James Benge
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Liverpool have taken 28 corners in the last month. 27 have been inswingers into the meat wall. And they have been very, very effective. If this is an issue, it's one that a lot of teams are exploiting. That and more thoughts on the top four race.
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Burning questions for Premier League's Champions League race: Can Liverpool take Arsenal's set piece crown?
Plus, who are Aston Villa, can Chelse behave, and have Manchester United finally, finally, finally turned the corner?
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/arsenal-liverpool-chelsea-aston-villa-premier-leagues-champions-league/
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Since Carrick's appointment 20 of United's 24 corners in the Premier League have been inswingers, the sort that really prompt that meat wall grappling. Every smart team in the league is doing this and that might end up being the problem.
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With 100 days until the World Cup begins -- and 84 until Mauricio Pochettino names his USMNT squad -- Yunus Musah has a lot of work to do. And yet still he is talking like a man who is going to be on the pitch when the action starts.
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Yunus Musah 'not throwing in the towel' on chance to make USMNT World Cup squad with 100 days to go
After a couple of difficult seasons Yunus Musah is at risk of falling out of the USMNT picture after featuring in 2022, but he's not giving up yet
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/yunus-musah-usmnt-world-cup-squad-100-days-to-go/
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Passes completed between Pedro Neto's red card and final whistle Arsenal: 55 Chelsea: 114
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Touching of the Brits to give Noel Gallagher a songwriting award on the 30th anniversary of him releasing a passable tune.
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Arsenal vs. Everton will now be at 5:30 pm on Saturday, March 14
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Schedule for the round of 16 has been confirmed. Arsenal and Man City on the same nights so no one can moan about implications on the title race.
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Kate Winslet when she sees what Leo DiCaprio has been sketching
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It's never easy to win a Champions League but Arsenal's odds look as good as they ever have at this stage of a competition. Leverkusen, Bodo/Glimt or Sporting and then one from Newcastle, Barcelona, Atletico or Spurs. (Can't wait to see the quotes on this in the months ahead)
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Also in UEFA's report, Chelsea's pre-tax loss is eclipsed only by Barcelona in 2020-21, the teeth of the pandemic.
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From UEFA's 2025 Club Finance & Investment Landscape, out today (though there's a lag between these figures and current situation). Quite a lot of talking points just from this but I do think it speaks very highly of a team to be competing for titles at €100m wage disadvantages.
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Osimhen with surely the first ever case of not celebrating against a club you might have liked to have joined in the past and would probably go to if the opportunity presents itself again.
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Typifies Saka's season so far that Opta and PL (but not FPL?) didn't give him an assist for Eze's opener yesterday. Bissouma judged to have touched the ball. Five goals and three assists not the output he'd want but there have been many good days without end product.
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It's still unlikely to end in disaster but on Sunday you could see how Tottenham's season could head further down a very dicey path. That Tudor says he needs "time" to drill tactics ill-fitting for this opponent only emphasises how soon Spurs need to fix this.
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The joke is on Tottenham again but relegation might be the punchline after Arsenal rout
Spurs find themselves four points off the drop zone with 11 games to go
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/tottenham-relegation-premier-league-arsenal-north-london-derby/
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Tudor: "We need to see something good [i.e. Arsenal], to see where we need to be."
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Putting a cap on this day with a (dreadful) song whose chorus is a chant of “I don’t know where we are going now” feels a bit of a self-own, even by Spurs standards.
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1-4, Gyokeres
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Madueke coming on as Saka gets treatment for an injury
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The stewards who removed that flair are the first Tottenham employees to get a touch in the Arsenal penalty area since the 52nd minute
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The second half of this has been the most Champions League-y Premier League game I can remember Arsenal playing this season. A team that doesn't have the facilities to press and/or possess against them, intent on doing that and lucky to have not conceded more.
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Go and get the "the joke is always on Tottenham" tweet
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1-3, Eze
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1-2, Gyokeres
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HT Tottenham 1, Arsenal 1 - Some players have really turned up for Arsenal today. Several others are far below their level when all that's needed is control and calm.
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1-1, Kolo Muani
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David Raya's pass completion rate, long passes into the middle vertical third of the pitch, Premier League only 21-22: 31.3% 22-23: 27.6% 23-24: 28% 24-25: 30% 25-26: 19.1%
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Looks like the linesman in the east stand is having an issue, one would assume with his technology. A lot of guessing here because I'm in a football stadium and no one thinks to tell the people in here.
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"Second again ole ole" burbling around the ground after a chant of "champions of Europe" from the Spurs fans. Spurs presenter Paul Coyle introduces the game with the line "they're worried, they're nervous as hell". Suspect he doesn't mean the team in 16th, four points off the drop.
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Spurs readying themselves for the meat wall in the warm up. Huge dub for
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How could you ever want rid of VAR after a moment of comedy gold like that?
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Tottenham XI: Vicario; Palhinha, Dragusin, Van de Ven; Gray, Bissouma, Sarr, Spence; Gallagher, Simons; Kolo Muani Arsenal XI: Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Zubimendi, Eze, Rice; Saka, Gyokeres, Trossard
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James Benge
Doesn’t it feel like Arsenal keep conceding one of their opponents goals of the season? The data suggest maybe they are but why? Allowing low pressure shots, having the shortest goalkeeper in the Premier League, dumb luck or some combination of the lot?
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Why do Arsenal keep conceding wonder goals? A look at the eye-opening numbers behind the Gunners' troubles
They've been on the end of some crazy golazos this season, from Dominik Szoboszlai's free kick Patrick Dogu's rocket shot
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/arsenal-premier-league-conceding-wonder-goals-premier-league-ucl/
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Doesn’t it feel like Arsenal keep conceding one of their opponents goals of the season? The data suggest maybe they are but why? Allowing low pressure shots, having the shortest goalkeeper in the Premier League, dumb luck or some combination of the lot?
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Why do Arsenal keep conceding wonder goals? A look at the eye-opening numbers behind the Gunners' troubles
They've been on the end of some crazy golazos this season, from Dominik Szoboszlai's free kick Patrick Dogu's rocket shot
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/arsenal-premier-league-conceding-wonder-goals-premier-league-ucl/
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Arsenal team news - No fresh injury concerns, Arteta confirms, Trossard "fine" - "A big possibility" that Havertz and Odegaard will be available for Sunday - Arteta hails "a tremendous reaction again" after the Wolves draw
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I know there's a crisis in music journalism pay but come on...
12 days ago
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I don’t know if this is a good stat - obviously Arsenal have conceded their 20 goals from 18.4xG so it’s not exactly wildly out of sync but perhaps this stat does at least speak to how they’ve been a team that has been undone by a lot of screamers.
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James Benge
The narrative of Arsenal as title bottlers didn’t really stand up to much examination before this season. But it doesn’t matter what I think. And this Arsenal team are playing like one that believes all the critiques and jibes of them.
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Arsenal show the nerves of title bottlers as blown 2-0 lead at Wolves open Premier League door for Man City
The Gunners were expected to take all three points from the Molineux -- instead, they have dropped points that could come back to haunt them
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/arsenal-vs-wolverhampton-score-blown-lead-premier-league-race-man-city/
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The narrative of Arsenal as title bottlers didn’t really stand up to much examination before this season. But it doesn’t matter what I think. And this Arsenal team are playing like one that believes all the critiques and jibes of them.
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Arsenal show the nerves of title bottlers as blown 2-0 lead at Wolves open Premier League door for Man City
The Gunners were expected to take all three points from the Molineux -- instead, they have dropped points that could come back to haunt them
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/arsenal-vs-wolverhampton-score-blown-lead-premier-league-race-man-city/
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I don’t remember anyone suggesting that the story of Arsenal 2024-25 was that team against itself. No one sensible suggested that at the time or since. Everyone with even a passing knowledge of them knew that their greatest issue was the injuries they suffered, not some existential crisis.
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Too familiar a tale for Arsenal this season. A wonder goal and this team just loses their shit. Said last month that Arsenal were the team best placed to stop Arsenal winning the league. This is what it looks like.
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Arsenal have conceded 19 goals in the Premier League this season. Six of them have been from shots worth 0.04 xG or less. No team has conceded more low value shots.
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Appreciate that Arsenal got their goal from a cross and there've been other dangerous ones since but feels like they're lobbing a few too many in the box as the half wears on. Think they'd be better just holding court in the final third and grinding down Wolves with possession.
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A necessary act of gap plugging? Perhaps and given the limited standard of opposition it’s best not to read too much into today’s events. There might, however, be something in Bukayo Saka playing centrally.
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Bukayo Saka's position switch offers Mikel Arteta hope amid Arsenal's latest injury crisis
The Gunners were easy winners on Sunday in the FA Cup and showed off a wrinkle that can help them navigate their latest injury crisis
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/bukayo-sakas-position-switch-arsenal-injury-crisis/
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Vinicius Junior says on his Instagram stories "Racists are, above all, cowards. They need to put their shirts over their mouths to demonstrate how weak they are. But they have, on their side, the protection of others who, theoretically, have the obligation to punish."
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Jose Mourinho tells Amazon that Vinicius Junior did not celebrate his goal in a respectful way, suggesting he incited the abuse that comes his way. "Stadiums that Vinicius plays, something happens, always," he added. Mourinho rightly castigated by Rooney and Seedorf after.
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Mark Clattenburg doing his former profession no favours. Vinicius Junior celebrated, as is his right. Nothing Vini could possibly do would merit what he alleges happened to him. If he doesn't want to play then the game needs to stop.
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He might not have scored but Victor Osimhen has been sensational tonight. Nothing less than one of the best strikers in the world.
14 days ago
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"Wuthering Heights"
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