Suncorp Stadium will play host to Saturday’s
Round 17 NRL game between Dolphins and
New Zealand Warriors. The game kicks off at 3:00 pm with Dolphins heading into the game as favourites with the bookmakers. Continue reading for our in-depth preview of the Dolphins vs.
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When: Saturday June 27, 2026 at 3:00 pm

Where: Suncorp Stadium

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One of the round’s most intriguing clashes takes place at Suncorp Stadium when the Dolphins host the Warriors on Saturday afternoon.

New Zealand continues to defy expectations despite missing several key players, producing another impressive display in last week’s victory over North Queensland. Hooker Wayde Egan remains central to the Warriors’ success, controlling matches with his creativity around the ruck.

The Dolphins have been equally impressive, establishing themselves as genuine finals contenders through a combination of attacking flair and strong squad depth. Regardless of personnel changes, they have maintained a consistent style of football throughout the season.

With both sides sitting comfortably inside the top-eight conversation, this shapes as a significant test of credentials. Expect a high-quality contest between two teams that have built their success on discipline, effort and resilience.

Harry Kane will extend his Bayern Munich contract, Manchester City plan major rebuild, while Rayo Vallecano left-back Pep Chavarria is a target for Chelsea.

England captain Harry Kane, 32, will sign a new contract at Bayern Munich despite interest from Barcelona. (Athletic – subscription required), external

The appointment of Enzo Maresca at Manchester City could lead to a major rebuild with England full-back Rico Lewis, 21, Netherlands defender Nathan Ake, 31, Spanish midfielder Nico Gonzalez, 24, Portugal defender Ruben Dias, 29, and Brazil winger Savinho, 22, all potentially up for sale. (Mail), external

Manchester City are ready to hijack Tottenham‘s move for Newcastle and Italy midfielder Sandro Tonali, 26, despite having already agreed to sign 23-year-old England midfielder Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest. (Marca – in Spanish), external

AC Milan are ready to bid £21.5m for England midfielder Mason Mount, 27, but Manchester United do not want to sell him. (Mail), external

Hull City are set to sign Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland, 33, with Croat Ivor Pandur, 26, heading in the opposite direction as part of a swap deal to bring the Englishman back to the Premier League. (Sun), external

Chelsea have identified Rayo Vallecano’s Spanish left-back Pep Chavarria, 28, as the man to replace 27-year-old Spain full-back Marc Cucurella after his sale to Real Madrid. (Marca – in Spanish), external

Borussia Dortmund’s Germany midfielder Felix Nmecha, 25, is ready to reject a move from Newcastle he prefers a switch to Manchester United. (Bild via Sport Witness), external

Bayern Munich winger Michael Olise is aware that several clubs, including Real Madrid and Paris St-Germain, are keeping an eye on his performances for France at the World Cup, with the 24-year-old set to meet with the German side after the tournament to discuss his future. (AS – in Spanish), external

RB Leipzig say Ivory Coast winger Yan Diomande will remain at the club next season despite the 19-year-old reportedly choosing Paris St-Germain as his next destination. (Florian Plettenberg), external

Enzo Maresca is far from the first Chelsea manager to see his tenure at Stamford Bridge come to an “unexpected and abrupt” end. In a rare change of pace, this end came solely on the manager’s terms.

Let’s get one thing straight from the start: leaving in the manner he did is not a good look for the new Manchester City manager. Breaking his long-term contract when he “had no right to terminate” puts him very much in the wrong. But considering Chelsea’s history, it’s hard to take them seriously as the victim.

“No one wants to change its head coach midway through a season,” read Chelsea’s barbed statement towards Maresca, released moments after his appointment at City was made official. The irony is laughably blatant; BlueCo have changed their head coach midway through the four of the last five seasons, and twice last year.

Chelsea’s infuriating lack of patience for managers is in their DNA. It’s a trait that has carried over from the Roman Abramovich era to now and is maligned by their own fans, symptomatic of the generally haphazard, unforgiving and reactionary running of the club.

Maresca was clearly delighted to get out from under this sort of operation. “City is an incredibly well-run football club,” he said in quotes that accompanied the announcement of his Etihad Stadium arrival. “Everything they do is innovative, planned and purposeful. For a manager, that is a dream situation. It provides the consistency I need to do my job effectively.” It felt as if this had been directed towards his former employers, probably knowing what they had in store for him.

New Blues manager Xabi Alonso, meanwhile, will likely be left embarrassed by this whole messy break-up. Chelsea have acted like someone still hung up on their ex over being dumped… while already being in a new relationship. Before the Spaniard’s even touched down in London, he’s already seen a red flag.

After all, Maresca and Chelsea had mutated into a match made in hell. Two weeks before his resignation, he had complained about how he had just endured the “worst 48 hours” at the club since joining, in an extraordinary post-match press conference of Chelsea’s win over Everton. We now have clarification as to why: the two parties were evidently at loggerheads with Chelsea feeling Maresca’s “head and heart were focused on another club and another opportunity”. They were right – and in a delightful coincidence, Chelsea will come up against Maresca almost exactly one year on from that famous outburst on 12 December at the Etihad Stadium.

The club had the grounds to pursue Maresca and City for compensation and a settlement has been reached with both, receiving a fee of £17m from their Premier League rivals and, unusually, a further undisclosed figure from the Italian to the Blues. But in going explosively public with their complaints, they have opened themselves up to accusations of hypocrisy.

Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter, two managers who both once felt the BlueCo scythe mid-season, will probably roll their eyes reading that statement. Both are focused on bigger things now – they are managing in the knockouts of the World Cup. Instead, the epicentre of frustration will lie in Alsace.

Chelsea responded to abruptly losing their manager mid-season by ensuring that disruption and unhappiness was felt across multiple fronts of the BlueCo family. Returning to the sister club they have pillaged since 2023, Chelsea snapped up then-Strasbourg manager Liam Rosenior, in the middle of the season.

The details surrounding any break clause in Rosenior’s contract at Strasbourg went undisclosed. Whatever it was, we know BlueCo wrote it. In line with a Strasbourg trend, Rosenior had been groomed for an eventual move to Stamford Bridge, though it came far sooner than it should have.

Chelsea paid the Ligue 1 outfit the “market rate” in compensation for Rosenior, which was reportedly £2.5m. This was more a formality than anything – all negotiation power clubs would usually have in this scenario was absent for Strasbourg given they share Chelsea’s owners.

Compensation therefore failed to touch the sides of the wrath at the Meinau, where Strasbourg fans still go silent at the beginning of every home match in protest of multi-ownership and being a “pawn” in Chelsea’s game.

Rosenior’s Chelsea reign proved spectacularly ill-fated. He went on the club’s worst run of form since 1912 before he became the latest to lose his job at Stamford Bridge before the season’s conclusion, with Chelsea completely out of Champions League contention. Strasbourg, meanwhile, missed out on Europe under hastily hired new boss Gary O’Neil – something they were on course to get under Rosenior.

BlueCo is allowed to think that Maresca’s defiance was the first fallen domino that led to two of their clubs enduring a season collapse. Chelsea’s statement effectively blames him directly for their “hugely disappointing” 2025/26.

But for a club whose job security is so infamously poor, to come out and air their dirty laundry one of their managers who – for once – left them, gives an air of double standards, as well as a disconnect with their own reality. Their decisions that followed his resignation – particularly the one surrounding Rosenior’s appointment – were dire across the board and all contributed to the capitulation witnessed in the months that followed.

Maresca is already fighting fires surrounding any questions of disloyalty. He’s immediately vowed not leave Man City after signing for his third spell on the club’s coaching staff – this time, he’s at the helm. “This is the third time – hopefully it’s the last time I come back and I don’t leave anymore.” Despite being made to look like an unappreciated rebound, Chelsea will hope Alonso still harbours a similar sentiment.

The Cleveland Guardians helped the Texas Rangers climb into first place in the AL West over the weekend. They now have an opportunity to knock them out of the top spot in the division.

Cleveland (44-40) looks to end Texas’ winning streak and extend its own when it hosts the Rangers (42-42) at 7 p.m. ET on Monday in the opener of their three-game series at Progressive Field. The Guardians won the final two contests of their three-game set against Seattle this past weekend while the Rangers swept their four-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays to move a half game ahead of the Mariners in the AL West.

The Guardians, who are tied with the Chicago White Sox for first in the AL Central, staged a five-run rally in the eighth inning on Sunday and held on for a 6-5 victory over Seattle. Meanwhile, the Rangers scored a run on a wild pitch in the top of the ninth to snap a tie and get past the Blue Jays 3-2.

The Rangers and Guardians met in Texas earlier this month, with the home team winning two of their three contests. Texas enters this series having won six of its last eight games while Cleveland has won three of four.

There are 12 other games on Monday’s MLB schedule, including the opener of a three-game series between the Washington Nationals (43-42) and Boston Red Sox (36-46) at 7:10 p.m. ET at Fenway Park. The Red Sox began their seven-game homestand by sweeping a four-game set against the New York Yankees. The Nationals are coming off back-to-back triumphs over the Baltimore Orioles after having lost five of their previous six contests.

Meanwhile, the Arizona Diamondbacks (41-42) return home to face the San Francisco Giants (35-48) at 9:40 p.m. ET in the opener of their three-game series at Chase Field in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks, who are 6-0 against the Giants this season, were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays in their three-game weekend set to finish 2-4 on their six-game road trip. San Francisco concluded a 4-2 homestand by winning the final two contests of its three-game series against the Atlanta Braves.

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One 2026 World Cup Round of 32 match is on the slate Monday evening as Morocco facing Netherlands at 9 p.m. ET at Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico. Both sides went 2-1-0 during the group stage, with Netherlands taking first place in Group F and Morocco finishing second in Group C. The Moroccans had their best showing at the World Cup in 2022, when they finished in fourth place. The Dutch placed fifth that year but were runners-up three times while coming in third and fourth once each over their previous eight appearances in the tournament.

The Guardians are -149 favorites on the money line against the Rangers in the latest consensus MLB odds and the Red Sox are -175 favorites over the Nationals. The Diamondbacks are -137 favorites against the Giants and Netherlands are -156 favorites against Morocco.

Below is a snapshot of what to watch and bet for Monday, June 29. All times Eastern

MLB best bets, where to watch

Rangers at Guardians

Time: 7 p.m. | Location: Cleveland | TV: ESPN | Stream: Fubo (Try for free)

SportsLine pick —  Model: Rangers +1.5 (-173)

After losing the final two contests of their three-game series against the Miami Marlins, the Rangers continued their 10-game road trip by sweeping a four-game set with the Toronto Blue Jays. The Guardians have gone 3-4 over their last seven games, with all three victories coming by just one run. The Rangers won two of three at home against Cleveland earlier this month, and the SportsLine Projection Model strongly believes they’ll at least keep the score close in the opener of this series as they cover the run line in 74% of its simulations.

Nationals at Red Sox

Time: 7:10 p.m. | Location: Boston | TV: MLB.TV | Stream: Fubo (Try for free)

SportsLine pick — Model: Nationals +1.5 (-140)

Like Texas, the Red Sox are coming off a four-game sweep as they embarrassed their hated rivals, the New York Yankees, over the weekend. However, Boston won the series finale by a single run, and the Nationals won the final two contests of their three-game road set against the Baltimore Orioles. Washington is 3-2 in its last five away from home, but one of the defeats was by just one run. The SportsLine Projection Model believes the Nationals will put up a good fight against the Red Sox on Monday as its simulations have them covering the run line 68% of the time.

Giants at Diamondbacks

Time: 9:40 p.m. | Location: Phoenix | TV: MLB.TV | Stream: Fubo (Try for free)

SportsLine picks — Model: Giants +1.5 (-182) | Expert: Diamondbacks ML (-134, Matt Severance)

The Diamondbacks are in a major funk, as they’ve lost six of their last eight games. One of their two victories in that span came by a single run. Meanwhile, San Francisco has won four of its last six overall contests, and three of its last four road losses were one-run decisions. The SportsLine Projection Model doesn’t see the Giants getting blown out in the series opener as they cover the run line in 67% of its simulations. Arizona was swept by the Tampa Bay Rays over the weekend but is 6-0 against San Francisco this season. That, along with the fact that Diamondbacks left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez is 4-1 with a 1.84 ERA at home this year, has SportsLine expert Matt Severance (86-42, +1444.5 on his last 128 MLB money line picks) backing a victory by the home team.

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Netherlands vs. Morocco

Time: 9 p.m. | Location: Guadalupe, Mexico | TV: Fox | Stream: Fubo (Try for free)

SportsLine pick —  Expert: Over 2.5 (+120, Brandt Sutton)

Morocco began the 2026 World Cup with a pair of low-scoring matches before combining with Haiti for six goals last time out. The Netherlands’ three group-stage games featured plenty of offense, as four or more tallies were scored in each. The Moroccans enter the Round of 32 with six goals and the Dutch are tied with France and Germany for the tournament lead with 10 tallies. SportsLine soccer expert Brandt Sutton (5-1, +420 on his last six World Cup picks) thinks Morocco will have a difficult time slowing down the Netherlands’ attack and is backing the Over.

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Norrie had played just one match on grass before this year’s Wimbledon after retiring injured in the French Open first round with a rib injury.

And the former world number eight looked rusty as he broke Zheng, ranked 144th, just once in the entire match.

Zheng hit 21 aces to Norrie’s four, while the 22-year-old committed just four double faults to Norrie’s 10.

Harriet Dart came close to completing a gritty comeback win but ultimately fell 6-3 3-6 6-4 to former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko.

The pair were scheduled to play on Court 17 on Monday, but Raducanu’s withdrawal saw their match moved to Court One.

Wildcard Dart made sure that fans with tickets for the show court were not disappointed as she forced a deciding set against the world number 31 in an entertaining two-and-a-half hour display.

Ostapenko will face either Antonia Ruzic of Croatia or compatriot Darja Semenistaja – the lucky loser who replaced Raducanu in the draw.

Meanwhile, 17-year-old British wildcard Mika Stojsavljevic lost 6-2 6-1 to 2021 Olympic champion and 11th seed Belinda Bencic.

Felix Gill and Max Basing were beaten on their Grand Slam main-draw debuts, losing to 23rd seed Rafael Jodar and qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki respectively.

Alicia Dudeney, who was also making her main-draw major bow, lost 6-3 6-3 to American Alycia Parks.

It means home hopes on the opening day’s play rest on teenager Hannah Klugman, Mimi Xu, Francesca Jones, Oliver Tarvet and Jack Pinnington Jones.

There are 19 home players across the two singles draws – although 17 are playing opponents ranked inside the world’s top 55.

The appointment of Enzo Maresca as the new manager of Manchester City marks the beginning of a new era at the club. Following the departure of Pep Guardiola after a historic decade in charge, Maresca faces one of the biggest challenges in modern football.

After spending three years away from the Etihad Stadium, the Italian coach has returned on a three-year contract, tasked with maintaining the success and identity that Guardiola established during his remarkable reign.

Continuing the Guardiola Philosophy

One of the main reasons Manchester City selected Maresca is his deep understanding of Guardiola’s football philosophy. During City’s Treble-winning 2022-23 season, Maresca worked closely with Guardiola as his assistant and played an important role in tactical planning.

The 46-year-old has already made it clear that he does not intend to completely change the club’s identity.

“Probably the reason why I am here is because the club wants to maintain the same style of football and the same idea,” Maresca said after his appointment.

Fans can therefore expect City to continue playing possession-based football, dominating games through ball control, intelligent movement and tactical flexibility.

Tactical Innovation and Flexibility

Although Maresca has been heavily influenced by Guardiola, he is not simply a copy of his former mentor.

Those who worked with him during his previous spell at Manchester City describe him as a coach who is willing to experiment and develop new tactical ideas. During the Treble-winning campaign, Maresca was reportedly instrumental in the tactical adjustment that saw defender John Stones move into midfield, a strategy that proved crucial to City’s success.

His experiences under legendary managers such as Carlo Ancelotti and Marcello Lippi have also shaped his coaching philosophy, blending Italian tactical discipline with Spanish technical football.

Supporters should therefore expect a Manchester City side that remains familiar in style but with subtle tactical changes and innovations.

Strong Relationship with the Club’s Leadership

Maresca’s appointment was not a surprise within Manchester City’s hierarchy. Club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has publicly praised the Italian’s football philosophy and leadership qualities.

It is understood that outgoing sporting director Txiki Begiristain recommended Maresca as Guardiola’s long-term successor, while the former manager himself remained closely involved in discussions regarding the appointment.

This strong backing from the club’s leadership could prove vital as Maresca attempts to follow one of the greatest managers in football history.

Managing the Pressure of Following Guardiola

Perhaps Maresca’s biggest challenge will be managing expectations.

Guardiola won 20 major trophies during his decade at Manchester City, transforming the club into one of the most dominant teams in world football. Replacing such a successful manager inevitably brings enormous pressure.

However, Maresca appears to welcome that challenge.

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak believes that while many coaches would have been intimidated by the opportunity, Maresca sees it differently.

“He wants that challenge, he loves that challenge,” Khaldoon said.

Developing Young Players

Maresca’s previous spell as head coach of Manchester City’s Elite Development Squad demonstrated his ability to work with young players.

Former colleague Gareth Taylor praised Maresca’s willingness to think differently and evolve tactically, qualities that could benefit City’s next generation of academy graduates.

This could mean increased opportunities for talented young players to break into the first team while maintaining the club’s competitive standards.

A New Era Begins

While comparisons with Guardiola will be unavoidable, Manchester City’s decision-makers clearly believe that Maresca is the right person to lead the club into its next chapter.

His understanding of the club’s culture, his tactical knowledge, and his close relationship with Guardiola’s football philosophy make him a natural successor.

The challenge ahead is enormous, but if Maresca successfully combines continuity with innovation, Manchester City supporters could witness another successful era at the Etihad Stadium under their new Italian manager.