out: Durm, Sahin, Reus
Schalke: Fährmann – Junior Caicara, Neustädter, Ayhan, Aogo – Goretzka, Kolašinac – L. Sané, M. Meyer, Choupo-Moting – Huntelaar
Out: Giefer, Uchida, Nastasić, Hoger, Geis, Howedes, Matip