Thursday, 20 June 2013

The pressure’s on Arsenal after Chelsea and Spurs win

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The pressure has firmly been placed on the shoulders of Arsene Wenger and each and every member of his Arsenal squad after Chelsea and Tottenham recorded come-from-behind victories on the weekend. Both London neighbours fell behind quite early 1-0 in their respective away matches against  Aston Villa and Stoke, but came back to earn 2-1 [...]

Arsenal v Wigan Athletic Match Preview

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Arsenal will welcome Wigan Athletic to Emirates Stadium this Tuesday where the two teams will face each other in a Premier League fixture that is extremely crucial to both, but for different reasons. Chelsea’s 2-1 win over Aston Villa on Saturday all but guaranteed them a place in next season’s Champions League competition. The Blues’ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Swansea City v Arsenal Match Preview: Wenger Urges Gunners to ‘Win At All Cost’

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Arsenal will travel to Wales to take on Swansea City at their Liberty Stadium on Saturday. The Gunners, who are 2.20 with Unibet to win this Premier League encounter, desperately need the three points on offer here to keep pace with Tottenham and Chelsea, both of whom have home games this weekend. Coach Arsene Wenger’s [...]

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 v Aston Villa Preview – Gunners Hoping to End Two-Game Home Slide against Villans

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Arsenal are scheduled to welcome Aston Villa at Emirates Stadium on Saturday afternoon in a fixture that neither of the two sides can afford to lose. The pain of the Gunners’ humiliating FA Cup exit was still fresh when they were torn apart 3-1 on their own turf by Bayern Munich on Wednesday night. Now [...]

Chelsea v Arsenal Match Preview – Gunners hoping to take advantage of Blues’ home struggles

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The task of facing Chelsea in a football game at Stamford Bridge once used to be the most difficult away fixture in the Barclays Premier League and it was extremely rare for the travelling clubs to come away with their pride intact, let alone any points. The Blues famously enjoyed an extraordinary run of 86 [...]

Arsenal vs Man City has many Premier League ramifications

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The English Premier League won’t be decided this Sunday Jan. 13, but things will look a lot clearer after Arsenal takes on second-place Manchester City at the Emirates and league leaders Manchester United meet their old foes Liverpool at home at Old Trafford. The Gunners performance this weekend could actually go a long way in [...]

Arsenal needs win over Newcastle to keep pace with top six

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Seventh-place Arsenal has their work cut out for them on Saturday Dec. 29 when Newcastle United visits the Emirates Stadium as every team in front of them except Manchester City managed to win their Boxing Day matches. League-leading Manchester United had to battle from behind three separate times before edging Newcastle 4-3 at Old Trafford [...]

Three crucial points up for grabs at Reading

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It would appear that a trip to Reading could cure all that ails Arsenal at the moment. But If the Gunners couldn’t put away League Two side Bradford during the week there’s no guarantee they’ll be able to handle the Premier League’s cellar dwellers. This will be the squad’s second trip to the Madejski Stadium [...]

Arsenal and Spurs set to battle it out

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Two of Arsenal’s biggest matches this season, like every other season, will be against arch rival Tottenham Hotspur in a pair of North London derbies. The first of these highly-anticipated showdowns takes place at home at Emirates Stadium on Sat. Nov. 17. With seventh-place Spurs ahead of the eighth-place Gunners in the league table and [...]

Arsenal hope goals go marching in against Saints

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Abou Diaby – 50/50 to meet the Saints Arsenal v Southampton     3 p.m. After two nil-nil draws, the knives seemed to be out against an impotent Arsenal side. Fast forward a week, and all of sudden the Gunners are solid championship contenders after a 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield. And so, after the [...]

Liverpool v Arsenal preview

          Liverpool v Arsenal     Anfield, Sunday, September 2 1:30 p.m. Liverpool won’t be including Clint Dempsey in their side to face Arsenal on Sunday, mainly because they drew the wrath of their fans more than Arsenal did after the debacle that saw him end up at Spurs. Liverpool did ship [...]

Will it be third, fourth or fifth place?

This is it!  This is the big one!  Ninety minutes that can turn a mediocre season into an acceptable one.  Ninety minutes to make certain of third place.  Ninety minutes to confirm Champions League football for the coming season. Back in August, few would have believed that we could be in third place with one [...]

Wigan defeat puts added pressure on The Gunners!

Monday’s  disappointing result has added pressure to an already difficult fixture.  Failure to gain three points from the Chelsea game will seriously jeopardise our push for  a third place finish.  Not only will it add impetus to the chasing pack but it will make the rest of the season’s fixtures must win games not want [...]

Gunners can go eight points clear with a win over Wigan.

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Tonight’s visit by Wigan presents The Gunners with the opportunity to widen the gap between us and the chasing pack of assorted Chavs, Magpies, and Spuds.  An eight point lead over the last two and ten over the other one would be a morale booster for us and a demoralising blow for them. This is [...]

A Gunner’s win tonight will go a long way to consolidating third place.

With just six more games to play the season’s end is fast approaching, our current third place is not looking too bad when the awful start to the campaign is taken into account.  There are some tough games coming up and tonight’s trip to Molineux is a potential stumbling block which deserves to be taken [...]

Is today’s game a “must win” for The Gunners?

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“A want win not a must win” for Arsenal is how Arsene Wenger described this afternoon’s home fixture against Manchester City while for them nothing but a win will do if they want to keep alive their hopes of a first league title for forty-eight years.  A Gunners win would move us back up to [...]

Can Gunners extend seven match winning run?

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Next up is Saturday’s 3 o’clock kick off at Loftus Road.  Our last meeting with Queens Park Rangers, on 31st December, ended with a van Persie strike netting us the three points at the Emirates.  That goal was Reliant Robin’s 35th of the year and moved him one goal clear of Thierry Henry’s previous record. [...]

Gunners can make it seven wins on the trot

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Following on from Wednesday evening’s one nil win over Everton, next up is a tasty home fixture against Aston Villa.  Currently lying in fifteenth place, their last six away matches in the Premiership have resulted in D D L L W D.  Villa’s best away result this season came in December when they beat Chelsea [...]

Big night for the Gunners at Goodison

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Thanks to the FA Cup quarter finals the Arsenal players were able to have a weekend off and so should be fully refreshed after the exertions of the last minute smash and grab win over the Magpies. The same cannot be said for tonight’s opponents, Everton. They had to play an exhausting derby game at Anfield, where [...]