Mikel Arteta says Arsenal are heading into the most important part of the season ahead of their Premier League clash with Burnley.
The title-chasing Gunners currently sit third, two points behind leaders Liverpool, after extending their impressive run to four straight league wins following a dominant 6-0 victory at West Ham.
Arteta highlighted the importance of claiming three points at Turf Moor and to keep up their consistent form during the final 14 league matches.
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“It’s the most important part of the season and every fixture will play a significant role in what we want to achieve,” Arteta said.
“Burnley…
Bayern Munich suffered a real shock at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday evening, going out of the Champions League in the semifinals with a pair of late goals from Real substitute Joselu overturning Bayern s lead gained through a fine Alphonso Davies strike.
To make matters worse, they were obviously wronged by the officials at the very end. De Ligt himself put the ball in the back of the net in the 13th minute of stoppage time, but only after referee Szymon Marcziniak blew his whistle due to a linesman s flag being raised. The linesman had believed Noussair Mazraoui was offside in the buildup and hurried to raise the flag, not waiting for the attack to end as he should ve done. The whistle going before the ball hit the back of the net rendered the VAR incapable of checking t…
Christian Gunter was lost for words after his Freiburg side were thumped 6-0 by Wolfsburg on their return to Bundesliga action on Saturday.
Freiburg entered the two-month break second only to Bayern Munich in the table after winning four of their final five league games of 2022.
But any thoughts of possibly rivalling 10-in-a-row champions Bayern were put into perspective by Wolfsburg at the Volkswagen Arena.
Christian Streich s side were behind after just 59 seconds through a Patrick Wimmer strike, before Jonas Wind s double put the hosts in complete control before half-time.
Yannick Gerhardt and Ridle Baku joined the scoresheet in the second half, and Luca Waldschmidt beat Mark Flekken from the penalty spot to complete the scoring.
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Laura Coombs says it would be “the stuff of dreams” if her England renaissance continues with a place in the squad for this summer’s World Cup.
The Manchester City midfielder, 32, returned to the international fold when she was called up by Lionesses boss Sarina Wiegman in February.
That was her first involvement since a training camp in 2020 under Phil Neville, and she had not played for her country since winning the two caps she had to her name in 2015 under Mark Sampson.
Coombs subsequently played twice at the Arnold Clark Cup and was then included in Wiegman’s squad for April’s matches against Brazil and Australia, for which she was an unused substitute.
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Harry Kane will head to the World Cup as England captain bolstered by a new six-year contract with Tottenham.
The deal is a major coup for Spurs as they prepare to return to White Hart Lane next season, with their academy product having established himself as one of the most lethal strikers in world football over recent seasons.
He joins manager Mauricio Pochettino in committing his future to the club and the duo will have their sights on plotting the downfall of numerous defences at home and abroad when 2018-19 rolls around.
With some help from Opta, we look at how Kane s performances and prolific returns sit alongside with the greats of the game and within Premier League history.
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Luis Suarez is wanted by Liga MX side Cruz Azul, with the Mexican outfit s president confirming they have been in negotiations with the Uruguay international.
The veteran striker is a free agent, after his contract with boyhood club Nacional expired, leaving him in search of a new team for 2023 and beyond.
Having spent most of his career in Europe, Suarez s return to Uruguay – where he helped his new side to a first league championship in over a decade – suggests he could remain west of the Atlantic.
Now Cruz Azul are looking to bring him on board for the Clausura 2023 campaign, starting January 6, with president Victor Velazquez confirming speculation they are pursuing a move.
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Erik ten Hag s arrival at Manchester United last year began a process of culture reset. For years, the club allowed big egos to inflate, and the team s mentality to shrink, while an arrogant hierarchy seemingly assumed waving big cheques guaranteed success.
Ten Hag has taken steps to fix all of the above, and in the roughly eight months since he began working in May, the difference has been significant.
There was no spirit, Ten Hag said last week. I saw no team dynamic in the squad. The mental resilience was very low. I saw that as an outsider – and also noticed it in my first weeks at the club.
I looked at the culture of the club. I asked, how did Manchester United become great? . The club has bought an unimaginable number of players in recent years who have…
Italy secured a routine 4-0 victory over Malta to keep the pressure on England in Group C of the Euro 2024 qualifiers.
Giacomo Bonaventura opened the scoring for the Italians for his first-ever international goal and Domenico Berardi then scored twice – either side of half-time – before Davide Frattesi added a fourth in added time.
Ukraine picked up an important three points in a bid for their group-stage hopes after they ran out 2-0 winners over North Macedonia.
Ukraine opened the scoring in rather fortunate fashion as an Heorhiy Sudakov effort from outside the area was heavily deflected into the net to make it 1-0.
The Ukrainians had to wait till stoppage time to rubber stamp the points when Oleksandr Karavayev spotted goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski …
The draw for the group stages of the 2022-23 Champions League has thrown up major talking points with Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland set for reunions with their former employers.
Lewandowski s Barcelona will face Bayern Munich, while Haaland returns to Borussia Dortmund now donning the shirt of Manchester City.
Having scored 344 goals for Bayern, with whom he won eight consecutive Bundesliga titles and the Champions League in 2019-20, the German giants will be fearful of the threat Lewandowski will pose.
Players coming toe-to-toe with their former clubs is nothing new and Stats Perform has selected five memorable occasions from years gone by.
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UEFA wants to have extra officials on hand for matches at Euro 2012 in a drive to deal with disputed goals, the body s chief, Michel Platini, said Thursday.
I am going to seek the possibility of having an extra official in place for the finals in Poland and Ukraine, Platini told reporters at the construction site in Warsaw of the stadium where the European championships will kick off on June 8, 2012.
That way, extra officials will be able to see if the ball has crossed the line, said the head of European football s governing body, on a whistle-stop visit taking stock of preparations for the tournament.
The International Football Association Board, which determines the rules of the game, has been wrestling with how finally to end years of controversy over goals…