By leaving Olivier Giroud and Alvaro Morata on the bench for the 1 - 1 Champions
League draw at home to Barcelona on Tuesday, Antonio Conte made it clear he thinks the pair are short on quality.
Following on from a 1 - 1 Champions
League draw at home to Manchester City, Borussia Moechengladbach continue to struggle to match last season's Bundesliga form.
The long winter break is over for Danilo Pantic and Partizan Belgrade; they returned with a 1 - 1 Europa
League draw at home to Viktoria Plzen before beating Mladost Lucani 2 - 1 on Sunday, and Pantic played ninety minutes in both fixtures.
Not exact matches
Brighton
drew 1 - 1
at home to Spurs on Tuesday night, which could be enough to see the Seagulls to safety in their inaugural season in the Premier
League.
This rumoured desire to land two players to add to their back four could be coming in the wake of a surprising result
at home to Swansea over the weekend, with the Premier
League champions looking unusually suspect
at the back as they were held to a 2 - 2
draw by the Welsh side.
As for City they have lost
at home,
drawn vs us and
drawn again today, I have a feeling that they have enough noose to hang themselves proverbially speaking and as such we have less reason to worry about them and worry about Chelsea if we are to win the
league.
If we are trying to win the
league a
draw against City
at home is not good enough.
They may have beaten Chelsea on new years day and scraped past
League One Sheffield United to reach the cup final, but they also got knocked out of the FA cup at home and have drawn with Burnley and lost to Crystal Palace in the l
League One Sheffield United to reach the cup final, but they also got knocked out of the FA cup
at home and have
drawn with Burnley and lost to Crystal Palace in the
leagueleague.
The loss
at home to Watford earlier in the week however was an expected three points, with the Hornets having not won an away match in the
league since October, while we had won six and
drawn one of our previous seven in all competitions.
It is hard to root against them as they've done well, but to date in the
league they've only played Tottenham and Arsenal from the top 6 clubs and they
drew to the Spurs
at home and lost 2 - 5
at home to the Arsenal.
United have not scored a first - half goal
at home in the Premier
League since September and have
drawn five of their last eight matches
at Old Trafford 0 - 0.
Tottenham won 17 of 19 Premier
League matches
at White Hart Lane last season —
drawing the other two — but they must now get used to playing their
home games
at Wembley Stadium.
With an average attendance of 22,036
at week's end, the Galaxy was MLS's top -
drawing team, which explains the
league's initial refusal to let Chivas call L.A.
home.
It has come down to this, the easiest way to qualify for the champions
league group stages is to
draw both matches of the next 3 ties 1 - 1 away and 0 - 0
at home, then win the final on penalties.
Things haven't started that well for the new boss
at Old Trafford, as following a
home defeat and away
draw to Swansea City and Sunderland in the Premier
League, United lost 4 - 0 to
League One outfit MK Dons in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday.
After the 0 - 0
draw at home against Manchester United in the FA Cup, Cambridge United bagged themselves a replay, which will earn the club in excess of # 1.5 m — and the
League Two outfit start will start by sprucing up by their toilets, reports the BBC.
The FA cup really is our only hope of a trophy this season and with the other non
league club Lincoln City
at home waiting for the winner of this tie and with Chelsea and Man United
drawn together, Arsenal are very close to Wembley.
The derby
at Loftus Road looked like it was heading for a
draw until Cesc Fabregas scored the winner three minutes from time to make it five wins in a row away from
home for the
league leaders.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes his side are still heavy favourites to win the Premier
League title, despite dropping two points with a 1 - 1
draw at home to Southampton on Sunday.
Tottenham Hotspur missed the chance to go top of the Premier
League table for the second time in a week as they
drew 2 - 2
at home to 10 - man Arsenal in the North London derby.
Match Review Arsenal played out an entertaining 2 - 2
draw against Manchester City
at home in the Premier
League last Saturday, as both sides went hammer and tongs
at each other, to show for a just a point apiece in the end.
To be honest, if we lose, or even
draw at home to Besiktas, we don't deserve to be in the Champions
League
The Swans come into the match on the back of four losses from their last five in all competitions, but
at the same time, they have only conceded one Premier
League goal away from
home this term, including 0 - 0
draws at Southampton and Tottenham.
Judging his decision to join a 131 year old club by two games and preferring another club who has subsequently gone on to loose 5 nill to City,
Drew 2 - 2
at home to Sevilla in the champions
league,
drew 1 - 1
at home to burnley in the champions
league, lost 2 nill to Leicester and
drew 1 - 1 to Spartak Moscow in the Champions
league.
Last weekend's 2 - 2
draw at the Emirates against Hull City can not be an ideal preparation, going into a crucial Champions
League fixture as Arsenal do when they take on Anderlecht
at the
home of the Belgium champions.
As he pointed out, all of our recent Champions
League exits have gone the same way and that all of our second leg results would have taken us through if only we had
drawn at home.
The summer before that we struggled to a
draw and a loss in the Emirates Cup, played well to beat Man City in the final pre-season game and then lost to Aston Villa
at home in the first Premier
League game.
BBC Sport note that Arsenal have lost just one of their last five against United
at home in the
league, with two wins and two
draws.
Chelsea could
draw Man City away in the
league cup first round, we could
draw an awful team like QPR
at home.
Jose Mourinho has seen his side start their Premier
League title defence poorly with Chelsea opening the campaign with a 2 - 2
home draw with Swansea City before losing 3 - 0 away
at Man City on Sunday.
We also got knocked out of the FA cup by the Hornets
at home, were put out of the Champions
League by Barcelona and were held to draws in the league by Sunderland, Crystal Palace and Wes
League by Barcelona and were held to
draws in the
league by Sunderland, Crystal Palace and Wes
league by Sunderland, Crystal Palace and West Ham.
Arsene Wenger's side might be in good scoring form
at home at the moment, before and after the arrival of the former Dortmund stars, but their recent away Premier
League form has been poor with two defeats and a
draw, which has led to them losing ground on Spurs.
As long as Arsenal now finish the season in the top four, which seems almost certain as we have Aston Villa
at home on the final day, the repercussions of us surrendering the long held dominance of north London will be nothing more than bruised pride, because the way the Champions
League pots are arranged for the
draw now only give precedence to the Champions of each country, and Arsene Wenger's comments reported by Sky Sports this week are intended to make sure that this pride should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
Middlesbrough have gone an amazing 15 games without a win in the Premier
League, but
at home they have managed 4
draws from their last 5 games, and they are desperate for points to take them out of the relegation zone so will be dangerous to any visitors especially with Arsenal in such terrible form as well.
The team that I see as our only big rivals for the Title, they sit 2 points clear of us right now, they just tore Newcastle a new one, and are just about everybodys pick for the
league, and the only real test in the
league coming soon is
at home to Man United (Pray for a
draw), but whilst they are everybodys pick, they are favourites, they are still not untouchable.
After a
draw at home, Eastleigh went away to
League One Swindon and basically thumped them: more possession, more shots on goal, and crucially more actual goals, 3 to 1.
Solihull Moors managed a
draw away
at League Two Yeovil Town and then won the replay back
at home.
And last night's 0 - 0
draw at home to Southampton — a third Premier
League game without a win or a goal which left Arsenal fourth in the table — prompted another Morgan tirade on talkSPORT this morning.
So you could say that even if the Gunners had won both of them last season, instead of losing away and
drawing at home, we would still have finished behind them in the Premier
League table.
Even though Arsene Wenger made a complete change to the Arsenal starting line from the weekend
draw away to Chelsea in the Premier
League, he was still not willing to take too many chances in this Carabao cup game
at home to Doncaster, so the visitors were facing a strong Gunners side including Walcott, Giroud and Alexis Sanchez up front.
Arsenal may have
drawn a blank for the second
home game in a row, leaving us languishing
at around the halfway point of the
league table, but there are some positives to be taken.
Wolves were disappointing in midweek, managing only a
draw at home against struggling Hull, and they'll face an uphill struggle away
at Cardiff who have won seven consecutive
home league games.
They followed this up with a disappointing
draw at home to Borussia Dortmund, as they looked like struggling in Europe again as they had last season, though they earned a hard - fought 2 - 1 win away to Fulham in the
league.
The French international scored twice in five minutes
at the Stadium of Light, while Ibrahimovic
drew a blank
at home to Burnley which extended his barren run to six Premier
League games without a goal.
INSHAA ALLAH this season we will the win the
league of we just keep focus, treat one game
at a time, don't be afraid of man city, man utd, tottenham, Liverpool, Everton when we we play them away just be patient and respect them
at their
home grounds sit deep and work hard and we wil get the important results in our favour in these games and also don't underestimate small sides because these games can give you points and if we you lose or
draw against these sides then it can cause huge dent in our title ambitions... COYG!!!
Wenger's team picked up their first away point in the Premier
League with a hard - earned goalless
draw against Chelsea
at Stamford Bridge, which followed a resounding 3 - 0
home win against Bournemouth.
Manchester City's game is the only
draw this season, in addition to the opening day victory over Crystal Palace
at home; but, with other Premier
League heavyweights in Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham and Everton to visit, Arsenal need to raise their game and get those 3 points, more often than not.
While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent
draw against Reading
at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions
League group and winning the last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league le
League group and winning the last four Premier
League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league le
League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current
league le
league leaders.
Watford's last two
league games saw them draw at home with fellow Premier League new boys Bournemouth and before that they lost at home to Crystal P
league games saw them
draw at home with fellow Premier
League new boys Bournemouth and before that they lost at home to Crystal P
League new boys Bournemouth and before that they lost
at home to Crystal Palace.
Both of these two Arsenal stars have played their part in getting the Gunners back on track after a disappointing start to the season, in terms of the Premier
League at least as we lost to Liverpool
at home before
drawing away to Leicester City.