12th in 1961, Chelsea dropped to rock bottom the following year, with just 28 points from 42 games and an average of more than three
goals conceded each away game.
I realise this is a crude numerical perspective and the figures can be misconstrued but my instincts are to conclude that a decline in performance this season is down to our away performances and the most bleedin obvious explanation for this is the decline in our inability to score goals away from home — with the exception of the 5 away games played so far this year — where we see it is the number of
goals conceded away from home that is the main problem.
Not exact matches
Cech has given
away 11
goals from outside the box, which is more long - range
goals conceded than any other team in the premier league besides Stoke.
The Gunner succumbed to their fourth successive
away defeat in a row on Monday, whilst
conceding three
goals in each of those losses, and pressure is mounting on the manager.
Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the
conceding 22 horrible
goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on
away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).
We can't sacrifice the club's ambitions and wellbeing on the altar of a player's personal glory, it's the business end of the competition and Cech has the experience of having won it, Ospina
conceded three
goals [home and
away] against PSG, the only opposition on the level of those we'll be meeting from now on, three
goals against in the knockout stages is bordering on disastrous as we all know how tight these affairs are.
How many times has he given the ball
away that lead to us
conceding a
goal?
Don't wan na
concede a tonne of
away goals heading to the second leg.
The 3 (or 4)
goals Martinez
conceded in the
away fixture of this game, certainly made Wenger's job of dropping him for Szczesny easier.
Since Mathieu Flamini took over from Arteta as our cover for Coquelin, the Gunners have not lost a game, winning three of the four and only
conceding two
goals, which is even better when you remebre that three of them were
away from home and Arsenal were under serious pressure.
Since losing to Ipswich in December, our FA cup opponents have
conceded just one
goal in the eight games that includes an
away day at Man City.
#top Six stat # Well beaten by Liverpool Haven't played Man u yet Lost more matches than the top Six already Awful
away record Only scored more
goals than Tottenham Only Liverpool had
concede more
goals than Arsenal Having our two best players possibly leaving on a bosman deal
We'll find a way through their defence, but we have to make sure we don't
concede any «
away»
goals.
In fact if you take
away the four
goals conceded to Liverpool on the opening day, when neither of the first choice center backs were available, our defence looks as strong if not stronger than Chelsea's.
The Gunners have won only 3
away games this campaign, and would you believe that only 5 teams in the whole division have
conceded more
away goals than us, and one of those is Liverpool!
We have already
conceded 21
goals in 13 games
away from North London and have only scored 15 in response, and Wenger certainly needs to fix this problem.
We leaked 21
goals away to the top 7 teams last season and you would think that this alleged chasm in class would have lead to something better when they played us at home — but none beat us and we
conceded just 2
goals in 6 matches.
Another thing that struck me today was the way our defence was labelled as flimsy by The Guardian for
conceding two
goals away from home to a Championship side.
Winning
away to liverpool and
concede late
goal.
We gave so many chances
away due to our usual horrendous organization, when we have lost the ball, and if it wasn't such a poor side we were playing, we would have
conceded several
goals again.
And we're still giving it
away after
conceding a
goal... looks like they've all had a night out with Wenger
We lack a player (s) who are determined to not
concede early, who let one
goal, two
goals even
away from home in Europe and say «no more, we'll take them in the home leg».
Add in
conceding three
goals against manu reserves and one nil up
away to spurs and there are possibly three more points.
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.
Liverpool have
conceded 15
away goals in the Premier League — more than any other team pic.twitter.com/OLmeDU 1bur
United have won every game at home and David De Gea hasn't
conceded a single
goal at Old Trafford, but maintaining that record might be difficult against a buoyant Spurs side who haven't lost
away this season.
Seen the rare situation that a manager walks
away just before the season starts i don't really know what will happen but still rate a 90 % chance that the Gunners will easily beat them 4 - 1 with a
conceded goal from a setpiece.
Will inevitably be seen as the safe option as Manchester City will be desperate not to
concede an all - important
away goal.
people mentioning that we threw
away points that we tied stoke
away, remember stoke beat man city man u chelsea there this season without
conceding goal.
Although Arsenal responded well to a poor first half to get a deserved equalising
goal through Theo Walcott, I think the main reason we came
away from Old Trafford with a point was that we only
conceded once while Man United were all over us, so I am giving the Man of the Match to Laurent Koscielny who just shaded Mertesacker.
Let us look at it this way; we
conceded five
goals away to Bayern Munich in the first leg after the boss was substituted.
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.
The
goal, which is the fourth Arsenal have
conceded at home in all competitions, came after a poor clearance from Ospina eventually found its way to Cordoba, who's saw his 45 - yard screamer fly in over the head of the backtracking Gunners «keeper to give the
away side the lead.
I could also argue that if Arsenal had not
conceded one
goal more
goal against Hull City, One at home against Tottenham, one
away to Leisceter, one
away to man united, one more at home against Man City, and two
away to Swansea (a total of seven
goals), Arsenal could have become champions last season.
Can you imagine four
away matches and we end up
conceding 3
goals even against minnows.
last minute
conceding of
goal at anfield norwich
away who would be top?
And I still remember The Ox giving the ball
away that lead to us
conceding many
goals and the fans screaming not to let him anywhere near our defence.
My issue is why do Arsenal
concede goals when their midfielder give a
away the ball but other teams don't?
Man City would firstly have to
concede four or more
goals in defeat
away to Watford this weekend, with us winning our match.
It was very important that we didn't
concede a
goal and we scored two in an
away game.
But our first obstacle is to get past Monaco, who were considered one of the easiest draws in the competition at the time, but, like Arsenal, they have improved rapidly recently, and are currently on an unbeaten run of 14 games in row in which they have only
conceded ONE
goal in regulation time (in a 1 - 1 draw
away at Ligue 1 leaders Lyon in the middle of December).
1) Weakened attacking — The extra man attacking effect that Ramsey provided us with once, was taken
away and turned into stopping us from
conceding goals.
Gennaro Gattuso's Milan side team are unbeaten since Christmas in a run of twelve games, and have won their last five without
conceding a
goal, the last victory being a 2 - 0 win
away at third - placed Roma.
Rodgers praised the performance of the 32 - year - old Jones despite
conceding three
goals to the Red Devils on Sunday, and he is now hoping that Mignolet can rediscover his best form
away from the spotlight.
1) Do not
concede early on We've
conceding too many early
goals in our woeful
away performances of recent.
I expect to
concede a
goal, but I expect us to grind out a 2 - 1 win
away from home today.
pretty please, its true stats don't lie but it could be manipulated to tell different stories, the simple fact and bottoml line is Ozil created over 190 chances and ONLY 19 was put
away by our misfiring duo of Giroud and Walcott, and the fact he had half of the season to match and eclipse the assist record and failed says more about Giroud's and Walcott woeful woeful finishing abilities and nought whatsoever to do with Ozil, am can only do so much, what's next, blame him for number of
goals we
conceded?
[We were] absolutely guilty to
concede the
goal straight
away, we have no rational explanation for the way we gave
away the
goal straight
away.
After
conceding the fewest
goals in the group stages of the World Cup finals last summer, the 26 - year has
conceded no
goals in his three Premier League games, no
goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given
away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cup.