Mikel Arteta has welcomed the decision to scrap FA Cup replays from the first round onwards claiming the number of games his players face is “not healthy”. After announcing the news yesterday, the Football Association defended the decision claiming “all parties” had agreed the step is necessary. EFL clubs have since responded angrily claiming they’ve been marginalised and stand to lose out on vital broadcast funds and gate receipts. While Arteta is sympathetic to their concerns, he insists player welfare is a key consideration and that minimising FA Cup minutes should be part of a wider conve ..read more

Arsenal will spend the day deciding which new range of training gear to pack before jumping on a jet to Dubai for a warm-weather training camp in Dubai. The club might want to take a therapist with them following a difficult month that has included four defeats in seven games, three of them on the bounce in 11 days. In between the pool time and star jumps, they’d also be wise to organise a couple of friendly matches in the Middle East sunshine. Nothing too taxing, perhaps the local over-65s walking football team or Dubai Juniors under-11 Bs…anything that helps Mikel Arteta’s players rediscove ..read more

You don’t really need a recap of the game, you know we lost, you know we’re out of the FA Cup and you know we’re really struggling to score goals at the moment. Here’s what the managers, players and pundits made of Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat to Liverpool. Mikel Arteta on his side’s performance… Against these teams, you have to capitalise if you want to win. If you don’t score in that box, and then you concede an own goal and the second one like we did, it is difficult to win. It’s football, and you have to realise the situation and know we’re going to have to generate more and shoot better and arri ..read more

Arsenal went out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle this afternoon, after a late own goal from Jakub Kiwior and a Luis Diaz strike at the death condemned us to a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool. The overall performance was much improved from the Fulham defeat but the big problem of putting the ball into the back of the net continued, as the Gunners failed to make the most of a plethora of first half chances. Here’s how the players rated today. Read the Arsenal 0-2 Liverpool match report and see the goals here  Arsenal 0-2 Liverpool – Player Ratings The ratings are hidden by default until you vote ..read more

Arsenal: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior, Jorginho, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Nelson, Havertz Subs: Raya, Cedric, Walters, Sousa, Nwaneri, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Trossard, Martinell — Arsenal’s FA Cup hopes ended at the first hurdle, after a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool at the Emirates this afternoon. Mikel Arteta made changes to the side that lost to Fulham last weekend, handing Kai Havertz a start up front with Gabriel Jesus injured, while Jorginho and Reiss Nelson were also added to the starting line-up. The Gunners had a good early chance after a brilliant Aaron Rasmdale pass to Nelson, ove ..read more

Arsenal take on Liverpool at the Emirates in the FA Cup third round, without the injured Gabriel Jesus. Here are today’s official line-ups. Arsenal: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Kiwior, Jorginho, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Nelson, Havertz Subs: Raya, Cedric, Walters, Sousa, Nwaneri, Smith Rowe, Nketiah, Trossard, Martinelli Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Quansah, Gomez, Mac Allister, Jones, Elliott, Gakpo, Diaz, Nunez Subs: To follow Follow the game on the Arseblog live blog The post Havertz starts up front: Arsenal v Liverpool team news appeared first on Arseblog News - the Ars ..read more

Mikel Arteta says it’s his responsibility to look at the broader picture after consecutive defeats to West Ham and Fulham saw his side drop from first to fourth in the Premier League rankings. In the days since plenty of column inches have been dedicated to Arsenal’s struggles with the manager’s tactics analysed and the output of individual players probed. Now that it’s January, supporters have also started dreaming of a quick fix via the transfer market, although that comes with its own complications. “It affects the momentum that we had,” said Arteta of the damage done by two losses on the ..read more

Arsenal have confirmed that the men’s and women’s first teams will wear the ‘No More Red’ white kit when they next take to the pitch. It will be the third year running that Mikel Arteta’s players have worn the kit in the FA Cup with Sunday’s clash against Liverpool representing the first time it’s sported at Emirates Stadium. Previous encounters in the white kit have seen us lose to Nottingham Forest and beat Oxford United. Having been restricted to wearing the shirt in pre-game warm-ups in the last two seasons, Jonas Eidevall’s side will wear it in a competitive fixture for the first time wh ..read more

Arsenal will be without Takehiro Tomiyasu and Mohamed Elneny for Sunday’s FA Cup third round clash with league leaders Liverpool after the pair were called up for international duty. Their absence, which could last a month, further stretches a squad that has looked fatigued in the last couple of weeks. Long-term injuries to Jurrien Timber, Thomas Partey and Fabio Vieira have exacerbated matters while Oleksandr Zinchenko is also facing a spell on the sidelines with a calf issue. Having only just recovered from a calf problem of his own, the Gunners had hoped that Tomiyasu would be available at ..read more

Arsenal’s match at Nottingham Forest on 30 January has been brought forward by 15 minutes after being selected for broadcast in the UK by TNT Sports. Sunday’s game with Brighton aside, it means all the Gunners’ matches through until February will be legally televised. You’ll just need three separate subscriptions (Amazon / TNT Sports & Sky Sports) and a TV licence (BBC). Broadcast selections for February have yet to be made but you can take it as a given that the clash with Liverpool on 3 Feb will get moved. Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures PSV vs Arsenal 12 Dec, 17.45 TNT Sports Arsenal vs Br ..read more