Win at home against Lens, and the PSV game becomes a completely meaningless dead rubber that we can literally play with reserves and academy players.

The Wolves and Luton games won’t require us to so much as leave the Greater London area, so not much travel related tiredness there. If Odegaard is back, we should be fine.

Villa away is the one that worries me. And Vieira likely wouldn’t be playing in that game, anyhow.

But we really, REALLY, need to win the Lens game.

Curry also had Under Armor design his shoes specifically so they gave him better ankle support and to work well with the ankle braces he wears literally every second he is on the court.

It also doesn’t hurt that Curry started really hitting the gym after 2014, and is now actually really strong for his size (his ability to make layups through contact in the lane is incredible).

As a Warriors fan, it’s been amazing to see the lengths Curry went to in order to maximize his ability to stay on the court and to maximize the impact he has while on the court.

Style of play: Hybrid of Mourinho, Solskjaer, and Sean Dyche.

In my mind, the two most overrated stats (in terms of how people in football commentary/punditry seem to emphasize them relative to how much they really mean when you watch the game of football they come from) are “possession percentage” and “passes completed”.

Possession is worthless without end product. If you can’t score or can’t score enough, no one gives a crap how much you have the ball. Because you won’t do any damage when you have it.

Passes completed is worse than worthless without context. Because if the opponent is winning, they will be happy to sit back and watch your goalkeeper and defensive players put together 20+ pass sequences where the ball never crosses the midfield line. If you rack up 800 completed passes but pretty much never cross midfield and never score because of it, no one cares. Because you accomplished nothing in the game by doing all those passes.

Stats are all about context. So it has always been, and so it will always be.

The moment Xhaka threw that armband on the ground, he earned himself the deed to a mansion in my head.

And as far as I’m concerned, he will keep that deed until the end of freakin’ time.

It should have been 5-0.

But mentioning that would require you to mention exactly how and why Leverkusen gave up that goal.

Something tells me you aren’t going to be all that willing to do that…

It’s an Arsenal problem just as much as when the Xhaka Defense Squad keep posting passes and tackles he does in a damn Leverkusen shirt. As if he was Henry or Vieira or something.

Oh wait, I forgot, those deluded idiots in the Xhaka defense squad actually put him on the level of those actual Arsenal legends. Hell, maybe even higher. given how wiling they are to slag off Thierry freakin’ Henry in defense of their hero.