Nestor Watach

4 days ago | planetfootball.com | Nestor Watach

It’s just over a month until Lionel Messi‘s Inter Miami kick off the FIFA’s shiny new expanded Club World Cup, but on current form they look a million miles off challenging world football’s best and brightest. Pressure is growing on Messi’s old pal Javier Mascherano, who has just overseen Inter Miami’s worst defeat of the Messi era. Messi scored to end a rare four-match goalless streak in Saturday’s clash with Minnesota United, but it was a mere consolation in a humbling 4-1 loss.

4 days ago | planetfootball.com | Nestor Watach |Ciarán McCarthy

Barcelona and Real Madrid share one of the most heated rivalries in world football – but can you name every player to have been sent off in the fixture since 2009? We’ve given you the club of each dismissed player and the season of their dismissal, but those are the only clues you are getting from us. If this gives you a taste for another challenge, why not try and name every player to score in El Clasico in the 2010s?

5 days ago | planetfootball.com | Nestor Watach

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo‘s rivalry peaked during their nine seasons as direct rivals representing Barcelona and Real Madrid. But which of the era-defining icons had the better record over that time? Ronaldo signed for Madrid for a world-record fee in the summer of 2009, ushering in a defining period with his old foe. It was around that time that Messi had taken his game to a new level, having shone for Barcelona as they completed a historic treble in 2008-09.

1 week ago | planetfootball.com | Nestor Watach

The weekend is here and Planet Football’s Saturday quiz has arrived. You’ll find questions on Dennis Bergkamp, Erling Haaland, El Clasico, Inter and Derby County’s infamous worst-ever Premier League record. You know the deal by now. We’ve compiled a list of 10 multiple-choice questions – some general knowledge, others inspired by recent events – and we’re interested to see how you get on. The score to beat from the Planet Football office is 8/10.

1 week ago | planetfootball.com | Nestor Watach

The Europa League might be UEFA’s second-tier continental competition, but it has brought the best out of certain English players – but can you name those Englishmen with the most appearances? It’s not the easiest of tasks, especially as we’ve only given you the number of goals each of them has scored as a clue. An asterisk denotes a player who has been active in the 2024-25 edition. Once you’ve completed this quiz, why not try and name every UEFA Cup and Europa League finalist since 1990?