Leeds’ ambition to push for the automatic promotion places took a wrong turn with the defeat against Birmingham city on Wednesday. Cardiff, on other hand, have been making steady progress in the championship of late and they completed their second

Burnley arrested their two match-losing streak with a win over Coventry City last weekend, although they could not follow that up with a win in the League cup. They will be at home against Blackpool side, which has failed to

Kenny Dalglish was extremely furious with wasteful Liverpool following his side’s draw with Norwich last weekend. However, they went some way into providing medicine for the disappointment by winning in the midweek match against Stoke City in the League cup.

Fulham have been the most inconsistent team this season, as proven by the three defeats that they have suffered following the emphatic 6-0 win over QPR a few weeks ago. Wigan, on the other hand, have been extremely consistent, but

Bolton’s revival against Wigan does seem to be short lived after they have suffered two more defeats since then. Even though one should not read too much into the 2-1 defeat at the hands of Arsenal on Tuesday, it certainly

Alex McLeish is getting at the point where his job is under threat, although not immediately. Fans opposed the decision to appoint him in the first place, but he initially proved them wrong with impressive results.

The pressure on Steve Kean was eased somewhat after the 4-3 win over Newcastle in the League Cup. However, it is in the Premier League that they have been struggling big-time, as they are rooted to the bottom of the

This fixture is a repeat of the League Cup match played on Wednesday, in which Man City ran out comfortable 5-2 winners over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Mick McCarthy will certainly have reasons to be afraid of this match given that the

In the match against QPR, Chelsea proved that they have the steel that went missing under the likes of Scolari and Grant. Even with nine men, they had the better chances and could have won the game on any other

After the 6-1 drubbing at the hands of Man City, United will be looking to returning back to winning ways, but the match against Everton represents one of the toughest fixtures for them to do so.

Borussia Dortmund will be taking on Stuttgart knowing that they should be on hand to take advantage of any slipups on the part of Bayern Munich, while also resisting any opportunity to Stuttgart to close the gap on them.

After their indifferent start to the season, Hoffenheim finally look to be back on track after they have made it into the top half of the table. This follows after a spectacular run of wins, with the most recent coming

After some quite spectacular football, Bayern have certainly been in different in the last few weeks. Following the 2-0 win over Man City a few weeks ago, Bayern Munich have won just two matches, with one of them coming in

Real Madrid will be having a great opportunity to go ahead of current leaders Levante at the top of the table when they take on strugglers Real Sociedad. Aside from the 0-0 draw with Getafe at the weekend, Real Sociedad

Barcelona quickly bounced back from the shock draw with Sevilla to win against Granada on Tuesday. However, they still remain two points of the top of the table, although their realistic title challengers are just one point away from them.