Shortly after
the Swansea City game Guardiola spoke on the difficulties of leaving some players out of the team including Kelechi Iheanacho.
Chambers has been a fantastic signing for the the North Londoners as well, but his inexperience showed in
the Swansea City game, and having a player like the France international on the right may have stifled Jefferson Montero significantly more.
For starters one big miss will be Zlatan Ibrahimovic who happily picked up his fifth yellow card of the season in
the Swansea City game and made sure he wouldn't be able to torment the man that wanted him to do a trial at Arsenal..
Not exact matches
Other players involved in the
game include Manchester United's Ander Herrera and
Swansea City's Jefferson Montero.
Not only do Arsenal have to claim all three points from our next Premier League
game, and all of the ones coming up at least until we travel to face the current pace setters Chelsea at the start of February, but the Gunners will be expected to sweep past the EPL strugglers
Swansea City without too much trouble.
Mourinho's men start off by welcoming
Swansea City to Stamford Bridge, and the west London outfit are favourites already to seal three points in their first
game.
«The player will not be available for this weekend's
game against
Swansea City or for the upcoming England friendlies against Spain and Sweden.»
Arsenal could not have picked a worse time to face Antonio Conte's side, who easily beat
Swansea 5 - 0 two days ago while resting Eden Hazard, and who have only conceded one goal in their last 5 League
games as they moved up to be Man
City's closest challengers, albeit 14 points behind Pep Guardiola's side.
Jarvis becomes West Ham's club - record signing after agreeing a contract until 2017 — with an option for a further year — and could be in line to make his first appearance in claret and blue in Saturday's
game at
Swansea City.
Stoke
City Bournemouth Brighton Watford
Swansea Nottingham Forest If we had performed away from home in these
games like we did tonight then we would be 3rd in the Premiership just 2points behind Manure and most likely in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho launched a stunning attack on the club's physio Eva Carneiro following the disappointing 2 - 2 draw with
Swansea City in their opening
game of the new Premier League season on Saturday evening.
The Gunners take on
Swansea City in their next
game, and Wenger seems to be planning his team selection around including the Borussia Dortmund striker, according to Bild, as translated by the Metro.
Lampard — who also turned out for West Ham, Manchester
City, New York
City FC and briefly
Swansea — says he had options to remain in the
game as a player, but decided to turn them down.
We all know how Hull
City will set up their
game plan which will be to sit deep like Chelsea,
Swansea usually do against us but Wenger will go into the
game with his usual lame tactics when in fact he should devising a better plan to get the 3 points with ease
The former
Swansea City man hit the back of the net ten times in 26
games for the Giallorossi, which originally earned him the transfer to Merseyside.
Following those
games at Anfield, the Reds were then held to a goalless draw by Rovers and squeezed past
Swansea City thanks to a fortunate strike from Jordan Henderson at the Liberty Stadium.
It may only have been against the EPL's bottom club
Swansea City but it will have given our opponents a nice boost as it keeps them in the top half of the league and was their third win in six
games and a rare three points on the road.
As well as
Swansea, Sky Sports report that a bid had already been rejected for the midfielder from rivals Leicester
City, which was reportedly more valuable than the # 40M that the Toffees had bid for the Icelandic international, who managed nine goals and 13 assists in 38 league
games last season as
Swansea managed to avoid relegation.
Both of our main rivals have relatively easy looking
games, with the Foxes at home to Norwich
City (let's be having you Delia's mob) and our lilywhite rivals at home to
Swansea City (let's see some fire from those Welsh dragons) you would have to say that Arsenal have a much tougher task.
Speaking ahead of United's
game with
Swansea City this weekend, Mourinho essentially put it on Pogba himself to lift his performances from this point on.
Manchester United Held By Newcastle West Ham lost to Bournemouth 3 - 4, not a good day for Jenks though, but what a crazy
game Leicester held by Spurs
Swansea held by Sunderland Only Crystal Palace survived in dying minutes against Villa Hope Everton can grind out a draw against
City to slow them down....
The Portuguese winger has scored 25 goals in 147 appearances for the Red Devils, but hasn't featured for the club since Louis van Gaal's first Premier League
game in charge — a 2 - 1 defeat to
Swansea City.
I do not see how a draw such as this is useful no matter the justifications some are trying to put up here... the big question shd be WHAT WERE OUR AMBITIONS AND TARGETS THIS PARTICULAR SEASON???... if we fail to win the league then this wld be a BIG failure and the back has to stop with somebody.we played the manure and the
swansea game with 11 players and all we had was nothin and the damn red card today shn't be an excuse for anything... remember
city thrashed astonvilla 4 - 0!!!
Liverpool will be without striker Mario Balotelli for tonight's
game away at
Swansea City, the Mirror reports.
The Gunners are up to third and now sit just two points off the leaders Man
City and just one behind our north London rivals Tottenham, so with a very winnable looking
game at home to struggling
Swansea City next up in the Premier League, there is plenty for us to be happy and optimistic about.
We dominated a few
games like Man United, Hull
City and
Swansea, all at home!
Their League
games have been against Arsenal, Everton, Manchester
City, Aston Villa,
Swansea City, Leicester and Burnley, while Wenger's men have played Chelsea, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa, Leicester
City, Manchester
City and Crystal Palace.
The matter relates back to an incident at the start of last season during a
game against
Swansea City at Stamford Bridge, with the Chelsea doctor and head physio Jon Fearn taking to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard which in turn led to a furious reaction from Mourinho on the sidelines.
REMAINING
GAMES 11 May —
Swansea City (h) 17 May — Arsenal (a) 20 May — Sunderland (h) 24 May — West Brom (a) 30 May — FA Cup Aston Villa Wilshere should start the Sunderland
game and give Carzola rest there.
Louis van Gaal and Man United, meanwhile, were in turmoil, but after a terrible run of results saw them lose four
games on the spin they managed to bounce back with a win over
Swansea City last weekend.
Ofcorse it is, the injuries are to be blamed for all Arsenal problems.This year it is the injuries, last year it is the injuries and the year before that it is the injuries.It is really shame for a club like arsenal to give excuses for their problem on injuries season after season after season.According to the manager, the players and the majority of the fans, the problems has nothing to do with the fact that the club did not strengthened the most problematic area in the team, DM and CBs; it has nothing to do with the fact that players were played out of position; and it has nothing to do with the fact that Wenger's tactical inability (for
games like Liverpool 5 - 1, Chelsea 6 - 0,
City 6 - 3, Everton 3 - 0, Andrelechet 3 - 3,
Swansea 2 - 1).
Even before this
game at
Swansea City the boss had been full of praise for the way Campbell has worked and his attitude.
1 A DEFEAT WILL END ARSENAL»S TITLE HOPE!Arsenal travel to White Hart Lane knowing that a defeat would virtually end their title chances, a conclusion many have already reached following embarrassing performances in back - to - back defeats by Manchester United and
Swansea.2 IT WILL END WENGER»S EXCUSES IF SPURS WINS THE
GAME AND THE TITLEWenger's excuse for failing to win the title for the last 12 years has mainly revolved around the greater resources of the likes of Manchester
City and Chelsea.What could the reason be this time if Tottenham or Leicester wins it?
Now Arsene Wenger and the players must make sure that this is a blip and not the way our fortunes will pan out, because before the next break we have EPL
games against Everton away,
Swansea at home and Man
City away as well as the Carabao Cup
game and the Europa League double header with Red Star Belgrade.
Games they are supposed to struggle in (like Chelsea /
City) they win and
games they are supposed to win (
Swansea) they lose.
Final 11
games: Bournemouth (H), Leicester (A), Sunderland (H), Norwich (A), Southampton (A),
Swansea City (H), Liverpool (A), Crystal Palace (H), Aston Villa (A), Tottenham (H), and Manchester
City (H) at some point
As well as some fantastic
games and results, Arsenal managed to drop points against the likes of Sunderland,
Swansea, Stoke, Crystal Palace and West Brom and we paid the heaviest possible price for that inconsistency, as the more consistent but less talented Leicester
City swooped in and took the Premier League trophy.
The Dutchman was widely - expected to miss the eagerly - anticipated fixture at Old Trafford and could still find that time is against him having been absent for the last six
games as a result of the ankle problem he sustained against
Swansea City in February.
Last season he scored a respectable 10 goals in 27 league
games [via WhoScored], although he missed two months of the campaign after picking up an ankle injury in the 2 - 1 defeat away at
Swansea City in February.
Final 11
games: Aston Villa (H), Norwich
City (A), Manchester United (H), Bournemouth (A), West Brom (H), Chelsea (A), Stoke
City (H), Southampton (A), Arsenal (H),
Swansea City (A) and Newcastle (A) at some point
And during the away
game with
Swansea City at the weekend, it seemed clear to everyone watching that Calum Chambers was having a torrid time at right back against the
Swansea winger Jefferson Montero.
If
City beat us, however, they will go above us on goal difference and then their final
game away to
Swansea could be crucial.
Alexis was certainly not linked with
Swansea City and nor would you expect him to be, but his performance levels against the Welsh club were well below par, as the worrying statistics from the
game as reported by The Mirror make clear.
Speaking ahead of Arsenal's next match against
Swansea City, Wenger said: «Maybe the quality of a Premier League team is to be capable of refocusing quickly after international
games.
Mesut Ozil had it right when he said we blew it in
games like the home defeat to an under strength
Swansea City side.
The # 5m summer signing from
Swansea City has yet to feature since joining Spurs due to fitness reasons, but he is back in the fold and tonight seems like the perfect
game for him to make his debut.
With the surprise result we've seen today at Anfield where
Swansea City wreak a havoc there today's afternoon against Liverpool to record the most against the form book away win there and ran away with all the three points at stake in the
game, and also with the Stoke
City attempts to end Man Utd 8 match unbeaten run in all matches but for Wayne Rooney's audacious last gap free kick equaliser that save Utd from bluses.
Arsenal's own form has been all over the place of late — they have humiliating losses to Bournemouth and
Swansea City among their last four league
games, but the other two were thumping wins over Crystal Palace and Everton.
We still have
City away - home
Swansea away — home Clesea home Man U home And ever ECL
game... These tests still await us.
Then in the third EPL
game after the international break we see Chelsea come to Arsenal, with
City going to
Swansea and United hosting the champions Leicester
City and it is not inconceivable that after that weekend the Gunners will be right up there with our rivals for the Premier League title, where we are supposed to be!