Analysing the attackers: by SV Over the past week, we have taken a look at our defensive and midfield units. Today, I shall focus on our attackers. As you will, no doubt, be aware, we play a 4-3-3. That's four defenders, three central midfielders and then three strikers. And it is important to remember that [.

Midfield Analysis: by SV Yesterday, we looked at Arsenal's defence. I suggested that we needed one versatile defender who could play centre-back and in one of the full back positions. Others disagreed. Anyway, today I want to look at the midfield. As expected, our midfield didn't exactly set the League alight this season, with a [.

Season's Highs: by SV A couple of days ago, I wrote an article which showed what I thought were the lowest points of this rollercoaster season of ours. The 8-2 loss made the list, but so did surprisingly the 3-3 against Norwich. Anyway, today I'm leaving the lows behind and focusing on the highs which [.

Defence Overview: by SV The season has now finished and the transfer window will open on the first of June. We already know that Lukas Podolski is on his way to Arsenal, but we also know that we are still a few key signings away from challenging once again for England and Europe's top honours. [...]

Seasons Downs by SV Well, this long, exhausting, draining season is over at last. We have secured what was our realistic objective at the start of our first Premier League game and have achieved what was impossible after seven games of the season. Our hearts have been put through the tumble-dryer, leaving us quite ready [.

Arsene Wenger 'very proud' of his team by BA I think if you look at the season as a whole, we lost only two of the last 16 games and created a fantastic run. In the end we finished with 70 points, which is respectable, and we qualify for the Champions League for the 15th [...]

Arsenal end the season on a high by AM Arsenal and Arsene Wenger managed to end the season in exactly the same manner they played all season long, through a comeback. The Gunners managed to pull back from a 2-1 deficit against West Brom and won the game which saw Third Place secured at last, [...]

Wow that is definitely the craziest final day in the Premiership I have ever seen! Never mind about Man City winning the Premier League in injury time (which was more than exciting in itself) but Arsenal's finally successful endgame was enough to keep my heart racing. After Arsenal went 1-0 up in just 4 minutes [.

Arsenal Do Not Like To Defend By JG Arsenal really could have used Per Mertesacker against Norwich today. He would have provided the anchor in the defense that would have allowed Vermaelen to start attacks every so often, but instead we had Koscielny who is basically an exact copy of Vermaelen (without a killer [.

Norwich review by SV Hello Gooners. I've come out of my blogging sabbatical to give an article our recent draw with Norwich City. It's a long one but I hope it's worth the read. It was an extremely poor result, without a shadow of a doubt and I am not going to shield any players [...]

Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger has confirmed that full-back Bacary Sagna is out for the remains of the season and won't be available to go to this year's EURO championship with his national team side France. Sagna fell to the ground in the 30th minute of the game (by himself apparently), but Wenger claims that the [.

What is it with Arsenal and their uual end-of-season collapse? What is it with Ramsey and Gibbs being preferred to Santos and Oxlade-Chamberlain. What happened to Szczesny's safe hands? Arsenal take the lead after a minute but by half-time they had managed to turn it around to a 2-1 reversal by half-time, but when Robin [.

Arsenal have had a lot of results go in their favour in the last few months as they have struggled to hold onto the Third Qualifying place for the Champions League, and after taking just two points from the last nine the Gunners are running out of breathing space at the top. Bolton (with Fabrice [...

Arsene Wenger watched Arsenal go a third game without a win against Stoke yesterday, but with Newcastle losing to Wigan, the Gunners actually moved another point closer to Third Place. Everyone knew it was always going to be a tough game against the "rugby tactics" of Tony Pulis' team, but Wenger was pleased with a [.

The Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen has admitted that Arsenal tried hard to beat both Wigan and Chelsea, but because of their failure they now have a fight on their hands to hang on to the coveted Third Place in the Premiership. Arsenal face a difficult next match away at Stoke (if you want to bet [.

Captain Van Persie is voted the PFA Player of the Year by KJ The Flying Dutchman has landed the prestigious PFA Player of the year award and he definitely deserves it. He has been a shining light in a somewhat dull season for Arsenal. He has constantly dragged us from the jaws of defeat to [...]

Morning Gooners! by SV Sorry I haven't blogged in a while (if you even noticed my absence!) but I have been absolutely swamped in work. Still, I managed to get myself down to London for the encounter against Chelsea. I have been told, after, that it was an extremely boring match. However, at the time, [.

It seems to be every week now that Arsene Wenger keeps mentioning that Arsenal have been playing with "the handbrake on". He said it yet again this evening after the Gunners only managed a 0-0 draw against Chelsea's reserves at the Emirates. The Frenchman said: "On our side I felt we had a very solid [.

Arsenal vs Chelsea 0-0 by KJ This wasn't total football, this wasn't absolute football, it was extremely boring football. It was a horrible match to watch and there was no spark to either team. Ultimately, Arsenal will rue the chance of not getting the extra 2 points. The game started off and everything looked sluggish.

Arsene Wenger has been left with a dilemma this weekend with the news that Mikel Arteta will not be playing for Arsenal again this season. Wenger said about the Spaniard: "It is season over for him but he doesn't need surgery, which is what we were scared of. So he will be out for six [...]

So..... by SV Today I write with a totally contrasting mood to the one which I had last Sunday, when we defeated Manchester City. Just an hour ago, Arsenal were defeated by a Wigan side which we were huge odds on favourites to beat. I, oddly, did not think it was quite so clear cut [...]

Arsenal 1 – 2 Wigan by KJ A shocking performance from the lads in the second half. Wigan took their chances and Arsenal squandered every one they got. There was also a question in commitment once again which is worrying considering that this is the business end of the season. Arsenal started strongly with some [.

Wolves 0-3 Arsenal by KJ To be perfectly honest, it wasn't one of our better games. For most of the match we looked to be stuck in second gear and it looked more a training ground exercise of keep ball rather than put Wolves to the sword. The game started of perfectly for us when [...]

Arsenal fans are so used to seeing Arsene Wenger rage against the referee, the playing area, the fixture list or the fourth official that it is refreshing to hear him actually blame the Arsenal players for a change. The pitch WAS a bit dodgy and everyone was sliding all over the place (especially Vermaelen!

A shocking defeat to QPR b KJ I didn't see that coming. I was so certain of a win against QPR and I guess that was the general opinion of the squad. I can be complacent with my predictions because it doesn't actually affect the result of the game, the squad on the other hand [...]

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger declared himself very satisfied about the fact that the Gunners finally managed to put some points between themselves and Tottenham as they now find themselves 3 points in front of their biggest rivals Tottenham and 8 points ahead of Chelsea. "I felt it was a very dynamic, fluent performance in [.

Arsenal 3-0 Aston Villa by KJ I actually got my prediction spot on for once. It was a great game which had some sensational goals in it. The Chelsea-Tottenham game ended in a stale 0-0 and to be honest, it was the perfect result for us. It makes that win against Villa that much more [...]

1-0 to the Arsenal by KJ This was big in terms of what it represented in the run-in for Third place. It had to be a win to put the pressure on Tottenham. Thanks to some bad marking and an opportunistic Vermaelan, we managed to get the goal that ultimately won us the match. However, [...]

The Everton manager David Moyes is absolutely certain that the linesman denied his team a share of the points in last night's game against Arsenal at Goodison Park. In fact he says the offending linesman called FIVE decisions wrongly in Arsenal's favour. "There're five which are onside, five decisions, I've checked.

Arsene Wenger saw his Arsenal team hang on for a sixth consecutive League win a row last night at Goodison Park, but admitted that the Gunners had to dig deep in defence to keep David Moyes side out. Arsenal came out of the traps flying and looked like they were going to over-run Everton, but [...]

Everton reaction: by SV I swear to God, Arsenal FC is almost certainly responsible for any cardiac or general health problems from which I may suffer in the future. Another slender win over very strong opposition who were capable of scoring until the final whistle blew had my heart beating at about three times its [.

The Arsenal captain Robin Van Persie was in bullish mood after seeing the Gunners nick the win over Newcastle in the 95th minute last night, and immediately confronted the Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krull. Van Persie had been frustrated by watching his Dutch team-mate continuously time-wasting during the match and the Arsenal captain repeatedly complained to [.

Arsene Wenger watched his team come back from a goal down for a record-breaking fourth game in a row, and finally clinched all three points thanks to a last minute goal from Thomas Vermaelen, and he believes this run of wins is the answer to the critics who said that Arsenal didn't have total commitment.

Arsene Wenger was extremely happy with his teams performance on Tuesday against AC Milan, but the Frenchman believes that the Gunners had enough chances in the second half to perhaps even double the 3-0 scoreline in Arsenal's favour. "I believe that we produced an exceptional performance with great spirit," Wenger said.

Arsene Wenger was very happy with the performance of his "decimated" Arsenal squad despite gallantly getting knocked out of the Champions League, but he rues the fact that injuries had left him with very little choices of players to use to replace the tired legs in the second half. "They can only be proud of [.

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger felt necessary to congratulate his players after what has been perhaps the most impressive performance Arsenal put on all season. Even though they didn't have the best of campaigns, we have to admit that they absolutely 100% deserved to go through to the next round after an amazing performance and [.

Arsene Wenger saw his team make a gallant effort to pull back from a 4-0 deficit against AC Milan last night, but he felt that Arsenal had to play against a biased referee as well as the Italian giants. Wenger was so incensed that he chased the Slovenian referee Damir Skomina down the tunnel after [.

What A Performance! by SV Oooft... What. A. Performance. Yesterday's was a game which, in my honest opinion, oozed all of the attributes which football requires; skill, desire and passion were all on display in abundance. And let's make one thing clear, it was not AC Milan, the Serie A leaders and supposed Champions League [.

Liverpool Reaction by SV Pure ecstasy. I'm pretty certain that this phrase reflects the general mood of the Arsenal faithful at around 2:39 GMT. Because this was the time when Robin Van Persie exquisitely turned in a delicious Song dink to take us 2-1 up against Liverpool, and earn us three invaluable points.

Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger praised his players after yet another splendid comeback by the Gunners, who managed to bounce from 1-0 for Liverpool and take advantage in the final minutes of the game through a splendid goal by Robin Van Persie. "In the second half, I thought if it stayed 1-1 until the last 10 [.