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MAN. CITY V CHELSEA Can Chelsea do the double over City? In December, Chelsea ended Man. City’s wicked unbeaten start to the season with a massive 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge, but this weekend will be much tougher. Not only did City dominate possession and force The Blues to wait 45 minutes for their first shot on target, they were also missing star attackers Kevin De Bruyne and Sergio Aguero! We think Maurizio Sarri will set his side up to counter-attack in Manchester! WATCH IT… Sunday February 10 4pm N’GOLO KANTE Not only did Kante open the scoring in The Blues’ victory back in December, he put in an awesome energetic display to disrupt City’s attacks. He’ll have his hands full if Belgium creator Kevin De Bruyne’s back in the…

FACTPACK Name: Josh Maja Age: 20 Born: England Position: Striker Boots: Nike Mercurial WANTED MAN After netting 15 goals from just 23 League One starts in 2018-19, Maja was attracting tons of interest from some top Prem clubs! Transfer spies reckon the likes of Spurs, Man. City, Southampton and Huddersfield were all scouting the striker, but he chose to swap England for France to join mid-table Ligue 1 club Bordeaux! THE DEAL The young forward turned down a new contract at the beginning of the January transfer window and would’ve been out of contract in the summer, so The Black Cats were well desperate to make some money from their star academy product. He joined Bordeaux on a four-and-a-half-year deal that could rise to £3.5 million! INTERNATIONAL DREAMS The lethal…

MY NEXT CLUB – AC MILAN Can you take the Italian giants back to the top of European footy? STARS Milan have loads of young stars with world-class potential. The likes of Lucas Paqueta, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Davide Calabria, Franck Kessie, Patrick Cutrone and Alessio Romagnoli will all have OVRs in the high 80s in a few seasons. Epic! BOARD The Milan board will back you with loads of cash to achieve your goals – only Juve have a bigger budget in Serie A! They’ll expect you to get back into the Champo League, either by finishing in the top four or winning the Europa League! TOP TIP Cutrone and Krzysztof Piatek have sick potential, but you’ll want your scouts searching for world-class attackers. We signed Andrea Belotti for £32 million…

ASTON VILLA v SHEFF. UNITED The Championship is proving once again why it’s one of the most competitive and exciting leagues in Europe, and this one’s another wicked showdown between two promotion rivals! Villa struggled in January, but the chance to get revenge should spark them into life – Sheffield United smashed them 4-1 in their last clash in September! NORWICH v IPSWICH One of the fiercest rivalries in the second tier is always worth tuning in for, but this one will have extra spice with ex-Canaries manager Paul Lambert returning to Carrow Road as gaffer of their biggest rivals! It’s been aseason to forget for basement club Ipswich, but they’d be buzzing to at least end their ten-year winless run v Norwich! ATLETICO v REAL MADRID This mega clash…

Man. City v Chelsea Gear Two Prem giants face-off in the league this weekend, so we’ve put some of their best gear head-to-head as well! Who do you reckon wins this gear battle? sportsdirect.com Retro Footy Shirts Wearing retro footy shirts is the only time that dressing like your parents is cool! Check out this class collection of old strips – Newcastle and Aston Villa’s 2018-19 kits are actually based on these bad boys! sportsdirect.com Champions League Final Ball We’re just a week away from the Champo League knockout stages, so to get us all mega pumped, adidas have dropped the class footy which will be used up until the final in Atletico’s Wanda Metropolitano! Price: TBC adidas.co.uk WICKED PHONES! If you need to update your mobile, then check out…

When Scottish League One side Dumbarton travelled to Stenhousemuir, their away kit clashed with the home side, so they had to wear their opponents’ old strip! Fulham l centre-back Alfie Mawson injured his knee back in December while putting on his boots! 1 Norway are the only international side that Brazil have played but never beaten – and they’ve met four times. Bonkers record! James Milner was sent off against Crystal Palace by referee Jon Moss – who was the star’s PE teacher back in Primary School 56 Juventus’ 56 points after 20 league games is a new Serie A record. Wow! David de Gea’s favourite style of music is heavy metal! 2 100m sprinter Usain Bolt has ended his footy career – he won two games out of two.…

JOHANN SAYS: “ Ashley Westwood and Steven Defour are comfortable on the ball and always want to play, so they’d be in my midfield. Ashley Barnes would be the striker as he runs around a lot and is good on the ball. James Tarkowski would be the defender, he’s always really solid, and then in goal, it’s really tough! We’ve got three fantastic goalkeepers that have all played for England, but I’ll go for Nick Pope because he’s my mate!” DE JONG’S NOU CLUB! Barça have signed Ajax wonderkid Frenkie de Jong for £65 million! He’ll join in the summer, and will become the 20th Dutchman to play for the Nou Camp club! SCHOOLS’ FOOTY WEEK! This week is National Schools’ Football Week! Keep your eyes peeled for footy activities…

HOW TO VOTE! Go to the MATCH Facebook page now and you’ll see two shortlists – one for Player Of The Month and one for Goal Of The Month. Then just vote for your choice. Well easy! WILSON Callum Wilson’s rocket half-volley for Bournemouth v West Ham nearly broke the net! It was a worldy! SCHURRLE The Fulham attacker brought the ball down from the air, let it bounce and then half-volleyed home a screamer v Burnley! RASHFORD MATCH reckons Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been helping Rashford with his finishing – his goals v Tottenham and Brighton were sick! SANE January was an epic month of goals and assists for the class Man. City wideman, including scoring the winner v Liverpool! THE RESULTS! We’ll reveal the winners in next week’s…

FABINHO Fabinho bagged a spot in Team Of The Week for his performance at the back against Brighton in January. You won’t find many other centre-backs with passing, dribbling, defensive and physical stats all in the 80s, so this is a special card! JADON SANCHO We’d love to pack any of the Stars Of The Future cards that EA SPORTS released last month, but none more so than Jadon Sancho’s! The Dortmund star already had five-star skills, but this card’s got 96 dribbling, plus deadly finishing and crossing! WAYNE ROONEY EA rolled back the years to hand this SBC card to Rooney at his absolute best. He’s got everything you’d want from a striker – strength and aggression to bully defenders, pace and dribbling to run at them, awesome passing…

STADIUM FACTS TEAM: Brighton BUILT: 2011 CAPACITY: 30,750 RECORD ATTENDANCE: 30,682 v Liverpool, January 2019 NEAREST NEIGHBOUR: Crawley LONGEST LEAGUE JOURNEY: St. James’ Park, Newcastle – 291 miles DID YOU KNOW? When the stadium first opened, hawks were flown around to scare off pigeons and seagulls!…

HEAD-TO-HEAD They might not have been around for as long as Orlando Pirates, but Kaizer Chiefs are definitely the dominant club here! THE LOWDOWN WHO? The two giants of South African footy, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates! WHERE? Soweto, a suburb of South Africa’s biggest city, Johannesburg! WHY? These two have been rivals ever since ex-Pirates forward Kaizer Motaung founded The Chiefs 49 years ago! 82,000 fans flocked to their last league encounter at the end of 2018! HEROES SIPHIWE TSHABALALA SOWETO DERBY STATS GAMES 31 GOALS 4 WINS 8 Tshabalala’s a total Chiefs legend after spending 11 seasons at the club. Woah! BENNI MCCARTHY SOWETO DERBY STATS GAMES 2 GOALS 2 WINS 1 His double v The Chiefs helped fire The Pirates to their last league title in 2012!…