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Two former Southampton managers will collide when Everton face Tottenham tomorrow in the opening Premier League fixture of the new campaign.

The Barça number 8 missed the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Real Madrid and the first league fixture of the season against Betis due to a thigh problem.

Hit and miss Wigan find themselves in desperate need of a result as they make the trip down to Lancashire for their eleven league fixture of the season, where a Blackburn side in almost a symmetric position to themselves await them in what will be another gruelling away encounter.

He signed off from his loan spell with the Blues by scoring in the final Premier League fixture of the season - a 2 - 0 win away at Hull City.

Tottenham and Everton will collide in their opening Premier League fixture of the new campaign on Saturday.

Arsenal's third league fixture of the new season will be hosting Liverpool at the Emirates on Monday evening, after a confidence boosting, hard - fought win away at Selhurt Park.

After beating Leicester City in the Community Shield contest last weekend, Manchester United will face Bournemouth in their opening Premier League fixture of the new season.

While the first team are travelling south this weekend for the game at Southampton on Sunday, the youth team will be heading in the opposite direction to play their most northerly league fixture of the season at Carlisle.

The opening Champions League fixture of the season brings the fanatical Celtic following to Old Trafford.

Sven Goran Eriksson, who had taken over as coach in 1984, came close to landing a third Scudetto for Roma during the 1985 - 86 season but his side came unstuck in the penultimate league fixture of the season against lowly Lecce.

Arsenal host Everton in their final Premier League fixture of the season, with a top - four place still to play for.

The Gunners will line up against Everton in the final Premier League fixture of the campaign, with Arsenal's chances of top four and Champions League qualification slimmer than ever.

But, we do have arguably the toughest Premier League fixture of the season, away to Chelsea, on the weekend after our first UCL group game.

By the way, why have the FA and the Premier League authority decided not to help to reschedule the Premier League fixtures of their 4 clubs that are playing in the Ucl?

Real Madrid appear to find scoring fairly easy without the help of Benzema, as an example the La Liga side have netted an astonishing 20 goals in their opening six domestic league fixtures of which the 26 year old has registered just the one.

January 5 — The first Premier League fixtures of the New Year, round 22 of the season, saw nine clubs report stadiums over 94 % full.

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has revealed that Alexis Sanchez will miss their first two Premier League fixtures of this season.

Not exact matches

Because the changes to our Premier League fixtures reported by Arsenal.com for around the time of our two games with Monaco have actually worked in our favour for a change.

We are heading towards half way through the 2014/15 Premier League season, with a hectic period of festive fixtures now very much in the thoughts of the division's 20 managers.

It isn't enough to simply get Under 21 games and a few cup matches with the first team, because those fixtures don't necessarily offer players the true physicality, feel and experience of playing in the Premier League.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

While he's begun to demonstrate his best form in recent fixtures — not least in the 3 - 0 victory over Villarreal — he still arguably doesn't have the full faith of Jurgen Klopp, and was overlooked for the Reds» Europa League semi-final first leg against the Yellow Submarine.

Alexis may have put in a fantastic shift in the Gunners 3 - 0 win over Chelsea in the Gunner's latest Premier League fixture, but the Chilean may have been in trouble with the boss during the week, after breaking one of the club's rules.

Hull City have won just one of their last 14 Premier League fixtures and now sit in 18th spot and Bruce could well do with January captures who could help his side extricate themselves from the position they find themselves in.

Arsenal have a really tough month of fixtures ahead of us, with the next two vital games followed by three Premier League games in a week, away to Aston Villa and at home to Southampton and Tottenham.

I concede that the Premier league is the most competive professional league in world football and every team loses a game or two they shouldnt (especially on the road) but unfortunately when you only able to secure 7 out of 24 available points against Manure / Shitty / Spuds / Cheshit you CANT drop points in such fixtures.

A couple of months into the new season, and nothing seems to have changed from recent seasons for the North Londoners who have already been knocked out of the Capital One Cup by a youthful Southampton side, languishing at 8th position in the Premier League table, and have won 1 of their 2 Champions League fixtures.

With Liverpool now in the semi finals of the Champions League, it may be likely that Salah be rested by Jurgen Klopp in future league fixtures, and with Spurs having a game in hand on the Reds, we may see the Egyptian pipped by Kane to the accolade come the end of the sLeague, it may be likely that Salah be rested by Jurgen Klopp in future league fixtures, and with Spurs having a game in hand on the Reds, we may see the Egyptian pipped by Kane to the accolade come the end of the sleague fixtures, and with Spurs having a game in hand on the Reds, we may see the Egyptian pipped by Kane to the accolade come the end of the season.

Olivier Giroud is due to be rested for the fixture ahead of Arsenal's massive Champions League encounter with Bayern Munich next week.

He should have picked either Chambers or Holding to start in the back three with the first league fixture in mind when Konscielny will be sitting out a ban.Playing the Ox as a makeshift left sided wing - back is hardly going to persuade him to sign a new contract on the basis that he's an integral part of the squad....

The experienced World Cup winner has featured in all seven of Man United's Premier League fixtures this term and though the 30 - year - old has a lot to offer van Gaal as the Dutch manager looks to fight on multiple fronts and the having won the Champions League in 2013 and when questioned as to whether his side could win the showpiece trophy Schweinsteiger stated;

Arsenal were certainly helped by the fixture list this weekend which saw Chelsea and Liverpool face each other, but at the same time a lot of pundits did not expect us to win at Burnley, and you could say that we have not had much luck so far in this Premier League campaign.

With Arsenal being unbeaten since the first day of the season, and Spurs being unbeaten in the League, this is guaranteed to be a crucial fixture in the title race, and the Arsenal players know it too.

Aaron Ramsey picked up a thigh injury in the opening fixture of the Premier League, back in that dreadful 4 - 3 loss against Liverpool.

Arsene Wenger spoke ahead of Arsenal's English Football League Cup fixture against Nottingham Forest, that he thinks Lucas will take time to adapt to the league and that is why the Spaniard hasn't got too many minutes to hisLeague Cup fixture against Nottingham Forest, that he thinks Lucas will take time to adapt to the league and that is why the Spaniard hasn't got too many minutes to hisleague and that is why the Spaniard hasn't got too many minutes to his name.

However much we enjoy the glamour of the UCL, our priority must still be to win the Premier League and for once it looks like the way the fixtures have been drawn is not going to damage our chances of that.

Welcome to the start of the Premier League campaign of 2016/17 and the opening round of fixtures play this weekend.

The German and his team have come out the other end of the festive fixture congestion in all sorts of trouble and that has made Klopp see the job done by the Arsenal boss in a whole new light, after meeting the Gunners before when in charge of Borussia Dortmund but never appreciating the things Premier League managers had to cope with.

It was another great week of fixtures for our sports clubs this week, with several teams securing league titles and progressing into the semi-finals of the BUCS Trophy competition.

«We've got league fixtures and the quarter finals of the cup, and a couple of team building event planned including paint balling and tour!»

Speaking ahead of this weekend's Premier League game against West Ham United, Pellegrini discussed the make or break nature of the fixture.

With the highest ever attendance at preseason, the squad moved into term in a positive mood ready for a run of BUCS Premier League fixtures.

Hilary Term for the women will be a busy one as the Blues have four BUCS league fixtures to complete, plus a knock - out cup fixture, whilst the Panthers have a run of friendly fixtures leading into their Varsity Match as a Double Header with the Men's Under 20's at Iffley Road.

With only a handful of fixtures left, we currently have a total of 16 league winners, detailed below, with a couple yet to be decided:

New signings Christian Benteke and Danny Ings have both looked fairly decent since arriving over the summer but clearly Rodgers will not be happy with Liverpool's tally of just seven goals scored in their opening seven Premier League fixtures.

Week 13 of the Barclays Premier League sees a host of top fixtures, with all of the big sides in action.

Arsenal The North Londoners have had a decent start to their campaign, which has seen them qualify for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League for the 17th year running, and pick up 5 points from 3 Premier League fixtures.

The Gunners can not afford to be dropping points in this sort of fixture if they want to keep pace with league leaders Chelsea.

Benzema had his best league tally of goals last season however, and I believe Morata would be the more likely capture, and he may push for an exit should he not be chosen to start in any of the three league fixtures prior to the windows close on August 31.

Paul Lambert's side have picked up just one point from their past six Premier League fixtures and leaves the Midlands side battling at the wrong end of the table.