25 08, 2018

West Ham at home: we need players with passing range

By |2018-08-25T08:00:56+01:00August 25th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Attack, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, midfield, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Happy Saturday one and all, hope you're having a good one, especially since the season can now officially start today after a couple of engine stalls. Of course the engine could still fall apart on us today and anybody expecting West Ham to be a nice easy ride should probably have a think about that [...]

23 08, 2018

Will tactical subs continue for Emery?

By |2018-08-23T07:49:10+01:00August 23rd, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Having talked quite a bit yesterday on our Wednesday night 'A Little Bit Arsenal' show about how Emery isn't afraid to hook players regardless of their status in the squad, this morning I find myself waking up thinking about the substitutions he's making at the moment, wondering whether it will remain that way all season. [...]

20 08, 2018

Season reboot after difficult start – an opportunity for Emery

By |2018-08-20T08:01:07+01:00August 20th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Defence, gooners, Gunners, premier league, sven mislintat, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Two days after the defensive shambles that was Stamford Bridge and still the result is stinging a bit, but after a day of boozing for the parents Ruby wedding anniversary, plus reading the views of the players and other Arsenal fans, in pleased that we all seem a little more chilled about a second defeat [...]

19 08, 2018

A weird result at Stamford Bridge – positives and frustrations

By |2018-08-19T08:38:48+01:00August 19th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|2 Comments

I feel weird writing about Arsenal this morning. Weird because I don't know exactly how I feel. Often I will feel happiness, elation, anger, sadness, frustration, but today I feel a little bit of everything. And that's weird. Ultimately I guess the emotion that overrides all is sadness because we once again lost at Stamford [...]

14 08, 2018

Players need time to adjust, Arsenal fans do too

By |2018-08-14T07:45:18+01:00August 14th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, gooners, Gunners, premier league, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Morning all. Happy Tuesday unto thee. Hopefully you're feeling grand and the usual bitter taste after a weekend defeat doesn't feel as lingering in your mouth as it usually does for me. I'm all for the idea of the season taking a reboot after next weekend, you see, because with a new formation, new style [...]

12 08, 2018

Nerves, unpredictability, possibility: The Arsenal are back

By |2018-08-12T08:46:27+01:00August 12th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Formation, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Morning all! Excited? I know I am. Of course I'm also absolutely bricking myself as to what lies ahead because quite frankly, the Premier League random fixture generator couldn't have made it more difficult for us if it tried. Man City were so many streaks ahead of everyone else last season that it's hard to [...]

5 08, 2018

Emery’s tinkering of Arsenal formation keeps us guessing

By |2018-08-05T09:53:12+01:00August 5th, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Formation, friendly, gooners, Gunners, Match Review, pre season, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

That's it then. Final match preparations have been completed, a 2-0 victory against Lazio was secured, an Arsenal performance in which some of the returning players got valuable minutes and as is par for the course for The Arsenal, a positional crisis as we now seem to have both of our left backs injured for [...]

3 08, 2018

Plug defensive holes and rotate the attack – how Emery makes Arsenal successful

By |2018-08-03T07:58:04+01:00August 3rd, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Defence, Formation, gooners, Gunners, pre season, premier league, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

This time next week fellow Gooners, it'll be countdown to Premier League match weekend one and we'll be but a few days away from finding out just how ready Unai Emery's charges are for the slog ahead. The summer has been kind to us so far. We've done business early, the players have had plenty [...]

2 08, 2018

Familiar frailties, but this Arsenal evolution will take time

By |2018-08-02T07:57:58+01:00August 2nd, 2018|Arsenal FC, Attack, Defence, Formation, friendly, Match Review, pre season, Tactics, Unai Emery|1 Comment

A victory on penalties is still a victory, albeit a friendly victory and one in which I certainly think we can learn a bit from, get a bit excited about, but also be a little apprehensive. Let's get the painful stuff out of the way first though. Like ripping off the plaster on your knee [...]

31 07, 2018

New manager = players saying new things

By |2018-07-31T07:27:33+01:00July 31st, 2018|Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Defence, friendly, gooners, Gunners, pre season, Tactics, Unai Emery|0 Comments

Because we haven't had a new manager in so many years prior to this summer, we haven't seen the usual "this manager is working us soooo much more harder than the last one" type comments from footballers at Arsenal, so yesterday's comments from Bellerin are welcome but I personally take it with a pinch of [...]

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