Without wishing to tempt fate, it's difficult to see any scenario in which Arsenal don't qualify for the next round of the Champions League tonight. Nothing can or should ever be ruled out and nobody wants to appear arrogant but the deficit facing our Dutch visitors is so great that it would require the sort … Continue reading Arsenal v PSV: Finding new motivation
The unravelling of our Premier League season was slow at first but then accelerated until it hit the buffers at breakneck speed. The only real surprise was that we limped on for as long as we did as we relied on makeshift formations and individual brilliance to keep our ship afloat. At Nottingham Forest, though, … Continue reading PSV v Arsenal: Gunners need to show they can be a threat
I worried we might sink without a trace when Girona took the lead in the first half of last night's Champions League dead rubber. With a heavily rotated squad and not much to play for, it felt like the kind of game in which the players might sense the complete lack of urgency and coast … Continue reading Girona 1 Arsenal 2: On to bigger and better things
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
There's been a lot of talk around Arsenal's 'dark arts' already this season. Our willingness to slow the game down, to get physical, to innovate at set pieces; it's quickly become a feature of how we play our football and it's fair to say it's caused a stir. If there's any other side in the … Continue reading Arsenal vs Newcastle: Gear up for a big, ugly battle
We saw flashes once more of the Jesus we signed from Manchester City a few years back and it was a joy to behold.
They really didn't have anything about them; no ambition, no guile, no threat.
Yes, he's taken his fair share of beatings at our hands too but there's something about Dyche that rankles me, that stirs up an irrational desire to see his teams humiliated
We took three points, we closed the gap on Liverpool and we continued to irk the entire league with our staggering proficiency at set pieces – what more could we have asked for? Sure, it wasn’t the most eye-catching performance and it was a little more laboured than we might have liked at times but … Continue reading Arsenal 2 Manchester United 0: As the corners keep coming, the tears keep flowing
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