We completed third within the Champions League desk to safe a spot within the last-16 because of a comeback victory in opposition to Girona.

All of the targets got here within the first half, and Arnaut Danjuma gave the hosts a shock lead in opposition to the run of play, however we turned issues round with two targets in 4 minutes because of a Jorginho penalty and a nice Ethan Nwaneri effort.

Raheem Sterling missed a penalty deep into second-half stoppage-time, however sufficient had been carried out to safe our sixth win from eight matches within the competitors this time period to complete solely behind Liverpool and Barcelona, and permit us the possibility to observe what occurs within the play-off spherical subsequent month from afar.

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Highlights: Girona 1-2 Arsenal

Danjuma does the injury

Searching for a fourth successive Champions League win for the primary time since 2005, we started in dominant style. Sterling curled an early effort simply over from the sting of the field earlier than a teasing Nwaneri cross discovered Leandro Trossard in area, however the well-placed Belgian stabbed the ball the unsuitable aspect of the publish.

It regarded as if the breakthrough had arrived on 11 minutes when Riccardo Calafiori latched onto a Sterling cross and cooly slotted previous goalkeeper Pau Lopez however our defender was denied the possibility to attain in successive video games by an offside flag.

In accordance with the official stats, 43% of the sport was performed within the Girona defensive third within the opening 25 minutes – and but by 28 minutes the already-eliminated hosts in some way discovered a strategy to get in entrance.

From centre-back, Juanpe threaded an ideal cross into the trail of Danjuma who had slipped behind Thomas Partey, and with Neto stranded 25 yards from his purpose, the previous Bournemouth and Tottenham winger whipped a first-time effort round our debutant and into the online to present the house crowd hope that they may declare only a second European win of their historical past.

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Arteta on good evening as we attain last-16

Two earlier than the break

It was a lead Girona scarcely deserved, however we didn’t let it deter us and inside 10 minutes we discovered our means again degree once more through the penalty spot. Partey wriggled his means into the world and was despatched to the turf by a slipshod Arnau Martinez problem, so Jorginho grabbed the ball and tucked it previous Lopez to register his second Gunners purpose – each from 12 yards.

After which 4 minutes earlier than half-time, a bit of magic from Nwaneri obtained us again into the altering rooms with the lead.

The 17-year-old picked the ball up from Trossard contained in the Girona field, and dribbled again out of it to edge right into a extra central place. When he obtained the sight of purpose he desired, he let rip and blasted an unstoppable shot previous the helpless Lopez to develop into the second teen English scorer of a Champions League purpose after Jude Bellingham.

It might have been even higher on the break as Trossard was despatched scuttling into the field by Martin Odegaard and from a good angle thrashed an try off the highest of the crossbar.

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Nwaneri: “The second I’ve lived for my complete life”

VAR to the rescue

The restart noticed no let-up by way of our attacking risk. Lopez prevented Alejandro Frances being credited with a weird personal purpose after a cross looped off him and in direction of the purpose, Gabriel and Timber each got here near scoring from corners and Nwaneri once more let fly from the sting of the world and noticed his shot skid simply large.

However having misplaced by a single purpose to Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool and AC Milan by a single purpose through the league part, the La Liga outfit as soon as once more proved that they had been powerful to shake off, and simply as the sport gave the impression to be really fizzling out, they might discover the online once more.

A swift counter-attack noticed Girona’s all-time main scorer Cristhian Stuani tuck the ball away to spark celebrations within the stands, however VAR intervened and located the veteran hitman to have strayed offside and we got a reprieve.

As the sport moved into stoppage-time, we had the possibility to seal the factors when Frances dealt with the ball contained in the field, and Sterling was given the possibility to attain from the spot, however Lopez guessed the best means and pushed the try across the publish, however the injury had already been carried out as we secured consecutive away wins within the competitors for the primary time since December 2016.

FACTS AND STATS

Arsenal have progressed from the group stage/league part in every of their final 16 seasons within the UEFA Champions League, final failing to succeed in the knockout rounds (when showing within the competitors) in 2002-03.

Girona have misplaced 16 video games in all competitions this season with solely Southampton (20) dropping extra amongst large 5 European league sides in 2024-25.

Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri (17y 314d) turned the second youngest Englishman to attain a UEFA Champions League purpose after Jude Bellingham (17y 289d – Borussia Dortmund v Manchester Metropolis in April 2021).

Excluding shootouts, all 9 of Jorginho’s targets within the UEFA Champions League have been penalties, essentially the most targets a participant has scored within the competitors’s historical past with 100% of them coming from the penalty spot.

Arnaut Danjuma’s opener for Girona (32.19 yards) was the longest-range purpose Arsenal have conceded within the UEFA Champions League since Cristiano Ronaldo’s strike for Manchester United in Might 2009 (34.6 yards). It was additionally the primary purpose the Gunners have conceded from open play within the competitors this season.

Neto turned the fourth totally different goalkeeper to seem for Arsenal this season (additionally Raya, Setford & Porter), the primary time the Gunners have used as many ‘keepers in a single season since 2020-21 (Leno, Martínez, Rúnarsson & Ryan).

What’s subsequent

We host Manchester Metropolis in an enormous Premier League conflict on Sunday at Emirates Stadium, earlier than we head to St James’ Park to attempt to overturn a 2-0 deficit in opposition to Newcastle United within the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg. We then have a 10-day hole earlier than we’re subsequent in league motion once we head to Leicester Metropolis.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists introduced on Jan. 28 that the arms of the Doomsday Clock are transferring ahead, to 89 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse. 

“The world has not made ample progress on existential dangers threatening all of humanity. In setting the clock nearer to midnight, we ship a stark sign,” mentioned Daniel Holz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics on the College of Chicago and chair of the Science and Safety Board of the Bulletin, which units the arms of the clock.

“Each second of delay in reversing course will increase the likelihood of world catastrophe,” he mentioned.

Yearly, the Bulletin determines how a lot metaphorical time we now have to avert disaster for humankind. Over the previous 75 years, the arms of the clock have moved each , in keeping with whether or not steps have been taken to handle threats that would finish human civilization on Earth, together with local weather change and nuclear battle. 

The clock final moved in 2023, when the Bulletin set the arms of the clock at a minute and a half to midnight—nearer than it had ever been earlier than, together with in the course of the Chilly Struggle. 

“As a result of the world is already perilously near the precipice, any transfer in direction of midnight ought to be taken as a sign of maximum hazard and an unmistakable warning,” Holz mentioned on the information convention.

Rising and persevering with threats

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was created by a gaggle of involved Manhattan Mission scientists, many primarily based on the College of Chicago, shortly after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1947, artist and Bulletin member Martyl Langsdorf created the long-lasting Doomsday Clock to sign how shut humanity was to self-destruction.

Right now, the Doomsday Clock is situated on the Bulletin workplaces within the Keller Middle, house to the College of Chicago’s Harris College of Public Coverage. A number of UChicago school members sit on its board, together with Holz and Prof. Robert Rosner, who sits on the Board of Sponsors.

Of their determination, the Bulletin cited lack of urgency in response to the rising results of local weather change; international actions towards nuclear arms; rising use of generative AI in disinformation campaigns and in army purposes; and lack of readiness to handle rising pathogens, together with U.S. President Trump’s withdrawal from international local weather and well being agreements. 

Nonetheless, the Bulletin has all the time emphasised that the clock shouldn’t be supposed to make individuals fearful, however moderately to spur them to motion. The total assertion lists numerous actions wanted to make the world safer, and urges individuals to press their governments for motion.

“There may be nonetheless time to make the correct selections to show again the arms of the Doomsday Clock,” mentioned Juan Manuel Santos, chair of The Council of Elders, former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, on the information convention. 

“In Colombia, we are saying: ‘Cada segunda cuenta’—each second counts. Allow us to use each correctly.”

Study extra concerning the Doomsday Clock and its UChicago roots.

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This provide can be accessible for UK key staff through Blue Gentle and Community, and college students through Scholar Beans. Extra data on eligibility and learn how to redeem the low cost might be discovered right here.

Liverpool’s males’s squad will put on the vary for the primary time in coaching subsequent week as they put together for the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur.

As Liverpool FC’s official charity, the LFC Basis is devoted to tackling social inequalities and elevating aspirations each within the Liverpool Metropolis Area and internationally.

Their work is carried out by way of the supply of programmes which have a optimistic influence on well being, studying and employment outcomes within the highest-need communities throughout the Liverpool Metropolis Area, and thru impactful partnerships internationally.

Round St Helens Stadium this weekend, followers will have the ability to buy raffle tickets to assist elevate important funds for the work of the LFC Basis and be in with an opportunity of profitable signed LFC Ladies memorabilia. For those who want to it’s also possible to donate straight through the LFC Basis web site www.liverpoolfc.com/basis.

To assist have fun Group Day, the groups might be welcomed on to the pitch by flag wavers from the LFC Basis’s participant improvement programme, who may even participate in half-time leisure on the pitch.

The PDP programme goals to ship a novel soccer improvement providing for younger individuals from the age of 4 to senior soccer. It’s designed for all abilities and skills with a transparent give attention to improvement of gamers alongside coaches, grassroot golf equipment and leagues.

The LFC Basis additionally runs an rising expertise centre, which is a expertise identification programme that hyperlinks to girls and ladies’ pathway and feeds into the membership funded academy age teams.

These are just a few examples of alternatives accessible by way of the LFC Basis. Final season alone, the charity supported greater than 127,000 individuals and generated £92million of social worth to the Liverpool Metropolis Area. Throughout that interval, for each £1 invested the LFC Basis was in a position to generate a return of £13.70 again into the group.

Since LFC Ladies’s transfer to St Helens, the LFC Basis has expanded its work to the local people by way of a brand new strategic partnership with Saints Group Improvement Basis.

This partnership helps to supply extra alternatives for individuals of all ages in St Helens by way of the launch of LFC Basis’s newest Group Hub, primarily based at St Helens Stadium.

LFC Basis’s hubs programme, which is funded by the Steve Morgan Basis, offers secure areas for individuals to return collectively and helps enhance the overall well being and wellbeing of the local people. The hub in St Helens is one in all eight that LFC Basis works in partnership with throughout the Liverpool Metropolis Area and surrounding areas.

By combining the sources, information and fervour of each foundations, the partnership goals to work collaboratively to reinforce one another’s work in the neighborhood for even larger influence.

Be part of us at St Helens Stadium this weekend to assist have fun the LFC Basis, tickets are nonetheless accessible on-line right here.

Humanity is nearer than ever to disaster, in line with the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock.

The ominous metaphor ticked one second nearer to midnight this week. The clock now stands simply 89 seconds away — its first transfer in two years and the closest the clock come to midnight in its almost eight-decade historical past.

“The 2025 Clock time indicators that the world is on a course of unprecedented threat, and that persevering with on the present path is a type of insanity,” introduced the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the nonprofit group that units the clock every year.

The group meets yearly to evaluate how shut humanity is to self-destruction based mostly on three important elements: local weather change, nuclear proliferation and disruptive applied sciences (equivalent to synthetic intelligence).

This yr, it cited persevering with tendencies in a number of “world existential threats” together with nuclear weapons, local weather change, AI, infectious ailments and conflicts in Ukraine and the Center East. It additionally pointed to the unfold of misinformation and conspiracy theories as a “potent risk multiplier” that undermines public discourse usually and about these very points.

Whereas these threats usually are not new, the scientists stated that “regardless of unmistakable indicators of hazard, nationwide leaders and their societies have didn’t do what is required to alter course.”

They’re significantly involved concerning the U.S., China and Russia, nations they are saying have the “collective energy to destroy civilization” and the “prime accountability to drag the world again from the brink.”

The Bulletin hopes the motion of the clock’s second hand — as incremental as it could appear — will function a wake-up name to world leaders.

“Nationwide leaders should start discussions about these world dangers earlier than it is too late,” stated Daniel Holz, the chair of the Bulletin’s Science and Safety Board. “Reflecting on these life-and-death points and beginning a dialogue are the primary steps to turning again the Clock and shifting away from midnight.”

It isn’t unimaginable — the clock has moved each since its creation in 1947.

The Doomsday Clock got here out of nuclear issues after WWII 

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was based in 1945 by a bunch of Chicago-based scientists who had labored on the world’s first atomic bomb and wished to teach the general public concerning the penalties of nuclear weapons.

Early editions of the bulletin began out as collections of articles, and editors ultimately determined to package deal them as {a magazine} with an eye catching cowl, in line with the College of Chicago.

Bulletin member and artist Martyl Langsdorf was tasked with developing with the illustration. Langsdorf — who was married to a Manhattan Challenge physicist — sketched out a number of concepts, together with a clock counting right down to the change of nuclear weapons.

“It was a slightly life like clock but it surely was the IDEA of utilizing a clock to indicate urgency,” she later wrote.

She set the unique fingers at seven minutes to midnight as a result of “it appeared good to my eye.”

The clock graced the quilt of the 1947 Bulletin and has remained its iconic picture ever since — even because the threats it considers and the location of the clock’s fingers have modified over time.

The risk ranges — and threats themselves — have advanced 

The Bulletin has repositioned the clock fingers 26 instances since 1947.

It first moved — from seven to 3 minutes earlier than midnight — in 1949, after the Soviet Union efficiently examined its first atomic bomb. On the time, the prospect of a nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was thought-about the best hazard to humanity.

“We don’t advise People that doomsday is close to and that they will count on atomic bombs to begin falling on their heads a month or yr from now,” the Bulletin warned. “However we expect they’ve motive to be deeply alarmed and to be ready for grave selections.”

All through the Chilly Conflict, the clock periodically moved forwards and backwards — from two to upwards of 10 minutes to midnight — based mostly largely on world conflicts and nuclear proliferation.

The clock was its farthest from midnight — a large 17 minutes — in 1991, with the tip of the Chilly Conflict and the signing of the Strategic Arms Discount Treaty between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

The beginning of the twenty first century introduced new sorts of threats, from the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist assaults to rising issues about local weather change, which the Bulletin started to think about in its clock-setting deliberations in 2007.

The clock hit two minutes to midnight — the closest it had been for the reason that Fifties — in 2018, on account of what scientists described as a breakdown within the worldwide order of nuclear actors and a scarcity of motion on local weather change. It dropped to 100 seconds in 2020 and 90 seconds in 2023, the place it stayed till it reached its file stage this yr.

Whereas the Doomsday Clock has been criticized by some over time as being alarmist and inaccurate, its operators preserve they’re drawing a conclusion from occasions and tendencies, not making an attempt to foretell the longer term.

“The Bulletin is a bit like a health care provider making a analysis,” they write. “We think about as many signs, measurements, and circumstances as we are able to. Then we come to a judgment that sums up what might occur if leaders and residents do not take motion to deal with the situations.”

Whereas the warning is primarily focused at individuals in energy, the Bulletin says civilians can reply by studying concerning the threats from nuclear weapons and local weather change, discussing them with others and lobbying their representatives.

The official matchday programme for the go to of Aston Villa options Jose Sa on the quilt, with the goalkeeper providing a revealing interview inside.

The Portugal worldwide fronts the 84-page programme and can be the subject of the principle interview inside, discussing how he coped with dropping his place within the Wolves beginning 11 twice this season – one thing he has by no means skilled earlier than, the change in crew mentality after the arrival of Vitor Pereira and the way the crew try to get factors on the board throughout a troublesome run of fixtures.

Saturday’s programme begins with the most recent quotes from head coach Pereira in addition to captain Nelson Semedo and fellow defenders Rayan Ait-Nouri and Yerson Mosquera, who supplies an replace on his restoration from an ACL harm.

There are additionally the same old participant options, which this week come from Santiago Bueno and Tommy Doyle, who participate within the Backroom Group and Thoughts Video games characteristic.

A packed historical past part options an interview with former Wolves captain Kevin Foley who goes ‘Again to the Future’, whereas the away part consists of an array of options specializing in this weekend’s guests from throughout the West Midlands.

There’s additionally give attention to the opposite areas of the membership, as girls’s first-team striker Charlotte Greengrass solutions some quirky questions and we get to know under-18 defender Myles Dayman.

Programmes, priced at £4, are that can be purchased from the Molineux Megastore, from the varied programme sellers across the stadium and from the catering kiosks. Supporters not attending the fixture should buy on-line via programme retailers Curtis Sports activities.

The programme is out there to order on-line now by clicking right here.