Europa League and Conference League quarter-finals kick off this week and Thursday night is stacked with big games. Five picks across five different matches, from Aston Villa’s outstanding European run to a high-scoring night expected in Krakow. Here are our tips for the biggest week in club football outside the Champions League. Explored Football European…
What a weekend of football. Six games, six stories worth talking about. A relegation club ended Real Madrid’s title dreams. Barcelona took a giant step toward the LaLiga crown. Bayern Munich came back from the dead. Haaland destroyed Liverpool. Southampton shocked the world. And a hat-trick hero opened a new Allsvenskan season in style. Here…
Three years ago, Inter Miami were a mid-table MLS club that most football fans outside of Florida had never heard of. Today they are the most followed football club in North America, the reigning MLS champions, and home to the greatest player who has ever lived. This is the story of how one signing changed…
The Champions League quarter-finals have a habit of producing the impossible. The right team on the right night, a manager with a plan nobody saw coming, a goalkeeper who saves everything, a loaned-out striker scoring against his own club. History is full of moments where the form book was torn up completely at the last…
Allsvenskan is back. Sixteen clubs, 30 rounds, and a title race that already looks wide open before a single ball has been kicked. The season kicks off on 4 April with a statement opener: Hammarby hosting defending champions Mjällby AIF. Here is our predicted table for 2026, with a short verdict on every club. Our…
Five matches. Five selections. One Saturday of European football. Here are our tips for 4 April 2026, with the reasoning behind each pick. As always, these are our personal opinions for entertainment purposes only. Please gamble responsibly. Explored Football Betting Slip Saturday 4 April 2026 LaLiga · 16:15 Mallorca vs Real Madrid Real Madrid to…
There is a scene in the film Moneyball where a room full of old baseball scouts argue about which players are worth signing. They talk about confidence, about swagger, about whether a player has “the look.” Then a young analyst with a laptop quietly points out that none of those things actually predict whether a…
He is 22 years old, wears the number seven shirt at Anfield, and cost Liverpool a British record fee of around £100 million. Florian Wirtz is not a player who arrived quietly. But behind the headlines and the price tag is a story worth understanding properly: a young man from a suburb of Cologne who…
Eight clubs. Four ties. One trophy on the line in Budapest. The 2025/26 Champions League quarter-finals arrive this week with a lineup that reads like a dream draw, four matchups that cover old scores, historic rivalries, tactical chess matches and genuine title contenders. The first legs kick off on Tuesday 7 April, and by the…
In 2018 it was a shock. In 2022 it was a crisis. On Tuesday night in Zenica, Italy lost a penalty shootout to Bosnia and Herzegovina and missed the World Cup for the third consecutive time. At some point a shock becomes a pattern. Italy are now at that point. What Happened The facts are…