Sentences with phrase «at rivals arsenal»

Competent at set pieces too, Benat would be the perfect midfield provider for someone like Emmanuel Adebayor and could mirror the impact Santi Cazorla has made at rivals Arsenal.

Not exact matches

Reminding us at the same time that our BPL rivals Liverpool were desperate to include him in the deal that took Luis Suarez to Barca, Alexis has spoken about his decision to choose Arsenal.

Well you kind of knew that it would not take long for the Arsenal manager and his long term rival Jose Mourinho to get back to their old trick of aiming verbal bullets at each other and that is what has happened before the new Premier League season has even started.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

And the point may be disappointing after Arsenal leading for most of the second half, but at least it meant that we went back above our north London rivals Tottenham in the Premier League table.

Would he want him at manu when he was there, because that is the type of club Arsenal is a rival of.

Van Persie has struggled to replicate the form that landed a record 20th league title for the Red Devils in his debut season at the club following his # 24m move from rivals Arsenal [via BBC Sport].

Among all the delight from Arsenal fans and the taunting and gloating aimed at our rival fans from west London following the sacking of their special one Jose Mourinho by the Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, I saw one Metro report showing that some Arsenal fans had posted things on social media hailing our former captain Cesc Fabregas for his work as a «secret agent» at Chelsea.

The Gunners were humiliated last night by London rivals Crystal Palace, who pummelled the Arsenal 3 - 0 at Selhurst Park, leaving our side with a huge task ahead to try and reach the coveted top four slots.

Still, with Khedira's wages proving a stumbling block and Schneiderlin possibly favouring a move to Arsenal's rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Arsene Wenger has turned his attention towards Wanyama, who was also linked with a move to the Emirates Stadium during his time at previous club Celtic.

Former Leicester City striker Gary Lineker has poked fun at Arsenal by claiming that the Gunners have stolen the wrong scout from their surprise Premier League title rivals.

Look at all our rival clubs, they have players that would sell for # 100 million if they are willing to but for Arsenal not the case, mediocre players that will interest big clubs except for Sanchez..

Harry Kane scored the only goal of the game early in the second half to secure all three points for Spurs at Wembley, and naturally it would have been a major disappointment for Arsenal supporters to lose against their bitter rivals.

German football expect Honigstein has now moved to build up the possibility that he could stay at Arsenal, whilst also dismissing the interest of rivals Manchester United.

Well that could be about to happen because The Mirror is reporting that our local rivals are looking at the PSG and Ivory Coast star Serge Aurier and those of you who keep up on Arsenal transfer issues will surely remember that Aurier was strongly linked with a transfer to Arsenal during the summer when we ended up signing Matthieu Debuchy.

Despite all that the big striker has still been chosen by Didier Deschamps over the Manchester United forward Anthony Martial, highlighting the huge difference between Arsenal and our Premier League rivals at the minute.

The Gunners are now withing touching distance of Man City and just one result could see us overtake them at the top, which is why Wenger and his comments on the Arsenal website sounded thankful to our local rivals for giving Arsenal the chance to close that gap to the leaders and why he feels the late goal against Burnley was so vital.

April 26th: at home to Chelsea Arsenal face a home clash against their London rivals, Chelsea, to round off the month of April.

So we meet again, and although Arsenal have had an abysmal away record this season there are many reasons why I think that I want to take the Tottenham v Arsenal best odds from 888Sport, which currently have Tottenham priced at Even Money favourites while Arsenal are at incredibly massive 5/2 to beat our rivals.

Arsenal is priced at 11/1 to actually lift the trophy; with even their bitterGI «8 - 9 - / + rivals Tottenham (9/1) deemed as more likely to have any success in the league.

Wenger has managed more matches at Arsenal than the combined total of games of all his Premier League rivals at their current clubs.

I know that a lot of Arsenal fans will disagree with me on this one, as we never want to lose a game to our north London rivals Tottenham, but I think we have to be realistic about this and say that the Capital One Cup game at White Hart Lane on Monday night is way down on our list of priorities.

Chelsea host Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Saturday knowing that a win could all - but end their rivals» Premier League title hopes.

The Chelsea team of Jose Mourinho went a long time unbeaten a few years back and Man City have looked a bit unbeatable at the start of this season and the last one, but the only side yet to lose an EPL game so far this season is Tottenham and it just so happens that our north London rivals are heading to the Emirates to face Arsenal next.

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The young midfielder will have much more chance of earning a place in the Arsenal senior side, with their West - London rivals proving to be rather clueless at promoting from youth.

After kicking off the new season at home to Liverpool this weekend, Arsenal face away trips to defending champions Leicester City and local rivals Watford.

A wrongly disallowed goal and a horrible deflection were really harsh on the Welsh club but at the end of the day it has left Arsenal facing a crucial clash with Manuel Pellegrini and his players next week, with the winner getting one over on their main Premier League rival.

Mourinho had used the Chelsea awards dinner to take the mickey out of his Premier League rivals and his jibe at Arsenal was that we only played from January to April.

The Arsenal transfer rumours about Jack Wilshere and a possible move to play for our old rivals Manchester United are still in the embryonic stage, as reported by Metro, but with the Gunners already having more options in the central midfield area where Jack plays there is a good chance that his loan season at AFC Bournemouth is not going to be enough to earn him a return to play for his beloved Arsenal.

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.

Arsenal are in their best position at this stage of the season for years, and with a strong squad and flawed rivals, it looks as though Arsene Wenger's men have a great shot at the title this year.

Unfortunately for them, Arsenal's form at this point really picked up, and despite another Bale - inspired win on the final day against Sunderland, Arsenal's win at Newcastle meant they were consigned to another season below their North London rivals and another season of Europa League football, despite their record points tally in the Premier League with 72.

Jake was swiftly reminded about his beloved Tottenham's end - of - season collapse, starring a 5 - 1 defeat at Newcastle, which allowed Arsenal to finish above their North London rivals, again.

A rival for Walcott at Arsenal, it has been said that Hector Bellerin is the better sprinter of the two, leading to a healthy rivalry between the Gunners pair.

It is at least a big match against another promotion rival Sheffield Wednesday and that is their big priority but so is the Premier League for Arsenal.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

Now that we can see light at the end of the tunnel, I am calling all Arsenal fans to change tact while criticizing our coveted club, manager and players by substituting «satanic words» of «F» and «S» characters into words that can add value into the club's vein and steel, write more articles that can encourage Arsenal players rather than kill their morale, unite and dissolve abuses coming from rival club fans and club enemies like Jose Mourinho.

Most of us would probably prefer the two big title rivals to draw and claim just a point each, which would let Arsenal gain ground on both, assuming we win our own game at home to Brighton of course.

It must be very frustrating for the big stars at Arsenal to see other rival clubs signing world class additions that will help their sides challenge for major honours this season, whilst the Gunners sit back with basically the same squad that failed to win a trophy last term.

Not that Arsenal would have won it with RVP in the squad but that was kind if the point — even further away with money that bought more mediocrity in terms of players and helped a rival humiliate AFC and put them even further at the back of the line.

Surely this will have sent a big warning shot across the bows of their Premier League rivals, but will it persuade Arsene Wenger that he needs to improve his options at Arsenal before the transfer window closes?

Worst of all for those of us of the Arsenal persuasion, was the fact that our north London rivals Tottenham snatched a late winner at Sunderland with just minutes left on the clock.

After last night's extremely entertaining (but deeply unsatisfying) Arsenal draw at Bournemouth, we now have to endure tonight a match between our most hated rivals, Tottenham and Chelsea.

After running down his four - year contract at Arsenal, Gallas completed his London tour by signing for arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur where he also spent another four years of his career.

Chelsea's second match of 2017 is away to our north London rivals so Arsenal fans will be hoping that Tottenham can at least stop Antonio Conte's team from winning.

Indeed, during his time at Arsenal, local rivals Tottenham have employed ten different full - time managers and this season alone, 32 managerial changes have already taken place at Premier League and Football League clubs.

They are rivals for 4th place at the moment, there was no room for a mess up at the Emirates, handing them 3 points they didn't deserve, which is why Arsenal fans were so upset about the result.

If you were looking for a sign of whether all the confidence among us Arsenal fans and the nice things (for a change) said about us in the football media at the minute are an accurate depiction of where the current crop of Gunners stands when compared to our main rivals for the Premier League, including the dreaded Jose Mourinho and his expensively assembled Chelsea team, then you should be encouraged by the words of Arsene Wenger.

At the Emirates Arsenal are unbeaten in five against their North London rivals, with the last two games ending in 1 - 1 draws.