De Zerbi faces first Spurs test, Robertson leaving Liverpool and more: football news – live

Column: While his “big team who win things” (well, the odd thing) are hovering above the Premier League relegation zone, his small team who never win anything have just dropped out of the League Two automatic promotion places. It’s small wonder the Guardian’s Football Weekly presenter Max Rushden is a bag of nerves …

Tottenham Hotspur: While he has already been interviewed by the club media team, Roberto De Zerbi’s maiden press conference as Spurs head coach is likely to be today’s hottest ticket in town. The Italian is scheduled to speak to the media at 1.30pm (GMT), ahead of his side’s match against Sunderland on Sunday afternoon. If West Ham beat the Premier League’s bottom side, Wolves, at the London Stadium tonight, Spurs will be in the relegation zone when their game kicks off at the Stadium of Light.

Roberto De Zerbi is due to speak to the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate at 1.30pm (GMT) before taking his side to Wearside for Sunday’s match against Sunderland. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Liverpool: The Scottish left-back is to bring his illustrious career with the club to a close when his contract expires at the end of the season, with no shortage of big name European heavyweights believed to be interested in securing the 32-year-old’s services. Andy Hunter reports …

Andy Robertson has won two Premier League titles, the Champions League, the FA Cup, two League Cups, the Club World Cup and the Uefa Super Cup since joining Liverpool from Hull City for £8m in 2017. Photograph: Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images

Europa Conference League quarter-final first leg: A sensational performance blew away Fiorentina as Jean-Philippe Mateta scored on his first start since the end of January. Ed Aarons reports from Selhurst Park …

Oliver Glasner (right) congratulates Maxence Lacroix after Crystal Palace’s emphatic victory over FIorentina. Photograph: John Walton/PA

Europea League quarter-final first leg: Aston Villa were second best for large parts of the game in Bologna but a brace from Ollie Watkins put them in the box-seat. Paul MacInnes reports from Stadio Renata Dall’Ara …

Ollie Watkins salutes travelling fans after scoring Aston Villa’s third goal against Bologna at the Renato Dall'Ara Stadium. Photograph: Gianluca Ricci/PA

Europa League quarter-final first leg: A freakish own goal by the Porto defender Martim Fernandes earned Nottingham Forest a draw and fostered optimism of advancing to the Europa League semi-finals. Ben Fisher reports from Estádio do Dragão …

Nottingham Forest’s players celebrate after being gifted an unlikely equaliser courtesy of a freakish Martim Fernandes own goal. Photograph: Octávio Passos/Getty Images

Following a hiatus so long some Tottenham fans may have forgotten their team is in grave danger of relegation, the Premier League is back. In the build-up to a weekend schedule that kicks off when West Ham host fellow basement-dwellers Wolves at the London Stadium tonight, we’ll bring you all the news that’s fit to print from today’s round of managerial press conferences. In the time honoured tradition, we’ll also be keeping a beady eye on any tidbits of note from the EFL, Scotland and beyond. You know the drill …

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