A preview of what’s going on around European football on Saturday:
england
Tottenham expects Lucas Moura and Carlos Vinicius to return for the Leeds stopover in Jose Mourinho’s appearance review to end a four-match winning streak. Brazilian strikers missed Sunday’s draw against Wolverhampton and were also expected to stay out The week-on-week clash with Fulham before it was postponed. With only two editions in 16 games, Sheffield United now plays against a Crystal Palace team that has conceded 11 goals in its last 3 games. Arsenal academy graduate Emile Smith Rowe is contemplating a fourth start for the 20-year-old midfielder has helped Arsenal achieve back-to-back victories to move from relegation to 13th place. Wolverhampton is ranked 12th before their troubled Brighton, having struggled to reflect the shape that has helped the team win consecutive finals in seventh place since returning to the Premier League in 2018.
Spain
Real Madrid will run out of Sergio Ramos in their home game against a booming Celta de Vigo led by the Spanish league’s top sensible goalscorer. Iago Aspas leads the festival with nine goals in 16 games. The striker also assisted in six goals. Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has called Aspas “a world-class player”. Zidane left Ramos of his squad with an abdomen challenge that would have affected the Spanish defender. Madrid will seek to recover from the draw against Elche in the last day. that left them in position for the time being and two leading issues Atletico Madrid. Celtic has been repositioned since the arrival of coach Eduardo Coudet in November. He has won five and tied in his last six games, moving away from the risk of relegation and rising to eighth place. Sevilla, fourth seed, stopover at Real Betis in the maximum contested urban center of Spain in Seville. Villarreal, 5th place, welcomes the Levant.
Germany
Schalke visited Hertha berlin and was desperate to finish their Bundesliga club record before equaling the league record. Schalke’s winning-free streak in the Bundesliga already adds up to 29 games. Those are only two in the all-time record set at Tasmania Berlin 1965-66. Schalke hopes new coach Christian Gross can advise the trusted team for their first league win since defeating Borussia Monchengladbach 2-0 on 17 January. Hertha also lacks confidence with only one win in his last six games, and Bruno Labbadia’s team is already close to Bayer Leverkusen and Leipzig can take Bayern Munich’s sensible place for at least one night with victories at Eintracht Frankfurt and Stuttgart, respectively. Leverkusen, second-placed, beat Leipzig by difference of purpose, and Bayern will not play until Sunday. Union Berlin visits Werder Bremen, Hoffenheim receives Freiburg, Augsburg travels to Cologne and Arminia Bielefeld welcomes Gladbach.
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