Sunday, 19 May 2013

Arsenal cruises into Champions League Qualifiers

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 Arsenal fans had to endure a few nervous minutes at the end of the Gunners 1-0 win in Newcastle on May 19, but all’s well that ends well as the club managed to finish in fourth place in the English Premier League this season to earn a berth in the qualifying stages of next season’s [...]

Arsenal still in driver’s seat after 4-1 win over Wigan

  Arsenal remains in the driver’s seat after a thorough 4-1 win over Wigan Athletic at the rain-soaked Emirates Stadium on Tuesday, May 14. The Gunners just have to win their final game of the season at St. James’ Park in Newcastle to ensure themselves of a third or fourth place finish in the Premier [...]

Arsenal’s fate now in their own hands

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  With Chelsea and Tottenham playing to a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge on Wed. May 8, Arsenal can now guarantee themselves a spot in next season’s European Champions League by winning their remaining two games. If they do this, they can wrap up at least fourth place in the English Premier League table as [...]

Third is the word for Arsenal

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 Arsenal put in another workmanlike effort again at Loftus Road on Sat. May 4, to earn a 1-0 draw against recently-relegated Queens Park Rangers and moved into third place in the Premier League table. The scoring was done before many supporters got to their seats as Theo Walcott banged in the game’s only goal after [...]

Arsenal can’t take relegated QPR for granted

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Arsenal won’t have far to travel for their next match when they head across town to take on London neighbours Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road. This could be a decent time to meet Harry Redknapp and his squad since they’ve already been relegated into the Championship League next season along with Reading. But on [...]

Robin van Persie ties one on in 1-1 game with Man United

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  For many football fans and bettors it was just inevitable that Robin van Persie would somehow manage to find the back of the net for Man United on his return to the Emirates on April 27. They were right. The Dutch striker was chopped down in the penalty area by Bacary Sagna after he [...]

Arsenal 1-0 Fulham:Poor performance, great result

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The result was a lot better than the performance on Saturday April 20 when Arsenal snuck in and out of Craven Cottage and took three points from cross town rivals Fulham. An argument could be made that if Fulham didn’t have Steve Sidwell sent off in the 12th minute of play then points would have [...]

Arsenal no longer controls their own destiny

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  Unfortunately for Arsenal, the club doesn’t control its own fate in the Premier League any longer this season. Their 0-0 draw at home against Everton on Tuesday saw to this. With Chelsea sitting in third place with 61 points and six games to go and Spurs in fifth place with 58 points and also [...]

Arsenal drop pair of crucial points in 0-0 draw with Everton

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  The menu of the day featured a main course of Arsenal vs Everton at the Emirates in London on Tuesday April 16, but it failed to live up to expectations. The rather uneventful match saw both teams drop two valuable points in a 0-0 draw. Arsenal remains in third place for now and should [...]

Arsenal leapfrogs into third place with 3-1 win over Norwich

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  Once Arsenal’s big guns all took to the pitch late in the game the club woke up in time to slam home three late goals for a 3-1 win over a pesky Norwich side. The three points move the Gunners into third place for the time being with 59 points as they leapfrogged over [...]

Wilshere and Walcott 90 per cent for Saturday against Norwich

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    Arsenal is all set to kick off against Norwich City at the Emirates in London on Saturday, April 13. The Gunners will be hoping to close the gap on third-place Chelsea and fourth-place Spurs and widen the point spread between themselves and sixth-place Everton. Chelsea is busy with their FA Cup semi final [...]

Arsenal climbs into fourth…at least for a day

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Midfielder Tomas Rosicky was the unlikely hero for Arsenal on Saturday afternoon as he scored both goals in the Gunners 2-1 win at West Brom. Arsenal hung on after taking a 2-0 lead as Per Mertesacker was sent off in the 70th minute with a red card and also conceded a penalty on the play. [...]

Walcott and Wilshere to miss West Brom match

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Arsenal got some good news this week when it was announced that Theo Walcott and Jack Wilshere should be able to return from injury soon. However, that means the team will have to do without them again on Saturday April 6 when they travel to Birmingham to take on West Brom. The points are crucial [...]

Arsenal doesn’t break a sweat in 4-1 win over Reading

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Chelsea’s loss was Arsenal’s gain on Saturday March 30. The Gunners didn’t really break a sweat while disposing of an uninterested Reading side 4-1 at home while Rafael Benitez led his men to another loss, this one a 2-1 defeat down on the south coast at Southampton. Spurs managed to beat Swansea 2-1 to sneak [...]

Arsenal ready for Reading on March 30

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Arsenal finally gets back to Premier League action on Saturday March 30 when they take on relegation-battling Reading at home at the Emirates. As has been the case all season long, the Gunners will be determined to earn all three points in the race for third and fourth place along  with Tottenham and Chelsea. Reading [...]

Aaron Ramsey, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Theo Walcott make World Cup qualifying news

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Unfortunately, only one of the three British Arsenal players who joined up with their national teams had a perfect day in World Cup qualifiers on Friday, March 22. Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain had an excellent match and scored his second goal for his country in England’s 8-0 thrashing in San Marino. His teammate Theo Walcott was [...]

Wasted season for Arsenal’s Ryo Miyaichi

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Unfortunately, it’s been a wasted season for young winger Ryo Miyaichi. The 20-year-old Japanese international has been out on loan with fellow Premier League club Wigan since the start of the campaign and things certainly haven’t gone well for him. Miyaichi has now been loaned out to Dutch club Feyenoord as well as Bolton and [...]

Arsenal breathing down Chelsea’s and Spurs necks

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Arsenal crept closer to Chelsea and Tottenham with a solid 2-0 win at Swansea on Saturday and kept their second away clean sheet in a row. The game lacked drama though as the Gunners were more or less in control of the proceedings right from the opening kickoff and very rarely seemed to be in [...]

Too little too late for Arsenal

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You can’t criticize a team that went into Munich and beat the Bundesliga leaders 2-0 in their own backyard. However, it was still a case of too little too late for Arsenal as they needed a third goal to secure a spot in the European Champions League quarterfinals and lost on the away-goals rule after [...]

Arsenal living on the edge ahead of Munich clash

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While Tottenham threw Arsenal a lifeline in the Premier League, they still have a sizable mountain to climb on Wednesday when they visit the Allianz Arena in Germany for a match with Bayern Munich.  Of course everybody remembers the Gunners last go round with the Bundesliga squad as it resulted in a disappointing 3-1 home [...]

Arsenal’s Stan Kroenke named sixth most-powerful person in sports

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Arsenal’s majority owner Stan Kroenke may rub many Arsenal supporters the wrong way due to his alleged penny-pinching and thrifty ways, but he must be doing something right. The 65-year-old was just recently named as the sixth most powerful person in the world of sports by the renowned Sports Illustrated magazine. The publication just released [...]

Arsenal falls 2-1 to Spurs but Champions League still in reach

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Champions League football is still possible for Arsenal next season, but there’s no denying that it’s going to be quite an uphill battle after dropping a 2-1 decision to Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Sunday March 3. Third-place Spurs are now seven points clear of the Gunners while fourth-place Chelsea sits five ahead of [...]

Arsenal preparing for Spurs showdown

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It doesn’t matter where Arsenal and Spurs are in the league table, when the two London rivals get together it’s always a huge attraction. This Sunday’s match at White Hart Lane is just going to be all the more special due to the Champions League berth that’s possibly at stake here. It looks like Man [...]

Cazorla comes through for in the crunch

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It was a nervous 94 minutes for Arsenal fans and manager Arsene Wenger at Emirates Stadium on Saturday afternoon, but thanks to midfield maestro Santi Cazorla the Gunners took all three points from a game Aston Villa side with a 2-1 win. Cazorla opened and closed the scoring in the game with the winner, his [...]

Arsenal needs minor miracle in Munich

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Arsenal have dug themselves a hole so deep that it’s going to be nearly impossible to climb out of after dropping a 3-1 decision at home on Feb. 19 to Germany’s Bayern Munich in the first leg of their round-of-16 tie in the European Champions League. It was a rather sloppy affair in the first [...]