If Chelsea fail to
win against Man City on Saturday then Liverpool will have the chance to move back to the top of the table by beating the Cherries.
That volley from Joe Allen was a stunner just like the strike from Yaya Toure in our 2 - 1
win against Man City in December.
Arsenal will be traveling to Brighton in the fourth round of the FA cup today and coming back from a fantastic 0 - 2
win against Man City, this should on paper be an easy game for the Gunners.
If today was
a win against Man City in the fashion we did, no one will complain.
Even in
that win against Man City, if they were more clinical they would have scored unforgivable goals from cheap counter moves.
As a matter of fact I predicted an Arsenal
win against Man city recently in soccernet.com when no single pundit gave Arsenal a chance.
We can not defend a corner for 5 years in a row now and that cost
us a win against Man City.
after our loss to everton i'm more confident now that we're going to
win against man city we are going to want to bounce back and city missing key players like aguero, fernandinho, gundogan is a good time to play them and i want yaya toure to play we know that defensively he is useless so we can hit them on the counter attack!!
Ozil pulled out of a tackle he could well have
won against the Man City keeper which could have won us the game.
We would have beaten everton 2 - 1, lost tto chelsea 1 - 0,
won against man city 2 - 1, beaten hull and leicester.
«I am convinced that we won 10 of the last 11 games, and
we won against Man City in the semi-final and the final against Chelsea.
1,302 days have passed since we last beat United, 1,122 since we beat Cheslea and 838 since
we won against Man City.
on what's changed with Arsenal... Yes, of course, I am convinced that we won 10 of the last 11 games, and
we won against Man City in the semi-final and the final against Chelsea.
Not exact matches
But while the second half of the season saw the Gunners
win away
against Man City and Manchester United, it also saw us struggle to beat lesser teams like Newcastle, QPR and Burnley.
Well actually we've most certainly improved
against the top 6, beating
city and
Man u, we are on track for 3rd maybe 2nd, and we've got a good chance of
winning the FA cup again... so I'd say we most certianly progressed.
Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off
winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and
win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while
Man U /
City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies
against top clubs, we play the weak ones,
win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..
Perhaps he knows something we don't about the
Man United line - up ahead of their match
against Hull
City, a match that if Phil Brown's side
wins means that whatever Shearer's team does they are as good as down unless Sunderland also fail to get anything at home to Chelsea.
It remains to be seen whether
Man City will punish us further by
winning their game
against Southampton.
Arsenal's rich vein of form was abruptly halted by Everton's resilience on Tuesday, while
Man City returned to
winning ways
against Watford on Wednesday.
We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three
wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game
against title rivals
Man City.
Morata is starting for a top International team already & has memorable Champions League final & Italian Cup final goals, memorable Champions League goals
against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Dortmund &
Man City, equalled the Juventus record for consecutive Champions League goals,
won 3 league titles across 2 top leagues &
won the Champions League - getting in the team of the tournament, &
won the golden boot in both the U19s & U21s Euro tournaments.
The goal gave West Ham United a 2 - 1 lead with a
win giving them a double
against Man City for the first time since the 1962 - 63 season.
Let's just see if we can cut it in the PL
against a strong
City, a
Winning ugly
Man U and a resurgent Kop under heir klopp.
The year before that we did
win our opener
against Crystal Palace after beating
Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not
win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.
Man City will need to equalize if they have any hope of avoiding their second upset of the season
against the Hammers — their first loss of the year came
against West Ham back in October, ending a five - game
winning streak in the process.
We have
won most of the big games he started
against Man United,
Man City, and Bayern but lost
against Chelsea.
Arsene Wenger will hopefully not have to look for any reasons why Arsenal do not
win away
against relegation threatened Sunderland tomorrow, as we really need a good performance and the right result from the lads to go back above
Man City and take a step closer to ensuring that we have a place in the Champions League next season and do not have the stress and inconvenience of a play off.
Aside from crashing out of the Champions League
against Liverpool,
City saw their title celebrations postponed last weekend as rivals
Man Utd picked up a 3 - 2
win.
He linked up with Sanchez to score a beautiful goal, the seasons before that, his performances
against Man Utd, Liverpool,
Man City and our home
win against Bayern.
United currently sit 16 points behind rivals
Man City at the top of the Premier League after the Citizens» 5 - 1
win against Leicester, so a
win here would be absolutely vital in keeping their slim title hopes alive for this season.
There are so many knee jerkers on this forum it's laughable.Spurs were better than us today.Accept it.We played the same way
against Man City we
won, Wenger is a genius.We play the same way again Spurs and loose.Wenger is crap.If we had played free flowing football
against Spurs and lost, Wenger would have been blamed for not playing defensively.Sometimes you have to accept when a team is better.Harry Cain is a great player at the moment but lets see whether he is any good next season.
They were helped by a red card shown to the Saints star Nathan Redmond when the score was 2 - 1 but all that really matters is that they
won, as did Chelsea,
Man City, Liverpool and
Man United, making that last gasp headed winner from Olivier Giroud
against West Brom look even more crucial.
For example in the last two PL games Aguero was the difference for
man city, he got the draw
against west ham and
win against sunderland.
Will you please give reason as to why chelsea struggled to score two goals
against leicester
city at the bridge.things like this happen in futbol.so, are you saying
man city is crap cos they lost at home to stoke.dont forget the manner with which they
won the league last season.the league is a marathon and it will be ridiculous to say chelsea is already the champ considering everton played us last week and chelsea this week - two energy sarping matches
If we play like we did
against Man City, where everyone turn up and with the pressure on ManUtd to attack us, we can
win this game.
All well and good, but facts are facts (everyone seems to have a hard - on for stats right now) and that
Man City performance was the only significant
win against the top 6 this season — it's not a measure of how we typically perform in these games.
People do the Math, if
Man City plays a draw and we
win against Everton we will NOT be on top unless we
win with more than 7 goals and don't concede.
I don't understand... This is a must
win game as
man city is unlikely to lead to a result... Yet no style or pressure or ideas
against a hapless team... 30 mins and not a shot on goal... Ramsey and giroud and mert are championship level players and no more... In fact am not sure giroud is even that level....
There have been some absolutely sensational games of football that have been played in the past 12 months, from
Man City's 5 - 3
win against Monaco in the Champions League, to Barcelona's dramatic 3 - 2
win at the Santiago Bernabeu in April.
It is not unrealistic to assume that
City will beat the Spuds on Sunday and if
Man United beat West Brom at home and Liverpool
win their two games
against Hull and QPR, we could travel to the KC stadium on Monday night in fourth place, thee points behind
City, one behind United and just one ahead of Liverpool.
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.....
After Lukask Fabianski followed up his superhero performance
against Arsenal by gifting
Man City a
winning goal, you could be forgiven for thinking that things were just not going the way of the Gunners at the minute.
The only way we can influence this is to beat our opponents, so we now need
wins against leicester,
man city, tottenham and possibly
man united.
I have a thought on this, the EPL is the most competitive league in the world but the top teams in the league which are Chelsea,
Man City, Arsenal,
Man United, Liverpool have all dropped their levels which is why none of them can compete in the champions league
against the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or Atletico, as great an advert it is that Leicester
won but it's a serious indictment on the big teams that they
won!
I think our best football this season was
against man city at the emirates, i have never seen arsenal put up that sort of fight
against a top team in a long time, although we didn't
win I was satisfied with the hunger we showed, i would always prefer le coq to Flamini but that is not what would
win us this game, we need to show the right attitude, go there to
win it, and When I say go there to
win it, i don't mean throw everybody forward, I mean go out there with a
winning and commited mentality, being ready to throw yourself at the shot, make the all important tackle instead of ducking when the cross comes it, all 11 players need to be ready to fight for the
win, we need the boys fired up, COYG.
If we
win against stoke then we will regain a 2 Point lead over Leicester and maintain a 3 points lead over
man city..
Against Chelsea with most of their defenders out like 5, they almost
won they game.
Against City with most of their defenders out with injuries and with ten
men they almost equalized.And
Against Arsenal, they were playing with 2 wingers, two 19 year old at the defense.which gives them the perfect reason for being dominated and with the tactics their manager use they beat Arsenal.After that with Hull, they completely dominated the game and with Stock
City.
I m predicting a draw
against Man city but I really hope we
win the game.
we drew the game
against a
Man City side we dominated who had no Yaya Toure no Fernando no Stefan Jovetic, if a draw is awesome that explains why Arsenal are far away from
winning the title the fans accept a draw in a game we should have
won!
Once again it was the Arsenal and Germany international who was at the heart of Arsenal's latest Premier League
win, with Mesut Ozil providing his 15th EPL assist of the season for Olivier Giroud to add to Theo Walcott's opener
against Man City.