Sentences with phrase «lacklustre arsenal»

Swansea City clinched second Premier League victory on the trot as they brushed aside a lacklustre Arsenal team by a 3 - 1 scoreline at the Liberty Stadium.

That said, it doesn't take a genius to figure out why the neutrals have suddenly ploughed all their faith into a Chelsea side finishing the season like a steam train, as opposed to a lacklustre Arsenal who once again display all the characteristics of a side severely lacking in that winning mentality the top - two certainly boast.

Further lacklustre Arsenal defending allowed Sandro to ghost unmarked to receive Assou - Ekotto's throw and deliver a cross.

The game suddenly came alive in the last five minutes of the first half, with a lacklustre Arsenal corner eventually going out for a Gunners throw, which was also disappointing, and we were then hit on the counter attack.

As yet another lacklustre Arsenal season draws slowly to a close, there seems to be no end to the speculation that surrounds the future of some of the star players and the manager himself, Arsene Wenger.

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The Gunners put on another insipid and lacklustre showing at Old Trafford yesterday and it made the pre-match comments from the manager, reported in another Just Arsenal article, when he spoke about the reasons why previous title challenges had faltered but that things were different now.

Arsenal lost 3 - 0 to City twice in the space of a few days and were criticised for a lack of fight and for «walking» in the Carabao Cup final, while Chelsea's lacklustre approach has also got them in Neville's bad books.

With the fatigue of their second - leg Europa League tie in Moscow contributing to some lacklustre play, Newcastle went ahead on 68 minutes through Matt Ritchie and condemned Arsenal to their fifth consecutive road loss in league action.

It showed when he played in Arsenal's shirt, unlike some lacklustre players that can only do safe backpasses and unwilling to fight for their team.

Arsenal should be able to see off Leicester, irrespective of the resistance the home side puts up; but any lacklustre showing could cost Arsenal big time, and Wenger would warn his troops against such an aberration.

Other than the returning Danny Welbeck, the majority of Arsenal's reliable goalscorers have been lacklustre, resulting in a series of unsatisfactory results, but Arsene Wenger makes it cleat that Theo is still one of his Fluffy Favourites, along with Ramsey, the Ox and others, and is remaining positive about Walcott's input within the team, for now and in the future.

But he has never been one to keep his opinions to himself and so the journeyman midfielder was quick to lay into the Arsenal and Chile forward Alexis Sanchez for what he deemed as a lacklustre and ineffectual performance against his former club.

As Charlie Nicholas says, Arsenal are slightly on the backfoot already this season given we already find ourselves five points behind the league leaders after three games, but we will undoubtedly catchup and once we do, it's then important that we don't drop anymore points due to lacklustre performances.

So you can see that this is no time for another lacklustre display from the Arsenal team and the fact that our players will not have played for almost two weeks means there will be no excuse for it.

What is certain is that Arsenal will have to produce a better performance this time round compared to their lacklustre effort in midweek against Swansea City, a defeat that leaves them in sixth place in the Premier League table and eight points adrift of the top four.

Arsene Wenger has made four changes to the Arsenal starting line up that lost at Southampton two days ago and you can hardly blame him after the lacklustre effort we saw from the Gunners at St. Mary's.

One of the biggest reasons behind Arsenal's lacklustre performance was that fact that many players in the side underperformed today.

The former Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham man marshalled the Perth defence to a lacklustre eighth finish last season.

When he first arrived Arsenal fans thought him lazy and lacklustre because he didn't seem to be running around the pitch like a madman (mind you we call Walcott a headless chicken when he does it!)

It's worrying to see that Arsenal has become a club where it can not sell out or even if the tickets are sold, then many fans can not be bothered to turn up as a result of our lacklustre performances this season.

But with everyone growing frustrated at Wenger and Arsenal's lacklustre performances, we can not forget that our two biggest names, Ozil and Alexis must be counting down the days to where they enter their final year.

Arsenal are one dimensional and lacklustre without Sanchez on the pitch, hopefully we can find a way to be less reliant on a single player to make the difference in our games.

Despite the «Wenger Out Brigade» being bigger than ever before as a result of the lacklustre campaign Arsenal are having, it looks as though the resilient Frenchman will sign a new two - year deal at the Emirates.

Lets hope Arsenal do better than last year as I was there and they were pretty lacklustre in their play, (even though Campbell scored and Sanogo got a hatfull!).

Manchester United players have longer rest time, but this should not be an excuse for Arsenal players» lacklustre performance.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has moved to downplay the lacklustre debut of Lucas Perez, whilst claiming both he and Shkodran Mustafi aren't fully match - fit.

Arsenal were pretty lacklustre from the start and that was one of the major reasons for us losing this game so heavily.

As if it was not bad enough that Arsenal lost our first game of the Premier League season yet again, and just like in our opening day defeat to West Ham last season it was a home game, we did so after dominating the first half and taking the lead against a lacklustre Liverpool side.

The Blues produced a rather lacklustre performance in the 0 - 0 draw versus Arsenal in the League Cup semi-final, and Antonio Conte will expect a much better performance as the club look to maintain their bid to finish in the top - four.

On the half hour it had been a lacklustre performance by United who had not created anything since the Rooney effort at the start of the half and honestly looked like they were just going through the motions as news had come through that Arsenal were up 3 - 0 so fourth position would be the best United could finish.

A lacklustre transfer window coupled with the opening day home defeat at the hands of Liverpool may well have begun to take the toll on Arsenal fans.

While Arsenal had begun to show some grit and steel in their performances in recent weeks, all was undone in an effortless, lacklustre performance against Championship Blackburn.

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After last Sunday's 5 - 0 hiding in the semi-final of the FA Cup at the hands of Stoke, I doubt there will be too many in that Bolton dressing room excited at the prospect of turning out in front of their home fans for the first time since last week's horror showing, especially as another may well be in the offing should they turn up in a similarly lacklustre mood when Arsenal pay them a visit on Sunday.

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SECOND - HALF: Arsenal began the second - half playing at an increased tempo, but their passing remained lacklustre.

Bayern were lacklustre, but that would just take away the credit from Arsenal, who put in a brave and magnificent performance.

Some were saying that Bolton didn't play that bad against Arsenal at the weekend, which is true to a certain extent, but their poor start to game and their lacklustre showing in the middle of the park gave us a completely different after - viewing in that we felt Bolton massively underperformed, although there were big signs that the Owen Coyle affect is already taken place at The Reebok.

Chelsea endured a week of fantastic results, rising to second on the domestic league after a late victory over Manchester City and a Capital One Cup victory over Arsenal, only to be disappointed by a dismal and uncharacteristically lacklustre display at St James» Park...

The lacklustre campaigns became more challenging forcing me to consider the diverse arsenal at my disposal.