Arsenal are at a defining moment in their season and the choices before them are stark. They can invest in the squad, reinvigorate the season and go full-throttle at the Premier League and Champions League or they can stagger on as they are until the reach breaking point. It's as simple as that. The Newcastle … Continue reading Arsenal 1 Manchester United 1: The season is hurtling towards the precipice
If you're a follower of the expected goals metric, known to most as xG, you wouldn't be surprised to learn that Arsenal generated enough chances to score more than three goals last night. It's not a measurement to everybody's taste, I understand that, but it is a useful way of judging the quality of chances … Continue reading Arsenal 0 Newcastle 2: High, wide and not very handsome
You can take something different away from Friday night's clash with Ipswich on every viewing. It was at times dominant, at times wasteful and other times simply ok. It was a bit of a mystery of a watch. That's not to say we were bad, or that we didn't deserve the three points because it … Continue reading Arsenal 1 Ipswich 0: Not bad, not great but a win nontheless
We saw flashes once more of the Jesus we signed from Manchester City a few years back and it was a joy to behold.
On another day, Arsenal put four past Monaco in the first half and we're talking about the most comfortable of Champions League wins imaginable. Today was not that day, however. While we are still talking about a comfortable win, the manner in which we came about it was a little more frenetic than any of us … Continue reading Arsenal 3 Monaco 0: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (finishing)
It still feels like it's early in the season and too soon to be making definitive statements and yet, despite that, our chances of an elusive Premier League title look like they've slipped away. That might sound like hyperbole, like there's still so many points to be won and lost, but the size of Liverpool's … Continue reading Fulham 1 Arsenal 1: Title hopes drifting away
Bollocks to Manchester City. Bollocks to the sterility of their operation, to their arrogance and hubris.
Most pleasing of all was the way a series of peripheral players came into the side and carried on with the same intensity and intent as their first-team colleagues.
We discuss who should stay and who needs to go in the aftermath of Arsenal's 4-1 defeat to Manchester City.
A Europa League success over Rapid Vienna that was years in the making.
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