After the draw with Brighton, Arsenal have 40 points after 20 games. They have matched their points tally from 20 games last season—a season where they narrowly missed out on the league title by a mere 2 points.
The fact that Arsenal are where they are suggests they aren’t as badly off as critics have made us think we are.
So far this season, our Gunners’ schedule has been very tough. They’ve played everyone from 4th to 15th away from home, apart from Manchester United. Meanwhile, our main title rivals, Liverpool, have had easier away games.
Now, with 18 games to go, can Arsenal go on a spirited run? Last year, from the 20-game mark, we went on a run of 16 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss.
I believe they can. The schedule is a massive advantage for Arsenal. Our boys now play most of their games at home, and considering we are the only team yet to lose at home, we can handle anything thrown our way at the Emirates Stadium.
Here are the away games for Arsenal and Liverpool in the next few months:
Arsenal away games:
– Liverpool
– Nottingham Forest
– Manchester United
– Everton
– Wolves
– Ipswich
– Leicester
Liverpool away games:
– Nottingham Forest
– Chelsea
– Manchester City
– Bournemouth
– Aston Villa
– Fulham
– Brentford
– Brighton
– Everton
– Leicester
Liverpool have tougher away fixtures. If they’re denied points in some of these away games, we might just stand a chance of overtaking them.
That said, we can always believe Arsenal will have a better run in the second half of this season. But we won’t go on a run like that (16-1-1) without investment in this January transfer window, for sure.
We know our attack needs bolstering. The Arsenal decision-makers need to make their title glory ambitions clear by making a big move that hands Arteta the firepower to fight Liverpool for the league title.
Daniel O
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This article doesn’t make sense. Arsenal is struggling with too many injuries to first team players.
The other day, we were unable to play Partey in midfield. We struggle to create chances when Partey doesn’t play there.
Arsenal needs a lot of luck to win. If they sign an attacker and a winger. they may have a chance. Liverpool is very consistent and have almost no injuries.
No get it right. We were able to play Partey in midfield but our manager chooses to MOVE our best midfielder 2.2 points average when he is in midfield to RB, under 1.3 points per game average when he is playing there. Please he does not HAVE to move HIM.
And guess what, we got 1 point against Brighton with Partey at RB. There is no defence against incompetence.
There does appear to be a lot of wishful thinking in this article, I checked Liverpool’s Away record and it doesn’t appear that they’ve dropped many points away from home. Perhaps they’ll have a run in the remaining games too.
Our biggest enemies are – ourselves. I’m not bothered for Pool, if they drop 2 points , we too drop 2 or 4 points. We are good against the bottom and top teams, our challenge is getting wins against the big physical mid table teams. We dropped 14 points from 7 draws – that includes BHA, Fulham, Everton. Cannot sit in the armchair and write off any team we play, knowing we are not playing to our full potential.
There are no easy games these days in the EPL. The fact is, Liverpool have just been better. I do think though that Liverpool are just a few injuries away from a blip, too. My concern going into the final straight of the season is that our performances against in so called “Easier games” have been disappointing. Even with our strongest squad. But now without Saka (who has been our main supply and threat for goals), I do wonder how much of a “blip” Liverpool will need to drop that many points. I fear the damage has already been done. We’ve dropped too many points already..
agreed about the schedule for the remainder of the games this season, Liverpool do have a tougher schedule than Arsenal. However, we do need 1/2 key signings, specially in attack and midfield, to bolster our squad and increase our title chances.
No mention of Forest, who are on same points as us and after watching their huge win last night are a serious threat!
Yes we may have an advantage in that respect, but unless we don’t get reinforcements I don’t think our squad in it’s current state can catch up.
Another hiccup is that we would need those reinforcements to be Prem league ready to hit the ground running.
The BIG disadvantage is. Liverpool have the massive advantage of a manager who wants to win games with his style. We have a manager that doesn’t want to lose games, with his style. So we have a BI disadvantage.
BIG disadvantage.
It’s matchday! Yes it is!!! COYG!
Daniel O,
Arsenal hold the advantage over Liverpool in the title race, do they?.
The last time I looked Liverpool had a 6 point lead with a game in hand.
Now while I’ll acknowledge our current injury and illness situation.
When we had a near full squad to choose from, our manager for some reason only known to himself has had the team playing pragmatic and time wasting at every set piece football for most of the season.
And as for your bolstering our attack quip, we can buy as many attacking players as you like.
With the way the team is being set out to play, if I was a striker at another club, and were made aware of Arsenal’s interest, I’d say thanks but no thanks.
What sort of service would he have to look forward to, not much if you’ve seen our current strikers out put this season.
So Daniel O, you can put as much spin on it as you like, to say we’ve got the advantage over Liverpool in the title race, is laughable at best🤣. (Really!🙄🤦♂️