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Alvaro Arbeloa hit out at a decision not to award Kylian Mbappe a penalty as his Real Madrid side saw their La Liga title hopes suffer another major blow by drawing with Girona. Real Madrid were held to a 1-1 draw by Girona on Friday night‚ with Federico Valverde's second half opener cancelled out by Thomas Lemar. The hosts were left furious in the closing stages after claiming Mbappe should have been awarded a last-gasp penalty.
If Arsenal want to win the Champions League‚ they will first have to silence a man generating a volcanic level of noise in the Iberian Peninsula. Sporting Lisbon may look the easiest possible quarter-final opponents on paper but they have in their ranks a man who can't stop scoring: a certain Luis Suarez. No‚ not the biter. This one is 28‚ Colombian‚ and has 33 goals to his name this season across all competitions. That's three more than Erling Haaland. Most of those are in a weaker league‚ granted‚ but he's already proven he can spear European heavyweights. In January he struck twice to sink Paris Saint-Germain . 'Football is s***‚' declared PSG boss Luis Enrique after Suarez's 90th-minute winner. There is a real chance of Suarez knocking Arsenal out. It's not the most probable eventuality‚ but don't write his Portuguese team off. This is‚ after all‚ a side which has beaten PSG‚ Manchester City‚ Tottenham‚ and even Arsenal themselves in recent seasons - Sporting beat them on penalties in the Europa League last 16 in 2023.
Real Madrid are reportedly upset with England's handling of Jude Bellingham during the international break‚ after the midfielder sat out of the Three Lions friendlies with Uruguay and Japan. Bellingham‚ 22‚ has been fighting for fitness after injuring his hamstring in early February‚ and only managed a brief cameo off the bench in Los Blancos' derby day victory over Atletico Madrid two weeks ago. Nevertheless‚ England head coach Thomas Tuchel opted to call up the not fully recovered Bellingham to his expanded 35-man squad for the final international camp before he chooses his cohort for this summer's World Cup in North America. The midfielder trained with his team-mates ahead of both the 1-1 draw to Uruguay at Wembley and Tuesday's shock 1-0 defeat to Japan‚ but did not play a single minute in either game.
JACK GAUGHAN: Seventy-seven days until a clash with Croatia in Dallas and the battle for a small number of spots within Thomas Tuchel's England squad has yet to reach a definitive conclusion. The draw against Uruguay and defeat by Japan should focus minds ahead of the season run-in‚ when a few still remain on trial before Tuchel announces his 26 heading off to the World Cup. Tuchel experimented with different players and gave new caps across the two friendlies and opinions on who should make the squad will vary wildly up and down the country. Here‚ Daily Mail Sport looks at the runners and riders‚ who is certain of their spot among our picks and which talents are nervously looking over their shoulders.
IAN LADYMAN: Thomas Tuchel has admitted that the mass withdrawal of Arsenal players from international camps looks 'suspicious' but is adamant that England duo Declan Rice and Bukayo Saka are genuinely too injured to feature against Japan at Wembley on Tuesday night. Rice and Saka have returned to their club without kicking a ball for England after reporting for duty to watch last Friday's draw with Uruguay. The duo were part of a group of players given time off for that game but were originally expected to play tomorrow. But both players left camp over the weekend along with club mate Noni Madueke‚ who was injured during the Uruguay game. This took the number of Arsenal players to have left national team meet-ups around the world to eleven‚ raising eyebrows give the Gunners have just lost the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City and have a Champions League first leg against Sporting Lisbon to play next Tuesday.
Thomas Tuchel has warned Harry Maguire he is still behind several rivals in the England pecking order and may need injuries to others before he goes to the World Cup. Maguire was man-of-the-match during Friday's 1-1 draw with Uruguay at Wembley and had looked to have played his way into the World Cup squad‚ especially given his recent form for Manchester United.
England's team of fringe stars were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw against Uruguay at Wembley on Friday night after Ben White's late goal was cancelled out by a stoppage time penalty. Daily Mail Sport's CRAIG HOPE was at Wembley on the night to rate each of England's players‚ assessing their performances with World Cup spots on the line.
IAN LADYMAN AT WEMBLEY: This week Daily Mail Sport set out some of the key questions England manager Thomas Tuchel was hoping to answer during two friendlies against Uruguay and Japan.
England's friendly with Uruguay was marred by some farcical refereeing on Friday night‚ not least one incident in the second-half at Wembley that recalled Graham Poll's infamous mistake at the 2006 World Cup. Englishman Poll famously issued three yellow cards to Croatia's Josip Simunic in the Croatia vs Australia match in Germany. Poll booked Simunic in the 61st and 90th minutes but failed to send him off‚ only issuing the red card after a third yellow in stoppage time. This time it was Uruguay's Manuel Ugarte who got lucky‚ with the Manchester United midfielder already booked for an early challenge when he was shown another for dissent at German referee Sven Jablonski‚ in the final 10 minutes of the match.
Former Leeds boss Bielsa took over Uruguay in May 2023 and initially started well‚ winning four of his first six World Cup qualifiers before they came third at the 2024 Copa America.
IAN LADYMAN: With less than three months to go before England 's World Cup starts against Croatia in Dallas‚ coach Thomas Tuchel has picked a mammoth 35-man squad ahead of two friendlies‚ against Uruguay on Friday and Japan next Tuesday. With fringe players set to be given a game at Wembley this week before senior stars are called in to camp ahead of the second fixture‚ on Saturday‚ Tuchel is trying to cover all bases before selecting his final 26-man squad for World Cup 2026 in May.
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