Erling Haaland must be bricking it after Mo Salah scored three against Rangers. Arsenal are also in grave trouble unless they sign someone.
In the Nic of time
In his match report on Manchester United’s Europa League win over Omonia Nicosia, Phil Thomas of The Sun describes the Cypriot side in numerous different ways. Here are a few examples:
‘the Nicosian no-hopers’
‘a side everyone had written off as cannon fodder’
‘a bunch of 40-1 outsiders’
‘It should have been the closest thing to a tap-in you will ever see’
‘a team [United] should have caned’
All within the opening nine paragraphs. We get it: Manchester United were the heavy favourites and should be winning such games more comfortably at home. But talk about laying it on thick. Give them some sodding credit.
Why so serious?
Ken Lawrence of The Sun was also on duty at Old Trafford and he was impressed with Casemiro. But this Sun website headline to his article is an absolute shambles:
‘Casemiro takes Omonia seriously despite having surely never heard of them’
Christ.
Has he been stitched-up? Nope.
‘And against Omonia, like he also did after that initial mistake on what was his first Premier League start, he showed that he takes his job very seriously indeed.’
How surprising that a five-time Champions League winner, 65-cap Brazil international and potential £70m signing who earns around £350,000 a week is professional enough to ‘take his job very seriously indeed’.
If only the same could be said of Lawrence, who describes how Casemiro ‘got ambushed on the ball by Amadou Onoha’ against Everton at the weekend. Has Frank Lampard signed someone new on the sly?
Squad tear
In another case of the British media entirely ignoring the quality of any team outside Europe’s top five leagues, Joshua Jones of The Sun scoffs at yet another win for Arsenal.
‘ARSENAL’S squad depth needs improving if they want to go all the way in the Europa League and maintain their domestic challenge,’ is quite the take about a team which made seven changes to its starting line-up and beat Bodo/Glimt away.
That doesn’t sound like a remarkably impressive feat until you learn that Bodo/Glimt had won 14 consecutive European home games, including beating Roma 6-1 and 2-1. Not to mention it came four days after a Premier League win over Liverpool and required a 1,900-mile trip to play on a plastic pitch.
But no, ‘cracks began to appear in the second half’ and this ‘was a stark…
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