Arteta was in a buoyant mood but also a realistic one as he made it clear he wants serious backing in the transfer market, responding when asked about funds: \"I don't know. It's a big concern. You need to build a squad. It's not magic. You need to improve with quality, quality players in the squad, and you need bigger squads to compete in this competition. There's the challenge. Arsenal spent more than £135m last summer, breaking their transfer record to sign forward Pepe from Lille for £72m - but Arteta wants his own stamp on this team. Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says he \"gave the best\" of himself during his five-and-a-half years with the club. The 47-year-old Argentine led Spurs to four successive top-four finishes and last season's Champions League final. He was replaced by Jose Mourinho last week and in his first statement since, Pochettino said: \"There were equally tough challenges as exciting successes. Best wishes for the future, I am sure we will cross paths again. I would like to thank the Academy for giving me this recognition,\" Messi said in a video message as he was not able to attend the ceremony. This is a very important and special award. For me it is a huge delight to be part of this award and the first team player to receive it. Of course I would like to thank my team-mates, my family and the fans who support me. Today was the first opportunity and we've done it. All good. I'm so pleased for Laca [Alexandra Lacazette] - the reaction of the players and staff towards him. He fights hard for everyone. He's been unlucky. He will gain confidence from this and knows how everyone appreciates him. Meanwhile, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Arsenal's new captain, told Sky Sports: \"We started not at our best but in the second half we put some more energy in and we scored the goals. A good reader of the game, Kompany's pace and aerial ability made him a formidable opponent for many Premier League forwards. A big player, for the big moments and an inspirational captain. Wright: \"I'm not sure what you can say about him other than he was an exemplary leader of that football club and one of the best centre-backs we have seen in the Premier League. Shearer: \"It's really difficult to come back time after time with the injuries he had and that says a lot about his character. La Liga said in a statement it would \"study ticket sales and possible changes of how tickets are sold, especially online\" as part of new measures to combat racism and violence at games. It added: \"La Liga wishes to express its rejection and profound concern with respect to the incidents that occurred, acknowledging that measures put in place several years ago must be improved. Although there has been a decline of insults, incidents and violent attitudes in and outside football stadiums, Saturday's events mean those measures are no longer sufficient. There's a familiarity in the offices, with the body of staff having been the same for a long time. Announcer Gary Sinclair, and John Garrett, heritage manager and also the player liaison officer, have been there since I was a kid. Some have been there for the past 25 or 30 years. They've had their kids alongside each other. It's a tight-knit family. You can pick up the phone and actually talk to someone there who you know, which is pretty rare in football and in a lot of industries in fact. We will see the intentions that we have, his intentions, and where we are sitting at that moment. For me, it's very easy, I want to keep him in any circumstances. Arsenal's hopes of securing Champions League qualification would appear slim as they head into the Saturday's league encounter with West Ham United sitting 10th in the table. Slask Wroclaw and LKS Lodz will face each other in the upcoming match in the Ekstraklasa in Poland. Slask Wroclaw this season have the following results: 12W, 10D and 7L. Meanwhile LKS Lodz have 5W, 6D and 18L. This season both these teams are usually playing attacking football in the league and their matches are often high scoring. An interesting game here in South Korean K League. The host team returned in K league 1 following a three-year absence. Gwangju did well in K league 2, with the team earning auto promotion. Team's main goal will be securing first division survival and they will do their best to get something positive in the opener. Seongnam finished bottom half of the table last season. The Magpies are experienced side in K league and they should go for win in this opener. Everyone is finding value in sway team. But Four of the last 7 direct confrontation between two teams ended sharing spoils. We could see a similar case on Saturday. They violated the curfew as they were having drinks in the restaurant lobby of a Belgrade hotel after the 5pm deadline and there were more than five people present in total. The hotel is also responsible because the measures also prohibit serving food and drinks. Serbia has so far registered 1,476 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 39 deaths. Overall, Monday's visitors aren't enjoying a good campaign. They would've been hoping to bounce straight back to the Bundesliga, but as they're down in a lowly 16th place, returning to the top division at the first time of asking is going to be beyond them. But by the end of the third weekend, I was really missing it. It just goes with the weekend. And he's all for having crowd noise in empty stadiums. It's better than hearing the players puffing and swearing at each other,\" he says. His lockdown experience sounds quite relatableWhat are among the things a royal worries about during lockdown? Home-schooling and keeping young kids entertained, apparently. 20% of De Graafschap’s home games and 30% of Utrecht Jong’s away games have seen exactly 4 goals scored, which ties in well with our prediction for a 3-1 final scoreline in favour of De Graafschap on Friday. A majority of De Graafschap’s wins have been obtained with a margin of 2 goals or more (6 wins) while a majority of Utrecht Jong’s defeats had a margin of 2 goals or more (5 defeats), which makes our 3-1 final scoreline look even more credible. Forest 'only' lost 16 times this season, the fewest defeats recorded by a team to finish bottom. For context, Norwich this season have already lost 18 times, while the record for defeats in a 38-game season is an eye-watering 29. Not that it helped - 16 draws were the issue as they still ended up seven points shy of safety. Again their defensive record was impressive for a struggling side but a lack of firepower was the problem that even the arrival of Pierre van Hooijdonk could not remedy. With the hosts around 1/3 in the match betting, we feel it's worth chancing them to win but with both teams scoring, as Bilbao have managed to net twice in their last two away fixtures in the league, whilst six of the last eight meetings between the sides have seen both teams register. We are going to the second division match in Spain where Sporting de Gijon face Real Oviedo. The local team is in the half of table coming after winning 0-2 in Alcorcón and I hope that today at home they can score one or more goals again. On the other hand, Oviedo needs the points to leave the relegation zone and after drawing 2-2 against Deportivo, I hope they can score one or more goals today. In my opinion, Sporting Gijon is only a slight favorite. Real Oviedo has finally started to score and is getting further and further away from the relegation zone. They are still threatened but with a win they would leave it. They have been unbeaten for four games in a row. We will continue to work with the authorities to help eradicate the growing problem of discrimination within football. On Sunday, two fans from the away end at Brighton & Hove Albion's Amex Stadium were ejected, arrested and later released by Sussex Police for homophobic abuse during the 2-2 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Subs: Burke 5, Joselu 5, Rioja 5. KEY MOMENTS 12’ GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. NO! Busquets plays a wonderful long pass over the top for Messi, his touch was exceptional and finishes into the back of the net, but it's called back for offside. GOAL! Barcelona 1-0 Alaves (Griezmann). There's the opening goal and it had been coming! It's Griezmann who has broken the deadlock! Suarez found the Frenchman 12 yards out from goal and he made no mistake in guiding a right-footed finish into the bottom right-hand corner of the Alaves net. Hibs come into this game on the back of their first league defeat since the end of September when they fell 2-1 to Ross County in Dingwall. However, the Hibees will want to get back to winning ways at Easter Road- where they've drawn four of their last 5 games.

	Team	Events	Wins	Draws	Losses	Goal difference	Points
1	Manchester City	22	18	2	2	41	56
2	Chelsea	22	12	7	3	28	43
3	Liverpool	20	12	6	2	34	42
4	West Ham United	21	11	4	6	12	37
5	Arsenal	20	11	2	7	8	35
6	Tottenham Hotspur	18	10	3	5	3	33
7	Manchester United	19	9	4	6	3	31
8	Wolverhampton Wanderers	20	9	4	7	2	31
9	Brighton & Hove Albion	20	6	10	4	0	28
10	Leicester City	18	7	4	7	-2	25
11	Crystal Palace	21	5	9	7	-1	24
12	Southampton	21	5	9	7	-8	24
13	Brentford	20	6	5	9	-6	23
14	Aston Villa	19	7	1	11	-5	22
15	Everton	19	5	4	10	-10	19
16	Leeds United	19	4	7	8	-16	19
17	Watford	19	4	2	13	-14	14
18	Norwich City	21	3	4	14	-35	13
19	Newcastle United	20	1	9	10	-23	12
20	Burnley	17	1	8	8	-11	11