Bernardo Silva is enjoying the fast and furious nature of Manchester City s festive schedule as Pep Guardiola s side head into the busiest period of their season.
The defending Premier League champions are amid a sequence of 13 matches in just six weeks across all competitions, a run that includes crunch league clashes with Chelsea and Liverpool as well as an EFL Cup quarter-final at Leicester City.
English football s traditionally hectic festive fixture list has often been a bone of contention among managers, but Silva who joined City from Monaco in 2017 is relishing the busy calendar.
It s a little bit different because both countries where I played before, Portugal and France, we had a Christmas break, he told reporters.
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Score against Liverpool and Manchester United fans will never forget you. Score twice, as an academy graduate, and you will be practically worshipped.
The last time these sides met in the Premier League, Marcus Rashford did just that. In his first league start for two and a half months, the young man from Wythenshawe gave full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold a torrid experience.
He s probably the fastest in the league, but it s not just out and out pace, Alexander-Arnold recalled to the Daily Mail in September. It s getting you off balance, that s when they get you. It s not just a foot race. Get you off balance, then your body shape s not right and they re gone.
Rashford was, and so was the game, in the space of 24 minutes. He produced two stylish finishes, both …
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Hoping to extend on their EFL Cup adventure on Tuesday night, Arsenal will welcome a struggling Leeds to the Emirates in midweek.
Starting with the hosts, while Arsenal might have opened the 2021/22 campaign in the midst of a very public struggle, the Gunners have managed to bounce back. Snatching a last-gasp point at home against Crystal Palace last week, Mikel Arteta s side were last seen on Friday night claiming a deserved 3-1 romp against Aston Villa at the Emirates. Playing their way into the top-half of the Premier League table, the former champions are now enjoying a seven-match unbeaten run across all formats, a run that stems back to the end of August. Knowing that they have a real chance in north London to extend on th…
Arsenal defender Konstantinos Mavropanos is scheduled to have a medical today (Monday) ahead of a proposed loan move to FC Nurnberg, according to numerous sources.
The Greek centre-back arrived to North London in January 2018 for a fee of just over €2 million, but injuries have so far hampered his progress with Arsenal severely. In two years, he has only played eight times in all competitions for the first team, seven of which were in the Premier League.
Obviously lacking experience, the 22-year-old s continued presence in the squad would do little to improve Arsenal s frail defence. Quite apart from that, the Gunners are looking to add a new player in that department and have reportedly made contact with Bayern Munich to inquire about Jerome Boateng.
Meanwhil…