Pep Guardiola's side have 12 points with one match to play at Dinamo Zagreb, while Greek club Olympiakos, in second place on nine points, will definitely progress to the last 16 if they take
a point against Arsenal at home and may do so even if defeated.
Leicester City were extremely strong in last season's Championship and have performed admirably in their first two Premiership games against Everton and Chelsea, so they are still full of confidence and believe they can take all three
points against Arsenal this afternoon.
Martin Keown has claimed that doesn't expect Tottenham to earn all three
points against Arsenal because of the Emirates effect.
Everton have surely sealed all three -
points against Arsenal at Goodison Park after Ashley Williams put his side ahead with just minutes to go.
Manchester United thought they had done enough to seal all three
points against Arsenal on Saturday but were held to a 1 - 1 draw by their rivals.
If United drop
points against Arsenal and City win their game against West Ham on sunday its pretty much curtains for the title -LSB-...]
If United drop
points against Arsenal and City win their game against West Ham on sunday its pretty much curtains for the title race.
Although United have been labeled favourites to get all three
points against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, many naturals would see the game ending in a stalemate, with Arsenal fans expected to back their team to at least get a draw off a depleted Manchester United side.
The intensity in their play has died, they aren't playing with the sort of passion and drive as they were when thoroughly deserving of their three
points against Arsenal and point with Manchester United.
Not exact matches
However, as much as it is important for
Arsenal to take maximum possible
points from Goodison Park this evening, it would not be the end of the world for the North Londoners if they win or lose
against Everton.
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.
Arsenal supporters will have been overjoyed to secure all three
points against rivals Tottenham on Sunday, but Alan Shearer makes a great
point.
But it was over all good performance... But being
Arsenal, they are very unpredictable... We can not assume that we would win comfortably
against West Brom next Monday night... They are very hard to break down and it's Tony Pulis side who only play with air balls... Corners and Free kicks... So we have should not feel any euphoric feeling by this
point... This should be happening week in week out....
Just perusing last years fixtures and discounting the losses to Chelsea and Manure
Arsenal dropped roughly 10
points against the likes of Southampton, Swansea (lost 2x), Stoke, Sunderland, Leicester, Hull City, Liverpool (96 minute Skyrtel equalizer playing a man down).
Arsene Wenger was obviously not happy that
Arsenal dropped three
points against one of our direct rivals for fourth place, but although he rued the defensive «mistakes» he felt that his team were tired but refused to blame anyone for the calamitous two goals we conceded.
On every other occasion it was our laid back approach
against mostly smaller teams that cost us
points, where we take the results or
points for granted just because opponent is considered smaller than
Arsenal.
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.
That sloppy pass by the central midfielder cost
Arsenal the game and a very similar one
against Leicester City in the opening EPL match almost cost us
points as well.
Vidal continues to say that Munich is the best team in the world, and he can certainly
point to
Arsenal's humiliation
against Bayern in the Champions League to emphasise the gap in quality between the two sides, but he believes that Alexis will make the Germans into an even better side.
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.
Once again yesterday, in the very tough and tight match
against Newcastle United, Petr Cech kept
Arsenal in the game at key moments and that gave us the platform to nick all three
points.
Wilshere was Man - Of - The - Match
against Slovenia, but his team - mate Danny Welbeck scored the two goals that made the
points safe, and
Arsenal's young striker is also keen to play again.
Hughes» team have picked up just two
points from their last six games and face one of the toughest run - ins of the bottom five teams, including games
against Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City.
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....
Harry Kane scored the only goal of the game early in the second half to secure all three
points for Spurs at Wembley, and naturally it would have been a major disappointment for
Arsenal supporters to lose
against their bitter rivals.
Unfortunately the only people that can remove him is the ones that put him in charge of
arsenal and the only way the board will move
against wenger is when he does not meet their expectations, have you heard any one of the board members come out and say fourth is not acceptable, for several years he has guarantee the board money from the champions league, they also have several agreements or contract signed with major companies, all that
points to money coming back to the board.
By the time we face Chelsea on Sunday,
Arsenal could have dropped to third in the table if both Leicester and Man City pick up
points, so we really need to make a statement by beating our arch rivals by hook or by crook, if only to break our horrible record
against them.
Everyone time I defend this club (and having to do so
against OUR OWN FANS is a completely different issue), one of the main
points people always use to criticise
Arsenal with, is the utterly embarrassing manner in which our own «fans» constantly attack the players, manager and the board.
Arsenal may have lost the three
points last week, but Wenger was pleased with the overall performance
against a team that parked the bus.
They will have had added motivation after
Arsenal lost
against Everton yesterday, as Jurgen Klopp's side will draw level with the Gunners if they take all three
points this evening.
Arsenal face up
against strong opposition, Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, at the Emirates this Sunday and will be hoping to start the season off with an impressive three
points.
Arsenal are now just one
point behind Liverpool, who are now under pressure to get all three
points against West Ham tomorrow, so does Wenger think we are right back in the race for the Top Four?
United moved to within a
point of us in the table with their win and so even a
point would keep them just one result from overtaking
Arsenal and with us facing a tough trip to relegation battling Sunderland on Sunday, a win
against the Baggies is vital tonight.
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.
Perhaps they could benefit from the famous new - manager - syndrome and their caretaker manager Gary Brazil can't wait to test himself
against Arsenal on Sunday after helping the club to a
point at Leeds in his first match.
After all, a
point away from home
against the champions would not be a bad result by any means, whereas yet another defeat, even if it is a narrow one, would inflict further damage on the confidence and self - belief of the
Arsenal players.
Arsenal went into the game
against Sunderland on Saturday, having picked up a single
point in their last two Premier League games.
I personally don't, he misses too many chances to be relied on Had it not been for Moses, we'd have dropped
points cause he missed a one - on - one, same way we dropped
points in the 2 - 2
against Arsenal cause he missed 3 (THREE) one - on - ones I really think we should be looking for a reliable striker, and start considering putting Morata on the bench
Wenger is main reason that Sanchez and Ozil came to
arsenal... so no
point using your bais
against him as the reason!
I don think all those responding this morning has woken up yet, man City put seven past burnley and unless we adopted the same tactics of two seasons ago by being very defensive and hit them on counterattack because it's important we get a result as we did
against Chelsea when most pundits were fearing the worst and a
point on Sunday will be wicked for it will do wonders for the players self confidence and send a message as well that
arsenal can still do the business
Now that Leicester need to collect 6 additional
points to the 72 they've gotten already to be certain of beating
Arsenal to the title, the Boss starts
against Palace and WBA must be such a starts that will out matched whatever these 2 clubs starts have on offer
against the Boss» starts for the 2 matches.
Norwich City currently sit five
points clear of the relegation zone though will face the side directly below them, Fulham this weekend before finishing the season with matches
against Liverpool, Man United, Chelsea and
Arsenal.
we still have 35 more games to go and obviously other teams will definately drop
points and
Arsenal needs to make sure they win their big games
against the top teams.
Unfortunately for them,
Arsenal's form at this
point really picked up, and despite another Bale - inspired win on the final day
against Sunderland,
Arsenal's win at Newcastle meant they were consigned to another season below their North London rivals and another season of Europa League football, despite their record
points tally in the Premier League with 72.
Drop more
points against Stoke and Burnley's hopes of catching
Arsenal will fade away, but they will have to make the trip to the Potteries with fitness doubts over James Tarkowski, Georges - Kevin N'Koudou, Ben Mee and Jonathan Walters.
Arsenal and Manchester United will be doing business again this season at some
point, and you wonder if Wenger has done enough to secure victory
against Mourinho this time around.
Unless there is a bomb dropped on Stamford bridge during the City match taking out both teams I just do not see how
Arsenal is going to make up over 10
points against both City and Chelsea.
Arsenal dropped three
points at Wembley this afternoon
against Tottenham and fans were quick to turn on forward Alexandre Lacazette.
The Blues remain seven
points clear of their nearest challengers
Arsenal and they still have a game in hand, which will take place next week
against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, given that the Gunners are in FA Cup action on the same day.
Watching the program before knowing the results one would have thought that
Arsenal had dropped
points against West Ham.