The Vitality stadium, a ground of many “firsts” for the Gunners
After a two week hiatus the Gunners will welcome back club football with a visit to the south coast to take on Bournemouth at the Vitality stadium, in what should be a very interesting contest between the two sides,
The Cherries have been no push overs throughout this season so far, even though they’re currently stuck in mid-table. With the form we’ve been in this season we’ll absolutely be fancying our chances of getting a pretty comfortable win on Saturday, even though we’ll be sweating on the fitness of some really key players.
With that said, we’ll still have enough ammunition to get a win at a stadium of many “firsts” for the Gunners.
Indeed this stadium has seen a number of our players and coach claim their “firsts” for the club with Havertz and Saliba grabbing their first Arsenal goals in this stadium in what would have been a huge confidence boost at the time for the former who was struggling to get going at the club. Our manager, Mikel Arteta also got a first at the Vitality stadium for us, taking charge of his first Arsenal game on the south coast. Even though he didn’t leave with a win that day it would have been a special moment for the Spaniard in his very first game as a manager of any football club.
Come Saturday evening in the first meeting between the two clubs this season, Arsenal will be hoping to come away with a win and further confidence boost for the difficult run of fixtures we’ll have coming up.
What are the odds of us seeing a player score his first goal of the season at the Vitality on Saturday?
KENNETH BENJAMIN.
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So am of the opinion a certain player could get his first brace of the season here.
Arsenal should go first on top if only for 24 hours when the dust settles on the South Coast.
This is a big game in the scheme of things
If we win here tomorrow, we’ll have 2000 victories in the top divisions, something only Liverpool have previously achieved.
That’s impressive. I guess it’s to do with the fact that Arsenal hasn’t been relegated from the topflight from the 1919-20 season (when football resumed after WW1) onwards.
Yeah, that would be it, and I’ve been to about 200 of them, but not any recently.