Arsenal, as usual, kicked off our pre-season away at Boreham Wood, but the result was a bit different to last year when we won 8-0 in Unai Emery’s first game as the Gunners coach. This time it was the youngsters’ turn and here was the Arsenal starting XI: Hein; Swanson, McGuiness, Medley, Thompson; Smith, Burton; […]
Here we have Alfie’s 3rd in depth assessment of this season’s performances – Player by Player Today he covers our centre-backs… SEASON RATING 7: SOKRATIS- A solid first season in English football for the no-nonsense, (often too) aggressive and bullish Greek centre-back. He came to the club off the back of a poor season at […]
Here is Part 2 of Alfie’s assessment of all our players performances over the season… Today, has has rated our right-backs. SEASON PLAYER RATING 3: HECTOR BELLERIN- An unfortunate season for the Spaniard after such a good start where he appeared to have made massive leaps in his game under the new regime and with […]
Alfie´s Arsenal Squad Report And Review Part 1- The Goalkeepers SEASON RATING 1: PETR CECH- The Veteran’s final season in his long and fruitful career was an ok one. He started the campaign as our first choice goalkeeper and was forced to try and adapt to Emery’s style of passing out from the back and […]
FT: CHELSEA 4-1 ARSENAL by Alfie It’s time to talk about Wednesday night. A traumatic, heartbreaking, infuriating and agonising night. The consequences of this defeat for the club are huge, and we knew that prior to the game. Now we must face them. The big debate over the line-up was all centred around who would […]
Can you imagine what Sir Alex Ferguson would have said to his players if they got beat in the same way that Arsenal did last night? The same with Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Jurgen Klopp or even Mike Basset, just think about what the scene would have been like. You just know they would have […]
Where to start? Even though this is now roughly 12 hours or more after the game and the anger has subsided a little it is almost impossible to be anything other than damning towards the entire team. When you consider the magnitude of the game to see a performance like that is unacceptable, no words […]
It was definitely a great pre-game display by the Azerbaijanis with lots of noise and flashing lights, but the first half didn’t really live up to the billing. Arsenal started very confidently and the first half hour it looked we were well in control. Lacazette was worrying Chelsea’s defenders and nearly had a very good […]
A 3-1 away win in our final Premier League of the season is very much welcomed, it gives the team a boost and means that we end the domestic season on a positive note and not with the lads being criticised for another dismal performance. As well as a good win we can also celebrate […]
So the last League game of the season starts and Arsenal have a very changed side from the team that won in Valencia. The good news is that Aubameyang starts as he has scored twice in his only two games against Burnley, and if he does that again today he will be in with a […]
So Petr Cech will play one final game for Arsenal in the Final of the Europa League before he finally hangs up his gloves for good, and you could not have picked a better opponent than his old club Chelsea to complete the fairytale ending to his illustrious career. The Gunners fully deserved to go […]
Our season is not over thanks to an impressive 7-3 aggregate win over Valencia and a date with Chelsea in the Europa League final is now confirmed. The overall performance was efficient, however, two men, in particular, Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were outstanding and without them, the outcome may well have been different. No […]
Valencia promised to go straight on the offensive from the start and they certainly did. The first ten minutes the team in white were all over us, although we seemed to be containing them very well. Then disaster as the ball somehow goes right through the middle of Cech and Monreal into the path of […]
FT: ARSENAL 1-1 BRIGHTON Another terrible result in the league that effectively ends our pursuit of a top 4 finish. Whilst Arsenal were poor for large periods, we ultimately had the chances to win the game and failed to take them. We dominated the opening exchanges in terms of possession and territory, but didn’t look […]