Tag: battle

Blackburn Rovers: Championship strugglers ‘must face up to a relegation battle’
18 January 2026 Off

Blackburn Rovers: Championship strugglers ‘must face up to a relegation battle’

By Total Football News

A day that started with hopes of pulling further away from danger but ended with the realisation of being in the thick of a relegation battle.

Let’s be clear, Ipswich Town have a better squad than Blackburn Rovers. Of that there is no doubt.

The two clubs have different objectives, and the resources that both clubs have at their disposal are further apart than the considerable distance between the two

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Aston Villa: Championship pair battle for Finley Munroe
13 January 2026 Off

Aston Villa: Championship pair battle for Finley Munroe

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough and Bristol City have made offers for Aston Villa defender Finley Munroe.

The Championship pair are fighting to sign the left-back who has been on loan at Swindon this season.

The Robins’ bid is around £350,000, with Boro’s offer around the same and includes a sell-on clause.

A move from Villa Park could be finalised this week as Munroe was recalled by Villa on Monday.

Munroe has made 27

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Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa: Ollie Watkins scores twice as Villa battle back for Premier League win
4 December 2025 Off

Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa: Ollie Watkins scores twice as Villa battle back for Premier League win

By Total Football News

Ollie Watkins scored twice as Aston Villa fought back from 2-0 behind to win a seven-goal thriller at Brighton and climb to third in the Premier League.

This was a meeting between two in-form teams, with the Seagulls having won three of their previous four league games while Villa had won their past three in a row.

It looked like it would be the Seagulls who would continue their strong

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Norwich City: Beleaguered Liam Manning vows to battle on
22 October 2025 Off

Norwich City: Beleaguered Liam Manning vows to battle on

By Total Football News

Liam Manning insists he will fight on after seeing Norwich lose 1-0 at Derby to drop into the Championship relegation zone.

Norwich failed to turn their first-half domination into a lead and Derby recovered to win through David Ozoh’s 55th-minute strike.

Norwich expected a promotion tilt when they appointed Manning in the summer and he is fighting for job after presiding over a seven-game winless run.

Manning told BBC Radio

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Alan Shearer: ‘An incredible battle’ – why Premier League top-five race is ‘impossible to call’
21 April 2025 Off

Alan Shearer: ‘An incredible battle’ – why Premier League top-five race is ‘impossible to call’

By Total Football News

It is hard enough to predict results in the Premier League anyway, but at this stage of the season it is even more difficult.

Looking at each club’s remaining games now doesn’t really help in deciding what might happen, because some of the teams they face may have different priorities, or nothing to play for full-stop.

Chelsea’s game against Liverpool on 4 May is a good example of that. Liverpool

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Who will survive in Championship relegation battle?
17 April 2025 Off

Who will survive in Championship relegation battle?

By Total Football News

How has it come to this?

Argyle only avoided relegation back to League One in their first season back at this level thanks to a final-day win last May.

It was something of a surprise then when they turned to England and Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney in the summer, given his struggles in this division with Birmingham City.

Things started terribly with a 4-0 thrashing at Sheffield Wednesday on

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Manchester United: Ruben Amorim senses danger, but is Premier League relegation battle really possible?
31 December 2024 Off

Manchester United: Ruben Amorim senses danger, but is Premier League relegation battle really possible?

By Total Football News

Not very – according to the data from analysts at Opta, who predict that it is highly unlikely that United will finish in the bottom three of the Premier League table.

Opta’s current projections – calculated using thousands of season simulations – give United a 0.1% chance of finishing 18th in the Premier League table, with a 0.0% chance of finishing in the bottom two.

In fact, United are rated

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EFL preview: Sheffield United and Leeds United battle for the top
13 December 2024 Off

EFL preview: Sheffield United and Leeds United battle for the top

By Total Football News

As far as reunions go Shrewsbury Town against Wycombe Wanderers in League One has everything – club legend v club legend, master v apprentice oh, and bottom against top.

When Gareth Ainsworth left Wycombe after 550 games in charge to join QPR in February 2023 and was replaced by Matt Bloomfield who made 558 appearances for the Chairboys little did either know they would be in this situation 22 months

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Wolverhampton Wanderers: Gary O’Neil admits tipping point will come in Premier League relegation battle
18 October 2024 Off

Wolverhampton Wanderers: Gary O’Neil admits tipping point will come in Premier League relegation battle

By Total Football News

Boss Gary O’Neil says Wolves cannot continue to rely on excuses and the clock is ticking to find results.

Currently bottom of the Premier League after one point from their opening seven games, they host second-placed Manchester City on Sunday.

Wolves have faced five of the top seven and, by the time they travel to Brighton next week, will have played all of them in their first nine matches.

They

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