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Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool squad will keep Trent Alexander Arnold in check with ‘banter’
Jurgen Klopp is confident that Liverpool’s dressing room will help Trent Alexander-Arnold handle the pressure of what looks like being his elevation to the role of England’s permanent, first-choice right-back.
Gareth Southgate’s decision to axe veteran Kyle Walker from his England squad on Thursday has paved the way for the in-form Liverpool defender to make the position his own and add to his six caps.
And Klopp has no doubt the defender, who does not turn 21 until October, has the maturity to cope with that added responsibility.
Klopp said: “The group sorts most of these things. Not that Trent needs help in this, he is a really mature boy.
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“But all the other guys if someone looks like they could fly a bit more than usual then they get it back immediately with the banter. So there is no problem.
“From this point of view he is not 20 he is 25-26. But thank God he is 20! He a really mature – much more than I was when I was 20!”
‘That was unbelievable’
Klopp has been Alexander-Arnold’s biggest cheerleader since bringing him into the first team and believes has done enough to make the position with England his own, too.
Klopp added: “I am happy for him if he now has that position and is a bit closer to the first line-up. I think the last England game before the summer that was exceptional.
“After that game I thought ‘wow’ that was unbelievable he was involved in pretty much every offensive situation.”
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Europa League draw: Group stage 2019-20 in full – and fixture dates
The Europa League draw has placed Arsenal in a challenging group, where Unai Emery‘s side will face Eintracht Frankfurt, Standard Liege and Vitoria.
Wolves have been drawn in Group K with Besiktas, Braga and Slovan Bratislava, while Manchester United have a comparatively easier draw with some long haul away days to Partizan, Astana and AZ Alkmaar.
Scottish champions Celtic will face Lazio, Rennes and CFR Cluj, while Steven Gerrard’s Rangers side have a tough draw in Porto, Young Boys and Feyenoord.
Here is the draw in full:
Group A
Sevilla (ESP)
APOEL (CYP)
Qarabağ (AZE)
Dudelange (LUX)
Group B
Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)
København (DEN)
Malmö (SWE)
Lugano (SUI)
Group C
Basel (SUI)
Krasnodar (RUS)
Getafe (ESP)
Trabzonspor (TUR)
Group D
Sporting CP (POR)
PSV (NED)
Rosenborg (NOR)
LASK (AUT)
Group E
Lazio (ITA)
Celtic (SCO)
Rennes (FRA)
CFR Cluj (ROU)
Group F
Arsenal (ENG)
Frankfurt (GER)
Standard Liège (BEL)
Vitória SC (POR)
Group G
Porto (POR)
Young Boys (SUI)
Feyenoord (NED)
Rangers (SCO)
Group H
CSKA Moskva (RUS)
Ludogorets (BUL)
Espanyol (ESP)
Ferencváros (HUN)
Group I
Wolfsburg (GER)
Gent (BEL)
St-Étienne (FRA)
Olexandriya (UKR)
Group J
Roma (ITA)
Mönchengladbach (GER)
İstanbul Başakşehir (TUR)
Wolfsberger (AUT)
Group K
Beşiktaş (TUR)
Braga (POR)
Wolves (ENG)
Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Group L
Manchester United (ENG)
Astana (KAZ)
Partizan (SRB)
AZ Alkmaar (NED)
When does the group stage begin?
Read more: Champions League draw: Group stage 2019-20 in full
The Europa League group stage runs from Thursday 19 September to Thursday 12 December.
Match Dates
- 19 September: Group stage, matchday one
- 3 October: Group stage, matchday two
- 24 October: Group stage, matchday three
- 7 November: Group stage, matchday four
- 28 November: Group stage, matchday five
- 12 December: Group stage, matchday six
The draw for the round of 32 draw will take place on 16 December in Nyon.
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What time is Europa League draw today? Group stage pots and teams Arsenal, Celtic, Man Utd, Rangers and Wolves could face
Five British sides are set to discover the teams they will face in this season’s Europa League group stage when the draw gets under way in Monaco later today.
Last season’s finalists Arsenal along with Premier League rivals Manchester United were automatic qualifiers while Wolverhampton Wanderers and Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers all came through the play-offs.
Forty-eight teams from across the continent have been divided into four pots of 12 based on their Uefa coefficients and will be drawn into 12 groups of four.
What time is the Europa League draw?
The draw for the Europa League group stage begins at 12pm (BST). It takes place at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Is the Europa League draw on TV?
Yes. The Europa League draw will be shown on BT Sport 2 and can be streamed via the Uefa website.
Which teams can Arsenal, Celtic, Man Utd, Rangers and Wolves face?
Here is a list of the 48 teams involved in this season’s group stage divided into their four seedings pots.
Teams in the same pots cannot face each other in the group stage and nor can those from the same league – therefore Celtic and Rangers cannot be drawn in the same group although they could face one of the three Premier League teams.
Pot 1
Sevilla (ESP)
Arsenal (ENG)
Porto (POR)
Roma (ITA)
Manchester United (ENG)
Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)
Beşiktaş (TUR)
Basel (SUI)
Sporting CP (POR)
CSKA Moskva (RUS)
Wolfsburg (GER)
Lazio (ITA)
Pot 2
PSV Eindhoven (NED)
Krasnodar (RUS)
Celtic (SCO)
København (DEN)
Braga (POR)
Gent (BEL)
Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER)
Young Boys (SUI)
Astana (KAZ)
Ludogorets (BUL)
APOEL (CYP)
Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)
Pot 3
St-Étienne (FRA)
Qarabağ (AZE)
Feyenoord (NED)
Getafe (ESP)
Espanyol (ESP)
Malmö (SWE)
Partizan (SRB)
Standard Liège (BEL)
Wolves (ENG)
Rennes (FRA)
Rosenborg (NOR)
İstanbul Başakşehir (TUR)
Pot 4
AZ Alkmaar (NED)
Vitória SC (POR)
Trabzonspor (TUR)
Olexandriya (UKR)
Dudelange (LUX)
LASK (AUT)
Wolfsberg (AUT)
Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
Lugano (SUI)
Rangers (SCO)
CFR Cluj (ROU)
Ferencváros (HUN)
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How Chris Wilder and Dean Smith have made the most of going back to their roots
Dean Smith first held the European Cup at the age of 11. His father was a steward at Villa Park, and Dean would help clean the seats in the Holte End. At the time of the 1982 European Cup win, Smith and his older brother babysat for Pat Heard, a Villa substitute for the final. Because each player was permitted to take the cup home for a short period of time, Smith remembers a day adoring the famous trophy.
In September 2017, Chris Wilder made his Steel City derby debut as manager on the day after his 50th birthday. But it was not his first. In April 1980, Wilder was at Bramall Lane to watch Sheffield United draw 1-1 with Wednesday. He recalls John MacPhail giving the Blades the lead, and the stadium erupting in noise. Wilder was 12 years old.
Two managers, two boyhood fans, two English manager success stories, two original Premier League members restored to the top flight after seasons spent in the cold. And two men who have magnificently controlled and exploited the power of home.
The dangers of going back
Going back to your roots – childhood home, primary school, university town, boyhood club – causes extreme emotions; pangs of nostalgia have positive and negative effects. It provokes warm memories of long summers and a careless, untroubled existence, but also emphasises that life, like time, is irreclaimable.
It also brings with it an extraordinary pressure. Go back as manager to the same ground where you fell in love with football and you are managing the past as well as in the present. Get it wrong, and those cherished memories will forever be tainted. That pressure causes doubt to fester: am I doing this because it is right, or because I am trying to force my own destiny? File nostalgia alongside hope and desire, entirely intangible and thus a difficult landscape on which to lay foundations.
But harness it right, and it can be uniquely powerful. There is a line in TS Eliot’s Little Gidding: “The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
Coming home can become a natural fit, a tool to connect, rally and resolve a club. In business terms, the power of home is a unique selling proposition. In emotional terms, you use your love for the club as a tool for unity.
Success through harmony
Wilder and Smith have achieved success through harmony. Managers, players and supporters can often feel like component parts at a club, particularly in a climate of transfer churn and regular managerial changes. If supporters believe that the manager is “one of us”, it generates a togetherness that stretches to the playing staff. Both managers were appointed during or shortly after times of great strife. When Smith arrived at Villa Park, the previous two years had witnessed a club tumbling towards – and just escaping – administration and their lowest league finish in over 40 years.
Wilder describes how the relationship between Sheffield United supporters and players were at an all-time low after he was appointed. Fans believed that the players didn’t care and the players were growing weary of the abuse. United had finished 11th in League One, their lowest finish since 1983.
There’s something in that, clearly. It is far easier to campaign on a vision of togetherness when the club is broken. That is one of the ironies of returning home. Return to your childhood scene and find it renovated and sparkling and you realise that it has aged as you have; what you remember has been forever lost to time and progress. Go back to see it empty and crumbling, the same features that formed part of your emotional development left to age through negligence and disrepair, and it is more likely to inspire. Decay creates opportunity.
Blend of goodwill and aptitude
You need ability too; to ignore that would be to do a disservice to both managers. Smith has energised his players with added defensive security and a will to win that is far from ethereal. At Bramall Lane, Wilder has proven himself to be an innovative tactician that rails against our stereotype of the 50-something English manager.
History is littered with clubs who plumped for the nostalgic choice and quickly realised that goodwill cannot account for a shortfall in aptitude. The greatest achievement of Wilder and Smith lies in blending the two.
Get it right, and these are the potential results. Wilder and Smith are the right men, at the right time, doing the right things, in the right places. Swap them over and they would be lesser men and managers. Juggle the challenges and pressures of going home successfully, and you create a whole that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts.
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Chelsea Champions League draw: group, fixture dates and analysis
On paper, Frank Lampard won’t be too unhappy with the Champions League draw – Chelsea face none of the giants of Europe and an Ajax side missing their two best players from last season.
Without Frenkie de Jong, it is no surprise that the Dutch champions haven’t been as dynamic in midfield this season, and the loss of Matthijs de Ligt has still been keenly felt but not quite as impactful.
However, the Amsterdammers still have plenty from the side that made last-season’s semi-finals. Hakim Ziyech remains their most creative player and sporting director Marc Overmars said Donny van de Beek will still be there for the rest of the season in the middle of the park.
Dusan Tadic, Brazil international David Neres, veteran Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Dutch international Quincy Promes, a new arrival from Sevilla, ensure they haven’t lost much up front.
The 21-year-old Mexican defender Edson Alvarez already has 28 caps for his country and scored a De Ligt-style header to send Ajax on their way to qualification against Apoel on Wednesday night.
Champions League Group H
Chelsea
Ajax
Valencia
Lille
Valencia certainly have European pedigree as they return to the Champions League after a two-season absence. It would be far-fetched to say as coach that Marcelino has brought the glory days back to the Mestalla, but last season was at least respectable.
Nevertheless, they haven’t started this season well, and there are a few Premier League rejects in their squad.
Indeed, ex-Arsenal midfielder Francis Coquelin was sent off in their opening game of the season against Real Socieded, and his former Emirates team-mate Gabriel Paulista only lasted an hour of their defeat to Celta Vigo last weekend.
Ex-Manchester City flop Eliaquim Mangala at least adds a sense of humour to the dressing room, after jokingly comparing himself to Virgil van Dijk last week.
Lille are the great unknown quantity, but were the nearest any club came to Paris Saint-Germain last season, finishing second in Ligue 1 last season, albeit 16 points behind. Victor Osimhen, the 20-year-old Nigeria striker, has scored four goals in three games since arriving at the French side from Wolfsburg in the summer.
When does the group stage begin?
The Champions League group stage runs from Tuesday 17 September to Wednesday 11 December.
Match dates:
Matchday one: 17-18 September
Matchday two: 1-2 October
Matchday three: 22-23 October
Matchday four: 5-6 November
Matchday five: 26-27 November
Matchday six: 10-11 December
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Manchester City Champions League draw: group, fixture dates and analysis
If Pep Guardiola is to fulfil Manchester City’s destiny and win the Champions League, he will have to one day take full advantage of his club’s continued propensity to be drawn in easy groups.
Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk, Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb and group-stage debutants Atalanta of Italy should represent little in the way of tough opposition.
It’s the third year running that City and Shakhtar have been drawn together, with the Premier League champions winning both games last season, 6-0 and 3-0. The Ukrainians caused a shock in 2017, winning 2-1, so Guardiola will take the challenge seriously, but even a fresh shock would seem unlikely to be sufficient to derail City’s progress to the knockout stages.
Dinamo made the last 16 of the Europa League last season, but were dumped out by Benfica. Atalanta will use Milan’s imposing San Siro stadium for their games, but it is unlikely even the most hostile atmosphere would faze players of City’s quality and experience.
Champions League Group C
Manchester City
Shakhtar Donetsk
Dinamo Zagreb
Atalanta
When does the group stage begin?
The Champions League group stage runs from Tuesday 17 September to Wednesday 11 December.
Match dates:
Matchday one: 17-18 September
Matchday two: 1-2 October
Matchday three: 22-23 October
Matchday four: 5-6 November
Matchday five: 26-27 November
Matchday six: 10-11 December
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