In all seriousness, if we are to create a mini-league table of close games we've been involved in the past few
years against big clubs both in Europe and domestically, we easily look like relegation material among the top clubs.
Not exact matches
There is no doubting what the
big story of the weekend in the Premier League was — Frank Lampard's late equaliser for Manchester City
against Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium, with Lampard bagging
against the
club where he spent 13 huge
years and became the all - time leading goalscorer.
The 23
year - old has shown himself to be a
big - game player, setting a
club record for Juventus, by scoring in five consecutive Champions League matches, including both semi-finals
against Real Madrid in 2015, and the losing final
against Barcelona the same
year.
«I signed for NEC for a
year and I'm not the type of person to go
against his word, even though the
clubs that were interested were very
big and it'd be nice to play there.
In wenger we trust COYG u spoilt little brats, you muppets ain't even been tested in your arsenal fan career never seen your
club finish lower then fourth every
year we play in cl
against the
big boys and you lot act like were in crisis and things are so bad wow I'm beyond belief just can't get my head around the way you lot act sometimes step back a bit a think a little you twats most of you in your life time have never seen your team finish lower then fourth yes fûc #ing fourth most of you don't even no what it's like to be a real fan wen your team are struggling finishing mid table and still saying you love the
club and protect them never in my life have I heard a generation of arsenal fans critise manager players board everything about our
club wen things our knowere near as bad as you make out to be and could be.
I wanted to know we could challenge the best to win, and I just don't think there is as much appeal in a victory
against this liverpool team as there was last
year, just feel like I'm waiting for that game where we turn up away from home
against a
big club and show them we can play and win
Yes that's true but it only seems to work
against the
bigger teams, when no one expects us to win, Which means Sunderland are still a potential banana skin (slip up)... waiting to happen, just like the other 3
clubs that hadn't beaten us for 10
years!
i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that
AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE
BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of
club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4
year contract for klopp
arsenal as a
big and rich
club they didn't spent so much money to buy best players in the past
years like the other
big clubs so this time it is a must that arsenal buys best defender, midfielder and striker and as well keep Sanchez valuing the service that he will be giving next season mote than # 50 m which will also protect him not to play
against arsenal at least for the coming season, and who knows after wards..
Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the
club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result
against the
big teams for the past 5
years, we haven't won the league for 12
years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10
years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.
His goal
against his former
club was one of the
big highlights of the
year.
The Stoke City manager Mark Hughes has slowly been improving his side over the
years and this summer he has managed to persuade the PSG star Jese Rodriguez to join the
club on a
year's loan and has also brought in defender Bruno Martins Indi from Porto, and he is hoping to see the team improve on last
years home performances
against the
big sides, starting with Arsenal tomorrow.
Should Keane seal a move to Birmingham and reunite with former boss Redknapp, it'll be worth keeping an eye on whether or not the 36 -
year - old can still cut it
against some of England's
biggest clubs.
The 27 -
year - old attacker has been with Barcelona for his entire career so far, and has been a
big success after rising through the
club's youth system, becoming a regular under Pep Guardiola in teams that won a host of major honours, including the 2011 Champions League final, in which Pedro actually scored
against United.
Having created one and scored one in the last three fixtures in all competitions, the 22 -
year old goes into their
biggest game of the season — in the right frame of mind and will be gunning to prove it at the
big stage
against one of the
biggest clubs in the world.
It's no shame that 18 -
year - old Renato Sanches is a work - in - progress rather than the finished article, but with the Benfica teenager linked with
big money moves to Europe's most elite
clubs this summer, his performance
against Bayern Munich highlighted just how far he still has to go to close the gap between the hype and reality.
Van Persie's record
against bottom - half teams has been formidable over the
years so he will be extremely keen to get his match fitness back up to scratch and play a
big part in the
club's opening set of fixtures.