After a sobering week in Europe for English clubs, some bruised egos return to domestic issues this weekend with the Premier League title race and relegation battles both reaching potentially pivotal moments, Reuters reported. 

The Premier League's boast of being the best in Europe took a bit of a hammering over 48 hours this week with none of the six clubs in last-16 action winning.

Manchester City were one of the four teams to suffer defeat and they will need to dust themselves down quickly from a 3-0 defeat at Real Madrid when they face West Ham United away on Saturday evening, by which time they could find themselves 10 points behind leaders Arsenal, albeit from two fewer games, according to Reuters.