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Arsenal’s biggest problem this season has been scoring goals. 32 goals in 25 Premier League games equals 1.28 goals a game. Only 3 times during 28 years of Premier League football have Arsenal averaged less goals per game – the peak years of George Graham’s “boring boring Arsenal” – 1992/93, ... read more

When analysing a 4-0 win it is simplistic to say that it was due to Arsenal’s miss-firing forwards finally getting it together. But the truth is Arsenal’s biggest win of the season was built on weeks of defensive improvement. Mikel Arteta’s first job at the club was to improve us ... read more

Arsenal (0) 4 Newcastle United (0) 0 Premier League Emirates Stadium, Drayton Park, London N5 1BU Sunday, 16th February 2020. Kick-off time: 4.30pm (4-2-3-1) Bernd Leno; Hector Bellerin, Shkodran Mustafi, David Luiz, Bukayo Saka; Dani Ceballos, Granit Xhaka; Nicolas Pépé, Mesut Özil, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang; Eddie Nketiah. Substitutes: Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Alexandre Lacazette, ... read more

I always remember back at Highbury, one game there was a note in the Arsenal programme. It was asking fans to refrain from us signing the Sol Campbell song to the tune of DJ Otzi’s “Hey Baby”. It went off “Hey, Hey Yiddo, you scum, I wanna know, where you ... read more

The outbreak of coronavirus has led some Premier League clubs to review their pre-season plans for 2020. It had been predicted that Arsenal were due to play in China in 2020 as part of one of the many different international pre-season tournaments that happen. These plans will now be in ... read more

Yesterday I discussed about how being the wrong side of 30 does not suddenly stop Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang by being a top class striker. A look around the top scorers of Europe tells a story of the “old men of football” outperforming the youngsters: The top two in England – 33-yeard-old ... read more

But Aubameyang is 31 at the end of the season was the response why I proposed on Twitter that we should be looking to tie him down to a new deal, even if it means increasing his weekly wage. Arsenal fans (and perhaps football fans in general) have been conditioned ... read more

It is 2 weeks until Arsenal’s next game due to the ridiculous decision to have a winter break (in February). International breaks are bad enough, but at least there is a bit of football during them. This is 2 weeks of no football for no reason. Not because of the ... read more

Burnley (0) 0 Arsenal (0) 0 Premier League Turf Moor, 52-56 Harry Potts Way, Burnley BB10 4BX Sunday, 2nd February 2020. Kick-off time: 2.00pm (4-3-3) Bernd Leno; Hector Bellerin, Shkodran Mustafi, David Luiz, Bukayo Saka; Mattéo Guendouzi, Granit Xhaka, Mesut Özil; Gabriel Martinelli, Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Substitutes: Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Dani ... read more

Turf Moor is one of only 3 current Premier League grounds I have yet visited – the other two being Molineux Stadium and the new White Hart Lane stadium. Burnley away has been one of those fixtures I seem destined to never go to. Since their returned to the Premier ... read more

The key for Arsenal in January was always to get in reinforcements that did not take funds away from the club signing key targets next summer. Whilst Pablo Mari would not have been at the top of anyone’s list on New Years Day, there is plenty of logic behind the ... read more

It usually takes a foreign player a few weeks, even a few months to acclimatise to Premier League football. Players coming from Spain have often struggled with the higher paced, more physical side of English football. Dani Ceballos has not needed time to settle. He has taken to the Premier ... read more

Arsenal are still negotiating a price The news breaking from the Flamengo side of the deal is that Arsenal did not have the money to complete the deal, and instead decided to negotiate a loan deal at the last minute. There are two parts to this theory. The first is ... read more

Following Jurgen Klopp’s refusal to be in the dug out for Liverpool’s replay against League One Shrewsbury Town, the conversations have taken place about how to “restore some pride in the FA Cup”. The most commonly heard solution that many fans and journalists propose is to “give the winners of ... read more

AFC Bournemouth (0) 1 Arsenal (2) 2 FA Cup Fourth Round The Vitality Stadium (Dean Court), Boscombe, Bournemouth BH7 7AF Monday, 27th January 2020. Kick-off time: 8.00pm (4-2-3-1) Emiliano Martínez, Hector Bellerin, Shkodran Mustafi, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Bukayo Saka; Mattéo Guendouzi, Granit Xhaka; Nicolas Pépé, Joe Willock, Eddie Nketiah; Gabriel Martinelli. Substitutes: ... read more

I love the FA Cup. For me it will always be the greatest cup competition on earth. I grew up in the 90s (was born mid-80s) in a working class family in North-East London. We did not have the money for Sky TV. That meant the only football I got ... read more

But of a late afternoon blog from its. It’s cold, the FA Cup game is rubbish and England are cruising to victory in the cricket. It is one of them dull Sunday afternoons. Pablo Marí is incoming. He was pictured with Edu in an airport in Brazil. His flight was ... read more

A great man once famously turned water into wine. An even greater man is charged with the harder task of turning draws into wins. Arsenal have lost 6 games this season. Only table topping Liverpool, 2nd place Manchester City and Wolves have lost less. It is the same amount of ... read more

So The Athletic ran an article this morning about how a fan has set up an “Arsenal phoenix club” with the aim of participating in next season’s Combined Counties Football League – the ninth tier of English football. In the past we have discussed the possibility of an Arsenal phoenix ... read more

I am usually reluctant to jump on the bandwagon of a young player after a handful of good games. Often you will end up disappointed, as the player becomes overhyped without really having performed consistently. Take Kostantinos Mavropanos as an example. After 1 OK game against Manchester United, people were ... read more

Acquiescence. The reluctant acceptance of something without protest. For some time now we have all come to the understanding that Liverpool are going to win the league for the first time in 30 years. Many fans of a certain age have been dreading this day. Having grown up in the ... read more

Chelsea (1) 2 Arsenal (0) 2 Premier League Stamford Bridge Stadium, Fulham Road, Fulham, London SW6 1HS Tuesday, 21st January 2020. Kick-off time: 8.15pm (4-3-1-2) Bernd Leno; Hector Bellerin, Shkodran Mustafi, David Luiz, Bukayo Saka; Lucas Torreira, Granit Xhaka, Nicolas Pépé; Mesut Özil; Gabriel Martinelli, Alexandre Lacazette. Substitutes: Dani Ceballos, Ainsley ... read more

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