Arsenal should be far happier with how the international break went than Manchester City, who will be asking England why they couldn't act like Portugal.
Arsenal should be far happier with how the international break went than Manchester City, who will be asking England why they couldn’t act like Portugal.
Their squad played a combined 1,142 minutes for their countries over the past week in comparison to the 1,749 minutes put together by Manchester City’s stars, while Arsenal had far more precautionary pull-outs and enter Sunday’s game with fewer injury issues. “We measure everything and the first game for him wasn’t a game that was a high level in terms of the intensity. We have done exactly what Holland did with Virgil van Dijk. What Norway did with Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard starting them again. Holland started Ake again. It only ever seems to fall on us when there is a question around that” – Gareth Southgate, England manager.
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