Arsenal centre-back William Saliba (25) is expected to start France’s World Cup opener against Senegal in East Rutherford on Tuesday night. The 2025-2026 Premier League champion’s entourage has ag...
Bukayo Saka says winning the Premier League with Arsenal has given him "even more hunger" to achieve similar success with England at the World Cup. The 24-year-old played 31 times as the Gunners ended their 22-year wait for a league title, and is expected to start for the Three Lions in Wednesday's Group L opener against Croatia. Saka only started 25 Premier League matches across the campaign and had his minutes managed as he recovered from hip and Achilles issues during the run-in.
Arsenal are set-piece masters, and no club supplied more players for England's World Cup squad than the Gunners - so it is understandable that Thomas Tuchel will look to play to the Premier League champions' strengths. Here in the United States, Mikel Arteta's dedication to perfecting Arsenal's routines is an approach England head coach Tuchel is looking to replicate. In a tournament environment, when the margins can be so small, Tuchel is keen to take a leaf out of the Arsenal playbook that he admires, and has impressed on his players the importance of exploiting dead-ball situations.
Eberechi Eze missed a penalty in Arsenal's Champions League final defeat, but said he would take one for England at the World Cup. The post Eze ready for England penalty duty despite Champions League final miss appeared first on SoccerNews.
