The draw by Arsenal was the fourth straight Premier
League match without a win, a feat that has caused the Gunners to drop from the first place they held to start 2016 to just fourth.
Arsene Wenger has had since Tuesday night to pick up his Arsenal players after they went a fourth Premier
League match without a win and three in a row without scoring a goal, so I can understand why the manager would want to instill some confidence in his squad and try to regain some belief that the Gunners are still right in the title race.
Arsenal should win and we think they will, but the Gunners, who go into Sunday's game on a run of three
league matches without scoring, are unlikely to have it all their own way against a side who have humbled Chelsea and Man United this term.
Arsenal are currently on a run of nine
league matches without a clean sheet, and if they concede against City tonight it will be the first time they've gone ten in a row without keeping their opponents out since February 2002.
and he's gone what, two premier
league matches without a goal?
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.
Pedro had gone 11
league matches without scoring since a debut goal against West Bromwich Albion, and doubled Chelsea's lead when he thrashed into the roof of the net left footed from 12 yards out.
Giroud went 12 premier
league matches without a single goal.
Spurs were unbeaten in their eight
league matches without Kane (W5 D3), with Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen providing the mettle from midfield, while Heung - Min Son shone as Kane's replacement.
They have gone eight
league matches without a victory (D4, L4), and their 11 goals conceded this season is only trumped by Chelsea (I never thought I'd be saying that).
Alexandre Lacazette has gone seven Premier
League matches without a goal since netting versus Manchester United.
Last Result: A comfortable victory over Wigan ensured Fulham's dire run of five
league matches without a win came to an end thanks to goals from their marauding American, Clint Dempsey.
While Tony Pulis has the utmost respect for Blackpool and their manager Ian Holloway, the Stoke chief is nevertheless extremely confident of his side's chances ahead of Saturday's tester after watching his team go five
league matches without suffering a single defeat.
Not exact matches
It is strange really, because when the Gunners were enjoying our most successful period, which culminated in the amazing and perhaps never to be
matched achievement of winning the Premier
League without losing a single game, it was with the combative midfield warrior Patrick Vieira at the heart of the side.
Arsenal have gone seven home
league matches in a row
without conceding a goal from open play — all four goals against them in that period have been penalties.
The legend was a part of the Invincibles side which won the 03 - 04 Premier
League title
without losing a
match, and knows Arsene Wenger all too well.
Santi Cazorla has missed Arsenal's last 14 Premier
League matches due to injury and former Chelsea player Pat Nevin believes the Gunners aren't the same team
without him.
Without him, for the subsequent
match against Newcastle United, Gary Cahill came into the heart of the defence alongside John Terry, although an injury to the latter in that
match led to his own absence from the Champions
League bout against Paris Saint - Germain.
Manchester City's midweek defeat to Barcelona in the Champions
League means that, after winning their first 10 games under Pep Guardiola, the title favourites are now
without a victory in four
matches.
England will be
without both Michael Carrick and Vardy, with the latter — who has scored 12 goals in his last 12 Premier
League matches — representing a considerable loss.
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Without Petr this season I don't think the club would be champions because he played six important matches in the Premier League and without these points we probably wouldn't be cha
Without Petr this season I don't think the club would be champions because he played six important
matches in the Premier
League and
without these points we probably wouldn't be cha
without these points we probably wouldn't be champions.
Wenger and the Gunners will be expecting a spirited showing from Swansea in their first
match under new manager Bob Bradley, but they are still on a terrible run of six Premier
League games
without a win and in none of those games have they kept a clean sheet, conceding 12 goals while Arsenal have scored 14 in our last five.
Arsenal on the other hand have won their last two
matches, but were previously on a run of five games
without a win, but are believed to be full of confidence after their win over Premier
League champions Chelsea in the
League Cup, which booked themselves a spot in the Carabao Cup final.
Arsenal are now on their longest Premier
League run
without a clean sheet (10
matches) since February 2002 (11
matches).
The Swans came into the
match with a sturdy defensive record away from the Liberty Stadium in the Premier
League, and it looked like they may be able to utilise that into a win at half - time, but our boys were not going to give up any points
without a fight.
The home side will be
without the on - loan midfielder Renato Sanches for the
match - up, although he has hardly set the Premier
League alight since arriving from Bayern Munich, while our team will be boosted by the return of Olivier Giroud.
Reading have won their only two previous Premier
League home
matches against Manchester City
without conceding a goal: 1 - 0 in September 2006, and 2 - 0 in March 2008.
If they avoid defeat they will equal their Premier
League record of five home
matches in a row
without a loss, set in January - March 2007.
His absence would always be a blow to Claudio Ranieri, but comes at the worst possible time as Leicester have gone three games
without scoring, after netting in every previous
league match this term.
TEAM NEWS The Rossoneri get to this Europa
League clash
without playing in the Milan derby at the weekend as Serie A
matches were cancelled following the tragic passing of Fiorentina captain Davide Astori.
We appear to be prioritising our Premier
League fixtures over the away
matches in the Europa, and while winning all our home
matches should put us comfortably through to the next stage, our fringe players will not be going out tonight
without the intention of three points.
However, the team he put out got a good point as with the
league win against the saints this team has shown that
without a first team starting they are capable of getting results last season and in previous seasons would have lost both those
matches.
Is there anybody else on the planet other than Arsene Wenger who thought it was a good idea for Arsenal to start a crucial Premier
League match away to Liverpool
without Alexis Sanchez?
yes he didn't know, he spent 20 years in this
league very quietly,
without any confrontation with
match officials, the angel of EPL
Weekends av become boring
without Premiere
league matches
Anyways, I will be watching this
match without pressure because there isn't much for us left in the Champions
League.
The Gunners will be looking to prepare for the
match with a win after they lost to Newcastle in the Premier
League last weekend, continuing their miserable run
without a win on the road.
It was a couple of season's ago that Arsenal fans, well me at least, were just starting to worry about the possibility of another club
matching our unbelievable achievement of going through a whole Premier
League season
without losing a game.
Redknapp is looking to strengthen his squad next month after taking over a club rooted to the bottom of the Premier
League without a win in their first 15
matches.
It is only at Arsenal under Wenger that we played a whole
match in the Champions
League without a single shot fired.
Unfortunately Arsenal fan base were split and that help Wenger to stay 10 years
without wining anything and lately was very proud that he won the Fa cup and not the champion
league championship.It is really time for him to go and immediately > All Arsenal fans should unite and make their voices heard and push Weger out of Arsenal as soon as possible > Arsenal fans you are the gunners and you can take decisions and forced the board and the shareholders by boycotting all Arsenal
matches if they don't listen to you.
To win the PL we at least need to win 25
matches to be within a shout of wining it that requires a minimum of 75 goals
without conceding so we need attack minded players and defensive minded players from looking at our attaching force gerouid around 20 alexis 20 thats 40 we need another 35 and than we have the champion
league and cup
matches on the top of it all we got to consider form fatigue knocks and injuries can the midfield score another 40 another 40 goals have to come from somewhere so physics tells me so another good striker with 25 so goals is required for the math to make any sense
Wenger will then be free to pick his strongest team available for the first leg
without worrying about fatigue affecting the intervening
League match.
Boro will attempt to end a run of six games
without a victory as they travel to North London, but their task could hardly be tougher as they prepare to take on an Arsenal side who are joint - top of the Premier
League after winning their last seven
matches in all competitions.
Arsene Wenger... A man who said the
league could be won
without a
match being lost.
Speaking of which, I am still the only manager to have won the English
league without losing a
match.
The first
match of this year's Europa
League and the most recent draw against Chelsea demonstrate how cohesive the team can become
without the attention - grabbers, Ozil and Sanchez.
After the Gunners destroyed the Norwegian side Viking FK by eight goals
without reply last night, and that was
without Alexis Sanchez, Aaron Ramsey and new boy Granit Xhaka playing, Wenger played down the result but talked up the importance of the pace and physical aspects of the
match against a club well into their own
league season.
So basically, despite an offside goal, two deflected goals, and a goal because of a sunday
league mistake from an Everton player just subbed in we should praise Chelsea as if they had won 5 - 0, in fact, lets give them an extra three points on top of the 3 points for a win and declare them PL champions
without even playing any more
matches.
Arsene Wenger will have a lovely warm spot inside him tonight as he can now relax and revel in the fact that the Arsenal team of 2003 - 04 and the remarkable achievement of winning the Premier
League trophy
without suffering a single defeat will not be
matched, at least not this season.