Is Ceballos a Cebolla?
21 HRS AGO - For those that speak a bit of Spanish, Cebolla means onion. Onions are quite an interesting: Expand
21 HRS AGO - For those that speak a bit of Spanish, Cebolla means onion. Onions are quite an interesting: Onions are vegetables, not fruits. Onions are often mistaken as fruits because onion bulbs can be used to grow new onion plants asexually. It is a bit like Ceballos: maybe he is a central midfielder after all who was mistakenly taken for an attacking midfielder until […] Collapse
Can We Stop Vardy? Leicester Prematch & Predicted Line-Up
3 DAYS AGO - Here’s a cheery thought: Jamie Vardy has scored 11 goals against Arsenal in 12 appearances. Expand
3 DAYS AGO - Here’s a cheery thought: Jamie Vardy has scored 11 goals against Arsenal in 12 appearances. It’s a phenomenal record and recalls the nightmare years when Didier Drogba could wake up of a morning, look at his diary, see he was due to play Arsenal and know that it would be another scoring day for him. […] Collapse
Our quest to the Holy Grail starts tonight or ends tonight…
5 DAYS AGO - I am not going to dive in our actual playing style, disappointing and performing players or Expand
5 DAYS AGO - I am not going to dive in our actual playing style, disappointing and performing players or Arteta’s coaching style…So here is just a recap of our season so far just in terms of trophy options and Champions league qualification: Lost our FA Cup trophy Lost in the Carabao Cup Bottom half of the EPL with […] Collapse
Hector Protector or Detractor? Help Me Out…
7 DAYS AGO - Is there a current player at Arsenal who divides opinion more evenly than Hector Bellerin? Expand
7 DAYS AGO - Is there a current player at Arsenal who divides opinion more evenly than Hector Bellerin? You’ll always find dissenting voices among fans when it comes to an assessment of any player, but usually the majority lean one way or the other. For example, for Xhaka, Laca and Luiz the needle hovers somewhere in the range […] Collapse
Arsenal’s Next Red Card is Already in the Post
20/02/2021 - I am fairly confident we will pick up a red card during tomorrow’s game against in-form Expand
20/02/2021 - I am fairly confident we will pick up a red card during tomorrow’s game against in-form Manchester City. It could be a spectacular straight red as David Luiz performs a scissors kick around Gundogan’s neck in the six yard box, or a low-key second yellow for Granit Xhaka, twice caught out in midfield and deliberately […] Collapse
51 Uses for a Willian
16/02/2021 - Ceiling duster. Ornamental tree. Door stop. Traffic beacon. Hat stand. Microphone. Christmas tree Expand
16/02/2021 - Ceiling duster. Ornamental tree. Door stop. Traffic beacon. Hat stand. Microphone. Christmas tree ornament. Car dashboard toy. Snow depth marker. Actor in a Jackson Five biopic. Lamp stand. Maritime buoy. Fluffer. Music conductor (‘s baton). Key ring. Hitching post. Van Der Graaf Generator demonstrator. Bird’s nest. Footman in Bridgerton. Clerk of the court. Drumstick. Mr […] Collapse
Time to Win Again: Leeds Pre-match & Predicted Line-Up
14/02/2021 - After managing zero points in two games from which we should have taken at least four and possibly Expand
14/02/2021 - After managing zero points in two games from which we should have taken at least four and possibly all six, we’re about to go on a run of challenging fixtures. We entertain Leeds United today, then we have Benfica away, Manchester City at home, Benfica at home then Leicester away. So that’s two very important […] Collapse
Poldi, Tormeister? Another under-rated player?
08/02/2021 - So we were talking about Depay earlier and how he could be an interesting recruit for us and then Expand
08/02/2021 - So we were talking about Depay earlier and how he could be an interesting recruit for us and then I though, did we have a similar player in our team in the last 10 years and the only name that came to my mind was Podolski although Podolski played more as a forward-striker than Depay. […] Collapse
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: Arsenal to Bounce Back at Villa (plus predicted line-up)
06/02/2021 - There was a gut-punchingly high degree of ridiculousness about our defeat at Wolves on Tuesday Expand
06/02/2021 - There was a gut-punchingly high degree of ridiculousness about our defeat at Wolves on Tuesday night. Another red card for David Luiz, albeit for the tiniest accidental contact with a Wolves player; the subsequent ‘double jeopardy’ of both a penalty and a red card; Bernd Leno’s brain fart; Moutinho scoring a once-a-season screamer… well, you […] Collapse
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Five Questions After Our Win Over Leicester
2 DAYS AGO - Leicester City would have risen to second in the Premier League if they had beaten us at the King Expand
2 DAYS AGO - Leicester City would have risen to second in the Premier League if they had beaten us at the King Power stadium yesterday. So the fact that we did not just beat them but that we bossed the game from the moment we went behind after six minutes to the final whistle is testament to how […] Collapse
Will Martinelli Leave?
3 DAYS AGO - It has been bugging me for some time that Gabriel Martinelli seems to have fallen out of favour Expand
3 DAYS AGO - It has been bugging me for some time that Gabriel Martinelli seems to have fallen out of favour with Mikel Arteta. The young Brazilian burst onto the scene towards the end of Unai Emery’s tenure at the helm of the good ship Arsenal and made a huge impression. Bukayo Saka was emerging into the limelight […] Collapse
Benfica Round 2 – A Must Win: Prematch & Predicted Line-up
5 DAYS AGO - Poor finishing let us down in the first leg of our Europa League ‘Round of 32’ tie Expand
5 DAYS AGO - Poor finishing let us down in the first leg of our Europa League ‘Round of 32’ tie against Benfica in Rome. We had the chances to be comfortably home and hosed but didn’t take them. We gave away a soft penalty and then equalised through Bukayo Saka (with what could be an important ‘away’ goal) […] Collapse
Let us try to finish in the top half of the table at least…
21/02/2021 - So here we go again, another loss against City in the EPL. The first 15 minutes were rather Expand
21/02/2021 - So here we go again, another loss against City in the EPL. The first 15 minutes were rather embarrassing, conceding an early and silly goal, hardly touching the ball and running like headless chickens. After that, City was not very dangerous but always in control and we hardly created a chance. The gap between City […] Collapse
Missed Chances May Cost Us: Benfica Report & Ratings
19/02/2021 - I don’t know how you feel about omens, but last time we faced Benfica in European Expand
19/02/2021 - I don’t know how you feel about omens, but last time we faced Benfica in European competition we drew 1-1 in the away leg only to lose 1-3 in the home tie. That was in November 1991. Less than six months earlier George Graham’s Arsenal team had celebrated a dominant league title triumph, losing only […] Collapse
Smith Röwdegaard: the Answer to our Dreams?
16/02/2021 - I was not alone in being surprised by Mikel Arteta’s team selection for the Leeds game on Expand
16/02/2021 - I was not alone in being surprised by Mikel Arteta’s team selection for the Leeds game on Sunday. When we signed Martin Odegaard on loan I imagined he would be back-up for Emile Smith Rowe, but a back-up who would get plenty of game time because of the need to not overplay ESR. What I […] Collapse
Loan watch
12/02/2021 - SALIBA – The new Varane or the new Squilacci? Saliba, a highly touted and well regarded Expand
12/02/2021 - SALIBA – The new Varane or the new Squilacci? Saliba, a highly touted and well regarded young central defender, who has been recruited for 20+ Mln but has yet to feature for us. Currently in Nice where he is doing rather well after a very slow start. He has played in a back 3 and […] Collapse
ARS-Cov-2 Virus Downs Gunners – Vaccine Urgently Needed: Villa Report & Ratings
07/02/2021 - *It’s your lucky (or unlucky!) day today: not one match report from AA but two. You can find Expand
07/02/2021 - *It’s your lucky (or unlucky!) day today: not one match report from AA but two. You can find RC’s report (first posted last night) here: https://arsenalarsenal.net/2021/02/06/saving-private-arsenal and here’s the second one… An old disease has returned to haunt Arsenal. In the later Arsene Wenger period, through most of Unai Emery’s reign and on occasion during […] Collapse
Reviewing our season’s expectations…
04/02/2021 - Here is the picture so far: We have lost our FA Cup, losing to Southampton in the 4th Round We are Expand
04/02/2021 - Here is the picture so far: We have lost our FA Cup, losing to Southampton in the 4th Round We are out of the Carabao Cup, losing to Man City in the quarter-finals We have played 22 games in the EPL, collected 31 points and sit 9 points behind 4th placed Liverpool (they have played […] Collapse
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Gunners gunned down the Foxes! A promising win
2 DAYS AGO - The starting XI did not give me much confidence to be honest, especially the forward line that was Expand
2 DAYS AGO - The starting XI did not give me much confidence to be honest, especially the forward line that was missing Auba and Saka…but there you go, maybe this is the game that will trigger Willian and Pepe’s fortune at AFC! What a game they had! However, there are few concerns to be talked about: Another early […] Collapse
SakaYang to the Rescue: Benfica Report & Ratings
5 DAYS AGO - It was a rollercoaster ride in Athens last night as Arsenal came from behind to book a berth in Expand
5 DAYS AGO - It was a rollercoaster ride in Athens last night as Arsenal came from behind to book a berth in the last 16 of the Europa League. The game was scrappy in both meanings of the word (we had scraps of good play and of bad without there being any real flow to our football; but […] Collapse
The Benfica Triangle Mystery
6 DAYS AGO - A triangle with special – perhaps supernatural – powers has the potential to see us Expand
6 DAYS AGO - A triangle with special – perhaps supernatural – powers has the potential to see us comfortably past our Portuguese opposition tomorrow night. But there’s a mystery. The mystery is that our young manager will probably not use this magical, three-sided phenomenon that has the power to make opposition hopes disappear. The triangle to which I […] Collapse
Time for an Upset: Man City Prematch & Predicted Line-Up
21/02/2021 - What I most love about match days is that I always wake up with an advanced case of Expand
21/02/2021 - What I most love about match days is that I always wake up with an advanced case of “football fan over-optimism syndrome.” So even today, as we prepare to welcome the supremely in-form champions-to-be Manchester City, I kind of fancy our chances. On paper there’s no point in us even turning up, but luckily we […] Collapse
The Benfica Dilemma: Go for it? Or Play it Safe? Prematch and Predicted Line-Up
18/02/2021 - The Europa League is our last chance of tangible success this season. An amazing run in the league Expand
18/02/2021 - The Europa League is our last chance of tangible success this season. An amazing run in the league could get us into the top six or even challenging for a top four spot, but you’d have to be wearing very rose tinted glasses to place much store in that eventuality. So that means that if […] Collapse
PEA Super – Auba Hat Trick Downs Leeds: Report & Ratings
15/02/2021 - A blistering 47 minutes of entertaining football from an attack-minded Arsenal team blew Leeds Expand
15/02/2021 - A blistering 47 minutes of entertaining football from an attack-minded Arsenal team blew Leeds United away at the Emirates yesterday and secured our first win in four league games. An Aubameyang hat trick – welcome back Captain! – a full debut for Odegaard and a performance of great bravery and maturity from Saka all contributed […] Collapse
Holding, AMN, Saka to the Euro with England?
10/02/2021 - Let us hope that the Euro takes place this year…In case it does, do you think that any of Expand
10/02/2021 - Let us hope that the Euro takes place this year…In case it does, do you think that any of our English players would make it on Southgate’s team? Rob Holding – CB – The competition there includes Stones, Gomes, Maguire, Dier, Mings, Coady, Keane and eventually K. Walker. That is a lot of players but […] Collapse
Saving private Arsenal…
06/02/2021 - Another game in February and another loss…and still the bitter taste of the Wolves’ Expand
06/02/2021 - Another game in February and another loss…and still the bitter taste of the Wolves’ defeat after this villain defeat. If you look at the stats, we dominated the game but when you look at the game, we could have lost 4-0 with the errors we made in our own are and the fact that we […] Collapse
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