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Why would Welbeck start when Giroud's finally been confirmed to be back in training and ready to go?
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Why would Welbeck start when Giroud's finally been confirmed to be back in training and ready to go?
Welbecks pace in behind the non existent defence of the opposition, could be key.Why would Welbeck start when Giroud's finally been confirmed to be back in training and ready to go?
True but Giroud was in top form to start the season,maybe put in Welbeck in the 2nd half if the game's still tight since he's obviously a proven match winnerwelbeck is clearly better
It could be but I'd still bet on a monster game from GiroudWelbecks pace in behind the non existent defence of the opposition, could be key.
Predicted line ups for tomorrow's game
Arsenal
Other team.
I'll tell you now, if the other team don't turn up, Arsenal could win this by a country mile.
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Fox Sports Develops Champions League Highlights Channel
By RICHARD SANDOMIRSEPT. 5, 2014
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When DirecTV introduced its Red Zone Channel in 2005, N.F.L. fans discovered a new way to watch Sunday afternoon games. Instead of sticking with one game from start to finish, or toggling between two network games, the Red Zone took viewers on a frenetic, stadium-hopping tour to show teams advancing closer to end zones.
It was a skewed but radical vision of football: all of the exciting and critical highlights but none of the commercials, with an overcaffeinated host providing commentary.
The concept became so popular that the NFL Network later created its own version, NFL RedZone, for fans who were not satellite customers of DirecTV.
If red-zone channels worked so well for N.F.L. games, why not for soccer? Soccer games have less scoring action, but there is plenty of anticipation about goals and lots of excitement at each end of the field. An event in which multiple games are played simultaneously could produce enormous opportunities for a red-zone soccer channel.
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That is what Fox Sports will do during the group stage of the UEFA Champions League with Multimatch 90, which will show up to eight games at a time as they are played simultaneously throughout Europe on 12 days, starting on Sept. 16 and ending on Dec. 10. A producer and a director in Los Angeles will curate the best action from the 32-team tournament, live and on replay, as rapidly as possible.
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Gareth Bale, right, scoring for Real Madrid during last year's Champions League final. Fox Sports' Multimatch 90 channel will curate the best action from the tournament. Credit Paul Hanna/Reuters
“We might start off at the Real Madrid game,” said Jonty Whitehead, the executive vice president of soccer at Fox Sports. “And say that a goal happens at the Emirates in London — that will be spun back, recued, and the host will say, ‘Let’s cross to Emirates Stadium, where there’s some early action.’ ”
Or, he said, “If Gareth Bale has the ball around the midfield line, we know there’s only thing on his mind, and we’ll go to that. Or a corner kick somewhere might produce a goal-mouth incident.”
Goals, saves, free kicks and penalties will be among the triggers moving the channel from game to game.
“This is, after all, where the best soccer players in the world turn out,” Whitehead said. “Bale. Wayne Rooney. Ronaldo. Robin van Persie. The list is endless, and we get to see what they do best.”
After arriving at Fox Sports two years ago, Whitehead recalled watching NFL RedZone and admiring the nonstop action. He had also seen soccer matches produced in a red-zone format by Sky Deutschland, a German satellite broadcaster. “You put two and two together,” he said, “and it was an obvious fit.”
Multimatch 90 will be available on Fox Soccer Plus, a channel available for $14.99 a month from some pay providers and on a sports tier from some others. There will be a free preview of the channel on DirecTV, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse from Oct. 18 to 26, with Dish offering a free look from Oct. 15 to 29. Some cable operators will offer free previews in select markets.
Multimatch 90 will also be available on the Fox Soccer 2Go website and app, which costs $19.99 a month, with a free seven-day trial that coincides with the first set of matches, on Sept. 16 and 17.
John Strong will be among the hosts of the channel. Analysts will be in a Los Angeles studio, with one referee for analysis of the rules, Whitehead said.
In Europe, red-zone-type channels for soccer preceded the Red Zone Channel on DirecTV. The Sky Conference channel on Sky Deutschland began in the 2000-1 season and usually includes five or six regular-season games being played at the same time in the Bundesliga, Germany’s top league. According to a Sky Deutschland spokesman, 77 percent of the 1.06 million people who tuned into Bundesliga games last Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. viewed them on Sky Conference. The percentage was higher than usual because Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04, popular teams whose games are more likely to be played on regular channels, kicked off at other times.
Diretta Gol, or the Live Goal channel, was a rudimentary service when Eric Shanks, then working for News Corporation, observed its operations in 2002. The channel was then part of Telepiù, a service that eventually merged with another to form Sky Italia.
“There were eight play-by-play guys in a room, each with a monitor, and anytime something would happen in Perugia or Milan, someone would raise his hand, and the producer would cut to them,” Shanks said. “What I found out was that these guys wanted to be on the air so much that even if nothing was going on, they’d raise their hands.”
He later moved to DirecTV, where the Red Zone Channel was added to the satellite service’s Sunday Ticket package. Shanks, now the president of Fox Sports, said a basic tenet of a service like Multimatch 90 was “to get every goal on, whether it’s live or on tape.”
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England’s Premier League, which has become very popular on NBCSN, could warrant such a channel.
A spokesman said, “It’s something we’ve contemplated for our Premier League coverage, and it remains under consideration.”
And Fox might reprise Multimatch 90 next year for the Europa League if its Champions League experiment is a success.