Opinion

The Los Angeles Galaxy went into last Saturday's first ever Los Angeles Derby without many of their key players. There was no Giovani Dos Santos nor was there Romain Alessandrini. New signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic wasn't even match fit.

Four weeks of the Major League Soccer season are now in the books. A few things are starting to become clear, and once again, the most apparent aspect of MLS is the difficulty to win on the road.

On June 14, the football fans will descend on Russia for the 2018 World Cup. Although there will be 32 teams competing at the tournament, the likelihood of some of the nations such as Saudi Arabia or Peru winning the Jules Rimet Trophy is slim.

There is no doubting the disappointment that Tottenham would have faced after their Champions League exit at the Round of 16 stage. Mauricio Pochettino’s men were outwitted by Juventus as the Italian giants secured their entry into the Quarter-finals.

The 2017 Major League Soccer term belonged to Toronto FC as the club set an all-time league record 69 points during the regular season. The club not only had the best regular season in MLS history, but TFC also conquered the league's playoffs and won the MLS Cup. Now three weeks into the MLS 2018 season and TFC have failed to secure points from the six possible in the league.

The Europa League quarterfinal matches are set and four big ties await fans of the tournament. Eight different countries will be represented in the quarterfinal stage with England, France, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Italy, Russia and Spain all having representatives. The Europa League's unpredictably makes it exciting to watch throughout the season and the 2018 quarterfinals will have that unpredictable feeling when they kickoff on April 5.

Since the Premier League season kicked off in August, nine managers have been sacked. Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Everton, West Ham, West Brom, Swansea, Stoke, Watford and Southampton have all parted ways with their managers this term. For some, it has worked, but for others it hasn't at all.

Things have gone from bad to worse at Stamford Bridge has Antonio Conte looks to find a way to stop the bleeding. Chelsea are in peril after losing four of their last five Premier League matches.

The unrest is growing at Everton over the team's recent performances under experienced boss Sam Allardyce. The Toffees suffered a sixth consecutive away defeat in the league on Saturday, as they went down 2-1 at Burnley’s Turf Moor.

If you cast your mind back to June 2017, Zinedine Zidane had just masterminded a second consecutive Champions League success for Real Madrid. A victory that came just a month after landing a first La Liga title since 2012.

Just 12 matches remain in this season Championship and the race for the golden boot will go down to the wire. Four Championship players have a realistic shot at winning the top scorer award as they each push their respective teams toward Premier League promotion. Which player will seal the 2017-18 top scorer award in the Championship? Here are the four men striving to obtain it.

In the 2017 Premier League offseason, teams spent a whopping £1.47 billion. It was an unbelievable figure. For some of the teams, it has paid off; however, for others the money doesn't seem to be very well spent.

Bayern Munich are once again the runaway leaders in the German Bundesliga. There is no doubt Bayern will win the league title for an unbelievable 28th time.

Chelsea stormed to the Premier League title in 2016-17. Antonio Conte's men won the championship by tallying 93 points. This term hasn't been as good and Chelsea are fighting just to secure a top four finish. For everything Chelsea and manager Conte did great a year ago, this season has been the complete opposite. Is a managerial change at Chelsea needed for the team to return to the top of the league?

The old betting cliché is to always bet on black. Perhaps a new cliché should be created that states you should always bet on Fulham in the Championship.

It was an amazing performance by Tottenham last night against a Manchester United team that looked really poor. This time United couldn’t ‘park the bus’ as they conceded in the first minute of the match.

Wolverhampton Wanderers did the unthinkable over the weekend. The Championship leaders lost their first match in the league since October.

The fight for the Premier League's top four is on, and six teams are vying for the Champions League places. Only four teams will qualify for next season's Champions League and the vast sums of money that come with playing in the European Cup tournament. Which four sides will finish in the Champions League places this term?

Twenty-seven matches have been played by the teams in the Championship. While the race for promotion is red-hot, the same can be said for the teams battling it out for Championship survival.

Since July 2016, Wolverhampton Wanderers have been on an upward trajectory that no other English Championship side has ever seen. Chinese conglomerate Fosun International purchased the club and began to transform the lonely West Midlands team into an English powerhouse.