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Bayern Munich (h) – Tactical Arsène Inspires Famous Victory

21st October 2015 admin

I need to watch it again to work out exactly when this happened but about half way through the half until half time we cut Bayern in ribbons on the break with great passing between the lines from Cazorla and the speed of Alexis and Walcott. We really had the chance to Manchester United them the way we did the red devils only a few weeks ago but a combination of Manuel Neuer and powder puff Theo Walcott finishing meant we could not get the needed goals. That Theo header? Not his strength but you gotta be putting that away fella, hopefully some work on the training ground and a few Ian Wright videos (do they still do videos?) and he will get there.

Olympiacos (h) Thoughts & Line Up: Midfield injuries could force managers hand

29th September 2015 admin

The only players to play in both games for the full 90 minutes were Per Mertesacker and Aaron Ramsey but Arsène has somewhat of a problem. Both Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini will miss tonight's game with injury and I think in an ideal world, Arsène would want to give Francis Coquelin a few extra days off and not risk his knee so even though Ramsey played in both games, I wouldn't be surprised if we continued with Ramsey in the middle alongside Santi. That would open a door for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to start down our right against the same opposition in which he scored his first Champions League goal.

Dinamo Zagreb (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Line up permutations galore, but balance must be found

16th September 2015 admin

Champions League football returns for another year, it is quite amazing how we take it for granted these days such is the consistency of our participation in this competition. But participation is not what Arsène Wenger wants I imagine, he wants to win the one competition that has escaped his grasp so far. But this is no Mickey mouse competition and there is a reason why only a handful of clubs have a strangle hold over the trophies for the most part. But regardless of the odds, Arsène Wenger will want his squad to give it there best shot and that starts in Croatia against Dinamo Zagreb who are undefeated in 41 games, that is a hell of a lot of games. Maybe we can end that by kicking the Zagreb players all over the pitch, pulling their forward down when he is running through on goal

Time to maximise our resources

20th May 2012 admin

The former can be solved in a somewhat straightforward manner. Prune the squad of underperforming and overpaid members (you know who they are) and replace them with genuine quality that can be relied upon to step up. Oh, and keep RvP. I personally have taken great heart in the acquisition of Lukas Podolski and am equally excited by the rumours surrounding Yann M'Vila. I sense a shift in the Club's recruitment policy over the past twelve-months and I hope my instinct doesn't prove to be a mirage. Signings of the calibre and experience of Arteta, Mertesacker and Podolski give me optimism that change is afoot. A couple more arrivals in this bracket plus

Norwich City (h) – Midfield meltdown but lifeline handed by rivals

7th May 2012 admin

Jack Wilshere came into the team the following year and played a duel role with Alex Song. Both players having the licensee to join Cesc Fabregas in a bid to create chances, especially against more defensively minded opposition. This season Mikel Arteta has made the Wilshere position his own albeit in a different way. Arteta who has played as a defensive

What we do in life, echoes in eternity

4th May 2012 admin

The ultimate horror of horrors would be dropping out of the Champions League spots for the first time under Arsene Wenger’s reign. It would come as a shock to the system. And it would be imperative that we bounced back into the top-four next season. But naturally, this would be all the more taxing if it adversely impacted on our squad. We’d stand a bigger chance of losing players, whilst attracting signings would be even more difficult. A player who we may have wanted to sign could justifiably ditch us for a team that was to

SONG!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?? YOU'RE NOT MESSI!!

3rd May 2012 James 'Raul' Stokes

The final fixtures require a team effort. Everyone has a position and a job, and they’ll be needing to adopt a professional approach. Take things lightly, be blasé and there could be more reason for us to wish humiliating defeat on Chelsea when they play Bayern - if we needed any more. I don’t want to be watching the games and screaming at the television, ‘SONG!! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?? YOU’RE NOT MESSI!

Stoke City (a) Thoughts & Line Up: Avoid the unnecessary and take care of business

26th April 2012 admin

Robin van Persie is more than due a goal from open play as he hits his first rut of the season and it will be interesting to see how he combines with Gervinho. When Gervinho replaced the hamstrung Walcott last weekend, he looked sharp and immediately gave us a link from the right of the pitch, something that Theo was struggling to do in that game.

Don’t Suppress My Smugness, Paranoia & Miquel Makes Sense

8th December 2011 admin

The reaction to our defeat in Greece went a little too far in some quarters I feel. It wasn't a good performance and we deserved just what we got but lets not forget that we fielded a mix and match team of players who obviously haven't had the required game time together to work as a cohesive unit. Look at the first team against Swansea at home to the team we saw at Wigan. It takes time

Marseille (a) Post Match Thoughts: Pragmatic Wenger Masterminds Gunners victory

20th October 2011 admin

Arsene clearly learnt from the German's error but shielding his back four and not allowing his team to be opened up by the counter attack. Alex Song, Mikel Arteta and Tomas Rosicky were Wenger's chosen trio to run the game in the middle of the pitch and instead of flooding forward in search of an opening goal, they hung back and protected their goal first and foremost, leaving the offensive part of

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