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The demo version of FIFA 13 is already out and it can be downloaded from the EA Sports website. Continuing with our series on club player ratings, today we look at Arsenal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9b541_1xLw&feature=player_detailpage Here is the rating :- Goal Keepers: Szczesny -79 Fabianski -76 Mannone -70 Defenders: Sagna -80 Jenkinson -62 Yennaris -60 Gibbs -78 Santos -79 Djourou -75 Koscielny -82 Vermaelen -82 Mertasacker-78 Squillaci -72 Mid Fielders: Diaby -72...

Unbeaten in six games, Mikel Arteta’s men look to be growing in confidence at an important time in the season. With only the Premier League to focus on after getting knocked out of both domestic cups in English football, his players have the chance to gain plenty of respite between games and will hope to avoid a chaotic injury schedule towards the end of their campaign. Sporting News rounds up the latest on the injury front at the Emirates Stadium below....

Arsenal’s winless run extended to nine games – their worst stretch since going 10 matches without a victory in 1977 – after suffering a 2-1 Premier League loss at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday. But interim head coach Ljungberg feels one win could help turn Arsenal’s season around, admitting his players looked “scared” during the first half against Brighton. “That’s the tough part. They looked very short on confidence, in the first half they were scared to get the ball, scared to move and were just standing still,” he told a news conference....

Ahead of the Gunners’ Premier League game against West Ham United on Saturday, Wenger confirmed in a club statement that he will leave the Emirates Stadium at the end of the 2017-18 season. Kanu who moved to the north London club from Inter Milan in February 1999, enjoyed a decent spell of two Premier League titles which includes being a member of the 2003-04 Invincibles squad, and two FA Cups under Wenger....

The Gunners have scouts across the world who regularly send reports back to Arsene Wenger and his scouting team, but it is of particular note that one was present in south-west London to witness the title favourites edge past Pep Guardiola’s side. The players who earn less than Jesse Lingard It’s considered common practice for the Gunners to cover big games in the Premier League and abroad with France-based scout and former Arsenal defender Gilles Grimandi spotted at Monaco’s Stade Louis II stadium several times this season casting an eye over Ligue 1’s most exciting attacking team....

Arsenal meet Chelsea at Wembley on Saturday, Arsene Wenger’s side bidding to salvage silverware from a season that saw them finish fifth in the Premier League, while the Blues chase a famous double. The Gunners won 3-0 against Chelsea last September, but Antonio Conte’s men inflicted revenge in a 3-1 Stamford Bridge win in February, Hazard scoring an impressive individual goal. “I think the way we started the [home] game in the first half was very good,” Ramsey, who scored the winner in his side’s 2014 FA Cup final victory over Hull City, said to Arsenal Player....

Smith Rowe, just 18, has enjoyed playing time for the Gunners this season, appearing six times across the EFL Cup and Europa League, netting three goals. The attacking midfielder has looked particularly promising in his four European outings, scoring on trips to Vorskla and Qarabag. However, he has not made an appearance for Unai Emery’s men in the Premier League, and Leipzig are close to bringing him to Germany....

Gunners boss Arsene Wenger deployed three defenders at the back in Thursday’s win against Crystal Palace, and will stick with Laurent Koscielny, Shkodran Mustafi and Calum Chambers in defence on Sunday. Wenger will set a Premier League record in the match by taking charge of his 811th Premier League game, breaking Sir Alex Ferguson’s record. Arsenal XI: Cech, Chambers, Mustafi, Koscielny, Bellerin, Xhaka, Wilshere, Kolasinac, Iwobi, Alexis, Lacazette Subs: Ospina, Mertesacker, Maitland-Niles, Coquelin, Elneny, Walcott, Welbeck

Meanwhile, Atletico Madrid are interested in William Saliba. Elsewhere, the Gunners are leading the race to sign a Real Madrid ace. On that note, here’s a look at the key Arsenal transfer stories as on 21st April 2022: Atletico Madrid interested in William Saliba Atletico Madrid are interested in William Saliba, according to The Hard Tackle via L’Equipe. The French defender has been in inspired form since joining Marseille on loan from Arsenal this season....

Get odds on Arsenal-Leicester Wenger failed to guide the Gunners to a top-four finish last season for the first time in his 21 years of managing the club, ending the season 18 points behind eventual winners Chelsea in fifth. And, ahead of the new campaign, the Frenchman looks set to lose his star player with Alexis Sanchez closing in on a move away from north London. Alexis has agreed terms with Manchester City following discussions with manager Pep Guardiola, but has also held talks with Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain....

Since losing heavily to Liverpool back in August, the Gunners have not lost in four games — winning three — and they celebrated a hard-earned draw away to Chelsea last week. With Tony Pulis’ Baggies coming to the Emirates, the north London side have an opportunity to jump five places in the table, but they will need to secure three points in order to do so. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the UK, the game will be available to watch live on television on Sky Sports Premier League, as well as being available to stream live on Sky Go....

According to the Independent’s Miguel Delaney, Arsenal are willing to pay the £100 million fee that RB Leipzig have demanded for their prolific striker Christopher Nkunku. The 23-year old Christopher Nkunku had a breakout season with RB Leipzig that has led to interest from multiple big clubs. This includes the likes of Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal and Liverpool. However, RB Leipzig have the player under contract until 2024 and have reportedly set a price tag of £100 million....

Sanchez is out of contract in 2018 and talks over a renewal are on hold until the end of the season. If the Chile international cannot be convinced to extend, former Arsenal star Merson does not think Chelsea’s status as a rival club would stop Arsene Wenger from selling, given he would be desperate to avoid losing him for nothing the following year. He feels the 2012 sale of Robin van Persie to Manchester United when he had one year left on his contract is a sign of what is likely to happen at the end of this season....

As a Black kid in the fourth grade with a fairly voracious reading habit, I had read a couple of books by Theodor Seuss Geisel, who went by one of the most famous pseudonyms in modern literature: Dr. Seuss. But by and large, his books it did nothing for me. Even at my elementary school age, I was looking for enlightenment. I grew up in one of the more criminally disturbed neighborhoods in Houston, and I was trying to transcend my surroundings....

In the Army, the general said, you win or you die. Far more consequential than bragging rights on the football field, but useful for a team that no longer ends its season against Navy. “It is dramatic,” team captain Cole Christiansen said. “But I think it’s helped us a lot.” Christiansen has been part of Army’s turnaround from perennial losing program to its lofty status today: ranked in the AP Top 25 for the first time since 1996, on a seven-game winning streak, headed to a bowl game and a 7-point favorite in Saturday’s 119th meeting against Navy....

Thunberg told Scandinavian talk show Skavlan, which has filmed in New York this week, that the offer from the Hollywood movie star and former California governor was “one of the funniest” she’d received. Skavlan said it has been confirmed that the climate activist and her father will take Schwarzenegger’s car to Montreal, Canada where she is set to attend the protest against climate change on Friday. Newsweek has contacted Greta Thunberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s teams for further confirmation....

Chapman’s fastball velocity has made him a folk hero among pitchers everywhere, and even led the present author to hang a poster of him on his college dorm room wall. He deserves every accolade resulting from his terrific velocity, but it would not be fair to stop our discussion of Chapman’s dominance there. The Reds’ closer now features a mature, three pitch arsenal that has made him a complete pitcher....

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) estimated that conflict-related imprisonment from April 14, 2014 until April 30, 2021 at 7,900-8,700. As many as 4,000 were detained by the government side of the conflict and between 4,300 and 4,700 by separatists. The conflict in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, the Donbas, began in April 2014 following Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula after the removal of Ukraine’s former Moscow-leaning president....

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