Morning all.
If there have been bits and items yesterday, there aren’t many at present. We’re in full Interlull mode, however Arsenal Girls had been in motion final night time and endured a 5-2 humbling away at Bayern Munich within the Champions League. It has added to the strain on head coach Jonas Eidevall, and with Chelsea on the horizon this weekend, this might become a seismic seven days after the disappointing draw with Everton final Sunday.
I do know you’ll be able to’t choose a scenario based mostly solely on Web feedback, but it surely feels just like the scrutiny he’s beneath is fairly intense, and religion in him is fairly low. It’s one thing Tim and Jamie spoke about within the newest Arsenal Girls Arsecast (recorded after the Everton recreation), and final night time will solely have heightened that. Let’s see the way it performs out, I assume, and bear in mind you’ll discover the very best protection of the ladies’s group over on Arseblog Information.
Elsewhere, I noticed Erling Haaland being requested about throwing the ball in the back of Gabriel’s head within the recreation in opposition to Man Metropolis final month. As you would possibly anticipate, he’s not precisely contrite, and whereas some folks have taken exception to his feedback, I don’t actually thoughts them in any respect.
Let’s bear in mind what Gabriel stated afterwards:
I don’t even bear in mind this. It’s regular, they had been completely satisfied after scoring within the final minute. It’s a battle, a battle and provocation is regular in soccer. Now it’s over and we’ll be ready for them at our home.
Besides we all know Gabriel remembers. That’s what he does. He retains the receipts. And when he exacts his revenge in our subsequent recreation in opposition to Metropolis by scoring a winner together with his head, then lifting up his shirt to disclose a t-shirt that claims ‘Keep Humble!’ earlier than launching a complete vary of ‘Keep Humble!’ merchandise, we’ll all have an incredible snort about it. Erling Haaland included, I’m positive.
*cough*
In the meantime, issues are going nicely for on-loan Nuno Tavares at Lazio, who has offered 5 assists in 5 appearances to this point in Serie A. Fortunately we stay in a world the place no person goes excessive of their early appraisal of a brand new participant, so he’s merely been labelled ‘King of the assists’ by the Portuguese press. Properly understated. He’s going to need to preserve going to turn into the GOD OF ASSISTS. It’s necessary to have a goal.
Anyway, it’s good for him that issues are going nicely, he says:
I really feel increasingly more at residence at Lazio. Issues are going nicely for me personally and collectively. It’s good to have this understanding with them on this brief house of time. We are able to solely enhance. I’m very completely satisfied to be right here.
His mortgage to the Italian aspect consists of an obligation for them to make the deal everlasting if he achieves sure targets in the course of the season – ones I believe have extra to do with appearances than assists. It’s value remembering that his mortgage to Marseille additionally began in a very constructive manner, with three objectives in his first 4 video games, and whereas he ended up making 39 appearances for them in whole, they selected to not make the transfer everlasting. Fingers crossed it continues nicely for Captain Chaos in Rome although.
In different mortgage participant information, Albert Sambi Lokonga made his comeback from a hamstring damage to play a couple of minutes for Sevilla in a 1-0 win over Actual Betis final weekend; Fabio Vieira has had a few transient appearances for Porto after a thigh damage; whereas goalkeeper Karl Hein is principally ever-present for struggling Actual Valladolid to this point this season.
Proper, past that, not loads occurring. For a bit of additional listening, we now have an unique Patreon podcast, chatting to Arsenal fan and New York Occasions tech reporter Ryan Mac concerning the e book he co-authored about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter referred to as: Character Restrict. It’s an enchanting e book, and an incredible dialog with Ryan. You will get prompt entry to that and all the pieces we do on Twitter for simply $6 per thirty days, proper right here.
For now, have an incredible day.