Hello everyone. It’s been a while since I wrote home. Hopefully that will change from now on. It’s Chelsea away this Saturday as Emery tries to get a better result out of his team than on the opening day. I hasten to add some of our play against City was encouraging and will hopefully continue […]
Arsenal 0-2 Manchester City – Premier League review – 18/19 season opener City are the champions, and we knew it wouldn’t be easy. However, it was a good defeat, if that makes sense. City were the better team overall, and had more chances to score. Though I think we looked to get forward, and […]
It’s not much longer now. Pre-season has concluded, a taste test of the Emery era has been served, and football that matters is only hours away. I’ve always believed that preseason should be taken with a grain of salt. I felt disjointed lineups and teams playing at half speed can lead to few concrete observations. […]
Arsenal 1 (6) – 1 (5) Chelsea International Champions Cup Dublin · August 1, 2018 So: high press vs high press. Both teams used all 120 yards too. Generally, similar playing styles so very interesting match up! FORMATION Attacking 4-2-3-1 (best I could tell) Defensively 4-4-1-1 POSITIVES Got out of Chelsea press often. Kolasinac […]
It’s tough to think of many collective entities that aren’t enhanced by the sound structures and frameworks around them. It’s why successful businesses embrace universal “best practices” like establishment of success targets, clear performance expectations, and defined roles among personnel. It’s why many of the best footballing clubs have been as proficient working back defensively […]
For all the talk of a rousing, fist-bumping send-off for Arsène Wenger that would go down as one of the club’s greatest European nights, Arsenal’s lacklustre defeat at the Wanda Metropolitano on Thursday instead provided a stark reminder of where the club finds itself in the final act of Wenger’s 22-year reign. A fairytale finish […]
It’s been quite a journey, this Gooner journey through the Kubler-Ross stages of GRIEF. First there was DENIAL – an inability, or unwillingness, to accept that there was something rotten in the state of Arsenal. Wenger had gutted his Invincibles, ruthlessly ridding himself of his stars for top dollar to finance the new stadium -and […]
Arsenal’s £56million man, Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang has netted an impressive 6 goals in his first 7 Premier League gamesm – the best start ever for an Arsenal signing. Sergio Aguero is the only current Premier League player to have done better. To see how PEA compares to other strikers in the PL with over 5 goals, […]
Since last weekend there has been a lot of chatter around the formation and how we can get the best out of the best we currently have on the books. I thought I’d take this and hopefully run it through the whole squad. With 7 games to go and our realistic target of maintaining 6th […]
Arsenal vs. Stoke City preview Premier League – 1st April 2018 Easter Sunday, (H) Stoke is a kind of weird club for us. The Aaron Ramsey thing is naturally big. As is, from their standpoint “Let’s all do the Wenger!!” I don’t dislike nor detest many clubs. The Edmonton-adjacent lillywhites feature here, as do […]
