Time for the #TFAArchives!

Each day, Fintan O’Reilly gets deep into the 10,000+ articles we’ve written on TFA over the years and pulls out a few that might be of interest based on current events and news and sometimes, Chris Beaumont remembers to post them.

Arsenal earned all three points in Sunday’s North London Derby to keep themselves top of the Premier League table. Kai Havertz produced a top performance, scoring one and assisting one for the Gunners. Late last year, Germany boss Julian Nagelsmann experimented with using Havertz at left-back — you can read all about that.

Brest have taken one more step towards UEFA Champions League football, defeating Rennes in a 5-4 thriller thanks to a last-minute winner from Lilian Brassier. Understand Éric Roy’s thriving tactics with Les Pirates via our tactical analysis breakdown.

Though they sit 11 points behind their Andalusian rivals this term, Sevilla managed to earn a point in yesterday’s local showdown. We analysed Sevilla’s recent decline in a team-focused scout report.

Viktor Gyökeres bagged his 25th and 26th goals of the 2023/24 Primeira Liga season to help Sporting CP come back from two down to draw with Porto 2-2 away from home yesterday. We analysed the high-scoring attacker at the beginning of the campaign.

And that is officially it for today – we will be back in the morning with the latest analysis.

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