Chelsea s excellent recent form will be tested by Hull City when the two sides meet at the KC Stadium on Saturday.

Jose Mourinho s side have won their last four matches in all competitions, form that has seen them rise to third in the Premier League table.

Premier League wins over Swansea City, Liverpool and Southampton were followed by a 2-0 FA Cup success at Derby County on Sunday.

Chelsea look to be clicking at the right time of the season and have a series of players on top form, with the likes of Eden Hazard, Oscar and Willian all excelling.

The Stamford Bridge outfit have also been terrific at the back, conceding just once in their last five matches, with John Terry back to his best form.

Mourinho s men will be wary of Hull, though, with Steve Bruce s…

Ruud Gullit feels Everton boss Ronald Koeman would be the perfect coach to help Netherlands get back on track after a number of difficult years.

Oranje finished third at the 2014 World Cup, but then failed to qualify for Euro 2016 under Guus Hiddink and Danny Blind, while they face a tough task to qualify for next year s World Cup in Russia from a group containing France, Sweden and Bulgaria.

Gullit believes Netherlands are in need of a coach with experience abroad in order to understand how their rivals see them and he believes Koeman would be the ideal candidate.

Netherlands have done quite well throughout the years for such a small country. I am really proud of us as a footballing nation, Gullit told Helden Magazine.

We let others look at the way we …

Immobile triggers buy-out clause

German media outlet that Italian striker Ciro Immobile is set to make a permanent switch to Sevilla.

Los Rojiblancos paid a total of €3 million for a season-long loan in the summer, while an €11 million buy-out clause was also included.

And having made his fifth league appearance of the season at the weekend, Immobile has automatically triggered said clause.

Despite struggling in the early days of his career in Spain, the 25-year-old was surprisingly handed a starting role in the league clash against Real Madrid.

That proved a very good decision as Immobile went on to score the equalizer after Sergio Ramos had opened the scoring.

And with his future now clearly at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, the It…

Germany s midfield partnership of Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich is  one of the best duos in the world , according to Hansi Flick.

The Bayern Munich pair have started together in each of their country s last three matches and are likely to anchor the midfield in the World Cup Qualifying Group J clash against North Macedonia on Monday.

Goretzka and Kimmich have also partnered each other in all seven of Bayern s Bundesliga outings this season, helping Julian Nagelsmann s side to the top of the table in the process.

Ahead of Germany s trip to North Macedonia, where victory could see Die Mannschaft secure their place in Qatar with two matches to spare, Flick lauded Kimmich and Goretzka, who also formed a key part of his dominant Bayern team.

Everyone kno…

Alvaro Morata says he has no idea who he will be playing for next season amid reports the Spain striker is set to extend his stay at Juventus.

Morata returned to Juve on loan from Atletico Madrid for the 2020-21 season last September.

The Serie A giants have the option of bringing the 28-year-old back to Turin for the 2021-22 campaign on loan or signing him permanently for a fee of €45million which would be paid in instalments.

It has been reported that Morata will head back to the Bianconeri on loan at the start of a new era under Massimiliano Allegri, who replaced Andrea Pirlo last week.

Yet that is news to former Real Madrid and Chelsea striker Morata as he prepares to represent Spain at Euro 2020.

Asked about his future, he told Radio MAR…

(GSM) Ole Gunnar Solskjær has left his position as reserves boss at Manchester United to become the manager of Norwegian side Molde.

The 37-year-old Norwegian left Molde for Old Trafford in 1996 and, following his retirement in 2007, worked for United as a coach for the club s strikers.

He was appointed United s reserve-team manager in 2008, bringing through the likes of Federico Macheda, Rafael and Fabio, and he won last season s Premier Reserve League as well as the Lancashire and Manchester Senior Cups in 2009.

Ole has accepted the position at Molde and he goes with our best wishes, Sir Alex Ferguson said on Tuesday. Ole has had a good period with our reserve team, which has given him a foundation to start somewhere else.

He feels it is time he wen…

Aston Villa skipper John McGinn says Sunday’s crunch Premier League meeting with Tottenham is “the most important game in the club’s recent history”.

Villa welcome Spurs to Villa Park for a monumental battle in the race for top four and guaranteed Champions League football last season.

Victory for Unai Emery’s men would tighten their grip on fourth place by giving them an eight-point lead over Spurs, but defeat would see the London side cut the gap to two points with a game in hand.

See you tomorrow, Villans.

— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial)

With Villa never having qualified for the Champions League before, McGinn knows the importance of the match.

“Everyone knows how important the game is,” the Scot said. “It’s probably…

Liverpool have completed the signing of central defender Steven Caulker on loan from QPR until the end of the season.

Caulker spent the first half of this term with Southampton but was restricted to one Premier League start under Ronald Koeman and last featured during December s 6-1 defeat to Liverpool in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

The 24-year-old, who scored on his solitary appearance for England against Sweden in November 2012, is eligible for selection when Liverpool host Arsenal at Anfield on Wednesday.

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Mousa Dembele has become the latest Tottenham player to commit his future to the club, following in the footsteps of Dele Alli.

Since arriving at White Hart Lane in August 2012, Dembele has made 143 appearances in all competitions, 20 of them coming this season.

The 28-year-old has agreed a new three-year deal with Spurs that will see him remain at the club until 2019, and he believes the future looks bright for Mauricio Pochettino s side.

I am very happy I ve signed and I m happy to be part of our future, he told the club s official website.

The way we re playing, the way the club is developing, everything is very good and everyone wants to be part  of this team and this club.

That s why I m proud to extend my contract.

Alli agreed h…

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is displaying a similar level of quality to Lionel Messi, according to former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

Salah has won the Premier League s Golden Boot award for the past two seasons although he shared it with club team-mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in 2018-19 and the 27-year-old already has 13 goals to his name in all competitions this season.

The former Roma forward has also provided seven assists, a tally which includes teeing up Naby Keita s opening goal in Liverpool s 2-1 win over Monterrey in the Club World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday.

With the Egyptian stepping into a playmaker role as well as being an unerringly accurate finisher, Wenger believes Salah is now showing flashes of play on …