Wolves vs Arsenal: Arteta suffers major injury blow ahead of EPL trip.
Arsenal have confirmed that Kieran Tierney will be unavailable for their Premier League trip to Wolves on Tuesday.
Gunners boss, Mikel Arteta, could be without as much as six first-teamers for the game, but Tierney will be a big miss.
The Scot defender is nursing a lower leg injury and missed the 0-0 draw with Manchester United last weekend.
The former Celtic fullback also sat out the 3-1 win at Southampton.
A win for Arsenal will take them as high as sixth on the table in the meanwhile.
That would be above both Tottenham and Chelsea, although Jose Mourinho’s men would hold two games in hand on them and the Blues would have one.
Arsenal are also assessing the fitness of Dani Ceballos, Pablo Mari and Bukayo Saka.
Backup goalkeeper Mat Ryan has been ruled out with a sore hip.
Chelsea to continue paying Frank Lampard until end of season
Former Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, will continue to be paid by the club until the end of this season, SportsMail reports.
The Blues have spent over £110million in pay-offs to sacked coaches during the Roman Abramovich era.
However, they are now moving towards heavily incentivised, performance-related contracts, to minimise future compensation payments.
So, the club’s decision to fire Lampard last week, will not significantly add to the £110m bill, because his three-year deal contained a break clause after two years.
Therefore, they will only have to continue paying the 42-year-old until the end of this season.
His replacement, Thomas Tuchel, has been given an 18-month contract.
Man Utd vs Southampton: Why we have lost many points – Solskjaer
Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has said they are losing a lot of points this season, because his players are too nice.
Solskjaer feels his players should have made more of a fuss over their disallowed goal, after officials admitted they made a mistake.
Anthony Martial thought he had equalised against Sheffield United, but the referee adjudged Harry Maguire had fouled Aaron Ramsdale in the build-up.
Solskjaer thinks referee Peter Bankes might have changed his mind, had the players put a little more pressure on him.
“I think whenever a team feels unfairly treated there will be a reaction but human error is.. I have no problem with human error. Absolutely no problem. And I understand why the decisions were made. Unfortunately, they went against us and they were wrong. That’s football for you but that’s maybe what VAR should have been in for. Maybe we should have made more of a fuss about it,” Solskjaer said.
“We are a bunch of nice lads. Maybe we should have really hung on to that or made them look at it before the game started again, so those are things that we have to learn from and use as motivation or energy. You are not going to expect to get anything for free.”
