Premier League Opener Shows We Need a Plan in Midfield and Attack
From a purely entertainment perspective, that was the perfect start to the season, wasn’t it? Early goal by the new striker, second goal created by…
Opinion Archives: 08/2017
Players Whose Powers Declined After Big-Money Moves Away From Arsenal Part 2
In last week’s instalment, we covered two of the key components to Arsenal’s 1997/98 double winning side, Marc Overmars and Nicolas Anelka. In part two,…
Searching the Stats: 4-4-2 to 4-2-3-1
4-4-2 In 2003/04, Arsenal won the league without losing a single game all season. This was of course down to a strong defence, only conceding…
How to combine Olivier Giroud & Alexandre Lacazette?
After an awesome game against Leicester last Friday night, Arsene Wenger probably has a headache. When his team played in 3-4-2-1 they had good possession…
Searching the Stats: Sead Kolasinac
New signing Sead Kolasinac was the hero on Sunday afternoon against Chelsea. He scored the equalizer that paved the way to yet another Community Shield…
Arsene's Throwback to Power
If pre-season is meant to answer the question of ‘Are we gonna be a force this season?” then you’d have to say the chance of…
The Inquest: 5 Tactical Talking Points From The Emirates Cup
The Emirates Cup returned this weekend after a gap of two years, and Arsenal duly lifted the trophy despite losing their second game to Sevilla…
Explaining The Stats: Mesut Ozil
Arsenal reinvigorated themselves during the 2013/2014 season, for two major reasons. Firstly, they smashed their transfer record to sign Real Madrid playmaker Mesut Ozil, and…
Arsenal Squad Rotation Review
One of similarity between biggest teams is their squads rotation, whether it was Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Juventus Turin, squads changes as little…
