Just three
away wins in the league all season.
We suppose it's a golden opportunity for Blackburn to notch up a rare
away win in the league but they've found life hard on the road this season and could very well come unstuck once more against a Burnley side who do like to attack when at Turf Moor.
September the 11th and a 3 - 1 victory over a then hapless Hammers remains Chelsea's last
away win in the league, two road trips without returning home with a win.
Hammers boss Avram Grant has overseen just one league win since taking over the reins in the summer, while Latics manager Roberto Martinez hasn't celebrated
an away win in the league since his team stunned Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane way back in August, going the last five away matches without a win.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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...
If you have to park the bus
in away games to
win the
league, so be it, it isn't rocket science.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
A flurry of late goals
in their 4 - 0
win over Swansea concluded United's first
away game perfectly as they now boast a record of eight goals scored and none conceded, topping the Premier
League.
Last weekend's victory over Everton was their first
in the Premier
League since a 4 - 0
away win over Derby
in May 2008.
It should be remembered that we beat Chelsea 3 - 0 at home back
in September, but the contrast
in fortunes following that game has been remarkable; the defeat ultimately galvanised Antonio Conte's side who went on to
win thirteen
league games
in a row and ultimately run
away with the title, while the Gunners let old habits bite them
in the backside yet again as a very promising start to the campaign disintegrated after a number of poor performances and results.
Spurs have started the new Premier
League season
in solid fashion as they followed up their draw
away at Everton with a
win over Crystal Palace on Saturday, although they do arguably still need more clinical play up front and will look to continue to try and put options around Harry Kane for the rest of the season.
A 2 - 0
win in FA Cup third round at the Emirates last season, quickly followed up two months later by a 1 - 0
away win at White Hart Lane
in the
league.
Maybe a bit «marmite», but the
away strip saw the Red Devils
win their first ever
League Cup
in 1992.
We all should realise that Arsenal with the current regime are now just an upper mid table team who maybe can
win a cup.It will make life easier if you accept this and put
away any ambition of
winning the
league when
in reality we are fighting Everton for 6th place.What will finish Wenger
in the end is apathy, empty seats and less time being shown on the telly.
That would not normally worry me, but right now it would seem that Arsenal are having big problems
winning any games
away from the Emirates,
in fact
in our last six
away League games we have lost four of them, with the one solitary
win at lowly Swansea to our name.
To me this is almost a must
win, Our next 3 premier
league games after stoke, Chelsea
away, Leicester Away, Man United Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One
away, Leicester
Away, Man United Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One
Away, Man United
Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One
Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs
in the Capital One Cup.
At 22, he will fit into Wenger's philosophy of buying youngsters but an issue may be prizing him
away from Dortmund, who have just
won the Bundesliga and are
in the Champions
League.
Arsenal haven't
won any of their five Premier
League London derbies
away from the Emirates
in 2017 (W0 D2 L3) and have failed to score
in the last four of these.
Arsenal have only
won two Premier
League away games this season — their joint - fewest tally after nine
away games of a campaign
in the Premier
League era
The derby at Loftus Road looked like it was heading for a draw until Cesc Fabregas scored the winner three minutes from time to make it five
wins in a row
away from home for the
league leaders.
«Liverpool were a point
away from
winning the
league last year and they are not
in the top four this year.
They have already secured the top spot
in Group K of the UEFA Europa
League, as the only team that can match their points tally of nine is Napoli, and Liverpool's head to head record against the Italians of an
away draw and a home
win mean they can not be overtaken.
«
In the last week they showed they have solid potential to
win the
league, with two positive results against Liverpool and Manchester City
away.
No
win in 16
away games
in the
league against the top 6, just 3
wins away this season.
The two sides met
in the UEFA Champions
League quarter finals last year, with PSG
winning the first leg 3 - 1 before Chelsea overcame them on
away goals with a dramatic 2 - 0
win at Stamford Bridge.