How many points are Arsenal getting from the next three games?
Arsenal have had somewhat a rough few weeks, sharing points with Liverpool at Anfield, which isn’t anything to feel negative about, but then the games against West Ham and Fulham have definitely shook the fan base and probably the players and the club too. But, it’s a new year and we should be focusing on bouncing back, not looking back to our mistakes. We face Liverpool in the FA Cup this weekend but after that we get straight back into Premier League action and will be looking to get all 9 points from the next three games.
First Premier League game of 2024 will be against Crystal Palace in a London derby at The Emirates. Palace currently sit in 14th in the bottom half of the table but after a tough few weeks and some bad losses, Palace bounced back and held Manchester City to a 2-2 draw and since then have looked like a much better team. Having the likes of Michael Olise return from injury, who has been incredible for the past few seasons.
Arsenal have won 11 of their last 20 games against Palace, while Palace have only managed to win 3 and walking away sharing the points 6 times. Arsenal will need to be on form and need to be walking away victorious if we want to start off well this year.
Then we have Nottingham Forest away at the City Ground. Forest had a hard start to the season but since bringing in Nuno Santo, the squad seems to have started to click a lot better, and beating Newcastle away and then Manchester United at home really proved that. Nuno Santos is an amazing manager with a lot of pedigree. He should put a fire in the bellies of the forest players and they will fight hard to get the points.
Arsenal will need to stay solid and communicate well with each other, Forest have some fast forward players that will look to punish us if we let them. Another game that the 3 points are extremely important and the City ground isn’t always the easiest to play at, especially when they’re filled with the confidence they are at the moment.
Then onto Liverpool at The Emirates. Another extremely hard game and could be make or break for our season, depending how the games against Palace and Forest go, we could be looking at a really hard game, even if it is at home.
Liverpool have been great this season and Klopp looks like he’s determined to win the League. We also play them at home in the FA Cup this week so hopefully we can make The Emirates a daunting place to go and if we beat them in the FA Cup, it might lead us with confidence to beat them in the League as well.
Liverpool obviously have plenty of talent and Arsenal will have to be at their very best, another extremely important set of points and by the end of these 3 games, we should know where we’re at.
Personally, I think we win against Palace and Forest but draw against Liverpool, what’s your thoughts Gooners? How many points do you think were getting for the next 3 games?
Daisy Mae
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Hard to make any prediction.
They’re tree highly-winnable games and we should get nine points if we want to finish in top four
Fullbacks are not performing well. This effects both flank defences and both wing attacks. This is why we are losing games. Need to bring back Tierney and invest in a quality ( not make shift) versitile Fullback to change the sluggish dynamic of the team. There has been little to none overlapping forward runs by the fullbacks and no real support to Saka and Martinelli, plus we have shown frailties in our defence by allowing the opposition early in swingers due to our lackluster fullbacks not recovering quick enough. They are playing in no mans land, neither overlapping forward or recovering back. Total rubbish and Arteta needs to wake up and correct the fullback problems or look for another job.
Also regarding unfair refereeing, why are the crooked refs allowing teams to bring down Saka without being punished. Teams are on average knocking Saka to the ground over 50 times without any punishment, and why are refs reluctant to show a yellow card in the first half of games. This sends out a message to the opposition to kick us for free in the first half of games knowing that the fer is not going to punish them for it. I feel sorry for Saka, the refs are so anti arsenal, shame on them for being so obviously crooked. The STATS on unpunished fouls on Saka does not lie
In my opinion, reverting to the overlapping-fullback tactics would be a regression, because we used it for more than fifteen years and didn’t win any major trophy within that period
Man City, Liverpool and Spuds have been using the inverted-fullback tactics very well this season, so Arsenal should also be able to maximize a similar tactic
Arteta’s inverted-fullback tactic is as good as the other big EPL teams’. It just lacks a consistent hold-up play and attacking variations in the final-third
I also think that Tierney should be brought back. Not only he is a better defender than Zinchenko but also he supplies the wingers with crosses better than Zinchenko. Zinchenko is a good midfielder and he should play as a left no.8. As for the fouls on Saka, I have been repeatedly saying on this forum that so many fouls at so many times against saka go unpunished. Arteta and Arsenal must take a serious look at this and report this matter to the authorities.
@gai agreed👍
I just hope Partey will stay fit through the remaining part of the season.
I also hope we sell Nketiah, Cedric and Elneny to make room for a better CDM, with Havertz playing as CF.
Fullbacks are not performing well. This effects both flank defences and both wing attacks. This is why we are losing games. Need to bring back Tierney and invest in a quality ( not make shift) versitile Fullback to change the sluggish dynamic of the team. There has been little to none overlapping forward runs by the fullbacks and no real support to Saka and Martinelli, plus we have shown frailties in our defence by allowing the opposition early in swingers due to our lackluster fullbacks not recovering quick enough. They are playing in no mans land, neither overlapping forward or recovering back. Total rubbish and Arteta needs to wake up and correct the fullback problems or look for another job.
Also, why are the crooked refs allowing teams to bring down Saka without being punished. Teams are on average knocking Saka to the ground over 50 times without any punishment, and why are refs reluctant to show a yellow card in the first half of games. This sends out a message to the opposition to kick us for free in the first half of games knowing that the fer is not going to punish them for it. I feel sorry for Saka, the refs are so anti arsenal, shame on them for being so obviously crooked. The STATS on unpunished fouls on Saka does not lie.
It is not beyond Arsenal picking up all nine points over the next three games, toughest of that bunch is Liverpool at home without Salah.
I also think that the Palace and the Forest games are winnable, although Forest could be more tricky. If we manage to beat both Palace and Forest and draw with Liverpool, it is a success according to me. Before that I hope we beat Liverpool in the FA Cup 3rd round.