Sunday's win over Leicester was Gerrard's third in his first four matches at Villa, following a narrow defeat by defending champions Manchester City on Wednesday. He's made an amazing start to life as a Premier League boss, but I am not surprised at all.
Host nation Cameroon were sent crashing out of the tournament on Thursday night after losing on penalties to Egypt following a goalless 120 minutes of action.
Now, the veteran centre-back has acknowledged that he has faced a tough beginning with the French heavyweights, but that he is delighted to be with them - and to have his maiden finish in club colours.
We got off to a slow start with the Young Boys game and, if we're being honest, the red card has changed the game so that was disappointing.
In truth, though, nothing has been quite right with Martial since Jose Mourinho's appointment in the summer of 2016, just months after Martial's strike at Wembley.
Salah and Mane both grazed the outside of the post with efforts but the job had been done and the message sent to the Etihad Stadium.
He was a hero. Not because he ended up in hospital. He was a hero in the manner defined by Romain Rolland - the French writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. 'A hero is someone who does what he can.'
The team we put out today lacked that height we required. In his press conference, he added: The team we selected today, we knew it was a risk because we took out a couple of big players, players who head the ball quite a bit for us.
We agree with the independent Fan-Led Review of Football Governance that fans must have a strong voice in the running of the game, and we believe that our Fans' Advisory Board and proposed Fans' Share Scheme are consistent with that important goal.
Obviously, he was shocked and there were a few things in his life that he needed to change to try and prevent those things happening again.
Meanwhile, the Villans have never won a Premier League away game on a Friday before (D2 L2).Ollie Watkins scored three of Aston Villa's four goals against Arsenal in the Premier League last season, with these goals coming from just five shots on target for the striker.Aston Villa boss Dean Smith has won 75% of his Premier League meetings with Arsenal (3/4) - of all managers to have faced the Gunners at least four times in the competition, only Pep Guardiola has a better win rate against them (91%).Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored in each of his last three Premier League games at the Emirates Stadium.
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Veljko Paunovic had gained some critics at the start of the season, with questionable substitutions and the team's inability to see a game out, but he has certainly won some of the fans back by getting the best out of an injury-stricken squad.
You go back two weeks ago and they had won three on the bounce, but then the result against AFC Wimbledon in particular, with that last-minute Joe Pigott equaliser, that was the blow that really saw them off at the time.
Indeed, the second-highest spending January transfer window in Premier League history has just closed, with Liverpool pulling off the biggest deal of all in England by landing Luis Diaz from Porto for £50 million ($67m).
A post-match press conference can be an emotional place, especially after a game as pulsating and as controversial as Liverpool’s at Tottenham on Sunday.
Chelsea have agreed to pay damages to four former youth team players who alleged they were racially abused at the club in the 1990s.
The club say he will undergo a further scan on the issue in around a month's time, with his participation for Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations - being held from January 9 until February 6 - now in doubt.
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Fali's strength of character always showed up in abundance on the football field, where he plays with an unwavering sense of commitment. He is, however, technically limited, and it would not have been surprising if his career had followed a journeyman path in the lower tiers.
Clearly Carragher - whose paymasters at Sky were most likely fuming at having their big game of the weekend called off at the last minute - had forgotten why Arsenal are having to play this coming Thursday night in the first place.
Six of the stadiums will have about half their seats taken up afterwards (and sent to developing countries), while a seventh will be dismantled.
Johnson should have given Lowe a flying start. That was followed by a speculative Emil Riis effort.
For many fans, festive football is as much a part of their Christmas tradition as exchanging gifts and having a Christmas tree.
Ousmane Dembele is considering his options to leave Barcelona after falling out with the club's board, writes Lyall Thomas.
The England under-21 player is now free to negotiate a free transfer in the summer with clubs abroad and to sign a pre-contract agreement, while Arsenal may be keen to sell him in order to raise some funds rather than losing him for nothing.
Arsenal have revealed that they will be supporting the ‘No More Red’ anti-knife crime campaign by breaking away from tradition and wearing an all-white kit against Nottingham Forest specially produced by kit suppliers Adidas.
Lukaku, Christensen, Sarr and Alonso - they were just not good enough for a Chelsea team that should be challenging for winning the Premier League.
How to followFollow Liverpool vs Aston Villa in our dedicated live match blog. But it's such a certainty, they weren't willing to lay a penny.
His fantastic finish prompted an instant reaction from PSG team-mate Kylian Mbappe, who immediately declared Hakimi the best right back in the game.
Bowen had already had a goal disallowed when he broke the Canaries' resistance after 42 minutes when he glanced home Vladimir Coufal's cross.
The central midfielder provided the all-important assist for Dortmund's fourth goal, winning the ball back twice in a matter of seconds in the centre of the pitch before helping his side execute the turnover clinically. He threaded in Erling Haaland with a slick through ball to give his team-mate yet another brace in a Dortmund shirt.
The Premier League has agreed to postpone 21 fixtures this season for pandemic-related reasons The number of positive Covid-19 cases in the Premier League has fallen for the fourth week in a row.
Arsenal said it had been agreed by all parties for Tobin to be released early to enable her to travel back to the United States and focus on her rehabilitation with her personal medical team.
Van Gaal and Mourinho, though, both won trophies. The Dutchman lifted the FA Cup in 2016 - shortly before he was sacked - and Mourinho led United to a Europa League and EFL Cup double in 2017.
Ticketless fans were like a line of 6,000 zombies trying to get in. One person hijacked a disabled child's wheelchair to try and trick their way in.
They have given us a leg up with two goals we did not deserve, he told BBC Sport. They wanted it more, played with a better tempo and credit to them, they were fantastic. We were very poor.
The last time Barcelona played in the Europa League, some of their current players were not even born.
Australia and Chelsea forward Sam Kerr came second and Spain and Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas third.
Manchester City defender Esme Morgan has signed a three-year contract extension with the Women's Super League club until 2025.
Serie A - Inter dismiss Mourinho's Roma Champions Inter Milan moved to the top of the Serie A standings after they earned a 3-1 victory over AS Roma on Saturday.
Of course he also knows, I'm sure, about players and about how difficult it is to deal with players.
Merson also discusses summer signing Thiago, who he is convinced will come good, but isn't fitting in at the moment in a depleted Liverpool side.
The government said it accepted the associations' reasons for ending a World Cup bid, and remained passionate about bringing the World Cup to the UK at some point in future.
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Nottingham Forest boosted their play-off hopes by going through March unbeaten and Steve Cooper's side are the dominant one in the WhoScored.com Championship Team of the Month.
So I'm not going to express myself in the same way than when I was just an ex-Arsenal football player. Henry confirmed in September there was no dialogue between the Kroenke family and Ek over a potential change of ownership at Arsenal.
