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Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag believes injuries are the main reason behind their poor 2023/24 season so far. The Red Devils fell to their ninth loss in 20 Premier League Game s this term on Saturday night with a dismal 2-1 defeat at Nottingham Forest. Nicolas Dominguez opened the scoring for the hosts just after the hour mark before Matt Turner gifted Marcus Rashford an equaliser, only for Morgan Gibbs-White to go back down the other end and grab the winner. Once again, United dealt their fans another false dawn after coming from two goals down to beat Aston Villa 3-2 in an enthralling encounter on Boxing Day, only to lose while playing so timidly days later. United were without the hero of that Boxing Day clash in Rasmus Hojlund due to illness, while the likes of Lisandro Martinez, Casemiro, Mason Mount and Harry Maguire all missed the trip to the City Ground due to injuries. Ten Hag preached post-match that the inability to consistently play a strong team has hurt their a...

A new year is always ushered in with the arrival of the FA Cup third round. Fans travel all over the country searching for the special nostalgia only English football's grandest tournament can provide. Supporters will turn up in their thousands to watch third round cup ties on the first weekend on January. Whether it's Maidstone United's clash with Stevenage or the all-Premier League meeting of Arsenal and Liverpool, fans will be charging through the turnstiles for all the magic the FA Cup offers. For millions, though, these matches will be enjoyed on television, be that in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada or elsewhere. Here's your full guide on how to enjoy the 2023/24 FA Cup third round on television. 2023/24 FA Cup third round draw Luton Town vs Bolton Wanderers Shrewsbury Town vs Wrexham Arsenal vs Liverpool Stoke City vs Brighton Norwich City vs Bristol Rovers West Ham United vs Bristol City Tottenham Hotspur vs Burnley Fulham vs Rotherham U...

"You can't win anything with kids" is one of football's most famous phrases. Coined by Alan Hansen back in the 1990s, it has firmly established itself in the sport's vernacular over the years. While Hansen would come to regret those words as a youthful Manchester United team proved their doubters wrong and conquered English Football , there is an element of truth in what the former Liverpool defender said. Experience is needed to be successful at the highest level, along with a variety of age ranges capable of providing different skills. However, in the FIFA and Football Manager generation, teams are getting increasingly youthful. Just look at Chelsea's transfer strategy of only signing players under the age of 23 on massive seven-year contracts - perhaps one of the reasons they are finding life hard in 2023/24 so far. The Premier League table based on youngest average lineup age Champions of the Premier League youth table are Burnley , with Vincent Kompany ...

Another week, and yet another Premier League club is in crisis . Well, not just one...obviously. Despite playing just two games thus far, there are plenty of clubs from up and down the country who are already enduring mini-crises - Manchester United, Chelsea and Sheffield United to name a few. One team's current crisis sticks out like a sore thumb though: Everton's crisis. Here's why: ALL THE KEY DATES FROM THE 2023/24 PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURE RELEASE manual What's the crisis? Two Game s. Two defeats. Five goals conceded. The joint most in the Premier League . Zero goals scored. The joint least in the Premier League It's not exactly good, is it? Why are they in crisis? A heavy defeat / Neal Simpson/Allstar/GettyImages Everton haven't been a decent Football team for quite a while. After skirting the drain of the Premier League for two seasons and just about surviving on both occasions however, fans may have thought that this summer their club would dip into th...

Joao Pinto, the captain of Porto's European Cup-winning side in 1987, infamously said: "I only make predictions after the game." The powers of computational analysis have been significantly developed in the subsequent decades - although, a prediction in May would still be slightly more accurate. While Pinto has ten months to mull over his best guess, less patient spectators can turn to Opta 's fearsome supercomputer. The sports statistics giant has run 10,000 simulations of the entire fixture list for the coming campaign, where each team's strength is calculated as a mix of betting market odds and a hierarchical Elo-based rating system. Here's how the 2023/24 Premier League season is expected to shake out. Supercomputer predicts 2023/24 Premier League table Arsenal's victory over Manchester City in the Community Shield is not reflected in their predicted Premier League finish / Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/GettyImages Predicted position Team Predicted poin...