Around the leagues

Engravers across the continent will be able to start firming up tentative etchings on league trophies come Monday as top-of-the-table battles are fought in Poland, Belgium, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Georgia this weekend, while the chase for European places hots up in Germany and Spain.

For individual previews of the French Cup final, the Old firm derbyin Scotland, Torino FC's relegation tussle and the fight against the drop in north-east England, please click on the links. Follow all the action live this weekend on uefa.com's MatchCentre.

Belgium: R. Standard de Liège v Club Brugge KV (Saturday, 20.00)
Having earned a reprieve last weekend when title rivals RSC Anderlecht failed to capitalise on their goalless draw at SV Zulte Waregem, Standard are eager to make the most of their second chance. "On Saturday we were dead, but we live again," said the Rouches' striker Milan Jovanović. "It gave us a huge psychological advantage over Anderlecht and we must be title favourites. Now we will eat up Club Brugge and KAA Gent." Jovanović is certainly high on confidence as Club Brugge are third, though Standard at least control their own destiny. Should they and joint-leaders Anderlecht remain level on points after their final two games the title will be decided in a two-legged play-off.

Bulgaria: PFC CSKA Sofia v PFC Levski Sofia (Saturday, 17.45)
On paper this match, seemingly Levski's last chance of hauling in their arch-rivals, is CSKA's for the taking. Since Luboslav Penev replaced his uncle Dimitar at the helm on 4 March the Reds have not dropped a point, a run of ten successive wins turning a one-point deficit to Levski into a four-point advantage. With five matches to go there is still time for Levski, but their preparations for the Eternal Derby have been hampered by injuries to goalkeeper Georgi Petkov and talismanic forward Georgi Ivanov.

Germany: VfB Stuttgart v VfL Wolfsburg (Saturday, 15.30)
Three of the Bundesliga's top four goalscorers will convene on the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion for a match that will test both team's title credentials. Spearheaded by Grafite (23 goals) and Edin Džeko (19), Wolfsburg are the surprise leaders in Germany with four rounds to go and Christian Gentner summed up the mood in the camp when he said "now is not the time to hide". This week's announcement that coach Felix Magath will move to FC Schalke 04 in the summer is a blow, however, and Stuttgart are poised to capitalise. With Mario Gómez having taken his tally to 19 Bundesliga goals, Markus Babbel's men are nine league games unbeaten at home and only five points adrift of Wolfsburg.

Slovenia: NK Maribor v NK Celje (Saturday, 20.00)
Maribor will all but claim the 1. Liga title with victory against second-placed Celje as the result would leave them needing just a point from their three remaining matches. Yet lose and the advantage for Darko Milanič's side – currently six points – will begin to look vulnerable. Maribor suffered their third loss in four games at NK Nafta Lendava on Wednesday, a sequence that includes their Slovenian Cup elimination by NK IB Ljubljana, and Milanič said: "We must forget the defeats and focus on our forthcoming matches. Against Celje we have to play with more energy." Maribor meet a team themselves on a run of four defeats in eight league outings, including a shock midweek loss at bottom-placed NK Primorje.

Spain: Valencia CF v Real Madrid CF (Saturday, 22.00)
Madrid's dreams of defending their Liga title were all but buried by an avalanche of goals at home to FC Barcelona last weekend, but David Villa knows better than to expect Los Merengues to take their eyes of the prize. "It would be easy to assume they've nothing to play for and will be relaxed," said the Valencia forward. "I wish that were the case but know it isn't; it's totally the opposite. They haven't thrown in the towel yet." That could spell bad news for Valencia as they seek to hold off Club Atlético de Madrid in the battle for fourth place having also suffered a heavy loss to Catalan opposition last week, 3-0 at RCD Espanyol.

Georgia: KS Dinamo Tbilisi v FC WIT Georgia (Sunday, 16.10)
Titleholders Dinamo Tbilisi will have to end WIT's 23-match unbeaten run, stretching back to 1 October, if they are going to overhaul their opponents and put themselves in the driving seat for the double this season. Last weekend's 1-1 draw at FC Sioni Bolnisi left Shkëlqim Muça's side three points adrift of their city rivals, who are in ominous form as they close in on a second Umaglesi Liga title.

Poland: Wisła Kraków v Legia Warszawa (Sunday, 17.00)
This has been billed as the game of the year in Poland, with the top two meeting with just four rounds of the Ekstraklasa season remaining. "For Polish fans this match is like 'El Clásico'," said Legia's Spanish defender Iñaki Descarga, who is in line for a rare start in place of the suspended Jakub Rzeźniczak. "I played over 60 matches in the Liga against players like Ronaldinho, Van Nistelrooy, Raúl and Beckham so big matches are nothing new to me." Legia, who hold a two-point cushion at the top of the table, have not won at Wisła in 13 years but even a draw may not do as KKS Lech Poznań and GKS Bełchatów are poised, only three and four points off the summit respectively.

Romania: FC Dinamo 1948 Bucureşti v FC Steaua Bucureşti (Friday, 20.00)
Steaua may have only the faintest sniff of claiming the Liga 1 title but they could have an enormous part to play as the Romanian season reaches an absorbing climax. They could deliver a telling blow to the ambitions of arch-rivals Dinamo, the current frontrunners, when they meet in Bucharest. A derby win would open the door for AFC Unirea Urziceni to slip into pole position in only their third season in the Romanian top flight should they beat CFR 1907 Cluj on Sunday. Dinamo will be without their best two goalkeepers through injury and, leaving little to chance, have drafted in three possible replacements for what forward Claudiu Niculescu said could be "a life or death match".

All times local. Bulgaria, Romania and Georgia are all one hour ahead of CET.