Everything is
going against Arsenal at the moment and these aren't happy times to be a...
Chelsea won that 4 - 2 and with their head to head form
going against Arsenal, they go into the final as strong favourites.
All I would say is so many decisions
going against arsenal 4 possible pens and a goal disallowed you can not beat a team if you are up against ref who quite clearly is not above given everything to Stoke and nothing to arsenal I'm not a bitter fan just one who watched the game though football eyes I'm gutted but not supprised because who the ref was
It just seemed as though everything was
going against Arsenal as well as us playing badly but then cae a very spirited fightback.
A tale of two penalty decisions, both
going against Arsenal with different decisions from similar situations will have left the boss angry and the Gunners without the win or even the point our gritty (up to that point) performance was close to earning.
I am sure that some Arsenal fans will be sick of hearing that the Gunners have been unlucky, but it is hard to get away from the fact sometimes and once again tonight against Barcelona in the Nou Camp a key moment
went against Arsenal and it could have proved to be a turning point in the game and the two - legged tie in general.
Some key refereeing decisions have
gone against Arsenal.
I know that I am a one for banging on about the referees and the way their bad decisions often seem to
go against Arsenal.
When Arsene Wenger spoke recently about the growing use of video technology in football he reminded us all of a few big incidents that
went against Arsenal and which he thinks would have made big differences to ours and the sports history if they had used replays back then, and clearly the biggest one of these was the sending off of our German international keeper Jens Lehmann in the 18th minute of the 2006 Champions League final.
Wilshere's Stoke like behaviour was not at all appreciated by me and in my opinion
it goes against Arsenal values.
Even if Wenger did show some interest, it totally
goes against Arsenal's principles when it comes to transfers and finances, so based on that I can not see such a link with Arsenal being true.
Jack Wilshere «can't accept some of the decisions» that
went against Arsenal in their Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City.
After the ludicrous penalty decisions that have
gone against Arsenal in recent games with Bournemouth and Stoke, it's baffling that Alexis being kicked and brought down in the box wasn't a penalty.
Not exact matches
We just have to make sure that it's a one - off; we've shown that we can put a run together and if we knuckle down then we can
go on another run, starting
against Arsenal.
If you
go onto Squawka.com or another stats providing site, you can look at the performance of Ozil
against Man City compared to that of Jack Wilshere, the
Arsenal midfielder who was rightly named as Man of the Match.
The former England international keeper David James has
gone against the grain of the football media and suggested that
Arsenal have not done the right thing by completing the transfer of Petr Cech from Chelsea.
Considering
Arsenal's tight schedule, the duo are not
going to play every game and with a few more performances like the one
against Hull, Mohammed Elneny may well rise above the pecking order in central midfield before the start of next season.
Arsenal had won their last 9 games
against Watford at home up until last season when the Hornets arrived for an FA Cup match (a competition that we hadn't lost a game in for 3 seasons) but we let our North London neighbours bully our stars off the ball and surprisingly lost the game 2 - 1 after
going 2 - 0 down.
Chelsea do not play until Monday and hopefully they will find the trip to Stoke as unhappy as the Gunners did recently, but Man City have just
gone into a 3 - 0 lead at home
against Crystal Palace and that puts the reigning EPL champs level with Jose Mourinho and his players and a hefty 13 points ahead of
Arsenal and a massive 18 points ahead of Liverpool.
Managers come and
go and
Arsenal will still be here so let us support
Arsenal for now
Arsenal is more important specially tomorrow than fighting each other wenger being good or bad wont matter right now what matters right now is the match
against barca so give your
Arsenal the loudest support that you can
Arsenal have
gone seven home league matches in a row without conceding a goal from open play — all four goals
against them in that period have been penalties.
Wenger has a decision to make next Sunday, when
Arsenal kick off their Premier League campaign
against Liverpool at the Emirates, because Le Prof will have to decide whether to
go with Walcott or Alexis up front, in Olivier Giroud's absence.
Of course, when you
go to play at the Emirates
against Arsenal, always in your mind is to try to win and play better than your opponents.
With Arsene Wenger once again driving the average
Arsenal fan up the wall,
going against conventional wisdom and baffling football pundits everywhere by sticking to his guns and refusing to get drawn into the ever increasing spending frenzy that is the summer transfer window, the odds
against the Gunners ending the 12 year wait for a title get smaller by the day.
After
Arsenal's recent frustration and lack of success in front of goal, a fast start was always
going to be a big help
against a well organised and defensively strong side and we could hardly have asked for more.
If Chelsea win
against Arsenal, they could seal the title with four games to
go by beating Leicester City at the King Power Stadium in midweek.
Arsene Wenger was never
going to come out and say that
Arsenal are out of the Champions League, as we still have the second leg
against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to play in a couple of weeks.
But forgetting the current form, you have to remember that this is always
going to be a grudge match when Arsene Wenger faces Jose Mourinho, with the Portugese bus conductor aiming for his 14th game unbeaten
against Le Prof, which makes it difficult to back
Arsenal with any real conviction.
RESPOND TO PHYSICAL CHALLENGE West Ham are surely
going to bring their A game
against Arsenal today and the Gunners must be up to the challenge to match the situation.
So although Monaco are the least favourite of the group winners with the bookies to win the whole competition and are also favourites to
go out
against us,
Arsenal fans should be wary of counting our chickens.
One thing
going in
Arsenal's favour ahead of the trip to the Liberty Stadium on Saturday is the wake up call that the last two games
against Preston and Bournemouth have delivered, as long as the players learn from them and make sure they are not caught out again at the start.
I'd love 2 see
arsenal go at zagreb guns blazin from da start lyk they did
against da orcs.
The next two games will show us how
Arsenal are
going to react to last week's defeat, a win
against QPR, and even a draw away to United in the Cup would set us up for a fine end to the domestic season.
A last minute winner
against Burnley may not have been the result many had expected nor hoped for, but
Arsenal fans can be pleased that the players kept
going for it right until the end.
Whilst there's plenty of talk about how
Arsenal have been doing in pre-season and especially so after the good performance from the stars last night
against Chivas, we are never too far away before the transfer rumour mill gets
going yet again.
We will not lose
against Chelsea, something terrible
went wrong last night, it's called Ramsey, in the face of all the criticism he has faced as an
Arsenal player, I have always tried to be the optimist but Last, I couldn't find one for his shocking display and for the first time I agree we be rid of him even if
went on to win the ballon d'or somewhere else I'd have no regrets, the deflected goal could happen to any one but the second was totally unforgivable!!
Against West Ham he
went to intercept a Hammer on the wing near the corner flag and in a dangerous position for a cross, he closed the player down but whe a West Ham player arrived behind him and an
Arsenal player was closing from his right he dropped back to cover the pass to the 2nd West Ham player instead of trying to win the ball.
In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal
against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave
Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of
going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.
Guess
Arsenal love been push to the wall, so I believe we gonna win
against Olym, but my worry is that we find it difficult to reach certain margin, we couldn't do it almost all the times I can remember.
If they are
going to play an attacking football
against Arsenal, that is good and what we want it to get an open space for our counter attacking play.
Get real in his almost 5 years at
Arsenal his scored less than 15 goals in all his games played.He is great on the wings and should stay there, this converting a winger in2 a striker talk is ridiculous, the striker we are looking for belongs to another team, so let's just
go out and buy him, SIMPLE!!!!!! But yes the goal Ox scored
against Chivas was pure class.
It's funny, that
Arsenal loose one of our friendlies and a large portion of fans are telling us how awful we are and how terrible we are
going to do next season, based off the one display, yet when we win the charity shield,
against the reigning champions, it means absolutely nothing.
Arsenal should win and we think they will, but the Gunners, who
go into Sunday's game on a run of three league matches without scoring, are unlikely to have it all their own way
against a side who have humbled Chelsea and Man United this term.
Look back to the very start of the season, when the knives were out for the boss after
Arsenal picked up just a point from the first two games
against Liverpool and Leicester, after which we
went on an 18 game unbeaten run.
this is kind a status buy — after losing sanchez to the scum up north — we needed to show we're not done - i do believe ozil may sign after this respect to
arsenal - sven ivan and huss who
went to Germany to broker the deal - this was difficult to make happen - bild and them ran a campaign
against this deal hes cup tied so we can only use auba for 14 games — 13 pl and carabao final so really he needs to hit the ground running
I would love to see
Arsenal get strong and overly physical
against a liv side, they are like us they prefer an open game, I'd love to see us keep organised
go strong at them and let the forwards play.
he even
went on to state how many times he got to was
Arsenal on tape...... My point being, we knew how Westham handled the situation
against us....
That was a potentially pivotal game for us in the title race and we
went into it with high hopes
against an injury hit team, but it was Rashford who took the glory on the day, stunning
Arsenal with two goals in the space of three minutes to set us on the road to a damaging 3 - 2 loss.
You as a visitor know it is
going to be a tough task to play
against technical
Arsenal sides and it was always a big test for us but we seemed to have success in recent years.
Now I know there will be many out there who will say this is a negative view and that you should NEVER take that stance
against your own club, but as well as being a dyed in wool
Arsenal fan, I'm also a devout realist and finally the truth has sunk in with me, and I know in my heart of hearts that this season is
going to be the longest and toughest many of us have experienced in an age.