Who's
our next league game against?
We have a few days now to recover and plan for the FA cup and then another week before
the next league game against Crystal Palace.
So
this next League game against Liverpool could again be the reason we don't reach the Top Four and we need to take it extremely seriously.
Not exact matches
A 1 - 2 reverse for Watford is clearly a bad result for them and great for Gillingham, however I would not be so quick to condem them to defeat
against us in the
next league game.
Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough
games to take us completely off winning the
league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few
games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies
against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go
next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..
We have big home
league games coming up
against Liverpool and Chelsea
next month and we should have no fear going in to them.
We only took two Premier
League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the
next six, including the big
game against title rivals Man City.
I still am not sure why Mick McCarthy opted to play such a weakened side, I know some would point out that the club went on to win their
next fixture but its worth remembering that Wolves had also won their previous two matches prior to the Old Trafford clash so they would have buoyed up for the
game and who knows perhaps they could have gotten a surprise result
against the Premier
League champions.
Their
next games will be
against tottenham and liverpool in the
league.
All three of our away
games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the team to recover before the
next league match and although one of those matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European
game should not affect our chances, especially as it is
against Lodogorets, the weakest team in the group.
Then they have the
league cup
game against Hull City on the Tuesday after and Hull could do us a huge favour by taking that to extra time as it has to be decided on the night.They then have to get ready for the always tiring trip to Stoke and the TV folk have done us a favour here by giving their weary legs an early Saturday start before their final UCL
game the
next Tuesday.
My wish for our
next 2
games against Chelsea: I would rather lost to them in the community shield and beat them in the premier
league.
There has been and will continue to be an awful lot of talk among Arsenal fans and in the football press about various behind the scenes goings on at our club, but right now the manager and the players need to focus on the
next match and taking all three Premier
League points from our home
game against Manchester City.
Although we also have the Europa
League games to come, our
next round
against the minnows from Sweden, Ostersund, it is hardly likely to be as stressful as playing teams like Barcelona, Juventus or Sevilla and I am sure Wenger will still be rotating players for these
games.
Before (and after) the Europa
League game against Ostersund, Arsene Wenger emphasised that Arsenal's main objective remains to finish in the Top Four to achieve Champions
League status
next season, as he doesn't agree with the rule that you can enter the elite competition by the «back door» if you win the lesser Europa
League.
A lack of creativity has been noticeable in the side's last two
games against Manchester United and Arsenal, which resulted in back - to - back defeats and dented hopes of Champions
League football returning to Anfield
next season.
He played his
League Cup team
against Zagreb two weeks ago, and is likely to do the same tomorrow with the crucial Man United
game coming up
next.
That is why it is great news today that Francis Coquelin has recovered more quickly than expected and is back in training, in fact, according to the Mirror today, Francis is even likely to be in the squad for
next weekends FA Cup
game against Burnley in preparation for the midweek
League game against Southampton.
The
games that the 26 - year old will definitely miss, along with the three lions» clashes with Slovenia and Lithuania, will be the Arsenal home
games in the Premier
League against West Brom and Brighton, the Carabao cup tie at home to Doncaster Rovers tonight and the trip to Belarus to plat BATE Borisov in the Europa
League next week.
We have a tough Champions
League game against Monaco approaching fast, but today we will find out who our
next opponents are on the road to Wembley.
Arsenal's
next encounter was on the 16th in a London derby
against Crystal Palace, the opening
game for Arsenal in the Premier
League.
The defeat leaves the club's hopes of making it to the
next round of the Champions
League hanging in the balance and needing victories in their final two
games against Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiacos.
Along with Sunday's derby
against Manchester United, Silva will also miss
next week's crucial Champions
League game against CSKA Moscow.
Arsene Wenger is going to have a dilemma on Tuesday if he is intending to rotate his starting line - up like he has done in Arsenal's last two midweek
games, with the massive
game against League leaders Man United
next weekend.
It will be very interesting to see if we can scare a record - breaking team like Bayern Munich just as easily, but it is far more important that, whatever the result on Tuesday, we go into
next weekend's
game against Everton with the same attitude we have had in the
League recently, and go and kill those Toffees off too!
Even if we do manage to win the
next two Premier
League games, at home to West Brom on Boxing Day and then Crystal Palace on new years day, I do not expect us to make up any ground on the league leaders, as Chelsea also have two very winnable home games against Bournemouth and Stoke
League games, at home to West Brom on Boxing Day and then Crystal Palace on new years day, I do not expect us to make up any ground on the
league leaders, as Chelsea also have two very winnable home games against Bournemouth and Stoke
league leaders, as Chelsea also have two very winnable home
games against Bournemouth and Stoke City.
Now Arsene Wenger and the players must make sure that this is a blip and not the way our fortunes will pan out, because before the
next break we have EPL
games against Everton away, Swansea at home and Man City away as well as the Carabao Cup
game and the Europa
League double header with Red Star Belgrade.
Following on from the Foxes Arsenal's
next league game is the always tough trip to Stoke, before an even more difficult away
game against Liverpool, so you can see why all three points
against Leicester could be massive.
He has scored on his last two
games for the Reds
against Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea, but unfortunately those goals don't look like being enough to secure Champions
League football for his boyhood club
next season as they currently trail fourth placed Manchester United by six points with two
games remaining but have an inferior goal difference.
All of our rivals have Champions
League games next Tuesday and Wednesday, while we will play our reserve side again
against BATE, giving us yet another boost.
With a key
game against Spartak Moscow
next week to seal qualification for the knockout stage of the Champions
League, followed by a busy lead - up to the festive period which includes the Merseyside derby
next weekend, the last thing Klopp wants is to see Matip out for an extended period of time.
Next up for Arsenal in the Premier
League is a home
game against Burnley on Sunday and it is one we definitely have to win and also one that the Arsenal fans will be expecting to win with some ease, although things do not always work out the way we expect them to.
Speaking ahead of Arsenal's
next match
against Swansea City, Wenger said: «Maybe the quality of a Premier
League team is to be capable of refocusing quickly after international
games.
All Arsenal can do is win our
games and with the
next one after Watford in the
league being
against Chelsea it was vital that we kept as close as possible this weekend.
And with the
next four Premier
League games for the Gunners being against the two clubs propping up the league table, Aston Villa and Sunderland, and the others struggling not far above the drop zone, you could say that the Frenchman has the ideal opport
League games for the Gunners being
against the two clubs propping up the
league table, Aston Villa and Sunderland, and the others struggling not far above the drop zone, you could say that the Frenchman has the ideal opport
league table, Aston Villa and Sunderland, and the others struggling not far above the drop zone, you could say that the Frenchman has the ideal opportunity.
With a two week international break coming up at the start of September, Arsenal can expect to be much stronger after the
next two Premier
League games against Everton and Leicester City, which are both away from home.
If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home
game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier
League for the first time, then we will be heading into the
next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier
League rivals.
While Arsenal took our FA cup 3rd round
game against Sunderland seriously and also got the just reward for starting with first team stars like Walcott, Giroud, Koscielny, Bellerin and Petr Cech, our
next Premier
League opponents Liverpool made wholesale changes.
Arsenal have already got through to the
next round of the FA cup without the Spaniard at right back, although it was a much harder
game against Preston North End than we would have liked, and there is good reason to expect us to do the same away to Swansea City in the Premier
League this weekend.
Bellerin has not missed a single minute of action for Arsenal in the Premier
League and Champions
League so far this season so hopefully this injury scare will mean that he misses the
next Spanish under 21
game against Estonia on Monday and comes back to London not only fit but refreshed and ready to fire for the Gunners.
So will Xhaka have to wait until the Champions
League match
against Ludogorets on Wednesday for his
next game?
With Arsenal having a strong season in the Premier
League you would normally have expected our
next game against Chelsea at the Emirates stadium to have been a potentially pivotal
game in the destination of the coveted EPL title.
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next season.
In Arsenal's case the last result was a comfortable 4 - 1 win
against Galatasaray and the
next game is
against the best team in the premier
league so far — Chelsea.
Next weekend could be massive for us because we have a home
game against Everton after the midweek Champions
League clash with Monaco.
The boss then must surely make many changes for our
League Cup match
against Reading tomorrow, so as to give our tired stars a chance to recover for the
next League game at Sunderland
next weekend, although our manager is keen for us to get back to winning ways
against the Championship side.
We also pulled off a miraculous rescue mission to stay in the Champions
League although I do not want to think about our
next two European
games against the might of Barcelona right now.
Laurent Koscielny was sent off in the first - half
against Everton on Sunday in the final Premier
League game of the season, and in turn he'll miss
next weekend's clash through suspension.
And with a trip to Manchester United
next up in the
league for Arsenal (after cup
games against Hull City and Barcelona), the hosts will be going all out to secure all three points, just as they did when the sides last met at King Power Stadium last year, with Arsenal running out 5 - 2 winners.
But, if you get wins
against the good teams then it will breed confidence for the whole team and we look forward to the
next few Premier
League games now.»