Sentences with phrase «arsenal games over the years»

Sometimes I retrospect about some classic Arsenal games over the years, and one of such games which always come to mind is the 1st leg Champions league round of 16 clash at home against Barcelona in the 2010/2011 season.

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Wimmer joined Spurs from Cologne for # 4.3 m in 2015, but only started 13 Premier League games over his two years at the club yet Arsenal struggled to sell Gabriel who's better than him and with more experience and appearance for 10m.

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

Jack Wilshere's physical powers have been intensely tested in the last few weeks as Arsene Wenger has picked the 25 year - old for every single Arsenal game over the intense Xmas period, and he showed he was just as fit today as when he first played by being as impressive as usual and even scoring his first goal in the Premier League for two and a half years.

I personally feel that Jack could have a big say for Arsenal over the next three games, just as he did when coming back from injury at the end of last season, but do you think Wenger will put his faith in the 24 - year old from the start next week?

I am not going to suggest that the in form Arsenal forward Theo Walcott did well over the last week or so in the two international games he started for England, because the pacy 27 - year old certainly did not have anything like the same impact for his country as we have seen him produce for Arsenal this season.

Should Arsenal go with a back - three, we would need Mertesacker to start and considering the fact that the big German has not started a game in over a year, I certainly would not risk it in a game as big as the FA Cup final.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...

This is one area of Arsenal game which has fall apart over the years.

we already got a free agent so go and PROVE ARSENAL FANS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND SPECIALLY THOSE FOLLOWING GAME IN AND GAME OUT YOU ARE WORTH 8.5 MILLIONS A YEAR..

First look at the form; in the FA Cup in their last 13 matches stretching over three full years, Arsenal have won all thirteen of their games, although one was by penalties and two needed extra time.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

With less than ten games left to play and a combination of injuries and weak support plaguing the team, Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez is on pace for his lowest goal total in league play in over five years.

Not only did the German end that long barren spell by setting up Theo Walcott for the Gunners» second of the night in our Champions League game with Ludogorets, he also netted the first hat - trick of his professional career to give Arsenal a fantastic 6 - 0 win over the Bulgarian champions and put us in a great position to win a UCL group for the first time in years.

No matter what happened in the other Premier League games set to be played this weekend, there was always going to be a lot of pressure on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players after our side had fallen out of the top four and into the worst position at this point of a season for over 10 years.

When injuries to Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial left Louis van Gaal with a striking crisis, 18 - year - old Rashford stepped up to the plate and scored four goals in his first two games to spark victories over FC Midtjylland and Arsenal.

He pulled up in the Bayern Munich game after an intense fortnight where he played for Arsenal against Man United, followed by two full games for the Welsh national team as they secured a berth in a major final for the first time in over 50 years.

My thoughts are for all the fans that genuinely care about Arsenal FC, and especially towards those that attend the games, pumping so much of their hard earned money into keeping the club going for over a hundred years, and helping to pay for the Emirates stadium.

Arsenal are not the club that has had the worst fixture schedule in terms of the lack of time that the players have to rest and recover between Premier League games over this new year period, but we are not far off and with our usual lengthy injury list to cope with it makes life hard for the manager.

Mikel Arteta is Arsenal's nominal captain at the moment, with Per Mertesacker usually wearing the armband during games, although last week he handed it over to Theo Walcott as recognition of the England striker's ten years at the club.

With two of our regular forwards out of action, Walcott has a great chance of starting the FA cup fourth round clash away to Brighton on Sunday and I'm sure that the 25 - year old is desperate to start his second game for Arsenal since damaging his cruciate ligaments over a year ago.

You can never tell what to expect with this Arsenal team, Westham can have all their best players, be on a solid run of wins and we turn them over easily, or they might be going through a bad patch and without a few of their best players and beat us so easily it will be embarrassing, the only thing consistent about us is our inconsistency, if am not mistaken they turned us over at home in the first game of the season, with a 17 year old boy in their first 11 and about 3/4 new to the country and the league....

Just over a year ago, Arsenal visted the Etihad stadium to face Manchester City in a hugely important Premier League game and were in need of an excellent defensive performance to keep out the star - studded City attack.

Hi Fatboy, it may all change this year, and I for one would not be surprised if we do finish behind the spuds and out of the top four come May, I was always a big AW supporter and would constantly say to other gooners to be cafeful what you wish for, but the time has come, no genius makes the same mistakes over and over again, when was the last time Arsenal played champagne football, its not good enough to say we do nt worry about how the other team are going to play we just play our game, this has not been working for years now and a change is needed, if AW cant change then we need some new

As arsenal fans we have given them a torrid time over the years being top dog in north london and as much as I really don't like them or the way they play the game they have done enough this season to win the bragging rights (a big thanks to Wenger and his brigade of underachievers including Kroenke).

We have seen in recent years that Arsenal can be a little bit guilty of looking over our shoulders and either worrying too much about the teams chasing us in the Premier League or perhaps allowing a little bit of complacency to creep into our game.

It appears that it has not taken long for representatives of Arsenal Football Club and The England international star Theo Walcott to come to an agreement over the terms of a new contract, even though the 26 - year old refused to shed any light on the situation after scoring the only goal of the game against Wolfsburg in the Emirates Cup today.

If he DOES play more than five games this season then we would have to say that Arsenal were doing something wrong over the last few years....

Many of us Arsenal fans have been here before over the last 10 years, only for something like all the injury problems and our heavy losses in some big away games of two years ago to come along and leave the latest challenge for the Premier League trophy in tatters.

Arsenal Fans have done that over the last 10 years... Only one thing can send a message to the board... Quit showing up for games....

I just don't think enough is done by Wenger and the coaching staff to get players up for each game because over the past 10 years or so how many times have Arsenal sides been criticised by fans, pundits and the media for being below par and not up for it?

You watch same games as me mate perez by far the best striker Danny need 10 shots to 1 on target no vision giroud to slow walcot over paid winger Sanchez prima Donna I've supported arsenal for 64 years and I think Wenger should stay

Joel Campbell The Costa Rican and his representative have been fuming over Wenger's decision to not let the 22 - year old go out on loan, for the fourth successive season, when it is rather obvious that he is «not» going to enjoy the lion's share of game time in this Arsenal squad.

i have never sat in stand an booed arsenal, but saw people coming from midlands with there kids every home game, nightime european games an they have spent thousands on there season tickets - they have literally chose this over holidays for there family that year.

Diaby has played only 16 games for Arsenal over the past four years.

Everyone seems to think that Arsenal's season is over right now, but as with every season, we are still in the most important fight for a Top Four place, and have made it to an FA Cup semifinal for the third time in four years and are two games away from winning the trophy yet again.

Im NOT renewing mine this year a) I can not justify the expediture any more especially when I come home from a game more unhappy than ever, my mrs rightly askes me why I am spending over a grand a year to be a misrable arse every season while I will miss it terribly I feel its time to make my own private protest in order to make myself feel better so thats it for me, though I will compose a letter and send it to the admin at Arsenal to explain why Im not spending the money any more.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...... Read the full article here

Today's 4 - 0 win over Watford was a welcome relief for Arsenal fans as we showed the clinical finishing that has been missing for most of our games since the New Year.

Arsenal fans may well be expecting an easy game against the Hyundai A-League side, but we have to remember that Sydney FC were actually the Champions and haven't lost at home in the League for over a year.

over the years we've lost the opportunity to bring in talented, and innovative young managers, guys like pep, and kloop, these guys specifically had bias for arsenal due to our philosophy of the game, and the level of control granted our coach, this I believe has being our biggest undoing as the current coach has for a long time placed his ego and face before the good of the club and its fans.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Having done the double over them last year should also help our players go into the game with less pressure, but will all this help Arsenal get back to winning ways?

Giroud does not deserve to lead the arsenal line next season.He should be replaced do u know why?It is because he is always going to miss a lot of chances and will cost us.people who support him to lead the line have not studied his game clearly.every season he will continue to cost us.But at least i wont say he is useless or something.He is on the pitch and gives his all so he is useful.He is not clinical and not good at all.He is a striker who is just above average but sometimes even performs below average in his 3 years over here.Be honest and say it as it is.Some people use stats to constantly defend him yet if you watch him you will be shocked.Walcott can lead the line he has everything to.but as i said he lacks the aggressiveness and physique to be the main man.that will go against him so many times.so its better for him to remain on the wings.Giroud does not deserve it.We all know that.

After being mocked over a «robbery» by one Arsenal fan, they responded by suggesting that they were busy looking for a «missing person, surname Ozil» after the 29 - year - old had a poor game.

Wenger's Arsenal has played countless good games over the past 10 + years only to stumble afterwards.

Every time Arsenal lose a game, the so - called AOB's come out to play, insulting other Gooners and disrespecting the greatest manager in Arsenal's history, despite the success he has brought to us over his 19 years at the club.

Not only did the 17 - year old score again, taking his tally so far to six goals from four under 23 games, his strike was a real belter of a free kick that opened the scoring and set the Arsenal academy side on the road to a 2 - 0 victory over Man United.

Recently Arsenal fans have been seeing the 26 - year old in good form for the Gunners, but arguably his least influential performance came in our last game, and I personally think that the Welshman already had one eye on the two World Cup qualifiers coming up over the next two weeks.

The tactical side of football is always developing and changing to some extent and Arsene Wenger has himself earned a well deserved reputation for the way that Arsenal have played the game since he took over as our manager almost 20 years ago.