We are 15 rounds into the Championship season and it's shaping up to be one for the ages. Coventry City are blazing a trail at the top of the pile, breaking records as they go, there are some surprising names clinging onto their coattails, while two of the teams parachuted down from the Premier League are nowhere to be seen... yet.
Myles Lewis-Skelly paid the price for his lack of game time and now the City man gets his opportunity to stake a claim for a World Cup spot. The 20-year-old now goes into camp having become the latest defender to shut out Mohamed Salah. That's less of an achievement than it used to be, but O'Reilly still had to show tenacity and patience against this nuggety, late-era version of the Egyptian superstar.
Arsenal last conceded a goal at 5.05pm on 28 September. Since then, they've only allowed 12 shots on target in 12 hours and 56 minutes of football, over eight-and-a-half matches, a sequence that equals a club record established in 1903, when they were still knocking around in Woolwich. Nick Ames digs deeper. Share Sunderland are in If It Ain't Broke mode. They name the same XI that started the 2-1 win at Chelsea and the 1-1 draw with Everton.
Now, with Kolo Muani fit, the former Everton striker has had to make do with a place on the bench and failed to impress against FC Copenhagen in midweek, missing a penalty that another striker, Dane Scarlett, won. Competition is fierce, even for a Spurs side that registered 0.1 xG in the defeat to Chelsea the lowest by any Premier League team this season and speculation has already begun before the January transfer window.
Year by year, I score more, Even in a bad year [in 2024-25], I scored 25 goals. If I played in the Premier League, now in a top team, I would score the same! If I had a good team, at 40 years old, I would score the same.
Mohammed Kudus was absent from Tottenham's victory over FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on Tuesday night. Thomas Frank's side got on just fine in Kudus' absence, of course, with goals from Brennan Johnson, Wilson Odobert, Micky van de Ven and Joao Palhinha providing a 4-0 victory - in spite of Johnson being dismissed at 2-0. But Kudus could now face a battle to be fit as Spurs take on Manchester United on Saturday lunchtime.
Manchester United are ramping up their interest in Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo as they continue to identify potential attacking reinforcements ahead of the January transfer window, according to TEAMtalk. The 25-year-old Ghana international has been one of the Premier League's best performers this season, catching the eye of United's recruitment department with his pace and clinical finishing.
The guidelines for dealing with possible concussion operate under the tagline of 'if in doubt sit them out'. It means that if a player has suspected concussion at any level of football "they must be immediately removed from the pitch, whether in training or match play". The FA states that the reason for immediate action in removing players from the pitch is because treatment delays "could risk incomplete recovery of the brain".
