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In the last round Mallorca achieved an important victory with a single goal in the 93. minute against Celta Vigo. It pulled them one point above the relegation zone and give hope to the hosts who will undoubtedly seek victory in this match to back their place in the League.
West Ham and Manchester United have met three times already this season, after the "Hammers" made it difficult for their opponents in the FA Cup as the match had to be replayed after a 2-2 draw. The biggest nightmare for Londoners is Robin van Persie, who has scored four goals in those three games and is in great shape.
Clashes between these two city rivals are always difficult, regardless of current form and standings of the teams. The last four games between them in the Premier League have ended in a draw, and the last seven were under 2.5 goals.
This match is another clash of the battle for a place in European competitions and is crucial not only for the two teams, but their competitors in the fight - Chelsea and Tottenham.
Both teams at the bottom of the table are to close the round in the Primera Division with a direct clash to stay in the league. Both teams have a total of 24 points and are 4 points behind the 17th rescue position in the standings. The draw is not an option for those teams and definitely Mallorca and Celta will seek a decisive victory, which will give them a serious chance to remain among the elite of Spain.
After the heavy defeat by Bayern Munich, Juventus has a difficult task to visit the quite well playing this season team of Lazio. Although Juventus is the sole leader in the standings, the team undoubtedly will seek at least a point from this meeting, in view of the heavy forthcoming matches for the team until the end of the season. "The Old Lady" leads with eight points to the second-placed Napoli, but possible two losses in this match and the next game against AC Milan would leave the intrigue alive to the very end of the season.
After only a miracle can take the title away from Manchester United in the Premier League, for Chelsea and Manchester City remains the possibility of trophy of the FA Cup. However, Chelsea will play a semi-final in the Europa League, while for Manchester City FA Cup provides the only opportunity to gain any valuable trophy this season. This means that most likely symbolic guests will aggressively seek qualification for the finals of the tournament where they can face Millwall or Everton.
In Serie A only the top two teams get a place in the Champions League. Juventus almost 100% secured the first place and exactly the rivals in this match - Milan and Napoli will determine who will be the second Italian team qualified directly for the group stage of the most prestigious football tournament. After inviting Mario Balotelli, Milan team significantly improved their performance, and there are even a real chance for them for second place in Serie A. Unfortunately, Balotelli got suspended for 3 matches and will miss important games for his team against Napoli and Juventus.
Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen face each other in a direct clash for third place in the Bundesliga, which will place the team in the group stage of the Champions League. The home team in this match stays behind by 4 points from their opponent, and undoubtedly will make great efforts to take out the best of their home ground advantage. After a bad start to the season, Schalke 04 already found their real style of play and now is in pretty good shape, winning 5 of their last 6 games in the league.
Southampton team has achieved outstanding results in their last three matches, beating Chelsea, Liverpool and Reading. Thus Southampton got away by six points from the relegation zone and victory in this meeting will strengthen the position of the teams in the standings. The hosts will look for the first goal in the match, which will greatly affect the outcome of the game, given that West Ham had lost all their away matches this season, when the first goal has been in their net.
Fulham has never beaten Aston Villa at Villa Park and the hosts will try to make sure that the tradition will continue. Aston Villa is in a serious danger of relegation and three points from this match are a must for the team, in view of the heavy fixtures until the end of the season. The greatest threat to the hosts of course is Dimitar Berbatov, who is in excellent shape and with his scores he has already sent a team to the Championship - Queens Park Rangers.
Saint Etienne is making an extremely strong season and qualifying for the Champions League will be well deserved for this team. The team even managed to achieve victory over the multimillion selection of PSG as a guest. Overall Saint Etienne has only 2 losses in its matches as a guest this season and in this game it is very likely that these statistics will be preserved.
The derby of Sevilla will be a great delight for the fans of football later tonight at 23:00. Matches between these two teams are full of surprises and predicting is relatively difficult. Betis are performing better this season than its biggest rival Sevilla and the team has a real chance of qualifying for the European tournaments. The poor performance of Sevilla as a guest this year and the bad current form of the team provide a great opportunity for Betis to achieve valuable victory and improve his stats from the matches against city rivals.
This year's surprise in the Bundesliga - the team of Freiburg faces Hannover in pursue to qualify for a place in Europe.
Tottenham will have to look for goals, if the team wants to move forward in the Europa League. For the first time this season it can be clearly said that the Spurs are in pretty poor form with only 1 win in their last
6 games. In their home match against Basel, Tottenham was unpleasantly surprised by the great performance of the guests and the result 2-2 is not entirely deserved. Basel was closer to the win in this
meeting, and for the next match the bookmakers mark Basel as the favorite.
The ambitious manager of the "Magpies" will undoubtedly seek the sensation, win with 2 or more goals against Benfica and thus qualify for the semi-finals of the Europa League. After the important victory over Fulham in the last round of Premier League, Newcastle climbed away from the relegation zone and now the team can safely concentrate on the quarterfinal Europa League clash. Win by 2 goals against a great performing team this season of Benfica seems highly unlikely, but with the support of their faithful audience, Newcastle will do everything possible to achieve the win.
The away goal which Rubin managed to score gives the team hope and it is clear that this battle is not over. English clubs traditionally perform poorly in Russia, which is understandable considering the severe weather conditions there, the long distance the have to travel from England and of course the passionate supporters of Russian clubs. Chelsea enters this game with a serious advantage of two goals, but the team of Rafa Benitez is has not been convincing as a guest this season.
FC Barcelona does not make any mistakes on Camp Nou this season in the Primera Division and Champions League and it definitely is is the favorite to win this match. "Catalans" demonstrated a great play even without Messi last week that, who had a slight injury in his visit to the Parc des Princes. Messi is still in question for this match but his possible absence is not likely to be fatal for the hosts.
Juventus has an extremely tough task tonight to move forward in the tournament. "The Old Lady" will have to score at least two goals in this game, after losing 2-0 in the away match in Munich. An early goal for the home side will definitely make this encounter very exciting, but judging by the performance of both teams from the previous game, then Bayern should continue to the semi-finals quite deservedly. However, last night we witnessed unexpected turn of events at both quarterfinal matches, where the favorites were outplayed. Borussia Dortmund was even very close to a surprising defeat. These matches have proven that in the Champions League, especially in this phase, anything is possible and we should not count Juventus out.
Real Madrid completely killed the intrigue in this quarterfinal clash, winning 3-0 in the previous game against Galatasaray. However, Mourinho said that in football miracles happen, but his team will be as focused and motivated to hopefully prevent such a "miracle" of occuring. With the likes of Drogba and Sneijder and their home advantage, Galatasaray has the strength to reach the victory over Real Madrid, but such with 3 or more goals difference is highly unlikely.
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