Internationals Archives: 10/2018

Former head coach of the Switzerland national team Ottmar Hitzfeld admits he can’t understand why Granit Xhaka is playing at left-back at the moment.

Joel Lopez took a break from the Arsenal u18s this past week, to help Spain to progress to the next round of the UEFA u17 Championship.

Gabon supporters are growing frustrated with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s behaviour with the national team, and are starting to question the 29-year-old’s position as captain.

Granit Xhaka confirmed that he only took the captain’s armband on a temporary basis over the international break, he’ll give it up to Stephan Lichtsteiner on the right-back’s return.

Arsene Wenger thinks Mesut Özil’s decision to leave the German National Team could end up hurting his club form as well.

Reiss Nelson’s top quality free-kick for the England u21s on Tuesday capped off a fantastic international break for Arsenal’s young players.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan had a mixed international break, despite returning to Arsenal with a goal and two assists in just two matches.

Fans didn’t let Mo Salah’s injury absence get to them when the Egyptian team landed at Matsapha International airport, swamping Mohamed Elneny instead

Granit Xhaka admits that Chelsea star Eden Hazard might be the best player in the world right now, but he still thinks Switzerland need to do better against the top teams.

Gernot Rohr is impressed with Alex Iwobi’s performances playing in the centre of the park after the Arsenal man moved there over the weekend.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is on a ‘mission’ for Gabon when they face South Sudan on Tuesday in their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.

Nigeria star Leon Balogun took to Twitter to sing the praises of his international teammate Alex Iwobi on Saturday, after a big win for the country.

Lucas Torreira assisted his first ever goal for Uruguay on Friday and had a very solid match, despite his country going on to lose.

Granit Xhaka, Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all captained their countries on Saturday, to varying degrees of success on the pitch.

Now that the last few countries have completed their squad announcements, let’s take a look at the final list of Arsenal players called up and when they’ll play their matches.

Alex Iwobi is feeling the love from the Nigeria fans over the international break, particularly after his impressive recent form for Arsenal.

England drew 1-1 with Australia on Tuesday in a game they should have won 4-0 or 4-1, according to Phil Neville. Here are a few things we can take away from the game.

Switzerland manager Vladimir Petkovic has confirmed Granit Xhaka as captain of the national side, in the absence of Arsenal teammate Stephan Lichtsteiner.

Danny Welbeck was forced to sit out of England training along with Alex McCarthy and Danny Rose as a ‘precaution’.

Alexandre Lacazette is on fire for Arsenal yet he has, once again, been left out of the France side by Didier Deschamps who says it’s down to ‘competition’ for places amid ongoing reports its more to do with personality politics.