The words Arsenal and treble do not often go hand in hand, but could this season finally be different?
Mikel Arteta’s side are currently on course for a potential hat trick of silverware and are looking convincing across the Premier League, FA Cup, and League Cup, something they underlined once again earlier this week.
Despite only narrowly beating Chelsea 3-2 at Stamford Bridge in the first leg of the League Cup semi final, Arsenal remain favourites to reach the final. A return tie awaits at the Emirates in early February, where the men in red and white will expect to finish the job with a loud and proud crowd of around 60,000 backing them.
Without Alejandro Garnacho’s superb individual moment of brilliance, there is a strong case that Arsenal could have come away with a clean sheet, with Chelsea largely kept at arm’s length for much of the contest.
Arsenal’s excellence was on show once again, with resilience proving key for Arteta’s side.
Arsenal’s domestic form suggests something special
Understandably, the Gunners have missed out on a treble of Premier League titles over the past three seasons, but this campaign feels different. For the majority of the season, Arsenal have sat top of the table and do not look like a side prone to dropping points easily.
They have lost fewer league games than any other team in the Premier League so far. Manchester City, who sit behind them, have lost double that amount, four defeats after 21 league matches.
While Arsenal may not lead the league in terms of goals scored, they currently sit second, which highlights a strong balance between attacking output and defensive stability.
That consistency has been the hallmark of Arteta’s Arsenal this season, with the team repeatedly finding ways to win even when performances have not been at their fluent best.
Cup momentum builds belief
Last Sunday, Arsenal began their FA Cup campaign in emphatic fashion, recording a 4-1 victory over Championship side Portsmouth in the third round. The visitors briefly stunned the Emirates crowd by scoring after just three minutes, forcing an immediate and powerful attacking response from the hosts.
Once Arsenal found their rhythm, the outcome was never really in doubt. The performance served as another reminder of their strength in knockout football.
Arsenal remain the most successful club in the history of the FA Cup, having lifted the trophy 13 times. With that pedigree, belief naturally grows that this competition could once again end in red and white ribbons.
Only Manchester City and Manchester United have previously managed to secure a domestic treble. The question now is whether Arsenal can finally join that exclusive club.
Do you believe this is the season Arsenal finally complete a historic treble, or is it still too early to say?
Let’s discuss in the comments.
Liam Harding
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As if Garnacho was not a Chelsea player
On a serious note, one step after another.
I’m not going to touch the money.
One game at a time.
Correction. Arsenal have won the FAC 14x.
If you mean the proper treble that the Manchester clubs won then no , we are not at that stage yet
No
With this team, anything is possible. Let’s hope we achieve all there is to win come end of season.
One game at a time fellas. Personally, winning the Prem is the big one. Anything on top of that will be icing on the cake. Let’s not get carried away.
Couldn’t agree more Onyango. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves and think we are some sort of dominating force in Europe and England all of a sudden.
Despite playing well in Europe so far this season and last year, the knock out stages of CL has a way of humbling many an overconfident English teams over the years , including city for years before their first CL. If we come against a Madrid, Munich or Barcelona in a quarter final this season or even Liverpool (who I think are a dark horse in CL) it’s a a different beast we won’t do as well as last year. The eye of this team will be on the league where it should be. We don’t have the quality to compete both PL and CL at same time.
The Fa cup is our best chance of a double with weaker opposition allowing us to rotate better in the league until we can afford to in later in the season to field a full strength team in it.
The league is all that matters, I’ve waited 20 years !!!
I don’t think we should be obsessed with meaningless records like a treble! What we need is a significant trophy such as EPL or Champions League. The other things, great as they are, will be a bonus. We have been yearning for a trophy of repute and in this case it is either EPL or Champions League. With our current squad and good strategy, these are realistic targets. However, it should be step by step. We should not get too carried away.
Both the manager and his players need to be determined to go all the way this time. Tomorrow’s game against Inter Milan will be a good assessment of our team’s readiness to go all the way in CL because last season they beat us at San Siro stadium. It is our performance in different games that will determine whether we have progressed or not.
Meaningless records with a treble !
What the actual ,lost for words .
Here comes my mantra again. One game and one competition at a time, and lets see where it leads us.
After every one whining after the Forest game we wouldn’t win anything this season with this team and Arteta in charge, now it’s being suggested we could be on for a possible treble, talk about fickle. Anyway I think we will do the quadruple 😉
GB,
I think you’re on the quadruples to be honest.😂🤣😉👍
The epl is looking likely for us to win, especially with the underperformance of the other teams, but it’s not over until it is over.
If we go by recent history, we might not win the league.
But if the boys get mature and break history then we might end up winning the league this year.
I hope and pray we do.
Let’s just go one match at a time.
Up next is Inter in the UCL and Man United in the EPL.
2 very tough matches that will test our strength and maturity especially the Man United match.
Hopefully we get a win against ManU, but I’m scared we might get a draw and drop points.
It’s important to remember that we are still under the impression that City will automatically romp to victory. Or Villa will not lose another home fixture when in such a possible season defining tie like they were against Everton
There is a default position that Arsenal will collapse, get flushed down the lav by Liverpool or Chelsea or the 2 just mentioned when they make a charge up the table. Our mentality is as fragile as everyone who thinks a collapse by the team is going to happen
Well, I agree with you that our mentality as fans needs to be better, because our positive energy and mentality can actually transmit to the players especially on match days.
But you won’t blame an average fan whose mentality is fragile because for the past 2 decades the team has proved not being able to win a major trophy. It’s like PTSD.
So it’s up to those fans to heal from the PTSD and we all develop a very strong belief that we will win the league this year.
The coach and players need to play their own roles too by showing vigour, intensity, strong belief, urgency, speed and strength to help win as much games as possible.
A treble would be nice, but with the vagaries and lottery of cup draws, there are some ties, especially away, where we rightly won’t start as favourites.
It needs to be the league for Arsenal this season – everyone plays everyone home and away, there’s no arguing with it, no arguing who was best this football season.
A win in a cup final for another trophy is merely a bonus to the main prize.
The stars aopear to be aligned for us, who’d expected cit and AV results and still we want to play fair AND drop points…..like the end wenger teams. Im
not holding my breath, since the leicester epl win and when we were 8 pts clear of cit. Werent we at the top too then then crashed and burned??? The scars are still strong.
The novices tactics are too similiar to end wenger for me to be comfy…favouritism, poor tactics and not flexble to mould to the copposition, poor subs.AND the medical issues.
Please let me be wrong as 22 yearsxhas been a long wait but…….
The likelihood of treble in my order is Epl as rivals are struggling for form, Carabao after beating City at lucky place Wembley, UCL same as arch rivals are not feeling okay and just can forget FA Cup this season as it can be sacrificed with the unbreakable 14 record we have.
How you have watched the last 2 Prem games where clearly nerves are getting to us and have concluded we are winning the treble is crazy
Rivals are also rattled. Yesterday you mentioned after the results of thus weekend we’re better off than our rivals. We don’t get beaten by Everton at home. We got 3 full points from Old Trafford unlike City who behaved like a school team there
After the Liverpool game that we drew it was 17 matches left to be played.
I estimated that we can only afford 2 more draws and 2 more losses.
Then win 13 to be able to win the League.
We have drawn to Forest so it’s now 1 more draw and 2 more losses we can afford now.
Unto Man United next. Hopefully we don’t drop points.
I think the other measurement is what is the maximum points Mancy can still get, add 1, that’s our target we are chasing. If Man City drop points, the target gets closer.
It might well be you don’t need XX to win a title. The winner may only have something in the 80’s this year.
Yes, that target actually depends on Man City and Aston Villa dropping points too, which I believe they will.
But it would be safer if we drop just very little points and win more games.
I remember the message SJ. We need victories this month and our gap will be maintained. City only have wolves, but spurs and l’pool away Newcastle at home in feb. On current form you’d expect them to drop a few points. We have Sunderland at home ( we will take revenge) I think we will get the win at spurs away, as we have a period of rest before then and won’t go field full strength against Wigan.
Therefore United and Leeds (away) games are hyper critical, imo and I think we can be in March with the very least the same 7 point cushion. Essential for the run in.
Hopefully, they maintain this 7 points lead and even extend it too.
Let’s see how it goes.
Another point to add, is what secures Arteta’s legacy where Arteta’s detractors are silenced.
In my opinion, not defending a title since 1935, all MA needs is to win the Premier League this season, and again next season, and not a single other trophy, for that to be more than legendary achievement’s enough.