Football

Here's Wednesday's news and gossip from the Goonerverse.

Although neither managed to score during France's 2-0 win over Albania, both Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny featured.

Granit Xhaka, once again, put in a superb performance for Switzerland in their 1-1 draw against Romania.

If you have a bit of some to kill between Euro 2016 matches, Paddy Power has come up with a nifty 'guess the player' game.

BT Sport have chosen their next batch of games to be shown live and as usual have chosen to broadcast many Arsenal Ladies games.

Wojciech Szczesny will be heartbroken after being ruled out of Poland's next Euro clash against Germany on Thursday.

Petr Cech has shared a - quite frankly - genius training technique on his Twitter account.

Alexis Sanchez helped Chile to a 4-2 win over Panama in Copa America on Tuesday night.

All our Arsenal players, except for Hector Bellerin, have featured for their national teams in their opening matches of Euro 2016. Here's how we think they've rated so far.

Jack Wilshere has hailed Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, pointing out how he's the Red Devils' best player and he can still perform.

After Hector Bellerin (and Aaron Ramsey) were selected for Vogue's most stylish footballers at the Euros feature, we thought we'd take a look at some of the Spaniard's 'bolder' looks.

With just one game on Monday featuring Arsenal players to entertain us, a little more gossip than we’ve had lately creeped into the equation.

To the surprise of Arsenal fans everywhere, and half of Spain, Hector Bellerin was named on the bench while Juanfran was handed a start for their first game of the tournament.

The Development team that will play in the 2016/17 FA WSL Development League will be travelling to France at the end of the month.

Speaking to The Players’ Tribune, Jerome Boateng revealed that one of his biggest inspirations was Patrick Vieira when he was at Arsenal.

Mesut Ozil might get a lot of stick from people in England, but he’s still one of the best supported players in the world.

With the Euros underway and Arsenal players to focus on, it seems as if the transfer gossip mill is taking a little break. In fact,...

One of the most exciting things about this year’s Euros is watching Granit Xhaka knowing that he’s an Arsenal player and Johan Djourou has said he'll fit in just right at Arsenal.

Olivier Giroud has hit back at his critics who still think he’s a donkey despite scoring eight in his last eight games for France with a better record than Karim Benzema for his country.

Mesut Ozil started for Germany as they got their Euros off to the best possible start with a win over Ukraine in Lille and grabbed a late assist despite being quiet for most of the game.

Wojciech Szczesny started in goal for Poland as they beat a stubborn Northern Ireland on Sunday afternoon.

Mama Xhaka opted for a shirt that blended both national flags of her sons in a manner reminiscent of half-and-half scarves.

Hector Bellerín has told UEFA that he would not have believed it possible that he would be at the Euros and that he found out he was included in the provisional squad through a relative who saw it on TV.

Granit Xhaka made his first competitive appearance as an Arsenal player when Switzerland beat Albania 1-0 on Saturday. Watch his impressive performance here.

Aaron Ramsey grabbed a vital assists as Wales beat Slovakia thanks to a Hal Robson-Kanu goal. Watch his hilights here.

Joel Campbell and Costa Rica are heading home from the Copa America after the end of the group stages while David Ospina watched on from the bench as Colombia lost 3-2 to Joel’s team in Houston, Texas.

Everything worth talking about from Saturday.

Granit Xhaka made his 44th international appearnce against Albania in Saturday's Group A encounter - but all of the pre-match analysis surrounded the sibling rivalry between...

After crating a fuss by taking a player to the Euros who had hardly kicked a ball for his club all season, Roy Hodgson confounded people further by leaving him on the bench.

Let's have some fun!

In the build-up to Wales v Slovakia it was most certainly the Gareth Bale show as far the BBC were concerned, but there were a few other players involved, one of them even plays for Arsenal.

Granit Xhaka lined up alongside former Arsenal man Johan Djourou (Senderos was not included) as they defeated his brother’s Albania in the second game of this year’s Euros.

Laurent Koscielny said that the French fans will remember their victory over Romania for a long time after Dimitri Payet’s thunderbolt sealed the win for his country.

In our second exclusive interview with one of the Arsenal Ladies big talents from the youth set-up, this time we speak with the u17 captain, Laura Hooper.

In the midst of the euphoria over the start of the Euros, it’s easy to forget that we also have a few players in the States featuring in the Copa America.

Granit Xhaka, and his brother Taulant have revealed that they still give a whopping 80% of their wages to their parents.

Dimitri Payet left the pitch in tears on Friday night as he was subbed having won the opening game for France with an absolute screamer. So how did Olivier say thank you to his team mate?

Having been booed, heavily criticised and had his selection for the competition questioned, Olivier Giroud showed actual mental strength on a night that he, more than anyone, needed to be.

Olivier Giroud had a big hand to play in France's 2-1 win against Romania in the opening game of Euro 2016.

Cesc Fabregas has praised his former team-mate, Petr Cech, ahead of Spain's Euro clash against the Czech Republic.