Completely satisfied Monday.
Arsenal information remains to be in brief provide, however at AFCON, Mohamed Elneny performed as Egypt wanted a late, late penalty from Mohamed Salah to rescue a 2-2 draw towards Mozambique. Our Mo obtained 78 minutes beneath his belt on this sport.
In the meantime, on the Asian Cup, Japan beat Vietnam 4-2 with out Takehiro Tomiyasu. He wasn’t within the group or on the bench, in order that does make you marvel about his health ranges. He did come on for the second half towards Fulham again on New 12 months’s Day, however perhaps he nonetheless has a strategy to go by way of his match health. Let’s see if something emerges on this one. Japan’s subsequent sport is on Friday morning towards Iraq.
Within the Premier League I watched most of a reasonably boring 0-0 between Everton and Aston Villa. The primary speaking level was the prolonged VAR test to disallow a primary half Villa purpose. To me it regarded clearly offside, however I used to be left questioning why the officers didn’t rule it out for the apparent foul on the Everton man within the build-up. As they pushed as much as play the offside, Danjuma was prevented from doing so by Lenglet holding onto him. Absolutely that ought to have been sufficient immediately to disallow it? Anyway, 4 minutes later they found out the clearly offside man was clearly offside.
Good course of, nicely carried out.
Then I endured Man Utd v Sp*rs. It was a superb purpose from Rasmus Hojlund to open the scoring, however defensively United are an absolute shambles. Richarlison equalised, earlier than Marcus Rashford made it 2-1. Early within the second half, one other Sp*rs purpose made it 2-2, and that’s the way it stayed.
This was genuinely an terrible sport of soccer. It was like watching a pair of hobos drink a jug of moonshine every and profession round attempting to swing punches at one another. Aaron Wan-Bissaka is to defending what Shkodran Mustafi is to defending. Younger youngsters watching, by no means surrender in your desires of being knowledgeable footballer as a result of if these guys can do it, so are you able to. Sure, even with one leg 7 inches shorter than the opposite and the eyesight of a retinally-challenged mole. You’ll be able to’t be worse.
United had an awesome likelihood to win it on the finish, however Scott McTominay thought he was Gabriel Jesus and headed over the bar. A draw was most likely honest although, neither aspect deserved to win that sport. I additionally loved Roy Keane afterwards:
“Everybody calm down.” 😤
Roy Keane says we should not ‘go overboard’ with reward for Tottenham as they nonetheless drew the sport. pic.twitter.com/hvcBtIObsZ
— Sky Sports activities Premier League (@SkySportsPL) January 14, 2024
So, what might have been an annoying Sunday wasn’t fairly as annoying because it might need been. Leaving us an opportunity to make issues even much less annoying after we face Crystal Palace on Saturday, however extra on that because the week progresses.
Right here’s one other attention-grabbing factor:
🚨 Everton + Nottingham Forest anticipating to be told on Monday that they’ve been present in breach of PL profitability & sustainability guidelines for 3yr cycle to June 2023. Each have ready mitigation & will launch strong defences @TheAthleticFC #EFC #NFFC https://t.co/Rrz5YDSPIk
— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) January 14, 2024
I’m curious to see how they take care of these costs, or whether or not there is likely to be any repercussions by way of what they need to do in January within the switch market. Our hyperlinks with Amadou Onana are, I’m led to know, extra speculative than concrete – at the least this month – however perhaps that adjustments with this case and Everton are pressured to promote. As for Forest, didn’t they bring about in 20+ gamers in a single window? That was eye-opening on the time, so let’s see how their mitigation goes.
As ever, the shadow of Metropolis’s 115 costs looms over the lesser-lights, however I believe the Premier League’s attorneys are being tied up in every kind of how by the Abu Dhabi funded authorized group. In the end, that many costs, and the complexity of them, are all the time going to make issues extra sophisticated, however it does really feel a bit just like the police sending all of the squad automobiles after somebody for an unpaid parking ticket whereas letting Charles Ponzi run wild and free.
Proper, let’s depart it there for this morning. We’re recording an Arsecast Further for you this morning, so preserve a watch out for the decision for questions on Twitter @gunnerblog and @arseblog on Twitter with the hashtag #arsecastextra – or in case you’re on Arseblog Member on Patreon, depart your query within the #arsecast-extra-questions channel on our Discord server.
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