Arsenal bolsters its Premier League lead with a 2-0 victory over Everton, extending the hole to 9 factors after Manchester Metropolis’s draw at West Ham. The Gunners now flip consideration to the Champions League round-of-16 second leg in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen on the Emirates Stadium.
Leverkusen took a first-leg lead via Robert Andrich, however Kai Havertz’s 89th-minute penalty secured a 1-1 mixture scoreline. Mikel Arteta stresses the necessity for higher effectivity, stating: “We’ll take a look at the issues that we have now improved, the conditions that we will create and attempt to be particularly rather more environment friendly in a number of easy issues that at the moment we did not achieve this effectively.”
Fabio Vieira Holds Off Everlasting Transfer Talks
On mortgage at Hamburg, Fabio Vieira scores in a 1-1 draw with Koln, preserving the workforce 9 factors away from relegation. The 25-year-old midfielder data 5 objectives and 4 assists within the Bundesliga this season, reviving his kind after declaring he feels “just like the previous Fabio once more.”
Hamburg pursues a everlasting switch however requests Arsenal decrease the £17 million payment from the unique £30 million deal, probably rising to £34 million. Vieira dismisses hypothesis: “It was an important objective. I knew it was an enormous step for me to return right here and rediscover my true potential. Everybody is aware of I nonetheless have a contract with Arsenal. So let’s wait till the tip of the season. Then we’ll discuss it and see what we will do.”
Max Dowman’s Father Accuses Coach of Self-Promotion
Sixteen-year-old Max Dowman etches his title in historical past because the Premier League’s youngest goalscorer throughout Arsenal’s win over Everton. His father, Robert Dowman, criticizes coach Temisan Williams for claiming involvement after Williams appeared on talkSPORT.
Robert Dowman writes on social media: “Listening to this man Temisan Williams claiming he was any a part of Max’s journey is a very unhappy piece of tried self-promotion. I’ve requested him beforehand to chorus from doing so, however nonetheless he pops up on talkSport this morning… I keep in mind him placing the cones out at coaching a number of occasions, however that is about it. We have now so many fabulous coaches who we’re so grateful to. He’s definitely not one in all them…”
Williams feedback on talkSPORT: “It is an unimaginable factor that Max has carried out, it is good for his household, the academy, the membership and the followers. He ought to simply benefit from the second, which I do know he did. I ought to begin by saying, scouts have carried out a incredible job. I used to be the Beneath-12s assistant coach. I used to be additionally capable of see Max for 2 years, so a small a part of his journey, however Max has all the time had that tremendous energy of with the ability to carry the ball. That is all the time been one thing he is loved, one thing he is robust at and one thing we noticed in coaching.”
