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coming up — an historic week for english football in europe starting with the europa league final in baku. iam i am live in the azerbaijan capital and the teams are in position having trained at the olympic stadium out of the final tomorrow night butjust how many fans from arsenal and chelsea will be there? also coming up in the programme... kane is able. the spurs captain declares himself fit for saturday's champions league showdown. and for england's nations league finals. kyle edmund survives a two—day scrap againstjeremy chardy — to advance to the second round of the french open. and anthonyjoshua may be preparing for his first title fight in the usa this weekend — but it's deontay wilder he's got on his mind.
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good evening and welcome to the programme where we're looking ahead to the final instalments of europe's top club competitions — dominated this season by english sides. first up, it's the europa league final in azerbiajan tomorrow night. and olly foster is in baku ahead of that game. there has been a lot of talk about the ticket situation, struggles with fa ns the ticket situation, struggles with fans able to get there but do you think there's a sense of occasion tonight? there is a sense of occasion, this is a big dealfor baku and azerbaijan. the eastern frontier of european football, the caspian sea just shimmering behind the camera and that flaming tower up
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there, one of the major viewpoints here in the city. and arsenal are in one of those towers, that is the hotel and just across the way chelsea also in position. we will be going live to the olympic stadium in a couple of minutes to hear for our correspondence that whether teams are trained. but the real news, ever since the two teams found out that they would be coming to baku there has been that scramble for tickets for the fans. first disappointment from chelsea and arsenal that they would only get 6000 each and then a realisation that they probably would not and have not taken up their full allocation because we are a long way from home. it is i watch ugly expensive for some of the fans at the end of the very expensive season to actually get here. and difficult to actually get here. and difficult to get here as well. let's bring in one of those fans, david johnson from the chelsea supporters trust.
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we are not biased towards chelsea because if it was an arsenal fan here i think whatever happens tomorrow night you will have a bond with the arsenal fans who have made it here to say we have made it here. i think both sets of supporters have done well to travel here but i'm sure there is every sympathy for the arsenal supporters and the chelsea supporters who have not been able to make it for various reasons. one of them is cast on the other is availability of flights. you had a straightforward journey but it was expensive. you're happy with uefa putting it here in the first place. chelsea are themselves not helping you out to get here pretty much i came here last time with chelsea and it isa came here last time with chelsea and it is a fantastic place with lovely people, a lovely city. but not the place to hold a european football final. for chelsea the silence from the chief executive guy laurence has
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been deafening. the chelsea supporters trust made a statement on friday night and it was only after that that the chelsea football club made a statement themselves and they've done nothing unfortunately to help the supporters. what could they have done to help you out, perhaps more charter flights? well the chelsea travel partner has charged chelsea supporters £979 for a day trip which is just shocking. it comes in the same period chelsea supporters have been asked to pay in my case £750 for a season ticket, £600 for an away season ticket and this is costing nearly £1000, this trip. we are not on footballer wages and people cannot get the time off work. your prediction? win or lose, up work. your prediction? win or lose, up the blues! enjoy the match tomorrow night. rank you very much.
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the azerbaijan fa and uefa have said come and enjoy baku if you can. here is the head of the azerbaijani football federation. is the head of the azerbaijani football federationlj is the head of the azerbaijani football federation. i shared the disappointment and i'm really sorry for them that they cannot support the team but as a fan i also want to say something, distance was never a barrier for the supporters and fans to travel and we could see that out of 6000 more than 5000 will make it to the match. some of them are already here and just a bit more than 2000 chelsea fans will be coming here and i'm sure there will be many international fans. we will see. they will be many more fans arriving overnight and at the moment arsenalfans seem arriving overnight and at the moment arsenal fans seem to be outnumbering those from chelsea but the
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federation and uefa said it will be a 62,000 sell—out for the europa league final. let's had now to the stadium. david ornstein is any team news? there is and it concerns in colour can take the chelsea midfielder he was rated as doubtful coming into the match, 50—50 said the head coach ina the match, 50—50 said the head coach in a news conference a short time ago. i can tell you it looks a lot worse than that because he just limped off the pitch in clear discomfort halfway through the training session here on the eve of the europa league final. he had any problem that must've been picked up in training he was previously suffering from a calf injury and we are told this is a separate matter altogether. the chelsea players training behind us now do not include a midfield general. he
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worked on his own then and tried to be part of the group that was training just in front of us but after long consultation with the chelsea doctor it does not look good for kante and he must be rated as a severe doubt for chelsea. arsenal trained earlier and the only seeming concern was aubameyang who was wearing a cast on his arm but we are assured there is no break and it will not affect his availability for the arsenal manager of course stands to win the trophy for the fourth time, no manager has done that before. arsenal would also be catapulted into the champions league if they did so, catapulted into the champions league if they did 50, chelsea are just looking to win a trophy but their head coach has never done that in his entire career. let's hear from them both. i prefer to play with our
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supporters here, i prefer that they can come here, a lot of supporters from chelsea, from london. but it is difficult for them. but tomorrow there are going to be a lot of supporters. arsenal and chelsea have a lot of support in all the world. really very disappointed because we do thisjob for this really very disappointed because we do this job for this kind of really very disappointed because we do thisjob for this kind of match. and so we help to see our fans here. i don't know what to say, i can say only that we will try to win. we will try to win for us and also for them. so many issues in the build-up to this match from tickets, travel,
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politics and even human rights but we are now on the eve of the game commit the stadium it must be said looks impressive, the olympic stadium, it will also host matches in the european championship next yearfor in the european championship next year for the capacity is expected to be 60,000, slightly reduced because of broadcasting and sponsorship commitments. only around 10,000 is a maximum are expected to travel from the uk. but it should be a good atmosphere, it is a london derby after all, the biggest match in football terms that this country has hosted. chelsea and arsenal will help to live up to the billing. well to the north—east of the city where in pleasant surroundings of baku bay as they pump this music through the trees, some mellow piano music and if this was madrid on the eve of the
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champions league final you know that they would be tens of thousands of british football fans, liverpool and spurs are obviously in the streets. so does not feel that we are on the eve of a major european final, probably there are more arsenal fancier than chelsea fans. we will see how many arrive overnight. you just know that this match as well probably means a lot more to arsenal, there's a lot more at stake because chelsea are into the champions league and if arsenal win this tomorrow that is the motivation. qualification for the champions league and that really is a big deal and could change things a lot over the summer. of course bbc news will have all the build—up tomorrow as well but for now let's head back to the bbc sports centre. after baku, it's over to madrid and the champions league final between liverpool and tottenham. we've had squad updates from both teams today ahead of that huge game this weekend. ben croucher has the details.
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it has been won in two weeks since liverpool and spurs last kicked a ball in anger but madrid is looming for both teams now and we've started to find out who may or may not be fit for european club football's biggest game. never pull fans, we start with the good news. dashed liverpool fans. roberto firmino missed the last three games of the season with a muscle injury. didn't play in that second leg against barcelona. divock origi didn't do too badly in his place. he returned to training in marbella last week and is fit. that's the good news. the bad news? well naby keita picked up a leg injury in the first leg of their semi against barcelona. he's not recovered and is definitely out. jordan henderson likely to start in that midfield role. and jurgen klopp has been talking up the qualities that senior members like he and james milner bring to the squad in kieta's absence. james milner is nearly 33 and still
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developing in really big steps and coming down here and using his unbelievable skills. and his example like henderson, they always want to make the next step. it is in them. harry kane alluded to his return to fitness from an ankle injury with this tweet last week. well he is likely to be fit. he says he feels good and ready, although there are doubts as to whether he'll be fit enough to play the full 90 minutes. his manager mauricio pochettino said he'd prioritise the needs of the team. of course, without kane. lucas moura scored a hattrick to see spurs past ajax in that dramatic comeback. some of you — like samuel today — have been questioning if spurs actually stand a better chance without the england captain.
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more football to come later in the programme — but let's go to paris, where kyle edmund's qualified for the second round of the french open. after his match was postponed during the final set last night, the british number one wasted no time this morniing, beating fernando verdasco in 7 minutes. naomi is part of the commentary team at roland garros. what did kyle edmund have for breakfast — out of the blocks this morning — putting an end to that losing streak? he was very sharp out of the gate. he was very sharp out of the gate. he only needed to win two games and he chose to win the first two, he was almost perfect dealing with that difficult situation with gemma charlie being postponed in that fifth set. but he got the job done.
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no such luck for cameron norrie or dan evans. no such luck for cameron norrie or da n eva ns. eva ns no such luck for cameron norrie or dan evans. evans had quite a fight against fernando velasco. it was a tough ask against the 23rd seed, eva ns, tough ask against the 23rd seed, evans, the clay is not his favourite surface but he gave it a go and levelled up one set all but furniture started to slip away from him. a bit of a niggle with his right calf and for velasco was playing better and better so he went out in four sets. not really a performance to be ashamed of the. disappointing for cameron norrie as yet again for him he did put up a strong performance but the scoreline did not reflect that. it was not the best for cameron norrie, he was playing a french qualifier and he would have been the favourite going into that but he just did not hit his stride, he could not get anything going. very one—sided
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