The boss has been a hard taskmaster at times this season but he has gone out of his way ahead of
the Stoke City game to congratulate every one of the squad.
Expect City to come out firing, although a repeat of
the Stoke City game could mean defeat in London.
Steve Bould stood in for an ill Arsene Wenger at Thursday's press conference - and provided a team news update ahead of
the Stoke City game.
the stoke city game shows there are no easy games however city ai nt arsenal and i fully expect them to come back and possibly win the game.
Lets focus on
the Stoke City game.
So far our lowly position can be put down to a failure to take a point from
stoke city a game we dominated.
The Stoke City game is actually at home.
Frank Lampard was in a lot of pain after
the Stoke City game, not in enough pain to prevent him from playing the lions share of the game.
Giroud is better as a sub to be a plan B to Theo, stats are very deceiving because Giroud scores goals which aren't really vital, the 5th goal against Leicester, the 2nd in a comfortable
Stoke City game let him score a vital 1 - 0 goal for Arsenal against Man United to show his worth!
Not exact matches
Just as the Gunners are getting over our own injury crisis and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0 win over Hull
City in the FA cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of
Stoke City yesterday, our next Premier League
game throws up an away
game with the reigning EPL champions.
But there is current form in our favour, with
Stoke's only win in the last 9
games was against relegation candidates Hull
City, and they have nothing left to play for.
As expected, Arsene Wenger has brought back the players rested for the Champions League
game in midweek and so Arsenal will start at Stamford Bridge with the same 11 players that won our last Premier League
game against
Stoke City.
City are better than us this season, so I wouldn't read too much into that result, the
game against
Stoke is more important — we can't afford to drop anymore «easy» points.
The other
games following our Champions League matches are against Bournemouth,
Stoke, Burnley, Middlesborough and Hull
City and those are all
games you would expect us to win.
And those goals all came in four of the
games, as we failed to score against
Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull
City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.
We play 1 bad
game and didn't even lose I might add yet Man
City lose to
stoke and u don't hear their fans calling for his head!
Just like in the last campaign our first three matches include
games against Leicester and Liverpool abnd sandwiched in between is the generally disappointing away clash with
Stoke City.
But I think their ability is not about hurting you all
game — you can have tougher
games when you go to
Stoke City.»
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.
Stoke City Bournemouth Brighton Watford Swansea Nottingham Forest If we had performed away from home in these
games like we did tonight then we would be 3rd in the Premiership just 2points behind Manure and most likely in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.
He added: «
City have only won two of their last 10
games at
Stoke.
His first FA cup start was back in 2010 and Coquelin endured a tough
game at right back and was subbed by Arsene Wenger as Arsenal went on to lose the
game to
Stoke City.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident his side will soon find their goalscoring touch ahead of the home
game against
Stoke City on Saturday afternoon.
Jovetic had a good home
game against Liverpool, against whom he scored a brace; Aguero, in the two substitute appearances, had bagged a couple of goals for himself but, against
Stoke City, he couldn't do another «Aguerooooo» moment to save the blushes for the sky blues.
Let's judge Coqhelin after the
Stoke and hopefully
City game Stop criticising him or comparing him at 23 he has to be better than who else we have I rate him very high and glad he is being given the chance to prove himself CB
15
games played and
stoke city are just 2 points behind us.
With
games coming up against an in form
Stoke team, a dangerous Everton side and a wounded Manchester
City, big tests are on the horizon over Christmas for Arsene Wenger's men.
However, Chelsea's start to the 2015 - 16 season has been so bad — 11 defeats in 25
games, not including a penalty - shootout loss at
Stoke City — that Mourinho is now a genuine contender in the sack race.
lets see how arsenal do in their next 3
games saints,
stoke and man
city we have most of our players back so no more excuses i expect min 7 points from these
games
With three goals in eight
games since January,
Stoke City striker Mame Biram Diouf is really starting to show his worth to the Potters this season.
Ospina has played in the following premier league
games,
stoke, man
city and aston villa.
I'd play Alexis against Southampton, maybe sub him off if needed, but after that he can rest until the
City game really, I don't think
Stoke will be much of a threat at the Emirates, nor Hull in the FA Cup.
Not because he can't learn, but at less than six feet, you are not exactly going to command the 6 yard box in the Premier League when
Stoke City start whipping in 500 crosses per
game.
This is the difference... Man
city score 6 against Watford & Ars score 1... Now we have lost 2
games which we should have won, 1 against
Stoke & the other today.....
lets all calm down yeah, west ham lost today because they got cocky and tried to beat us by playing football we should be beating these teams why we celebrating like we just beat chelsea or something, if we win our next 3
games than i will be impressed (next
games saints,
stoke and
city)
After ostensibly dropping two points against Liverpool last night, Arsenal could really do with getting back to winning ways against
Stoke City on Sunday and banishing the frustration from last nights
game.
First up we have an in form and confident
Stoke City coming to the Emirates and while Arsenal will have had just two days to recover from the Basel
game, the Potters have had no such issues as they are not in Europe and were knocked out of the EFL cup in September.
There is some good news for Arsenal on the injury front today, although I was hoping that Hector Bellerin's early return from his ankle injury would see him back in the starting line up for the visit of
Stoke City in today's Premier League
game.
With a trip to Man
City next on our agenda, the home clash with
Stoke City tomorrow is now looking like a must win
game with all the added pressure that our precarious situation brings.
With their 11 PL
games to play, Arsenal can still make the top four to qualify for the UCL next season and still finish above Spurs if the Gunners can have an 11
games winning run during which they will have to beat Man
City H, Everton H,
Stoke A, Tottenham A, Southampton A and Man Utd H. Six difficult PL
games which if the Gunners won all, will go a long way to cement another 4th place table finish for Arsenal this season.
the club is getting a weeks rest before facing
Stoke City, and it looks like Flamini could well be ready to return to the squad for next Sunday's
game at the Emirates.
The Arsenal squad are due to arrive in Asia next Monday, ready to participate in the Barclays Asian trophy with a
game against the Singapore select XI team on the Wednesday followed by another
game against either
Stoke City of Everton to determine the winner, assuming that the Gunners win our first
game of course.
Aaand this would mean that we will win our remaining
games (including
City away) and Spurs would win United, Southampton,
Stoke (A) and Chelsea (A).
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 City.
Another exciting English youngster, Ruben Loftus - Cheek could get more
game time for Chelsea this term, or could go on loan to
Stoke City, and either way looks very reasonable at just # 5m.
The England striker was dropped for the 2 - 0 loss to
Stoke City in December following a poor run of form, but the resurgence continues as Rooney scored his seventh goal in as many
games on Tuesday night to help them secure a 3 - 0 win over the Potters at Old Trafford.
I can't see Leicester and Man
City doing poorly in those
games and if my memory serves me right, Leicester have now beaten
Stoke and Liverpool in the last 2
games.
Mancini puts
City's title bid apparently failing down to the recent injury of Sergio Aguero who missed their draws with Sunderland and
Stoke last month — two
games which allowed United to open up a five point gap on their rivals.
But that
game, along with the weekend just gone which saw Lukaku devour Arsenal while Torres went scoreless against
Stoke City, has breathed new life into a debate that has been rumbling along for most of the season.
Final 10
games: Arsenal (H), Aston Villa (A), Bournemouth (H), Liverpool (A), Manchester United (H),
Stoke City (A), West Brom (H), Chelsea (A), Southampton (H), Newcastle (A)