The stage was set and Arsenal knew that nothing less than three points against an impressive Chelsea side on the rise would be unacceptable. The Blues were still reeling from their narrow FA Cup semifinals loss to Manchester City, but it was the Gunners that took the initiative with a quickfire early goal from Leandro Trossard. After some good combination play between Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz and Thomas Partey, Declan Rice made a surging run and found Trossard on the edge fot he box, whose one-timed shot beat Petrovic on his near post. The Chelsea goalie may be culpable got conceding from suc ..read more

Arsenal and Chelsea featured on Saturday evening in different competitions, so both sets of players will be jaded physically and mentally, with Arsenal getting a nervy win over Wolves while Chelsea suffered a late sting in the FA Cup semifinals against Manchester City. Both managers will need to motivate their players for what would prove to be a leggy encounter, but it will not have the importance of the Arsenal vs Chelsea clashes of the yesteryear. While Arsenal has turned their fortunes to be a title challenging outfit and many years in the trenches under Mikel Arteta, Chelsea are going th ..read more

Premier League title challengers, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City, suffered heartache from their European sojourns, with the Gunners narrowly losing to Bayern Munich after two legs, Manchester City crashing out via the lottery of penalty shootouts, while Liverpool were embarrassed on home turf by Atalanta. Prior to the midweek Champions League games, Manchester City gained the advantage after decimating Luton Town, while Liverpool’s profligacy got the better of them in their shock loss at home to Crystal Palace. Arsenal, on the other hand, had a great first half and failed to take thei ..read more

The first set of Champions League semifinalists were established yesterday with Paris St. Germain smashing past a 10-man Barcelona while Borussia Dortmund had enough in the tank to see off the threat of Atletico Madrid. Prior to the quarterfinals, the Spanish clubs were touted to qualify from their clashes against opposition ranked lower than them in the competition, but yesterday’s games proved that at the end of the day, it’s the aggregate result that matters. After a heart breaking loss suffered at the hands of a former manager, Unai Emery, and his Aston Villa vying for the Champions Leagu ..read more

On Saturday, Manchester City made mince meat of Luton Town, propelling the Cityzens to the top of the Premier League, with fellow title rivals, Liverpool and Arsenal having home ties on Sunday. We all watched Liverpool miss chance after chance against Crystal Palace, and it’s fair to say that Eberechi Eze’s goal was against the run of play, but Liverpool huffed and puffed and couldn’t bring that defense down. Liverpool’s surprise loss saw them drop to third place, making Arsenal’s clash against Aston Villa all the more important. The starting lineup saw Gabriel Jesus take Jorginho’s place in ..read more

Following Manchester City’s resounding win over Luton Town, which propelled them to the top of the table temporarily, Arsenal has the uphill task of upstaging a resurgent Aston Villa team at home to return to pole position. There is still the business of the Champions League quarterfinal second leg against Bayern Munich to attend to, but this game against Aston Villa is very important, as every Premier League game is pretty much a cup final till the end of the campaign. Aston Villa has shown defensive frailties in recent weeks, and the 3-3 draw with Brentford was a nice sight for the neutrals ..read more

Jurrien Timber joined Arsenal earlier in the summer and bedded himself in time to join the squad that travelled to the United States for the MLS preseason tour. Timber has always been known for his versatility, featuring as a center back, right back and right wing back from his Ajax days, but Mikel Arteta featured him in the Oleksandr Zinchenko left back role and he blended in like water off a duck’s back, giving his manager the confidence to feature him in the Community Shield victory over Manchester City as a left back. Timber expectedly started in the left back inverting role in the&n ..read more

In the Premier League last week, the three-horse race between Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City took center stage as the Cityzens threw the first punch with their Kevin de Bruyne-inspired win over Crystal Palace at the Etihad. Arsenal had a daunting challenge against a Brighton side that has been a constant thorn in their flesh in recent campaigns, but a dominant performance saw Mikel Arteta’s men run out as 3-0 winners, launching them to pole position in the Premier League table. Everyone connected with Arsenal and Manchester City watched with keen interest as Liverpool visited Old Traf ..read more

Gabriel Jesus’ major injury concerns while at Arsenal came to fruition in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, when he suffered a knee injury while representing Brazil, causing him to miss up to five months of action for Arsenal subsequently. This was a major blow as Jesus was a vital cog in the Arsenal attacking machine, cementing his place as the alpha dog in the club’s forward line following the high-profile departures of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Jesus didn’t start the new campaign any better, as he had to go under the knife again for a minor procedure for a niggling knee iss ..read more

It was expected that the clash between Arsenal and Bayern Munich was going to be an all out war, with two European juggernauts locking horns for a chance to be in the semifinals of the competition. Both sides had contrasting domestic forms as Arsenal currently sit in pole position in the Premier League, albeit by goal difference, while Bayern Munich are miles adrift from their lofty ambitions of winning the Bundesliga with Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen performing at elite levels right now. The stage was set and it was showtime, with Arsenal heavily motivated especially with the fact that the ..read more