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Arsenal were rewarded with all three points for a concentrated and energetic performance against Blackburn at Ewood Park. The home side caused trouble for us throughout the match with their game plan to attack aerially via long balls but our boys stood up well, scoring two goals either side of Mame Biram Diouf’s equaliser to [...]
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The Arsenal boys recorded their first win of the season via a 6-0 thumping of Blackpool at Emirates Stadium on Saturday. It was game packed with feel-good moments: Theo Walcott responded to his World Cup dumping by scoring an excellent hat-trick, Cesc Fabregas was given a brilliant response from the fans on his introduction from [...]
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AFCB editor Andrew Weber reviews all the action from Anfield on the opening day of the season… Arsenal snatched a late equaliser to draw 1-1 with Liverpool as Pepe Reina’s calamitous own goal denied the hosts an opening-day win at Anfield. Reduced to ten men after Joe Cole’s poor tackle on Laurent Koscielny just before [...]
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I won’t lie to you, I didn’t get to see much of Arsenal’s 2-1 loss to Blackburn. I saw highlights of the goals as well as a sustained period of about twenty minutes across half time, but not enough that would give me the right to comment on our overall performance. What I can comment [...]
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Apart from it winning the hypothetical, unofficial award for most boring Arsenal game of the season there isn’t much to say about yesterday’s 0-0 draw with Manchester City. Both defences ruled and it made for an dour affair, in complete contrast to the hyperactive attacking duel that I had expected pre-game. A lot of that [...]
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Whatever slim hopes we had of winning the league this season were comprehensively dashed yesterday as our boys lost 3-2 at Wigan. There are two contrasting schools of thought that could provide the reasoning for yesterday’s result. The first comes from the optimists, blaming the injury crisis and a lack of quality players for the [...]
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The fat lady has sung. Loud and clear. A 2-1 reverse to Tottenham at White Hart Lane, our first North London Derby defeat in over a decade, has ended our hopes of winning the Premier League title. It was always going to be difficult, it was always going to be unlikely and now, it is [...]
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As Theo Walcott’s mis-kick dribbled wide of the goal and television pictures scanned to the Arsenal bench to reveal Arsene Wenger’s looks of utter hopelessness and frustration I thought our Premier League dream was over. I thought for all our scrapping, for all of our determination to fight back and snatch points with several goals [...]
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I don’t usually write my match reports until Monday but with a feeling of panic starting to creep in amongst readers, I feel the need to step in today to steer the Arsenal FC Blog ship in the right direction before we end up killing each other. Yesterday’s result hurt badly. From looking like we [...]
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As the game entered stoppage time with the scoreline at Arsenal 1, Hull City 1, I had a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. A feeling that for all our good work this season, for all of our fighting and scrapping and regularly brilliant football, it would all come crashing down in the [...]
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There was not a passenger to be seen in the red and white as Arsene Wenger’s men produced a near-perfect attacking performance to comfortably overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit into a stunning 6-2 aggregate victory. The star men were Samir Nasri, Andrey Arshavin and Nicklas Bendtner, who shrugged off an erratic weekend performance against Burnley [...]
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Arsenal’s 3-1 win over Burnley was far more work for our boys than I thought it would be. Yet in some ways a struggle rather than a breezy victory was just the right preparation for the crucial European with Porto on Tuesday. It was also a poignant reminder that if the team with the worst [...]
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On Sunday I posted some brief post-game thoughts on Arsenal’s 3-1 over Stoke. Today, having calmed down with the advantage of two days time, I go into more detail. The game While the strongest memory of this win will no doubt be the injury to Aaron Ramsey, there is a growing feeling that we might [...]
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Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Sunderland was satisfying, but should have been far less stressful. It took until the 90th minute for Cesc Fabregas to put the game to bed after Nicklas Bendtner opened the scoring just before the half-hour mark. But it should have been done and dusted by that point with a host of [...]
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