A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away game against the Premier League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the home side's
way at crucial points of the game.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other
way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no
way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief)
point at the
crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell
at all.
While Arsenal do not really have anything to play for, Premier League
points and position wise, against West Brom
at the Emirates stadium today, Arsene Wenger and the players will be very keen to get back to winning
ways ahead of the
crucial clash against Aston Villa
at Wembley next weekend.
There are various theories about why the Gunners keep falling short in the race for the Premier League title and our various and numerous injury problems certainly do not help, but it is the
way that the team fails to turn up
at times in
crucial games, such as the EPL defeat by Wartford recently or the Champions League hammering
at the hands of Bayern Munich that many will
point to as evidence that the boss is not getting the best from his squad anymore.
We will have to wait and see how things pan out in East London
at the weekend, and Arsenal wwill need to play well to come back with all three
points from our Premier League clash away to West Ham United, but I do have a feeling that, for a change, things are going our
way ahead of this
crucial game.
Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a
crucial game with Manchester United, who won 3 - 2
at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his goal put six
points between league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half -
way point of the season.
At the start of the year, sitting with an enormous eleven
point lead this fixture was never considered a
crucial one; instead it felt like a fixture when the last opposition will move out of
way to Barca's La Liga triumph.
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at odds over Anfield stalemate (Premier League) Report: Man Utd held
at Liverpool as Mourinho parks the bus (Premier League) Report: McClean breaks Welsh hearts as Ireland reach play - offs (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Southgate admits England have long
way to go (2018 World Cup) Report: Kane sends lacklustre England to World Cup (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Man City's show of force thrills Guardiola (Champions League) Report: Chelsea old boy De Bruyne gives Man City
crucial win (Champions League) Reaction: «Amazing» Lukaku won't lose focus — Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Lukaku and Martial lead Man United in CSKA rout (Champions League) Reaction: Klopp says Liverpool on track despite stalemate (Champions League) Report: Coutinho scores as Liverpool held in Moscow (Champions League) Reaction: Man United part of «second level», says Mourinho (Champions League) Report: Fix - it Fellaini gets Man United off the mark (Champions League) Reaction: De Bruyne masterclass leaves Guardiola purring (Premier League) Report: Mané sent off as five - star Man City crush Liverpool (Premier League) Reaction: Alli gesture takes shine off England win (2018 World Cup) Report: Rashford redemption sends England closer to Russia (2018 World Cup) Reaction: Klopp hopes Euro progress yields transfer lift (Champions League) Report: Can brace gets Liverpool back into big time (Champions League) Report: Sterling rescue act spares 10 - man Man City (Premier League) Reaction: Conte happy for Chelsea to play the hunters (Premier League) Report: Alonso ruins Spurs» Wembley house - warming (Premier League) Report: Lukaku double fires Man United to winning start (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger lauds Giroud after Arsenal edge Leicester (Premier League) Report: Giroud earns Arsenal madcap opening win (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger fearful of another slow Arsenal start (Community Shield) Report: Courtois and Morata gift Arsenal victory
at Wembley (Community Shield)
The webbing is double - stitched and reinforced
at crucial points all the
way around this device.
«The
crucial point is to pump energy into the material in a spatially tailored
way such that light is amplified in exactly the right places, while allowing for absorption
at other parts of the material,» says Professor Konstantinos Makris from the University of Crete (previously TU Wien).