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Lucas Perez Stars For Away Side

... one on Iwobi's calf in the first minute. A few minutes later threw himself into a challenge on Monreal. Simon Downer threw himself around; he is pictured flying in on Arsenal's Nacho Monreal. Jamie Collins 7. An absolute humdinger of a tackle on Iwobi in the middle of the park from the captain shortly before the break. Towering header from a corner, inches over. Dean Beckwith 6 (Dan Spence 70, 6). Key part of Sutton's defence that did themselves proud against a dominant Arsenal side. Jamie Collins put in a captain's performance for Sutton and could even have scored late on. Kevin Amankwaah 6. Perez's goal was conceded down his flank and then lost Walcott for the second. Not the performance he would've wanted. Bedsente Gomis 6. Lovely twisting and turning inside Arsenal's penalty area in the second half but his eventual shot was blocked well. Adam May, on loan from Portsmouth, had a couple of great chances to score for Sutton. Nicky Bailey 6. Some brilliant sliding tackles in midfield to break up Arsenal counterattacking at speed. Craig Eastmond 6. Went down in the box under pressure from Monreal. Nothing given. ...

Sutton Expecting Heavy Defeat If Arsenal Field Big Names

... has written off his team's chances if Wenger fields a similar starting line-up on Monday. "If he plays the team that beat Southampton 5-0 in the last round, then that would hammer us," Doswell said. "I think if you see Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez on the team sheet, our chance doesn't come beyond nought. But if they put another team out then it does get up to the ones and two percents. "Our only chance is if he puts out an under-23 reserve side out because National League sides can compete against academy players. Then we would have a real chance.". Sutton manager Paul Doswell expects a tough game against Arsenal. Wenger's under-fire Arsenal team head to Gander Green Lane just five days after their miserable second-half showing against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, which resulted in a 5-1 loss. And Doswell, who will present Wenger with a £300 bottle of red wine on Monday, ...

Lucas Perez Agent Quotes Denied, Latest Gunners Rumours

... Lucas's way. It's a situation Lucas is unlikely to accept in the long term, so if it doesn't improve before the end of the season, he may still consider his future at the club. LOIC VENANCE/Getty Images. Meanwhile, according to France Football's  Nabil Djellit  (h/t Metro's  Tom Olver ), Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur each scouted Toulouse centre-back Issa Diop on Sunday when they took on Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes. Ligue 1 writer Rich Allen is an admirer of the 20-year-old. Rich Allen @rich_allen 85. Presnel Kimpembe v Issa Diop tonight. Two of my favourite young defenders in Ligue 1. Both hugely talented. #PSGTFC. 2/19/2017, 8:32:17 PM. Diop helped Toulouse record an impressive 0-0 draw in the French capital. The Gunners have plenty of centre-back options, with Shkodran Mustafi and Laurent Koscielny backed up by Gabriel Paulista, Rob Holding and Per ...

Latest Rumours On Marquinhos And Ben Chilwell

... top European sides interested in him. According to  Yahoo Sport  (via The Sun's Sam Street ), the Brazilian defender is in line to pen a new deal through to 2021 with the French giants—his current contract runs to 2019. Street's report added that Barcelona and Chelsea have previously been linked with Marquinhos, 22, and Arsenal were revealed to be interested in him by his brother, Luan, last summer, per L'Equipe (via Metro's Mark Brus ). Arsenal's lack of depth in defence was brutally exposed on Wednesday when they lost 5-1 to Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League. Laurent Koscielny 's departure through injury early in the second half prompted the Gunners to collapse at the back and concede four goals that effectively ended the last-16 tie after just one leg, per BBC Match of the Day's Gary ...

Arsenal Winning The Fa Cup Would Be 'a Hollow Joke', Warns Graeme Souness

... the FA Cup, Souness believes that failure to finish in the top four would pose a huge problem for the club, and tarnish Wenger’s reputation after 20 years in north London. “Their top-four spot is under real threat and this is where it could get ugly,” Souness wrote in his column for the Sunday Times. “The fans will turn on the players and manager unless there is an immediate revival. “Another FA Cup win, which is quite possible, would feel like a hollow joke if they failed to qualify for the Champions League. That'd be the wrong way for Wenger's Arsenal career to end.”. Souness went on to explain that an underlying problem has developed among the Arsenal squad that is once again causing their season to unravel after passing the halfway point in the season. Arsenal have developed a reputation for struggling after the turn of the year, and with their Champions League hopes all but extinguished and a 10-point gap to leaders Chelsea leaving them ...

Monaco's Kylian Mbappe 'has So Much Talent

... club is flying right now in the French league and banging in goals for fun. Manager Leonardo Jardim has assembled a great side with a brilliant blend of experience and youth," he said. "Monaco have a good record against the English, too. We beat Manchester United when I was there, they have beaten Spurs twice this season, once at Wembley, and beat Arsenal at the Emirates recently. "City need to be at it or they'll be next.". Thierry Henry, currently working as a coach with the Belgium national team, is Arsenal's all-time leading scorer. Mbappe has drawn comparisons with Henry - a world-class finisher and France's record scorer with 51 goals - because of his electric speed and style of play. Henry used to make the same dazzling runs when cutting inside from the left that Mbappe makes now, and the parallel is made stronger by the fact they broke into the Monaco side as teenagers. Mbappe's first professional goal came at the age of 17 years, 62 days, which beat the ...

Arsenal Make Hard Work Of Non-league Sutton But Win In Fa Cup Fifth Round

... to the quarterfinals. 1. Arsenal made hard work of Sutton. Some respite for Arsene Wenger at last. Arsenal were hit by every misfortune and ill omen in the handbook of FA Cup shocks. They arrived late, struggled with the conditions and were shaken by the physicality of their hosts, but they just about held their nerve to prevail 2-0 over tenacious non-leaguers Sutton United. Lucas Perez broke the deadlock in the first half and Theo Walcott doubled the advantage in the second. Sutton, like a dog on a postman's leg, refused to yield, but Arsenal had done enough. How Wenger needed this. Sutton United. Lineups and Stats. Wenger had voiced his concerns about Sutton's 3 G artificial pitch last Friday and his fears were well-founded, not least because the home side left the sprinklers on for an eternity before kickoff, soaking the pitch in an effort to unsettle their guests. It worked. In those opening exchanges, Arsenal's players were second-guessing the bounce, taking two touches where one would ordinarily suffice. Nacho Monreal and Alex Iwobi were ...

All The Build-up To Fa Cup Tie

... can, well, actually see the game. Before tonight, there was some concern that the floodlights wouldn't be powerful enough so they've called in some backup. West Sutton! Don't bother with your own lights tomorrow night. We've got it covered! #brighterthanthesun __link__/n 6 m LMOV 57 Y. Excuse me steward, where is the away tier. Arsenal's travelling contingent will be used to having their own away stand with its own concourse where they can enjoy the game in the safe company of the like-minded. There will be no such privileges at Gander Green Lane where many of the 750 Arsenal fans lucky enough to have a ticket will, as you can see, not even get a seat. . @tonylivesey sitting in the Arsenal stand at Sutton. Far cry from The Emirates. On @bbc 5 live from 0745. __link__/J 3 wk CGj 86 T. — Henry Jones (@hdotjones) February 20, 2017. Sutton's most/only famous fan Tim Vine is ready for the big game. When a club builds a 60,000-seater stadium and reserves a few dozen seats for something called 'The Diamond Club', you can be sure that club are expecting a few VIPs to be in ...

Arsenal’s Stroll In Suburbs A Minor Diversion In The Arsène Wenger Endgame

... for Arsenal alongside Theo Walcott in 2010, played neatly in midfield. Nicky Bailey took a lot of ribbing before this game after revealing that his pre-match meal is nine chicken nuggets, albeit Bailey does also have eight years of League football behind him. He also played well here, sitting close to his defence and using the ball carefully. Sutton may be a small club but they have a grand old history of their own, a native for many years of the southern suburban Isthmian league, founded as a bastion of Hellenic amateurism with the motto honor sufficit. Here Paul Doswell’s team kept playing neat, passing football even as Walcott made it 2-0 in the second half in front of the Arsenal end, to the loudest cheer of the night. For Arsenal there was little to gain from their night on the Surrey fringes, but there were positives, with Pérez a lively presence, Mustafi as phlegmatic as ever and perhaps, more importantly, ...