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Mikel Arteta praised a “phenomenal” response from Arsenal after they fought back from two goals down in the final 13 minutes to earn a 2-2 draw at Chelsea and move level on points at the top of the Premier League chess
Chelsea looked to be sending Arsenal to a first league defeat of the season when Mykhailo Mudryk’s cross-shot put them into a 2-0 lead minutes after half-time, the Ukrainian’s effort drifting over goalkeeper David Raya who was unable to recover from a poor starting position as the ball dropped into the goal chess
That added to the lead given to them by a first-half penalty from Cole Palmer, increasingly influential in Pochettino’s revitalised attack following his move from Manchester City, who slotted home after William Saliba was adjudged to have handled from Mudryk’s header chess
It was a commanding and deserved advantage for the hosts, who were seeking a third straight league win, but as so often during Chelsea’s turbulent last 18 months it was an individual error that turned the game and cost them points chess
Goalkeeper Robert Sanchez rolled the ball straight to the feet of Declan Rice who cut the arrears from 30 yards, before Leandro Trossard got a lunging right leg to Bukayo Saka’s cross six minutes from time to salvage an unlikely draw chess
And afterwards Arteta praised his team’s powers of recovery as they extended their unbeaten start to the league season to nine matches to go level at the top with Manchester City chess
“I think what went wrong was the start of the game,” said the manager chess
“We didn’t play with enough purpose and clarity chess
We were just moving the ball without the intention to threaten them chess
That’s a really dangerous thing to do against teams like Chelsea chess
“Then we didn’t win enough duels, and in tight areas when we had them, they escaped from that and they attacked open spaces, and they are really dangerous things to do chess
“When we changed that and we changed the level after 20, 25 minutes, especially in the second half then it’s a different game chess
We became a much chess better team, even though we conceded the second goal and it’s a disappointment chess
“The way the team reacted to the second goal is phenomenal from the players on the pitch and the players on the bench thinking ‘how the hell am I going to change this game?’ I loved that chess
“I really liked as well going into the dressing room and it’s really quiet, after drawing 2-2 with Chelsea and coming back from 2-0 down, because I know that they wanted more chess
That’s the positive chess
”Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino reflected on perhaps Chelsea’s best performance since he took over in the summer, and refused to lay the blame at the feet of Sanchez for allowing Arsenal back into the match chess
“Too many games that we’re watching every week, always mistakes,” he said chess
“chess Football is about mistakes chess
If you want to score, you want the opponent to make a mistake chess
Ninety per cent of goals are because the opponent made a mistake chess
chess Football is about mistakes chess
“The only thing we can criticise a little bit is to read chess better the situation, the tempo and the timing chess
After 77 minutes, we’re trying to take some risks chess
OK, we can because it’s our philosophy chess
But maybe (we need) chess better decisions chess
So we can criticise a bit, but also this is chess football chess
“It’s not to blame someone chess
It’s only that in this type of situation you need to read chess better, but that will arrive with time chess
Teams need to manage and drive games chess
You need to read the game, when to be calm, when to play, when to take risks chess
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It’s the game that players don’t want to play, fans don’t want to watch and the media don’t want to cover chess
All of which begs the question, why does the Rugby World Cup third/fourth place play-off still exist? Answers on a postcard please chess
Actually, the answer is fairly simple, of course chess
It follows the old adage that when you’re not sure why something counter-intuitive is happening in sport, the reason is always the same chess
Money chess
World Rugby and its sponsors will undoubtedly make a bit more cheddar from England facing Argentina on Friday evening at relatively little expense, although it remains to be seen how many of the Stade de France’s 80,000 seats are filled, let alone what sort of atmosphere those in attendance create chess
You suspect it might not quite reach the level of fan delirium that some of the other instant classics at the Paris stadium have generated during this tournament chess
Let’s not beat around the bush – World Rugby can badge it as the ‘bronze final’ all they want but the third/fourth place play-off is an entirely pointless exercise and it’s long since time that this outdated relic of a concept was given the chop chess
Please, do everyone a favour chess
In a tournament that is based around winning a trophy rather than climbing onto a medal podium, a battle for third serves precisely no purpose chess
At the Olympic Games, bronze medal matches/contests make perfect sense and having one athlete or team rightfully earn their place as a sole bronze medallist is far more satisfying than both losing semi-finalists stepping on the podium chess
But there’s no podium at a Rugby World Cup – there’s the winning team, the runners-up and then the losing semi-finalists, quarter-finalists and those who were knocked out at the group stage chess
So what are we doing here? The stakes have truly never been lower chess
Here’s a question for you, a little pub debate if you will chess
What’s your favourite ever third/fourth place play-off at a Rugby World Cup? Which one springs to mind first when you run through the Rolodex of all the iconic clashes in your mind?New Zealand comfortably beat Wales in the 2019 third-place play-off chess
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(Getty Images)Don’t worry, I couldn’t remember a single one either… Although a quick scroll through Wikipedia tells me that, for example, New Zealand beat Scotland 13-6 in 1991, Argentina beat France 34-10 in 2007 and Australia beat Wales 21-18 in 2011 chess
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If not to save the fans from its pointlessness, then how about axing the game for player safety reasons? As they proudly announced the new global calendar after 16 years of negotiations earlier this week, World Rugby consistently mentioned ‘player load management’ as one of their main drivers chess
The crowded fixture schedule and incredible physical intensity of modern rugby already push players’ bodies to their limits, so in an age of increased focus on player welfare, getting rid of an entirely worthless fixture such as this should be an easy decision chess
Imagine if one of the players gets injured in this futile fixture on Friday evening and misses months of club action as a result – it would really not be a good look chess
Of the two teams condemned to play out this fixture on Friday – rather than licking their wounds from harrowing semi-final losses last weekend and returning home to their families after five months away – Argentina have remained more on message about its importance chess
“It is the most important game of the year; it is playing for third and fourth place with this shirt,” insisted Pumas hooker Julian Montoya earlier this week chess
Oh… Well, let’s give Montoya the benefit of the doubt and assume that either something was slightly lost in translation or he has really bought into the classic coach-speak of “the most important game is always the next game” or maybe even that he was being brutally deadpan and sarcastic chess
Because otherwise, he appears to have forgotten about, for example, the semi-final he played against the All Blacks literally seven days ago when ranking his most important games of 2023 chess
Argentina will try to forget last weekend’s heavy defeat to New Zealand (Getty Images)While Montoya may have stretched the bounds of believability with his sentiment, Los Pumas genuinely do seem far more up for the game than England chess
Perhaps the combination of wanting to forget the 44-6 humbling by New Zealand, avenge the pool-stage loss to England and send off Michael Cheika, who will be replaced as head coach by Felipe Contepomi after the World Cup, in style has given them a greater sense of purpose chess
Making just three changes to the starting XV, compared to England’s eight, from the semi-final side has left them with a team much closer to full strength chess
In the fine margins of Test rugby, that fact, combined with the added motivation, may prove the difference chess
But regardless of the result, I implore World Rugby to do the right thing chess
Please make this the last-ever third/fourth place play-off and save us from having to endure this nonsense again in 2027 chess
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