Ryan Mason’s side were edged out 4-3 by Liverpool at Anfield in their most recent battle, while the Eagles won by the same scoreline against fellow London rivals West Ham United.
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The Premier League have confirmed that the 3pm contest will be televised, with the usual 12.30pm slot avoided to work around the Coronation of King Charles.
While the Blues are searching for their first win in any competition since March 11, the Cherries are looking to record three successive top-flight victories for the first time this season.
Osorio was reportedly arrested Friday in Rionegro as he was about to leave for Madrid with almost two kilos of cocaine hidden in his sneakers.
Nigeria need to avoid defeat against the South Africans to affirm their place in the their Group B.
The 24-year-old scored the all-important equaliser away at Udinese on Thursday night which sealed the club’s first Serie A title since the days of Diego Maradona 33 years ago.
The 35-year-old is a tourism ambassador for the country and jetted off to the Middle East the day after PSG’s shock 3-1 Ligue 1 defeat to Lorient at the Parc des Princes.
The Nigeria international’s 27th club goal of the season earned his side a point at Udinese, which proved to be enough for Luciano Spalletti’s team to win the title with five games to spare.
The 24-year-old has played a starring role in the Parthenopeans’ title charge this season, scoring 22 goals in 27 league appearances as well as scoring five goals in six Champions League outings.
Some fans who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital Friday celebrated Osimhen and Napoli for the great feat.
Coach Spalletti explained that it is the club’s fans who deserve this joy the most after 33 years of waiting
Chairman of the Club, Balarabe Douglas, made the position known to newsmen on Thursday in Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital
A second-half goal by Victor Osimhen secured Napoli the title with five games remaining in the season
The defeat leaves Erik ten Hag’s side in fourth place on 63 points, four ahead of fifth-placed Liverpool but with a game in hand over their Merseyside rivals, while Brighton move up to sixth on 55 points.
The mercurial midfielder gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.
Several hundred PSG supporters gathered outside club headquarters on Wednesday evening where they set off smoke flares and sang hostile chants about underperforming stars Messi, Neymar and Italian midfielder Marco Verratti.
The organisers of the event, ABAJ Multilinks, made this known at a press briefing on Wednesday in Lagos.
Felipe Anderson and Toma Basic were on target for the club from the capital who are 15 points adrift of Napoli with five games left.
Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah scored the lone goal which even edged him even closer to a Steven Gerrard record.
It was a game in which Erling Haaland became the highest goal scorer in an English Premier League season.