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| Burnley v Arsenal: Premier League – live! | Burnley v Arsenal: Premier League – live! |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 5.38pm BST17:38 | |
| 8 mins: Ah. Yes. Hmmm. Well. Right. Giroud tries to channel the spirit of Jermain Defoe by hammering a volley from way out and...well, let’s just say it didn’t have quite the same impact as a Defoe’s. | |
| 5.36pm BST17:36 | |
| 6 mins: And a chance for Arsenal, as Sanchez is the first to react as David Jones takes a heavy touch in his own area, but the Chilean hoys the ball way over the bar. | |
| 5.36pm BST17:36 | |
| 5 mins: Chance for Burnley as Sam Vokes outstrips Per Mertesacker down the left but David Ospina dashes out to smother the danger. The ball is then - a little uncertainly - cleared. | |
| 5.35pm BST17:35 | |
| 4 mins: Sanchez tries a cross from the left aiming for Giroud, but it’s headed away by the quietly impressive Jason Shackell. Cracking defender, is Shackell - if Burnley stay up it’ll be as much down to him as Danny Ings. | |
| 5.32pm BST17:32 | |
| 2 mins: Sanchez himself takes the free-kick, belting towards goal with some serious swerve and dip, so much so that Tom Heaton initially seemed to go too far to his right, before correcting and getting everything behind the effort. | |
| 5.31pm BST17:31 | |
| 1 mins: And we’re away, Arsenal kicking off, with the sun having spoiled things rather by disappearing behind some clouds. Kieron Trippier gives away a free-kick for rather unsubtly dragging back Alexis Sanchez, and is lucky to get away without a booking. | |
| 5.28pm BST17:28 | |
| Burnley play ‘Wake Up’ by the Arcade Fire before every game. Big fan of that. | |
| 5.25pm BST17:25 | |
| Even if this match turns out to be balls, Turf Moor certainly does look rather lovely in the spring sun... | |
| 5.22pm BST17:22 | |
| Nigel Pearson: never knowingly excited. Unless James McArthur is in front of him. | |
| Massive win for #lcfc but Pearson playing it down: "We have to wait and see if we can turn it around" | |
| 5.13pm BST17:13 | |
| “Is that Roy Keane in your header photo?” asks Adrian Doran. “Didn’t take him for a Burnley man...” | |
| This one, in case you’re reading later on and the header photo changes. Roy? | |
| Updated at 5.16pm BST | |
| 5.06pm BST17:06 | |
| Some pre-match reading, that frankly has sod all to do with this game but is interesting anyway. Here’s Sid Lowe, on the extraordinary Barcelona team of 1996 that has pumped out managers by the boatload: | |
| If it is extraordinary enough that one team provides half the managers left in the competition, go a little deeper. The starting XI that day ran: Lopetegui, Ferrer, Popescu, Abelardo, Blanc, Luis Enrique, Sergi, Amor, Guardiola, Stoichkov, Pizzi. Only two of them have not become first-team coaches: Guillermo Amor, who ran Barcelona’s academy and is now technical director at Adelaide United, and Gica Popescu, sent to jail for three years for fraud. Now there’s a “Where Are They Now?”. | |
| There were 28 players in Barcelona’s squad in the 1996-97 season. Popescu apart, only five others have not worked as coaches or technical directors and among them are Giovanni, who scouts for Olympiakos and Vítor Baía, an ambassador forPorto, plus the owner of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Ronaldo, and another Ballon d’Or winner, the Fifa presidential candidate Luís Figo. | |
| Sergi Barjuan has just taken over at Almería, Juan Antonio Pizzi manages León in Mexico having coached Valencia last season and Chapi Ferrer began this year at Córdoba, while Albert Celades is Spain’s Under-21 coach, Emmanuel Amunike coaches Nigeria’s Under-17s and Roberto Prosinecki manages Azerbaijan, to name but a few. Barça’s manager when they won the Super Cup, the Copa del Rey and the Cup Winners’ Cup was Sir Bobby Robson. Oh, and you might recognise his assistant, too: José Mourinho. | |
| 4.56pm BST16:56 | 4.56pm BST16:56 |
| Relevant, to Burley and the relegation scrap, results from elsewhere today: | Relevant, to Burley and the relegation scrap, results from elsewhere today: |
| 4.43pm BST16:43 | 4.43pm BST16:43 |
| Team news | Team news |
| Burnley | Burnley |
| Heaton; Trippier, Duff, Shackell (c), Mee; Boyd, Arfield, Jones, Barnes; Vokes, Ings. Subs: Gilks, Keane, Ward, Ulvestad, Jutkiewicz, Taylor, Kightly. | Heaton; Trippier, Duff, Shackell (c), Mee; Boyd, Arfield, Jones, Barnes; Vokes, Ings. Subs: Gilks, Keane, Ward, Ulvestad, Jutkiewicz, Taylor, Kightly. |
| Arsenal | Arsenal |
| Ospina; Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal; Coquelin; Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis; Giroud. Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Chambers, Flamini, Rosicky, Walcott, Welbeck. | Ospina; Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal; Coquelin; Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis; Giroud. Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Chambers, Flamini, Rosicky, Walcott, Welbeck. |
| Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) | Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral) |
| 4.30pm BST16:30 | 4.30pm BST16:30 |
| The first thing to note, ahead of this game, is that by the looks of the Burnley programme, Tom Heaton as Seen Things. | The first thing to note, ahead of this game, is that by the looks of the Burnley programme, Tom Heaton as Seen Things. |
| Today's official matchday programme cover #BFCvAFC pic.twitter.com/pRQo5nO0Q2 | Today's official matchday programme cover #BFCvAFC pic.twitter.com/pRQo5nO0Q2 |
| It’s a slightly unusual sensation watching an Arsenal game and expecting them to win. Not that they shouldn’t win most of the games they play, but over the years they have often found new and interesting ways to make a complete balls of things. But these days they seem to have developed something like a backbone, or at least a way of winning all the games they should have done before. They’ve played 18 games in all competitions since the turn of the year, and have won 15 of them. The three that haven’t gone their way were at Southampton on New Year’s Day, the North London derby when the Unstoppable Harry Kane beat them, and that horrendous aberration in the home Champions League leg against Monaco. | It’s a slightly unusual sensation watching an Arsenal game and expecting them to win. Not that they shouldn’t win most of the games they play, but over the years they have often found new and interesting ways to make a complete balls of things. But these days they seem to have developed something like a backbone, or at least a way of winning all the games they should have done before. They’ve played 18 games in all competitions since the turn of the year, and have won 15 of them. The three that haven’t gone their way were at Southampton on New Year’s Day, the North London derby when the Unstoppable Harry Kane beat them, and that horrendous aberration in the home Champions League leg against Monaco. |
| Other than that, it’s been three months of success for Arsenal, with most of their key men fit, their big players coming up with the goods, relatively few defensive boo-boos and some unheralded types doing their thing, too. Their fans will be forgiven for being absolutely terrified that it’s all going to go very badly wrong any time now. | Other than that, it’s been three months of success for Arsenal, with most of their key men fit, their big players coming up with the goods, relatively few defensive boo-boos and some unheralded types doing their thing, too. Their fans will be forgiven for being absolutely terrified that it’s all going to go very badly wrong any time now. |
| Could that time be at Burnley? Sean Dyche, as well as being the Premier League’s foremost Victorian wrestler lookalike, has marshalled his rather meagre collection of talent into a pretty cohesive unit that has pulled down the pants, taken out the paddle and given the bottoms of some big boys a good old slap in recent weeks. They of course beat Manchester City (after holding them to a draw at Eastlands earlier in the season), got a point out of Tottenham and also frustrated Chelsea. They’re still in the bottom three, but with by some distance the weakest squad in the division, it’s something close to a miracle that they’re even in touch at this stage of the campaign. So hats off to Sean Dyche. Hats off indeed. | Could that time be at Burnley? Sean Dyche, as well as being the Premier League’s foremost Victorian wrestler lookalike, has marshalled his rather meagre collection of talent into a pretty cohesive unit that has pulled down the pants, taken out the paddle and given the bottoms of some big boys a good old slap in recent weeks. They of course beat Manchester City (after holding them to a draw at Eastlands earlier in the season), got a point out of Tottenham and also frustrated Chelsea. They’re still in the bottom three, but with by some distance the weakest squad in the division, it’s something close to a miracle that they’re even in touch at this stage of the campaign. So hats off to Sean Dyche. Hats off indeed. |
| And it seems there’s a very simple secret to Dyche’s success: fibbing. He said this week: “I lie - a lot! We try to nick all the golden nuggets from all the different departments - sports science, analysis, psychology, game planning, down days, rest periods, diet. We get all the golden nuggets and offer them to the players. I don’t force them. I say ‘this will be good for you, it will help us’. They have a chance to say yes or no. You can’t force them, you can only guide them into the right place. The ones that don’t want to be guided into the right place swiftly leave the building.” | And it seems there’s a very simple secret to Dyche’s success: fibbing. He said this week: “I lie - a lot! We try to nick all the golden nuggets from all the different departments - sports science, analysis, psychology, game planning, down days, rest periods, diet. We get all the golden nuggets and offer them to the players. I don’t force them. I say ‘this will be good for you, it will help us’. They have a chance to say yes or no. You can’t force them, you can only guide them into the right place. The ones that don’t want to be guided into the right place swiftly leave the building.” |
| Seems like a good egg, doesn’t he? Perhaps they might even get something from this rampant Arsenal team, too. Who can tell in this crazy world. | Seems like a good egg, doesn’t he? Perhaps they might even get something from this rampant Arsenal team, too. Who can tell in this crazy world. |
| Kick-off: 5.30 BST | Kick-off: 5.30 BST |
| Updated at 4.41pm BST | Updated at 4.41pm BST |