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Arsenal 4 Life Blog
7M ago
Last season, Arsenal were playing free flowing, attacking football. Up until April that was enough to have us at the summit of the Premier League. After we lost William Saliba to injury and some other factors, we ended up losing the title to the juggernaut that is Manchester City – who had a phenomenal season winning the treble.
This season, the approach has clearly changed. Mikel Arteta has spoken many times about control and his ruthless nature in obtaining this has seen us have a more considered approach to games – with more control. It’s also led to the Arsenal manager dropping fan’s favou ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
7M ago
David Raya was signed on loan from Brentford in the summer transfer window (with an eye to make it permanent next summer) and since then, there have been many debates on the goalkeeping situation at Arsenal.
Mikel Arteta has said that he wants two top quality goalkeepers, in keeping with trying to create a squad that have two strong options in every position on the pitch. And he’s also said that he’ll deal with having two top goalkeepers by rotating them. But it’s clear even now, at this early stage, that David Raya is now Arsenal’s Number 1.
The fact is, even from my untrained eye, David Raya ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
7M ago
Everyone is excited about Arsenal’s first Champions League game since 2017, after 6 long years in the wilderness.
The Champions League is where it’s at, where all the best teams in the world are playing. Being stuck in the Europa League, and watching from the sidelines has been tough.
But after an outstanding season in the 2022/2023 season, we’re finally back.
And while the excitement is understandable, many Arsenal fans have got carried away with how we’ll do in the competition this season. Some Arsenal experts have said we’ll reach the Quarter Finals, others have said we’ll even make the Sem ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
7M ago
As I wrote yesterday, Arsenal’s record at Goodison Park is atrocious.
We haven’t won there since the 2017/2018 season, and lost the 4 of the last 5 there and drew the other.
Everton have officially taken over from Bolton Wanderers as our hoodoo team. But fortunately, Arsenal managed to break the hoodoo with a stunning strike from Leandro Trossard.
Gabriel Martinelli scored a well taken goal after 19 minutes, but the strike was ruled out for the closest and strangest of offsides. Despite the ball coming off an Everton player and Gabriel Magalhães playing the ball square (and not forwards), Eddi ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
7M ago
Poor Harry Maguire….
It’s finally go to a stage where I actually feel sorry for Harry Maguire now.
I completely agree with Michail Antonio, when he says it’s become embarrassing now. And even Harry Maguire’s Mum has chimed in now, saying that she wouldn’t wish this kind of abuse on anybody.
But how did we get here?
Harry Maguire joined Manchester United in the summer of 2019 for £80 million and still, even to this day, I don’t understand why. He had been at Leicester City for 2 seasons and for my money, hadn’t been particularly outstanding, much less be worth anywhere near £80 million. He wasn ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
7M ago
Tomorrow Arsenal make their way to Goodison Park, a place they haven’t had much success in recent years.
Our results at Everton in previous years is as follows:
2022/2023 – Lost 1-0
2021/2022 – Lost 2-1
2020/2021 – Lost 2-1
2019/2020 – Drew 0-0
2018/2019 – Lost 1-0
In fact, the last time we won was in the 2017/2018 season, when we beat them 5-2 thanks to a Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez masterclass.
That is an atrocious record given Everton are not a good team. Every time this fixture comes around, it’s the same narrative every time – Everton are a team struggling to pick up points, they then p ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
1y ago
Yesterday’s match was a rollercoaster of emotions, and I thought it would be best to sleep on it before posting my thoughts. But the overriding feeling this morning is that despite what happened in those 90 plus minutes, it feels like a defeat.
The problem is Manchester City are a completely relentless beast. In previous seasons they have strung together 12, 13, 15, 16 and even 18 game winning streaks. They have a formidable squad and have a cheat code striker. Looking at their remaining fixtures, you wouldn’t bet against them winning them all.
If we win all our remaining games, we win the lea ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
1y ago
I came across this Arsenal compilation this morning after a friend of mine sent it to me, and if you don’t get goosebumps then there’s something wrong with you!
Goosebumps. ??? pic.twitter.com/NUi9vcLSTC
— ?????????????. (@TheAFCWay) March 8, 2023
The video was posted by TheArsenalWay, but was actually created by reddit user Inevitable-Tip-6716.
Watch the video, and enjoy! #COYG
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Arsenal 4 Life Blog
1y ago
What a match, what a performance – and what a team. If you didn’t believe before yesterdays game, you might have after Reiss Nelson’s dramatic winner.
I honestly think that is the greatest ever Emirates moment – in terms of the celebrations, noise, drama.
That's the most chaotic I've ever seen this place. That beats Arshavin or Welbeck. pic.twitter.com/AEDmi1mzvh
— Charles Watts (@charles_watts) March 4, 2023
Yesterday was a rollercoaster of emotions, full of ups and downs, but here are 5 things we learned from that game:
1. Reiss Nelson is Arsenal’s Divock Origi
Every winning team needs t ..read more
Arsenal 4 Life Blog
1y ago
What can you say about that?!
Arsenal hosted Bournemouth, who have been struggling this season and were 19th in the table before kick off – only 3 points from the bottom of the table.
So before the game, I think it would be safe to say most Arsenal fans thought this would be a routine win. Whatever that is.
But if this season has taught us anything, football is anything but predictable.
After 9 seconds, Bournemouth took the lead when (it has to be said) they pulled off a clever kick off routine, which was well finished by Billing.
Arsenal were caught cold and the only good thing was that there ..read more