So can they go one further and make it three wins in a row, what would be their first set of back - to - back
away league wins all season.
City have equalled the Club record of 12
away League wins in one season and need one more to post a new record.
Leicester got their first
away league win of the season and maintained their record of not losing points from a winning position; West Ham maintained their average 2 goals per home game against the Foxes.
It was also our first
away league win in six attempts as we climbed above the hosts and Arsenal into fifth.
Pedro made his debut in the only other
away league win that Chelsea have recorded this term, against West Brom back in the summer.
Minds could have wandered to Munich and Tottenham in the coming week, but the focus was good and a second 3 - 0
away league win in a row was well deserved.
Not exact matches
The Spuds will regret what their manager — Mauricio Pochettino did at Westfalenstadion last night by resting some of his top players as he has now looked to have thrown
away the Europa
League title, the only title Spurs could
win this season.
Tottenham Hotspur recorded their first
away win in the Premier
League since the opening day as they edged out 10 - man Aston Villa on Sunday.
While a lot of Arsenal fans may be feeling that Arsene Wenger and the players have missed a trick by failing to
win our
away game at Bournemouth in order to capitalise on the very welcome defeat of the current Premier
League leaders Chelsea last night, I look at things a different way.
The report explains that Alexis is happy in London and at Arsenal, except for the fact that the Gunners seem further
away from
winning the Premier
League title than ever.
As well as the need for Arsenal to keep
winning our Premier
League game to stop Chelsea running
away with the EPL title this season, there is a growing importance to Arsenal fans on the FA cup.
and now, it's starting to look like we are getting there, we just need to be patient, the way I see it, we are 2 or 3 players
away from
winning the
league... COYG!!
I'll reserve my jubilation for a
win at home or
away in the
league thanks.
This is a club that was at the door of greatness in 2006... Look at us now... Barely making the CL group stage (necessary in order to get the cash reward because we are million miles
away from
winning the competition) and falling short in the
league every season like a tradition.
Just as the Gunners are getting over our own injury crisis and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0
win over Hull City in the FA cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of Stoke City yesterday, our next Premier
League game throws up an
away game with the reigning EPL champions.
Wenger should Forget about building a team to
win the Premier or Champions
league... suggest just freakin build a team to beat chelshit home and
away and the rest will follow!
The Gunners will be hoping history can give them the edge today, with our opponents only having
won once
away to us in the
league in 45 years, but I would much prefer to have the better recent form coming into the match...
Former England forward Matt Le Tissier has claimed that Arsenal are one player
away from
winning the Premier
League title, although naming Sergio Aguero as that player does not help their chances.
The Serbian has helped the Stamford Bridge side to run
away with the Premier
League title this time round, and they could all but wrap it up with a
win over the North London club on Sunday.
If you have to park the bus in
away games to
win the
league, so be it, it isn't rocket science.
he was one goal
away from
winning champions
league while spending very little money.
We just
won an
away game against the most organised team in the
league.
We start our campaign in three weeks
away to Dinamo, the Croatian
league winners who stayed unbeaten as they went onto
win the title by 13 points, a feat only our beloved club can boast in England, but a major feat for any top tier side.
I agree with you... but I don't think we need too many additions accept maybe Vidal and a proper LW to
win the
league, We have so many on form players raring to go, that if we stay fit, I think we will blow everyone
away.
As unlikely as it may seem, if they get a draw
away to PSG and we beat Basel, they will continue their European adventure in the form of the Europa
league and we in turn will
win the group.
Fair enough, I just wonder if he'd still be playing top flight football if he had been at United from the start with such a horrendous injury record, Fergie would have shipped him off ages before his eventual recovery, dare I say he was destined to
win the Premier
league the season he
won it with United anyways, he was the hottest striker in the
league for those two seasons, the only thing we lacked in his final season at Arsenal was enough creativity behind him and a lack of suitable replacement to take ocassionally take the load off him, but then Cazorla, Poldi and Giroud had been brought in for re-inforcements, he played with a patently inferior team to Arsenal's that season at United, with the exception of Rooney of course, he single handedly carried them to the title, what
away to show loyalty.
I'm not getting carried
away, but I always thought we had a good enough team to
win the
league, but there was clearly a major disagreement in the team after Christmas, as nobody was even looking each other in the face, on the field or on the bench, but things seem to have improved now, along with the formation change.
Good
win and great performance from welbeck but lets not get carried
away chelski are in a completely different
league to these and they will expose our weaknesses and beat us comfortable yeh will get thumbs down but there is a difference between dreaming and being realistic!!
Just three
away wins in the
league all season.
This pattern went on until Arsenal pulled some pretty powerful performances in the UEFA champion
League in 2006 especially, coming to just 15 minutes
away from a famous
win against Barcelona.
Just to throw this in for debate, I have to tell you that in the Premier
League Arsenal's first team have
won three
away games out of 13, but in the Europa
League our reserves have
won three out of four!
Arsenal were desperately in eed of a confidence boosting
win the Premier
League, and with Watford's awful
away form we were very hopeful that today would get us three points at last.
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.
Arsene Wenger will hopefully not have to look for any reasons why Arsenal do not
win away against relegation threatened Sunderland tomorrow, as we really need a good performance and the right result from the lads to go back above Man City and take a step closer to ensuring that we have a place in the Champions
League next season and do not have the stress and inconvenience of a play off.
Do nt we need to finish at least 6th for Europa
league entry, with 5 games left, 3
away from home and we haven't picked up a single point this year on our travels, add to that, that Burnley are 1 of the teams we play at home, if we don't
win the Europa this year, we could miss out on any European football next season.
I am of the opinion that Arsenal really can
win this, as Pep Guardiola's side have not quite clicked totally yet, and with the exit from the Champions
League to Monaco, the Citizens have only
won 1 of their last 4 games and have lost
away to both Liverpool and Everton since Xmas.
This was essentially a quarter - final Game with two of the Top - 4 Teams in the
League just 3
Wins away (if consecutive) from the Crown.
Last year was Jose Mourinho's first season at Man United and he started by
winning the
League Cup, but when he saw the Top Four teams pulling
away from the Red Devils in the
League he put all his energy and resources into
winning the Europa
League as well to get a wild card entry into the Champions
League.
Klopp resigned from Dortmund when he saw he was not taking the club forward because he loved the club, Enrique had to announce he is leaving Barcelona when he failed to deliver the
league or uncle despite
winning the treble in previous seasons, yet wenger will say he build this club and have the right to under perform and get
away with it
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.
Out of 14
away games in the
League this season Arsenal have
won just 3 of them, against Everton, Burnley and Crystal Palace, and this has contributed massively to our lowly position in the table.
A rare
win on the road for Arsenal could be the end of our poor
away record in the
league so far, and Arsene Wenger had good reason to defend that record because of the penalty incidents at Stoke, Watford and Man City and the offside goal there as well.
With the Arsenal and England forward Theo Walcott having been below par for a good few games I was not surprised to see Arsene Wenger leave him out of the Arsenal starting line up for the must
win Premier
League game
away to Bournemouth on Sunday.
A «Legacy» crumbling around his ears when the correct decision would have been to walk
away with his head held high following the FA Cup
win against Chelsea.Instead he chose to sign on for two more years by going straight to Kronke (circumnavigating the Board) and promising to do what he has long since been unable to do... Change his outlook and challenge for the
League....
Arsenal
won the Premier
League by a seven - point margin, were unbeaten away from home and managed the unique feat of scoring in every league
League by a seven - point margin, were unbeaten
away from home and managed the unique feat of scoring in every
leagueleague game.
We've said it before and it always holds true — take
away the leading scorer from a given Team and, in this
League, coming
away with the
win will be extraordinarily difficult to do.
More he plays with koschielmy more better, next few games are importnat, we need to
win all 4 PL games before hosting the the spurs and
away to united, This six games can
win us the
league Sunny
The Gunners are
away as well so you can see why we could do with Norwich City
winning and as the Saints are involved in two midweek games against Liverpool for a chance to reach the EFL cup final at Wembley and after their Europa
League involvement then we can hope for an FA cup upset.
After a 10 - game unbeaten run, Norwich have lost four and drawn one of their last five
league games and have
won away from home only once this season.
Two Premier
League away games, at West Brom tomorrow and then Norwich City next Sunday, are punctuated by a must -
win home clash with Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb and with a stretched squad that is a tough eight days of football.