It was an astonishing seven weeks since
the last home league game.
As against Middlesbrough in
the last home league game, Arsenal missed Santi Cazorla in midfield.
That's
the last home league game for the youth team in 2017.
Not exact matches
Tottenham are on an unbeaten run of 7
home league matches while Arsenal have enjoyed 5 wins from their
last 5
games in all competitions.
Our first
league game of the season, at home to West Ham, may look like a nailed on three points, especially with the way we have been playing over the last few weeks, but the Hammers are already into competitive games in the Europa League and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a tough
league game of the season, at
home to West Ham, may look like a nailed on three points, especially with the way we have been playing over the
last few weeks, but the Hammers are already into competitive
games in the Europa
League and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a tough
League and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a tough
game.
While zooming through three levels of the minor
leagues last season, Snider batted.275 -LRB-.349 OBP,.480 slugging) with 23
home runs and 91 RBIs.After a late - August call - up to the majors he hit.301 in 24
games and now saysthat playing in the big
leagues was «easier than I thought.»
The lesser fans of lesser teams will say it was because the Vikings got the
game at
home (as if the NFL knew back in 2014 when they gave the
game to Minneapolis that the 2017 Vikings were going to be really good), but really it's because Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman have built the best defense in the National Football
League over the course of the
last four seasons since Zimmer's arrival.
Last season he had personal major
league lows in
home runs and RBIs, and at one point in September he got so fed up that he refused to enter a
game as a pinch hitter.
Surely now Arsenal are back at
home where we had won 15
games in a row before the Man United debacle, and with the benefit of playing a very weak Newcastle side that has managed just one point from their
last 8
League games, is the perfect opportunity to get this monkey off their backs before we welcome Liverpool to the Emirates next week....
After a 10 -
game unbeaten run, Norwich have lost four and drawn one of their
last five
league games and have won away from
home only once this season.
As another old enemy, Michael Owen, said about the match in his Premier
League betting preview: «Tony Pulis has lost only one of his
last six Premier
League home games with Arsenal and I expect to see his side bounce back after a couple of disappointing performances in recent weeks,»
«Manchester United are traditionally one of the strongest teams in the
league and, although we beat them convincingly
last season at
home, the away
game was maybe the one in which we faded.
But we should not write this
game off just yet as Everton are still in poor form in the Premier
League, only just managing to snatch a point off Leicester at
home last weekend.
The La Liga and First
League giants exchange goals for much of the
game, but ultimately Villarreal gets the
last shot off and seals a crucial
home win.
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 National
League player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league a
League player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four
games last week and hit a
home run in his first big
league a
league at bat.
They are unbeaten in their
last four
league home games.
The club have won their
last five
home league games against Nottingham Forest keeping clean sheets in the
last three but will be disappointed with their performance during a 1 - 0 loss at
home to Sheffield Wednesday
last time out.
It's like 39
games since PSG
last lost at
home in the champions
league and that lost was against a very ripe Barcelona.
The defending English Premier
League champions started their season off with a disastrous result in a 3 - 2 loss at
home to Burnley FC, but have returned to form since then with an 4 -0-1 record over their
last five
games.
We should have won the
last two
home games in the
league with ease, even with 10 men against a poor Chelsea side.
It's funny how he said we are better than Liverpool overrall forgetting that in terms of players we were still better than them
last season yet the beat us
home and away.Liverpool team is not so good yet out of all the top four team they're the ones who play their hearts out.That's why Liverpool didn't lose a single
game to a top four team
last season though on paper they should have.As for Tottenham if you look at their team they just need a few more signings and consistency so I don't know what's the big deal about them.The painful this is they could've won the
league if not for draws.It was a disgrace for any of those two to finish over us
last season because on paper it shouldn't be so.This should tell you that it's not all about the team you have.Some it's about luck, sometimes it's about giving your best and sometimes it's just meant to be.
Sunderland have made two changes from their
last Premier
League game as Gus Poyet searches desperately for a win at
home to Stoke City in the Premier
League this afternoon.
But of course that is not the whole story, as the Gunners are back on
home turf at the Emirates where they have only lost twice in the
League all season and if you look at their
last six
League games at
home it looks much more encouraging.
Claude Puel's men have just beaten Liverpool to reach the
League Cup Final in February and in fact have won 4 out of their
last 5
games in all competitions (and have won their
last three at
home too) so may be confident of getting another result against us at St Marys.
-- Southampton have only lost one of their
last six
home Premier
League games against Arsenal (W2 D3), though it was in the
last such meeting back in May
Another reason I fancy Arsenal to do the business is that although Everton looked good against Chelsea, in their
last 8 Premier
League games at
home, they have only won once, against Newcastle, and they actually lost 5 of those 8 matches.
Answer me this: does a team that screwed up their CL group stage to finish 2nd, got embarrassed in the CL
last 16, got sent packing in the Carling Cup at
HOME, bottled 2nd place in the
league with 4
games remaining, and finished 12 points behind the domestic champions have everything in place squadwise to compete on all fronts?
The Braves tied a major
league record
last week when they ran their streak of
games with at least one
home run to 25.
They had won 36 of 48
games from that day in August until the
last one in September, and after sweeping the Phils in a bizarre doubleheader the night before for their 23rd and 24th straight wins at
home, the championship of the National
League East seemed within the Pirates» reach.
Roy Hodgson's side have regained their belief in themselves and are now 8
games unbeaten in the
League, but more worrying for Arsenal is that they have not lost a
home game in their
last 6 either.
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.
The two team's records on the 1st January are poles apart, as while Arsenal haven't lost a
home league game on this date since 1985, the Eagles have won just one of their
last seven
league games away from
home on New Year's Day which came in 1996 at Portsmouth.
Despite the Gunners excellent
home record, they have won just 3 of their 11 away
League games this season, but adversely Arsenal are unbeaten in their
last 10 away
games in the FA Cup, and even more if you include our Wembley semis and Finals!
If we had treated them with respect and performed we would be
last 8 UCL and a minimum of 6 points better off in the
league (should have won 2
home games and min of draw against Stoke) ie: a point behind Chelski.
The Gunners were wasteful with the chances they've created in their 2
last League games as they have failed to convert most of the good goal scoring chances they got in their
home game against West Ham.
Arsenal's
last home Europa
League game was dire after taking a win over Ostersunds for granted, but Ramsey knows that we can't do the same tomorrow, despite our lead from the first leg in Milan.
Wenger is right that we are finding away
games difficult, in fact we have only won 1 of our
last 5 in the
League, but that also has to be compared with Swansea's
home record and that shows that the Swans have only won 2 of their 10
League games at the Liberty Stadium this season.
Although the Clarets lost 1 - 0 to Swansea on this season's opening day, that is actually there only
home defeat in the
last 17
League games, stretching back to before Xmas.
After Arsenal survived an early Champions
League blow thanks to some
last ditch defending, a few moments of magic from the second choice keeper David Ospina and some profligacy in front of goal from Edinson Cavani and Angel Di Maria, the Paris Saint - Germain fans were left cursing their luck after Alexis Sanchez popped up in the right place to rifle
home the rebound from Alex Iwobi's shot in the final 12 minutes of our group
game.
If we can win these
games before CITY at
home we could be well placed in the
League and finish 2nd in the CL group, not all bad, though I'm sure in the
last 16 it will be another mega fixture... Barca or Madrid probably.
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.
Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some
games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time,
games are not comfortably won,
last season we had a better away record than
home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the
league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.
Sean Dyche has made Turf Moor a fortress for the Clarets for some time now and despite the fact that their
home record so far this season has not been quite as impressive as
last time, when they only lost six Premier
League games through the whole campaign, they are still very hard to beat there and have also started to do the business on the road as well.
So the
last couple of appearances from Lacazette have been very encouraging for the Gunners and whereas I thought previously that Arsene Wenger might ease the new striker into Premier
League and first team life with Arsenal, I think we can now expect Lacazette to start the opening
game at
home to Leicester City on Friday and to quickly show just why the boss broke the club's transfer record to sign him.
Arsenal's second - string side got past Cologne in the Europa
League last week, and if anything this Caraboa Cup
game at
home to Doncaster should be even easier.
A 3 - 0 victory for the Gunners at
home against Chelsea, meant that Arsenal have beaten the Blues for the first time in the Premier
League in ten attempts, whilst the Gunners also finally broke the record of having not scored against Chelsea in the
last six
games.
Reading are unbeaten in their
last six
home league games against Norwich.
In fact their record both
home and away has been awful since the turn of the new year having won just two of their
last 15
league games — I'll be surprised If Heckingbottom is still in charge at Elland Road this time next year.
Arsene Wenger might decide to keep faith with the Arsenal players who got beat in our
last Premier
League match which ended with a 4 - 0 defeat away to Liverpool and could have been a lot worse if Petr Cech had played as badly as his outfield colleagues, but somehow I doubt it and expect the manager to make a few changes to the team for the
home game against Bournemouth tomorrow.