We will have to wait and see how things pan out in East London at the weekend, and Arsenal wwill need to play well to come back with all three points from our Premier
League clash away to West Ham United, but I do have a feeling that, for a change, things are going our way ahead of this crucial game.
Next up for Arsenal is the Premier
League clash away to Liverpool on Saturday and although any chance of the Premier League title is gone for us (do not let Arsene Wenger tell you any different) it is still a massive game for the Gunners.
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.
Not exact matches
It will probably depend on what happens at training over the next few days and to be honest it is more likely that Elneny will feature at some point but not from the start but I am sure that the Arsenal boss would like to have Mathieu Flamini and Aaaron Ramsey as fresh as possible for the Premier
League away clash with Liverpool on Wednesday night.
Two Premier
League away games, at West Brom tomorrow and then Norwich City next Sunday, are punctuated by a must - win home
clash with Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb and with a stretched squad that is a tough eight days of football.
The month of September doesn't get any easier for Arsenal, who, following Manchester City's
clash, face an
away fixture against Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions
League on Tuesday.
According to The Mirror, De Gea will likely face Tottenham and Southampton with both
clashes away from home, but Joel Pereira could be drafted in to make his Premier
League debut against Palace next Sunday.
We really should have got a draw with a great chance in the final minutes but Iwobi's shot hit a foot and that was that and it is a blow to our Premier
League title hopes but not a knockout one as long as we now pick ourselves up for the
away clash with Man City on Sunday.
Point to note, we are hosting Bayern Munich this Tuesday in a life and death Champions
League clash but we were very sluggish with Watford
away, though eventually we blew then
away 3 to nil... but the goals took time to come and with Bayern such eventualities will possibly be punishable.
So we can not rely on Ramsey being able to feature in key games like the Champions
League game
away to Monaco or the FA cup
clash away to Manchester United.
Pogba has come under fire in recent weeks for his poor form, having been substituted off in
away defeats to Tottenham and Newcastle United, while he was also left on the bench for the first leg
clash with Sevilla in the Champions
League.
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.
Assuming that the Arsenal starting line up for the Champions
League away clash with Olympiacos tonight includes Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott, there is a very clear decision for the manager to make for that third forward position, Joel Campbell or Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain.
It did not take a lot of thought to work out what the Arsenal starting line - up for the Premier
League away clash with Liverpool would be.
As we prepare for the Arsenal Premier
League away clash with Manchester United, Arsene Wenger has been keen to play down the rivalry between him and the United boss, stating that is the players on the pitch that will be up against each other more than the men shouting orders from the dugout.
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.
We are less than a week
away from the Community Shield
clash between Arsenal and Chelsea, and less than two weeks from the kick - off to the Premier
league campaign, but has our club strengthened enough?
Liverpool secured a goalless draw
away at Augsburg at the WWK Arena on Thursday night in their round - of - 32 Europa
League clash.
If there is one Arsenal player who you would pick to be able to cope with a heavy workload it would probably be Alexis Sanchez, so even though the Chile international started and almost completed the Premier
League clash at home to West Brom on Monday night, he would probably be fine to do the same again in the Europa
League match
away to BATE Borisov.
With a Europa
League away tie in Belgrade and a Premier
League away clash with Everton to cope with in the space of two - and - a-half days, Arsene Wenger has to decide how much to rotate and which Arsenal players should start in each game, but he does have the option to bring back Aaron Ramsey and Alexis Sanchez who he left out for the Watford game.
The Gunners face a daunting
away clash against Borussia Dortmund on Matchday 1 of the 2014/15 Champions
League campaign.
«He will be eligible to feature in next month's Europa
League round of 32
clash away to Red Star Belgrade in Serbia.»
Kick off is less than an hour
away, and Diego Simeone and Zinedine Zidane have just confirmed their team sheets for the first leg of this Champions
League semifinal
clash.
To be fair to Zinedine Zidane, he does not need his Real Madrid side to win today's El Clasico
clash away to Barcelona, as Los Blancos already have a six point
league over our rivals in Spain's La Liga table.
The Clarets have struggled for any returns against Liverpool in their previous Premier
League clashes, but they have shown plenty of battling qualities this season already against the big guns
away from home, which is surprising after how poor they were
away from Turf Moor last season.
Furthermore, based on the current
league table, previous
away clashes with those in close proximity have all gone against the Latics, losing 2 - 0 at Fulham, 3 - 1 at West Ham and conjuring only a 0 - 0 draw
away to Birmingham City.
Gerrard, who tore his hamstring while on England duty, hasn't featured in any of Liverpool's previous four
league clashes but Roy Hodgson is guaranteeing that the inspirational skipper will start on Sunday providing the game goes ahead, as Liverpool, hell - bent on revenge after they were beaten 2 - 1 by Blackpool earlier in the season at Anfield, seek only their second
away win of the season
away to Blackpool.
Speaking ahead of the difficult
away clash to the Premier
League winners, Leicester, the Toffies» manager admitted that although Coleman and Barry could feature at the weekend, they almost certainly will against Sunderland.
Silva also revealed that although it is hard with the match so close now, that he and his teammates are focused more on Toulouse
away in Ligue 1 on Saturday than the first leg of the Champions
League round of 16
clash away at Real Madrid next week.
Check out all the shots from our AFC Champions
League Group H
clash against Shanghai Shenhua
away from home.
They've won 75 % of their
away trips this season, so can they take that form into this
clash with the Premier
League side?
Match Highlights Juventus practically booked the Champions
league final
clash in Cardiff, likely against Real Madrid by taking a big step towards it with a 2 - 0
away win over...
With an incredibly difficult run of fixtures to come, starting with Newcastle
away this weekend before make or break
clashes with Manchester City in the
league and Valencia in Europe, it's impossible not think as the next couple of weeks being a defining period in the season, for club and manager.
If that wasn't disheartening enough, ever since their last
away triumph over the Gunners in a Premier
League fixture, having lost all seven
away clashes since, they have conceded 25 goals yet plundered just four in return.
In the last ten
league clashes between the two, Liverpool have accumulated 19 points from a possible 30, while Blackburn have snatched just the seven
away from the Reds».
Bolton rubber - stamped their inclusion in next season's Barclay's Premier
League with a hard - fought victory over Arsenal at The Reebok last weekend, however they were once again exposed on their travels during the week and those same
away frailties are what free - falling Blackburn are aiming to exploit this weekend when the two
clash in Lancashire at Ewood Park.
Having blown
away teams in both Premier
League and Champions
League, City are set to make several changes in the starting lineup for this Tuesday night
clash against a Wolves side who will also make changes in the lineup.
Predictably, considering Norwich caught the eye in their last match at Carrow Road and with Swansea having lost their opening three
away league fixtures by an aggregate of 1 - 9, hosts Norwich go into this weekend's
clash as favourites.
With the 2 - 0 triumph of Barcelona in yesterday's heated El Clasico encounter, it seems all but certain that Pepe Guardiola's men will make next month's Champions
League final, most likely to face fellow semi-finalists Man United as they themselves were 2 - 0 victors
away at Schalke in their first - leg
clash on Tuesday.
In his first three Premier
League games of the season, Rooney created an assist against Bournemouth, scored a goal in the Southampton
clash and found Rashford for the winner
away against Hull.
Successive 4 - 0 victories
away to Plymouth (
League Two) and at home to Huddersfield (chasing promotion in
League One) set up a third round
clash with Premier
League Wigan, who were also no match for Di Canio's imperious charges as The Robins overcame a 1 - 0 deficit to win 2 - 1 at The Country Ground.
Osasuna are bottom of the table and have the worst home record in the
league this season (1W, 6D) and just a marignally better
away one (2W, 3D) going into this
clash with Luis Enrique's side, who are coming off a morale boosting Clasico win against arch rivals Real Madrid.
Chelsea suffered a defeat in the first leg of their Champions
League last 16
clash with PSG on Tuesday, but they managed to score what could prove a crucial
away goal in the process.
GAMEDAY - Burton Albion -
AWAY Blues are prepared to fight in a Friday night
clash with Burton Albion, who are currently sat rock bottom in the
league with a bitter 0 points from their opening 3
league games.
Given how much of procession it was for the Citizens against the Gunners on the weekend you would imagine that more of the same will follow in this
league clash even though City are
away from home.
Sailing towards what would be an unprecedented 19th English
league title, Sir Alex could afford to rest a number of important players for Saturday's clash with Fulham at Old Trafford as the wily Scot sent out an intimidating message to Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti — that not only is he intent on taking the Premier League title away from the West London club, he also wants to dump the Blues out of Europe en route to a potential final in Chelsea's own bac
league title, Sir Alex could afford to rest a number of important players for Saturday's
clash with Fulham at Old Trafford as the wily Scot sent out an intimidating message to Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti — that not only is he intent on taking the Premier
League title away from the West London club, he also wants to dump the Blues out of Europe en route to a potential final in Chelsea's own bac
League title
away from the West London club, he also wants to dump the Blues out of Europe en route to a potential final in Chelsea's own backyard.