Newcastle United made it three different League Cup winners in as many years last season, and the Magpies now hope to become the first repeat winners since Man City did it in 2021.
Arsenal are through to the final of the 2025-26 League Cup, where they will face either Manchester City or Newcastle, after finishing off Chelsea with a 1-0 victory (4-2 on aggregate) in north London on Tuesday.
Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz sparked an Anfield awakening on Saturday, as the Reds snapped their five-game winless streak in the Premier League with an emphatic 4-1 victory over Newcastle.
Liverpool’s winless run is no more after Arne Slot’s side came back from a goal down and scored four unanswered against Newcastle at Anfield on Saturday.
The phrase “It was a tale of two halves,” couldn’t have been any more true for Chelsea on Sunday, as Liam Rosenior’s side was pitiful in the first half before overturning a West Ham’s 2-0 lead with three goals in 35 minutes.
Joao Pedro, Marc Cucurella and Enzo Fernandez scored a goal each in Chelsea’s blistering 35-minute comeback to beat West Ham 3-2 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
Tottenham Hotspur are through to the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League after beating Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0, thanks to goals scored by Randal Kolo Muani and Dominic Solanke.
Chelsea are one of five Premier League clubs to finish in the top-eight of the UEFA Champions League and securing their place in the round of 16, after winning 3-2 away to Napoli on the final day of the league phase.
Manchester City scored twice in the opening half-hour to beat Galatasaray 2-0. Pep Guardiola’s side finishes 8th in the UEFA Champions League and heads straight to the round of 16.
Liverpool needed a win (or maybe just a draw) to finish in the top-eight of the UEFA Champions League, and the Reds left no doubt as they hammered Azerbaijani side Qarabag 6-0 at Anfield.
Don’t look now, but the EFL Championship is already well past the halfway point of the 2025-26 season and the race for Premier League promotion is quickly heating up.
Manchester United has been a club perpetually pivoting in a new direction, a club in constant identity crisis since Sir Alex Ferguson departed in 2013, and a club that just needs to hit pause and seriously re-evaluate itself.
Michael Carrick has Manchester United looking a little bit like the Manchester United of old after beating title contenders Manchester City and Arsenal in his first two games as interim boss.
Igor Jesus and Taiwo Awoniyi, both of Nottingham Forest’s center forwards, scored for the Tricky Trees on Sunday as Sean Dyche’s side secured a massive 2-0 victory away to Brentford on Sunday.
Liverpool were once again defiant in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday, amid their ongoing struggles in the Premier League, as they beat Marseille 3-0 away from home to go 4th in the table.
Everton star Jack Grealish is expected to miss “a number of months” due to a broken foot. On the bright side, Iliman Ndiaye is to return to the team imminently.
Thomas Frank may have just bought himself another game in charge of Tottenham Hotspur with a 2-0 victory against 10-man Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.
