The Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 all have exciting fixtures scheduled for this weekend.
Fans will be eager to see how their teams perform and whether they can secure crucial points in their respective league campaigns.
Here is a brief summary across Europe’s Top 5 leagues
Premier League
Arsenal will be looking to maintain its five-point lead atop the table when it hosts relegation-threatened Bournemouth. The visitors have allowed a league-high 48 goals and will be hoping to cause an upset.
Second-placed Manchester City, who are three points ahead of third-placed Liverpool, host Newcastle in the early kickoff. Tottenham, who are fourth in the table, play at Wolverhampton, and Chelsea, who are on a four-game winless streak, host Leeds. Leicester visit last-placed Southampton in the nightcap.
La Liga
Diego Simeone will establish a milestone for coaching longevity when his Atletico Madrid hosts Sevilla. The Argentine will set a new Atletico record for games coached at 613, one more than Luis Aragonés.
Simeone has led Atletico to two league titles, two Europa League titles, a Copa del Rey, and two Champions League finals since taking over in December 2011. Fourth-placed Atletico can leapfrog Real Sociedad in third with a victory. Jorge Sampaoli’s Sevilla has one win in the last four rounds and is only two points above the drop zone.
Almeria hosts Villarreal hoping to build on its shock 1-0 win over Barcelona last weekend. Mallorca plays last-placed Elche, eyeing a win that would lift them into the top half of the table. Relegation-threatened Getafe plays Girona.
Bundesliga
Bayern Munich will warm up for their Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain with a visit to relegation-threatened Stuttgart. After Borussia Dortmund beat Leipzig 2-1 on Friday to retake the league lead from Bayern by three points, the latter is playing catchup again.
Bayern hosts PSG on Wednesday. Union Berlin hopes to bounce back from their loss at Bayern last weekend by beating visiting Cologne, who have lost their last two games. After starting with three defeats, Hoffenheim coach Pellegrino Matarazzo is under pressure in Mainz.
Borussia Monchengladbach hosts Freiburg, Werder Bremen visits Augsburg, and the bottom two meet when Bochum welcomes last-place Schalke.
Serie A
AC Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimović will be looking for more playing time when they visit Fiorentina in Serie A. The 41-year-old Ibrahimović returned to action on Sunday following knee surgery in May.
He played the final 16 minutes of a 2-0 win over Atalanta. Milan is involved in a tight battle for the top four in Serie A and will be hoping to move into second spot. Fiorentina is mid-table after winning only one of their past seven league matches.
Atalanta needs to beat Udinese to boost their own hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. Last weekend’s defeat at Milan left them six points below the top four. Monza hosts Empoli.
Ligue 1
League leader Paris Saint-Germain hosts Nantes with striker Kylian Mbappé needing one goal to surpass Edinson Cavani and become PSG’s all-time leading scorer with 201.
PSG is eight points clear at the top while French Cup winner Nantes is 13th and has lost their past two league games. Mbappé tops the scoring charts with 17, while Lionel Messi has 12 to go with his league-leading 12 assists.
In the other game, fourth-placed Lens hosts sixth-placed Lille in their northern derby.
