Posted in Champions League, Match Preview on Nov 26th, 2024
With Arsenal set to face Sporting Clube de Portugal, or Sporting Lisbon as they are known in the English-speaking world, on Tuesday at the Estadio Jose Alvalade in the Portuguese capital, conceivably it could be useful to know that the people of Lisbon are sometimes known as alfacinhas, or “little lettuces”. The first such reference […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Report on Nov 7th, 2024
Mystic Ned’s predicted team in the San Siro was spot on and saw us kick off with Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Timber; Partey, Merino, Trossard; Saka, Havertz, Martinelli. Amongst others, Ødegaard returned to the bench with Nwaneri, Jorginho and Jesús, but still no sign of Calafiori. Rice, of course, was out with his foot injury […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Preview on Apr 16th, 2024
Embed from Getty Images This season has been an aberration for Bayern Munich in that they will not win the Bundesliga title. The German champions will be Bayer Leverkusen and our own Granit Xhaka. It’s a well worn joke by now but no less worthy of repetition for that – one of “their own”, Harry […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Preview on Mar 12th, 2024
Two hours or so inland from the city of Porto lies the northeastern Portuguese province of Trás-os-Montes, or Behind the Hills. I drove that route nearly 30 years ago but recalled it this week because Arsenal will have been working on some clever ways of getting in behind the Porto defenders to prevent a recurrence of […]
Posted in Champions League, Match Report on Feb 22nd, 2024
Embed from Getty Images Mikel Arteta unsurprisingly went with an unchanged side from the one which won 5-0 at Burnley on Saturday and 6-0 at West Ham the weekend before –Raya; White, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior; Odegaard, Rice, Havertz; Saka, Trossard, Martinelli; Subs: included Ramsdale, Smith-Rose, Viera, Nwaneri, Sweet and Heaven. For Porto, manager Conceição had […]
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