The 23-year-old was the mastermind of his potential suitors' downfall on Tuesday night as he fired PSG to a 1-0 victory in the first leg of their round of 16 Champions League tie, but refused to be drawn on what his next move will be after the game.
His movement, dropping into pockets of space between City's defence and midfield, showed his intelligence, while his masterful use of the ball showed the full extent of his ability.
English teams, including the national side, played in the major three European finals in the summer and there were some supreme goalscoring exploits elsewhere.
Jarrod Bowen was presented with a gilt-edged opportunity to bring West Ham level after 14 minutes, but struck the post after being played through on goal by Tomas Soucek.
This early defensive solidity in matches is giving Thomas Frank's side a platform to build from as the match progresses.
The league table still doesn’t look that bad, with Arteta’s side just four points outside of the Champions League places, but the manner of the recent defeats have raised familiar questions about Arsenal.
I cannot see Manchester City keeping Liverpool out, and I cannot see Liverpool keeping Manchester City out.
If he's asked to do different things, potentially at Arsenal, be a little bit more intricate in his build-up play, he might have that in his game or even add it to his game.
Benzema scored Real’s first goal at the Etihad before netting the third with a Panenka penalty. His team-mate Vinicius Junior also said he “deserves” to be crowned Ballon d’Or winner.
Their away games this season have averaged 3.27 goals per 90 minutes with 60 per cent of those matches producing four or more goals.
Vieira opted to deploy Olise as the No 10 behind Zaha as a striker, with Jeffrey Schlupp and Jordan Ayew on either flank.
Wilshere said: Since I started training with Arsenal, I have never hidden the fact that it was to be ready for 2022 and for a new club.
Willock's run and cross was ideal for Dykes to turn the ball goalwards but Lumley prevented an equaliser with his leg and then gathered.
But Roma were simply too open at the back at a critical point in the match and could not find a way to stop the Juventus goals from flooding in.
I cannot assure them. The City boss added: He has all the skills to play in any of the three positions up front.
Modric, who in 2018 became the first player besides Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to win the Ballon d'Or since Kaka in 2007, completed the most passes (422) and created the most goalscoring chances (18) for Croatia in their 2018 World Cup campaign. In fact, Modric was the midfielder with the most passes attempted (484), most touches (624) and most recoveries (56).
We just have to listen more to him and try to understand his style of football in a very fast way, which we really need to.
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He’d been spotted while playing in a tournament in south-east London and had picked Arsenal over several other clubs that had been vying for his signature.
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Speaking at his press conference on Monday, Scaloni confirmed Messi would play, putting to bed any speculation he might have suffered any issues in his comeback from injury.
A Riyad Mahrez penalty appeared to have rescued a point for Manchester City with an injury time strike, but Kane grabbed his second in the 95th minute to take all three points.
Dael Fry's strike deflected in off Kitching from close range but it came too late for Boro to stage a comeback as Barnsley breathed more life into their survival hopes.
I think it would be hard to find so many champions together. Milan went on to concede only one more goal in their remaining five matches in winning that European Cup - the stories about their defence legendary.
Of course, I would like to give more minutes to the players that haven't had enough, that's for sure, independently of who they are, but the reality is that if someone else is playing, it is for a reason, and the players need to understand that.
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Olivier Giroud scored twice as AC Milan came from behind to beat Inter Milan and move to within a point of their rivals at the top of Serie A.
What Manchester United's star players need is to have the work ethic of Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, and Sadio Mane.
In contrast, Maguire has taken all of his shots from outside the six-yard box - and all have been classified as difficult chances to convert, according to xG.
The German's comments came after Antonio Rudiger was struck by a lighter thrown from the away end at Stamford Bridge.
The Cottagers progressed despite losing 2-1 at home, beating the Bluebirds 2-0 in the second leg with goals from Josh Onomah and Neeskens Kebano, setting up an all-west London final against Brentford at Wembley.
Livi captain Nicky Devlin opened the scoring late in the first half, just a minute after goalkeeper Max Stryjek could have been sent off for a clash with Vincente Besuijen.
It's almost like Totti when Totti was at Roma, the Derby County boss said. Roma used to play this way and Totti would come deep, and they had runners running beyond him.
But a sublime outside-of-the-boot pass from Luka Modric teed up Rodrygo to equalise from close range and despite both sides trading chances, it was Benzema's header just five minutes into extra-time that separated the two teams vying for a Champions League semi-final spot.
United's last meeting with Liverpool was at Old Trafford in October where they were embarrassingly defeated 5-0 by their North-West derby rivals as Salah scored a hat-trick.
But it's not only pleasure, it's a lot of responsibility as well because everyone is looking at out and everybody wants you to get it right.
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Liverpool confirmed their place in the last four of the competition with a controversial 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest.
Of course I hate losing, I don't want to, but he deserved that win. We had one bad half against West Ham, and this is our second bad half in the Premier League.
This is what the FA Cup’s about, and a day after Kidderminster Harriers’ late heartbreak against West Ham, it only felt right.
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Xavi’s aim between now and the end of the campaign is to earn Barca a top-four spot and qualify for next season's Champions League, with the Blaugrana having been knocked out of Europe’s premier club competition embarrassingly early in December, netting just two goals in six group-stage games on their way to elimination.
People say, 'Footballers do not talk like this.' I am sorry. People can be negative but I am not falling for that, the craziness of social media.
That group emerged following discussions with the Football v Homophobia campaign and other LGBT+ stakeholders in football.
It’s been 16 years since an English player even finished in the top three of the Ballon d’Or voting (Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard in 2005). Since then there has been four English Champions League winners and three all-English Champions League finals, yet this has had very little bearing on the France Football award.