The Polish keeper Lukasz Fabianski was plunged back into the Arsenal side in the impossible-looking away game at Bayern Munich but managed to come back with a clean sheet and it looked like he had cemented his big chance to replace thev out-of-form Wojciech Szczesny for the rest of the season.
But as usual he got an injury and Wenger had to choice but to reinstate Szczesny in the first team, and he has also seemed to come into some good form when called upon.
The Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey still believes that Arsene Wenger's team is not only good enough to beat Bayern Munich, but can still win the trophy. Before the Gunner's (weakened) team lost to Blackburn this weekend they had gone five games without a loss, including four wins, and Ramsey thinks this shows that they can beat anyone.
The Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen, who rarely speaks out publicly nowadays, has been assessing Arsenal's chances of getting through the first knockout stage of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, and the Belgian says that Arsenal only need a bit of luck and "a good day" to beat the Germans.
There is a very strange interview on ESPN this morning with the Arsenal striker Gervinho, who despite playing in the 2-0 home defeat against Swansea yesterday still thinks that the Gunners can go on and win the Champions Leagure this season.
Arsenal's last Group Game is at Olympiakos next week and they need Schalke to drop points just to finish top of the Group, but Gervinho doesn't think finishing second will make much difference.
As Arsenal prepare to face Norwich tomorrow there seems to be an air of confidence all over the squad, although some may say that it may be OVER confidence especially if we remember that we only just beat Norwich 2-1 in this fixture last season, and that was thanks to a second half winner from a certain Robin Van Persie, assisted by Alex Song!
The big West Ham defender James Collins says that his side is feeling very confident going into this weekend's game against Arsenal. The Hammers are currently two points ahead of Arsenal in 7th place and so far have won two and drawn one of their homes games this season and he believes they will carry on that record against Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger's new assistant Steve Bould took charge of his first Arsenal game last night with Wenger banished to the stands, and after an excellent first half the Gunners had to dig deeply in defence to keep Montpellier from equalising as they pressed strongly while Arsenal tired.
Overall Bould was more than happy with the performance.
There are a lot of Arsenal fans that will have given up on Abou Diaby ever returning to his
brilliant form from his younger days, but we could take heart from the fact that a certain Robin
Van Persie was also injured for seven years in a row before he finally turned into a top-class
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Mertesacker Believes by AH Per Mertesacker today told Arsenal.com about his confidence in the side.
We saw summer signing Oliver Giroud also speak out earlier about the team and their confidence
about winning trophies, and of course Wojciech Szczesny always has a ring of confidence around him.
"I think we have a better situation than [.
The Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie has been in scintillating form all season, and he is in
confident mood ahead of Hollands opening game tonight against Nicklas Bendtner's Denmark side. He
is not just aiming to win this game, but he believes Holland have the quality to win the whole
competition. He said: "I'm confident [.
Thomas Vermaelen is very happy with Arsenal's current form, and believes that they can carry their
more consistent run of wins into next season and make a real challenge for the Premiership title.
"In some games we have shown a lot of quality and that we can compete with everybody," said
Vermaelen. "But you have [.
Arsene Wenger knows that Arsenal have a very tall order to come back from four goals down against
AC Milan on Tuesday, but after beating two top-quality teams like Tottenham and Liverpool he is
feelink much more confident that the Gunners can make up the difference. Yesterday he was reminded
that of Arsenals previous 19 [.
Merry Monday Arsenal fans! How've you been? Well, the truth is, it doesn't matter how you've been
because I'm pretty certain that the Gunners next two games are going to decide how you're going to
be for a long, long time. Today we enter one of the most important weeks of the season so far.
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The Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish has seen his side beaten just once since losing to Arsenal
(thanks to a last minute Yossi Benayoun goal) back in December, and is hoping to carry on that good
form in today's FA Cup match at the Emirates. Last week Villa won away at Wolves with two goals
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Swansea may have only been promoted to the Premiership this summer but with half the season gone
they are comfortably in mid-table and are set to host Arsenal next weekend Their success this
season is mostly due to the excellent form at home in the Liberty Stadium, where they have lost
just once in their [.
Cesc Fabregas may be the captain of Arsenal in name, but this season he has been a shadow of his
former self and has hardly inspired his team-mates either in his play or his leadership. But the
fall of Cesc has been matched by the meteoric rise of Samir Nasri, who has been playing out of
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Here I am again, fashionably late. A little bit like Arteta's free-kick then, which will have been
missed by hordes of Arsenal fans who'd upped sticks and begun their homeward journey already.
Among these I count the remaining members of the merry throng I sit with, including Brother
Wimbledon, Snowboard Rob and the Shedman, who had moments earlier slipped away to the pub.
