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New York Times
23-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Premier League predicted line-ups: Who do our writers think will start in Gameweek 38?
As we approach the closing weekend of Premier League action, our writers have gazed into their crystal balls one final time. There will be plenty of rotation, but our staff have predicted these line-ups given the information available at the time of writing. Ben Dinnery also held his weekly Fantasy Premier League live Q&A today. Follow the Premier League and FPL on The Athletic All kick-offs 4pm BST/11am ET How to watch: Not available (UK); Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Enes Unal, Luis Sinisterra, Ryan Christie, Dango Ouattara (injured); Lewis Cook (suspended); Alex Scott, James Hill (doubts) Anantaajith Raghuraman Notes: Abdul Fatawu, Stephy Mavididi, Mads Hermansen, Bobby De Cordova-Reid (injured) Rob Tanner How to watch: Not available (UK); Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Reiss Nelson, Timothy Castagne, Harrison Reed (injured); Rodrigo Muniz, Antonee Robinson, Sasa Lukic (doubts) Justin Guthrie Notes: Nathan Ake (injured), John Stones (injured), Mateo Kovacic (suspended) Jordan Campbell How to watch: Not available (UK); Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Wes Burns, Chiedozie Ogbene, Arijanet Muric, Jaden Philogene, Kalvin Phillips (injured); Conor Townsend, Kalvin Phillips, Sammie Szmodics (doubts) Ali Rampling Notes: Michail Antonio, Crysencio Summerville (injured) Roshane Thomas How to watch: Sky Sports (UK); NBC, Fubo, Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Alexis Mac Allister (rested) Andy Jones Notes: Chadi Riad, Cheick Doucoure, Marc Guehi, Adam Wharton (injured) Matt Woosnam How to watch: TNT Sports (UK); Fubo, Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Matthijs de Ligt, Lisandro Martinez (injured) Mark Critchley Notes: Marcus Rashford (ineligible), Youri Tielemans (doubt) Jacob Tanswell How to watch: Not available (UK); Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Lewis Hall, Joelinton (injured); Alexander Isak, Matt Target, Kieran Trippier (doubts) Chris Waugh Notes: James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Seamus Coleman, Orel Mangala, Jesper Lindstrom (injured) Patrick Boyland How to watch: Sky Sports (UK); USA Network, Fubo (U.S.) Notes: Taiwo Awoniyi (injured); Murillo (doubt) Paul Taylor Notes: Wesley Fofana (injured); Mykhailo Mudryk (suspended) Simon Johnson How to watch: Not available (UK); Fubo, Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Jan Bednarek, Kyle Walker-Peters, Taylor Harwood-Bellis (doubts) Nancy Froston Notes: Takehiro Tomiyasu, Gabriel, William Saliba, Jurrien Timber, Gabriel Jesus (injured) James McNicholas How to watch: Not available (UK); Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Radu Dragusin, Dejan Kulusevski, Lucas Bergvall, James Maddison (injured) Elias Burke Notes: Tariq Lamptey, Georginio Rutter, James Milner, Solly March, Ferdi Kadioglu (injured) Andy Naylor How to watch: Not available (UK); Peacock (U.S.) Notes: Yerson Mosquera, Enso Gonzalez, Sasa Kalajdzic, Leon Chiwome, Tommy Doyle, Sam Johnstone (injured); Jorgen Strand Larsen (doubts) Dan Barnes Notes: Vitaly Janelt, Joshua Dasilva, Fabio Carvalho (injured); Ben Mee (rested); Aaron Hickey, Michael Kayode (doubts) Anantaajith Raghuraman (Top photos: Getty Images)
BBC News
05-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
🎧 One, two, three
The latest episode of the When You're Smiling podcast has week, Jack Rafferty and Rob Tanner from The Athletic are joined by former Foxes winger Matt Piper to discuss the small wins Leicester City can take from Saturday's victory against Southampton - one clean sheet, two goals and three points!They also speak to goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk after he kept a clean sheet against the to the full episode on BBC Sounds
BBC News
01-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'It is now or never - and it might even be mission impossible'
Leicester City will be hoping to kick-start their bid for Premier League survival against Manchester City on Wednesday and The Athletic's Rob Tanner believes it is a case of "now or never" for Ruud van Nistelrooy's side, following the two-week international City have won nine of their past 10 Premier League games against the Foxes, including the past six by an aggregate score of on BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast, Tanner said: "It is now or never - but we have been saying that for weeks!"They did have a run of games up to this point which were much more positive for them to be able to get some points from, but they didn't get any points."Now they are going into a run of games against Manchester City, Newcastle United, Brighton and Liverpool - and that's all before they get to the final five games."We've been saying for quite a while now that Leicester City will only have a chance of surviving if they are still in touch when they get to those final five games, but they are nine points adrift now."If they lose at Manchester City, which you would expect them to do, and Wolves pick up a positive result against West Ham United, then suddenly it will become mission impossible."We have talked a lot about 'The Great Escape' 10 years ago and the factors behind that. The team were in a particularly bad position back then, but I can remember them never really being out of those games and they weren't taking a beating every week."A lot of that was because they were naive about the Premier League because it was all new to them, but a lot of these current lads have experienced the Premier League before and shouldn't be making the same mistakes."So it is now or never - and it might even be mission impossible for them."Listen to the full podcast on BBC Sounds
BBC News
12-02-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Foxes need to 'hang in there' during difficult run of fixtures
The Athletic's Rob Tanner, speaking on BBC Radio Leicester's When You're Smiling podcast about the Foxes' upcoming run of fixtures: "Opta looks at the next six fixtures and do a rating of who has got the most difficult. Leicester are up there with Newcastle with the run they've got coming up."Straight after that, there are three more fixtures that are really difficult as well."This is going to be a tough run but they've got to hang in there because in the past five games, they're playing all of the teams around them."They've got to be in touching distance of Wolves and then their fate might be in their hands. But you look at those [upcoming] fixtures and you wonder where the points are going to come from."If 35 points is the target, that's another 18 points they've got to get from 14 games. They've only got 17 from the previous 24."There needs to be something changing, something dramatic. It's time to be throwing the dice a little bit, otherwise you're just going to slip away back into the Championship."Listen to the full podcast on BBC Sounds
