Arsenal v Chelsea: Carabao Cup semi-final, second leg – live
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Increasingly, success in football is measured, not in anachronisms like trophies won, but by proximity to the biggest two available. However you slice it, though, this contest is absolutely gigantic, taking in both aspects and multiplying them by hatred2.
Mikel Arteta has done a fine job as Arsenal manager, inheriting a mess and meticulously redeeming it with an exhausting, oppressive intensity that delivers the most suffocating out-of-possession work in the game. But after having near enough two full XIs bought for him, he now needs what the Talmud calls “tachlis” – the kind of essential substance that is not satisfied by three consecutive second-place finishes and no silverware other than a Covid FA Cup nearly six years ago. Continue reading...
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