It was even harder for Arsenal fans to take as there seemed to be a door left open by our Premier League rivals to finally regain the title after 12 years of waiting since that amazing
unbeaten season from the invincibles.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
If you look at just the EPL games, our longest
unbeaten run is six games
from the start of the
season, but only two of those were wins.
Okay, Arsenal do need to start winning games, but if we are still
unbeaten on the way home
from Germany, it will have been a pretty strong start to the
season in difficult circumstances.
Hiddink remains
unbeaten since taking the job at Stamford Bridge on an interim basis until the end of the
season, and the Dutch tactician will hope Costa can continue to fire them up the table as they currently remain in the bottom half with 28 points
from their 23 games so far this
season.
Late goals
from Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi helped to rescue Barca and keep their hopes of
unbeaten season in the league alive.
As the wins and the catches piled upduring the
season, his older brother, Lee, knowing the pressure of trying toremain
unbeaten, started sending text messages
from Oklahoma City.
In case you are looking to accuse him of tactical ineptitude, Wenger has never been a coach to micromanage his players on the pitch, even during the
season they went
unbeaten, he simply got intelligent self motivated players together who communicated with and led each other on the pitch, figuring out opponents and outwitting them without waiting for instructions
from the bench, Henry, Pires, Vieira, Adams, Keown, Campbell come to mind here.
Anyone that can stop them
from ending the
season unbeaten is worth my money!
Every
season apart
from the
unbeaten era Arsenal flatter to deceive.
We play so well
from the beginning of the
season, collapse in the middle only to go on a strange
unbeaten run towards the end of the.
The Broncos wouldn't have made the BCS title game that year thanks to two
unbeaten power - conference champions — 13 - 0 Auburn would beat 12 - 0 Oregon — but the loss relegated them
from a third BCS bowl in five
seasons to the Maaco Bowl in Las Vegas.
Amat had come into California's Southern Section Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (
from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation —
unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the
season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.
What a fall
from grace for Wenger — who has twice guided Arsenal to
unbeaten seasons away
from home, first in 2001/02 and then again in the «Invincibles» year of 2003/04 when they didn't lose at all.
The Bulls were everyone's preseason pick to threaten the playoff
from outside the Power 5, but it was always understood that they would have to win with style on their way to an
unbeaten regular
season in order to get the committee's attention.
Remarkably, it was under Wenger that Arsenal twice completed entire
seasons unbeaten away
from home, first in 2001/02 when all three of their defeats were at home, and then in 2003/04 when they didn't lose at all.
One week out
from the first playoff rankings, what would the New Year's Six picture look like if the smallest number of
unbeaten teams fell before bowl
season?
However, they remain
unbeaten in the two major competitions, winning 12 of their 15 league games so far this
season, and so
from a results point of view, there's little to moan about.
Who would have thought Kolo Toure would have been part of 2 teams to have gone
unbeaten for a whole
season when Arsenal signed him
from ASEC Mimosas?
Under Graham Arsenal won in Europe and were one loss away
from an
unbeaten season, won 2 First Division Titles, FA and League Cups.
Arsenal is a joke if you look at the stats hardly anyone has had a regular game this
season, and the 7
unbeaten run of games HUH come on apart
from Chelsea who lost to City at home and Crystal Palace which were beaten last 7 games in a trot managed to beat Chelsea and they drew with Roma at home for god sake, any way what i'm trying to say is we relay didn't have any real competition this
season apart
from Liverpool and look what happened there
Key factors one always looks at for teams includes returning starters, what happened during the previous
season, a program's traditional success (or lack of it), early schedule (playing another top team in first or second week) and new players that may be coming up
from an
unbeaten JV or a major transfer.
But going into next
season... with this complete squad (well nearly complete squad) you do have the confidence that we can compete for the title... Yeah I agree that we have to be consistent the whole
season but what we saw in the second half of
season was that we have improved
from what we had been for last ten years... And also we can have blips but seriously no team can go the
season unbeaten... not at least in present scenario...
Villa remain
unbeaten, with 10 points
from their first four games giving them their best start to the
season since the 1998 - 99 campaign, when they went on to finish sixth.
From the double winning sides of 1997 - 98 and 2001 - 02, an
unbeaten season with «The Invincibles» in 2003 - 04, seven FA Cup trophies, and a Champions League Final in...
West Ham on the other hand, although
unbeaten in four, had only won once in the last eleven games and had accumulated only a handful of points
from top eight sides all
season.
The Frenchman has had his fair share of dramatic moments during the past two decades, ranging
from winning the 2003/04 title in an
unbeaten season to almost clinching a Champions League triumph against Barcelona in 2006.
Our development squad head into the international break
unbeaten from their opening three games in the inaugural Premier League 2 following a 1 - 1 draw away at Manchester United, the league champions in each of the past two
seasons.
More than once, Guardiola has promised to heed lessons
from Manchester City's slumps, notably after the 4 - 3 defeat at Liverpool in January that ended their hopes of an
unbeaten Premier League
season.
The victory takes Spurs up to third place and maintains their
unbeaten start to the Premier League
season, picking up 11 points
from five games along the way.
Rochdale and Burnley both have eight points
from two wins and two draws while the three teams who started the
season late all remain
unbeaten.
Compared to Carrick's numbers
from last
season — when he remained influential, his introduction into the starting XI in October setting United off on a lengthy
unbeaten run — Jorginho is seeing more of the ball, is marginally more accurate in his distribution and is proving to be more creative.
However, following December defeats to Preston, Middlesbrough and Hull City, Burnley then remained
unbeaten for the rest of the
season, notching up fifteen wins and seven draws as the goals
from Andre Gray and Sam Vokes propelled the Lancashire club to the top of the table to clinch automatic promotion to the top flight for the 2016/17
season.
QPR led
from the front, their
unbeaten run stretching deep into the
season before Watford stole all three points
from Loftus Road, whereas Cardiff have struggled in recent weeks.
Van Nistelrooy gained redemption for his penalty miss the following
season as he scored
from the spot in another tempestuous affair which ended the Gunners» 49 - match
unbeaten run - particularly infuriating for Wenger's men given Wayne Rooney's simulation to win the penalty.
Chelsea have a good stretch of
unbeaten home
from going over the Gunners, but the two sides have already drawn three times this
season.
And this
from a club that managed to go
unbeaten away in two of three
seasons between 2001 - 02 and 2003 - 04.
From 1996 to 2004 — the period which saw Wenger create the first team that went the entire
season unbeaten — Ferguson and Wenger waged a vicious battle to establish himself as top dog.
Stags remained top of the table right through to 30 December when a 0 - 0 draw at home to Doncaster extended an
unbeaten home run to 27 games - an extraordinary turnaround
from the first half of the previous
season.
Embed
from Getty Images Spanish international Santi Cazorla has been one of the key players for Arsenal this
season, especially in our
unbeaten run since the turn of the year.
The Cottagers were full of goals last
season and away
from home last term they posted a fantastic W12 D6 L5 record and they are
unbeaten in their last four away games in the Championship now (W3 D1) in the carry over
from the back end of last
season.
West Brom endured a difficult start to the
season at The Hawthorns but they carried a real threat away
from home, remaining
unbeaten on the road until late October.
The Rams have gone W3 D3 L2 out on the road this
season in the league and they are
unbeaten in their last four away
from Pride Park, winning the last two with 2 - 1 victories over Norwich and Leeds which should be a good indicator for their chances in this one.
Substitute Dominic Solanke then had a brilliant chance to seal all three points for the hosts late on but his shot was tipped onto the crossbar by Nick Pope as Burnley kept their
unbeaten start to the
season away
from home intact.
-- Chelsea are
unbeaten on their last four visits to St James Park in the Premier League (W2 D2), but last
season's encounter did finish 1 - 1 with Chelsea having to come
from behind.
With so much talk surrounding what's happening on the pitch, we've been a bit distracted with what might be happening off it... Embed
from Getty Images He may be
unbeaten since the second game of the
season, but Arsene Wenger's future at the Gunners is far
from sorted... however, reports in Italy state the club could have the answer.
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City rightfully top the table after an
unbeaten start to the
season and five wins
from five.
After the
unbeaten season we started building a team
from almost zero under the guidance of our manager.
Match Predictions: United have been
unbeaten at home for 38 games in all competitions and they are highly likely to continue that with another win on Saturday against a Brighton side who are a decent team and doing very well in their first
season in the english top division but not many people expect them to get much away
from home against the traditional top 6.