The bad news: consecutive
draws against Tottenham, Manchester United and Paris Saint - Germain have seen us lose ground at home and in Europe.
Chelsea had a hard time in a 0 - 0
draw against Tottenham Hotspur this past weekend and the decision to bench striker Diego Costa in favor of moving Eden Hazard to the front may have proven costly.
The Gunners were held to a 1 - 1
draw against Tottenham at the Emirates on Sunday but the experienced centre - back — who did not actually play — thought that his side should have won all three points.
«What is important is that, when you've gone through a bad spell like
us drawing against Tottenham, losing away to West Brom and drawing against Norwich, is that you are still close to the top.
Arsenal have been left in fourth place in the Premier League after the inconclusive
draw against Tottenham yesterday, but should the Gunners have taken all three points and ended up joint top with Liverpool?
It therefore came as a surprise when Martinez started Stones in their Capital One Cup trip to Barnsley just 24 hours later, and similarly in Saturday's goalless
draw against Tottenham Hotspur.
The teenager produced an encouraging performance as Arsenal battled back from a goal down to
draw against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
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Burnley has picked up away points at three of last season's top - six teams, beating Chelsea on opening day and
drawing against Tottenham at Wembley.
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draw against Tottenham.
Sunday's
draw against Tottenham Hotspur extended the Gunners» unbeaten run in the competition to six games, and kept them level on points with league leaders Manchester City.
It had been worth the wait, with Saints needing three games to get off the mark on home soil following a goalless
draw against Tottenham, and a 1 - 0 defeat to Manchester United earlier that August.
Brighton claimed a valuable
draw against Tottenham for their hopes of staying in the Premier League on Tuesday night.
Not exact matches
I can categorically tell u that if he was fit and available
against tottenham, we would have got at least a
draw in that game.
And the other 2 co-leaders dropped points
against teams we've beaten:
Tottenham drew at Burnley: we won there (with the ugliest goal ever... but we won) City
drew at home to Southampton: we won our home game
against Southampton
The squad met up at Vardy's house to watch
Tottenham's 2 - 2
draw with Chelsea, with the result ensuring that the Foxes were crowned champions and will be given the opportunity to celebrate their achievement at the King Power Stadium
against Everton on Saturday.
And with the unsatisfactory
draw against West Bromwich letting many fans down in the accumulator predictions last weekend, it seems that
Tottenham need to rethink their approach to the game.
For now, though, we can only look ahead to the match and after a couple of Gunners picked up injuries while on international duty after the Gunners were held to a
draw in our last game
against Tottenham there seems to be quite a lot of negativity around Arsenal at the minute.
Tottenham Hotspur kicked off their 2014/15 Europa League group stage campaign this evening with a largely uneventful 0 - 0
draw against Partizan Belgrade on an awful pitch in the Serbian capital.
With their last real convincing win coming a month ago on the first day of the new year
against Fulham
Tottenham will have to dig deep to rediscover form much alike that of the week of Christmas where they
drew 9 points from one week.
It is hard to root
against them as they've done well, but to date in the league they've only played
Tottenham and Arsenal from the top 6 clubs and they
drew to the Spurs at home and lost 2 - 5 at home to the Arsenal.
And our worst nightmare is now looking decidedly possible after
Tottenham took advantage of Leicester's
draw against the Hammers with a thumping win away to Stoke last night.
A bad loss
against Tottenham ended the winning streak, and a cruel 2 - 2
draw against Hull City on April 26 left Fulham reeling.
It was a cracking week of Champions League action, with strong results again for the Premier League clubs involved, as Manchester United, City and Liverpool all won while Chelsea and
Tottenham drew against challenging opponents.
Losses
against Liverpool, Everton & City and
draws against Paris, United,
Tottenham & Leicester.
Last November, our beloved club only managed to gain two Premier League points, including a 1 - 1 home
draw against North - London neighbours
Tottenham, but the most worrying statistic would be the fact that our squad picked up as many as nine injuries.
The Red Devils have struggled in general over the last few games, winning twice
against Huddersfield but also suffering defeats to
Tottenham and Newcastle United along with a goalless
draw against Sevilla in the Champions League.
Even the
draw against Chlsea is it down to injuries?Specially the game
against Monaco,
Tottenham and Chelsea were played with best 11.
Chelsea were
drawn against relegation - threatened Southampton in the
draw for the semi finals of the FA Cup this evening, with Man United being handed the tricky task of facing in - form
Tottenham.
Their eight wins were
against Leicester, Bournemouth, West Brom, Brighton, Swansea,
Tottenham, Huddersfield and Newcastle, with one
draw with Liverpool and the one defeat to Manchester United.
In the first half, the Gunners have
drawn 4,
against Tottenham, Man U, Middlesboro, and Leicester.
But November is the month we all fear as we were knocked of our pedestal at this time last season with a massacre
against Bayern Munich,
draws with
Tottenham and Norwich and a loss
against West Brom.
This season we have already had one win and three
draws, but considering those were
against PSG, Man United and
Tottenham I don't see that being a jinx at all!
He wants the team and the fans to remember that we had just won two big games
against Tottenham and Leicester and to
draw confidence from that rather than dwelling on the calamity of Tuesday.
Arsenal are chasing an unlikely second place finish, needing three points as well as
Tottenham to fluff their lines
against already - relegated Newcastle United, otherwise only a win by 14 or more goals will secure second - place should Spurs
draw.
Indeed, EOTK believe that playing
against more «ambitious» sides such as Jose Mourinho's Pensioners and
Tottenham Hotspur — with whom the Merseysiders managed a 0 - 0
draw — actually suits Klopp's boys better.
Arsenal's 0 - 0
draw against Southampton came at a most inopportune time for Arsenal as Leicester City, Manchester City and
Tottenham Hotspur all won their games, dropping the Gunners to fourth place in the process.
Considering that Arsenal had a daunting collection of players on the treatment table, and we started the game
against Tottenham with an Alexis running on empty, a Cazorla that couldn't see straight and a Koscielny that wasn't 100 % fit, the fact we ground out a
draw against our bitter enemies begins to look impressive.
all we have to do is win 29 games, lose 6 games,
draw 3 games... 90 points.We can still and probably will lose
against Chelsea, man utd, mancity all away and
draw them at home and lose
against Liverpool once more and we will still win the title... as long as we beat all other small teams... assuming
Tottenham are a small team.
With the Blues
drawing with Burnley last weekend and playing
against Tottenham Hotspur in today's Capital One Cup final, City had a real chance to pile some pressure on the current leaders, who can now make it an eight point lead if they win their next league game.
INSHAA ALLAH this season we will the win the league of we just keep focus, treat one game at a time, don't be afraid of man city, man utd,
tottenham, Liverpool, Everton when we we play them away just be patient and respect them at their home grounds sit deep and work hard and we wil get the important results in our favour in these games and also don't underestimate small sides because these games can give you points and if we you lose or
draw against these sides then it can cause huge dent in our title ambitions... COYG!!!
2013/14, the year that started our winning run, we did actually get all home
draws again, but they were hardly
against easy teams and we had to beat
Tottenham, Coventry, Liverpool and Everton at home, before perhaps easier games
against Wigan and Hull in the Wembley games.
Rounding out the top five in the EPL standings, third - place Liverpool is a -525 favorite hosting West Ham United (+1100 to win, +600 to
draw) on Saturday and fifth - place
Tottenham is a -210 favorite on the road
against Crystal Palace (+575 to win, +345 to
draw).
If we
draw or win our home game
against aston villa then we get third place or possibly second (if we win and
tottenham lose).
Tottenham drew against Sunderland.
To date United have two wins under their belt
against Tottenham and Aston Villa, but have a loss to Swansea City to their name as well as a goalless
draw with Newcastle United.
How things have changed, because it wasn't that long ago that
Tottenham Hotspur season would be based on how well they did home and away
against arsenal, now the table's have turned, because two things for sure arsenal won't win the league and that
Tottenham has a better chance than arsenal, so now the biggest game for arsenal is
Tottenham home and away, so win lose or
draw it makes no difference, because the parasite is still in charge.
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Liverpool and
Tottenham both slipped up at home and
drew against inferior teams, cashing big lines for
draw bettors.