Opinion

This weekends results saw a number of Premier League bosses under increasing pressure. West Ham’s Manuel Pellegrini, Everton’s Marco Silva and Arsenal’s Unai Emery are all in precarious situations.

On Wednesday, Jose Mourinho was officially confirmed as the new head coach of Tottenham signing a contract until 2023. The Portuguese boss replaces highly-rated Mauricio Pochettino in the Spurs hot seat.

Tottenham have dispensed with the services of Argentinian boss Mauricio Pochettino. The 47-year-old was at the north London club for just over five years. According to Sky Sports, former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho will be his replacement.

With the 2020 European Championship qualifying groups coming to an end this week, we will know many of the teams who will be taking part in the tournament next summer. A total of 24 nations will participate in the competition and ahead of the Nations League play offs, we will know 20 of the teams.

Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill has recently joined Championship strugglers Stoke City. He will oversee the Northern Ireland last Euro 2020 qualifier against Germany on Tuesday night and also their play-off games.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have already played an incredible 24 matches in all competitions this season. Nuno Espirito Santo’s team started the campaign on July 25th against Crusaders in the Europa League qualifying stage and it hasn’t slowed down since.

Can you believe it? We’re already a third of the way through the season. So, as the domestic campaigns enjoy a layoff due to the international break, let's take a look at the players leading the goal-scoring charts in Europe’s top five leagues.

On Thursday night, England hammered Montenegro 7-0 to qualify for Euro 2020. In truth, the Three Lions have been a cut above the other teams in the group.

Before the start of the 2019/20 Premier League season, Sheffield United were the bookmakers’ favourites to be relegated to the Championship.

Following their 2-1 home victory against Genk in the Champions League on Tuesday night, Liverpool have lost only one of their 17 matches in all competitions this season. The single defeat came at Napoli in the Champions League but it does not appear the negative result will damage their chances of progressing to the knockout stages.

On Tuesday night, Chelsea played out an incredible 4-4 draw against Ajax at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League. Last season’s semi-finalists finished the game with nine men after the second-half dismissals of Daley Blind and Joel Veltman.

Eintracht Frankfurt bookended Niko Kovac’s Bayern Munich stint as head coach. The Eagles were defeated by Bayern Munich 5-0 in the German Super Cup in Kovac’s first competitive match in charge of the club.

Very little has gone right for Manchester United this season. A poor start to their Premier League campaign has led to calls for boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s sacking, despite his iconic status at Old Trafford.

According to many observers, Italian forward Moise Kean is one of the best young players in the world game. When Everton snapped the youngster up from Juventus in the summer it was considered a massive coup.

It has been a very disappointing start to the season for Everton and having played 10 games in the Premier League they find themselves in 16th place.

When Gabriel Jesus opened the scoring for Manchester City against Crystal Palace last weekend, he became the third-highest scoring Brazilian in Premier League history.

It has been over four decades since Borussia Monchengladbach last won the Bundesliga title. The 1976-77 season capped off a brilliant nine years of football in Gladbach in which the club won five titles and were the best team in Germany.

Arsenal travelled to Bramall Lane on Monday night to play Sheffield United in a match where they were the bookies favourites to win. However, whenever Arsenal travel to play away matches in the Premier League there is always the feeling they could come out second best and that's exactly what happened in this game.

Last night’s result in Group D of qualifying for Euro 2020 of Switzerland 2-0 Republic of Ireland was a massive one in the context of qualification.

Following this week’s fixtures, we have just one more international break for teams to clinch their place at the 2020 European Championship finals.  There are still the Nations League playoffs for teams who fail via the standard qualifying procedure but some teams have already booked their place in next summer’s finals.