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🚨 | Mikel Arteta wants all seats removed at Arsenal’s stadium so that everyone has to stand during the game against Atletico today, aiming to create a more intimidating atmosphere. 🇪🇸 ~ @SkySportPL

🚨🎙️Newcastle owners on why they had 2 ladies massaging them during the match: Running a football club is stressful, you need the right people around you to keep you relaxed and focused, Sometimes you need two young ladies behind you to always take good care of you. As you can see, the Chelsea owners have nothing like that. That is why we are thrashed them. we are calm, we are enjoying it, and the results are showing on the pitch.

🚨| Pep Guardiola on losing the lead against Everton “I was thinking about what Arsenal fans were saying, that I should let Arteta win a trophy. So I reconsidered it. He is my student, Sometimes in football, you also think about these things. I just wanted to wish him well and allow him to win one.”

🚨Opta’s supercomputer predicts the likely Champions League winner following the semi-final first legs. All four sides are still in the tie ahead of the second legs, with nothing settled yet and the contest finely poised on paper. However, Opta’s supercomputer has already delivered its prediction. Opta’s supercomputer has tipped Arsenal as the favourites to win the Champions League. The supercomputer gives the Gunners a 33.90% chance of lifting the Champions League trophy. PSG are close behind on 32.25%, Bayern sit at 22.67%, while Atlético Madrid are seen as outsiders with just a 10.1% chance. That puts the Premier League leaders just ahead of the pack, highlighting how impressive they’ve been in Europe this season. Via [afcnewsroom]

🚨🗣️ JUST IN: Paul Merson makes BOLD title claim ahead of Arsenal F.C. vs Fulham F.C. clash. “If Arsenal win this game, they win the league. Simple as that. Three points here and Manchester City F.C. will have to pull off something special to catch them. I’ve said it before, these games against Newcastle and Fulham are everything for Arsenal’s season. Forget goal difference, forget big scorelines. Win 1-0, win ugly, just get the three points. Because from there, it’s in their hands. And if they get it done… the title is theirs.” 👀

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🗣️ Thierry Henry on the Champions League last 4. “My good friend Jose Mourinho always told me defense wins trophies. Just look at it… Arsenal have conceded 5, Bayern 14, PSG 17, Atletico 24. With numbers like that, they have the best defense. Arsenal aren’t just in the last four ... they’re the team to beat in the Champions League”

LONDON IS RED ❤️ DON’T TAKE IT PERSONAL #ARSFUL

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🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry on Arsenal F.C. ahead of upcoming fixture: “Do you think it’s going to be easy away from home? It never is. We dropped points against Wolves when we were 2-0 up and we lost to Southampton. These are the games people think are simple, but they’re not. You have to respect teams, go out there and perform. Because if you don’t, you get punished. And at this stage of the season, one mistake, one moment of complacency… that’s how titles slip away. This is where mentality matters. Not talent, not hype. Mentality.”

🚨🗞️ JUST IN: UEFA reviewing comments made by Declan Rice after Atlético Madrid clash. Following the 1-1 draw, Rice spoke openly about key decisions in the game: “Champions League is a different beast. You have to be careful in both boxes because they give absolutely everything. The second one on Eze, it’s a clear penalty. I don’t know how that hasn’t been given. I think the Atlético fans influenced the referee’s decision and changed his mind.” UEFA are now understood to be assessing the remarks, with potential disciplinary action not ruled out.

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Alan Shearer BLASTS the referee and VAR decision on the Ben white ‘Handball’ to award Atletico Madrid a penalty: "I’m sorry, but I just don’t see it. That is never a penalty in a million years. You look at Ben White there he’s not even jumping, he’s simply standing his ground and sticking a leg out to make a block. When you move like that, your arms have to go somewhere; they were just dangling in a completely natural position for a player in that motion. The ball is hit with such pace from point-blank range that there’s zero time to react. This is precisely why VAR is there to detect such obvious errors and see the context of the movement, not to punish a player for having limbs. To call that an 'unnatural' position is a joke. For me, it’s a shocking decision that has massively hindered Arsenal in a game of this magnitude. Atlético have been handed a gift they didn't earn."