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Leeds United fans on Twitter aren’t best pleased after Graham Smyth and Adam Pope confirmed that Stuart Dallas pulled out of Northern Ireland’s game against Germany due to a hamstring problem.

The 28-year-old has been integral for Leeds United so far this season, starting every single league game for the Whites this term while playing in no less than eight different positions according to WhoScored.

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Understandably, Leeds supporters weren’t too happy when being faced with the prospect of being without Dallas for this weekend’s game against Luton Town, and they took to social media to share their feelings on the update.

It remains to be seen how long the utility man will be out for, but the prospect of being without him in the near future has seemingly disheartened a few members of the fanbase.

Here’s what the Elland Road faithful have been saying about Dallas’ injury on social media…

Chris Ramsey has received an MBE for services to football and diversity in sport, and his achievement has been met with a multitude of well-wishes on social media.

Now QPR’s Head of Coaching, the former Swindon player has been a tremendous servant to the club over a period of five years, and many supporters feel he is well worthy of such an accolade.

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He displayed his great loyalty by staying at the club and accepting a reduced role when he was sacked as manager in 2015, which says a lot about his character and desire to help move QPR forward.

Such a mindset has garnered him much respect amongst the fanbase, and seemingly the wider community, as his years of service have now been rewarded.

He first joined the Hoops while Harry Redknapp, who he knew from his spell working at Tottenham, was in charge, acting as Head of Player Development, and would have overseen the progression of young players such as Harry Kane and Danny Rose.

Many QPR fans appreciate what he has given to their club and football as a whole and have issued praise upon him, as the following reactions show.

Southampton travel to the Etihad Stadium for the second time in five days on Saturday, having spent Tuesday evening playing out a 3-1 defeat to the Citizens in Manchester in the Carabao Cup.

Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side will be playing their first Premier League game since the humiliating 9-0 loss to Leicester last Friday, where they were torn apart in front of their own supporters at St Mary’s.

Facing Pep Guardiola’s back-to-back champions is probably not the ideal game for the Saints as they look to get back on track, although there may be some interesting lineup choices as Hasenhuttl revealed that he knows who he can trust following the 9-0 defeat.

We also outlined that the Austrian needs to stick with one formation, and must also stop being so loyal to underperforming players, so here’s the XI we think Hasenhuttl should deploy…

On Tuesday, Hasenhuttl opted for a 5-3-2 – the Austrian has used six different systems already, so he must settle his players down into one formation and allow them to familiarise themselves with something consistent.

Angus Gunn has started every Premier League game so far this season, conceding 25 goals in ten appearances – more than any other glovesman in the top-flight.

He should be dropped for Alex McCarthy, who is an experienced stopper of international pedigree.

At left-back, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg started in the position on Tuesday, although he must return to his natural midfield position.

Ryan Bertrand will serve the second game of his three-match suspension, so in that case, now is the time for the former RB Leipzig boss to be bold and place his trust in 19-year-old left-back Jake Vokins – the teenager netted against Preston in pre-season when handed a first-team chance, and it would be his Premier League debut if he played on Saturday.

Furthermore, Jack Stephens – who has made just two league appearances this term – scored against City on Tuesday and deserves to keep his place in the team, with Maya Yoshida and Jannik Vestergaard previously contributing to what is the worst defence in the Premier League this term.

Ahead of the backline, the team looks fairly familiar. What is key, however, is Hasenhuttl getting his players into some sort of rhythm in terms of the system and personnel, after what has been a pretty disturbed campaign so far.

Mohamed Salah has been included in the Liverpool squad for Wednesday’s Champions League clash with Genk in Belgium.

The Egypt international was absent for Sunday’s Premier League game against Manchester United with an ankle problem, and the Reds missed the attacker as they dropped their first league points of the 2019/20 campaign.

The 27-year-old is set to make his return on Wednesday, though, which will be a huge boost for a Liverpool side looking for their second victory in Group E.

It remains to be seen just how many changes Jurgen Klopp decides to make, particularly as the Reds face Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League this weekend.

Salah’s return, as expected, has delighted the Liverpool supporters, with many drooling over the fact that the attacker will be available to take on Genk.

The Egyptian has managed six goals in 12 appearances for the Reds this season – including two in two Champions League outings.

A selection of the Twitter reaction from the Merseyside club’s fans can be seen below:

Greatness has recognised greatness.It seems like an eternity ago that Manchester City were playing at their spiritual home Maine Road – when Pep Guardiola was a mere speck on the footballing landscape and the likes of Sergio Aguero, Kevin de Bruyne, David Silva were probably blissfully unaware of the club’s existence.Watch Manchester City Live Streams With StreamFootball.tv Below

Before the petrodollars of Sheikh Mansour flushed into the club, and with it global recognition and scouting networks that extend to the far reaches of the earth, there existed a champion, a goal-scoring fiend and legend by the name of Shaun Goater – or as his official Twitter account states: ‘Shaun Goater MBE (Feed The Goat)’.

Goater is apparently just one of 16 City players who have reached the 100-goal mark for the club, having scored 103 times during his five-year stint. Three of those came in a single season against bitter rivals Manchester United, and it doesn’t get much better than that.

Aguero, who is valued at £58.5m by Transfermarkt (an inconceivable number for veterans of the ‘good old days’), netted twice during Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup clash against Southampton to take his tally to 243 goals for the Blues.

In response to the Argentian’s goalscoring escapades, Goater tweeted: “The goal machine has just been switched on.”

This article is part of Football FanCast’s Injury News series, which considers the impact of the latest updates on players’ fitness.

Everton midfielder Jean-Philippe Gbamin is going to have to wait even longer for his return to action after the club announced he has had yet another setback on his injury.

What’s the word, then?

The Ivory Coast international looks set to miss another three months and his absence will just add to the woes the fans are currently enduring, with the Toffees inside the relegation zone on just seven points from eight games. Elsewhere, Marco Silva was reportedly handed the next three matches to save his job by Farhad Moshiri, and injuries as such will only make this task harder for the former Watford man.

The reports from the club stated that Gbamin had surgery on his right quadriceps muscle, which has kept him out of action since August. The 24-year-old returned to light training this month but had to have surgery after a setback in his rehabilitation process.

Everton have said that the midfielder will now be out until 2020, having already missed all of the Blues’ last eight games, having initially injured himself in training prior to the Aston Villa clash.

Before the 24-year-old endured this torrid luck, he did play in Everton’s first two games, coming off the bench against Crystal Palace in the opening match. However, it was against Watford where he proved his worth, earning a 7/10 rating in the 1-0 win.

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Schneiderlin to get more chances?

The injury will also mean that Morgan Schneiderlin – who continues to be a hugely unpopular player among the Goodison Park faithful having been criticised time and time again this term – could continue to occupy the centre-midfield role, which may cause more problems.

The 5 foot 11 man has struggled throughout the season, averaging a rating of 6.07 this Premier League campaign and has registered 4/10, 5/10 and 4/10 ratings in his past three outings.

The Frenchman has played six times in the league for Everton this campaign and has averaged an alarming 0.3 key passes per game and just 0.3 shots per game as well.

As shown in the games recorded by Transfermarkt, the former Manchester United man has been used as a defensive midfielder throughout this season. Although, considering the Toffees have conceded 13 league goals – the joint-fifth highest in the Premier League – questions have to be asked about what he is bringing to that role.

Unfortunately, Everton fans have not been able to witness Gbamin enough after all of these injuries, and now it is going to be even longer until Silva can deploy his summer signing on a regular basis. To make matters worse, it could mean more minutes for Schneiderlin, amidst his dreadful form.

There are certain players whose reputations are placed in a box with a tight lid placed upon it and no matter what they do, in a game or throughout the course of a season, woe betide we ever let them out. Arsenal’s Calum Chambers is one such player.

He’s a utility defender right? Capable of playing in typically measured fashion in either full-back role or in holding midfield, but principally he’s a centre-back, not a particularly brilliant or exciting one but of Premier League standard. He does a job. He serves a purpose.

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Such a disparaging perception ignores the fact that Chambers was once on a European Golden Boy shortlist that included only four other English talents in Raheem Sterling, John Stones, Luke Shaw and Eric Dier. It ignores the fact that he’s an England international, who made his first Three Lions appearance as a teenager. It ignores the fact that when out on loan at Fulham last season, he was the overwhelming winner of the Cottagers’ Player of the Year award. It ignores that he was amongst the Gunners’ most regular players during pre-season, being involved in almost 70% of all their summer action, and earned acclaim for his displays.

The latter oversight is particularly pertinent in a summer where Arsenal lost their influential captain Laurent Koscielny and flailed around in the transfer market until they found a surprise replacement in David Luiz. Yet even with the Brazilian on board it always felt as though Unai Emery’s men would struggle this term at the back because they lack quality. Chambers, placed as he was in his box, was rarely mooted as a genuine solution.

That perception however is now in need of urgent revision. After starting against Newcastle on the opening day of the season – where Chambers and his partner Sokratis were relatively untroubled for the duration – the 24-year-old was then benched for the following handful of games that saw Arsenal ship more than one goal on each occasion. His return to action came in the recent 3-0 triumph at Frankfurt in the Europa League where he was deployed in his secondary role of right-back and let’s press pause at this point. At this point Chambers has started just two games while Arsenal have kept just two clean sheets. They are the same games.

With the Gunners a goal down and a man down to Aston Villa last week Chambers stepped into the fray coming on as a half-time sub. He scored late on. So another start it was days later when Arsenal hosted Nottingham Forest in the EFL Cup. For most of it the England international was again used in his less preferred position of right-back before being switched to left-back but that is not the story here. The story is that his excellent full-backing not only aided another blank for a defence in dire need of it but at the other end produced three assists.

His overall contribution in the latter encounter was little short of exceptional, latter winning fulsome praise from his manager who said: “His performance is starting with his attitude and his attitude is amazing.”

Three starts for Calum Chambers have resulted in three clean sheets. There has been a goal too along with a trio of assists. And with every passing week Arsenal’s habit of leaking goals is lessening.

It’s time to get rid of that box.

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A debate that still rages fierce even to this day, the question of who is the best out of Paul Scholes, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard certainly gets the blood pumping.

Manchester United fans understandably point to their own man being the greatest of them all, and when you have former legends of the game also paying tribute, there is certainly an element of truth to it.

Despite retiring some time ago, the former England international appears to have lost none of his remarkable abilities. Playing in Vincent Kompany’s testimonial on Wednesday night, Scholes enjoyed one particularly memorable moment of brilliance when he nonchalantly flicked a pass into the path of Robin van Persie in the second-half.

After seeing the 44-year-old’s piece of magic, United fans flooded to Twitter to hail their midfield hero.

Many supporters of the Manchester side waxed lyrical over Scholes’ ever-lasting quality, with one fan in particular insisting “class is permanent, genius is forever”.

Some United fans even claimed the former star could get into the current team, and urged him to come out of retirement.

Check out some of the reaction of United fans below:

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Mateusz Klich appeared on Leeds United’s YouTube channel this week to answer questions from fans.

This was the supporters’ opportunity to really learn more about one of their most important players.

Many questions were put to the Pole, but one stood out amongst the rest as the Elland Road faithful finally got an answer to a previously unknown mystery.

The 29-year-old finally revealed why his shirt number is and always has been 43.

The answer is much simpler than many would have anticipated.

The number was the first Klich was given as a professional footballer, and he has just stuck with it ever since.

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Although the actual answer was rather anticlimactic, we finally have an explanation as to why the Leeds midfielder dons such an unorthodox shirt number.

If we’re honest, we’re a little bit disappointed there’s not some long bizarre conspiracy theory behind the whole thing. Thanks a lot Mateusz.

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Paul Merson has tipped Arsenal to easily beat Tottenham Hostpur in the north-London derby this weekend.

What he said

It was a difficult third matchday for both teams. Arsenal lost their first game of the season against Liverpool in an encounter during which they easily came out second-best, whilst Tottenham were surprisingly beaten 1-0 at home by Newcastle United.

With the Anfield outfit and Manchester City once again ahead of the rest of the top six, it looks like the Gunners and Spurs will be involved in the fight for the top four.

And Merson believes that Unai Emery’s men will easily overcome Mauricio Pochettino and co this weekend. He said on Sky Sports’ The Debate (via Metro) on Monday:

“They [Tottenham] were ripped at Man City.

“Okay they got a draw, but there are ways of getting draws, Man City had 30 shots.

“I think their confidence is shot as well. I watched them the other day against Newcastle, it was slow, they were 1-0 down and they were slow.

“I think Arsenal should expect to win this game, which is unreal, really. Tottenham will be well pleased with a draw, well pleased.

“I think Arsenal will win quite comfortably, 4-1. I think they will rip them to shreds.”

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Won’t be that easy

Whilst Spurs were disappointing against the Toon and should not be losing those kind of games, especially at home, to say that Arsenal will win 4-1 is a bit of a stretch.

After all, there is an abundance of quality in the Tottenham squad, and with Heung-Min Son now having returned from suspension, they have one of their most influential players back in the side.

There is nothing to indicate that Arsenal should be that confident either. They defended poorly against the Reds and did not create much throughout the match. David Luiz failed to cover himself in glory after conceding a penalty and allowing Mohamed Salah through on goal, and will have his work cut out to stop the likes of Son, Harry Kane, Lucas Moura and Giovani Lo Celso at the Emirates Stadium.

Only once since 2012 has either team scored score four or more in this fixture and although that was last season, the two sides look relatively evenly matched heading into the weekend.

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