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Oliver Giroud pulled one back in added time after the 90 minutes, but it was too little too late for Arsene Wenger’s men. Arsenal have now lost two Premier League games in a row and Chelsea have finished their most testing week in the league with four points after drawing with Liverpool and beating Arsenal. Here are the talking points: #1 End to end stuff in the opening minutes In the first ten minutes, the game was quite open with both sides a bit nervy and trying to get ahead....

But, the biggest winners of the week were Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion. The Black Cats finally moved out of last place and the Baggies made their way into the top half of the table. As the Premier League picked up after another international break, here are the players who make it to Sportskeeda’s Premier League Team of the Week: Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford When Sunderland keep a clean sheet, it is always a big deal especially when they are defending a three-goal lead....

Speaking to TalkSport, the former Barcelona superstar singled out Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi for special praise and added that he learnt a lot from the iconic duo. Traore is a graduate of the famed La Masia academy and made his Barcelona debut aged 17. However, the EPL star made just two appearances for the club and was sold to Aston Villa in 2015. Despite his short stint with the Barcelona first team, Traore has fond memories of his Barcelona spell....

“I have found him committed, dedicated, focused. He has not had the start to the season he’d have wanted, but his strengths are that he can bat long periods of time, soak up pressure and he’s got a good technique. “In my mind, I look at him and see a top player who is very capable of getting thousands more international runs. But he needs to go out there and allow himself to play the game of cricket in front of him, not the occasion,” Ramprakash told The Guardian....

The series will be played under strict bio-secure measures, as a result no spectators will be allowed in the stadium premises, while the players will train in a restricted environment. Head-to-Head Test Series in England England have hosted 21 bilateral Test series against West Indies and comfortably dominates the stats with 11 series titles and have remained untroubled by the visitors during their last six visits. The Caribbeans have secured the honours on eight occasions, but those titles came during the golden days of West Indies Cricket and their last Test series victory against England (4-0) came way back in 1988 under the guidance of skipper Sir Vivian Richards....

England were bowled out for 148 in 19.3 overs as they failed to chase down a target of 199 bolstered by Hardik Pandya’s 51 off 33 on his way to winning Player of the Match. “They put us under a lot of pressure and we couldn’t really get back in the game from that point,” Buttler said of India’s approach, admitting that his side were outplayed. Can Buttler inspire England to swift revenge?...

England watched helplessly as Australia reached 649-7 – a lead of 303 thanks to memorable centuries from brothers Shaun and Mitchell Marsh – before Steve Smith declared in sweltering conditions at the SCG. With the temperature exceeding 41 degrees Celsius in Sydney – staggeringly 56 out in the middle at one stage – and having already surrendered the urn to Australia, England crumbled in the middle – openers Alastair Cook (10) and Mark Stoneman (0) dismissed quickly by star duo Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon to leave the embattled tourists 25-2, a deficit of 278 runs....

The Three Lions are the the only team in the World Cup field yet to earn a yellow card, so with accumulation wiped heading into the semi-finals, head coach Gareth Southgate does not have any players who could earn an accumulation suspension should they advance. Declan Rice has been an ever-present in Qatar and returned to training on Friday after being laid low with a bout of illness. Here’s how England’s starting lineup looks....

Where do we go from here? What is wrong with English football? Too many foreign players many say, and we have to overhaul the FA guidelines to create the next Pirlo, Xavi or Iniesta. Yet, I believe that many have missed the point completely. We aren’t creating the next Xavi, Iniesta or Pirlo for no other reason than that has never been the British mentality. To change that mentality isn’t to just overhaul the FA guidelines based upon the style of booting the ball up to a target man and having hard tackling midfielders....

The space rock—dubbed 481394 (2006 SF6)—will make its close approach at 7:01 p.m. ET on November 20 when it will come within around 2.7 million miles of our planet, or about 11 times the Earth-Moon distance, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS.) The space rock was first discovered on September 17, 2006 by the Catalina Sky Survey—an astronomical project designed to look for asteroids and comets managed by scientists at the Steward Observatory near Tucson, Arizona....

I have been brooding over all this by way of trying to understand why the hard-edged GOP family-values blast of August played so badly with the public and had to be revised. Surely in some sense the people who thought it up were on to something. A lot of us are powerfully uncomfortable with and unhappy about the descent to so much that is sexually shameless, exhibitionistic and savage in our society....

This is the largest internment of an ethnic-religious minority since the Second World War, and we now bear witness to the attempted destruction of an entire people. What, then, have we in the so-called “Free World” done? The products of Uyghur slave labor are openly advertised in places like Japan. As 800 year-old mosques are destroyed and Uyghur graveyards are bulldozed and paved over, Hiltons and Tesla dealerships are built in their place....

Mercy’s resurrection has changed significantly over the years, as it was originally the angelic healer’s Ultimate. However, with the team rez being too powerful and essentially requiring a Mercy to be present in every match, Blizzard gave the hero a new Ultimate and added a single rez to her ability lineup. While being able to rez one teammate every thirty seconds is certainly useful, it is far from overpowered, and players must be careful when they use this ability and who they use it on....

Arnold, it turns out, isn’t the only one getting caught up in this crusade. Up and down the ranks of Silicon Valley’s most esteemed venture-capital firms, well-heeled investors are starting to contemplate the possibility that alternative energy might drive the next tech boom. Computers, software, the Internet–some VCs want to add fuel cells and photovoltaic solar panels to the list of runaway technologies that have generated immense wealth. Motivated partly by the California energy crisis, Middle East instability and recent East Coast power blackouts, $1....

Drawing inspiration from the ever-popular roguelike genre and tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, For the King puts players into a procedurally generated world full of quests, turn-based fantasy battles, and unrelenting difficulty. Whether on a solo quest or in a party of up to three adventurers, the title is built to be replayed with unique encounters and strategic elements to consider with every new run. RELATED: Bandai Namco Sees ‘No Point’ in Putting Its Games on Epic Store...

Epic Games Store users can claim City of Brass and Total War: Warhammer between now and April 7. They will then be replaced by Rogue Legacy and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, which will be available from April 7 until April 14. Rogue Legacy released in 2013, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter released in 2014. Despite these games being roughly 9 and 8 years old, respectively, they are great additions to the service that anyone should pick up....

David Lowery’s The Green Knight is brilliant. It’s a beautiful tone poem that took a story most experience in English Literature class and used the language of modern cinema to give it the weight and magic it deserved. The film’s clever alterations aside, it’s a direct adaptation of the Arthurian myth of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Fans of that tale and its surrounding world of related fiction were gifted an incredible new look at the work....

Apart from the opening first 10 minutes, the balance on the extreme ends of the league table justified itself, as Chelsea dominated and threatened with every move as Sunderland collapsed towards the end of the game. All the usual suspects were on point to compound misery on the club which had the worst top-flight season in their history. Sunderland sorely missed Jermain Defoe but still managed to score in the 3rd minute before the usual downward momentum set in with a Willian equaliser in the 8th minute....

In the aftermath of this grievous attack, both the Manchester clubs of the EPL, Manchester United and Manchester City, put aside their rivalry to send out a united image. Manchester Arena Bombing This attack took place at the Manchester Arena, following a concert by Ariana Grande in 2017. This attack was perpetrated by a 22-year-old local Islamic extremist suicide bomber of Libyan origin. This was one of the worst terrorist attacks to happen on British soil since the 2005 London bombings....

After being linked with various big names across Europe including - Napoli, Liverpool and Inter Milan, it seems the winger will ply his trade in English top-flight after all. In case you didn’t know… Pepe had a breakout season in Ligue 1 with Lille, as he scored 22 goals in 38 appearances and also had 11 assists to his name. Pepe had a disappointing campaign with Ivory Coast in the Africa Cup of Nations and failed to replicate his club form for country, as he failed to score even a single goal in the tournament....