He only misses Wale's next qualifier midweek, leaving him fresh for a probable start
against Reading at home next weekend.
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 leaders.
Not exact matches
However the Royals have been relatively solid
at home, losing just one of their six encounters
at Fortress Madejeski and
Reading have been unfortunate to lose their last two games by a narrow margin but it would take a brave man to bet
against a thumping by Man United.
Further wins came
against Reading and Sunderland, though they hit a rough patch as they drew away to QPR and
at home to Manchester United.
Reading's only previous win in all competitions
against Manchester United was 2 - 1
at home in the FA Cup in January 1927.
One way would be to pick and choose depending on the matches and the opponents and with two games
against Ludogorets and an EFL cup game
at home to
Reading among our next fixtures you would think that one or a few of those games would be the perfect time to rotate.
A 3 - 0 win over
Reading stopped the rot, though they were then beaten 3 - 1 by Manchester United
at Old Trafford, still they followed that up with a 1 - 0 away win
at Southampton, and then even more impressively with a surprise 1 - 0 win
at home to Manchester City, with none other than Adam Johnson scoring the winner
against the side he left in the summer.
And now some of our curent players know this too, I
read the Cazorla article here where he said we have to be smart in some games... Our victory
against ManCity last season was planned by the players... Our team in my opinion should either play pressing football (as we did
against UTD
at home) or be pragmatic... possession footbal now is not really working for us
Any Arsenal fans expecting an easy ride in tonight's fourth round EFL cup clash might want to rein in their expectations a little, according to both Arsene Wenger and the captain of
Reading, Paul McShane, despite the fact that the Gunners are playing
at home against lower league opposition.
I know he scored one hatrick v
Reading in the (7 - 5) League cup win (Chamakh scored twice) and another
against Newcastle
at home in a 7 goal rout.
We have a relatively easy run during that period, 2 champions league games
against the weakest team in the group and efl cup
home game
against reading, 1 away game
at Sunderland and 3
home league games
against swansea, Boro and the hardest one coming a month away
against the filth.
Anyone who had been
reading and commenting on Arsenal in the football media or websites in the build up to the planned protest by Arsenal fans during the
home match
against Norwich
at the weekend could have been forgiven for thinking it was going to be an almost unanimous outpouring of anger towards Arsene Wenger.
The former Manchester United and Netherlands defender Jaap Stam is the manager of
Reading and although Arsenal should be feeling confident ahead of this match
at home to lower league opposition, I reckon that Stam will be feeling a bit more confident knowing which players his
Reading team will be coming up
against.
Arsene Wenger was in now way suggesting that Arsenal should take it easy in our Champions League group game
at home to PSG tonight, as he has called on his players to finish the job they have started by already securing a place in the next round by getting the result
against the French champions to make sure that we finish on top of group A....
Read the full article here
Playing
Reading days before the Royals» FA Cup semi-final
at Wembley looks easy enough, while
home games
against Bolton and Sheffield Wednesday should see them over the line.
Home matches
against already - relegated Blackpool and FA Cup semi-finalists
Reading should reap the required points, and they'll fancy their chances
at struggling Millwall in their penultimate encounter.
The teams were Stevenage who held
Reading at home, Carlisle did the same
at home against manager less Sheff Wed..
Burnley have been fantastic on
home soil this season having gone W11 D2 L3 across all competitions and if you break that down to just their last eight games
at Turf Moor, then their form
reads W7 D1, with that draw happening
against Chelsea in the Premier League last weekend.
Brede Hangeland put the Eagles in the lead
at the Emirates Stadium much
against the run of play on 35 minutes, but Laurent Koscielny headed
home Alexis Sanchez's free kick from close range on the stroke of half time to restore parity for the Gunners (click here to
read more).
While Bolton were losing
against us, Charlton, despite a hat trick from Yaya Sanogo, were beaten 4 - 3
at home by
Reading.
He made his return to action in front of 7,000 fans
at Highbury during a reserve team game
against Reading the reception he received from the
home fans almost reduced him to tears.
Their
home from across the season in all competition
reads W4 L2 from their six outings and they will be looking for bounce back performance
at Bramall Lane after losing there in a testy match
against Norwich in their last
home game.
Reading have gone W2 D1 L1
at home in their last four
against the magpies.
Wolves have won their last two games
at home against Reading with a clean sheet and earlier this season, they won 2 - 0
at the Madejski over the Royals as well.
Emyr Huws continues his fine form for Huddersfield as his late equaliser gives Town a point
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West Brom
home form
reads W1 D3 L2 and they have lost their last two
at the Hawthorns in tough games
against Manchester City and Chelsea.
Having not done much
at U21 level for CSKA, Chalov caught the attention of the senior coaches with a string of good performances in the UEFA Youth League, grabbing two assists
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Derby have been doing well this season and a 4 - 2 loss
at home against Reading last weekend snapped a great seven match unbeaten streak of form that they were riding on.
They were on a three match winning streak
at home, taking great wins over Norwich, Leeds and
Reading, before slipping to a 3 - 1 defeat there
against Barnsley in their most recent
home fixture.
After Swansea, we play West Brom
at home, before travelling to Wigan and
Reading, rounding off the year with
home games
against West Ham and Newcastle.
Leicester City's great run continues with this 2 - 0 win
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AT A Bit of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Performatik 09, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek and Performatik, Brussels, BE Regift, The Swiss Institute, New York, US Cut & Paste, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK Down To Earth (Ceramics), Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE Double 40 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, MMK, Frankfurt, DE The First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi - do, KR Feedbackstage, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions For The Future (curated by Isabel Carlos), Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, UAE Two in One Contemporary Art from Witte De With & De Appel, Christie's, Amsterdam, NL 40th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA Écritures Silencieuses, curated by Herve Mikaeloff, L'Éspace Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR Carnival Within - An Exhibition Made in America, curated by Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk, Uferhallen, BE Espèces d'Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, US Take The Money And Run, Brouwergracht 196, Appel, Amsterdam, NL Double Participation, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main, DE Beginnings, Middles, And Ends (cur.Gianni Jetzer), Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna,
AT Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery 1971 to 1974, curated by Teresa Gleadowe, Chelsea Space, London, UK Time As Matter, MACBA, Barcelona, ES 15 Years of Collecting
Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE Artist Rooms Tate St Ives Summer Season, Tate St.Ives, UK Au Pied De La Lettre, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chamarande, FR Art - Athina, Galerie Hubert Winter, Faliro Pavillion, Athens, GRSerralves 2009 The Collection: An Exhibition in Three Parts and Permanent Works in the Park, Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Passage through the First Part of the Exhibition, Serralves Museum, Porto, PT Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Videos and Films in the City, 74 Rua Cândido dos Reis, Porto, PT As Long As It Lasts, curated by Tom Eccles, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Close Encounter, Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, NL When Ideas Become Forms 30 Years of Gallery, La Galleria, Venice, IT; Galerie Dr.Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, IT The Poetics of Space, curated by Anja Isabel Schneider, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, FR Zidovi na Ulici / Walls in the Street, multiple locations around Belgrade, RS Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949 - 78, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US Time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE This World & Nearer Ones, curated by Mark Beasley, Governors Island, New York, US Recontres International Paris / Berlin / Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE Turning Some Pages, screening A House is not a
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A small country
home at dusk with the porch light on
reads both as a safe house and as defenseless outpost
against the dark woods surrounding it.