West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic admitted to feeling «disappointed, frustrated and a bit humiliated» following the Hammers» 5 - 1 Premier League
defeat by Arsenal at London Stadium.
West Brom were denied a clear penalty in the eighth minute of their 2 - 0
defeat by Arsenal on Monday Night Football when Shkodran Mustafi tripped Jay Rodriguez, only for Rodriguez to get himself up and hit the post.
The 29 - year - old's CV shows a chequered experience in finals, including the 2 - 1
defeat by Arsenal last May.
Considering the game in isolation, a defeat away at Arsenal (
any defeat by Arsenal) is nothing unusual.
Pawson has taken charge of the Hammers on three occasions so far this term; home wins against Bournemouth and Chelsea (EFL Cup) and the 5 - 1
defeat by Arsenal.
Joe Allen picked up his second man of the match award of the season in Liverpool's 2 - 0
defeat by Arsenal on Sunday.
Manchester City's title hopes suffered a huge blow after a shock 2 - 0
defeat by Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium left them five points behind Chelsea.
Diego Costa scored Chelsea's consolation in last year's 2 - 1 FA Cup final
defeat by Arsenal, his third goal in six encounters with the Gunners.
Everton have sacked manager Ronald Koeman following Sunday's 5 - 2 home
defeat by Arsenal which left them in the bottom 3 of the Premier League.
Everton sacked manager, Ronald Koeman after a 5 - 2 home
defeat by Arsenal left them in the Premier League relegation zone.
One of the major differences, however, has been the way that — although only three points apart — both teams have garnered their points, with Chelsea having been
defeated by Arsenal and Manchester United but winning the «expected» games, whereas Liverpool got four points in their games against Arsenal and United, but have dropped them elsewhere.
Not exact matches
As an
Arsenal fan, I am very disappointed
by the Watford
defeat and may not be even satisfied with the win against Chelsea though it is difficult.
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.
Did he became bad player
by coming to
arsenal??? 3) Arsenal best wins like against Borussia dortmund away, Liverpool at home, napoli at home, where we totally dominated the opponents, came when wilshere was not playing??? 4) Our worst defeat like BD at home, Liverpool away, Manchester City away came when Wilshere p
arsenal??? 3)
Arsenal best wins like against Borussia dortmund away, Liverpool at home, napoli at home, where we totally dominated the opponents, came when wilshere was not playing??? 4) Our worst defeat like BD at home, Liverpool away, Manchester City away came when Wilshere p
Arsenal best wins like against Borussia dortmund away, Liverpool at home, napoli at home, where we totally dominated the opponents, came when wilshere was not playing??? 4) Our worst
defeat like BD at home, Liverpool away, Manchester City away came when Wilshere played??
The odds on Arsene Wenger being sacked
by Arsenal have been slashed after a surge of bets following the Gunners» 2 - 0
defeat to West Ham United on Sunday.
You can see here how much the
Arsenal fans are disappointed
by the Watford
defeat.
There has been much wringing of hands after a tired
Arsenal side were bullied into
defeat by a battling Everton side on Tuesday.
But if
Arsenal play at a high tempo and give them a really tough game, and especially if we knock their confidence further
by inflicting a second
defeat in a row, it could have consequences for them against Blackburn.
Arsenal fans should be getting used to some awful performances
by Arsene Wenger's team this season, but this was surely one of the worst as we actually played our very best available team, while the embarrassing
defeats to teams like Nottm Forest and Ostersunds were at least played
by our reserves..
We also had a great boost last night seeing Man United (and Alexis) get beaten
by Tottenham, and Chelsea's crazy 3 - 0 home
defeat to Bournemouth, giving
Arsenal a chance to close the gap in the coming weeks.
Arsenal have just been obliterated in the Carabao Cup final
by a far superior Manchester City in what was one of the worst performances of the season, one of the most humiliating
defeats in the club's history and ultimately a failure.
Arsenal suffered their joint - heaviest home Premier League
defeat, having also lost
by three - goal margins to Coventry (1993), Middlesbrough (2001) and Chelsea (twice in 2009).
After all, a point away from home against the champions would not be a bad result
by any means, whereas yet another
defeat, even if it is a narrow one, would inflict further damage on the confidence and self - belief of the
Arsenal players.
The Swans are yet another side that has been rejuvenated
by a new manager with just one
defeat in 4 games, while
Arsenal have a deplorable away record!
Usual Monday blues topped
by an
Arsenal defeat!!
Also, playing a second string side against Spurs will not necessarily mean
defeat and
by the same token, playing a full strength team will not necessarily mean that
Arsenal win.
Chelsea have also recently been dumped out of the Carabao Cup
by Arsenal after a semi-final
defeat, and will be big underdogs against La Liga leaders Barcelona when they meet in the Champions League next week.
Come the other year when
Arsenal went the whole season without a
defeat in the Premier League, Barcelona were attracted
by Marc Overmas and Emmanue Petti, the two joined Barcelona, they played few games, and sometime on the bench, as a result Emmanue Petti decided to go back to England and joined New - Castle and always regret leaving
Arsenal, then the other year it was Alexander Hleb, he was the best dribller in
Arsenal team, he went again to Barcelona, he was never given some games, I think he only played few games as a sub, and his carrier was destroyed
by Barcelona, then come Henry, he again went to Barcelona, he played some games but not like he used to do at
Arsenal, he was not looking like a star player anymore, he decided to go to America, then there was Fabrigas, he joined Barcelona again, since he was one of their juniors, I think he played for two seasons, and supporter used to booing him, he decided to come back to
Arsenal,
by then
Arsenal had already resplaced him with Ozil, and he joined Chelsea, then come Alexander Song, he pushed to go to Barcelona, he was always on the banch, and never been on first eleven, then he ended up regreting joing Barcelona, and wanted to go back to
Arsenal, but normally Wenger do not take players who pushed themselves to be out of
Arsenal, lastly there was Vermuleen, he went to Barcelona and ended up not playing at all but when playing for
Arsenal they used to be star players.
Arsenal can make a Merry Christmas for themselves
by grabbing a win against Manchester City tonight, knowing that they are capable of
defeating their only real title rivals.
So the former
Arsenal academy star Kristoffer Olsson and his team mates from the Danish champions FC Midtjylland did us a massive favour
by inflicting a painful and damaging
defeat on Louis van Gaal and his players last night.
BVB must
defeat Marseille
by four goals to go through if
Arsenal defeat Olympiacos.
It seems a long time ago now, but it was so painful for
Arsenal fans that I doubt I will ever forget the feeling as I watched the Gunners slump to a 2 - 0
defeat by West Ham on the opening day of this season.
We have only won one of our last 8 visits and our 3 - 2
defeat there last year was taken very badly
by some of our travelling supporters, but
Arsenal bounced back and we fought our way into the Top Four as usual.
After the
defeat at Anfield it is hard for
Arsenal fans to even consider us as tile challengers but maybe it also muddied the waters further
by suggesting the Liverpool could be up for the title and Chelsea the top four.
Arsenal are going great guns at the minute, still unbeaten in the Premier League since the first game of the season and with just the EFL cup loss to Southampton to add to that early
defeat by Liverpool.
A few years ago Chelsea went a large part of the season unbeaten and people started to talk about them doing the whole thing, but then Newcastle did
Arsenal a favour
by beating them in December and they ended up with three
defeats.
The latter was arguably our greatest shot at success as our title chances fell
by the wayside after consecutive
defeats against Manchester United and Swansea, but another below - key performance blew any chance of
Arsenal equalling the cup record.
Just a week ago,
Arsenal looked to be hitting form with the demolition of Stoke giving them a third clean sheet in a row, but that has all gone straight down the pan with our embarrassing
defeat in Zagreb, and our even more annoying
defeat by a Chelsea team that has conceded 12 goals and were already six points behind us before the game started.
Arsenal could really do with a win in the Premier League's first match of the weekend, though, to stretch that gap between us and Everton, so maybe Ronald Koeman also did us a favour at the weekend
by beating our next opponents West Brom and making it two
defeats in a row for Tony Pulis and the Baggies.
He also admitted to the
Arsenal website that confidence is not great in the
Arsenal side and that was not helped
by the surprise
defeat to Watford last week.
I know I am jumping the gun a bit here
by assuming that
Arsenal will continue to be more like the side we saw win away to Crystal Palace last week, rather than the one that slumped to a dismal
defeat at home to West Ham, but the end of last season and the way we were playing in pre-season has given us good reason to think that will be the case.
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 wi
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 wi
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?
The timing of the talk about Arsene Wenger getting a new
Arsenal contract could hardly have been worse, on the back of a title ending
defeat by Chelsea that looked so simple for the Blues that the Gunners have been compared to youngsters kicking a ball about with the big boys in the playground.
That was the scathing assessment of the
Arsenal midfielder
by former Chelsea manager Glenn Hoddle following the Gunners» 3 - 1
defeat to the league leaders on Saturday.
No matter how much blame you allocate to Arsene Wenger for the poor performances of
Arsenal this season in big games like the home
defeat by Watford, the limp display away to Chelsea and most obviously the complete battering at the hands of Bayern Munich, you must realise that the manager does not send the side out with instructions to play poorly or not put much effort in.
City
defeated Arsenal by two goals to one at the Etihad, but Gundogan missed out through injury.
Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like
by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were
defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is
defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But
Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.
A club run
by joe Lewis lol when was the last fuking time Spurs won a trophy give it a fuking rest Wenger has won more trophies then spuds in their whole fuking history Sick of plastic fans constantly knocking the manager and players like you are fuking genius experts in knowing all about football We have the worst fan base in football a bunch of ingrates Why would any top player come and join
Arsenal when they see how fans treat their own players like ozil Lol at people talking about Spurs and pool fukers don't win any trophies but their fans stay loyal ours turn nasty every game werther we win or lose It won't change even if we get a new manager they will turn on him at first
defeat What we need is for the vocal minority of plastic key board fans to fuk off and stop bringing the club down Coyg
Arsenal have not had too many really bad days to endure this season, especially if you consider that the double
defeat by a struggling Chelsea side saw us get no luck whatsoever and everything go right for them.
It would be nice for
Arsenal fans if our German international midfield star was right in what he says about this season's record two legged
defeat in the Champions League knockout phase inflicted on us
by many of his fellow countrymen.