James Benge

CBS Sports Football Correspondent, Views own

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@Gooneresque @CooKieeJL It lacks the force required to upgrade it to a red. As for what happens in the alternate universe where Nyoni is given a booking, I guess that's one for science fiction. Who knows, maybe in that branch timeline we're all living on the moon.

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Premier League Key Match Incident Panel finds by margin of four to one that Liverpool should have had a penalty when Jurrien Timber pulled Alexander Isak’s jersey in Arsenal’s 1-0 win at Anfield. The panel also said, by three to two, that VAR should have intervened.

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@CooKieeJL Come on, that’s a yellow card tackle. And yes there were two of them but if the “key” incidents panel goes through every yellow that was or wasn’t given they’ll need all season to get through a round of games.

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@2b1tt Distinguish between the FIFPRO XI and FIFA Best XI before making yourself look an imbecile for no particular reason.

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@rejoice____ He didn't make the FIFPro XI. He made the FIFA Best XI, FIFPro's has been going longer and is just made up of player votes.

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David Raya has been named in the FIFPRO World 11. He is the first Arsenal player to be named in the men's selection for 20 years since Thierry Henry.

He and Erling Haaland are the sole Premier League players in the team.

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@A_Jaywalker @StaticFPL I did not. I guess these are fantasy football selections but I don't think being in that team would be much of a fantasy for Rodri and Vitinha whenever possession got turned over.

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@StaticFPL Cubarsi (and I guess Hakimi and Mendes).

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Kai Havertz has been offside almost twice as often as anyone else in the league. Averaging 3.5 offsides per game, the team as a whole are on pace to smash past recent high watermarks.

A problem? Let's take a look https://t.co/hqtOQzSP56

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Kai Havertz has been offside almost twice as often as anyone else in the league. Averaging 3.5 offsides per game, the team as a whole are on pace to smash past recent high watermarks.

A problem? Let's take a look https://t.co/hqtOQzSP56

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@setpiecesicko Don’t quite understand the obsession with near post flick ons but at least I can imagine what the aim is. The short corners, I got nothing.

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@DarrenArsenal1 Looks much better off the bench so far when games are more chaotic. Not sure he quite gets the assignments yet as a starter but no reason to think yet that he won’t.

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Given an invitation to praise Bruno Guimaraes, Mikel Arteta says he's "still not there. He's hitting levels that are serious... but we can take that player to another level... There's a lot to come."

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@northbanksyafc Funnily enough Arteta did basically say yesterday that they should let Rice blast it more

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Arteta: "Sometimes my feeling is we're trying to score a perfect goal. Against these low blocks you need to be a lot more chaotic than that."

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@gunnerpaddy78

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Arteta less than impressed by the time Tzolakis took for Hull's goal kick there

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FT - Arsenal 1, Hull 0 - The champions had to dig deep for that, in large part because of their own inadequacies.

You could say they went to Hull and back.

You'd be wrong, however. They do that on Jan. 16.

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Noni is bounding and indeed astounding

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Noni Madueke causing so much chaos off the dribble that I kind of need to hear Breen and Clyde commentating on him.

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Noni Madueke causing so much chaos off the dribble that I kind of need to hear Breen and Clyde commentating on him.

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1-0, Odegaard