A week on Monday, the Blues travel to Stoke before a 19 - day break in Club action due to a blank Saturday caused by Brighton's involvement in the FA Cup followed by an international break before a resumption of Premier
League action away to Everton on 31 March.
Chelsea Ladies are in midweek
league action away today (Wednesday), with a 7 pm start against Everton at Marine FC...
AFC: Arsene Wenger's were in Europa
League action away to CSKA Moscow on Thursday, drawing 2 - 2 to advance to the last four on a 6 - 3 aggregate.
Not exact matches
For big
league action, the parent club is 3 hours
away in Kansas City.
But when we do return to
league action next weekend with a trip to Swansea City I wonder if Arsene Wenger will go with the same forward line that earned us such an unlikely point with a three goal comeback
away to Bournemouth.
Furious pennant races used to be the exclusive property of the National
League, but last week the
action was in the American, five teams whaling
away at one another, each with reason to believe it could be first in September.
David Ngog has looked decent in pre-season and in the Europa
League qualifiers but that's a world
away from Premier
League action so I can see him possibly being loaned out to West Brom but only if we bring someone else in before that.
Olympique de Marseille remained in the hunt for a Champions
League qualifying spot with a 2 - 0 victory
away at FC Metz in Ligue 1
action on Friday evening.
After the boring week of pointless internationals, we're a few days
away from the Premier
league action again, where Arsenal pick up off a great run ot 5 straight wins against a Swansea side that has just changed managers!
In reports cited in The Independent, the French forward is open to a transfer
away from Stamford Bridge after a frustrating season on the periphery of first - team
action with the Premier
League champions.
While Cech is playing well and Arsenal are struggling, however, I can not see Ospina getting a chance in the Premier
League, but he is likely to be called into
action for the cup games and as the first one is
away to our local rivals Tottenham, Ospina will have a great chance to make a name for himself again, as he did for most of last season.
I may be looking a bit too far ahead here, with Arsenal first having two crucial Premier
League games
away to Swansea City and at home to Man United to get through, with the international break sandwiched in the middle, but the news that Olivier Giroud will be back in training next week made me consider when the centre forward would actually be back in
action.
The two new Arsenal players signed by Arsene Wenger at the end of the summer transfer window may have only trained with their new teammates for the first time today, as reported by the official Arsenal website, but there is a chance that both Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi could be thrown into
action straight
away when Arsenal host Southampton in the Premier
League match on Saturday.
The defender was rushed back into
action for the match
away at last season's Premier
League champions, after Rob Holding and Calum Chambers were unable to stop rivals Liverpool from putting four past them the weekend before.
As others have said the home fans don't generate a great deal of atmosphere (typical of many of the bigger clubs in the Premier
League) but the
away end was buzzing, increasingly so as the match was
action packed.
The Hammers» game
away at Chelsea will now be shown on Sky Sports on Sunday 8 April, with a 4.30 pm kick - off, although this fixture is subject to change should they be in UEFA Champions
League action the following Tuesday.
After a long winter break, Lokomotiv Moscow return to
action on Thursday evening, where they face French side OGC Nice
away in the Europa
League.
Soldado's opportunities to impress have come in cup competitions this season, and he has scored a large majority of his goals in the cup,
away from
league action.
Hugo Mallo's driven cross called Romero into
action 24 seconds into the second half as Celta continued to threaten an
away goal, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan - so key in this Europa
League run - would have netted United's second was it not for Alvarez's reactions.
Chelsea are
away at Leicester City as they face the reigning Premier
League champions in today's
League Cup
action.
The
away team when these sides meet in EPL
action has not won any of the last eleven matches and just one of fifteen total
league games since November 2008.
Soon after, Milik's brace led the Partenopei to a crucial 2 - 1
away win against Dynamo Kyiv in UEFA Champions
League group stage
action in September.
The former international striker watched the youngster in
action for the international side over the break from domestic
league action and was clearly blown
away by the Hammers teenager.
Scott Rogers» charges are back in
action next week when they face an
away trip to Bristol City Women in the Women's Super
League, at the Stoke Gifford Stadium (Wednesday April 18, kick - off 7 pm).
Liverpool Ladies return to Women's Super
League action on Wednesday evening when they take the long trip to face Bristol City Women
away from home.
This is especially apparent when on their travels, with Rovers managing just seven
away goals all season whilst in
league action.
Newcastle return to
league action after the international break with an
away match against relegation rivals Norwich City.
Despite Wednesday's dramatic (and somewhat frustrating) draw in the Derby della Madonnina still being fresh in many people's minds it is already time for Inter to return to Serie A
action, with Round 31 of the 2017 - 18 season offering up a tricky fixture
away to Torino that could go a long way to determining the Nerazzurri's fate in the race for Champions
League qualification.
In
league action just five of 14
away games have been won as opposed to 11 wins out of 13 when back at Shanghai Stadium.
Jordan Houghton played an hour for Doncaster
away to Arsenal in midweek
League Cup
action and, most encouragingly, followed that up with a hugely impressive 90 minutes and a 3 - 0 win
away to former club Plymouth.
The Chilean midfielder's booking raised his overall tally to 11, which means he joins the ranks of players currently one yellow card
away from missing a week of
league action.
After a very good result and a very bad performance
away to Chelsea in the Champions
League, Barcelona are back in La Liga
action with a home match against fellow Catalan rivals Girona.
Following a successful, yet extremely boring Champions
League group stage finale in midweek, Barcelona are back in
action on Sunday night with what has become a really, really tough
away match in La Liga over the last several years.
Manchester City are just four wins
away from the Premier
League title heading into the next weekend of
action.
Antonio Valencia is still no nearer to a return to first - team
action following his horrific leg - break earlier in the campaign during a Champions
League affair, while South Korean, Ji - Sung Park, is still
away in Qatar, Asia, attempting to clinch the 2010 AFC Asian Cup.
-- Domestically, both teams sit prominently in the English Premier
League and Portuguese Liga Sagres respectively, with Manchester United winning their ninth match of the season (W9 D2 L1)
away at Swansea (0 - 1) on Saturday whereas Benfica weren't in
action and thus retained their unbeaten start of seven wins and three draws.
For big
league action, the parent club is 3 hours
away in Kansas City.