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Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Arsenal international earns & scores penalty vs Canada
Oleksandr Zinchenko was involved in a Ukraine defeat to Canada on Saturday, but he did win and score a penalty to spare some of his side's blushes. Photo byWhether Saturday's game between Canada and Ukraine was technically a competitive fixture is up for debate, with the teams taking part in an invitational tournament dubbed the 'Canadian Shield'. Advertisement The fixture certainly wasn't very competitive on the pitch, with Canada racing into a 3-0 lead within 31 minutes thanks to goals from Jonathan David and Promise David. With the game already beyond Ukraine, Tajon Buchanan scored in the 81st minute to make sure of the win. But then there was a late rally by Ukraine to at least make the scoreline more respectable. Photo byFirst, Illya Zabarnyi pulled one back in the 89th minute with a finish from close range, then Arsenal's Oleksandr Zinchenko won his team an injury-time penalty. Picking the ball up in the penalty area, Zinchenko laid it off to Vladyslav Kabaiev, whose powerful shot was well saved. But Zinchenko pressured the rebound and won the ball back, kicking it up onto the hand of Canada's Buchanan for a penalty. Advertisement Zinchenko stepped up to the spot and comfortably fired a left-footed shot into the left corner for 4-2. Photo byWith just a minute remaining in the match, there wasn't any time for Ukraine to change the result, but perhaps the late boost to goal difference will end up affecting the team's final position in the tournament. Ukraine face New Zealand in their other match on Tuesday, whilst Canada face the Ivory Coast. After that, the final standings will be confirmed, with Ukraine not due to face the Ivory Coast directly.
BBC News
5 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
'Fans could not have higher expectations this summer'
We may be coming into summer, but Arsenal are in need of a spring clearout if they are to mount a serious title challenge next year.I expect to see a number of players moved on, many of whom can leave the club as a fan favourite while simultaneously knowing it just didn't quite work Tierney and Jorginho both received a fond farewell from fans at the Emirates back in May, but there are others who perhaps won't receive such a kind joined Arsenal in 2022 from Manchester City, Oleksandr Zinchenko remains one of the most technically gifted players to play for the Gunners. But he has since fallen out of favour with manager Mikel Arteta, making only 15 appearances this season. It is unclear where his future lies, but it does not look like there is room for him in this next phase under is also highly likely that Raheem Sterling will return to Chelsea having endured a difficult time on the red side of already seem to be in the market for a striker, with fervent discussion on social media about what profile would fit best into the squad and the addition of a centre-forward needs to be supported by more creativity in the midfield. Ethan Nwaneri looks an exciting prospect, but his minutes dried up as the season ended. And with captain Martin Odegaard struggling, the Gunners must bring in more than one player who can provide something different in has prioritised bolstering the defence over his past few transfer windows, but desperately needs to turn his attention to how his team will unlock teams who are happy to let Arsenal have the transfer window needs to feel different, and the fans could not have higher expectations this more from Laura Kirk-Francis at the Latte Firm podcast, external
BBC News
14-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Transfer Q&A: Has this season taught Arteta he needs a bigger squad?
BBC Sport's football news reporter Alex Howell has been answering your questions on the transfer Dublin: I hope we don't leave ourselves with such a small squad again. Even when most of the squad was fit, Mikel Arteta was slow to rotate. There's no point in having squad players who just fill out the bench on Arteta has done a great job at Arsenal but one criticism is that he does not rotate his squad that well, and as you say it is not the biggest. Arteta would say that injuries have robbed him of the opportunity to rotate, but look at the Gunners' win over PSV in the Champions League. Going into the second leg, the Gunners were 7-1 up and he started Declan Rice. And then, when Arsenal were 9-3 up aggregate, he brought on Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Zinchenko is an example of this. Yes, he started that second leg in midfield, but when he arrived at the club from Manchester City, he was a key part of the squad, but since the emergence of Myles Lewis-Skelly and the signing of Riccardo Calafiori he has barely played. He can play in midfield but Arteta likes to play and keep the rhythm of his key Arsenal boss has probably learned from this season's injury crisis and will say that if he has more players in his squad who are at a level he thinks is good enough, he can use more of more of Tuesday's transfer Q&A with BBC Sport's football experts
The Guardian
13-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Zinchenko and a deep respect for a loan spell in 2017-18
While the first-leg shellacking Arsenal dished out to PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands meant that Wednesday night's return leg was predictably low on drama, there was at least one moment of highly performative nonsense for fans at the Emirates to enjoy. Handed a rare start by Mikel Arteta, Oleksandr Zinchenko repaid his manager by firing his side ahead with a terrific strike but very pointedly refused to celebrate his first ever Bigger Cup goal for reasons that initially seemed to baffle his own teammates, PSV's players, both sets of supporters and anyone like Football Daily with so little going on in their life that they'd tuned in to watch this 90-minute long foregone conclusion unfold on TV. It later turned out that Oleksandr had actually made 14 appearances for PSV during a loan spell eight years ago and while his resolve not to celebrate his excellent opener out of respect for his sort-of former side is to be commended, even the handful of PSV's travelling fans who had some vague recollection of his time with them almost certainly wouldn't have cared if he'd cartwheeled the length of the pitch in delight. He had, after all, just put his side 8-1 up on aggregate in a tie that would eventually finish 9-3. Pulling one back for PSV 12 minutes later, Ivan Perisic also added to the gaiety of the evening, rushing to extract the ball from the net, before sprinting back to the halfway line in the traditional David Platt style in a manner that screamed 'Just six more lads, we can do this!' Next up for Arsenal are the reigning Bigger Cup champions, a team Arteta says his side are 'very capable' of beating until such time as they inevitably don't because, well … they're Real Madrid and as Atlético discovered once again on Wednesday night, no matter how well you play against them, actually knocking them out of this competition is more difficult than catching fog in a net. Meanwhile in Birmingham, Aston Villa's progress to a quarter-final appointment with Paris Saint-Germain could scarcely have been more straightforward. Going into the second leg of their tie against Club Brugge with a two-goal cushion they probably didn't deserve, Unai Emery's side spanked another three past their Belgian visitors without reply to set up a meeting with a club with which the Spaniard has unfinished business. One can scarcely imagine a more PSG exit from Bigger Cup than one engineered by one of their current players, Marco Asensio, and a much-maligned former manager who unfairly became a laughing stock in Paris during PSG's recent bantz era. If Villa do conquer the French champions and advance to Bigger Cup semi-finals, neither man is likely to suffer Zinchenko-esque levels of reticence when it comes to celebrating. Join Scott Murray at 8pm (all times GMT) for hot Europa League coverage of Tottenham Hotspur or Spurs 4-2 AZ (4-3 aggregate) in their last-16 second leg, while Daniel Harris will be on deck for Manchester United 2-1 Real Sociedad (3-2 aggregate). 'We're always saying we're proud in the women's game that we're very inclusive but somehow that is starting to slip away a bit. If we don't act really strongly right now then it might be too late' – Vivianne Miedema airs concerns about the increase in abuse directed at female players in this rather good interview by Tom Garry. 'Now that VAR has found a new way to ruin football, this time by relitigating penalty shootouts while they are ongoing, is there any point in actually playing out matches to their conclusion any more? Maybe the powers that be can just feed all the names into a computer and at the start of each season, Gianni Infantino can just announce who has won what during a televised 'spectacular' from a gaudy bolthole, while Coldplay noodle away blandly in the background. It would certainly help the issue of player fatigue. The end game (pun intended) of Football Daily's long-running Stop Football campaign is in sight' – Derek McGee. 'I wish you and other assorted punditry would desist from labelling saved penalty kicks as 'missed'. If the goalie makes a stop it's not like the taker skied it over the bar or slashed it wide. Give the goalie credit and move on. I admit it's a minor quibble, but at 80 years of age reading the Football Daily is a highlight of my day and … my God how the mighty have fallen' – Guy Robert (and no others). Send letters to Today's prizeless letter o' the day winner is … Derek McGee. Terms and conditions for our competitions can be viewed here. Get your ears around the latest Football Weekly Extra, in which Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Mark Langdon and Sid Lowe discuss Madrid and much more besides. Uefa suits will ask Fifa and Ifab for a review of the double-touch penalty rule after Julián Alvarez's 'clearly unintentional' contact cost Atlético dear in their shootout defeat by Real Madrid. Raheem Sterling reckons he's 'still got a big part to play' during his Arsenal loan after finally coming good with two assists against PSV. 'I know what I am capable of, I'm ready to help the team as much as possible,' he chirped. Virgil van Dijk has added to Liverpool's Bigger Cup exit gloom by stating only a liar would say if he's staying at the club next season. 'I have no idea at the moment, genuinely I still have no idea,' the captain sighed. The WSL's game-changing £65m contract with Sky Sports and the BBC will have to be renegotiated if clubs vote to scrap relegation. And Kylian Mbappé is back in the France fold after a six-month absence, having been called up for the Nations League quarter-final against Croatia. PSG's multi-accented whippersnapper, Désiré Doué, has been named in the squad for the first time. 'Bloody awful, and also very familiar.' No, it's not Sid Lowe's take on Football Daily, but on Atlético's latest European loss to their city rivals. John Brewin, meanwhile, wraps up all the Bigger Cup shenanigans in his in his review of the Round of Arsenal, handing out honours and dishonours from the latest action. David Hytner channels his inner Eminem and asks for the real Tottenham Hotspur to please stand up. 'A second article about the Ineos Compass in a week – it's this kind of inefficiency that would never happen at Manchester United' opens Max Rushden in his latest column, which you can read here. Atlético controversy shows VAR creates far more angst than it resolves, writes Leander Schaerlaeckens. Sedate Chelsea need to raise the tempo and make some noise, screams Jacob Steinberg. Time is running out for Liverpool to become serial winners, doomsays Jonathan Liew. And our team of USA USA USA writers gaze into their crystal balls and offer up their predictions for the 2025 NWSL season. Supporters gather on a hill outside the Holte End at Villa Park for a glimpse of a small slice of the action as Aston Villa take on Ipswich in a crucial top-of-the-table battle in the old First Division in April 1981. It was an agonising afternoon for Villa, the league leaders, as Bobby Robson's second-placed Ipswich won 2-1. Alan Brazil gave the visitors the lead in the fourth minute, which they doubled when Eric Gates seized on a defensive mistake with 11 minutes remaining. Gary Shaw pulled one back three minutes later but despite relentless late Villa pressure, Ipswich held on to narrow the gap with Villa to a point. Ron Saunders's Villa side had the last laugh though, clinching the title on the final day of the season even though they lost that afternoon at Arsenal, as Ipswich were beaten by Middlesbrough.
The Independent
13-03-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Arsenal ‘cannot relax for a second' against Real Madrid
Oleksandr Zinchenko has demanded faultless focus from Arsenal after they set up a meeting with Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals. The Ukraine international opened the scoring in the Gunners' 2-2 last-16 second-leg draw with PSV Eindhoven at the Emirates Stadium, which saw them through to the last eight with a 9-3 win on aggregate. Mikel Arteta's men resume their European quest at home against the Champions League holders on April 8 before travelling to the Spanish capital for the reverse fixture the following Wednesday. 'I think in this competition, especially at this stage, you cannot be relaxed even for one second – because, honestly, the level and demands from all the teams at this stage is so high,' said Zinchenko. 'If you are relaxed, even for a bit, they can punish you. This is what we should learn from the past. I think we have got this experience already, so let's see how it works.' This is the first time the Gunners, who were knocked out by Bayern Munich in the last eight in 2023-24, have made it to the Champions League quarter-finals in back-to-back seasons since 2010. Arsenal had not conceded a goal at home in the competition until Ivan Perisic cancelled out Zinchenko's sixth-minute opener on Wednesday night. Declan Rice restored the lead before the break but Couhaib Driouech drew the sides back level on the night 20 minutes from time. Both Arsenal assists came courtesy of Chelsea loanee Raheem Sterling, who will miss the first leg through suspension after he was booked in second-half stoppage time, his third yellow card of the competition. Arteta took advantage of their record-setting 7-1 first-leg triumph going into the PSV encounter, making seven changes from the weekend draw to Manchester United. Zinchenko, who has made 17 appearances across all competitions this season, was pragmatic when asked if his efforts against PSV – where he spent a season on loan in 2016-17 – should buy him more minutes. He said: 'Honestly, I am so happy to be part of this amazing club and team. It is really a joy to be close to these guys. 'Whenever the team and head coach needs me, I am there. In any position they need me, I am there to help. 'Even if I will be in the stands, I will try to make an impact as much as I can – to push the others, just to hug someone, whatever! It is really a joy to be here.' The 28-year-old's contract expires next June but for now his focus remains on the task at hand rather than the possibility of talks in the summer. 'I don't know yet to be honest,' he said. 'If I would know, I could tell [you]. 'It's still a long way to go until the end of the season. I think we are at the most interesting period of the season, where every single game is a final, and you never know what is going to happen in football.'
