Saturday’s 2-0 win over Hull won’t live long in the memory for Arsenal fans, but it was incredibly necessary to put some sort of momentum back into the season. Despite Chelsea dropping points at Burnley, the title challenge remains over for Arsenal, but with Bayern Munich to come on Wednesday, the Gunners would surely have … More Gunners grind out a win to stop the rot
There’s always a risk making a lot of changes for a cup match, but with a few uninspiring ties drawn for the fourth round, and a full set of Premier League fixtures in the next midweek, alterations were inevitable across the 4th round of the FA Cup. A lot of teams suffered with sweeping changes … More Much-changed Arsenal put on a five-star performance
It took longer than it should have done as Arsenal dominated West Ham for the majority of the game, but when the Gunners did gets the goals that their play deserved at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday, Alexis Sanchez was at the heart of it in a devastating display and a 5-1 win. West Ham … More Alexis hammers the Hammers
There’s no two ways round it, Arsenal were pretty dreadful on Saturday at Old Trafford. The midfield struggled to exert much control over the game and Arsenal could barely muster a chance going forward. It was horribly similar to most Arsenal performances in the league at Old Trafford for the last few years. But somehow … More Giroud rescues Arsenal after another Old Trafford no-show
Given Arsenal’s last League Cup tie with Reading produced 12 goals, a comeback from 4-0 down and even two goals for Marouane Chamakh, there was no way Arsenal’s 4th round EFL Cup tie against the Royals on Tuesday was likely to go in a similar way. Arsenal did field the same goalkeeper, Emiliano Martinez, who … More Ox at the double as Arsenal cruise through
Wednesday was one of the rare occasions when I went to watch the Arsenal and knew virtually nothing about our opponents. While a win was expected, this was a team that caused Liverpool problems previously in Europe and were not just representing themselves as a club, but Bulgarian football as a whole. In the first … More Majestic Mesut leads Champions League rout
After such an excellent week, it shouldn’t really have been a surprise that Arsenal couldn’t hit the heights of the victories against Chelsea and Basel in the league at Turf Moor on Sunday. The Gunners mentally and physically couldn’t put together the same performance that had blown the other sides away, and in Burnley, they … More Controversial, scrappy, but a victory
Having made the trip to Sheffield last year for Arsenal’s embarrassing efforts at Hillsborough in the League Cup, I went into this year’s third round trip to Nottingham Forest in the rebadged EFL Cup weary that a much-changed Arsenal side could struggle again against a fired-up Championship team, especially with a few former Arsenal players … More Granit guides Gunners into the next round
After conceding four last week to Liverpool, a clean sheet away to the Champions was incredibly welcome. The defending from the Gunners was solid, composed and effective against the pacy Leicester City front-line with the returning Laurent Koscielny putting in a superb showing. Apart from a couple of hairy moments when referee Mark Clattenburg had … More A clean sheet but no cutting edge
It wasn’t a classic, but it was pretty comfortable. After four league games without a win and three without a goal, that is all Arsenal needed the 2-0 win against Bournemouth to be. A good performance would have been nice, but with Leicester threatening to pull away and Tottenham also appearing in the title race, … More Back to winning ways at Bournemouth
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