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Media. Eberechi Eze and Leandro Trossard helped

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us beat Portovel to reach the fourth round of

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the Carabao Cup and Mikel Arteta addressed the

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press after our win at Vail Park. Our number

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10 opened the scoring after eight minutes before

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Leo came off the bench to add a second with five

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minutes to go. Here's everything Mikel said after

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the match at Vail Park. On his summary of our

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performance. Something that was discussed before

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the game. I think what was at stake in this game

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is your reputation as a club, as a team, as an

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individual. And we play these type of games.

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I've been here long enough to understand it's

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going to be very tricky. I think we started the

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game really well, very dominant, scored a goal,

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have another three or four chances that we didn't

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manage to score the goal. And in the second half,

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we lost a little bit of grip on the game. especially

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with the direct play, with all the throw -ins

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to the sidelines and winning territory and then

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again. And we lacked a bit of dominance and control.

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With a few adjustments, we got back to that.

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And we scored a beautiful goal, the second goal.

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The ball from Willy. I don't do pauses, but yeah,

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bun that, bun up. And the quality of Leo on the

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finish is top drawer. And in general, happy with

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the win, the clean sheet and the debut of Kepa

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for us today. Ebbs' goal, his first for the club.

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And then the fact... that even making nine changes,

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the team can still perform really well. Yeah,

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I mean, props to Port Vale for a very spirited,

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good performance from them. They gave it their

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all, came up short in the end. We put out a strong

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side today. One or two players missing from injury

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and Kapier would have allowed to have started

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this game as would Noni Madweke. It was nice

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to see Max Dahlman come on and get some substantial

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minutes. Looked good. Some good turns and twists.

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But... I just find it funny that Mikel Arteta

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is basically calling out Darren Moore, support

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Velside for direct long throws and things like

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that, when we've been adopting that approach

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for much of this season and a bit of last. And,

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you know, I'm an Arteta fan, you know, I'm an

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Arteta backer, but I have to call it as I see

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it. On the quality of the English football pyramid,

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unbelievable how tough it is. And when you look

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at last night, Liverpool and Chelsea and how

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long it took them to actually win the game, you

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know that you have to expect that if something

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different happens, great. But you know that you're

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going to have to really earn the right to win

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games here. Yeah, I mean, all the sides that

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should have won, won really. Let's just say that.

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I mean, obviously, to different extents, Newcastle.

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Had a comprehensive win as did Tottenham. But,

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I mean, if you look at it, eight or nine of the

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sides that were clear favourites all came through

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it, albeit some tougher than others. On if it

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was his intention to play Bukayo Saka for an

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hour. No, it was planned. 60 minutes was the

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maximum. We had four, almost five players already

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in the line -up that we had to get. him out for

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different reasons especially for load and coming

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from long periods out so we planned for that

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the good thing is that nobody got injured so

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he has no muscular issues so that's a very positive

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thing again yeah so obviously i'm gonna presume

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it's people like norguard saka had issues and

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then ben white i think they're the main ones

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really and then the rest were just kind of giving

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minutes to players who needed it on the fact

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we can make lots of changes yes And what we need

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to do as well, apart from that, is generate the

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performances that we want with the players that

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haven't really played together. With a completely

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different midfield that never played together

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before. With a front line that is different as

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well. Max coming in as well and connecting immediately

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with the team. It's a lot of positives to take

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from the game. I think the main and only real

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positive that we want to take from the game is

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the fact that we won, kept another clean sheet.

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emerge unscathed i think that's the main thing

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we go to st james's park now on the back of a

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few wins well on the back of one win and after

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the disappointing result of the weekend but it's

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a chance to get our season well and truly back

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on track at a site at a stadium where we've struggled

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in recent years on the competition ahead of this

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weekend's game with newcastle united yeah just

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touched on that as well and that's exactly what

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we want that they're giving us and me those headaches

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because I mean that they are so connected with

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the team that they really want to help the team

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and deserve to play, and everybody will play

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a lot of minutes. Yeah, as I said a few press

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conference analyses ago, I think during the summer,

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Mikel sat down with the squad and said, right,

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we're expected, anticipating 55 to 60 games this

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season. We've got a squad of about 25 top players.

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It's about sharing a workload out. There's going

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to be injuries as we're enduring currently. We've

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got about five or six top players out already.

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So the squad's been, you know, tested to an extent.

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I think Max Darman is the kind of bonus player,

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if you like, because his position will probably

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be the right stroke centre mid. But I think you'll

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see him predominantly come off the right. But

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obviously you've got Saka Maduweke there. But

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because Maduweke has gone down now, Downman is

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the immediate kind of, you know, he's the immediate

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substitution for Saka as we saw today. So yeah,

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the competition for places is really heating

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up. Trossard's come on and got himself another

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goal. Martinelli seems to be back in form. And

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yeah, it looks good so far. On Eberre Eze's performance,

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he played very sensually against a team that's

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obviously with a 5 -4 -1. They are super compact

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inside. It's not easy to find spaces, but he's

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very capable with the ball. You've seen that

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at another three or four actions that he's completely

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through people playing through. He needs to still

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play a little more time with those guys to understand

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the timings, especially the things that he needs

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to do. and then actions like that will be more

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consistent and better for us. In general, very

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good. Here is still a lot more to give, I think.

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Yeah, I mean, Eze had a good performance. I think

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he's starting to get into his rhythm now. Didn't

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have the greatest of games in Bilbao last week,

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but the last two games, he's got himself a goal

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and assist, and I think... He will start against

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Newcastle for sure. The question is where, whether

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it will be centrally or on the left. But I'm

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confident he will start that game. And if he's

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one of our most versatile attackers, yes, probably

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yes. And at the end, what we want to do with

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him is to get him in positions and spaces that

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he can create his magic moments and a difference

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in a team. And some that will be from the wide

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area. some that will be from the right or left

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in relation to the opponent. Eze being versatile,

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for me, depends what you class as versatile.

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For me, he can play in two positions at a high

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level, which is centrally or on the left. I don't

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really see him playing off the right, but in

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terms of the other attackers that we have, yeah,

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Maduike is pretty much only one position, as

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is Saka. And then Trossard, one stroke two, can

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play as a false nine off the left. And Martinelli,

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I think, can play centrally and off the left.

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So, yeah, you could say that in a way. Because

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I think in terms of playing multitude of positions,

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well, two, he can play both of them at a very

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high standard. And the drop -off from him playing

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from centrally to the left isn't as much as,

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let's say, our other attackers. And lastly, I'm

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facing Brighton and Hove Albion in the next round.

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No, a tough one. At least we're at home. So that's

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obvious. So that's always a positive thing. But

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we know they are topside and it will be a difficult

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night. Yeah, Brighton is probably... One of the

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worst draws we could get because there's such

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a sticky, chewing gummy side. You know, we've

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struggled with Brighton in the last, let's say,

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five, six years. For me, Brighton could gatecrash

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that top six, seven. They really should with

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the players that they've got. There's something

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going on at Brighton this season. They've steamrolled

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both teams that they faced in the Carabao Cup.

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Second and third round, 6 -0. Both away. They

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come to the Emirates, a place that they've had

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some joy over the last few years. And they knocked

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us out of the Carabao Cup about three years ago

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as well. I was there when Danny Welbeck scored

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a penalty against us. So, yeah, as I reiterate,

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I think that's one of the toughest draws we could

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have got. I was actually hoping that we got Liverpool

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away because I'm still smarting from the Anfield

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defeat earlier on. Was it early this month? Late

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last month? Whenever it was, a couple of weeks

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ago. But hopefully we can get them at some point.

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in both cups, or maybe in all the cups, including

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the Champions League.