Indholdsfortegnelse for 16-Jun-2020 i MATCH!

THIS WEEK… DEFENSIVE HEADER! Being able to deal with long balls and crosses into the box is key if you want to be a beastly defender like Virgil van Dijk. You can attack the ball with confidence if you practise defensive heading using TopTekkers’ awesome tips… Be light on your toes and move your body in line with the ball. Try to slightly bend your knees and keep both feet on the ground if possible. Head underneath the ball and head it high and long. Use your neck muscles to generate maximum power. THE CHALLENGE… Now, start practising at home ASAP by taking on this week’s TopTekkers Challenge! Set up four cones in a line, with the first cone being four steps away from the second. Start on the first…

WILL THEREDS SET ANEW PREM POINTS RECORD? The title race is basically dead and buried, but Liverpool are still chasing records! The best points total in Premier League history is 100 points, set by Man. City in 2017-18, but The Reds could smash that tally. They re-start footy on 82 points, and could finish with a mindboggling 109 points if they win all of their remaining matches! VERDICT: YES! Yep– we reckon they will! Even though they’ve still got to play the Mersey side derby, Arsenal, Man.City and Chelsea, they must be mega motivated to set a new Premier League points record! MATCH thinks they’ll win seven of their final nine games and end on at least 103 points. What do you reckon? YOU SAY: WHO’LL GET EUROPEAN FOOTBALL? With…

ASTON VILLA v SHEFF. UNITED We think the first game back since lockdown is gonna end in a draw! MATCH SAYS 1-1 YOU SAY NORWICH v SOUTHAMPTON The Canaries have nothing to lose, while The Saints ship tons of goals! MATCH SAYS 2-2 YOU SAY WATFORD v LEICESTER Surely it can’t be four 2-1 wins on the trot for Watford v The Foxes? MATCH SAYS 1-2 YOU SAY WEST HAM v WOLVES MATCH’s crystal ball says Jota and Jimenez are both gonna bust net! MATCH SAYS 0-2 YOU SAY MAN. CITY v ARSENAL City have won their last six v The Gunners, and conceded just twice! MATCH SAYS 2-1 YOU SAY TOTTENHAM v MAN. UNITED The Red Devils bossed Tottenham when these two met in December! MATCH SAYS 0-2 YOU…

BILLY Billy’s design would definitely fall into the ‘bright and bold’ category – but that’s not a bad thing! NOAH Noah’s just started collecting MATCH, and now he gets to star in it after creating this mega cool kit! ELI Eli combined different shapes, pat terns and colours, and even designed his personalised club crest! TOBY We asked for ten out of ten on the crazy sc ale, a nd To by definitely delivered with this effort! JACOB We reckon Jacob’s lollipop-design is proper ‘sweet’! It’s even got us feeling a bit peckish… UMAR Umar’s leopard look is off the charts – he’d be able to scare all of his opponents into submission!…

Allen Bacuna Batty Bayliss Bielik Cairney Cameron Celina Clayton Dack Gardner Lee Livermore Nagy Norgaard Phillips Ralls Rinomhota Tunnicliffe Watson ANSWERS! Midfielders Special 1 Game Changer: Dani Olmo. The Numbers Game: 25. Odd One Out: Fred. Trophy Time: Koke. Previous Clubs: 1. Lyon; 2. Man. City; 3. Swansea; 4. Leicester; 5. Sporting; 6. Lorient. Mega Mash-Up: Houssem Aouar. Spot The Ball: J12. Name The Country: Bentancur – Uruguay; Pellegrini – Italy; Pasalic – Croatia; De Roon – Netherlands. Prem Stars: 1. Tottenham; 2. Liverpool; 3. Arsenal; 4. Wolves; 5. Man. City; 6. Man. United. MATCHWinner: Kai Havertz. Midfielders Special 2 Face To Face: Mason Mount & Jorginho. Odd One Out: Sevilla. Who Started Where?: 1C; 2D; 3A; 4E; 5F; 6B. Soccer Scramble: 1. Oliver Norwood; 2. James McArthur; 3. Ilkay…

BILLIONAIRE BALLER! Juventus megastar Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first-ever footy player to earn over $1 billion! Don’t forget your great pals at MATCH, C-Ron! SILLY SAUL! Atletico Madrid star Saul teased rival fans by posting on Twitter that he had a ‘new club’, but he’d just created his own academy project… THE NEW MESSI? Gossips reckon Man. United are on the verge of signing Argentina wonderkid Thiago Almada – known in his home country as the ‘New Messi’! THE DEAL! Gossips say Chelsea have agreed to pay the Germany international’s £49.4 million release clause, and will give the striker a £200,000-a-week contract! It will make him the sixth-most expensive player in the club’s history – as well as The Blues’ third most expensive striker ever after Alvaro Morata and…

SUPER SHARP BLADES! Sheffield United’s John Fleck is taking his dribbling training to the next level by avoiding flying poles! SUMMER TIME! We’ve had some really hot weather recently, but Tottenham’s record signing Tanguy Ndombele was fast wearing a woolly hat. Madness TROLLIN’ TRENT! MATCH really isn’t sure if Alexander-Arnold is appreciating Lionel Messi’s brilliance with this comment – or just trollin’ him for last year’s! FOOTBALL’S FINALLY BACK! Looking at the amount of replies he’s got to that Tweet, everyone is mega pumped about the Prem returning! MOODY MAINZ! After Timo Werner hit another hat-trick past them, Mainz asked Jurgen Klopp to sign him - but maybe Chelsea saw the Tweet first? DECLAN’S DREAM! We reckon everyone is thinking what Declan Rice is saying here… POOL PARTY! It looks…

Luton Holly is a massive Luton fan, and she’s designed this awesome strip for The Hatters next season! Spain Toby designed this Spain away kit for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar! They’d lift the trophy wearing this epic gear! Man. City Tommy’s all-blue City strip gets the thumbs up fromMATCH – we can see Kevin De Bruyne tearing it up in that! Tranmere Joseph’s alternative kit ticks all the boxes for what we asked for in a really bonkers strip! West Ham This wicked West Ham strip from T-Jay would look great on the pitch in the London Stadium! West Ham George has gone for a blue band across the chest in his vision for The Hammers’ new strip! SEND YOUR PICTURES TO… Email: match.magazine@kelsey.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/matchmagazine Twitter: www.twitter.com/matchmagazine…

The next-generation Tekela V3 are the very first of their kind, because New Balance have finally gone laceless! Designed for football’s greatest creators, the V3 arrives in a Navy Eclipse and Silver Metallic colourway, with a cool kaleidoscope flame pattern on the strike zone… Yep, it gets a thumbs up from us! QUALITY KIT! Italian lower-league side Codogno asked young fans to create their new shirt for 2020-21, and chose this wicked wolf design as their winner! SHIRT SHOCKER! A footballer in Costa Rica, called Jonathan McDonald, changed his name on the back of his shirt to Burger King for one match. Is he gonna change to ‘KFC’ next?! BAD BADGE! National team Bermuda have designed a new badge, but MATCH isn’t impressed at all! It looks more like an…

THIS WEEK: DW STADIUM DID YOU KNOW? The seats at the stadium are a mixture of red and blue to represent the colours of both the footy and rugby teams that play there! EFL TOP20 RANK 19th STADIUM FACTS TEAM: Wigan BUILT: 1999 CAPACITY: 25,138 RECORD ATTENDANCE: 25,133 v Man. United, May 2008 NEAREST NEIGHBOUR: Bolton LONGEST LEAGUE JOURNEY: The Valley, Charlton, 182 miles…

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ASTON VILLA v SHEFFIELD UNITED Wednesday, 6pm The Premier League is finally welcomed back by a game that will have a massive impact on both the top and bottom of the table! Villa can leapfrog three teams and move out of the relegation zone with a win, while The Blades can overtake Wolves and Man. United and move into a possible Champions League spot. Pressure’s on! MAN. CITY v ARSENAL Wednesday, 8.15pm As soon as the Villa v Sheffield United match ends, grab a drink and some snacks, and get back to the sofa – because this mega clash is on straight after! Arsenal were on an eight-game unbeaten PL run before lockdown started, so they’ll want to pick up where they left off, while City need a win to…

TITLE RACE! Just one point separated league leaders Leeds and second-placed West Brom before lockdown started, so they’re in a direct battle for the title! The Whites had won their last five league matches, while The Baggies were in a sticky patch! Fulham are currently the best of the rest – they’re just six points behind West Brom, but still have to play both of the top two teams, so they could claw back some points! PLAY-OFF FIGHT! Brentford and Nottingham Forest re-start footy four points behind Fulham, and will be keen to keep their places in the play-offs! Preston sit in the final play-off spot for now, but they were on a three-game losing run before lockdown and lost some ground! Bristol City, Millwall, Cardiff, Blackburn, Swansea, Derby and…

10 Jadon Sancho has got a new tattoo on his arm – it features every member of The Simpsons family. Awesome! Back in 2012-13, Javier Hernandez scored 10 Prem goals for Man. United – and only started nine games! 9 No other player has scored more PL net-busters away from home this season than Raheem Sterling! Sheffield United boss ChrisWilder hasmade 31 changes to his startingXIinthe PL this season–fewer than anyother manager… …While JackO’Connell, Enda Stevens, George Baldock, ChrisBasham and Oliver Norwood have started every single Prem match! 11 Alaves Lucas Perez scored 11 goals from 13 shots on target this season! 21 Alphonso Davies hit a top speed of 21.9mph in a recent league game. What a total speedster! Ex-Liverpool defender Daniel Agger is a qualified tattoo artist!…