Arsene Wenger faced the media after Saturday's FA Cup semi-final
win against Reading.
Didn't Bellerin play in midfield in that crazy 7 - 5
win against Reading?
He's had a few shaky games in an Arsenal shirt, most notably that very memorable 7 - 5 cup
win against Reading, but with such a weight on his shoulders at a young age, I thought there was still plenty of time and room for improvement.
The 24 - year - old scored his 17th goal of the season for City last night in a 2 - 0
win against Reading — the club's first game since sacking Roberto Mancini as manager.
Not exact matches
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Reading have
won three of their last four matches
against Everton in all competitions, including the last two.
Reading have
won their only two previous Premier League home matches
against Manchester City without conceding a goal: 1 - 0 in September 2006, and 2 - 0 in March 2008.
The North London outfit are in excellent form ahead of the meeting at the weekend having
won their last eight in a row in the league and nine in all competitions after booking a place in the FA Cup final with victory
against Reading last Saturday.
Ive
read through all these conversations and there are arguments for and
against yes Wenger has done wonders and the club and fans should forever be indebted to him But he has also missed the mark and we have slipped with regards to staying at the top tiers and
winning trophies.
Even Zagreb's manager said, that we were easy to
read and everybody knew what tactic to use
against us to have a chance of winning.That in itself for me is an extremely damning statement, specially coming from the manger of a team that has never
won a CL game.
• Manchester United have
won 10 and lost just one of the 18 previous competitive matches
against Reading, which includes a 4 - 3
win in this season's Premier League visit to the Madjeski Stadium in December.
Wigan Athletic host
Reading FC this weekend, with the away side buoyant after grabbing their first
win of the season
against Everton.
Chelsea midfielder Ramires could feature
against Reading on Wednesday, having recovered from the illness that kept him out of Sunday's
win at Wigan.
Further
wins came
against Reading and Sunderland, though they hit a rough patch as they drew away to QPR and at home to Manchester United.
Reading's only previous
win in all competitions
against Manchester United was 2 - 1 at home in the FA Cup in January 1927.
Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker gave Arsene Wenger a fresh injury worry after leaving Wembley in a protective boot, with the German sustaining an ankle problem
against Reading in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final
win.
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A 3 - 0
win over
Reading stopped the rot, though they were then beaten 3 - 1 by Manchester United at Old Trafford, still they followed that up with a 1 - 0 away
win at Southampton, and then even more impressively with a surprise 1 - 0
win at home to Manchester City, with none other than Adam Johnson scoring the winner
against the side he left in the summer.
Looking at the two semi-final matches,
Reading seemed to qualify much easier
against arguably one of the favourites to
win the playoffs in their victory over an inform Fulham side.
I enjoyed
reading these comments and happy for the positivity, it even felt like a proper final, unlike playing
against Hull city and you have some pundits, rival fans and our own fans saying we
won because it was Hull city..
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Although Chelsea have a good recent record
against us, the fact is that they have only been playing catch - up, as Wenger's overall record
against our neighbours
reads as 19
wins, 19 defeats and 16 draws.
Arsenal have still been
winning against the likes of
Reading, Leicester, Burnley, Newcastle and QPR recently but only just and not in the comfortable way we have become used to.
Training is more competitive and I
read that Vieira puts a CM
against a CM and the «winner» in training gets the nod to start, enforcing that
winning mentality in training.
If our defense is solid (I would play Koscielny and Gabriel because on Saturday Mertsacker looked really slow
against Reading) and Alexis / Ozil work their magic then we have a decent chance of
winning.
Reading have actually done really well to get this far, having been drawn away in every single round so far, with
wins against fellow Championship sides Huddersfield, Cardiff and Derby before getting Bradford in the Quarters.
Wenger said, «[The 2012 game
against Reading] was one of the craziest of my career because we were 4 - 0 down and finally
won it 7 - 5.
Disagree — if Arsenal can not
win with fringe players
against reading its embarrasing.
Last I have
read 2 or 3 articles which claims how Arsenal is going to
win against Man utd because of their injury.And also there was an article which claims that Balotelli and Loveren are out of Liverpool clash with Arsenal.
I know he scored one hatrick v
Reading in the (7 - 5) League cup
win (Chamakh scored twice) and another
against Newcastle at home in a 7 goal rout.
I have
read a lot of comment that said how Man Utd were rubbish because they
win against Tottneham on own goal but they were not great but i have seen some good football from them.
I
read 1 comment saying this is a perfect time for Klopp to start the new season with a
win against top 4 material...
The boss then must surely make many changes for our League Cup match
against Reading tomorrow, so as to give our tired stars a chance to recover for the next League game at Sunderland next weekend, although our manager is keen for us to get back to
winning ways
against the Championship side.
I have been
reading comments of fans on here, especially those who have chosen to appreciate the average in ability that a striker like giroud possess, my question for ya all is, when did arsenal become a team so low on profile to sing praise of a striker who no one can rank among the top 3 striker in the league, I have seen an arsenal team with a striking force with players like, anelka, Wright, Henry, v persie, no one can rank giroud or whatever his name is in the category of my mentioned strikers.we all have got to face it, giroud is not good enough to be leading the attack of a team dreaming of
winning the league, and Henry is right saying arsenal can't
win the league with giroud as our striker,,, check this out, man u
won league titles with strikers like Rooney, van nisteroy, v persie, man city
won with aguero, Chelsea with drogba and now Costa, giroud stand no chance
against any of those.let's stop appreciating mediocrity, wenger should get us a good striker as giroud is damn too average for arsenal
Likewise, Arsenal endured a frustrating outing
against Middlesbrough one week ago as they were held to a draw, but they did return to
winning ways midweek as victory over
Reading saw Arsene Wenger's side secure a place in the EFL Cup quarter finals.
With Arsenal struggling to get a point
against Middlesbrough at the weekend, our League Cup opponents
Reading managed a hard - fought
win over Rotherham to move up to 8th place in the Championship.
Winning or Losing
against Everton won't be the end of the world for Arsenal by SE...
Read the full article here
was it just me that was nervous everytime
reading were attacking it made me realise how confident ospina makes me feel i hope he plays final ramsey on wing isnt as effective
against lesser opposition we needed pace out wide (as when theo came on he caused problems) giroud has developed into a world class forward on his day the team was lifted when was on alexis is a life saver
win vs chelsea break the wenger - mourinho hoodoo, 2nd in prem and fa cup will be a fantastic season COYG
Walcott did just that recently
against Reading and got brought down just outside the box, just shows how your blind hate for certain players clouds your judgement... look at how much Chelsea have spent on their squad, look at how much we spent on ours and after today Arsenal were the better team and actually should have
won.
I
read today that we have
won just 1 match out of our last 20
against top 5 EPL teams.
Lets still be focus for our fa cup semi final match
against reading, and takecare of business again reaching the final to
win another back to back FA CUP!
Dimitar Berbatov scored four goals in his last Premier League match
against Reading, in Tottenham's 6 - 4 home
win in December 2007.
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We played
against Reading and [we know] from the game last year
against Wigan that it's not easy to
win the game.
people kept undermine our young guns but we forgot our 1st team had to go to extra time
against reading and
won with a fluke goal last season....
THE Gunners have not had it too tough so far with
wins against Nottm Forest and
Reading, and another home
win tonight will mean we are just two more semi-final legs away from making the Final, and Martinez is determined that Arsenal will be there for the first trophy of the season.
While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent draw
against Reading at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions League group and
winning the last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league leaders.
Awwwww I can hardly
read all bro, seriously u could have made it simplier, s saying we had a terrible s Window is exaggerated, we fought to kip all d players we needed to kip and sold d ones that e surplus to requirements, we added an elite striker in improved our defence, that is not terrible in my own view, c considering our structure, we can never outspent the two manchester clubs, judt like no club in Spain will outspend d likes of Madrid and barca and no club in France can outspend d likes of psg, the only bad match I have watched from arsenal this season was
against liverpool, the playerd apologized and behold we r seeing a new attitude from, them, if
winning six matched from 7 shouldn't give room for optimism, what then can?