Will Arsenal's stunning comeback against Reading help them against United? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Arsenal mounted an incredible comeback from 4-0 down to win 7-5 after extra time at Reading in a truly extraordinary League Cup fourth-round tie at the Madejski Stadium on Tuesday night.
Walcott is one of the Arsenal players that has sharply divided opinions of Arsenal fans. Most of the issue with Walcott has to do with his inconsistency. On a good day, Walcott can be devastating as we saw in the Champions League against Barcelona and in the 5-2 thriller against Spurs last season.
Everyone was reluctant to blame the international break for Arsenal getting beat by Norwich at the weekend, pointing to the fact that Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City all managed to win after losing many of their players to national teams.
Another lackluster and uninspiring performance last night has led to Arsene Wenger's assistant Steve Bould to wonder if the break has caused this problem for the Arsenal players.
Arsenal players have some making up to do to their fans and their manager after a spiritless performance against Norwich. The Gunners now face Schalke in the Champions League on Wednesday and QPR in the Premier league on Saturday under pressure and with dented confidence.
Since Arsenal moved from Highbury to the Emirates in 2006, they have recorded the best home record in the group stages of the champions league, better than Barcelona, Real Madrid and all.
Nicks' note:We have a guest columnist today-Amreen Bhujwalais an Arsenal-supporting female based out of Mumbai, and has long been swaying to the metronomic beats of Mikel Arteta's hair. When she isn't moonlighting as an intrepid goalkeeper or a football expert on the radio, she likes to pen her thoughts down in the annals of the interwebz.
Another round of the internationals have now gone by and we shouldn't have them interrupting the proper football for the foreseeable future. It was definitely a mixed bag for the Arsenal bunch across Europe.
Onto the biggest game of the round up, Spain vs France.
Writing about how boring international breaks are is arguably cliché now; but my god, the unabated yawn that propagated through the footballing world this weekend was horrifying to behold, like a herpes-fuelled knife through rancid butter. But it's done now; we've descended that chasm, fed the Blatterian Devil its due, and can now let our retinas do a victorious conga at the prospect of imminent Premier League goodness.
Trying to come up with an interesting topic for discussion was beyond me, so I wondered if you fancied attempting to name all 24 of the following Arsenal players from the past and the present. All are distorted in some way.
Trying to come up with an interesting topic for discussion was beyond me, so I wondered if you fancied attempting to name all 24 of the following Arsenal players from the past and the present. All are distorted in some way.
There's this Samir guy who joined City and..........
It's match day. A visit to Manchester and it's the reigning league champions. The blue half of Manchester that is bankrolled by a billionaire or a rich bunch of group (depending on who you read) and has managed to secured success by spending exorbitant amount of money.
Montpellier coach urges the home fan to make it difficult for the Arsenal players by AM
Despite being fully aware of the problems that this Arsenal team can cause to his side, Coach Rene Girard is hoping that the fans can help them get over it.
Montpellier, who won the French league remarkably, have struggled to get off the mark this season.
It was not a great night for Arsenal players on international duty but the best news for Gooners is that there are no more injuries to worry about. The only two Gunners who played whole matches for their countries were Thomas Vermaelen and Johann Djourou. Arsene Wenger will be pleased that Djourou got some game [.
Arsenal Injury Update Ahead Of The Southampton Game by AH The international break ends tonight, with many Arsenal players involved with their respective countries. This is good news, as long as all of our players come back injury free and match fit for the game against Southampton, this coming Saturday at The Emirates.
So far Arsenal have failed to score in only two thirds of our Premier League games this
season.
That would be wrist-slitting form if it was now late November but it's less alarming when you
take into account that we have played only three games and that we remain unbeaten.
Nevertheless, after scoreless draws against Sunderland and Stoke the media weren't the only ones
asking whether finding the back of the net would be our biggest challenge this year.
In a move that is certain to upset Arsene Wenger who is totally against his Arsenal players
dropping back down to the U21′s after becoming part of the senior England set-up, Stuart Pearce
has revealed that he has asked Roy Hodgson to release Tottenham's Kyle Walker and Arsenal's
Oxlade-Chamberlain to play in the play-offs for [.
Arsenal international round up by KJ As we all know, it's the international break (as much as I
hate it) and an array of Arsenal players are getting their chance to shine in their respective
national teams. I watched the entire England match which featured both Chamberlain and Walcott for
the 1st and 2nd half [.
Arsenal Players On International Duty by AH Well Arsenal fans, the time has come again. This week
our players go away on international duty, just when our season was getting kick-started. Sunday's
win was impressive for many players individually with the entire team joining together as a force
to get a result at Anfield.
There was once a time when finding a group of Arsenal players sitting around shortly after training
could only have meant you'd walked into a north London boozer and there was a great card game in
progress. But this isn't the early 1990s and things have changed drastically. The current crop of
Gunners have been [.
Steve Bould seems to have whipped this Arsenal defense into shape. Introducing zonal marking and
taking away Stoke's greatest strength, its set pieces. They were so effective that they did not
concede a corner and the free kicks that Stoke took were dealt with decisively by Mertesacker and
Vermaelen.
There comes a time in every footballer's life when they need to play regularly if they hope to
develop or retain their skills. But in reality this isn't always possible to do, especially for
youngsters because there are so many more players than positions available. This is why we see
players loaned out to other teams on a regular basis.
Oh, Arsenal. We saw the Van Persie exit a mile away, but Song? Really? Really? For
15,000 pounds a week in a salary bump? Premature, knee jerk conclusion: Arsenal is definitely not
playing "Moneyball." Moneyball is an attempt to obtain a sporting advantage over rivals through the
use of novel statistics.
Arsene Wenger might be able to announce two new Arsenal players this week. The general manager of
Yann M'Vila's current club Rennes, Pierre Dreossi, has dropped a massive hint that he expects
M'Vila to become a Gunner by the end of the week. "Arsenal? Maybe, you'll have to call Arsene. But
when Song leaves, we [.
Tired Of The Media Tapping Up Arsenal Players Getting fed-up with the media having a tendency to
circulate stories about Arsenal players more than any other? Yes, me too. Yet another individual in
the footballing world has been quoted having his say about the Barcelona and Alex Song situation.
Barcelona junior Franck Songo'o has backed [.
This is definitely lining up to be one of the best Arsenal transfer windows ever with Lukas
Podolski, Olivier Giroud and now Santi Cazorla already confirmed as Arsenal players and still with
one month to go of the transfer window! Although (as usual!) there is no official announcement on
Arsenal.com it has been confirmed by [.
Arsene Wenger has revealed his frustration and his concern that a number of Arsenal players will
not be ready at the start of the new season. The Gunners have only one pre-season game left to play
and many first team players have yet to play. New signings Olivier Giroud and Lukas Podolski were
not ready [.
There's a football match today and although it has little significance to the upcoming season,
we like a pre-match on Arsenal Arsenal so here goes ........
I know absolutely nothing about the opposition but I do expect that we'll see lots of different
Arsenal players during this game as Arsène makes the most of giving a run out to as many as he
can.
There's a football match today and although it has little significance to the upcoming season,
we like a pre-match on Arsenal Arsenal so here goes ........
I know absolutely nothing about the opposition but I do expect that we'll see lots of different
Arsenal players during this game as Arsène makes the most of giving a run out to as many as he
can.
Imagine it's the first home game of the season and, as the Arsenal players emerge from the
tunnel wearing the world's best football kit, all the camera lenses are trained on one man.
That man is Robin van Persie – our "want-away Dutchman" who stayed after all. He may even be
wearing the captain's armband.
Imagine it's the first home game of the season and, as the Arsenal players emerge from the
tunnel wearing the world's best football kit, all the camera lenses are trained on one man.
That man is Robin van Persie – our "want-away Dutchman" who stayed after all. He may even be
wearing the captain's armband.
This question could refer to three different Arsenal players. Reports have linked Barcelona to
Thomas Vermaelen, Ignasi Miquel and now Laurent Koscielny. Don't the Spanish side know any other
teams to look at? The worry for me is that Koscielny, like a couple of other Gunners, only has a
year to run on his current [.
Arsene Wenger has admitted that his team are very disappointed at dropping points at home to Chelsea, but simply because they feel they were the better team on the day and didn't deserve to lose.
The Arsenal players can quickly bounce back by beating Olympiakos on Wednesday and Wenger just thinks that they need to concentrate more when it comes to set-pieces for their opponents.
The many Arsenal players that were named in their country's sides last night managed to come through their respective games unscathed, and Arsene wenger will be relieved to find out that both Ñukas Podolski and Per Mertesacker are both going to be left out of the starting line-up for Germany this evening.
Former Arsenal defender Alex Song finalised terms for his move to Barcelona
today a five-year contract worth €19 million (according to El Mundo Deportivo)
with a buy-out clause of €80 million. The Cameroon international is expected to arrive in the
city tomorrow, and will be revealed as an official Barcelona player on Monday at 9:30am, right
before the customary medical at the Barcelona Hospital at 10am.
So, Van Persie's gone Manchester City. Or United. Whatever. I honestly don't care. Yes, he
scored 40 percent of Arsenal's goals last year, but the rest of the team scored 60 percent. A clear
majority. Plus he always used way more towels than one person could possibly need.
I can't tell you how many times other players would come up to me and complain that there were
no more towels and every single time Robin would have a giant pile.
Despite speculation about all kinds of Arsenal players packing their bags and heading for the
exit door this summer, the departure lounge is still quite full.
A couple of loan moves have been sorted out but the futures of those who matter a bit more are
still up in the air. Robin van Persie and Theo Walcott have contract issues.
The underage prostitution scandal that rocked the French national team prior to its lackluster
showing in the 2010 FIFA World Cup is back in the news.
Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema are facing a trial for
allegedly soliciting an underage prostitute a few years ago.
Arsenal have officially confirmed the signing of Spain international Santi Cazorla from Malaga.
Transfer fee is expected to be around £16.5million.
Cazorla says he is excited about the prospect of playing for Arsenal after being given a series
of glowing recommendations from two former Arsenal players.
If this were a normal Monday, a real Monday, we'd be starting a new week with football ringing
in our ears. Lauding the three points we'd just won, bemoaning the two points we dropped, or
staying positive and getting right behind the team after losing a game we should have won. You
know, the way we always do.
Liverpool's Jay Spearing has a great opportunity to further his career after the youngster
joined Owen Coyle's Bolton Wanderers on transfer deadline day. The loan move is just the latest in
a number of young midfielders Coyle has helped develop at the club.
Spearing, who signed a new contract with Liverpool back in May, has dropped down the pecking
order at Anfield following the £15m arrival of Joe Allen.
