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Mikel Arteta is 5 Premier League matches into his managerial career. It is too early to judge how he will get on, however there are green shoots of recovery. Arteta’s Arsenal are harder to break down. Players are more determined to win the ball back and we are giving our ... read more

Consistency. That’s all we ask for. I have no issue with the Nicolas Pepe penalty decision against Sheffield United. As long as VAR is consistent. Next time a referee points to the spot after Jamie Vardy, Son or Wilfried Zaha initiate contact and goes down, I expect VAR to intervene ... read more

Arsenal (1) 1 Sheffield United (0) 1 Premier League Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, London N5 1BU Saturday, 18th January 2020. Kick-off time: 3.00pm (4-3-1-2) Bernd Leno; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Shkodran Mustafi, David Luiz, Bukayo Saka; Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pépé; Mesut Özil; Gabriel Martinelli, Alexandre Lacazette. Substitutes: Hector Bellerin, Dani Ceballos, Rob ... read more

16 games; 48 points. That is what is left in the 2019/20. Every year each season seems to go quicker. Just as you are thinking the season is getting going, you are already into the business end, the closing stages. It has been a tough one for Arsenal. A season ... read more

On Monday Deloitte published their Football Money League for the 23rd time: The revenue figures show just how Arsenal have stood still in the last decade whilst other clubs have moved ahead. On paper, the 11th highest revenue in football does not seem disastrous, but we have now moved behind ... read more

Social media really does have a habit of making stories out of something that is not. Yesterday a gutter journalist tweeted that Arsenal had announced they would be holding a press conference at 2:30, and commentated that this was odd as pre-game press conferences take place on Thursday’s, not Wednesday’s. ... read more

Konstantinos Mavropanos has joined German 2nd tier outfit FC Nurnberg until the end of the season. It is a big move for the Greek youngster who at 22-years-old is no longer really a youngster. Mavropanos “burst” onto the scene 3 seasons ago with a couple of good performances against Manchester ... read more

Under Unai Emery, one of the most concerning statistics coming out of every game was how many attempts we were conceding against opponents. Whether it was 18 at home to Burnley, 24 against Wolves or 31 against Watford. It was simple too easy for opposing sides to get a shot ... read more

This weekend Sergio Aguero overtook Thierry Henry as the highest scoring foreign player in English football. Both are incredible strikers capable of turning a game on their own god given ability alone, capable of scoring all sorts of goals. There goal scoring record in the league is near identical. Henry ... read more

Crystal Palace (0) 1 Arsenal (1) 1 Premier League Selhurst Park Stadium, Selhurst, London SE25 Saturday, 11th January 2020. Kick-off time: 12.30pm (4-3-1-2) Bernd Leno; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, David Luiz, Sead Kolašinac; Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pépé; Mesut Özil; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette. Substitutes: Emiliano Martínez; Rob Holding, Joe Willock, ... read more

Arsenal (0) 1 Leeds United (0) 0 FA Cup Third Round Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, London N5 1BU Monday, 6th January 2020. Kick-off time: 7.56pm (3-4-1-2) Emiliano Martínez; Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Rob Holding, David Luiz; Reiss Nelson, Mattéo Guendouzi, Granit Xhaka, Sead Kolašinac; Mesut Özil; Nicolas Pépé, Alexandre Lacazette. Substitutes: Bernd Leno, ... read more

Third Round of the FA Cup. So often a game where we are used to see a reserve team rolled out following the hectic busy schedule. Under normal circumstances, even against a high flying Leeds United, you would normally expect to see a second string be put out for tonight’s ... read more

Labelled as one of the most exciting talents in Europe following 22 goals in Ligue 1 for Lille last season, Arsenal stunned the world of football when they signed the Ivory Cost winger for a club record fee of £72million back in August. Back in April, we discussed how he ... read more

Structure The biggest criticism of Unai Emery’s Arsenal was the lack of structure. He chopped and changed the formation so often that it was clear that he did not know how he wanted the team to play. And this translated onto the pitch as players did not know what their ... read more

Arsenal (2) 2 Manchester United (0) 0 Premier League Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, London N5 1BU Wednesday, 1st January 2020. Kick-off time: 8.00pm (4-3-1-2) Bernd Leno; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, David Luiz, Sead Kolašinac; Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pépé; Mesut Özil; Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Substitutes: Dani Ceballos, Rob Holding, ... read more

Arsenal (1) 1 Chelsea (0) 2 Premier League Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, London N5 1BU Sunday, 29th December 2019. Kick-off time: 2.00pm (4-3-1-2) Bernd Leno; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Calum Chambers, David Luiz, Bukayo Saka; Mattéo Guendouzi, Lucas Torreira, Reiss Nelson; Mesut Özil; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette. Substitutes: Nicolas Pépé, Shkodran Mustafi, Emiliano ... read more

AFC Bournemouth (1) 1 Arsenal (0) 1 Premier League The Vitality Stadium (Dean Court), Bournemouth BH7 7AF Thursday, 26th December 2019. Kick-off time: 3.00pm (4-3-1-2) Bernd Leno; Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, David Luiz, Bukayo Saka; Granit Xhaka, Lucas Torreira, Reiss Nelson; Mesut Özil; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Alexandre Lacazette. Substitutes: Nicolas Pépé, Shkodran ... read more

Anyone else at work today? Or is it just me? I am certainly the only one in my office today. That means the heating is up high, The Rifles being blasted out, and I am wondering how early is too early to have my first beer? It is a bit ... read more