{"id":9465,"date":"2026-05-17T01:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:03:26","slug":"5%ef%b8%8f%e2%83%a3-spicy-fixtures-you-must-watch-this-weekend-%f0%9f%8c%b6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9465","title":{"rendered":"5\ufe0f\u20e3 spicy fixtures you must watch this weekend \ud83c\udf36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>The FA Cup final, Derby della Capitale, and a Scottish Premiership title decider for the ages feature in our five best football fixtures to watch this weekend.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Five spicy fixtures you must watch this weekend:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4><strong>Lyon vs Lens<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The race for Champions League football in France, with two points between three sides in the race for third. Lyon sit fourth as things stand and cannot afford a slip-up against a Lens team already assured of their place in the competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Kick-off:<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">  8pm BST, Sunday 17th May<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to watch: <\/strong>The Lyon v RC Lens game will be shown live on Amazon Prime PPV and Ligue1+.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Spice Rating: <\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji td-animation-stack-type0-2 td-animation-stack-type0-1\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/16.0.1\/svg\/1f336.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf36\"\/><\/h5>\n<h4><strong>Aston Villa vs Liverpool<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Aston Villa and Liverpool collide in Friday night football at Villa Park. With nothing to split the teams in the Premier League table, it\u2019s a straight shootout for Champions League football. The winners will celebrate qualification to the tournament, while the losers could find themselves under real pressure on the final day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kick-off: <\/strong>8pm, Friday 15th May<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Where to watch: <\/strong>Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Spice Rating: \ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h4><b>Chelsea vs Manchester City<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Chelsea and Manchester City meet in the FA Cup final on Saturday. The Cityzens aim to complete leg two of a potential domestic treble, having beaten Arsenal at Wembley to claim the League Cup earlier in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>For Chelsea, form is against them, with the Blues winless in seven in the Premier League. Chelsea have also lost their last six cup finals at Wembley, a record the underdogs need to end.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/thefootballfaithful.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr-premium-DISABLED\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two titans, one trophy, zero room for error \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa Watch the Emirates FA Cup Final Live on TNT Sports this Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7oi0ks3Qtv\">pic.twitter.com\/7oi0ks3Qtv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballontnt\/status\/2054230449610776727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Kick-off: <\/strong>3pm BST, Saturday 16th May<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to watch: <\/strong>The game will be shown live in the UK on BBC One and TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Spice Rating: \ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h4><strong>Rome vs Lazio<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Italian capital will come to a standstill this weekend as Roma and Lazio do battle in the Derby della Capitale.<\/p>\n<p>Roma must win to keep alive hopes of Champions League football, and Lazio will know a positive result for them can all but end their arch-rival\u2019s hopes. That will be sure to add even more motivation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kick-off: <\/strong>11:00am BST, Sunday 17th May<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to watch: <\/strong>Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Spice Rating: \ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36<\/strong><strong>\ud83c\udf36<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h4><strong>Celtic vs Hearts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It all comes down to this. Hearts have the chance to end the 40-year duopoly of Celtic and Rangers in the Scottish Premiership and the Edinburgh side will be champions if they avoid defeat at Celtic Park.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/thefootballfaithful.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr-premium-DISABLED\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In spite of Celtic\u2019s 3-2 win over Motherwell at Fir Park, Hearts remain on the brink of history.<\/p>\n<p>Derek McInnes\u2019 side must avoid defeat against the Champions at Celtic Park to clinch the SPFL title.<\/p>\n<p>The last team outside the Old Firm to win the Scottish top flight was Aberdeen\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0CaSJYzwGd\">pic.twitter.com\/0CaSJYzwGd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/2054672814196822085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lose, however, and Celtic will reclaim the throne at their expense. Amid the midweek drama of a controversial Celtic penalty at Motherwell, even more spice has been added to this. Not, of course, that it needed it. A massive game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kick-off: <\/strong>12:30pm BST, Saturday 16th May<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to watch: <\/strong>Sky Sports Main Event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spice Rating: \ud83c\udf36<\/strong><strong>\ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36\ud83c\udf36<\/strong><strong>\ud83c\udf36<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read \u2013 <\/strong><strong>\ud83d\udcc8 Power Rankings: PSG and Inter celebrate silverware<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also \u2013 Fantasy Premier League: Four differentials for the run-in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FA Cup final, Derby della Capitale, and a Scottish Premiership title decider for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}