Arsenal Player trains on Christmas Day

While Ar­senal fans and other football lovers in different parts of the world made merry by attacking rice and chicken as well as choice drinks on Christmas day, players and officials of the team took to the pitch and sweated it out in training ahead of today’s show­down against Southamp­ton.

Arsene Wenger who oversaw the training ses­sion said they opted to train as a way of leaving nothing to chance in the Boxing Day showdown at St Mary.
Arsenal go into today’s game second on the EPL log behind surprise team of the season, Leices­ter City who leads the table. Leicester is away to Liverpool in a match she must win to maintain her leadership since only two points separates her and the Gunners.
Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo did not rest on Christmas day as he took to the gym.
La Liga resumes on De­cember 30 after a ten-day break, with Madrid facing Real Sociedad aiming to cut the gap on league leaders Barcelona, who are currently two points clear of Rafael Benitez’s side in the table.
And Ronaldo is clearly leaving no stone unturned in his dedication to the cause, hitting the gym and working up a sweat to en­sure he’s in peak condition when the football gets back underway in Spain.