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ARSENAL vs NOTTINGHAM FOREST – LIVE!
Defender Rob Holding is in contention for his first appearance since December
Ainsley Maitland-Niles is suspended after his sending-off in Sunday’s win over Villa
Hector Bellerin, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Kieran Tierney could feature
Forest boss Sabri Lamouchi is also expected to make wholesale changes
Arsenal XI: Martinez, Chambers, Holding, Mustafi, Tierney, Torreira, Willock, Nelson, Ozil, Smith, Rowe, Martinelli
Nottingham Forest XI: Muric, Cash, Figueiredo, Robinson, Chema, Silva, Johnson, Carvalho, Lolley, Adomah
The sides
18:55: Sorry for the delay – but I think you’ll find it worth the wait because summer signing Kieran Tierney makes his Arsenal debut! There’s also starts for Mesut Ozil, Gabriel Martinelli and Rob Holding in a strong Gunners XI.
Arsenal XI: Martinez, Chambers, Holding, Mustafi, Tierney, Torreira, Willock, Nelson, Ozil, Smith, Rowe, Martinelli
Subs: Macey, Bellerin, Bola, Burton, Ceballos, Saka, Balogun
Nottingham Forest XI: Muric, Cash, Figueiredo, Robinson, Chema, Silva, Johnson, Carvalho, Lolley, Adomah
Subs: Smith, Milosevic, Grabban, Ameobi, Sow, Gabriel, Mighten
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Ray Parlour’s opinion
18:40: I’m always suspicious of Ray Parlour giving an interview without a pint of Cobra in-hand.
He believes the Gunners should set their sights on winning the Carabao Cup this season.
Arsenal have ambitions of finishing in the top four for the first time since 2016 and will be looking to go one step further in the Europa League, having lost to London rivals Chelsea in last year’s final.
But Parlour, who won the competition with Arsenal in 1993, feels that if head coach Unai Emery can find the right balancing act then the two-time winners can lift the trophy once again.
“I think he mixed the team with experience and youngsters,” Parlour said of Arsenal’s run to the quarter-finals in last season’s Carabao Cup – where they were beaten by neighbours Tottenham.
“There is no problem with that, it is good to give the youngsters game time and they have some very good youngsters at Arsenal – Reiss Nelson, (Ainsley) Maitland-Niles, Joe Willock and Emile Smith Rowe. It is great to see players like that come into the team.
“But you can also see how important the competition is to teams like Manchester City and it is another trophy to talk about at the end of the season.
“It is a magnificent achievement to win any competition and for Arsenal and Unai Emery, and the rest of the top six, they should be – and probably will be – taking it seriously.
“There are a lot of games and you get injuries through the season so it is a bit about balancing the squad.”
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Evening…
18:30: Hello everyone and welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Carabao Cup.
Unai Emery’s side welcome Championship Nottingham Forest to the Emirates Stadium this evening and the Spaniard will be hoping to avoid a potential banana skin.
The competition often rates far down the list of priorities for Premier League clubs, especially those who are also part of European tournaments.
But surely top clubs have started to realise what an opportunity for silverware this is.
Anyway, we’ll have the team news and line-ups for you any moment now. Changes aplenty I suspect…
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When is the Carabao Cup draw?
The draw will be held on Wednesday, September 25 at Stadium MK.
What time is the Carabao Cup draw?
It will be conducted following the conclusion of MK Dons vs Liverpool.
This will be sometime after 9.30pm BST.
When is the Carabao Cup fourth round?
Fourth round fixtures will be played on the week commencing October 28.
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ARSENAL vs NOTTINGHAM FOREST – TEAM NEWS
Arsenal defender Rob Holding is in contention for his first appearance since December when the Gunners face Nottingham Forest in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.
The 24-year-old has been missing since suffering a severe knee injury against Manchester United last December but is back in the fold and could start the game.
Ainsley Maitland-Niles is suspended after his sending-off in Sunday’s win over Aston Villa, with head coach Unai Emery likely to rotate his side.
Alexandre Lacazette remains out with an ankle problem but Hector Bellerin (knee), Konstantinos Mavropanos and Kieran Tierney (both groin) could all play some part after returning to training.
Forest boss Sabri Lamouchi is also expected to make wholesale changes for the Reds’ first ever visit to the Emirates Stadium.
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Liverpool survived a scare against Villarreal to move into the Champions
Liverpool survived a scare against Villarreal to move into the Champions League final - and keep their hopes of winning an unprecedented quadruple alive.
The Reds had comfortably won 2-0 in the first leg but that advantage was wiped out after only 41 minutes at a noisy and passionate El Madrigal as the Spanish side pushed for a huge upset.
Boulaye Dia scored Villarreal's first after only three minutes, converting Etienne Capoue's pass, before ex-Arsenal midfielder Francis Coquelin headed in a second from another Capoue cross as the Reds looked rattled.
Liverpool had to improve in the second half and Fabinho put them back in front on aggregate with a shot that went through the legs of Villarreal goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli in the 62nd minute.
Luis Diaz, whose introduction at half time changed the game after he replaced Diogo Jota, restored Liverpool's two-goal aggregate advantage with a header at the back post.
Sadio Mane secured Liverpool's place in their third Champions League final in five seasons with a third goal after taking the ball around Rulli. Villarreal ended the game with 10 men with Capoue sent off late on for two bookable offences.
The Reds will play either Manchester City or Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday, 28 May.
No English side has ever won the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup all in the same season, with Liverpool aiming to create history.
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Liverpool suffer, but get the job done
Villarreal's performance in their 2-0 loss at Anfield led one English radio pundit to call the Spanish side a "disgrace" and "pathetic", despite an incredible run that had seen them eliminate former winners Juventus and Bayern Munich in the previous two rounds.
However, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp knew the tie was not over and warned his side they "would have to be prepared to suffer" in the second leg.
And suffer they did in arguably Liverpool's worst half of football this season, with passes misplaced, errors made and the side looking uncharacteristically vulnerable.
They made the worst possible start, conceding after only three minutes.
Pervis Estupinan, who scored an own goal at Anfield, provided a cross which was pulled back by Capoue and Dia, inside the six-yard box, reacted quickest to convert from close range.
Villarreal
Villarreal needed to win the Champions League to qualify for next season's tournament
Dani Parejo shot just wide and Gerard Moreno had an effort blocked before Villarreal, seventh in La Liga and managed by ex-Arsenal boss Unai Emery, made it 2-2 on aggregate thanks to Coquelin's fine header.
Liverpool had to improve in the second half, and Trent Alexander-Arnold's shot hit the crossbar after taking a huge deflection off Coquelin.
But the breakthrough came with Fabinho's strike and that led to a capitulation from Villarreal, who conceded three times in a 12-minute spell. Diaz headed in Alexander-Arnold's cross to give the visitors some breathing space before a rash decision from Rulli saw him sprint off the line with Mane getting there first and finishing into an unguarded goal.
This is the 10th time Liverpool have reached the final of the European Cup or Champions League as they aim to become European champions for a seventh time after successes in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005 and 2019.
Liverpool keep quadruple hopes alive
Liverpool's progress keeps them on course to become the first English side to complete the quadruple.
They already have the Carabao Cup in the trophy cabinet after beating Chelsea on penalties in February and Thomas Tuchel's side are again the opposition at Wembley for the FA Cup final on 14 May.
This victory means Liverpool have become the first English club to reach the final of the European Cup/Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup in the same season.
Liverpool are also only one point behind Manchester City in the Premier League title race and could meet in the Champions League final later this month.
Pep Guardiola's side hold the advantage in the second semi-final after an incredible first leg at Etihad Stadium saw them beat Real 4-3 in one of the best games in the tournament's history.
The second leg takes place at Real's Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Wednesday and if the Spanish champions, managed by ex-Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti, can turn the one-goal deficit around it would set up a repeat of the 2018 final.
Real won 3-1 on that occasion as Gareth Bale scored twice, including an incredible overhead kick, but the game will largely be remembered for two goalkeeping errors from Liverpool's Loris Karius.
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Carabao Cup: Man City, Man Utd, Everton and Leicester in quarter-final action
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A minute’s applause will take place before the game kicks off.
“It gives us an opportunity to pay our respects to Jim and what he achieved,” Robinson said.
“He put this football club on the map with tremendous humility, respect and love and passion for this game that we all love.”
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Everton v Leicester (19:45 GMT)
Minimal changes for these two sides tonight. Just the one forEvertonas Leighton Baines starts.
Moise Kean, who was subbed on and subbed off after just 18 minutes on the pitch against Manchester United, is among the substitutes.
Leicester,meanwhile, make three changes as Wes Morgan, Ayoze Perez and Marc Albrighton all start.
Everton XI:Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Mina, Baines, Iwobi, Davies,
Holgate, Bernard, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.Subs:Tosun,
Stekelenburg, Kean, Niasse, Martina, Gordon, Adeniran.
Leicester XI:Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Morgan, Evans,
Chilwell, Ndidi, Perez, Praet, Maddison, Albrighton, Vardy.
Subs:Justin, Soyuncu, Gray, Ward, Iheanacho, Barnes, Choudhury.
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Manchester City are yet
to agree compensation with Arsenal that would allow the Gunners to name Mikel
Arteta as their new manager.
The Gunners are
finalising the paperwork for Arteta to replace Unai Emery.
Although Arteta will be
at Oxford tonight for City’s Carabao Cup quarter-final, it is expected Arsenal
will be in a position to unveil the 37-year-old former midfielder later this
week.
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growing increasingly agitated by Arsenal’s conduct. It is understood there
has still not been formal contact between the clubs which would allow
compensation to be sorted out.
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earlier in December.
The Scot hopes to recreate the atmosphere that helped Everton beat Chelsea 3-1 in his first match as boss.
“That atmosphere at the ground was incredible. I’m sure they [the fans] will want to go again,” Ferguson said.
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City are still in the hunt to become the first team to win the League Cup three years in a row since Liverpool won four on the spin in the 1980s.
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This cup is all a bit of a mess isn’t it? But I’m not sure what the answer is.
On the one hand it’s good to see a team from League One and one from League Two mixing it up at this stage with the big boys. On the other hand Liverpool had to play an embryonic side and most of the remaining Premier League sides will make wholesale changes.
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And it’s seven changes for Manchester United against League Two opposition – Rashford and Martial start up front.
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Oxford make three changes while Manchester City make eight – Raheem Sterling captains the holders.
Full teams to come.
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Minimal ch-ch-changes
Everton v Leicester (19:45 GMT)
Well I’ll be jiggered, hats off to both clubs who line up pretty much full strength for this quarter-final.
Everton make just one change as Leighton Baines comes in at left-back while Leicester make three alterations – in come Morgan, Albrighton and Perez…
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes…
It’s a week until Christmas and we’re all busy.
If like me you haven’t put any decorations up or even thought about doing any shopping yet, you’ve probably got a fair bit on your plate.
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Pep Guardiola and Brendan Rodgers certainly could do without slotting in a League Cup quarter final but it is what it is, as they say.
How many first-team players will get the night off?
And who will join Aston Villa in the semi-finals?
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Curtis Jones and Liverpool beat Arsenal on penalties after 5-5 thriller
Jürgen Klopp and Unai Emery rang the Carabao Cup changes and for once there were no complaints.
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Mesut Ozil is set to make his Arsenal comeback against Liverpool tomorrow (Picture: Getty)Mesut Ozil has told Arsenal fans and players to ‘stand together as one’ as he prepares to make his comeback in tomorrow night’s Carabao Cup clash against Liverpool. The 31-year-old has made just two appearances this season and hasn’t featured in any of Unai Emery’s last six mathday squads. Ozil last played for Arsenal in the previous round of the Carabao Cup – a 5-0 win over Nottingham Forest on September 24 – but his exile has coincided with a disastrous run of results, compounded by Sunday’s 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace. The loss of two points was, however, overshadowed by the actions of Granit Xhaka who was booed off by his own fans, prompting the club captain to tell his own fans to ‘f*** off’ before he stormed down the tunnel. Taking to Instagram, Ozil wrote: ‘Big game ahead. No matter what – the only way is standing together as one.’ https://www.instagram.com/p/B4NbmKqiKsw/ Emery claimed last week that the decision to freeze Ozil out was one which had the backing of the club’s hierarchy, but he is set to bring him in from the cold, acknowledging the side is lacking some of the German’s creativity and individual brilliance. ‘Yes, tomorrow he’s in the group so he has a chance to play,’ said Emery. ‘We have had this morning a very good conversation, Mesut and Me, and I said to him I haven’t changed my idea about him. He knows what I want from him because it’s the same as last season in the first day of pre-season training when we had a conversation. ‘It’s the same as one month ago and in that way, some circumstances weren’t helping us in every moment to be consistent or available to play. But I will say I think the last weeks he has progressively been training well and adding his spirit to help us. MORE: ARSENAL FC Mesut Ozil sends message to Arsenal fans amid Granit Xhaka controversyPaul Merson defends Granit Xhaka following outburst against Arsenal supportersWhat Hector Bellerin told Unai Emery about Granit Xhaka situation‘For example, our conversation this morning was because I wanted to listen to him about how he’s thinking now to help us and be with us tomorrow. Then if we are in the same spirit and the same idea, to play. It was a very good conversation and tomorrow he’s in the group. ‘We need his quality, his skill and his consistency. We need his positive mentality and then he will help us on the pitch. That’s the next step. I think he’s done the steps before, and now I want the steps like in pre-season and one month ago to help us on the pitch.’ MORE: Unai Emery reveals Granit Xhaka is ‘devastated’ after clashing with Arsenal fans MORE: Emmanuel Petit calls on Unai Emery to remove Granit Xhaka as Arsenal captain after Crystal Palace outburst More to follow… #GranitXhaka #MesutOzil #ArsenalFC
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I’ve got just about enough energy left to end this year with a walk around the corner to my favourite little café: Perk de l’abre sec. After all what is a yearly review of the world’s football without a cup of coffee in one hand and a mangled croissant in the other? You’d think after 2 years in France I’d know how to cut the fucking things without making the floor surrounding my table look like I’ve stepped on a land mine in a pâtisserie, but the crumbly bastards just won’t play ball. The familiar “ding-a-ling” from the old shopkeeper’s bell welcomes me in, as does the owner Louis, who shows me to my regular table. “Will anyone be joining you today, Monsieur Franjo?” He asks excitedly when I arrive.
“No, just me this time mate”, I smile back. He’s visibly disappointed. I’m a bit annoyed at this to be honest. No, Arsene Wenger’s not with me this time, but I’m the pissing France manager now, aren’t I Louis. Aren’t I enough?!
Never mind. With a pained creak, I pry open my dusty old laptop and boot it out of it’s 12 month hibernation. It’s time to look around and see what happened in the rest of the world over the 2022/23 season.
Aha! Change is in the air, people! Let’s focus on the most important thing to happen in the 2022/23 Premier League: Since the day I was born, manufactured or a combination of both 32 seasons ago, the number of times I’ve seen Everton finish above Liverpool could be counted on one hand and until now you’d still have enough fingers free to make a peace sign. But not anymore, baby! Merseyside is fucking blue! I know, I know, Stefano Pioli’s Blues finishing 7th is nothing exactly out of the ordinary and their achievement is mainly down to Ernesto Valverde’s disappointing half-season at the helm of their rivals across the park before he was replaced by Antonio Conte, but just… Let me have this, OK? Besides the Carabao Cup win in 2020, the last time the Toffees actually won a trophy I was almost certainly still pissing the bed.
But let’s begrudgingly move onto the subplot of the Premier League: The fact that José Mourinho’s Manchester United, winners of the division 3 times on the spin, have been dethroned thanks to a 3-2 final day defeat to José’s former club Chelsea, now managed by Unai Emery, which lifted the Londoners a single point clear of the Red Devils and won them the league.
But I know what you’re thinking. Big deal. I know. Hmm? What’s that? Oh yes, now that you mention it actually, Everton did do the double over Liverpool this season, beating the reds 3-2 away at 2-0 at The Old Lady. Crazy.
Alright fine, I’ll drop it. Jesus Chelsea, leave some narrative for the rest of the World, would you? I’d go as far as to say that in terms of context and drama this was the best Premier League win ever, possibly even trumping Man City’s famous “AGUEROOOO!” win in 2012. Luckily for United and by an extraordinary coincidence, they had the opportunity to redeem themselves shortly afterwards in the Champions League Final… But Chelsea won that too.
Despite his heroics, Emery found himself losing out on the Manager of the Year award to Leonardo Jardim, the former Olympiakos, Sporting, Monaco and Juventus boss who’s obviously taken over Stoke City, because football’s fucking mental. To be fair Stoke are a far cry from the side that’s plummeted towards the bottom 3 over the last 2 seasons after losing Jack Butland to Arsenal. They’re rebuilt and rejuvenated and their 1-1 draw at Palace on the final day secured a Europa League spot for the Potters ahead of Mr Wenger’s City.
To add to the extraordinary final day spectacle, only Jaap Stam’s Norwich were mathematically condemned to relegation going into the last round of results. Walter Mazzarri’s reign at Watford was ended after a disappointing start to the season and promising young manager Shane Long was the man tasked with keeping the Hornets afloat. On 32 points and a lesser goal difference than relegation rivals West Ham, he had to take his team to a win over Liverpool on the final day and hope that another result went his way.
The other result, because of course it was, was Razvan Lucescu’s West Ham v Michael Laudrup’s Middlesbrough, both of whom were also on 32 points. Only 1 of the 3 would secure survival. What ensued was… Actually pretty anti-climactic, as Watford were swiftly buried by 10 man Liverpool while the Hammers and the Boro played out a pretty awful 0-0. To be fair though West Ham absolutely dominated the match and if any of the 3 teams deserved to stay up on the day it was them. Still, what an end to a Premier League season. There was even a final day North London derby, but sadly the outcome wouldn’t have had any impact on the final standings.
The Premier League Team of the Season offers up some surprises this year, along with some players that have become so synonymous with the Team of the Year that they may as well just sign a contract with it. “Toby Alderweireld and Dele Alli? Yeah they play for Team of the Year. Oh and Spurs.”
David de Gea of the League Runners up Manchester United retains his place in net having won his 5th Golden Glove in 7 years and is protected by a back 4 including Nathaniel Clyne, who plays for Merseyside’s 2nd best club, that man Alderweireld, still dominating in Tottenham’s lily-white shirt at the tender age of 34 and 2 TOTY newbies in Chelsea’s Argentine defender/holding man Tomás Maffoni, who finally manages to oust team mate Aymeric Laporte, and United’s Luke Shaw. TOTY stalwarts Dele Alli, Isco of Manchester City and Footballer of the Year/Players’ Player of the Year Paul Pogba of United partner each other in central midfield for the third successive season and are joined this year by Chelsea’s Italian winger Federico Bernadeschi. The Red Devils’ Paulo Dybala is another familiar face, having now made the squad in 4 successive seasons since moving to Blighty, but this time he’s partnered up front by Chelsea prodigy Oliver Webb, who was the Prem’s top scorer with 22 goals in 34 and won the Young Player of the Year award to boot.
Hey, do you know what we never talk about? The domestic Cups in England. I don’t know why, but I just think that this would be a terrific time to start doing so, so here’s what I’ve neglected to mention over the last 7 years:
The Carabao Cup, which is a silly name and definitely shouldn’t have stuck indefinitely like it has, has been won by Arsenal, United, City, Everton, United again and Watford over the last 6 seasons, with some nice novel clubs getting to the final like West Ham, West Brom, Swansea… Everton I suppose.
But 2022/23 has been Bournemouth’s year. Even though I hope to one day stomp them into mush, I think Hull City deserve an honourable mention for getting past Stoke and Manchester United before losing their semi-final to Chelsea 4-5, while the Cherries eased past Arsenal, edged past Boro and tore through Wednesday to meet the eventual double winners in the Final.
But the Londoners had the bare faced cheek to field a second string team and paid the price, with Bournemouth deservedly coming away from a packed Wembley Stadium with their first ever major trophy thanks to a 3-1 win.
The FA Cup has not been won by a team out of “The Big 6” in quite a while now. Spurs have won it twice in the last 6 seasons and been runners up twice more to United and Chelsea, which has thankfully made people finally shut the fuck up about whether Mauricio Pochettino can really be considered a top manager. It turns out that yes, he can. Fucking clearly. Liverpool and City have also picked up recent FA Cups while Hull deserve another honourable mention for getting to the 2019/20 Final.
Oh now I remember why this is the season that I want to talk about these competitions. It actually almost slipped my mind but Everton have won their first FA Cup in 28 years! I know, pretty biased aren’t I. Please refer to my previous bed-wetting statement. It was a weird year in the FA Cup and especially for the aforementioned “Big 6”, with Manchester United falling to Championship side Leicester City and Liverpool losing to Hull in the 3rd round, Tottenham and Arsenal shocked by another Championship outfit Brighton and Hove Albion in the 3rd and 6th rounds and Chelsea and City both knocked out by the Toffees in the 4th and 6th rounds respectively. That left a mouth watering couple of semi-finals between the giant killers of Brighton and Everton against the dark horses Watford and potential double winners Bournemouth. Both were hard fought matches but it was relegated Watford and eventual winners Everton who scraped through.
My eyes widen as I see who ran the show at Wembley: Everton’s right winger Yann Karamoh chalked out Ben Osborn’s early opener and didn’t stop chalking until there was chalk fucking everywhere, making the markings on the Wembley pitch quite difficult to make out. By the end of the 90 minutes he had a hat trick in the bag and an FA Cup on the CV. Yann didn’t particularly impress me in the lone start he’s made for my France side against Albania, but now I have to give him another look.
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And so to the Championship. After proving beyond doubt in the FA Cup that they can still mix with the elite on their day, Alex Neil’s Brighton and António Carvalho’s Leicester are welcomed back to the top flight. The Foxes beat tough competition in the playoffs in Gary Bowyer’s Wolves and Stevie Crawford’s Derby County and will also be joined in the Premier League by everybody’s favourite yo-yo club Burnley, managed by Paul Heckingbottom. Spare a thought for Brian McDermott though, who last year abandoned relegated Portsmouth for QPR and this year got sacked for getting QPR relegated, proving beyond a doubt that Championship clubs should probably stop hiring him.
Well I feel like a right twat. Oh, I can’t pick Moussa Dembélé for France until he moves to a bigger club, he said, without so much as glancing at the bloody La Liga table. The big stories in Spain this season have been the excellent showings of Real Sociedad and Betis, who finished 4th and 5th, with Sociedad’s Dembélé and Betis’ Pedro Javier particularly impressing as the top scorers in the division. Betis boss Sergio González landed the Manager of the Year award for his quite absurd overachievement, but Javi Gracia is unlucky to miss out.
Jürgen Klopp has finally repaid the Barca board’s faith in him by lifting the league title at the 3rd attempt. I’ve got to say I like the way this league’s heading in terms of competitiveness. It’s actually truly unpredictable again nowadays, with the big 3 teams having all won the league in the last 3 years. Having said that, this season’s title race wasn’t exactly close. Didier Deschamps’ Atletico Madrid came in 2nd, 5 points behind the winners, with Rodolfo Borrell’s Real trailing by a distance.
The La Liga Team of the Year doesn’t contain quite as many surprises as in the Premier League, with a lot of the usual suspects making the cut. The Champions’ oh so dependable goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen makes his 3rd appearance in 4 years behind a veteran defence of Atleti’s Alessandro Florenzi, Real Madrid pair Raphaël Varane and Sergio Ramos, the latter of which has finally decided to hang up his boots at 37, and Sevilla’s Presnel Kimpembe. In midfield, Real’s Eden Hazard is joined by young José Luis Hernandéz of Atleti, Sevilla’s Sergi Samper and Barca’s La Liga Player of the Year award winner Neymar Jr. Up front, Moussa Dembélé is callously cast aside as Pedro Javier is partnered by Lionel Messi, who at 35 has also decided to call time on his career this summer. As probably the only ever-present in my yearly roundup of the top European leagues’ “Team of the Year”s, we salute you, Leo. As shit as Argentina have been over the last couple of decades, football has enjoyed you.
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Lo, is that change I see riding over the horizon on a shining white horse, ready to inject interest into this, the most frustrating of divisions? Of course not. Looking more closely, what I thought was change is actually just miserable predictability and what I thought was a white horse turns out to be nothing but a sickly anaemic dog, who staggers forwards a few feet, falls arse-first into a puddle and coughs up the same old shit I’ve been describing for the last 7 years.
I’m not even going to mention who’s won the Bundesliga. Thomas Tuchel’s Dortmund came comfortably 2nd though if you need a hint. Let’s gloss over all that and give a mention to Dieter Hecking and his remarkable showing with Hertha Berlin this year, who have gone from relegation strugglers to finishing in the Europa League spots. Dieter rightfully won the Manager of the Year and Players’ Manager of the Year awards.
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The team that won the Bundesliga had 7 players in the Team of the Year, so let’s gloss over each and every one of them because of course they were all good. In defence Dortmund’s Niklas Süle makes an appearance, as does his team mate Mario Götze who takes the number 10 spot. Kai Havertz of Leverkusen is nailed on to be one of the league’s top scorers at this point and takes one of the midfield spots, while the Bundesliga top scorer Divock Origi is selected as the lone striker.
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You know what, I’d quite like Luis Enrique to take over one of the Bundesliga clubs. Not the one that keeps boring me to death by winning the league obviously but one of the others, because he’s certainly done a number on Serie A. His AC Milan side have become the first non-Juventus team to retain the Serie A since their local rivals Inter in 2010 and they did it at a canter, so much so that I’m actually worried that they’ll become the next team to bore me to death in years to come. Inter did put up a decent fight under the steady hand of Oleg Luzhnyi but were 7 points behind in the end. Luciano Spalletti’s Roma and Matteo Brighi’s Juve were close behind and filled out the top 4. Special shout outs to Andrea Stramaccioni’s Genoa, who retained a Europa League place and Manager of the Year Massimo Carrera’s Chievo, who unbelievably finished 5th. Neither of those sides should be anywhere near Europe on paper and that is what I love to see. Lazio are also well and truly back in the Serie A following their relegation 3 years ago. They’ve finished 8th, although it did take them 3 managers to get them there. Not that I’m bitter.
The Serie A Team of the Year features a nice mix of the top 4 teams’ players. Juventus’ Gerónimo Rulli, Goalkeeper of the Year 4 times in 5 years, is in there once again and is joined by his team’s central defensive duo Leonardo Bonucci and Nacho. Bonucci by the way secured the Serie A Player of the Year award for the 8th season in a row, as well as Defender of the Year and Italian Player of the Year awards. Also in defence were league winners Milan’s Martín Montoya and Inter’s Luca Pellegrini. Roma’s Uruguayan holding man Lucas Torreira makes the cut in a midfield triangle with Inter’s Marcelo Brozovic and Milan’s Brazilian midfielder Lincoln, who it’s fair to say has impressed this season, winning the Midfielder of the Year, Foreign Player of the Year and Fans’ Player of the Year awards. The one “outsider” in the team is Fiorentina’s Slovenian striker Jan Mlakar, who actually finished as the league’s top scorer even ahead of Juve’s Striker of the Year Florian Andone and Roma… Striker… Davy Klassen.
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I flick over to the Ligue 1 table reflexively, before realising that I know exactly how everything went down in France this season. I know one of the Continent’s top leagues intimately at this point and that’s a strange feeling. Gone are the days of thinking “Some day I’ll be there”, “Some day that’ll be me” or I think at one point I said “One amazing season or massive fluke and we’ll be up there”. We’re past that. We’re in it. We’ve survived in it.
I close my laptop, throw my trusty grey coat over my shoulders and give a wave of thanks to Louis as I head for the door of the café. “Ding-a-ling” goes the old shop keepers bell as I step into the cool Auxerrois air.
Let’s go do it again.
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Unai Emery to make 11 changes: Predicted Lineup vs Vitoria
Unai Emery to make 11 changes: Predicted Lineup vs Vitoria
Arsenal face Vitoria in the fourth match of their Europa League group stage campaign, with the possibility to qualify for the knockout stages on the cards.
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Pundits predict Arsenal vs Wolves and it's good news after a hectic week for Unai Emery - Football.London
Pundits predict Arsenal vs Wolves and it’s good news after a hectic week for Unai Emery – Football.London
After a hectic week on and off the field, Arsenal return to Premier League action this weekend.
The Gunners take on giant-killers Wolves, who are famous for their form against the Premier League’s ‘top six’.
Having already beaten Manchester City away from home, Nuno Espirito Santo’s side arrive following their 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa in the Carabao Cup, although mass changes were made.
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Liverpool 5-5 Arsenal (5-4 on pens): 5 talking points as Reds claim Carabao Cup win
Liverpool 5-5 Arsenal (5-4 on pens): 5 talking points as Reds claim Carabao Cup win
Liverpool 5-5 Arsenal (5-4 on pens): 5 talking points as Reds claim Carabao Cup win
Jurgen Klopp and Unai Emery both made 11 changes apiece to their starting lineups and Liverpool and Arsenal’s respective ‘B’ sides duly went and produced one of the most ridiculous football matches you are ever likely to see in their Carabao Cup clash.
Liverpool ran out victorious on penalties, but that…
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Arsenal’s Mustafi: Petit ‘criticism will haunt me for the rest of my career’
Arsenal are up to third, and Craig Burley says Unai Emery’s side can still go to another level.
David Luiz nets his first goal for the Gunners in a 1-0 win over Bournemouth.
Craig Burley and Stevie Nicol say Nicolas Pepe looks like “a flash in the pan” after failing to live up to the hype so far at Arsenal.
Craig Burley doesn’t hold back his criticism of just how poor Manchester United and Arsenal have been this season.
Shkodran Mustafi said he has become a “target” for criticism and is disappointed with comments made by former Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit.
Mustafi, 27, has not featured for Arsenal in the Premier League this season, with his only appearances coming in the Europa League and Carabao Cup.
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He was guilty of a string of high profile errors last season, but said the criticism he received was too much.
“I am self-critical enough to see that I made those mistakes,” he told Der Spiegel. “And I can cope with harsh criticism.
“But the criticism escalated, became irrational. I became a target. And we reached a point where people held me responsible for defeats in games I didn’t even take part in.”
Petit, who won the Premier League and FA Cup double at Arsenal, had labelled Mustafi the “king of blunders,” but the Germany international said he was disappointed to receive that level of criticism from a former player.
“I was annoyed,” Mustafi added. “It is one thing when you are criticised by fans or media.
“But it’s a totally different thing if an ex-player, who knows how difficult it can be out there on the pitch, says something like that. I expect those players to be more sensitive and realise what they can initiate with such harsh criticism.
“Back in the day, it would have been in the papers for maybe a day and people would have forgotten about it. But it is written on the internet today and will haunt me for the rest of my career.
“Former players like Petit should really not need to make their mark by talking current players down.”
Mustafi also said he had been keen to leave Arsenal in the summer but was unable to find a deal which suited everyone.
“There was the consideration to leave the club in the summer,” he said. “But there was no option which would have suited all sides.
“Arsenal attached a few requirements to a transfer. And I knew that the next move is incredibly important to finally write a positive chapter once again.
“If I move somewhere where it is just not the right fit, the situation would not change much. I stayed. For the future, I am open also for Bundesliga.”
ESPN FC’s Germany correspondent Stephan Uersfeld contributed to this report
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Alan Smith has slammed Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi during commentary of their Carabao Cup tie with Liverpool (broadcast on Sky Sports; 30/10; 19:37) after the defender scored an own goal inside the first six minutes.
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Carabao Cup: Ozil starts for Arsenal at Liverpool, plus Chelsea v Man Utd
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Aston Villamanager Dean Smith makes nine changes to the team that lost to Manchester City in the Premier League on Saturday.
Ahmed Elmohamady will captain the side with only Douglas Luiz and Trezeguet starting from the weekend. James Chester who has been injured since pre-season gets a spot on the bench.
Aston Villa XI:Steer, Elmohamad, Konsa, Hause, Taylor, Hourihane, Luiz, Lansbury, Trezeguet, El Ghazi, Davis
Subs:Nyland, Guilbert, Chester, Nakamba, McGinn, Kodjia, Wesley
Wolveshead coach Nuno Espirito Santo makes 11 changes from the side that drew at Newcastle in the Premier League on Sunday. John Ruddy comes in to play in goal while Chem Campbell makes his debut to become the club’s second youngest player ever.
Wolves XI:Ruddy, Vallejo, Bennett, Kilman, Sanderson, Jordao, Perry, Vinagre, Campbell, Cutrone, Neto
Subs:Patricio, Taylor, Ashley-Seal, Samuels, Rasmussen, Cristovao, Richards
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We’ve already had a good night of cup drama this week – and here’s who are already into the quarter finals:
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Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace.
The Swiss midfielder was booed while he walked off the pitch, prompting him to cup his ear, walk past boss Unai Emery and storm down the tunnel.
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“It is not only yesterday and today. He is feeling the supporters don’t like him.”
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Jurgen Klopp makes 11 changes to theLiverpoolside who beat Tottenham 2-1 in the Premier League.
Regular first team players Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Adam Lallana and Naby Keita start in midfield, while James Milner is at left-back and Divock Origi up front.
17-year-old Dutch centre-back Sepp van den Berg partners Joe Gomez in defence and there are starts for Harvey Elliott, 16, and Rhian Brewster, 19, in attack. Full-back Neco Williams, 18, makes his debut.
Liverpool XI: Kelleher, Williams, Gomez, Van den Berg, Milner, Lallana, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Keita, Elliott, Origi, Brewster
Arsenal’steam is also completely changed from their 2-2 league draw with Crystal Palace.
Mesut Ozil starts for just the third time this season in midfield, while Rob Holding partners Shkodran Mustafi in defence.
Youngsters Joe Willock, Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli all start. Summer signings Kieran Tierney and Nicolas Pepe are on the bench.
Arsenal XI: Martinez, Bellerin, Holding, Mustafi, Kolasinac, Torreira, Willock, Maitland-Niles, Ozil, Saka, Martinelli
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The Carabao Cup rolls on, and we’ve ended up with four of the big boys facing off against each other.
Yes, there may well be 40-odd changes, yes this cup might not be at the top of many fans’ wishlist but if there’s an opportunity to get one over on a rival you’ll take it, right?
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False dawn: Arsenal flatter to deceive during stellar spell under Emery - opinion
Towards the end of his tenure as Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger became a divisive figure.
There were two core camps: Wenger In and Wenger out. When the Frenchman finally decided to leave the club after 22 years in charge, it was supposed to mark the beginning of a new era, with Unai Emery taking over for the start of the 2018/19 campaign.
His reign started with back-to-back defeats against Manchester City and Chelsea, and at that point it would have been logical to begin questioning whether Wenger’s departure had actually been in the club’s best interests. However, it would prove to be just a short blip as Emery then led his team on a 22-game unbeaten run in all competitions according to The Panini Tabloid.
On paper, that looked terrific. Seldom do teams manage to avoid defeat for so long, especially whilst competing for trophies on multiple fronts. If we delve deeper, though, it does not tell the whole story.
Throughout the run, there was a huge contrast between Arsenal’s first and second half performances. In 14 unbeaten Premier League fixtures, the Gunners were almost always the better side after the break and were never beaten in the second period.
They scored 34 goals and conceded 12, outscoring their opponents on 12 separate occasions. But before the interval, they scored just seven goals and conceded ten, and they never went in ahead at the break.
The evidence clearly proves Arsenal were reliant on big second-half performances to make up for their slow starts, usually after Emery had made changes to his side by use of the bench.
The quality of the opposition they faced during the run was also questionable. In the Premier League matches they were consecutively undefeated in, eight came against teams who ended the season in the bottom half, including all three who were relegated.
The only noteworthy victory was over Tottenham, who they beat 4-2. Other top six match-ups included a 2-2 draw with Manchester United, who were poor throughout most of last term, and a 1-1 draw with Liverpool, in which they needed a late equaliser to take something from the game.
Their Europa League group included fixtures against minnows Vorskla and Qarabag, whilst they faced Brentford and Blackpool, both lower-league opposition, in the Carabao Cup.
After Southampton ended the run, Arsenal’s form waned. Spurs brushed them aside in the Carabao Cup quarter-final, whilst Liverpool dished out a 5-1 hammering at Anfield. Eventually, Emery’s team would only finish fifth in the Premier League and miss out on Champions League football after losing the Europa League final. All of the early optimism ended up being a false dawn.
Throughout those 22 games, Arsenal rarely set the world alight. And what does it say about English football right now that a team can go so long unbeaten without actually playing well? The gap between the elite and the sides below is as large as ever, it seems.
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Maurizio Sarri shows the strain as the Chelsea boss overheats in Baku
In a poorly lit auditorium in the Olympic Stadium of Baku, Maurizio Sarri spent the last moments of his press conference with a newly found band with his players
& # 39; At the start of the season it was very difficult to understand my players & # 39 ;, Sarri admitted.
& # 39; Understand the mentality. But after a very difficult month in January they started to change, I think. Or maybe I have changed.
& # 39; But I love them right now because I have 20-22 great men. I am very happy with them. And of course I have to think about it for the future. And I have to take into account that I love English football. "
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Maurizio Sarri shows the tension of his Chelsea tenure in Baku after the storming down
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The context of this reflection was a question by an Italian journalist, who invited Sarri to discuss links to Juventus. The Italian champions have reportedly probed Sarri and want him to replace Massimiliano Allegri. And here was Sarri, after a season dominated by friction, suggesting that his affection for the team could see him reject Juventus.
Less than an hour later, and such words sounded hollow. There were pantomime scenes from Gonzalo Higuain and David Luiz's quarrel, followed by Sarri's dumping a baseball cap on the grass.
This Europa League run was not always easy for Sarri. The club claimed that Sarri was angry because the media was allowed to watch the training, but anyway, it once again emphasized its fleeting nature. His most vulnerable moment came in Malmö, the club chairman Bruce Buck was in his pre-match press conference.
In the midst of a gloomy shape and loosening the dressing room, Sarri refused a few to see the season. On the night of the Europa League knock-out competition, Buck went to the short stop to see the warm-up. Indeed, if his side had more completely lost the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City, he would certainly have been shot. Several senior players believed that their days were numbered.
Sarri survived the turbulent campaign and Chelsea to a third place finish in the competition led a turbulent campaign and led Chelsea to a third place in the competition "
Sarri survived the turbulent campaign and ended Chelsea in third place in the competition
Now, after a third Premier League final and a possible Europa League triumph, Sarri should be proud to reflect, but he certainly shouldn't be the manager who feels the tension on this point – Unai Emery is the man who has to win to secure Champions League football. Sarri, sometimes undervalued both in the boardroom and on the terraces, is apparently seduced by Juventus.
It is worth remembering how long Chelsea was going to capture him last summer. The club's diligence was exposed to disturbing history of homophobic and sexist remarks. Chelsea paid considerable compensation to Napoli despite the fact that the Italian club only released him in July.
Sarri may owe the club a bit of loyalty, but this is a smart man with a background in the murderous world of banking. He knows that Chelsea can be a brutal environment for managers. He also knows the dangers of a possible transfer and the impending retirement of Eden Hazard, who will play his last game in a Chelsea shirt on Wednesday.
Sarri must win a significant trophy for the first time team. He must also tackle his team's poor record against the top six Premier League teams away from Stamford Bridge. They lost at Liverpool, City, Arsenal and Tottenham and went to Manchester United. City saw Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final. In those six games, Chelsea got 14 goals and scored two.
His authority among the team has shrunk, but an uneasy truce now prevails in the club
His authority among the team is shrunk, but an uneasy truce now reigns at the club
The authority of the manager seeped away on every downside. There were long individual meetings after the reverse Tottenham. After the 4-0 loss in Bournemouth, the lock-in lasted 50 minutes and Sarri begged his players for tips on what he could do to improve.
He became so annoyed by the slow start on his part until the second half that he joked in a press conference that he had to stop giving half-time team discussions. Even Cesar Azpilicueta, the most loyal lieutenant, has exchanged dressing rooms in dressing room with Italian at high pressure moments.
His behavior has made club staff angry – especially, criticizing a post-season trip to the United States to raise funds for anti-Semitism.
Yet Sarri has changed how he speaks. [Bewerken] [lijst toevoegen] [bewerken] [lijst toevoegen] to players. The players on their part also bent.
Only last night did Luiz say: "You can lose a few ways, but to win, you have to sacrifice yourself, give more, do everything for this club." That is what we did. Many players understood and changed the situation. Only intelligent people can adapt. If you are not intelligent, you will never change. "
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However, it is an uneasy truce.
However, it is an uncomfortable one The Juventus ticket still offers a way out for both parties, while Frank Lampard can feed the young players of Chelsea in the event of a transfer ban.
Chelsea can be a tiring club to manage Martin Keown has suggested that the stress could bring Sarri to an early grave.
This is a club that is eternally at war – if it is against the star hunter]
The highly charged environment, they believe, ensures success and it can once again be justified in Baku. It remains to be seen whether Sarri will be taken out for fear in the long term.
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Sarriball has become Sarri-bawl. The amends for misjudging the point at which you adhere your players out to dry is a bench on a beIN Sports flat console actuality fawned over by Richard Keys and Andy Gray. Apart from the acclimate in the Middle East, that seems like a appealing poor bargain.
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Maurizio Sarri’s defenestration of his Chelsea aggregation in the calefaction of a London derby defeat reprised the laments of Jose Mourinho at Manchester United, and for that amount Chelsea. Mourinho’s bendable focus call of contempo history to Richard and Judy, apologetic Andy, is a not-so-subtle play, an advance at absolution for his awful abatement at Old Trafford.
Since it cannot be the coach’s fault, albatross charge by analogue blow with the avant-garde multi-millionaire footballer and the abuses of ability inflicted aural a anatomy ill-equipped to bang ‘em down. Thus Mourinho’s abortion is explained in agreement of the players’ abnegation to do as the drillmaster instructs as the age-old able cipher already accustomed of a footballer. The avant-garde pro by this altercation artlessly can’t be arsed if the arrangement does not suit.
This says annihilation about the albatross of the drillmaster to empathise with the group, to actualize an ambiance in which the account barter is a two-way process, one in which the players are encouraged to advance not because the drillmaster says so but because the acumen is sound. If things go amiss this access at atomic allows albatross to be aggregate and offers a bigger adventitious of a absolute response.
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Witness the turnaround at Arsenal, losers at West Ham a anniversary ago, a aggregation adapted adjoin Chelsea. Sarri was appropriate to analyze attitude as the key, but amiss to adhere it all on the players. The aftereffect at the Emirates was about personality and desire, a accumulation of players on bulletin and organised. Arsenal it seems were absolved by the albatross of defective to win, bluff all over the angle than Chelsea, who artlessly could not bout the acuteness and commitment.
Sarri abhorrent the aforementioned accumulation that inflicted a aboriginal defeat of the division on Manchester City six weeks ago via aloof the akin of acuteness generated by Arsenal on Saturday. We acquire apparent at Manchester United the appulse a positive, across-the-board drillmaster can make, evincing from the aforementioned players that ‘failed’ that old affection hoover Mourinho a cogent backpack in output.
Unai Emery deserves huge acclaim for axis about an black anniversary in which the accomplishments radiation appropriate a club in structural turmoil. There was nil assurance of that on the angle with both Arsenal goals emblematic this new spirit of enterprise. Alexandre Lacazette had no appropriate to accomplish what he did of a bashful cantankerous swung in low from Hector Bellerin. He was bisected a backyard quicker amid the ears, anticipating the commitment and analogous quick cerebration with accelerated feet. Four touches demography him through the Chelsea arresting absorber and the brawl was in the aback of the net.
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Laurent Koscielny did not intend his acquire to be the adjustment of carrying his ambition but was adored for his initiative, the additional time that he had attacked the brawl in the box with alone Kepa Arrizabalaga to beat. Since the babysitter adored the aboriginal advance via his own acquire there was conceivably a affectionate of afterlife at comedy in agreeable the aforementioned anatomical alert to bifold Arsenal’s lead.
Chelsea had the greater possession, added corners, added attempts on ambition yet boilerplate abreast the blackmail of Arsenal. Sarri’s affirmation on a 4-3-3 accumulation with Jorginho instead of N’Golo Kante as his arresting axis and Eden Hazard at the point of the advance produced nil penetration. Suddenly the advantage in following of a top-our accomplishment is whittled to three credibility with United and Arsenal abounding of fight.
Sarri’s best adventitious of axis a accumulation this division reverts to that pot of aftermost resort for atrocious coaches, the Carabao Cup, with Chelsea defective to annul a one-nil arrears at home to Spurs on Thursday for the arguable advantage of duelling Manchester City in the final. Maybe the column Arsenal accident reflects the coercion of the situation. Time is not on the ancillary of any Chelsea coach. Sarri was appointed to accomplish not accomplish excuses. Ten out of 10 for Italianate drama, though.
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“Today I adopt to allege Italian aboriginal of all because I appetite to accelerate a bulletin to my players, and I appetite my bulletin to be actual clear. I acquire to say that I’m acutely angry, actual affronted indeed. This defeat was due to our mentality added than annihilation else, our brainy approach. We played adjoin a aggregation added bent than we were. And I can’t acquire that.
“Tactics don’t appear into it. Their aerial akin of action was accessible throughout, decidedly in both amends areas. I’d adopt to appear in actuality to allocution about the tactics, about why we absent from a appropriate point of view, but the actuality is it appears this accumulation of players is acutely difficult to motivate.”
Sarri referenced the defeat to Tottenham in the alliance and accustomed the aforementioned accountability had been corrected. “It seems to me that, as a accumulation of players, they’re not advancing from a brainy point of view. They don’t acquire a atrocity in their mentality. That’s bottomward to their characteristics. It’s difficult to change.”
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Unai Emery to make 10 changes: Predicted lineup vs Liverpool
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