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Mikel Arteta believes Arsenal are ready to bring some chaos to the Premier League title race.

The Gunners moved to within two points of leaders Liverpool with a thrilling 3-1 win over the Reds at Emirates Stadium.

“We are there, that’s for sure. We want to continue to be there,” said the jubilant Arsenal boss.

“We’ve been really consistent all season, if not you aren’t where we are today. We take it game by game, the availability of the squad is going to be crucial.

“We have learned that from last season. Let’s try to make that happen.”

Two errors from Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker cost the visitors dearly.

The Gunners had gifted the Reds an equaliser as a Gabriel Magalhaes own goal on the stroke of half-time cancel…

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Hoping to skyrocket their way into the top-six, Real Betis will travel to the Estadio Nuevo Mirandilla when they meet Cadiz on Friday night.

Starting with the hosts, while Cadiz might have managed to snatch consecutive 0-0 stalemates against Villarreal and Athletic Bilbao, the Yellow Submarine still find themselves tipped as a leading relegation contender in 2024. Opening Friday’s showdown sat three points adrift of La Liga safety, Mauricio Pellegrino appears to have a real job on his hands. In fact, on what has become an infamous top-flight rut, the Andalusia-based outfit have remarkably failed to win any of their previous 19 straight La Liga appearances a run that stems all the way back to September 1st. Lik…

Fulham head coach Rene Meulensteen said Bryan Ruiz was left out of his side at Norwich City to give the club s youngsters a chance.

Ruiz did not make the bench in Fulham s 1-1 FA Cup draw at Carrow Road on Saturday – the second time in a row he was not involved in the club s matchday 18.

The Costa Rica attacker has featured just twice in Meulensteen s eight matches in charge, with his sole start coming in the club s 6-0 thumping at Hull City on December 28.

Speculation has surrounded the future of Ruiz as a result, with La Liga outfit Real Betis rumoured to be interested in acquiring his services.

On why he was left out at Norwich, Meulensteen told Get West London: We looked at it and if you bring young players in, you ve got to weigh things up.

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Olivier Giroud hit back at Thierry Henry and labelled him dull over claims that he was not good enough to fire the club to the Premier League title.

In his role as a Sky Sports pundit, Henry Arsenal s record goalscorer and part of the Invincibles side that won the 2004 Premier League claimed that Arsene Wenger needed to invest heavily to improve the spine of his squad following last month s 0-0 draw against Chelsea.

Henry said: I think Giroud is doing extremely well. But can you win the league with him? I wouldn t think so.

Giroud, who signed from Montpellier in 2012, has taken exception to Henry s criticism and admits he was disappointed by his fellow Frenchman s assessment.

I heard he was saying too many dull things. That was a bomb and it had its des…

‪Carlo Ancelotti joked with Jurgen Klopp following Napoli s win over Liverpool, reassuring the Reds manager that his side usually go on to win the Champions League after losing to the Serie A team.

Napoli emerged victorious in their Champions League opener on Tuesday, beating last season s winners 2-0 thanks to goals from Dries Mertens and Fernando Llorente.

A controversial 82nd-minute penalty converted by Mertens and Llorente s first goal for Napoli saw Ancelotti s men to victory in the Group E blockbuster.

It was the second successive season Liverpool lost away to Napoli in the group stage following their 1-0 loss in last term s corresponding fixture.

Liverpool went on to lift the Champions League title in 2018-19 and head coach Ancelotti reminded Klo…

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The 2019/20 season in the Bundesliga is set to be completed soon, despite the long forced break due to the Covid-19 pandemic and every other difficulty it brought along in its wake. Round 31 is up next, and as a part of it, Hertha will play host to Eintracht Frankfurt at the Olimpiastadion in Berlin on Saturday afternoon.

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It s certainly a crucial moment of the campaign when Hertha and their hopes of making it into next season s Europa League are concerned. At the moment, Bruno Labbadia s side sit in ninth place, with 38 points in the bag, seven less than sixth-place Wolfsburg. Hoffenheim and Freiburg are also ahead of them with 43 and 41 points, respectively. They must also keep an eye on Schalke, who are just below, also o…

Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was on Thursday named African Footballer of the Year for 2009, the second time the Ivory Coast international has won the award.

Drogba pushed Inter Milan and Cameroon skipper Samuel Eto o into second place in the vote amongst national team coaches from Confederation of African Football (CAF) member-nations.

Drogba also won in 2006, again ahead of Eto o, but was denied the continent s top individual prize in 2007 when he failed to attend the awards ceremony in Togo.

Ghana and Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien was third.

TP Mazembe of DR Congo, who clinched the CAF Champions League for the first time in 49 years, were named the best club ahead of Nigeria s Heartland and CAF Confederation winners Stade Malien of Mali.

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Hull City have signed Norway international Omar Elabdellaoui on loan from Olympiacos, the Greek club announced on Friday.

The right-back arrives at the KCOM Stadium to provide cover for the injured Moses Odubajo and Ahmed Elmohamady, who is away with Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Olympiacos confirmed the switch in a brief statement.

Olympiacos announces the granting, on loan, of the player Omar Elabdellaoui to English side Hull, read the release.

Elabdellaoui started his professional career at Manchester City, who loaned him out to Stromsgodset, Feyenoord and Eintracht Braunschweig.

He then made a permanent switch to Braunschweig without making a senior appearance for City, before agreeing a move to Olympiacos in 2014.

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Anwar El Ghazi fractious relationship with Ajax has come to an end after the Netherlands international completed a permanent switch to Lille.

El Ghazi, 21, came through the ranks of the Ajax youth academy and made his official first-team debut in August 2014, coming off the bench in the 1-0 Johan Cruyff Shield defeat at the hands of PEC Zwolle.

The versatile attacker had since developed into an important first-team member at the Amsterdam ArenA but a transfer became inevitable after he fell out with head coach Peter Bosz earlier this season.

He was demoted to Jong Ajax for the duration of November, only to return to the first team in December, scoring in the 1-1 Europa League draw with Standard Liege.

His time in Amsterdam has now come to a definitive en…

Villarreal, Atletico Madrid and LaLiga have submitted a request to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for their December meeting to be played in Miami.

Villarreal president Fernando Roig confirmed in a radio interview on Wednesday the two clubs were hoping an agreement could be struck.

Roig insisted such an event would be beneficial and important for Spanish football s growth, and the three parties have now lodged an official proposal to play the match on December 6 at Hard Rock Stadium.

A statement posted to Villarreal s website read: LaLiga, alongside Villarreal and Atletico Madrid, [on Thursday] presented an official request to the RFEF to play the match between Villarreal and Atletico Madrid, corresponding to LaLiga matchday 16, on December 6, 2019…