Giroud was criticised during the mentioned Europa
League clash after failing to score against the German side that boast the worst defensive record in the Bundesliga this season.
Not exact matches
Arsenal suffered a blow ahead of their Champions
League clash against Ludogorets
after four players were ruled out injured by head coach Arsene Wenger.
Watch Celtic centre - back Virgil van Dijk leave the field
after seeing red in this Europa
League San Siro
clash...
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And
after seeing the likes of Cazorla, Ramsey and the Ox toil again in the Premier
League clash at Sunderland, who can blame the former Real Madrid star for feeling the weight of expectation?
And now reports in Spain have claimed that Napoli have emerged as frontrunners for his signature
after having him scouted during Madrid's midweek Champions
League clash with Paris Saint Germain.
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clash, as club attempt to get season back on track
As the Gunners face a do or die Champions
League clash against Dinamo Zagreb tonight, Wenger feels hard done by that, even though Zagreb player Arijan Adem was banned for four years
after failing a drugs test
after September's shock 2 - 1 win, the result is still allowed to stand.
Cazorla was missing through an injury concern picked up
after Arsenal's midweek Champions
League clash.
Whatever the reason, it is great news for the fans that we now have Coquelin tied up and it should also give the whole dressing room a boost ahead of this crucial Premier
League clash with Aston Villa, especially
after the news that Alexis Sanchez is carrying a knock and may miss the game.
A trip to Switzerland in midweek awaits shortly
after, with the Champions
League clash against Basel to play.
He is, however, still expected to rotate his team somewhat for the Yeovil
clash after a hectic festive period that saw Premier
League teams play three games in six days — whilst Yeovil have not played since Monday, when they were comfortable beaten at Huish Park in a relegation six pointer against Leyton Orient.
After a shaky start to the season the Gunners have come to life and September saw us win five games, lose none and draw just one, the Champions
League clash away to PSG.
One thing you can definitely say about Arsenal
after the FA cup thumping of Southampton and as Arsene Wenger prepares for the top of the table
clash with Premier
League rivals Chelsea this weekend is that the players involved last weekend have given the boss a tough decision on team selection.
With Arsenal in dire need of winning our second Champions
League group game
after losing the first, a home
clash with Olympiakos seemed the ideal game.
Both clubs made early exits from the Capital One Cup — Arsenal losing to Southampton,
after United were thrashed by MK Dons — while the North London giants face the ominous task of trying to overturn a 3 - 1 deficit against AS Monaco in the Champions
League second round
clash.
However, because of Per Mertesacker retiring from the Germany national side
after the World Cup and with Nacho Monreal, Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini not being called up, Wenger and Steve Bould will have been able to get some serious defensive training done with these four players and with Hector Bellerin at right back and that could pay dividends against Man United in the Premier
League clash at the Emirates stadium.
One of the Blues» most reliable performers,
after a rest in Sunday's FA Cup
clash the defender is a certain
league starter, a tough match for any winger.
Fergie has been indulging in the Champions
League since its return earlier this month —
after also being seen in the stands as Chelsea took on Paris Saint - Germain in their first - leg
clash with the French champions.
The same weekend United have an early kick off away to Watford
after their first Europa
League match on the Thursday and it is an away
clash with the Dutch club Feyenoord and you can easily imagine that this could be a tough few days for them.
It would be very easy for the Arsenal players to take their eyes off the ball this weekend, but it is absolutely vital that the Gunners do not become complacent and that we make sure that all three points are going to stay in north London
after the visit of Aston Villa in the Premier
League clash on Sunday.
Ramsey, who returned to the starting XI for the Premier
League clash, spoke to the club's official website
after the game and stressed the importance of getting back to winning ways in the huge north London derby against Tottenham Hotspur for the Capital One Cup third round
clash at White Hart Lane on Wednesday night:
With the latest round of Premier
League fixtures now over, save for an intriguing Monday night
clash between QPR and Aston Villa, we have picked out the worst XI of the weekend
after disappointing displays from Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur:
Madrid hold a healthy advantage over Atletico Madrid ahead of their second leg Champions
League semi-finals
clash after a Ronaldo hat - trick in the first leg.
First up for Arsenal
after the international break is the Premier
League clash at home to Liverpool.
Arsenal fans are absolutely livid at two players in particular
after weak defending allowed Newcastle striker Ayoze Perez to score and make it 1 - 1 in today's Premier
League clash at St James» Park.
The 26 year - old enjoyed a fine 2014 FIFA World Cup for Miguel Herrera's impressive Mexico outfit, who were only eliminated
after two late Dutch goals in their last sixteen
clash, whilst his performances for Club America in the Mexican Premier
League last season have also contributed to the esteem in which Layun is held.
Next weekend could be massive for us because we have a home game against Everton
after the midweek Champions
League clash with Monaco.
The knives are well and truly out for pretty much everyone involved at Manchester United today
after their shock defeat to Sevilla in last night's Champions
League clash at Old Trafford.
No one was surprised to see that Arsene Wenger chose to drop (or rest) the Arsenal vice-captain for the Premier
League home
clash with Everton on Sunday,
after the World Cup winning defender was the worst of a bad bunch against Monaco in the Champions
League.
The Premier
League could have named our old friend Mike Dean as the man in the middle for the crucial title chasing
clash with Leicester City, although
after his shockingly bad and biased showing against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, the football authorities had to overturn his decisions and were left looking a bit foolish.
Lionel Messi has given Barcelona a 1 - 0 lead in tonight's Champions
League clash with Chelsea at the Nou Camp
after cheekily nutmegging Blues goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
The home
clash with the German club comes on the Wednesday
after our
league game with Man United who will probably be flying by then.
Serie A giants Inter Milan are also thought to be watching him closely
after former star and current assistant boss Dejan Stankovic watched the youngster in Zagreb's recent Champions
League clash with Olympiacos (via Express).
I think so and I would not be surprised if the gap grows even bigger this weekend as we have an early trip to Everton
after a big Champions
League clash with Barcelona, while Leicester should be fresh for their trip to Crystal Palace.
However, Moyes is eager to make another offer
after getting a chance to see him close up during his side's Champions
League clash with Olympiacos earlier this month.
Arsenal were already up against it this weekend, as the fifth round of games in the Premier
League season sees the Gunners travel to Stamford Bridge to take on the reigning EPL champions less than three days
after facing the Ge4rman club FC Cologne in a Europa
League clash, so the last thing Arsene Wenger needed was to lose one of his key players.
When the smoke clears and the dust settles
after the final whistle of the Premier
League clash between Arsenal and Man City this evening, there will still be a couple of match days left before we even reach the halfway point of the season.
After Arsenal allowed ourselves to be second best to Southampton in terms of energy and effort all over the pitch on Boxing Day, the first thing that Arsene Wenger would have been looking for in the Premier
League clash with Bournemouth was for the team to put that right.
After winning their last 11 Premier
League games on the bounce, Liverpool head into this weekend's Super Sunday
clash with Chelsea with a five - point lead at the top of the table.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed that winning the Europa
League is the club's main priority for the rest of the season,
after explaining that the weekend's Premier
League clash against West Ham will be «preparation» for the semi final against Atletico Madrid next week.
Borussia Dortmund will be without defender Marc Bartra for their Champions
League clash with Tottenham on Wednesday
after the 26 - year - old picked up an adductor injury over the weekend.
But
after again making sweeping changes across the side who so soundly beat Bolton 4 - 0, presumably in preparation for Tuesday's all - important Champions
League clash with Marseille, plenty of questions will be asked.
Meanwhile, Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 15 games and go into this weekends
clash in high spirits
after coming from two goals down to defeat Ludogorets in the Champions
league earlier this week.
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With seven Premier
League games
after the Liverpool
clash and the small matter of a Wembley FA cup semi-final against Reading to consider, this injury update is great news for Arsenal fans and Wenger.
Manchester City have found a crucial equaliser against CSKA Moscow, just moments
after falling behind in their must - win Champions
League clash.
It is going to be very difficult for Arsene Wenger to now leave the France international star out of the Arsenal starting line - up, as Olivier Giroud scored a vital winner in the FA cup
clash at Preston North End
after setting up the first two and scoring the third in that unlikely comeback in the Premier
League away game at Bournemouth.
West Ham striker Enner Valencia could miss this weekend's Premier
League clash with Arsenal
after picking up a quite ridiculous injury.
After the shocking way Arsenal were hammered at Stamford Bridge last season, today's Premier
League clash with Chelsea is a good chance to see if Arsene Wenger and the Gunners have learned their lessons — and whether we will have any more joy against the big clubs this season.