The one, miniscule ray of light that shone down on Arsenal's worst start to
a league campaign since 1982, was that Olivier Giroud returned with a goal.
Even though the North Londoners may have come away from the North East with three points in the end, it wasn't as convincing a performance as it should have been against a truly woeful side well on their way to putting together to worst Premier
League campaign since Derby County's 11 point finish in 2008.
Arsenal host Bournemouth at the Emirates on Saturday and will be looking to grab their first win of
the league campaign since the enthralling 4 - 3 opening day victory over Leicester City.
The 24 - year - old becomes manager Paul Lambert's fifth new addition of the summer as the Norfolk club prepare for a first Premier
League campaign since 2005.
Not exact matches
Our
league campaign has just ended this week, with us missing out on a place in the Champions League for the first time since Arsene Wenger joined the club in 1996, This blow is also likely to fuel the speculatory
league campaign has just ended this week, with us missing out on a place in the Champions
League for the first time since Arsene Wenger joined the club in 1996, This blow is also likely to fuel the speculatory
League for the first time
since Arsene Wenger joined the club in 1996, This blow is also likely to fuel the speculatory fire,
His business has been blamed for the club's dire
campaign, and this season we finished in our lowest
league position since Wenger joined, and the club is keen on returning to the Champions League for the 2018 - 19 s
league position
since Wenger joined, and the club is keen on returning to the Champions
League for the 2018 - 19 s
League for the 2018 - 19 season.
Kompany hasn't been able to make more than 14
league appearances in a season
since the 2014/15
campaign, where he made 25 as his side finished 2nd behind Chelsea.
Despite missing three months of the
campaign, the 28 - year - old has still managed to score 14 goals in the
league but has failed to find the back of net
since the 4 - 1 victory over Liverpool at the start of last month.
Since then, however, Arsenal have rescued a seemingly impossible Champions
League campaign and won all three of our league games including the crucial clash with Man
League campaign and won all three of our
league games including the crucial clash with Man
league games including the crucial clash with Man City.
Pellegrini has spent an incredible # 172m on just eleven players
since taking over at the Etihad Stadium, and although he won the Premier
League and Capital One Cup double in his first
campaign with the club, he looks set to finish trophyless this term and possibly even out of the top four after a surprisingly poor recent run of form.
Arsenal have now started the short run of pre-season games in preparation for the tough start to a crucial Premier
League season in which the pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players to mount a serious title challenge is greater than ever after blowing what appeared to be a golden chance last time around and with the gap
since our last successful
campaign now more than 12 years.
Walcott enjoyed one of his best
campaigns in an Arsenal shirt last season, clocking up 19 goals in all competitions, but found himself predominantly benched this term with a new formation needing one less attacking players limiting him to less than 50 minutes of game time in the Premier
League since the start of the new term.
Many pundits have been saying that the Spaniard has been extremely ineffectual this season despite playing every minute of every
League game in this
campaign, but with an obvious lack of backups
since the sales of Matthieu Debuchy (who has been playing like a genius
since joining St Etienne) and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain (who forced his move to Liverpool), the only option Wenger had was to give his place to Calum Chambers.
The D -
League's premier writer, Scott Schroeder of Ridiculous Upside, wrote this in early February while
campaigning for Green to be called up to play his first NBA game
since the» 09 -»10 season, and Schroeder was spot on:
The 27 - year - old has not missed a single minute of Tottenham's
league campaign, and the club's other senior central defender — Jan Vertonghen — has not played
since January.
Mourinho kept faith with Ivanovic throughout the Serbian's sticky patch at the start of the
campaign, while Pedro had gone 11
league matches without scoring
since a debut goal at West Bromwich Albion.
It's been a mixed start to the
campaign as they have taken five points from four games with one win, two draws and one defeat to show for their efforts so far, but there is certainly progress
since their miserable season in the Premier
League last year.
His side are guaranteed a place in the Bundesliga's top four, and thus, a place in next season's Champions
League, and Jedvaj has collected two Croatia caps
since the start of the current
campaign.
This shirt will likely only be used for the Champions
League campaign, where we will be looking to escape from the group for the 14th consecutive time, and will also be hoping to pass the round of 16 for the first time
since 2010.
Arsene Wenger's men have recovered well
since experiencing an underwhelming start to their Barclays Premier
League campaign that saw them accrue just 23 points from their first 15 league fix
League campaign that saw them accrue just 23 points from their first 15
league fix
league fixtures.
The girls» program has never lost a
league dual meet
since the campus opened in 1996, and the boys» program has not suffered a defeat after finishing second in the
league standings in its inaugural
campaign.
We have been strongly linked with captures of Jamie Vardy and Alvaro Morata already
since the end of the
league campaign, but as time goes on, both deals appear more and more unlikely.
Despite finishing at the top of their Champions
League group for the first time
since the 2011 - 12
campaign, the Gunners were struck by bad luck in the last - 16 draw.
«He has been at the club
since 2008 but, before this season, he had made only nine Premier
League starts in six years and spent the whole of the previous
campaign on loan at German club Freiburg.
The midfielder may have won two FA Cups during his time with the capital club, but he has failed to surpass 16
league outings in any campaign since 2010, and managed a cumulative one appearance in the last two Premier League se
league outings in any
campaign since 2010, and managed a cumulative one appearance in the last two Premier
League se
League seasons.
The 24 - year - old has impressed
since moving to the Premier
League in 2015, scoring eight goals and providing two assists in 35 Premier
League appearances last season to improve on the
campaign before.
Should Fulham end up joining United in the Premier
League next season, it'll be interesting to see if Sessegnon remains with the Whites for their first top flight
campaign since the 2013/14 season.
The concerns about the repeated failures of Guardiola are real enough, but to an extent the disappointment over City's European exit was conditioned by the anticlimactic nature of the
league campaign, the fact that it was so far ahead that the title has felt all but inevitable
since November, if not before.
Belgrade are no slouches at home, and in fact their defensive record in the Serbian Super Lig has seen them concede only one goal at home
since the
campaign begun, but their domestic championship is not quite on par with the Premier
League, and I would be very surprised if we were to fail to score at least two goals.
The Special One led the Blues to their third Premier
League title under his management — the first
since his 2013 return — but has now paid the price for the club's worst start to a
campaign in 37 years.
City, Chelsea and PSG have amassed 34 Champions
League campaigns between them — the vast majority
since being bought by financially - powerful owners — but PSG and City have yet to go beyond the semifinal stages.
Jay Rodriguez's 73rd - minute header gave Albion only their fourth victory of a miserable
campaign but the 1 - 0 victory was enough to start the title celebrations in the blue half of Manchester, with Pep Guardiola's side still having five matches of the season to play and just a few days
since they were dumped out of the Champions
League by Liverpool.
Since the Premier
League's intervention in 1992 we have seen plenty of turbulent
campaigns.
Wenger has come under increasing pressure in recent seasons, and for the second successive season they have failed to finish in the top - four and they have not won the Premier
League since 2004 — when they went the whole league campaign unb
League since 2004 — when they went the whole
league campaign unb
league campaign unbeaten.
They are seeking a first
league title since 1968 and will embark on their first ever Champions League campaign following the third place finish last s
league title
since 1968 and will embark on their first ever Champions
League campaign following the third place finish last s
League campaign following the third place finish last season.
The 2017 - 18
campaign marks the first season Arsenal have been mere Champions
League spectators
since the 1999 - 2000 season.
Aranguiz will have seen the success his fellow countryman Alexis Sanchez has enjoyed
since his move to the Premier
League, the former Barcelona man enjoying a superb debut season at Arsenal, and Internacional will hold back on talks on his future until after the club's Copa Libertadores
campaign according to the Daily Mail.
In that
campaign, the West African netted an eye - catching 24 goals in 36 games for the capital club, taking his game to a new level having scored just 12
league goals in the previous season and a half
since signing from AS Monaco.
Tottenham won the reverse fixture 3 - 2 at the London Stadium, but haven't won both
league meetings with West Ham in a season
since the 2012 - 13
campaign.
They've not done the
league double over Everton
since the 1959/60
campaign when they won the top - flight.
The Spaniard has started just eight
league games
since then, while surgery on a troublesome ankle has kept him out
since October this
campaign.
United ended up winning the FA Cup and they also closed out the
league for their first title
since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, a great achievement for Mourinho in his first
campaign.
Leicester have not done the Premier
League double over Southampton
since the 1999 - 00
campaign.
Erratic results against the
league's lesser lights plagued Liverpool's 2016 — 17
campaign (they conceded twice or more to non-top-six rivals on 10 occasions), but
since conceding twice in a 3 - 2 victory over Leicester in late September, Liverpool haven't conceded more than one goal against a team outside of the top six.
Having already enjoyed a successful
campaign in Spain's top flight with Sevilla the former U20 World Champion has fitted into Champions
League - chasing Valencia's midfield like a glove, scoring 4 goals (including one against Real Madrid, at the Bernabeu, on his debut) and providing 1 assist
since signing on loan in the deal that sent Joao Cancelo in the other direction.
We have known about West Ham's interest in Zabaleta
since April, as the club looks to improve a porous defence that conceded 64 goals during the 2016/17 Premier
League campaign.
The result at St Mary's was United's 15th draw of a frustrating
league season and means they are guaranteed to register their lowest number of wins in a
campaign since the 1990 - 91 season.
Press Association Sport understands the 25 - year - old Italian tore an adductor muscle while taking a free - kick during Saturday's 1 - 1 Premier
League draw at Southampton, his first appearance
since the opening day of the
campaign.
Everton, however, will have other ideas; the Toffees secured their fourth win of the
campaign against Wolves last weekend and have now set their sights on achieving their first back - to - back wins in the Premier
League since April.
Two different head - coaches, just two wins from seventeen
league matches, the elimination from the Russian Cup and a long and never ending list of injured players
since the first day of the season have undoubtedly jeopardized whatever the club's strategy was for the current
campaign.