Importantly, a step in becoming a «good» team is winning the games you should... which we really never did in the Pablo era...
our draw at home last year against Minnesota being a great example.
Not exact matches
broad statements about whom and where to beat or which players should score how many goals on average are just unnecessary statements which says nothing about the title, only throwaway opinion from the pundits who have no plans, every singlw title winner in the
last 10 years will have
drawn at home against teams they were expected to beat, nothing wrong there
This is exactly what we should be doing,
drawing out the positives yes its only a
draw at home but it was
last years champions and any point against them is a good result!
However, Luis Enrique's side have dropped four points in their
last two matches by conceding late goals — first versus Valencia and then blowing a 2 - 0 lead to
draw 2 - 2
at home to Deportivo
last weekend.
Swansea 3 - 2 Newcastle — After a well - earned
draw at Chelsea, Swansea look good value to beat Newcastle
at home in what could be a goal fest based on
last weekend's results.
Reading have
drawn their
last two
homes matches 0 - 0 and I think another stalemate is very possible, especially as it would suit West Bromwich Albion, who would feel much more confident in a replay
at the Hawthorns.
Arsenal lost 3 - 4
at home to Liverpool
last week, in a game that could well have ended 1 - 6, and we endured a bore -
draw against Leicester.
United have not scored a first - half goal
at home in the Premier League since September and have
drawn five of their
last eight matches
at Old Trafford 0 - 0.
Tottenham won 17 of 19 Premier League matches
at White Hart Lane
last season —
drawing the other two — but they must now get used to playing their
home games
at Wembley Stadium.
The summer signings or Alexander Hleb, Matt Derbyshire (both on loan) and Jean Beausejour have not worked and St. Andrews has been deprived of goals, resulting in only two wins and seven
draws at home this season, when
last year this figure would have read the opposite way around.
Our route to
last years Final was helped by usually being
drawn first out of the hat, and after winning 40 of our
last 41 FA Cup
home ties, we shouldn't really fear anyone
at all
at the Emirates, but personally I would rather that e left Liverpool or Man United to meet in the Final.
The worse part about it is that Spurs are actually a decent side this season and I have a sense of dejavue from
last season
drawing at home and then losing
at the Lane.
AC MILAN»S FORM The Rossoneri have won five of the
last six matches
at home in European competitions (1
draw) and have kept a clean sheet four times — including our
last 1 - 0 win against Ludogorets — .
Match Review Arsenal played out an entertaining 2 - 2
draw against Manchester City
at home in the Premier League
last Saturday, as both sides went hammer and tongs
at each other, to show for a just a point apiece in the end.
The Swans come into the match on the back of four losses from their
last five in all competitions, but
at the same time, they have only conceded one Premier League goal away from
home this term, including 0 - 0
draws at Southampton and Tottenham.
After beating city
last season in the shield we were unlucky to get a
draw at home but beat them away.
Last weekend's 2 - 2
draw at the Emirates against Hull City can not be an ideal preparation, going into a crucial Champions League fixture as Arsenal do when they take on Anderlecht
at the
home of the Belgium champions.
They held the Spuds to a
draw last weekend and
at Turf Moor in January, beat Man City
at home and
drew away and they held Man United to a
draw at home as well.
The fact that Arsenal's quarter - final this weekend is
at home to Lincoln City, the lowest ranked side left in the
draw, after getting past the previously lowest ranked club Sutton
last time gives us a great chance.
BBC Sport note that Arsenal have lost just one of their
last five against United
at home in the league, with two wins and two
draws.
This will be Pardew's 4th
home game, and he has had two
draws and a narrow defeat to Man United so far, and he thinks that the Baggies were unlucky not to win their
last one
at home to Everton.
United's
draw at Liverpool
last weekend allowed City to open up a two - point gap between the two teams, and so another slip - up here could prove costly with Pep Guardiola's men
at home to Burnley.
And now that the Gunners are now playing with a great technical balance in the Gunners Boss» first team choice starting XI, that have seen them won 9 games and
drew just 1 game
at home to Chelsea in their
last 10 games.
Middlesbrough have gone an amazing 15 games without a win in the Premier League, but
at home they have managed 4
draws from their
last 5 games, and they are desperate for points to take them out of the relegation zone so will be dangerous to any visitors especially with Arsenal in such terrible form as well.
Barcelona lost a 3 goal lead and crashed out; Madrid was rescued by a
last minute penalty
at home despite a comfortable 3 goal lead away; Lazio lost a 2 goal lead and got eliminated; the «Almighty Athletico» (according to Wenger haters) nearly got eliminated
at Lisbon succombing to a defeat; and another monster that would destroy Arsenal if we ever were unfortunate to meet them, Leipzig, was thrashed by Marseille yet it is Arsenal that secured a 2 - 2
draw and qualified for the next round that should be hanged.
Last 2 times we've played them
at home we have won one and
drawn one.
And
last night's 0 - 0
draw at home to Southampton — a third Premier League game without a win or a goal which left Arsenal fourth in the table — prompted another Morgan tirade on talkSPORT this morning.
So you could say that even if the Gunners had won both of them
last season, instead of losing away and
drawing at home, we would still have finished behind them in the Premier League table.
We
drew 0 - 0
at home last season as well.
I certainly hope that Wenger doesn't send out a complete second team, as our Europa Cup side has looked decidedly listless in the their
last two fixtures,
drawing 0 - 0
at home to Red Star Belgrade and then our dismal 1 - 0 defeat to bottom - of - the - Bundesliga side Cologne, but he will have to rest
at least half our First XI to prepare for the crucial visit of Jose Mourinho's United.
They followed this up with a disappointing
draw at home to Borussia Dortmund, as they looked like struggling in Europe again as they had
last season, though they earned a hard - fought 2 - 1 win away to Fulham in the league.
The 4 - 4
draw at home to Everton
last time out was particularly disappointing after they uncharacteristically threw away a two goal lead twice.
It may surprise Sullivan to know that Arsenal only got
drawn at home once in the
last FA Cup campaign.
«
Last year [in the EFL Cup] we beat Chelsea
at home then got Man United away in the next round, I mean you are not going to win anything with
draws like that.
Last year we lost 5 - 1 to Liverpool,
drew 0 - 0
at home to ManU and went out of the CL after a 2 - 0 loss to Brayen.
He has shown that he can set up his team to match the Big Teams
at home, as proven by beating Man City and
drawing with Tottenham in their
last two games
at Turf Moor.
We
drew at Wembley against Spurs back in August, beat Crystal Palace
at home in the next game and then,
last month, beat Everton
at Goodison Park.
Liverpool will probably go and lose
at home to Middlesbrough now that they got the harder game out of the way, a
draw would be good enough for us, as long as we win our
last two games.
While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent
draw against Reading
at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions League group and winning the
last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league leaders.
Watford's
last two league games saw them
draw at home with fellow Premier League new boys Bournemouth and before that they lost
at home to Crystal Palace.
And yet, Sevilla deservedly went through after a 2 - 1 aggregate victory as they held United to a 0 - 0
draw at home before Ben Yedder's double
last night ultimately sent them through to their first European Cup quarter - final since 1958.
Coquelin, who spent a month on loan
at Charlton Athletic
last season, was criticised by Gary Neville for his performance inMonday's 0 - 0
draw at home to Liverpool — criticism that the French manager believes is unwarranted.
We got raped by big teams away
last season, but
at least we
drew them
at home.
Arsenal is a joke if you look
at the stats hardly anyone has had a regular game this season, and the 7 unbeaten run of games HUH come on apart from Chelsea who lost to City
at home and Crystal Palace which were beaten
last 7 games in a trot managed to beat Chelsea and they
drew with Roma
at home for god sake, any way what i'm trying to say is we relay didn't have any real competition this season apart from Liverpool and look what happened there
Hull played out a goalless
draw with Aston Villa, but will find this a very hard game to get anything from.Everton have not lost
at home for 12
home league games nows dating back to December 2012 when they
last got beat
at home 1 - 2 by Chelsea.
Also, we will lose heavily to Spurs away (it should have been 8 - 0
last season) and likely to either
draw or lose to Man city
at home.
Chelsea have looked far from that all year and only
last week
drew at home to West Ham, why shouldnt we want Chelsea to take all three guys, they will give them back before may.
Arsenal have
drawn their
last three English top - flight fixtures — 2 - 2 with Manchester City
at the Emirates Stadium, 1 - 1 with Leicester City away from
home and 2 - 2 with Everton
at Goodison Park.
A decade has passed since these sides
last faced off in the Champions League, Liverpool winning 4 - 1
at home and
drawing 1 - 1 away in the 2007 - 08 group stage.
Their
last two
home games against Bournemouth and Crystal Palace have ended in a 1 - 1
draw and in the BetVictor Correct Score market the 1 - 1
draw option is
at 19/4 odds * (Betting Odds taken on February 5th, 2018
at 2:33 a.m.).