Arsenal, Salah/Van Dick and Andrei Unana

In his exclusive column for Catchofside, former England striker Stan Collimore is discussing some of the largest conversation points in football, including the Arsenal Champions League and Aston Villa, and Liverpool Mohamed Salah and Virgil Van Dick are played into new contracts, Andrean Onana, and more.

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Larsenal can win the Champions League after Real Madrid Hort

Arsenal was excellent last night against Real Madrid. The damage occurred in the first stage with a very aggressive offer, and I think this is the difference between the two teams. Arsenal has not been intimidated, and for them, this is a big step that shows its growth – not only towards winning the Champions League, but also in the Premier League. This progress was sometimes lacked during the Mikel Artita era.

The demolition of Real Madrid, which is a team of individuals, was a team of individuals. It remains to see whether they can do this against Paris Saint -Germain, but they should be confident because I think they will not show much naivety as Aston Villa did during the main moments of their neck tie. They must also have more quality with young men like Bocao Saka.

In my opinion, there is nothing that prevents Arsenal from winning the Champions League, as there is little between the remaining four teams in the competition. PSG and Barcelona are two teams who also have great experience in being at this stage in competition with these teams, and Inter Milan is a team that many people may not have expected to get this extent.

For Arsenal, I think they will need to be better against Paris Saint -Germain than they were against Real Madrid, but can they do that? I think they can.

Unai Emery’s criticism for replacing Rashford in his place

The vast majority of the genius of UNai Emery since its arrival at a villa has revolved around making the right decisions at appropriate times, but I believe that criticizing its alternatives during the second stage of Paris Saint -Germain is somewhat fair. The Rashford One team killed a little Villa momentum, but Olie Watkins had a record, no one would fight the eyelid.

The fall of a villa against Paris Saint -Germain came in major moments across the legs. The decision to bring Axel Disasi in the first match was naive, and this contributed to the goal of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to make it 2-1. Moreover, the late goal scored by Paris Saint -Germain last week was the early opening match at Villa Park on Tuesday’s mistakes. If this did not happen, they could win the tie, because the return was epic.

You will learn a villa from this, and they will achieve the best in Europe to go forward – whether it is in the Champions League again in the next season, or the UEFA League League if they do not end in the first five in the Premier League. They won big league matches against the teams and around them such as Newcastle and Man City, as well as the FA Cup semi -final against Crystal Palace. I hope the players will end the seasons strongly because they deserve it, but they can also forgive if they have a smoothness on the back of this Paris Saint -Germain match.

In the biggest picture, the owners of a villa are very able to keep them in the competition in the UEFA Champions League places. They are very rich, and they can move the club to the next level. If Emery and Monchi are decisive, there is intelligence with their employment taking into account the threat of FFP, they can continue to progress. They will need to be smart because they will be many clubs in the race in the coming seasons, given that Man UNIDED and Tottenham should wear.

Preserving Salah and Van Digik is the best result of Liverpool

It is excellent for Liverpool to keep the services of Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dick. For me, it does not matter how much money is presented given their ages, because the money that will cost them will definitely be much more than that. Both are more than they are able to maintain their levels during the next 2-3 years, even if they have to retreat a little in terms of fitness.

In the case of Van Dick, he is very able to maintain his natural ability to read a match even if he slows down – he has this thing that many other defenders do not do. With Salah, I do not see him losing much of this critical pace for two or three years. The only thing that should be both cautious is to exaggerate playing, which will cause injuries-but to manage this, I will not be surprised to see them retiring from international football in the non-distant future. There can be a conversation about it after the 2026 World Cup.

If you had told me last summer that Liverpool will keep Salah and Van Digik, but you lost Trent Alexander-Arnold, I would have done the model-and I am sure that supporters will feel the same. The latter is an excellent player, but he is not crucial to ARNE SLOT as the other two. Conor Bradley is more than an escalation, and in terms of resulting output, there are already like Dominic Suzobosli and Alexis Mac Alecters. But Liverpool is not a long side anyway.

A United man can be criticized as collectively – not only onana

It was a difficult period of Andre onana, but put it in its context, not only the worst in the history of a United man As Nimenga Matic said Last week. From when I started watching football in 1977 to the beginning of Alex Ferguson, Man United was very medium. The primary goal of the teams at the time was to stop the winning Liverpool titles, not to win them themselves.

For me, this UNITED team is the worst in two generations. They bought Rasmus Hojlund on the basis of being a young man and swimmer like Erling Haland, so they wanted to play to this level although he barely played with Atalanta and Denmark. That was a panic, and they are paying it now. Mason Jabal – Where was it? He was wounded most of the time, but when he played, he looked at the pace. Can it be said to be one of the worst signature of Man United ever? Yes, of course.

You can pass through the entire first team team and wonder whether these players are one of the worst signatures in the history of Man United, but only onana appears to attract criticism. Perhaps the reason for this is that he plays as a goalkeeper, which is the most important position on the field, or perhaps because he is seen as attracting scrutiny with some strange. But he is completely right to ask the question about the reason for his criticism only because this is definitely the worst team by the United team, which I have ever seen in terms of mentality, desire, leadership, bottle and many other characteristics.

Nobody says he should not be criticized onana – it should be because he was poor. But he must be criticized at the same extent compared to the rest of his teammates. At least he is committed to playing every week, which cannot be said to players like a less widespread mountain. Where is its criticism?

Missing from UCL will not be the forest failure

I never thought this season would be easy for Nottingham Forest, even if many other people look at their equipment and believed that they would get victories here and there. There is a small group of online supporters for each club, and they simply do not understand football. With this, they do not understand how difficult it is to operate-not only for them, as it seems that I am one of the only critics who appreciate it.

Running in the English Premier League, which I consider the last seven or eight games, is one of the most difficult football combinations-it is mainly similar to a major citizen within another big national. It is more strict than other league tournaments such as the first division or Lega, as the teams that have not already been deported or do not compete for anything still has things at stake – it may be proud, new contract or even a summer step if you are a person like Liam Delap in iPSwich.

I faced this situation several times when I was a player, and the message in which you started running was always playing for something. It is the same, whether you are at the top or below the table, and this is unique for English football. When you participate in the title or battles up to 4/5, your mind begins to play tricks, you should think about the possible results.

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For Forest, it is one of the season’s achievements to occupy the fourth place in the Premier League at this stage. No one, not even the most optimistic forest supporter, predicted that they will be their place now, and they should be celebrated for this, regardless of how before the remaining weeks.

Even if they do not qualify for the Champions League, it will not be a failure or “bottle”. If any of the fans of the forest believes this, then you need to give your head a lobby. Football is not like that, clubs cannot rely on their glories and believe that they should end as they are only because they are now. In the end, wherever your team ends at the end of the season, they deserve to end up.