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The first North London Derby at the Emirates in a number of weeks gets underway this weekend, and it promises to be an early Christmas cracker. Previous Matches Vorskla 0-3 Arsenal (Europa League) Arsenal rested almost their entire first team for the trip to Ukraine on Thursday, but the Gunners ran out comfortable winners nevertheless. Emile Smith Rowe got the opener after ten minutes, the youngster ghosting into space in the box and finishing with aplomb....

Fulham, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cardiff are back in the Premier League and all come with fascinating back stories that add yet more layers of intrigue to the wealthiest and most-watched division in world soccer. They’ll be seeking to emulate the achievement of last season’s three promoted teams — Huddersfield, Brighton and Newcastle — who all managed to preserve their status. FULHAM With its pretty and intimate stadium located on the banks of the River Thames in an affluent area of west London, Fulham has a quintessentially English feel to it....

Liverpool was strong favorites going into this game, though Arsenal took the lead through the youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles. He found space at the far post, following from some good work by Aubameyang, Lacazette, and Kolasinac on the left. However, Arsenal conceded quickly, due to another defensive calamity. Roberto Firmino, the Brazilian international, scored to make it 1-0. He added a second as he ran through the Arsenal defense to score....

Southampton, who are on 33 points and are ahead of Burnley and Cardiff City in the relegation zone, will be hoping to get some points out of this fixture so that they are no longer handed with the threat of going down. Although relegation seems highly unlikely, no one can foresee the future and a sudden surge in form for Cardiff may turn things around. Therefore, Southampton will be keen on keeping things on their hand for as long as they can....

Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford (twice) and Daniel James scored for the Red Devils on Sunday. Although Chelsea looked to be the better team in the first half, they could not press home their advantage. They made a few glaring errors on the night and we pick out three things that they could have done better on Sunday at Old Trafford. #1 Better finishing Chelsea were the better team in the first half but failed to get on the scoresheet due to the simple fact that they were extremely poor in front of goal....

The game was decided by a 58th-minute strike from last season’s top scorer, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Latching onto a perfectly weighted pass from Ainsley Maitland-Niles, the Gabonese international dinked past a rushing out Dubravka. The victory sees Arsenal win only their third opening weekend game in a decade. While for the Magpies, they now haven’t won an opening game in the Premier League in their last six attempts. Here are 5 talking points from Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Newcastle....

Indeed the deal is also the biggest of them all in British football history, with no player having ever commanded a greater fee than the £106.8 million it took to secure Fernandez. The 22-year-old midfielder was Chelsea’s eighth signing of the mid-season window, with Ukraine winger Mykhailo Mudryk joining him on the list of most expensive Premier League transfers. However, over recent years, the biggest transfer outlays in the richest league have rarely worked out exactly how all parties might have hoped, as the list below shows....

They have and continue to feature some of the best footballers on the planet. Playing for one of the Premier League’s big clubs is a dream for most players. This kind of pull has gone a long way towards helping the Premier League clubs continually rope in world-class footballers. The 2022 summer transfer window is in full swing right now and the English giants are looking to bolster their ranks....

The 33-year-old Slovakian is eager to join the Red Devils with transfer expert Romano claiming he views it as a massive opportunity. Romano tweeted: United are offering a season-long loan with a £5 million buy option. Newcastle are holding out for a permanent transfer. However, Dubravka is hopeful that an agreement will be reached between the two clubs. The veteran goalkeeper joined the Magpies back in 2018 from Czech side Sparta Prague for £3....

City lead by just a point with two games of 2018-19 remaining and anything but a Reds defeat at Newcastle United on Saturday will ensure silverware is still on the line as the campaign concludes next week. Both sides have maintained an extraordinary pace, leaving the rest of the top six in their wake, yet Walker expects a response next season. And with City and Liverpool continuing to improve while Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United try to make up ground, the England defender expects the task to only become more difficult....

#5 Leicester and Palace Among the clubs in Premier League, Leicester City have a great eye for talent and have snapped up Manchester United and Chelsea target, Sam Van Huffel, on trial for two weeks, say The Sun. Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are in the mix with interest for Everton’s on-loan starlet Ademola Lookman, who is playing in Germany for RB Leipzig. Palace apparently think of him as a replacement for Wilfried Zaha, say The Sun....

NEWSWEEK: What is driving the expansion of state-funded preschools across the country? David Kirp: What’s driving it is the good long-term research that shows that if a child goes to preschool they will have a higher income, are less likely to be involved in crime, more likely to graduate from college and have happier lives. There is also brain science that has shown the incredible importance of brain development in the earliest years....

Luckily for supporters of net neutrality, United States President Joe Biden is seemingly on their side. President Biden recently signed an executive order that asks US agencies that regulate the Internet to start working on several policies favoring Internet users. Protecting net neutrality and ensuring reliable, accessible Internet for all Americans is at the heart of the executive order. In a modern world that’s hugely reliant on the Internet, President Biden’s executive order is a big deal for everyone, but gamers specifically will get a lot out of the provisions that Biden wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to work on....

While Prannoy was picked up by Ahmedabad Smash Masters for Rs 62 lakh, Awadhe Warriors had to shell out Rs 56.1 lakh to get the services of Srikanth. Emerging star Sameer Verma (Mumbai Rockets; Rs 52 lakh) and Ajay Jayaram (North East Warriors Rs 45 lakh) were also much in demand as eight teams opened their purse strings for country’s talent to not only build their brands but to also give themselves a shot at a whopping Rs 6 crore prize money on offer....

Prannoy, who is unbeaten in the PBL since last season, has now recorded his 10th successive win in the league, while Srikanth crashed to his second consecutive loss of the season. Ahmedabad Smash Masters are currently level with Awadhe Warriors 3-3 in the tie with one match remaining. Prannoy, who had beaten his country-mate to clinch his first national championship last year, looked to be in stellar form and blitzed his way to an 8-2 lead at the break....

Sign Suarez and no one else of note. Sign a few players of varying degrees of quality. Sign no one. Of the three, I’m not sure which one appeals to me the most. It’s more a question of which one disappoints me least. On that level, option #2 wins by a nose, if only because we have more than one area that needs strengthening. However, given that the match with City is hours away, I daresay we’ll go into the match with a batch of very familiar names, minus one Ignasi Miquel, who for some reason has completed a season-long loan to Leicester....

Five-time Preakness winning trainer Bob Baffert sees it bit differently for the Derby winners he’s brought to Baltimore. All three of them – Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998) and War Emblem (2002) – handled the transition easily. The Linemakers: Odds | Sizing up the field | Vegas props Baffert is confident American Pharoah has done as well in preparation for the Preakness as his other Derby champs. But fatigue could be a factor, as the Preakness will be Pharoah’s third race in the relatively short span of five weeks....

The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook has set the lines, which means that it is time to make picks — for entertainment purposes only, namely to look back in October, point and laugh. What is it that they say? “You can’t predict baseball.” Well, here goes anyway, with a look at the American League. Angels 2014 wins: 98 2015 over/under: 88.5 Envisioning a 10-game drop with largely the same roster is difficult, especially if Garrett Richards is back healthy....