Sentences with phrase «very last league game»

However, being absent from last week's FA Cup action should mean they have a slight advantage in the conditioning stakes, while they should still be buoyed by their 5 - 1 thrashing of Wolves at Molineux in their very last league game.

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While a lot of Arsenal fans may be feeling that Arsene Wenger and the players have missed a trick by failing to win our away game at Bournemouth in order to capitalise on the very welcome defeat of the current Premier League leaders Chelsea last night, I look at things a different way.

After a very poor start against Liverpool, followed up by a draw against the Premier League Champions, the last thing Arsenal needed was another break for international games.

Last season, the forward managed to bag an impressive total of 26 goals and eight assists in 35 league appearances for Torino, a record of almost one direct goal contribution per game, a very impressive return indeed.

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....

In 2015 Arsenal only just pinched second place in the League by the skin of their teeth when Tottenham collapsed in the final games of the campaign, but Spurs got their revenge in style last season when they made sure of their second - place finish and ended 11 points ahead of a very disappointing Gunners side, that failed to even make the Champions League.

The Spuds haven't lost any of their last 11 League games, but at Wembley they have been very formidable.

As Daily Mail journalist Martin Samuels explains, the last time the Portuguese won the Premier League was with Chelsea in 2015 and they led from the very first game and were never off the top all season.

It's all very well Ozil playing well and scoring against teams like Ludogrets but he hasn't done it in the league for a long time and was just anonymous in the last 2 games when we want him to dominate games.

It's like 39 games since PSG last lost at home in the champions league and that lost was against a very ripe Barcelona.

He scored a hat - trick against Brighton last night and that took his goal tally to eight in just nine games and he has already played for the first team this season in the League cup, so the talented 19 - year old is very close and could soon find himself on the bench a lot more often.

of course the games against stoke, leicester etc would have gone a long way to seeing us challenge for the title last season but for a long time now we've been labelled flat track bullies i.e we are generally very good at beating opponents outside the top six but our record against man utd and chelsea maybe even city quite recently has not reflected a team on the same level as those going for the premier league title.

Last season we had a number of opportunities to get ahead in the league, close competitors dropping points and us playing a very winnable game, then we bottled it.

The Gunners started poorly in the domestic league as well but have largely put that right and, as Wenger reminded us all in the press conference today reported by the Arsenal website, our last game was an excellent away win at Leicester City, a team that had started like a rocket, were playing very well and had not lost a game until last weekend.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

West Ham are one of very few Premier League sides who actually have worse form than us coming into this game, having lost their last four consecutively, and could pose the ideal opponents as we look to build a little momentum in hope of snatching our usually consistent place inside the top four, although most of my fellow fans think we have more chance of getting a jackpot in one of the UK casino free spins

After Arsenal were forced to accept a draw in our last Premier League match, which even though it was a north London derby was a disappointing result with the respective form that Arsenal and Tottenham took into the game, it is very important that we get back to winning ways this weekend.

Although sissokho is more of a box to box but he has athleticism and physical presence to affect the game and often plays well against big teams when ever I watch him e.g Chelsea this season and last two seasons against Man united last season at old traffold etc he can play DM role for us and will be a good signing and very useful in champions league... COYG!!

even after he turned in his best season in a very long time this year, he's really turned his game up in the playoffs and really also in the last couple of weeks of the season, it was just easy for the rest of the league to overlook those last couple of weeks because the run up to the playoffs were so intense this year

After we gave Chelski a good spanking last season in probably Conte's fifth or sixth game in charge he immediately re organised them and went through till the new year unbeaten.He had them very solid at the back and scoring goals for fun.And all this with a squad of players he inherited and their top striker Costa wanting Away.They ended up romping to the Premiere League Title scoring loads more goals and conceding far less than Wengers Arsenal.We by the way are treading water at best this season and would not bet on us finishing above Chelski even allowing for the season they are having.

Four goals in our last two games, with three of them being of very high quality, must have been just what the doctor ordered and perhaps the title of most lethal marksman in the Premier League might help to make up for the fact that he missed so much of it.

Unfortunately for Arsenal fans and our dreams of winning the Premier League this season, the chances in the last few games have not been falling to the big man very often.

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

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.

Most Arsenal fans are really not sure how Arsene Wenger is going to approach the Europa League group games that Arsenal have to cope with after finishing just outside the top four of the Premier League last season and not being in the Champions League for the first time in a very long time.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theleague??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theleague the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theLeague has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theLeague basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theLeague until we are no longer in the race.

Arsenal take their very first entry into the Europa League draw after playing in the Champions League for the last twenty years, so it will be a very unusual season for Gunners fans, especially the ones that like to go to all our European away games.

Arsenal Aaron Ramsey's injury time winner against Crystal Palace at the Emirates last weekend gave Arsenal all three points and ensured that there were no slip ups in the very first game of the league campaign.

Just as we did last season, Arsenal added the Community Shield to the FA cup and although the Spaniard is well aware that this pre-season game does not mean a lot when the serious business of the Premier League begins, Arteta believes that the end of our wait for a win over a Jose Mourinho side could prove to be very significant.

For their opposition, it's their very first game of the season, so we're unsure how it's going to go, but we know one thing for sure — if our team's last two impressive league scorelines are anything to go by, it should be an exciting game.

Sanchez had a great year last year but this year they have both only had one good game and that was against a very poor Everton that had the worse defence in the league.

He appeared to think that the ground would be full again when Arsenal hosted the Russian club CSKA Moscow this week, because the Europa League games are still very important, so if that is true the boss would have been a bit put out, to say the least, at the lack of numbers and the general vibe around the ground at kick - off last night.

«The team are now very excited with the last two wins in the league, which were two difficult games, but we're all thinking positively that we can win.

Stoke are still a very physical team but not quite to the extent that they used to be and on Saturday they are likely to be without two of their chief enforcers; with our old friend Ryan Shawcross out of action due to a long term injury problem in his back (altogether now aaahhh) and their Scottish midfielder Charlie Adam having been one of two Stoke players red carded in their last league game against West Brom.

A lot of the talk concerning the Premier League clubs both before and during the latest round of international games was about the injury situation, and although it seemed as though Arsenal would, for once, get lucky and not lose any p [layers, the very last qualifier for Germany saw our defender Shkodran Mustafi pick up a hamstring problem that will see him miss at least a month of action.

Hull played out a goalless draw with Aston Villa, but will find this a very hard game to get anything from.Everton have not lost at home for 12 home league games nows dating back to December 2012 when they last got beat at home 1 - 2 by Chelsea.

Going by Arsene Wenger's team selections for Arsenal's three Europa League games so far, with every one ending up with three points, it is very likely that he is going to stick with the same sort of lineup for tomorrow's game against Norwich in the Caraboa Cup, which should not be too much harder than last weeks win in Serbia against Red Star.

Lacazette came to Arsenal with a very big reputation in France, scoring 91 goals for Lyon in the last 3 seasons (in just 129 games) but he has come out and made a statement saying he doubts very much he will match those figures in his first season in the Premier League.

Free scoring Liverpool have notched 63 goals in their 25 games this season, which is only 8 less than they managed in the whole of last season, with the Reds looking good to secure a Champions League place at the very least.

KEY FACT: Spurs have lost only one of their last seven Premier League matches against Arsenal MATCH ODDS: Spurs 21/20 Draw 11/4 Arsenal 11/4 bet365 Pick: Draw @ 11/4 ANDY SAYS: Good game but I think Arsenal might just edge this one... 1 - 2 GRAEME SAYS: Great start to the weekend, and I can't separate them... 2 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Should be a very good game, I will just have to say draw... 1 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Christian Eriksen at # 2.15 and into the top - ten, still want to snap up

Last season United completed a very comprehensive double over Leicester City winning both of their premier league games 4 - 1 and 3 - 0 and also defeated Leicester 2 - 1 in the community shield game at the start of the season.

Team mates at the beating heart of the French team, both players scored big money moves to Premiership contenders this season, both players won their respective leagues last year and both players are lauded as among the very best midfielders in the game.

Match Predictions: Spartak Moscow are a very good side who are hard to beat and although their recent three games have been score draws including that Champions League match against Maribor they have only lost once in last two months.

We had our very last Barclays Premier League game on Sunday against West Bromwich Albion.

KEY FACT: Crystal Palace have won four of their last six home league matches against Watford MATCH ODDS: Palace 13/10 Draw 5/2 Watford 23/10 bet365 Pick: Palace to win and Both Teams To Score @ 10/3 ANDY SAYS: Another close game but I think my old club will get something here... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think Palace might just get the win they are looking for... 2 - 1 SILKY SAYS: Watford are the better team so I can see them getting the three points... 1 - 2 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Wilfried Zaha at # 1.42 still looks a very good buy

«His contribution over the last 10 years has been very consistent and his figures reflect that - the amount of clean sheets he has achieved in the Premier League, the amount of games he has played.

Fast, athletic and combative, Mbemba cut a very impressive figure in all six of the Belgian giant's Champions League games last term, even managing to contribute two goals.

Liverpool have won two of their last three Premier League home games against the Magpies (D1) and have lost just one Premier League home game ever against them (the very first one in 1994).

While they were hammered in their last two league games, they're facing very different opposition.