PREVIEW Sheffield United vs Arsenal: Match details, team news and probable lineups

Arsenal face Sheffield United in the Quarter-Finals of the FA Cup

Arsenal will be in action on Sunday afternoon as they take on Sheffield United in the quarterfinals of the Emirates FA Cup.

After a disappointing season, Arsenal has just the FA Cup as their only source of silverware and glory and will be hoping to win it for a record 14th time.

Match Details;

Kick-Off: 13:00 GMT

Venue: Bramall Lane

Referee: Paul Tierney

Last two meetings: Arsenal 1-1 Sheffield Utd, Sheffield Utd 1-0 Arsenal

Teams News;

Arsenal will have David Luiz back available after serving his two-match ban for his red card received in a 3-0 defeat against Manchester City.

Bernd Leno, Calum Chambers and Pablo Mari are all ruled out with injuries.

 

Gabriel Martinelli has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after sustaining a knee injury, while Lucas Torreira and Cedric Soares are back in training but remain doubts.

Head to Head facts;

This will be the 116th meeting between the two clubs, with Arsenal winning 48 of those meetings. Sheffield United have 40 wins of their own, alongside 27 draws.

Sheffield United and Arsenal last met in the FA Cup in March 2005 in a fifth-round replay; after a goalless draw, the Gunners won 4-2 on penalties at Bramall Lane.

Arsenal have won the most FA Cup trophies

Probable lineup;

Martinez;

Sokratis, Mustafi, Holding, Kolasinac;

Ceballos, Xhaka, Saka;

Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang

Prediction:

Arsenal got back to winning ways on Thursday with a 2-0 victory at Southampton and that should boost their morale.

Arsenal has a very good record in this competition and is the record holders.

 

Sheffield has looked poor ever since the league resumed unlike before, they have failed to score a goal in three matches and have been leaking goals at the back.

Mikel Arteta is expected to field a strong side that should see Arsenal progress to the semis

Sheffield United 0-1 Arsenal

Mr. Peter of PSquare's family battled coronavirus for 3-weeks after testing positive

Famous singer, Peter Okoye, popularly known as Mr. P of PSquare, has revealed he, his wife and daughter battled coronavirus for three weeks after testing positive to the virus.

Mr. P took to his verified Instagram handle and other social media platforms via to narrate his experiences.

In one of the videos, Peter said he was the one who first tested positive for the virus.

He said: ”For the past three weeks, I have been ill and most people didn’t even know what was wrong with me. I kept it to myself. It has been three weeks of hell for me and my family.

“I had COVID-19 for about three weeks and it happened to me. I was sick and I tested positive.

“The reason why I came out to say it is because I am going to encourage a lot of people concerning this whole social distancing, getting used to sanitising your hands, disinfecting your environment, wearing your face mask and all that.

“It’s been hell for this family in this house. Not just me. Even two of my domestic staff.

“After a week, my daughter caught the virus as well. It was sad that when she caught it, the doctor insisted that she has to be self-isolated in her own room but my wife did something very courageous. She said no.

“I was sick and I was being self-isolated in my guest room. I couldn’t even see my sick daughter and I was feeling so bad. I felt so bad because I felt that I am the one who actually brought the virus to the house. It was so bad that I had to be calling her on video, checking on her.

“The next day, my wife did something very courageous. She picked our daughter from her room, held her and took her to the master bedroom and she called me and she started crying. I asked her what happened and she said I cannot live this girl alone. I would rather be infected and be with her.

“Five or six days later, my daughter was pronounced negative. When she was pronounced negative, we knew it wasn’t going to end there. The next day, Lola became positive. It has been hell but we had a bad experience.

“I just want to tell everybody that this COVID19 is real. Don’t take it for granted.

“I am happy to announce that my wife, myself, our daughter and two of our domestic staff all of us are now negative,” Mr. P concluded.

All Arsenal Transfer Update This Week

EXCLUSIVE: The #Arsenal board and Mikel Arteta have come to a mutual agreement that the 2 MAIN priorities are to sign a CDM and a CB. That in no way means that other players wont be joining because they will, but the signings will be revolved around the 2 main priorities.

As things currently stand, Thomas Partey is joining Arsenal. Everything is pretty mich done and Arsenal have for some time now, known that they WILL be triggering the release clause in Partey's contract.

After they seal the Partey deal, they will look to swiftly move onto the Dayot Upamecano deal as his Release Clause expires this summer. Upamecano has decided to leave and Arsenal are his main priority as long as Arsenal have the 60 million required to complete the deal.

After Arsenal conclude those 2 deals for in the Partey and Upamecano, the rest of the signings will then depend on player sales. Arsenal wont be able to spend much more than 20-30 million on anyone after those 2 deals unless they sell some marquee players.

Besides the CDM and CB targets. The other positions they are looking to improve on are Striker (if Aubameyang/Lacazette leaves), CM/CAM (Is the the third priority on the list but if they splash big money on the CDM and CB, they will have to look for cheaper alterantives.

A Winger is also a priority but a big name signing won't occur there unless there is HEAVY movement in the squad of players that actually hold value. Players such as Lacazette, Aubameyang, Torriera, Guendouzi would have to leave for any sort of big name Left Winger to join.

Just a quick thread on #Arsenal transfers/contract news.

Aubameyang: Offer is on the table and is waiting to see if we have European football next season and show ambition in the window. He is willing to sign a new deal.

Saka: Deal is 99% done. Nothing to worry about here.

Partey: Deal will be completed. Arsenal have the money to do the deal and player is eager to move.

Upamecano: Big priority of the boards but Arteta has some reservations. Arsenal still in pole position but Arteta would still like another Left footed CB as well as him.

Grealish: Possibility of joining Arsenal is there but they almost certainly won’t be able to spend 50 million on 3 seperate players unless there is heavy movement of the big name players in the squad.

Arsenal are interested but nothing more has real happened.

Zaha: Could be an option to replace Aubameyang if he leaves but the fee would still be in the region of 50-70 million.

Edouard: If Lacazette is to leave, he is the number 1 striker target to replace him. He favours a move to Arsenal but wants first team guarantees.

Pau Torres/Gabriel: Both are at the same stage. 1 of these will very likely join but not both. Arteta favours Torres but still a long way to go in the deal.

Lacazette: Arsenal are willing to offer a new deal but isn’t a priority of the club at this current stage.

Cristiano Ronaldo Breaks Football History 2020

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (European Portuguese: [kɾiʃˈtjɐnu ʁɔˈnaɫdu] ; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team . Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

Cristiano Rinaldo breaks football history as the the active player with the highest goal plus the one he scored last night. No one has near him, he keeps on scoring to be the best.

He’s still got a little way to go if he wants to beat Josef Bican’s record of 805 goals, though.

But with Ronaldo showing no signs of slowing down at the age of 34, you certainly wouldn’t put it past him.

In terms of active players, however, Ronaldo reigns supreme.

When you take into account goals scored at international youth level, Ronaldo has now scored 745.

Top-level football , 10 active players have scored 415 or more goals over the course of their career, according (in most cases) to research by the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Only those who were active in the highest level football for most of their careers are considered.

He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,000 professional career appearances and has scored over 745 senior career goals for club and country. 

Including national team and club goals at youth level, the Portuguese superstar has reached a staggering 745 goals in 1040 games at the top level.

Rank Player Total goals Total matches Ratio Years

1 Cristiano Ronaldo 745 [14] 1040 0.72 2001–

2 Lionel Messi 726 [15] 915 0.79 2003–

3 Zlatan Ibrahimović 547 [16] 925 0.59 1999–

4 Robert Lewandowski 481 [17] 730 0.66 2006–

5 Luis Suárez 475 [18] 759 0.63 2005–

6 Ali Ashfaq 463 [19] 544 0.85 2001