Morning all.
If there have been bits and items yesterday, there aren’t many at present. We’re in full Interlull mode, however Arsenal Ladies have been in motion final evening and endured a 5-2 humbling away at Bayern Munich within the Champions League. It has added to the stress on head coach Jonas Eidevall, and with Chelsea on the horizon this weekend, this might transform 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 totally on Web feedback, but it surely feels just like the scrutiny he’s below is fairly intense, and religion in him is fairly low. It’s one thing Tim and Jamie spoke about within the newest Arsenal Ladies Arsecast (recorded after the Everton recreation), and final evening will solely have heightened that. Let’s see the way it performs out, I suppose, and bear in mind you’ll discover the most effective protection of the ladies’s workforce 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 count on, he’s not precisely contrite, and whereas some individuals have taken exception to his feedback, I don’t actually thoughts them in any respect.
Let’s bear in mind what Gabriel mentioned afterwards:
I don’t even bear in mind this. It’s regular, they have been completely satisfied after scoring within the final minute. It’s a battle, a conflict 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 along 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 important chortle 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 thus far in Serie A. Fortunately we dwell in a world the place no one 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 should 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 at dwelling at Lazio. Issues are going nicely for me personally and collectively. It’s good to have this understanding with them on this quick house of time. We will solely enhance. I’m very completely satisfied to be right here.
His mortgage to the Italian facet consists of an obligation for them to make the deal everlasting if he achieves sure targets through the season – ones I believe have extra to do with appearances than assists. It’s price remembering that his mortgage to Marseille additionally began in a extremely optimistic method, with three objectives in his first 4 video games, and whereas he ended up making 39 appearances for them in complete, 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 temporary appearances for Porto after a thigh damage; whereas goalkeeper Karl Hein is principally ever-present for struggling Actual Valladolid thus far this season.
Proper, past that, not so much happening. 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 ebook he co-authored about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter referred to as: Character Restrict. It’s an interesting ebook, and an important dialog with Ryan. You will get immediate entry to that and every little thing we do on Twitter for simply $6 per 30 days, proper right here.
For now, have an important day.
