Overlooked for the Manchester
City game last week, Drogba may be recalled for a game against weaker opponents, as Loic Remy has underperformed recently.
Giroud I believe this is a similar line up to the Man
city game last year.
Not that he is necessarily bad from the left (the 6 - 3
City game last year is one example where he was on the left and scored 2), but I do think he is still better on the right.
The game reminded me of our pre Man
City games last year.
Not exact matches
Despite having a lineup of top - selling
games, Take - Two, one of the world's biggest video
game publishers, lost nearly $ 185 million
last fiscal year while rivals Activision Inc., THQ Inc. and top - selling Electronic Arts Inc. of Redwood
City all managed to post healthy profits.
Sunderland won 3 - 0
last weekend away to fellow relegation - threatened Norwich
City, in what was a must - win
game, and they will be keen to replicate that performance this weekend at home, and their manager has already confirmed he will be setting his team up in the same way.
I watched both Arsenal's and
City's
games last night.
Despite Arsenal's consistency over the
last six
games, they've only claimed one more point than
City over the sequence of
games.
In that
game City didn't play with their starting 11, specially their defence was weak.They were out of Pablo Zabeleta, Vincent Kompony, Dimichilis, Mangala, Fernandinho, Silva and Auguero.And now all are fit and present, so don't expect
last time result.
Beside I love the minutes he is getting at the end of every
game, most notably against
city, he did what gibbs didn't in 20 minutes, while he
last only 5minutes.
Considering
City were up for it as their
last home
game under Pellegrini, I thought we played brilliantly.
Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough
games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win
last few
games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U /
City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..
Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away
games to those same top teams (Chelsea,
City, Liverpool, and Everton).
Two difficult away
games at West Ham and Man
City, but we beat both away
last season.
In there
last 7
games their only defeats have been to Man
City and Chelsea and they have just had a little confidence booster by holding Liverpool to a draw at Anfield.
So the boss has a good idea of what is needed in the Champions League
games and the defeats for Man
City and Man United
last night should have given him some pointers about how to approach the
game.
Over the
last three seasons, Aguero and Silva have missed 30 % of
City's Premier League
games, with captain Kompany even more susceptible, missing 44 % of matches.
But there is current form in our favour, with Stoke's only win in the
last 9
games was against relegation candidates Hull
City, and they have nothing left to play for.
people are forgetting
city started slow and never lead the table but won the title in the
last few
games
Norwich did well
last week against chelsea so its not a given we win today but im expecting nothing less than 3points to go joint top with
city again, we have to no excuses then a week off until next weekends
game then the big one in Athens!
As expected, Arsene Wenger has brought back the players rested for the Champions League
game in midweek and so Arsenal will start at Stamford Bridge with the same 11 players that won our
last Premier League
game against Stoke
City.
Ozil will play
city game... He needs to help us win dat
game, after he made us loose 6 — 3 in d
last game... He has to make us believe dat he has adapted well... And I think the
city game is the first challenge for him
I don't believe Wenger when it comes to transfer news and injury come - back dates... Alexis is the heart of Arsenal right now, I hope we can survive without him in the next
games as we did against
City last night... Southampton are a wounded animal nowadays, we shouldn't underestimate them... Wenger, you should keep an eye on Mane, bring him with you to the Emirates in 1st of Jan...
His only other
game time so far was the
last 20 minutes of the Community Shield, when Arsenal were already 3 - 0 up against Man
City.
With a goal and two assists, the Belgian probably had his best
game of the campaign against Man
City's kids
last weekend.
In fact Boro are on a ten
game unbeaten run right now, winning the
last six — including the 2 - 0 win over Man
City at the Etihad which is a warning to Arsenal if ever there was one.
Over the
last 5 seasons the most
games a winning team has lost is Man
city with 6 losses over the season.
Hughes» team have picked up just two points from their
last six
games and face one of the toughest run - ins of the bottom five teams, including
games against Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester
City.
Lets not kid ourselves,
City could have won this
game in the
last 10 minutes.
His
game vs Man
City at the Etihad
last season made his mark on our squad, but he was overplayed due to the lack of adequate replacements and we will likely start Flamini again.
Arsenal could not have picked a worse time to face Antonio Conte's side, who easily beat Swansea 5 - 0 two days ago while resting Eden Hazard, and who have only conceded one goal in their
last 5 League
games as they moved up to be Man
City's closest challengers, albeit 14 points behind Pep Guardiola's side.
Just like in the
last campaign our first three matches include
games against Leicester and Liverpool abnd sandwiched in between is the generally disappointing away clash with Stoke
City.
The Premier League champions will be looking to close the gap on Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, and with the Hammers taking just one point from their
last six league
games against
City Manuel Pellegrini will be feeling confident.
Last time Ramsey played against
City (earlier in the season), he was a huge reason we lost that
game.
Even if we did that and ended up on 82 points, Chelsea could quite easily win their remaining five
games as well and that would leave us 10 points off the champions, whereas
last season we finished just seven points behind Man
City, so let's not get too carried away with ourselves.
Last season we were not in it but we did beat Man
City in the final pre-season
game, only to play like puddings and ship four goals in a home loss to Liverpool on the opening day.
I have been looking at our remaining fixtures and the previous head to heads (
Last 5 meetings) with our opponents and I must say that apart from our away
games at Utd and
City, (where we could get a draw) we are more than capable of winning the rest, going by them stats, but of course that doesn't allow for the Wenger mistakes of late!
But confidence will be high in the Chelsea camp as well after 10 league
games without defeat, and
last weekend's 5 - 1 FA Cup rout of Manchester
City.
I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester,
city and arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open
game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About
city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most
games by pure luck or
last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the
games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with
city could have been easily 10 or 12
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City have only won two of their
last 10
games at Stoke.
City may have only lost one domestic
game this season, but before the recent defeat to Liverpool, the
last game they lost was against Arsenal in the FA Cup semifinal in the
last campaign.
After a gruelling run of Premier League
games, Arsene Wenger can at
last give some Arsenal first team players a much - needed rest as we travel to the
City ground to take on Nottingham Forest in the Third Round of the FA Cup.
The 24 - year - old scored his 17th goal of the season for
City last night in a 2 - 0 win against Reading — the club's first
game since sacking Roberto Mancini as manager.
It has been very clear to everyone that the Arsenal fans have been boycotting the Emirates in the
last two home
games against Man
City and Watford, so much so that even Arsene Wenger admitted that it was a worry and he would be trying to get the fans back onside.
Strikers Olivier Giroud — The man that splits football fans around the country, he has an excellent scoring record, and in the
last year he has taken those goals into the big
games against
City, United and Bayern twice.
Second base could be handled by rookie Glenn Beckert, a good double - play man who was a shortstop at Salt Lake
City and batted.277, or Ron Campbell, another Salt Lake graduate who spent 26
games with the Cubs
last year and hit.272.
The Chelsea team of Jose Mourinho went a long time unbeaten a few years back and Man
City have looked a bit unbeatable at the start of this season and the
last one, but the only side yet to lose an EPL
game so far this season is Tottenham and it just so happens that our north London rivals are heading to the Emirates to face Arsenal next.
City have six points fewer than they did after 19
games last season — although they have lost the same number of
games (two).
In a way I agree with him and the fact that Arsenal have not failed to score in the
last 21
games, with some strong opposition in there like Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Man
City suggests that although we are not at our clinical best we are still doing that side of the
game well.
Harry Kane didn't score in his any of his first eight
games in all competitions for Tottenham Hotspur this season, but a first - half brace against Norwich
City means that the 22 - year - old now has 13 for the campaign — 12 in his
last 11 appearances.