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André Santos has been ruled out for at least a few weeks with a sprained ankle picked up in our 3-1 loss to Olympiacos last night. Santos limped off early on in the second half in a match that he shouldn’t have been playing anyway – we had…
Thomas Vermaelen set to cover for injured Santos against Everton
Although Arsene Wenger played a second string team in last night’s 3-1 defeat at Olympiakos, Arsenal still managed to sustain an injury to one of their first-team players. Lukas Fabianski was taken off with a cut during the first half, but the on…
Olympiakos 3-1 Arsenal: Analysis
This was a night to remember for Arsene Wenger days before the club’s 125th anniversary game as the Frenchman took charge of his 200th match in European competition – however, due to the fact that we’d already won our group, … C…
Woeful Wigan and Singing Szczesny: Wigan 0-4 Arsenal
Routine. Walk in the park. Just another day at the office. I don’t think there has been an easier game for us this season. Our opposition never got out of first gear as we went into cruise control and still won by a considerable distance. I can&#…
View From The North Bank: Wigan 0 Arsenal 4
Comprehensive, clinical and clicking into place; this was as flowing a performance as we could’ve hoped for and a good return to winning ways following the jaded performance against Fulham a week earlier. Although Wigan were poor, that shouldn…
Nitesh: Should Vermaelen have travelled to Greece?
Well, Arsenal have announced their 18-man squad which will travel to Greece for the final Champions League game. We have already qualified, so no one wants to take any first-teamer over there. They’ll get a well deserved rest, and the second string w…
Arsenal are starting to become four-midable again
First off, hats off to the lads on the pitch yesterday, they played a blinder – though you could argue quite possibly because really, there may as well of not been a Wigan team on the pitch after the 15th minute, when it looked from the start like th…
Peter: Should Koscielny or Mertesacker be Vermaelen’s regular partner?
For a couple of years now, Arsenal have been looking for a solid central defensive pairing that will toughen up the backline and propel us to our former glory days. With the acquisition of Vermaelen in 2009, one half is considered done. The question st…
Vermaelen is the defensive leader that Arsenal needed
The Verminator has been an essential part of the Arsenal backline since 2009. He had a great start, netting 8 goals for the gunners in his debut season in the premier league and tightening up the shaky Arsenal defence. This … Continue reading …
Wenger – We are not out of the title chase yet
Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger proved himself satisfied of the performance Arsenal had against Wigan and told reporters after the match that he doesn’t yet exclude the possibility of fighting for the Premiership title. “Maybe they started a …
Wigan vs Arsenal Ratings : 4 To The One Man Team, 0 To The Team With 11 Men
Are we still a one man team? I doubt so, with Ramsey bagging 95% completed passes, Vermaelen grabbing a goal and an assist, Gervinho & Walcott with a goal & assist respectively BUT the star of the team & on the day Van Persie shone brigh…
Wigan 0-4 Arsenal: Analysis
Arsenal made the trip to the North-West as Szczesny; Koscielny, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Andre Santos; Song, Arteta; Walcott, Ramsey, Gervinho; van Persie (C) started as the strongest possible XI (taking injuries into account), and it was clear that Ars…
Babies bullying billionaires: Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City
Arsenal has officially been given its first knockout blow out of the season. The Carling Cup is no longer there for the taking as our courageous kids were unfortunately set aside by those band of billionaires. The Carling Cup final of last season hurt …
Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City: Analysis
A poignant minute’s silence for Gary Speed (R.I.P) turned into spontaneous applause and chants of ‘one Gary Speed’ before kick-off in a sold out Emirates which saw Fabianski, Djourou, Squillaci, Koscielny, Miquel, Frimpong, Coquelin,…
Arsenal 1-1 Fulham: Football Put Into Perspective
A few hours ago I planning to moan about our surprisingly lethargic performance yesterday, which saw us drop points for the first time in six Premier League matches. Instead, having just discovered the utterly shocking, saddening news about Wales ma…
Gervinho missed in disappointing draw
This post would have been filled with lots of curse words if it had been written immediately after yesterday’s match. All was set for us to continue the win streak, it so happened that we had to claw back to draw the game 1-1. It was obvious from…
Arsenal show “exceptional spirit” and lack of quality.
I partied all through last night but I can assure you that the title of this post is not alcohol-induced. Yesterday’s draw against Fulham was more of one point gained than two points lost. Why jump the gun though? Allow me to take you through how…
Arsenal 1-1 Fulham: Vermaelen scores both goals as spoils are shared at the Emirates
Thomas Vermaelen scored both goals as Arsenal were forced to settle for a draw against Fulham. The team featured two changes from the starting XI of last weekend, with Laurent Koscielny replaced by Johan Djourou, and Andrei Arshavin on in place of Gerv…
Arsenal 1-1 Fulham: Analysis
Szczesny, Djourou, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Santos, Arteta, Song, Walcott, Ramsey, Arshavin and Van Persie (C) lined up as Arsenal looked for their 6th league victory in a row. The visitors, who started with Schwarzer, Baird, Hangeland, Senderos, Riise,…
Arsenal vs Fulham : Match Preview
Would seem one’s complacent by writing off Fulham’s chance before the teams file out for Saturday’s evening kick-off at the Emirates and below is why. Robin van Persie has a strike ratio of 0.88 goals per game this calendar year fo…
Arsenal 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: Analysis
Fresh from beating the top team in the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich, in their own back yard, Jurgen Klopp’s resurgent Dortmund side’s improvement in form from the first leg was great enough to mirror that of Arsenal, who had struggled before &…
Wenger Says Yes To Gotze. Song Steals The Show as god RVP Shoots Down BVB.
Group winners with one game to spare, who would have thought that was possible seeing as we were ‘in crisis’ at the beginning of the season and the stalemate against Marseille threatened another episode of last season’s drama where we…
Van Persie with Another Double : Arsenal vs Dortmund Player Ratings
Remember last and upper week when I said I’m going to run out of words for Van Persie, well I have, now I think he needs to take a break or I need to learn Dutch adjectives synonymous with brilliant and on fire. Two goals in the second half won t…
Dortmund, Diaby and THAT Dutchman!
Greetings fellow Gooners! Up to 7th and within touching distance of the Champions League places again…Crisis? What crisis?!?! Of course, we all had our doubts at one point or another. We all had to listen to the media screaming about the end of A…
Felt like home: Norwich City 1-2 Arsenal
There’s no place like home, it’s where you are most comfortable, the place you can relax and just be yourself without a care in the world. Home sweet home, Arsenal’s home, Carrow Road?! Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue now does…
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