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Retired Lehmann set for Arsenal return, eyes title
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 16 - 03 - 2011

Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has said he aims to help Arsenal win the Premier League title as he looks set to come out of retirement to help ease the north London club's injury crisis.
The 41-year-old, who retired in May 2010 after winning 61 caps for Germany, left Arsenal in 2008 after making 147 appearances in five years, but is set to sign a short-term deal to help the Gunners out.
Lehmann is expected to sign as back-up until the end of the season for Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Almunia. Both reserve ‘keepers, Lukasz Fabianski and Wojciech Szczesny, are sidelined with injury.
He will undergo a fitness test in the next few days and could take his place on Arsenal's bench for Saturday's Premier League match at West Bromwich Albion.
“Arsenal currently has a goalkeepering crisis and I'd like to help out,” Lehmann told German daily Bild. “This time I'm looking forward to being in a back-up role and will look to support Almunia. We can still win the title. We have to show that we are strong enough.”
Lehmann was already at Arsenal before the crisis and had been working with the club's young goalkeepers as part of a six-week placement for his coaching badges.
Arsenal is three points adrift of league leader Manchester United, but lost the League Cup final to Birmingham and suffered exits from the Champions League and FA Cup to Barcelona and United respectively.
Lehmann was working as an analyst for German broadcaster Sky when Szcesny suffered a finger injury against Barcelona and admitted he is surprised at how things have worked out.
Bilbao draws with Getafe
Substitute Urko Vera's 93rd-minute header gave Athletic Bilbao a 2-2 draw at Getafe Monday in the Spanish league.
The little-used Bilbao striker headed in a corner in the final seconds to earn a point at Alfonso Perez coliseum after Manuel del Moral had scored a brace and an own goal.
Del Moral put the Madrid club ahead in the 53rd, but he headed a Bilbao free kick into his own net in the 69th to level the score.
The Getafe captain then placed a left-footed shot from outside the area into the right corner for what looked like an 84th-minute winner until Vera recorded his first goal in just his third appearance for Bilbao's first team.
Bilbao is one point behind fifth-place Espanyol, while Getafe is 11th and has not won a game in six weeks.
Capello to reinstate Terry
as England captain
England manager Fabio Capello seems set to reinstate John Terry as England captain, having stripped the Chelsea central defender of the position last year following newspaper stories about his private life.
Rio Ferdinand took over the armband but with the United defender and his vice captain Steven Gerrard looking likely to miss the Euro 2012 qualifier against Cardiff on March 26, Capello is set to give the role back to Terry, possibly on a permanent basis. “I am going to Manchester to speak to Rio,” Capello said.


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