The media, quite rightly, were piling the pressure on because that's their job. The club could have made a change but they didn't.
It's a big week coming up for Arsenal with Leicester at the Emirates on Super Sunday, Liverpool are in town on Wednesday, and then they go to Aston Villa in the early kick-off the following Saturday.
What is really good about this club is that we want to be sustainable, so we are not going to change six or seven players every year.
With no return date yet set for Houghton, the Arsenal defender is being tasked with leading the team once again at the inaugural Arnold Clark Cup, which kicks off on Thursday.
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The 28-year-old appeared fully committed to his duties at San Siro until the Nerazzurri were plunged into a financial crisis that led to the departure of head coach Antonio Conte in June, with Chelsea subsequently able to lure him back to the Premier League.
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Demarai Gray - one of Everton's best performers this season - was taken off inside 25 minutes and replaced with £40m signing Dele Alli.
We will take the knee because that's what we think is the right message to continue to show. How the crowd react, we can't influence that.
He was also still virtually unknown to English football fans when he joined Chelsea from Rennes for just £22 million ($30m) in the summer of 2020, and yet is now widely regarded as one of the best players in the world in his position.
Watford, for their part, can be backed at 8/1 (9.00) to claim another high-profile scalp while the draw is on offer at 17/4 (5.25).
Andrea Petagna strolled through the middle of the Leicester defence before unselfishly teeing up Elmas for a tap -in.
Jota and Callum McGregor shot over from 20 yards and the latter played Maeda in behind but the forward shot against goalkeeper Nikita Haikin.
Less than six weeks after having no players and no division, League of Ireland side Treaty drew 0-0 at Bray Wanderers on the opening day of the season
Mali face Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday in the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations, with the west African nation clear favourites to progress against their less experienced opponents.
However, another blow was suffered when Moore, booked early in the second half for a challenge on Nathan McGinley, was sent packing by Collum for another yellow card challenge on Shields which ended a Motherwell counter 30 yards from goal.
Rayo are an intense side with plenty of attacking purpose, enjoying their best ever start to a La Liga season and are more than capable of avoiding defeat at the Estadio de la Ceramica this weekend, where Villarreal have won just three times this term.
The couple had summer plans to watch Arsenal’s pre-season tour of America, but were disappointed when the London club cancelled due to the pandemic. It was only upon boarding the flight to the UK that they discovered the match with Wolves had been cancelled too.
St Mirren earlier confirmed they had requested postponements of both games following further positive Covid tests.
I don't think City would get the amount of points they will get this year if we weren't around, and if they weren't around it's pretty much the same.
Ten Hag gets to pick up the pieces. The players have completely lost their confidence and belief, said Neville.
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Tottenham had been keen on landing Porto winger Luis Diaz but, as revealed by GOAL, Liverpool have now agreed a £37.5m ($50m) deal for the Colombian.
Hull's Ryan Longman was inches away from adding a third but the substitute's strike cannoned back off the post and into the arms of Collins.
“I think they know because they have committed to it, that we want to take our culture, our demands and who we want to be as a club to a different level.
Ancelotti - it appears to these untrained, UEFA Pro Licence-less eyes - has done what he does best: problem solved. Does the Italian have an overarching coaching/playing philosophy à la Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola? 'Ish' is probably the answer to that question: and that philosophy-ish is pragmatism. This is a Madrid in transition; they have some excellent young players but their engine - Toni Kroos, Casemiro and Luka Modric - while hardly gnarled, have an ability to press that is, it is fair to say, sub-optimal. Here comes a fact: in the midfield third they rank in the bottom five for midfield pressures in Liga. Their midfield three don't really press, and in an era where pressing is massively au fait, that should seem like a problem. It isn't.
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Mbeumo showed nerves of steel to snatch victory from Watford who inflicted the most awful self-harm to themselves. Why William Troost-Ekong felt the need to go to ground in his own penalty area at the most crucial time of the match beggars belief.
It has that prestige like the Olympics where it comes around every four years and it feels that little bit more special because it's not happening too often.
He's really led by example this season as captain and you want your big players to make an impact on games. Bournemouth boss Scott Parker: We didn't play well enough to warrant three points.
There are top tier teams in Europe like Bayern, Manchester City or PSG, and I'm not sure whether Barça will reach that level the following year, but I'm sure that they will be among the favourites to reach at least the quarter-finals of the competition. They need to reinforce their defensive line. They need a good center-back, a right-back and even a substitute for Jordi Alba.
Just like Flamengo, Serie A and Copa do Brasil double winners Atletico Mineiro immediately turned their attentions Jesus' way once Cuca resigned from his post following a memorable season for the Belo Horizonte side.
Defending champions Algeria have crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations after losing 3-1 to Ivory Coast to finish bottom of Group E.
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Dallas, 31, suffered a femoral fracture in Saturday's 4-0 home defeat by Premier League leaders Manchester City.
What they will at least get now Roy Hodgson is on board is better organisation. Everyone who has played under him talks about how he is very good at filling spaces and plugging gaps in teams.
It's worth noting all of Son's goals have been non-penalties whilst Salah has scored five from the spot.
Three wins from their final four games - which are against El Salvador, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Panama - would guarantee a place at Qatar 2022.
The way they are now, if you're Erling Haaland and Chelsea come in and say we'll pay £110m or whatever it is, we'll give you this much a week, he will be looking at the same time at the way Chelsea play, and that they've only scored eight goals in seven games.
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Against Tottenham, Kante was sent on for Mason Mount to give Chelsea greater presence in the middle of the park.
He provided his first assist of the season in October, that coming in a man-of-the-match display at Hibs, while no player made more tackles and interceptions combined than the 25-year-old (25), who nailed down the left-back spot with a WhoScored.com rating of 7.34.
When there are two teams so close together in the table, both are fighting to be in front of one another and today we managed to get there. We are sitting fourth now, some teams have games to play, but it is nice to be in that position.”
Cristiano is probably our standout name, but it's just gameplan, ideas. I had a good chat with Cristiano actually, he was great, and we've decided to go like that today. Really looking forward to the game.
Tavernier made no mistake, hammering home the resulting penalty, although United very nearly spoilt their afternoon late on when Clark took advantage of some sloppy Rangers defending to glance a header from a low throw against the top of the bar with the previously unemployed Allan McGregor beaten.
Chelsea have sacked managers for less, but there can be no denying Thomas Tuchel is the right man to steer them through this disappointing moment. The new owners, whoever they might be, may not be so forgiving next season, however.
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The England captain has scored just once in 12 Premier League outings for Spurs this season and has at times looked a shadow of the player that won the Golden Boot last term.