Seven minutes on the clock, 28 playersto guess - that's11on each side andthree substitutes.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - be sure to get your City-supporting pals involved too.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name Jurgen Klopp's top appearance makers for Liverpool? For all of Manchester City's incredible triumphs and achievements over the last few years, Pep Guardiola still hasn't bettered his predecessor in one field.The year was 2016 - Leicester City were powering to a league title, Pep was still living in Bavaria and the UK still hadn't voted to leave the EU.But City fans were focused on another kind of Europe, as they found themselves in the last four of the European Cup for the first time,facingReal...
Injury to Henderson this month, with the Liverpool captain expected to miss three weeks of action, could work in his favour when it comes to winning the Footballer of the Year awards.Already a frontrunner for the PFA Player of the Year accolade, Jordan Henderson’s absence from midfield could further highlight his importance in Jurgen Klopp’s record-setting side.On Monday night, after Liverpool uncharacteristically went behind in a football match before inevitably recording their 18th consecutive league win, teammates Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold both admitted to missing the captain’s influence.“When you don’t have your captain out there you can feel it,” said Robertson.“Hendo is a real leader. He was in the changing room before saying a few words and he was...
Mason Mount’s form lately has really been excellent. In fact, he was arguably Chelsea’s best player in the weekend’s win over Tottenham, having been involved in almost everything his side did well.As he had been against Manchester United, five days before. Chelsea lost that game, but on a different night Mount might have helped them win it. The first half chance he created for Michy Batshuayi, having cleverly found space in the defence's blindspot, definitely should have been converted. And, although, VAR correctly disallowed Oliver Giroud’s header, the quality of the cross Mount provided made Stockley Park's intervention a desperate shame.But it leaves him in an interesting place. The expectation is for young players to be running on fumes by...
This article first appeared in the March 2020 issue of FourFourTwo magazine"AAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGH!”If the unsuspecting receptionist at the City Football Academy wasn’t quite awake, there was no question after Benjamin Mendy walked in. It’s barely been 60 seconds since Manchester City’s perma-happy left-back welcomedFourFourTwoand kicked off the photo shoot for today’s interview -which first appeared in the March 2020 mag issue, which you can order here -but luckily for us there’s no warm-up required: Mendy is soon screaming down our snapper’s camera lensand chuckling away at the results on a laptopin front of him. As he continues to switch up poses and effectively direct his own shoot, we know everything’s going to turn out fine.Most footballers aren’t this simple to deal...
Ten minutes on the clock, 55 playersto guess. How many can you name?Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - be sure to get your Blues-supportingpals involved too.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every Champions League knockout club of the 2010s? They're regarded as one of the most decorated clubs of all time, but believe it or not, it took Barcelona almost 30 years to win a European Cup.They've not wasted time, since. Barca now have five of Old Big Ears in their decorated trophy room, with four of them coming in the last 15 years.Tonight, Barcelona face Napoli in their first European tie under new boss Quique Setien. Will they taste glory again?Who knows. All we want from...