13 12, 2023

Arsenal get by against PSV in the most rubbery of dead rubbers

By |2023-12-13T08:17:43+00:00December 13th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Not really sure where to go with today's post match blog musings, to be honest with you, because the situation we - thankfully - put ourselves in by winning all but one of our other Champions league games, meant that yesterday night's dead rubber was the most dead rubbery of all that you're going to [...]

12 12, 2023

Arsenal can’t go full ‘Disgrace of Gijon’ tonight, but hopefully not too far off

By |2023-12-12T07:52:36+00:00December 12th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Here cometh another match day, only this one is a little weirder than they usually are, on account of the outcome of tonight's game meaning LITERALLY nothing to anybody involved in Eindhoven. An Arsenal win keeps us top with 15 points. They stay on eight points and if Lens beat Sevilla at home then they [...]

11 12, 2023

It’s tight towards the top for The Arsenal

By |2023-12-11T07:59:33+00:00December 11th, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Morning folks, hope we're all good? After the midweek of pretty tasty results for us, the weekend fare wasn't quite what we'd have hoped for, as pretty much all the teams around us picked up points and it's dropped us down to second, a point behind Liverpool. But hey, that is always going to happen; [...]

21 09, 2023

Arsenal roll back the years in routine Champions League opener

By |2023-09-21T09:00:36+01:00September 21st, 2023|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Arsenal Manager, Attack, Champions League, Defence, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Well that was like rolling back the years last night, wasn't it? What I mean by that is that it was Arsenal back in the Champions League, the music blaring, the light show, but also, the kind of performance we used to routinely take for granted. That felt like the kind of game that we [...]

20 09, 2023

The long wait has ended – will Arsenal respond in the Champions League

By |2023-09-20T10:27:30+01:00September 20th, 2023|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

We’ve waited for this match day for a long time, haven’t we, eh? Arsenal back in the Champions League. It’s a place that for so many years we took for granted and I seem to recall all those years ago (probably around this time seven years ago) thinking (and maybe writing but I can't be [...]

1 09, 2023

A good Champions League draw and decent Premier League matches after each one

By |2023-09-01T08:43:26+01:00September 1st, 2023|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Champions League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league, press conference|0 Comments

Happy Friday peeps! Today is press conference day and so Mikel will be asked about the Champions League games, the game ahead against United, maybe even what he thinks about Brentford in the League Cup (although, maybe not ;-) ). There's also the small matter of the transfer window closing and I wonder if Mikel [...]

26 10, 2022

Arteta’s good squad management – so far…

By |2022-10-26T07:58:54+01:00October 26th, 2022|Arsenal Manager, Arsenal Transfers, Europa League, injuries, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

Decided to Google 'Arsenal news' this morning to see what the chatter was online.  Wish I hadn't have bothered. It was all talk about potential transfer signings in January. I mean, come on, we're still in October for Christ's sake. Talking about potential signings now is like when supermarkets start putting Christmas items on the [...]

21 10, 2022

A 3-0 win masquerading as a 1-0 for Arsenal

By |2022-10-21T08:31:39+01:00October 21st, 2022|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Europa League, Match Review, Mikel Arteta|0 Comments

Just after the final whistle had blown last night I described the 1-0 win over PSV as a ‘3-0 win masquerading as a 1-0’ and the more and more I’ve thought about it, the more this feels like exactly what Arsenal delivered yesterday. We were totally dominant from start to finish and probably deserved two [...]

20 10, 2022

PSV are no mugs – time for Nketiah and Sambi to step up

By |2022-10-20T08:20:01+01:00October 20th, 2022|Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Attack, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Match Preview, Mikel Arteta, Tactics|0 Comments

It's match day, it's p*ssing it down, but I'm as excited as always to have The Arsenal playing this evening. Sure, it may be at a slightly irritating time - what with it being a 6pm kick off and therefore straight after work, but it is still an Arsenal match and that means hopefully an [...]

19 10, 2022

Will Southampton dictate Mikel’s selection against PSV?

By |2022-10-19T08:06:20+01:00October 19th, 2022|analysis, Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Europa League, gooners, Gunners, Mikel Arteta, premier league|0 Comments

With all  Premier League teams in action this midweek, I had a little look at who Southampton were up against tonight, because we play them at the weekend and that might impact the team selection that Hassenhuttl makes, as well as how he's going to rotate before we play them on Sunday. I saw it [...]

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