Arsenal v Rennes Chelsea v Dynamo Kyiv Eintracht Frankfurt v Inter Milan Dinamo Zagreb v Benfica Napoli v RB Salzburg Valencia v Krasnodar Sevilla v Slavia Prague Zenit St Petersburg v Villarreal Ties will be played on Thursday March 7…
Raheem Sterling has improved so much. Man City beat Schalke 3-2 last night after being 2-1 down. Aguero scored early but Bentaleb,the former Spurs midfielder, replied with two penalties. Then Leroy Sane made it 2-2 with a world class free-kick…
Chelsea 0 Manchester United 2 Herrera 31 Pogba 45 ————— ————— United pulverised Chelsea with organised power football. This was Fergie football, go-for-the-throat-football, expansive, aggressive and confident, very strong in wide areas. Two wickedly accurate crosses found the heads of…
The Sunday Supplement’s final topic was Ozil. Martin Samuel said, “What Unai Emery wants from Mesut Ozil, Ozil can’t give him.” Martin, on form in this show, also said, “If Mesut Ozil was so wonderful, he’d still be at Real…
From James M Levitt Hi Myles, Hope you’re well. The toxic and somewhat bemusing Ozil situation continues. He’s arguably our best player and certainly our most creative player. On paper, he’s our biggest asset in the squad. He’s also inconsistent.…
BATE Borisov 1 Arsenal 0 Malmo 1 Chelsea 2 —————————– Last night’s Europa League highlighted the difference between the Arsenal and Chelsea managers. Maurizio Sarri is a fanatic who plays one way. His Plan A is Sarriball and he has…
Tottenham Hotspur 3 Dortmund 0 Son 47 Vertonghen 83 Llorente 86 ————————————————- Big games need big players. Jan Vertonghen and Heung-min Son come into that category. Dortmund had looked good in a first half where jinking Jadon Sancho was the…
Manchester United are out of the Champions League. They’ve done an Arsenal by crashing out in the Round of Arsenal. PSG coach Tomas Tuchel now looks as if he might be able to compete with Klopp and Guardiola and Real…
He’s a cocky kid but quite nice with it. Sancho might be the best 18-year-old British footballer I’ve seen since George Best or Alan Hudson. After my class this morning I was reading his press conference in The Daily Mail, the…
Lacazette’s goal was the highlight. of Arsenal’s 2-1 victory at Huddersfield. He’s proved to be a top player. Very competitive, wonderfully creative and remarkably consistent. Since promotion Huddersfield have only won two games, so I knew they would not trouble…